Bushey Saint

A season-long rolling disaster following the appointment as manager of another would-be Pep, a disastrous transfer-window, a nineteen match losing streak, appointment of three caretaker managers in rapid succession and the mathematical certainty of relegation by mid-March. Club goes into administration and finishes season on a negative points total, followed by going into liquidation and subsequent ejection from the EFL over the summer of 2026. And you know what, after just under sixty years of loyal support, I would no longer care. Sick of mercenary, sub-standard players, inept managers and coaches, and especially sick of chancer owners.

Nah. that's just a sub-stage of denial. I know this.

You lot sound like Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict ...

*ugger. If there's someone I'd like out of the club, it is Stephens. Used to be fairly steady, the odd mistake and the very occasional exciting run forward. Now it just seems to be mistake after mistake after mistake, interposed with ridiculous behaviour such as getting sent off for pulling an opposing player's hair.

Was never going to happen. There isn't an Ipswich player with hair long enough for him to pull, the big girl's blouse.

That's about where I've been since the lead up to Christmas. So pleased to be rid of Martin, but conscious that Rome wasn't built in a day and the players probably didn't/don't have the fitness levels necessary to perform the higher tempo, high pressing game necessary. That much was obvious as we have faded badly towards the end of games, especially during what is a physically demanding period over Christmas and the New Year. To see energy levels still relatively high against Forest was therefore encouraging.

I would have called that a disincentive.

You'd have to offer me far more than a 30% discount to even think about Stephens. The man is a liability.

There's a very fine line between optimism and insanity ...

I have just re-read some of the posts from the beginning of this thread - May 23 before Martin was appointed. The warning signs were writ large, even then. What we did was exchange one (overly) committed follower of a belief system for another.

I started to laugh at this, but the laughter turned to tears. The man is an utter <expletive deleted>.

I’d be happy if he never played for Saints again. He’s just a liability.

It won’t be in there, but I was rather hoping there might be a clause in his contract that withholds his salary for all the time he is unavailable for selection due to needless sendings off.

WGS had a phrase that perfectly summed up the current style of play: "propaganda football".

Our record against Manchester United since 1923: Played 132 Won 28 Drawn 37 Lost 67 (One game before that in 1897 versus Newton Heath in the FA Cup, which we lost 3-1) Premier League years, not so good: Played 48 Won 7 Drawn 12 Lost 29 Golas for 52 Goals against 99