SaintNewForest

What a complete load of shite. Football isn't half being over complicated these days, too many pointless stats and figures. Only one that counts, the rest is utter hogwash.

Sport rRepublic influence formation, I'm sure of it. What do their other clubs play? Ralph suddenly switched to a back 3 once they took over, having not shown much inclination to play like that before. Jones did. He whinged about compromising his principles and listening to noise. Martin did. Particularly after we went up. Juric did. And now Still is, having said something about listening to others. Does make you wonder.

Arrogant prick. Just like the rest of them.

You think SR will finally make a decent appointment then? You have more faith than the rest of us.

Anyone know who our no49 is? Warming up in front of the away end tonight.

August of which year?

No point in calling for Still to go. The clowns will charge will simply lumber us with another inept appontment, that will do sweet fuck all, and we'll continue the cycle. SR have to sell up, and piss off. They are a stain on our history.

Can they not focus on getting the existing portfolio of clubs in a good place first? Run before you can walk. Utter clowns.

So, the planned sit-down with the local media didn't happen over this international break then. Alfie House at the Echo previously confirmed it was "pegged in" to happen during this international break.

Yup, course it is, it's not worth anything as yet; didn't JJM agree a pro deal at that age, and still turned it down when he officially turned 17 and buggered off to Chelsea.

He'll go the same way as Ballard.

Excellent. Maybe SR can sell us on and put more focus on the club they can seemingly get right.

There's no point in gunning for Still. No point at all. All Sport Republic will do is appont another shit manager and the cycle will continue. We have to start turning on the ownership. They're the clowns making these decisions. They're the clowns ruining our club. They're the clowns who have got us in this mess, and they're the clowns who show no signs of improvement. And yet, bar a few passing comments, they get no heat at all. Complete charlatans who have ruined this club

How's he wormed himself ahead of Archer & Robinson, then? I'd be fuming if I was either of those 2

Simple as the fact that Downs is preferred. No injury.

SR in a nutshell; spend money to their credit, but on what? They make us worse every fucking window.

I always laugh at this rewriting of history. With Stephens in the side, we went unbeaten for the first 5 games of the season. He got injured. We then got tonked every game and lost 4 games in a row after that. Amazing considering his injury was meant to make us improve. Yes, we then went on a 25 game unbeaten run without him in the side. However what people don't remember was Stephens did play a big part of the 2nd half of that run, so not sure why there's this narrative that Stephens getting injured made us improve. But then again, not like saints fans to rewrite history based on their own agendas.

He fell out with Stephens & Bednarek as well.

Except he is still captain, regardless of whether he plays or not ...

Seems to be the newest whipping boy, particularly with Stephens, Bazunu, THB & Smallbone not in the side or elsewhere yesterday.

You didn't really need to mention strikers to be honest, and you'd still be right..They've failed in everything since day one.

I mean, the fact that the choice is between Bazunu & McCarthy is absurd, and yet another damnijg indictment of yet another piss poor transfer window where we absolutely should've bought a new keeper.

What on earth has that poor club done to have SR associated with it?

No, i dont think they care about how we play. They look at value, and whether our overlords at SR can make a good profit. Which still begs the question as to what they saw to sign Downs?

It's like getting a worse version of Sekou Mara, which is impressive considering how bad Mara was.