Holmes_and_Watson

All the other managers are in awe of him managing to stay in post, when every one of them would have been given the boot by their club long ago. Or, they all see the long term value of the process/project/philosophy (the 3 "p" although you can come up with others) and it's tactical, data driven approach. They look forward to it's inevitable, but not necessarily near, success.

No trial period, no warranty, sale as per cobbled together you tube highlights reel only. Purchase subject to status of buying club being as dim as we were. For complaints, call Rasmus "If it's broken, it's better" Ankerson. Terms and conditions ignored

To have a plan B would indicate that there is some flaw in Plan A. Which clearly isn't the case.

Taylor: If it's all the same to you, I'll just use my own judgement with your system in mind. Martin: To the Gulag! 20 years hard backwards passing! Every move must follow my system! There are no excuses! Except the ones I use after the match!

I hope any health reasons improve for you. Note that a pathological aversion to going to a home game isn't a health condition, it's just your brain trying to save itself.

Is that a hint Hoddle is coming back? 🙂

I was wondering if Russ' lack of attacking play was in knowledge of the size of the footballs next season.

I hope that's not going to influence any comments on our January signings, Sneezy, Bashful, Doc (to work with Stewart), and SR favourite, Dopey.

I know I'll not be alone in condemning such fowl behaviour. In other news, not long until my 2025 jokes arrive in crackers!

It's been so long since I've looked at a PL table after 2 relegation seasons, that it's great to have this mini table to compete in . Thanks SR! 🙂

Agreed. It's left field enough for Rasmus, but I too think Angela Rayner would get us more points.

Better than the season long crash course we're on. 🙂

Welcome Mr Assad! To show how little the uprisings have impacted you, we'll just take a few photos! Let's try just over there, by that window...

I'm a traditional fan. These new fangled crypto-DoFs just don't seem right. Next SR will be saying we can't get a real goal, but can buy a non fungible goal from a few seasons ago, that will be just as good.

Is Potter at right back going to make that much of a change? Oh wait, Martin would be going...gotcha...

Big Sam and Little Sam. But not Big John and Little John, from the TV show, which was just creepy.

News next summer... SR stunned as 20 000 season ticket holders announce they will not renew citing a better "customer experience" at Sholing FC. "Once we agreed with SR that results didn't matter," said one former ST holder, "we realised that we were more interested in a fan community, decent beer and a good afternoon enjoying being at a match with our mates. Why pay 10 times as much?" Taking time away from creating alt IDs on a football forum, a Saints spokesperson tried to apologise for treating fans as wallet carrying cattle. However SR did concede that Sholing's new marquee did look nice, and asked if they would be interested in a possession based manager.

I sometimes wonder if clubs would be quite happy to ditch "legacy" fans, if they could pack out the ground with dynamically priced tourists there to see "big" PL clubs, and spend money as part of a match day experience package.

Yup. Martin and agent would have rightly pushed to have an automatic extension clause on meeting key deliverables. Of which getting promoted was really it. Whether he over or under achieved in getting there in our minds, it was achieved. Any organisation worth it's competence would insert break clauses. SR look to be once again staring at an open stable door while the horses are out practicing defensive errors in the paddock. On one hand, despite slumps last season, they've not anticipated it going so badly wrong. On the other, they are relying on Mr Football who simply hasn't the knowledge or incentive in his own deliverables to steer the club. Any breaks could be after a season, having made rumblings on how hard that it would be a struggle to stay up. Perhaps half a season at best, to give Martin a chance to have played everyone. The alternative is to pay out 12 - 14million.

Radio discussing a manager's response to fans. They all feel it was unacceptable, could have been avoided and their results tell their own story. It's Spurs they are talking about. Then moved onto Chelsea, then Arsenal... They couldn't care less about us, as they consider us to be one of the fodder clubs for the big 6 they obsessed over. And their obsession is so lacking in insight as to be worthless anyway.

Bweaking news... Wussell weweased!

I'm Spartacus!

I watched a lot of Norwich under Farke. His system looked great as they had 2 very useful attacking full backs. They passed it out to either of those, to use as attacking outlets. They also depended a bit on having a decent creative central attacking midfielder, who could supply a central forward. Lots of players elsewhere playing to their limits, for a club that found it easier to renew their contracts than be able to afford upgrades. Great when it worked. Dreadful when it got found out. Farke absolutely insisted on it regardless, and it drove their fans mad. Looking back, he shared an outlook with Martin, that overall it would be better his way than the alternative. Differences were that Farke would look to use his attacking players to, well, attack. The others would do what they could. We, on the other hand have much better players on the whole playing in an extreme risk averse set up. Martin used to be trotted out when it was going South and spout the same nonsense we're hearing from him now.

Fare

Ah, I see. Sales and Circulation just didn't sound like something a brave prosecutor of knife and sexual assault would be involved in. Had I read something about refusing to follow trial verdicts, getting procedures wrong on defendants, faking racially motivated crimes or trivialising child abuse, then I would have known it was firmly in his CPS skillset. While it might seem hard for him to keep his experience consistent, I'm sure he meets lots of people who coincidentally also have exactly the same issue.