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Floppy

Ralph has said he's leaving at the end of his contract with us. I read that as saying he's comitted to us until the end of the contract. From the club's perspective, unless there's a scenario where we look doomed in the next couple of years, then we'll commit to the same. They've stuck by him through a torrid run of results already, so no real reason we'd part company with him. After that, who knows. He may retire. He may find a new challenge. He may be part of picking a successor or not. He may even extend his stay with us. He might join a "bigger" club at that time. But I can't see him dumping the project he has so much input into, to rejoin a guy he felt out with over strategic decisions last time.

Oh, that was harsh. 😀 From what I picked up in Ralph's recent praise of Forster, was that he was a solid traditional sort of keepr. Reading behind that, is that he's keen to upgrade to a super, modern agile sweeper-keeper. I hope our scouting dept can deliver all of that for him. It will be a heck of a 'keeper, whoever he is, for our price range. I'd be perfectly happy seeing Forster in the team for the forseeable. But he'll certaily want to weigh up his options after some difficlut times here. By that time, we may well have moved on.

Is the new ownership better than the majority of the in game takeovers you'd get if you had the pre winter update?

They were 99 red balloons, and today's events triggered painful memories of them. I shall read a Commando comic in your honour.

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And more enjoyable, as we're so far removed from it. 😃

Mad

I was just going to ask at what level are the team wholly professional. If Saints plan to do it at Championship, that's (hopefully) not far away. But big decisions for players. Hopefully, our position in the Premier League allow for enough funds to make that call an easier one, for those who want to go professional.

Very keen on that. Well with our owners saying that there will be a network of clubs, how do the partnerships work in terms of schools/ academies there? Are their examples of successful career paths of players across a network of clubs, for example?

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Treasure

Oh no! You're not catching me out with your....optimism. No sir! I shall continue to expect nothing, and be delighted with our performances.

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Oh thanks TWar! I missed that. I now want to know how Salisu can develop his long throws to be like a new Rory Delap (but Delap for other teams. I don't remember it working that well for us)

Did Stephens and McCarthy sign new deals? So we can have more accurate idle speculation about summer transfers.

Raspberry

Perfectly normal to want to mitigate future risks. 😊 The likes of Newcastle check both the richer and disgusting club boxes, so want them to go down more than the others. There's some Sheldon bloke who's not long joined who might be interested.

And she'll have the match ball to treasure too. I did feel sorry for her, particularly the second one.

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