Dman

You wouldn't because you're not one of us. Stick to baseball, basketball or whatever noddy sports you yanks enjoy.

TBF, it'll be a move back home to Manchester for him and his family.

I just want to go back to a time where we had @manji claiming we're entering the best period of our lives under SR.

I'm a little torn with Solak. Generally speaking I quite like him and I think he means well. He's not been afraid to put money in and from a non footballing perspectve I like the direction that the club are heading. My concern is that despite how they spin that Ankerson is no longer involved in the day to day running Saints, I fear that he has Solak's ear. I'm not convinced that Solak is a strong enough leader or ruthless enough for us to move forward with him. Without Solak's money, there is no SR. I'm not sure the multi-club model has benefited us in any way, shape or form to date and given the clubs they're looking at buying, i'm not convinced it ever will. Henrik Kraft was the fall guy last time, things haven't improved. Unless Solak can bring someone into SR who will challenge Ankerson and has experience at running a football club before, I think we're at a point where he needs to fall on his sword and sell the club. SR selling worries me. I'm not convinced its a great market for perspective buyers of a football club and I don't think we would be seen as great value for money. Sometimies its better the devil you know, but things cannot continue as they are.

To be fair, Rusk's days were probably numbered from the minute Spoors walked through the door. He clearly wanted to employ Tonda with a view of him stepping up at some point in the future.

I know they're a dieing breed now, but what we need is a manager, not a coach. An old school manager who controls pretty much all aspects of the playing side the club, like we had with Koeman when we needed a rebuild and to a degree the same with Ralph. There is place for a DOF and head coach, as seen by Brighton, Brentford etc. but we're an unstable club at the minute who needs a total rebuild with a strong figure head to lead it. I have no idea where we turn to from here.

Whilst I fully apprecate that all of our CB's are pony, I think Wood is up there as arguably the worst of the lot. Probably need to bring stephens back in. Again, picking from a bad bunch, but THB and Stephens are probably our best options.

would be a great addition imo. A real leader as well. He and THB would be a fantastic partnership at this level.

Personally, I'd keep hold of Edozie - if he wants to be here, which granted it seems he doesn't. He's probably the most like for like we have with Tom Fellows and if we are to flog him, it'll be for peanuts.

Because McCarthy or Bazunu should be 3rd choice.

They'll be paying an agency, probably peanuts, to essentially do just that. Its just a copy and paste template with a few bespoke integrations. Fairly certain the ticketing app is the exact same one used by UEFA for the last couple of euros.

If being worked out results in us arguably "should have been 3 up" at half time then I'll take that. Result and second half wasn't great yesterday, but its easy to forget Downes missed essentially an open goal, we missed a pen and should have had another in the first half. Fancy us to beat Cov tbh.

What's he like with his feet? In all seriousness, Bazunu is a key part of our build up and replacing him with someone who can't pass (i.e a McCarthy type) would be as detrimental as keeping crisp packet hands Baz. We need someone who is competant at playing out and can actually make saves. I don't know who that would be 😃

I suspect its more Tonda not wanting to give much away a day before the game. Bit poor of Alfie to break the news so early tbh.

Even further back, I walked away from the first pre-season game at eastleigh thinking "Fuck me, we struggled to break those down. That wasn't great". I gave benefit of doubt given it was the first game and clearly the squad was going to change. Things didn't really get any better though.