coalman

Except I don't see my username in that list of people you've quoted. I don't believe I've made that point.

Inventing a made up point for people you're disagreeing with doesn't strengthen your own point.

The best time to understand what's gone wrong and learn is while the experience is fresh. We appear to be ignoring this opportunity. There is another game coming up this weekend we should prepare for. Unless people think Doncaster are so easy we can just show up. That's just disrespectful to our opposition. I wouldn't cancel holiday for people. I wouldn't have approved it in the first place because this is a key part of the season. Unless we were in a good place which we were/are not. It is possible to improve our chances in the next game without high intensity training. In fact recovery times improve by doing light work the day after. It is possible to improve as a team while recovering from a busy schedule. We are doing neither.

That's all part of the culture now. Playing the victim in public over how hard you work or unlucky they were. Taking ownership is a form of performative art. If you've been utter shite for most of the last two seasons how about shutting the fuck up and putting the work in rather than gaslighting the fans. The playoff final win is in the increasingly distant past.

Yeah. Going on holiday screams that everything is ok and nothing needs to be learned or change. A lack of professionalism I don't believe that would be tolerated in any other field.

The only downside is the alleged culprits are only part of the problem and are likely to be a scapegoated by the other part(s) to buy time.

After the last four games I'd hope they're at least spending time understanding why we played as we did over the festive period. Even if that's just making them watch the 2nd half against Middlesbrough on repeat. I'd buy that you're unlikely to be doing a bleep test this week. But fucking off somewhere else seems like a continuation of the culture of complacency and failure to take responsibility. If they're in Dubai, two 7-10 hour flights are not going to aid the recovery of tired muscles. Depending on the plane you're either at effectively 1600m altitude or 800m in terms of oxygen levels. In a very dry environment with recycled air.

You're telling me we don't need a Sports Synergy Officer? Get with the century, bro.

New job titles incoming. Chief Disruption Officer. Primary Philosophy Assistant. Football Paradigm Manager.

This is unfair. He has spent at least 4 hours and fifty quid getting his online Professional Football Scouts Assocation level one in Talent Identification level one.

That would be lovely. I can also see him scoring 2 goals in 20 and Saints deciding to build our front line around him.

I think the option to buy is wishful thinking rather than rooted in any possible future. In the same way Juventus were going to pay us £40m for Alcaraz.

Disruption and moonshots are phrases used by people with a high opinion of themselves who think the rules don't apply to them and want to take shortcuts. I remember reading a piece by the guy who built all of Google's infrastructure where he explained that all the stuff that looked like magic from the outside was the net result of relentless incremental improvement and hard work. https://web.archive.org/web/20230922113630/https:/rework.withgoogle.com/blog/the-roofshot-manifesto/

To be fair, I'm really fucking upset most weeks I watch Saints these days.

It's gone straight into the US squad for this summer's world cup.

I could easily believe both that there's a clique of players hungering for Martin and Rasmus is dictating playing style to our manager. We're just that big a basket case right now.

A's hire B's. B's hire C's. C's hire Ben Garner.

This is where the manager churn fucks is over. We get a new manager. The clique raise their game for a couple of weeks and start banging on about the clarity the new guy has brought in. Then they go back to their old ways secure in the knowledge the manager will take the fall. Then someone new comes in, opts for his experienced pros and the cycle begins a new. This would be bad enough but when the new manager has no real power to make changes you're doubly screwed.

Because his hands get cold.

Martin laid the groundwork for the rotten culture we have now. This didn't happen overnight. He recruited his mates and bent over backwards to make them happy. He kept hiding behind bad luck. Those same players are the ones infecting those around them now with their sense of entitled mediocrity. I remember THB coming out last season to say how Martin's system was working and the fans couldn't see because they didn't understand football. Armstrong is a lost cause for me. He came out after Boro and claimed we just needed a bit more luck. A captain stood mutely after each goal, hands on hips like a fucking teapot.

We really were lucky to have him. When I look at our current squad I have to think that Ralph left to his own devices would be doing significantly better than the current succession of puppets.

He inherited all of those players didn't he? And had to manage the team around getting some kind of tune out of them while offloading them. Despite that handicap we held our own in the Premier League.

An underrated feature of Ralph's tenure was how he managed to clear out a lot of the dross from the squad. SR have undone all his good work.

They practice defending crosses against Adam Armstrong, Damien Downs and Cameron Archer. Two of whom don't score headers.

The trouble with self proclaimed geniuses is their "genius" doesn't leave space for other people to be brilliant. Which is great until they get to a position of authority.