Saint Gifford

Good start, at the end of the day it’s points on the board that count. No one ever looks at the history books any other way. Interesting to see the starting 11 in a months time, and against some decent opposition. No disrespect to SW intended, but I hardly call them a challenge. RM is a million miles away from the pretenders of Jones and Selles, just want to see how he plays against the likes of Leeds, Leicester, Norwich, Boro, Sunderland ect. How does he set up against them, how does he handle tactics, Subs at the right time and game management. Not seen any of that yet. First game I know, Christmas will be the litmus test for me. Fantastic start, not to concerned about players ins and outs as what we lose we should attract quality given our standing. I am probably a minority, but the manager this season will be the difference between promotion or staying in this league for me.

Prem against L1, would expect it. But keep this up, should be our competition.

Watching on Sky tonight. Fair play to everyone that has made the trip👏👏👏👏

£10 per game on iplayer is the norm for both home and away. The gas do the same, but you could buy a season ticket for iplayer last season. Maybe that’s something to do with the 170 quid, not sure. Commentary by the teams commentators that are at the ground for the local radio station as a rule.

Just while I was typing out my post. Great minds and all that😂

I assume there is a reason SR is trying to get top dollar for all these players getting top division football. Is it to recoup the amount of money spent on buying the club and 60 million what ever it was the last window. Could they be preparing to dump the club and run for the hills. In jest of course, but a tiny bit of me thinking there is an exit strategy being formatted here.

Probably correct tbh. 99.9% guaranteed a league title in Germany and a proper chance at Big Ears. His bedside table will have some silver stuff on it to make up for a goal record. Probably help England at the same time. 30 years old or what ever he is got to do it. You could cut Tiss in half and he would look like a stick of Rock with Saints written through him. (so thankful by the way that Chelsea check is in a frame on his wall somewhere). Fair play to him from an English player point of view, I’d probably watch a few more Bunders games on the tele. (Even though the games I have watched are pretty crap tbf.

Looking forward to seeing our starting 11 game 1.

Bring on game 1 that’s the important bit see where we are. Watched my lad Saturday 3pm first of 42. Should walk the league by a country mile after relegation last season. Lost 2-0, doesn’t matter what league or level, I came away thinking it’s all about heart and how much you want it. Ability helps but will is what gets you across the line.

Stats can be made to look like however you want. Ramus is pretty good at that. It’s the story that sits behind the numbers that matter. TBF, there are 11 players on the pitch with an army of Managers and coaches. Just my opinion but I think unfair to lay the blame of a game, cup run or season at 1 player. Like most, I think fans believe it was a balls up across the whole piece last season which leaves us where we are.

I know our academy isn’t quite what it was supposedly. But I would be interested to know who we have coming through at u18, 21, 23’s. Not saying that’s the answer, but hardly worth the hassle of bothering if we don’t take a look.

Great for him and his family. Should hopefully for him see out his career at Barca. I always thought in a Saints shirt, it made no difference about his legs, skills whatever. All I know is I wouldn’t have wanted to meet him in a dark alley, as an opponent I would have stayed well away from him, the scary looking MF 😆😆😆

Sell the lot to Saudi and start again……………… Tongue in cheek of course

Fair play, we are buying really good young players from clearly good stock as RM has said from Man City. Good business model from them selling good young players to get experience and game time. It would take a miracle for these lads to get a first team game with probably the best club team on the planet. I am assuming there are water tight buy backs for those who make the grade, so great for us and Man City. I just hope that we keep our options open with a couple of “old heads”, as the Championship isn’t exactly renowned for its technical or ticki tacki players as a whole.

Agree with the any other 39 year old. But I think maybe the point is lost, a bit of identity can’t be a bad thing given our current position.

Wouldn’t be the worst signing for a 12 month deal, I’m sure he wouldn’t accept a pay as you play. In his position wouldn’t really need to run the 100 metres in 10 tbf, just boss what’s in front of him and let everyone bounce off him

Tommy Wridd’s equally as poor managerially speaking.

I watch a lot of Bristol Rovers games on ifollow (my boys are Gasheads). It’s ok to be fair, if you swipe or connect the laptop screen to your TV. The Gas charged a Tenner last season when you sign up via the clubs website. I have no idea how the saints would do it, but the commentary is normally by the local radio station both home and away games. If you can’t make the game for whatever reason, a really good alternative.

First 10 or 15 games released tomorrow I guess will give us a clue if this looks a good appointment or not.

I completely respect everyone’s opinions of course. All I can go on is results the feeling I had as a supporter and around the ground and club of my Southampton during the NC and ML partnership. I never met either of them but I couldn’t give a crap if he upset a couple of people in the tea room or was a bit stand off ish with the mega store staff. I know it was only the tipex trophy, but that was the last piece of silverware we have won under guess who. ML seemed perfectly happy taking his pictures on the pitch with his insta max on the day. We were professional, dare I say “corporate” with a plan and a vision back then. Not afraid to make changes for the good of the club. ( I seem to remember a certain Potts that hasn’t resorted to applying for the Reading job. He seems to have done ok). I am probably talking out my ass but, I’m sure one of the Milan clubs were wanting to get involved with him back in the day, and unless someone is his best mate no one knows what happened there. My opinion and as I said I respect other people’s view, but if we had half the vision and professionalism as we did back then, I am convinced we would not be where we are now. We just need to get back to that, Dragan I am sure wants the same and needs to surround himself with the right people.

He clearly is aiming high after all his comments of going abroad or a really big project in the uk. Probably fits the brief of complete chaos. Just really pisses me off with how clubs like us are run. Dragan has all the right intentions , I just hope he becomes a lot more hands on with all the board changes, and doesn’t accept the yes men / women from coaches to management. Sorry to be romantic but bring back NC.

To be fair to the lad he just wasn’t ready to be chucked in at the highest level. I think we could all see that quite early on. Thats not his fault. Unless there is public information that I’ve missed and he was sold to us with a buy back dependent upon a few cup games and a couple of starts, we will never know. I think we need to cut the lad a bit of slack. He is not going to say to any coach he’s not ready to get thrown in. So you have to question our coaches abilities, a lot in all areas in my opinion. Man City clearly thought a lot of him, ( or did a complete number on us). I’d love to know what they thought, after we stuck him in as Number one from the off. Keep him as a number two let him develop with some cup games and a few league games. I’m not a coach but it will become clear when the pressures of the kid if he has it or not. At the moment we will lose a lot of money on the lad, I like to see what he can do without the No1 pressure. See what he can do and either watch him not improve and take the loss, or see if he has got something about him. Im sorry but we all seem to be blaming the players and the managers last season. This is completely correct, but unless I’ve missed the thread, our coaching staff also have a massive amount culpability in our current position.

To be fair, to play entertaining exciting football. You have to have entertaining exciting players. Hence most of what we lost went as a rule to entertaining exciting teams with an exciting entertaining Manager. Exception of course with us Mr N Jones, as he was very very entertaining…………

No one’s come up with the sash yet……… I’m a season or two too soon.

As with all positions in our squad, it completely depends on what the Manager and Coaching staff are telling them what to do. Honestly these players have come through academies either in the UK or around the world. The stats show that a young player going through the system has a 0.01% chance of playing one game in the Prem. ( I may have got my .% wrong and I can’t be bothered to look it up in in the EFL and Prem 1000 pages of blurb or the Calvin references). Sorry but these are all good players to get where they are, with a bit of luck granted. There are so many fantastic players that don’t get anywhere near League level because the coaching and Manager from top to bottom of the pyramid are just not good enough. I do take the players side in a lot of this, fine if they don’t have the work ethic or are happy to take a payday, but a decent Coach / Manager even Club owner should spot this a mile away.