Gloucester Saint

The lad at Derby is miles better and cost around £2-3m less. Their keeper was only £1.5m and better than anything Saints had in goal since Forster did his knee v Burnley. They’re out there, but it requires actually watching and buying them to fit into a team, not relying on what AI spits out.

Another reason to avoid SFC until SR are sold up lock, stock and barrel.

Very much my own sentiments - only watched after 20 mins or so today because Gary Anderson won his WDC QF and the next QF wasn’t on until 7.15 and Cheltenham were getting humped at Crewe. The Saints match was every bit as dreadful as I feared and I should have watched some of a box set instead. I can tolerate poor results but the boredom that comes from the corporate-imposed style of anti-football is like taking Valium. I can see why @John Boy Saint fell asleep in front of his log burner. There’s 30k mugs inside the stadium in the freezing cold who wished they could do the same and got ripped off by the club. I’d much rather the club went bust than limped on under these charlatans for several more years. We might get a good buyer or not get one at all, but this is a living death slowly but surely with Rasmus’s hands around the club and city’s throat. It wasn’t great 2017-22 either but at least Ralph’s team generally gave their all, even if limited in ability and the Project Restart style was a great watch. Watching now is a punishment and life’s difficult enough these days. I won’t watch regularly until SR are gone, lock stock and barrel. Life is too short to be bored senseless or made miserable by someone’s warped experiments however much the club meant once upon a time to my family. I’ll keep on the forum as a link to my place of birth and where I grew up as much as anything else. I have no trust and confidence in SR whatsoever to turn this around and there is nothing they can do to persuade me of competence or capability. I’ll follow Cheltenham Town still but my interest in football is very limited now. Even major tournaments and England is tainted by FIFA’s behaviour. I was a STH for many years, home and away. It’s the youngsters I feel most sorry for. I have plenty of other leisure activities and sometimes forget the matches are even going on, but for them it’s big part of their growing up and life at school. Also, empathy with people working at the club and redundancies, plus the impact on the city economically of SR destroying the football club.

Quite a scathing leak that he was emotionally immature.

Not trying to defend Tonda, but I do wonder if some of the issues Maresca seemed to face at Chelsea are similar to SFC and SR? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cj0n8d913d8o

Just have to keep it out, Forster saved and blocked with all sorts of body parts.

And incredibly negative as well. Truly anti-football.

In common with 99.99999% of others. No reason to want that dreadful slow shitball continuing.

I agree Badger, Ankerson has been interfering throughout. Spors is supposed to report direct to Dragan but I bet that 🐍 ensured that didn’t happen in the background. We’ve all worked with ‘big picture’ arseholes like him who can’t deliver a pint of milk or run a bath, but are constantly politicking in the background.

Don’t rate him but solid game today. It was a good proactive save, fantastic is pushing it, watch Kelvin at Leeds 11/12 or Paul Jones v Man U 1998 and you’ll see what I mean because they pulled off a string of them.

In which SR needs to give up and sell the club. Or appoint an experienced and independent manager.

Why are you backing yourself into a Martin v Eckert corner? Dozens of decent managers out there who might be interested and don’t play that abysmal anti-football.

Better for them to save themselves a few quid or if they are going to attend, oppose SR and their horrific experiments loudly.

Why are people so brainwashed about playing that dire, slow, boring style of football? How about appointing a manager who doesn’t deploy that? Plenty exist.

Despite the pay, football clubs have become basket cases to work for https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13489078/enzo-maresca-chelsea-head-coach-leaves-stamford-bridge-with-replacement-set-to-be-announced-imminently

KWP, Adams, Bednarek - all far better than currently and still conceded 60+ goals. Plus Brooks on loan. Why they haven’t used Sam Edozie is beyond me as he was effective pre-Norwich and Aribo was 5 stone lighter. Having seen the shitshow at Rangers I firmly would not want him back and as for the PL season…but yes, he probably is better than Eckert, Still, and the other jokers SR bring in. SR haven’t appointed an experienced manager yet for the size of the club.

Blowing bubbles to try and get the West Ham job.

I see what you’re saying, but it’s Bazunu v McCarthy again. I understand why Carrick is known to be liked by SR board though given the watching paint dry/over 60s walking playing style.

I still don’t want any of the plastic Peps around - Martin, Eckert, Chris Davies (Brum fans are taking aim at it - more bollocks than our dead sheep), Maresca, Carrick.

If it means Rasmus keeps tight control…

Doubt it, I expect he was set top 6 in his objectives. He’s a kid miles out of depth at a club that has barely won a game of football for 18 months. Talk of an experienced assistant tells you how out of touch SR are and how desperate Rasmus is to micromanage.

His fault for not learning from umpteen mistakes and continuing to listen to that Danish fraud and layabout the entire time.

Now the festive food has run out, BFJ might be off (Big Fat Joe). BFJ reminds me of some of the over-fed pigeons in our garden. I presume he ate Edozie (was probably a bit stringy in texture) given the latter’s Lucan-like disappearance.

If SR are lucky, because League 2 isn’t out of the equation over the next 2-3 years.

Trouble is, bar the jeers at the umpteenth pass back to the keeper, the fans at the ground are lapping up the SR corporate Koolaid. How on earth you can applaud that off is beyond me. It’s not the football I grew up with using quick wingers and steel in the middle with the likes of Stevie Williams or Jimmy Case.