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We’ve had another R all season - Rank

Sturrock at Southend IIRC

In a Saints context, you could argue 09/10. After we’d sold Dyer, Surman and McGoldrick to stay afloat before Markus was confirmed, and ton of players like Skacel waived their final year, the only senior players remaining I can recall were Paul Wotton, Kelvin, a 37 year old Chris Perry, Saganowski, and a very injured Lee Holmes. Lallana and Morgan were somewhere inbetween youngsters and Senior, although clearly good players in the making. A smattering of youngsters - Lloyd James, Joseph Mills, Matthew Paterson and that was about it. Thomson as well. TBH most if not all would have been nowhere near a Championship first team but for Lowe’s legacy which Wilde made worse. We brought in that summer Jaidi, Harding, Hammond, Connolly, Barnard, Lambert, Waigo, Antonio on loan just off the top of my head. Puncheon and Fonte came along later in the season.

Plenty of things - great to see a far right billionaire, who is very unpopular in this country, failing blatantly to buy an election. It’ll be a blow to Farage, Tice and Candy although no doubt Musk will try to corrupt democracy again. It’s very good news for those fighting to protect women’s rights over their own bodies, as winning this race meant that Wisconsin judges had a majority to invoke 1850s laws banning abortion. It’s one in the eye for the groups with US funding trying to mobilise against abortion here. A rare bright spot ahead of the mid-terms in 2026. Trump’s second term going as well as Saints in 2024/5.

Hence the previous government’s free speech legislation re-introduced with some tweaks, as Sussex just discovered.

I don’t care for it, even though I vote for them, but the electorate does. Look at their 2024 GE performance, Boris did loads of farting about, Farage has, whereas others get called boring.

Good for him. After 3 years at the club, let’s hope he’s actually contending for the first team squad and adult football in year 4. I’ve heard of signings for the future but this is getting towards the extreme.

More from the fascism/communism/totalitarian playbook.

Accept it? I’d rip your arm off to grab it with how this season has gone.

Probably swigging Iron Bru on Weston Shore. Or maybe we need a picture on a milk carton to go with Larios and Stewart? Time to give these a call https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgotten

Alleged misuse/Embezzlement of EU funds, exactly what brought down Nick Griffin and the BNP, leading to their eventual de-registration as a political party.

The sad thing is that there are probably people around the SR boardroom table who would actually think that.

Strange player. Gets forward well and can put in a peach of a cross if you play with a target man or even a striker of some description. But defensively - oh boy. Surprising that Serie A big clubs want him given how Italians pride themselves on defending but perhaps they believe out of the car crash of SFC they can intensively coach the basics of positioning and using your feet rather than your hands. And obviously undo the impact of Russellball. The club has too much going on to devote that sort of focus in the way we used to in better times so perhaps take a profit minus anything to AZ and put it towards a £10-12m RB instead who should be the best in that league.

He’s not been on here so much of late.

So flustered he could barely finish a sentence. And this is supposed to be a supportive crowd as well, with all of the numbskulls chanting USA, USA! MAGA accused George Soros of buying elections and interference, er what is this then??

I wouldn’t appoint him as manager of Red Bull Chandlers Ford.

Going to a far better-run club in Brentford, even having been loaned out, has helped him make his game more compact.

It could equally have been that happening too. I’m just making the point that the club is just as fond of buying ‘ones for the future’ as Chelsea or City, without keeping anywhere near pace with first team investment in key positions. Those two clubs can afford to do both at PL level, Saints can’t.

Sounds like Harry Redknapp will be a new customer judging by today’s news story. Meanwhile, Elon attempts to bribe voters in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court contest. Bet the dopey twats fall for it as well. https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-d75807980ac311b87606fb4ec58cc466

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/mar/27/harry-redknapp-appears-to-make-nazi-salute-after-calling-thomas-tuchel-german-spy Presumably Harry was off to the local Tesla dealer after the charity event? He’s never gotten over Roy Hodgson, then via Big Sam, Gareth Southgate beating him to the England job. Not hard to see from that article why they did. Good to see Beatts enjoying himself and seems a decent chap.

I think they panicked when Sangare couldn’t get a work permit and bought the next available what they perceived as a similar player. Turned out to be the pound shop version.

I don’t disagree with what you are saying in isolation, there is some neat symmetry there. But the club has also signed Ronnie Edwards, who is a slightly more experienced version of Sanda, and also Nathan Wood for £3m who played more games this year than expected but hasn’t looked close to PL level even so, and was mixed at the level were at next season. The point I’m making is if the club are going to buy these deals for the future then there needs to a clear pathway to the first team if they developed as hoped. Otherwise it’s just throwing lots of individual transfers and transactions for individual players hoping to get lucky with the odd one, resulting in a huge roster and no discernible first team spine.

Yoann Folly had though, promising cameo, then vanished via a spell at Plymouth.

Knees made of polyfilla these days.