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This isn’t a surprise - when Spors was unveiled at an SMS home game last season smiling, Rasmus made a point of sitting nearby glaring at him as if Dragan had allowed someone else to play with his train set. I’ve worked with people like Rasmus and the only way your organisation recovers is with him out of it altogether.

Two relegations and likely a third this season to ‘Agent Redknapp’s’ one. Solak has also overseen a far better Serbian SFC demolition job than Milan Mandaric could have delivered deliberately.

Although those aren’t worth anything if SR wasn’t a going concern.

Jack had 12 months left and the extension was for another 24 months so yes, three years in total I’m afraid.

Rasmus - Spors has made some horrific decisions but when it emerged that Rasmus was still selling players in the summer you realised that he’d still found ways to interfere. Pretty sure that’s why the keeper and striker positions weren’t sorted so it didn’t come up at the SR board meetings about the dreadful mistakes on Bazunu and Stewart. You can debate the roles/mistakes from Shields, Wilcox, Spors, what Kraft did/didn’t do (Rasmus stabbed him in the back too) and the revolving door of scared rabbit managers, but there’s one constant factor….

Doesn’t need the benefit of hindsight to know that his summer three year extension was a massive red flag about Spors judgement.

Stewart getting long-term injured was hardly a surprise to anyone unless they had an IQ of 50 or less, and Palace realised De Boer was a fuck up and put it right within 4 games, that’s a manager. Forest and Ange ditto. So yes, we can write Downs off after a dozen games and certainly Gavin Bazunu after several horrendous seasons. But SR doesn’t have the minerals to do so. Solak’s business woes might be the way out of all of this mess,

If it got the club SR free, short term pain for longer term gain…

Until the parachute ratios decline and he’s absorbing growing losses with far less opportunity to fund them from a growing pie at United Group.

Sounds far more like the Branfoot years and Lowe protests than the odd set of banners and chants we saw for the Spurs disaster under Martin. About time and with Dragan losing control of United Group, it may the time to turn the temperature up some more. Our away support could do that but will the home support?

And protests against him would be a gift for his domestic foes.

Save the petrol and have a nice autumnal afternoon in Devon. There will plenty of other empty seats to keep it company, the Chapel looked half empty v Swansea.

Solak is not necessarily in the strongest position though to absorb losses let alone a group https://www.eureporter.co/lifestyle/media/2025/10/21/european-media-dragan-solak-loses-control-of-united-group-in-court-defeat/

Not 100% sure of the context in what was his business but yes, there seemed to be manoeuvres which succeeded in June in removing him from United Group’s board and having just looked, his action to the Dutch courts to be reinstated was rejected only last week https://www.eureporter.co/lifestyle/media/2025/10/21/european-media-dragan-solak-loses-control-of-united-group-in-court-defeat/ Quite a fall from grace in Serbia.

But they also own the losses by the same logic, and what you’ve said is rational and logical btw. And those can be huge at Champ level if the gates drop away. They’ll need to sell playing assets as the parachute payments fall away which makes the anchor club of a group less useful. It depends if he’s willing to be pigheaded like Venky’s have with Blackburn or Pozzos with Watford, but my sense should that he doesn’t.

They have folded every time there’s been a bit of dissent from the fans. Witness Martin v Spurs and some of mild stick v Juric. Banners, plane with a Solak out message, 90 minutes of chanting to get out of the club - that would be a start. Falling attendances as the parachute payments will dwindle in parallel will achieve the aims. This won’t be like Guy Askham being pigheaded over Branfoot for almost 3 years.

Again, like the Starmer analogy this is far worse. Starmer’s been Head of DPP whatever people think of him, SCW is a WC winning coach in a different sport and international player. As Ratcliffe and Brailsford show at Man U, this doesn’t always translate across. But to appoint a 32 year old who had never managed in the country into this situation…

Relegation is the reality unless the owners break their toxic habits of appointing weak/young/totally reliant or grateful to Rasmus for their job. Which we know they refuse to do.

Starmer’s at least handled Trump well even if domestically poor, this is Liz Truss level ineptitude.

Had a lovely afternoon walking over Cleeve Hill and trying some of my Lidl Oktoberfest collection shortly. Cheltenham Town won in the last minute v top of the table Walsall - 10 points from 12 under Steve Cotterill after being adrift at the bottom under Michael Flynn who was sold short by the previous board. Their fans deserve the new ownership and management having given it to Gary Johnson who bought a total load of rubbish. Cotterill’s free agents and better organisation have transformed things. As for Saints….a re-set in League One with new owners and club leadership beckons. Glad to hear the travelling fans gave SR, Still and the ‘players’ some serious grief. 12 months too late sadly and likely to cost the club a second consecutive relegation and third in 4 years. Message to Saints fans - if you demand change loudly you’ll deserve it if you get it. But you’ve accepted dreadful standards and a complacent and arrogant club leadership who hasn’t cared for many years hence 4 wins in 50 games. Learn from the older fans who ousted Lowe and Branfoot to understand what you need to do if you want to save your club. Us older farts did our bit at the time.

PNE need to build on Blackburn’s good work and bury Still and Ankerson. Come on Preston!

Denmark. But it was the obvious appointment in the summer. He wouldn’t have taken any shit from Rasmus and the goalkeeper and strikers departments would have been totally overhauled regardless of who the ‘club’ eg Rasmus ‘rates’. But that’s why SR won’t hire adults.

And yet more actual back up https://vtdigger.org/2025/10/23/orleans-county-republican-sam-douglass-officially-resigns-from-senate/

The current strain can cause people to shit their kex. That said, I can see a Monday Night Chicken Club at Flynn’s though.

Couldn’t hit the farm the barn is in either. All of the cow’s arses are safe as I don’t think Damion could find a 🪕 let alone hit a cow’s arse with it.