Gloucester Saint

Because Reform-run institutions are so reliable and trustworthy 😂 Jackie Weaver MK2. ‘The situation with this group is not good’. Their words. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/19/reform-kent-council-leader-launched-hunt-for-cowards-who-leaked-recorded-meeting Classy stuff and yawning and appearing bored during a visit. Great to see them taking governing so seriously https://inews.co.uk/news/reform-mayor-stands-up-students-special-needs-lunch-3979903?srsltid=AfmBOornchTTmJpqx65ivKbKqTn3IHzGgMdWVgs5dbmdfB98X9SafxMu

Agree Glen on the incompetence and bungling of playing a player injured for most of the last 3 years 3 times in just 8 days. Although we’ve got used to it with the owners and management since 2022. Pure idiocy but tbh 99% of our adult fanbase forgot more about professional football in the time it took to write this post than any of the SR board and planks running the club have learned since 2022. AA’s finishing has been dreadful this season, and his ball striking even worse. Backpasses have been hit harder. The midfielders won’t gamble either. A very shit club to support these days I’m afraid and it’s only going to get worse.

Got on a Cross Country train a couple of weeks back covered in a 🌈- got me to work on time so job done. Zebra crossings is a bit much personally, leave infrastructure as it is, it has a job to do. Police cars, I judge them by the effectiveness of what the forces do which isn’t great at the moment. Pride flags on patrol cars wouldn’t be an issue if the different forces were performing better overall.

Official sign though and if one of the agencies added an English sign the other side, fine by me. But tatty Sports Direct flags hanging at all sorts of angles where they shouldn’t be on lampposts, and gantries is just another hallmark of a failed, backwards and insular country, typical of post-2016.

Downsize, clear any borrowings, increase liquidity and still buy another one of the best houses in that area, just a bit smaller.

If people want to put flags up on their own property using a proper flagpole, as some did before the current nonsense, absolutely fine. Their property, looks smart, doesn’t degrade neighbourhoods in any way, good on them. And during major sporting events where Team GB, or England are doing well, perfectly normal stuff. Shoving scruffy Sports Direct quality flags in the public realm - lampposts, shopping centres, high streets - that’s just football banning order territory and there to make non white British born people uncomfortable (this is certainly the case with work colleagues) and those born in mainland EU, let alone the asylum seekers it is probably aimed at by Robinson’s thugs, and judging by Oakeshott’s comments Reform’s as well. More Robinson and Reform can be linked the better it is. Well done Isobel. As for the vandalising of roundabouts, best to respond to the knuckle dragged brigade by converting them to noughts and crosses and Battenberg patterns.

The flags brigade dispelling the myth about them being middle aged white skinheads with IQs in single digits…..nah, of course they aren’t https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cly23p53xe4t

Dangerous stuff when the flows of all sorts of shady funding are coming into Reform plus Musk’s unchecked activities https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e7xz02dpo

Understandable but they’ll get the League 1/2 club they deserve. Not pushing the club and owners whatsoever hasn’t worked out. But as you say, if they aren’t ambitious people I suppose they will be quite happy with playing Exeter, Bromley, Barrow and Crawley at home in front of 14k in League 2. I’ll watch Cheltenham Town from the away end at SMS, never been in with the away fans before.

Pretty highly rated though, ‘Klopp of the Alps’ and ECL with RBL.

I think you’re right Manny, a damning verdict on the owners and the fanbase don’t seem capable of opposing them. Need to get them to attend a few West Ham, Rangers and Sheffield Wednesday games to remind them of how it is done and get them out of their churchmouse state, putting some fire in their bellies. This season is over from a Saints perspective so focusing on Cheltenham Town and Torquay who have plenty to play for and whose players are trying for their managers.

Incorrect I’m afraid. It is plenty relevant if our fans actually make an effort to give SR some clog because commentators remark on it, newspapers and websites report on it, and it would ripple across their multi-club network. Let’s face it, House and Blackmore are in the club’s pocket and might as well be on the payroll they are so partisan. So it’s up to the fans. It’s then up to Solak to decide how much humiliation and directed abuse across his professional and business networks is enough. Or he could appoint a stronger, more experienced manager who controls all recruitment at first team level who isn’t tugging their forelock in gratitude for their job. Saints do far better with name managers and always have. A fact even you can’t argue with.

Well, he needs a Pulis-type DoF and Steve Cooper type manager (sadly at Brondby now) to get a grip on the club and build a competitive and reliable spine. Spors has been yet another disaster. Shouldn’t need this formation in the Championship if football people put the core in place.

I want to see him make more of the big decisions - dropping the Wessex League keeper was a good start - and bomb out the very worst of SR’s rubbish and identify the players you do want. Call it out. Managers get the sack when DoFs screw up anyway so go down with some fight.

Better to drop them and bomb them out of the first team picture if the club is too big for them. Squad is big enough to do that. Say in PCs that they are unselectable for the standards of Southampton FC and if that included the likes of Downs and Archer and Spors/Ankerson don’t like their fuck ups being exposed, tough titty.

What do you think happened in summer 2006? The ownership was fragmented but it did push Lowe out for two years and under huge pressure from the start in 2008 which the future Tory MP (he will join them soon is the rumour locally) added to by sacking Pearson and appointing the Dutch boys on buttons. Sort of dickhead move SR would do. And it 100% got Branfoot gone. Us 1 Guy Askham 0. So 💯 wrong MLG. And the ownership is more clear cut this time.

Still need to push Spors under the bus and put Downs in the bomb squad, bring Aribo and Dipepa into the squad. Robinson was poor today when he came on, Edozie is worth a try but agree not as obvious as bringing Aribo in and alienating Spors by kicking Downs out.

With plenty of Clough-type ‘you need fookin shooting for missing that’. Make AA and Archer wear dick of the week bibs. Downs can wear a Sunday League itchy 1990s style Diadora shirt to match his ability. Jandar’s miss was dreadful but otherwise played well in his core role.

Adams is a miles better footballer as well with only Scienza or Jandar even close in terms of the overall squad let alone the strikers. That’s without his hold up play and occupying defenders to create space. Our current strikers have all the technique and refinement of a massive fart in Winchester Cathedral at Midnight Mass.

The likes of Dipepa are worth a try, at least we’d be more patient with them on the whole. Downs will never be good enough and being ejected from the squad by our u19s and Aribo would be a kick up the arse for AA and Archer.

Items thrown on the pitch en masse (Charlton) disrupting the game, constant chants to sell and calling Spors/Rasmus/Solak wankers, having a go at the kids they appoint as managers, marches from the city centre to the ground (2006). Basically 1992-94 vs Branfoot and 2005/6 vs Lowe which many on here me included took part in.

Trying Aribo up top for an hour would have been a better option - something different. If AA and Archer aren’t scoring or even striking the ball professionally the team isn’t the right one is it? Ask Ian Rush down for a few weeks to try and sort out the other ‘strikers’ during the afternoon sessions.

Here we go, blame the fans, the club/SR is at it yet again on here. How many clubs at this level have an unselectable £7m striker on the bench who is so appalling he couldn't be brought on during a stale 0-0 at home?

If they wanted to score some of those they could but didn’t have the desire and application to do so. Micky Evans v West Ham collided with the post but determined to score. Boring shit players we have with carrot crunching wooden tops clapping them at the end.

That’s on him, if he didn’t think Downs was good enough, and most of this forum didn’t at the time, then needed to leak to the press and push Spors under the bus. Ditto the keeper, put Gavin in the bomb squad and don’t take him on the pre-season tour.