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Yeah, AA does speak well and you could see how horrified he was at having to award the signed shirt at the Brentford mauling. Sounds like Wood might be another OK in a better squad environment. Agree on Downes, THB, Jack and Manning likely being the core trouble and Dragan is going to need to write a big cheque to write off Stephens obscene extension after shitting on the club in 24/25 like he did. And gross misconduct for whoever’s idea it was. Spors says it was him.

As much spine as a 🪼 There are actually a few idiots on this site who want Russell Martin back. Mental. I suspect Archer is not part of the clique but not a good player to have around a professional environment. And Downs is not only a bad egg but the worst professional EFL-level player I’ve ever seen. Not just at Saints either.

So from House’s tweets, the clique is: - Harwood Bellend, Manning, Downes, and AA as the leaders. - Quite possibly Stephens, Bazunu, Wood as followers. Jack could be one of the leaders and he says keep Wood but not Stephens.

Diallo was the second shittiest of those, although Ralph did actually want Sangare, but they wouldn’t grant a WP and by the time he qualified he was out of price range under Gao. Djenepo was a weird one - thought we’d found another Mane-type gem from those two solo goals at Sheff Utd and Brighton but disappeared after that. No lack of effort but a flash in the pan and was a far inferior player back at Standard (although we saved the best treat with Baz’s loan spell). Perraud lacked a yard of pace but could strike a ball - Leeds wanted him but ended up buying Firpo who was even worse. Lyanco - oh boy, he WAS terrible, attitudinally a step up from what we have now but at PL one of the worst CBs we had, and not sure he’d have been much better in the Champ. He also bought KWP on the positive side. Ings was Hughes/Reed but Ralph got the very best out of him. Adams was Ralph and did alright overall when a second striker. Ralph did really well to keep that lot up comfortably and if SR hadn’t pissed around with Ramos/Gapko, and bought 3-4 better spine players instead of City’s academy cast offs he might have done so again.

Some things never change.

1-0 defeat to a Billy Sharp goal in December 2011 wasn’t it? Signed him the next month.

They weren’t his signings, they were Reed’s, you could say Pellegrino in Carrillo’s case as no-one else was that mentally disturbed to want to pay any money for him let alone £20m. Vestergaard should have been added to that list but Leicester somehow refunded Saints - and we know from Mark Bowen that was 100% a Les signing.

Ceno’s have just learned what Trump voters learned the hard way - aligning with overt racism is expensive and requires deep pockets. Clearly not deep enough in this instance and the owners have paid a hefty price.

Plus DoF Paul Tisdale.

What would Fabrice have called Banks’s save v Pele in 1970 if the internet had existed? Nuclear?☢️

I think we’ve just identified what Niccy used to do for a living… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4n0vxl376o

Who do you reckon those are? Stephens obviously, Manning, Bazunu possibly? Or is it just capability with him? Nathan Wood? THB? Downes? Archer? Possibly Damion Downs although he’s being shipped out already having been the club’s worst postwar outfield player in living memory. Even worse than Ali Dia and Lee Todd. Seems to be a Swansea/Martin core at work there.

Shocking compared to postwar, although it’s probably not much better for a lot of medium to large clubs. Man U have had a similar ratio post-Fergie.

I saw someone post earlier that Sulemana came through the Right to Dream Academy - has Ankerson’s filthy fingerprints all over it. Stepping back my arse.

Dragan receiving his photo of a train will be quite exciting.

On paper it should do but we said this in 07/08 and the home form suddenly dried up as well until Pearson came in. God, can you imagine what Nigel would make of Rasmus and SR?! On balance I think you are right with keeper and ST upgrades on loan plus change of manager. 14th-17th finish.

Bowling was poor bar Stokes, I rate Tongue but never rated Potts and Carse is very predictable. As for the batting, Root sublime, good knock by Brook but still gave away too many chances. Jamie Smith needs to go, too flaky for red ball cricket when we’ve got quality like Rew and Cox waiting in the wings for wk/bat.

More likely that Phil Giles was willing to/capable of putting in the detailed planning and organisation to allow strategy to be operationalised and hence not every idea would have been implementable or been effective within Brentford’s operating environment.

That’s because they are puppets put in post to enable Rasmus to meddle. Lallana is a fig leaf to disguise the fact that the rest of them are lower leagues.

Respect your view but that is where we are heading with SR anyway unless Dragan shows some bollocks and sacks Rasmus. Not what happened before where Kraft was pushed under the bus and Rasmus has carried on meddling in the background. Solak could tie up with an agent if SR wants to make money on transfers but have an actual football person run the operations and set the direction of travel for the clubs.

That will be the interim after Garner gets a hiding at Pompey. Tonda could go this week, SR will see and hear the fermenting against them at scale.

Having worked with several skates who had to sit near him in the Fratton End, no-one with a sense of smell would get near enough to JPFCW from what they told me. In revenge, he could piss on them with the amount he allegedly drinks.

Only if the stewards try to body search which we have to consent to. They can reasonably feel quickly for knives and obviously search any bags. Reading and Charlton fans got them and plastic pigs into the stadium without issues. Plenty of places to conceal a tennis ball.

Yes to the above and clearly they didn’t look into this. Fortunately this board does the research SR and the club are too sloppy and lazy to do. Similar links for Swindon and Charlton. Rasmus likes failures and losers - Ben Garner is that in multiples. https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/17710/ben-garner-failure https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/areas-ben-garner-struggled-tactically-4705172