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Depends what their roles are within the group and what they’ve brought with them. Kraft is actually worth more than Solak IIRC https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/4-facts-you-may-not-know-about-southampton-chairman-henrik-kraft/ So whilst Henrik Kraft has stepped down and Šolak taken over as SFC chairman, I suspect Šolak needs him as an SR partner in financing the overall umbrella. Where he has more of a problem is with Rasmus. Rasmus is also a partner but I’d assume bringing football strategy and transfer/AI databases to execute player recruitment. That’s worked to an extent for Göztepe via Saints as a bridge in some cases, but for Saints it’s been the worst in Europe for similar medium-sized regular top league clubs and yet to know on Valenciennes. In effect, he seems to have ended up operationally-leading Goztepe. Hopefully he will now have very little to do with Saints as I suspect that will be Spores’s main focus within SR but the fact he’s been with him at recent home games tells me that he won’t relinquish the train set easily. So Spores will need to get Dragan, Dragan’s new board appointees and try and divide a wedge in the Denmark link on the board to get his plans for SFC through, including choice of manager.

Could be a good boost for the SW economy. Although we’ve got to get the universities shrugging off activists against the arms industry and Palestinian protestors because we need the drones and other technology. Difference is now that we will be storing more of what we produce as a proportion vs exporting to Israel and Saudi, although still doing plenty of that too. Need to upgrade the Babcock run facilities though - anyone who has been to nearby Ashchurch here and seen the state of that will know what I mean. State of the art kit will not last long in crumbling asbestos sheds.

It can make for example politically difficult decisions that the Tories often can’t without being hammered around cutting 15% off NHS England’s budget, changing the CEO to someone with an innovation background and bringing it much closer to the DoH, reducing bed blocking and expanding community provision. Something Hunt wanted to do for years but knew the political impact. Streeting is one of the most able ministers and shows up some of their other wallies. Starmer needs to have a bit of reshuffle in the autumn I think.

What part of GOP plans and Project 2025 wasn’t blatantly obvious to GOP voters? Most of it seemingly, when it impacts them and their families

No point bringing balanced, objective posts on here. And yes, further reducing overseas aid to boost military spending is something Reform and the current Tories would’ve done (Cameron would have hated it) but it’ll be popular with voters and with Trump’s moves away from NATO it is easy to justify. So committed right wing voters will be pissy about that. Also navigating the Trump situation well overall. Winter fuel allowance fine by me as well. And asylum cases getting processed faster, rejected often and gangs arrests significantly up. Plenty I don’t like as well and disappointed about - NI rise on employers, not employees, especially impact on SMEs and non-exempted charities and universities, Reynolds and Reeves, weaker in rolling back Brexit, Farmer fight not worth the hassle, and MP behaviour which has been abysmal in some cases.

And we signed the likes of Clyne having been out of the top flight for 7 years and nearly went bust. Davis and J Rod too. None of them comparatively big money, J Rod briefly our record but only for a few weeks.

Sholing was always full of Man U, Liverpool, Leeds etc. Woolston, Weston, Thornhill, Merry Oak and Bitterne were more Saints-focused East of the Itchen.

That wouldn’t get you much in any decent charity shop these days - but in itself that does illustrate their transfer strategy from last summer perfectly.

All the MAGA who said they wanted government run like a business - turns out that you don’t when the impact is on you and your family.

If Spores wants any credibility with the fanbase, and Dragan wants any kind of buy-in, then a grovelling apology from Dragan comes first, and then a very public opening up of the Pandora’s Box of ineptitude and laziness Rasmus, Kraft and Martin (if he’s somehow found employment by then) presided over. Then down to the business of a total squad rebuild, pace, power and investment outpacing the other 23 clubs.

‘This is what we do to people that fail in Serbia….’

Stuck with him next season too - Ipswich won’t/can’t pay anywhere near what we’d want without making a thumping loss. Thanks again Russell.

100% this post. And when another fan blaming club plant comes on here, keep on sending them back with their tail between their legs and a clear message back to their paymasters - pull your fingers out. There’s more football knowledge in one row of the away end seats tonight than SR will ever learn in 30 years.

Only asset the club has going for it. Club has treated them like shit for years as well. Above the enormous amounts of surgery Spores and the new manager (surely Steve Cooper FFS if he wants it) will need to do, re-connecting with the fanbase and dropping the ‘we know better than you crap’ is #1 priority. SR and the board don’t know better or anything - simple as that, we have far more top flight football experience and knowledge than them over the years and you could see this season coming with the recruitment and lax, sloppy preparations under Martin (Oxford away anyone where they could have had 5 or 6 and steamed all over our midfield). But even I didn’t think it would be THIS bad.

Funny how when you buy players and use them to their strengths within a team structure, as Gerrard did with him at Rangers, that they tend to fare better. Rather than collecting ‘deals’ and hoping like a backstreet antiques dealer in Leominster that the odd item turns a profit.

Didn’t vote for Labour but objectively slightly better than Sunak and still miles better even with a lot of mis-steps than Boris and God forbid, Truss. Plenty of issues and frustrations with things they have done eg NI rise on businesses when the unaffordable employee cut should have rolled back and some dishonest behaviour eg Reynolds, but handling Ukraine and Trump situation well, and those are very difficult. Early progress on reducing illegal immigration and processing rejections much faster. Labour have much scope to do better overall. And the country can’t do what it needs to do with a 6% hole in the economy (Single Market) whoever is in power. So no feasible scope for Tories or Reform to do any better, look at the pathetic trade deals outside of the EU that Truss did. The Australian one in particular. Hopefully Labour gets its big boy pants on around rolling the hard Brexit back but I’ve a nasty feeling they won’t. But I’m Lib Dem so I would say that. Juric - struggling to think of one thing positive other than Ipswich away (even Martin won one PL game), so has to be him worse logically.

He’s going for another promotion with Paul Wotton at Torquay United, a club I follow. Don’t drag him into this dying club.

I’d rip your arm off for that

Either way, they haven’t defended as a unit and made it very easy for an edgy opponent.

Send him here https://www.rodiziorico.com/rodizio-rico-birmingham.html followed by an intensive weights session at Villa’s training with a protein shake to finish.

If you want to mourn how far we’ve fallen, watch the quick pressing, passing and transitions of Brighton v Bournemouth, both of which just handed us our arse (for the 20th time this season).

That long?

I dread to think what goes on in his mind having seen those players in action in that formation and using it again. As pig stubborn as Russell Martin was. Fuck Sports Republic.

Unless it’s 10-0 or worse that’s frankly impossible by now.