Gloucester Saint

Hard to know where to start with this post. Watch the transitions and breaking through the lines at the Valley again. He isn’t the problem per se, nor is Johannes Spors, that is Rasmus Ankerson indulged by Dragan Solak. And yes, the way those two have destroyed Southampton’s once proud football club is both unsustainable, utter madness and furthermore a disgrace.

Is that what he did? Wow. He can’t have been at the Ewood Park game and heard the away end’s reaction there. Or he’s just thick as pig’s shit.

He’s about as helpful with his feet and hands as Mr Methane is with his bowels and arse. At least Paul Oldfield is vaguely entertaining. Actually, he’d better value than a light show when the parachute payments run out.

Someone should have put that as a Christmas Cracker question at the the SFC boardroom Christmas Party.

@Smirking_Saint said he’d put his hand up at Christmas if Gavin still was nowhere good enough. Poor SS has probably got PTSD if he went today judging by the crap I saw first half.

Geographical distance, a local football team with their hero back in charge, decent local rugby team, real ale, hillwalking… Let’s forget about the Ashes though, those have been ruining my mornings!

The owners are the primary issue - the managers and player recruitment are the symptoms. Not the virus. The only way the patient improves and has hope is when the virus is expelled.

Mr RAF/70s porn star moustache and Adam Blackmore - not holding out much hope. Those two are as lightweight as the football team and as challenging to SR’s mad experiments as the last few puppets they’ve appointed and controlled.

Didn’t me, I’ve had a great one. Years since I let those corporate tossers impact weekends or festive seasons.

He’s like a Friday Morris Marina on the Longbridge production line.

Bazunu could be an octopus but he’d still be more useful as Calamari than as a goalkeeper.

How many light years was Pardew, Adkins, Strachan, Lawrie, Nicholl, both Joneses, Hughes, Koeman, Pochettino, Puel, Ralph, goodness knows even Pellegrino ahead of Martin let alone Tonda ‘Kinda Surprise’ Eckhert? Martin is fucking useless so what does that say about the latest kiddie?

I wouldn’t be surprised if he (Rasmus) sacked Still for dropping Bazunu more than the results and performances.

I watched the Brum v Derby lunchtime game and the Derby keeper was very sound, and the commentators were saying that’s typical for him. Bet he wasn’t £14m or something absurd from City’s academy…. Edit - £2m or around that level https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/derby-county-struck-gold-with-jacob-zetterstrom-wolves-brentford-wanted-him/ Solak can afford that and pay off Bazunu’s final year. McCarthy out of contract in the summer and Ramsdale will be off. Just sort it out you useless pricks.

Cheers, Oxford were causing a lot of issues on the counter first half and really ought to have scored with a couple more, especially on HT 8 yards out with clear sight of goal. First one the visibility wasn’t good through the bodies but it reminded me of a Ryan Harley shot with similar venom through a crowded area at Exeter 2011 where Kelvin made an excellent late save and Rickie did the business up the other end. Gavin’s wrists are dreadful for a goalkeeper. I don’t hate him, or Tonda, or any of their other vanity windows for SR’s madness but I do properly hate Ankerson with a passion and Dragan as well. Bazunu and Eckhert are just visual metaphors for SR shittiness in the same way the Austin Allegro was a metaphor for the death of the British Car industry at scale. British Leyland and SR - a lot of similarities.

Made good jam and mincemeat as I remember it.

I turned over at HT, was the second goal his fault? First one was more Jack than anyone else plus a very clean strike.

Plane flying over SMS for the Millwall home game please and make sure Sky know it’s coming so it gets a good 60-90 seconds on camera. Even House and Blackmore might have the backbone to mention it.

@S-Clarke is more on the money, they wanted another kiddie/unfancied underdog grateful for their job who wouldn’t challenge Rasmus’s crazy experiments. There’s ample evidence of that. My involvement will be very distant until SR are gone lock stock and barrel. I despise them in a way which transcends anything towards Lowe, Branfoot etc.

Don’t waste your breath, Jimmy is one of a small band of supporters who are still sipping the SR/Rasmus Koolaid on the corporate formation, style, etc.

I blame these people https://www.rasmusankersen.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragan_Šolak_(businessman) They are in ‘charge’ so can’t be called scapegoats really.

Agree with all of that, just hope the skates get dragged down with Saints this year. Relegation/administration only way out. We’ve been there before. Not scared of it.

TBH Badger it was me genuinely laughing as the anger dispersed years ago. I don’t have anything against Tonda per se, he’s just another figurehead for Rasmus’s experiments and playing FM in real life. Therefore, I can’t respect him either. If he declares publicly that he needs a #1 keeper and striker then I could change my mind. But I don’t trust any manager SR appoints in summary. The only way to recovery is parting company with SR and if that’s via relegation or administration then happy to roll the dice. The club is dying under SR anyway so just speed process up a bit.

No offence Jimmy, but you can’t keep blaming the officials at full time. Oxford’s wage bill is probably 5% of Southampton’s so if they got a bit of the rub of the green then it levels the playing field and they deserve what they get. They were easily the better side first half before they turned over. If your club ponces around the pitch playing the corporate style with no commitment or movement then you deserve to lose. That’s before persisting with a corporate formation not working and a L1 goalkeeper.

I would laugh my head off if Saints and Pompey go down, their Disney bloke loses interest and Dragan finally sells up a thumping loss to someone who knows what they are doing and win L1 next year.