Gloucester Saint

He heard the Smugglers had closed and turned it down.

Wouldnt you head for a China Shop instead?

Let’s hope they stumble upon someone decent….

If SR think replacing Still with Eckert will quell the protests - they have a very nasty surprise coming.

SR are now worse than Dale Vince - at least he got it right appointing Savage. Don’t like Savage as a person but he’s got a proper grounding as a manager and co-run a lower level club. Hence doing well albeit FGR have a good budget.

If it looks like Selles and smells like Selles…

Agree, but barring a thumping at QPR and a threadbare Sheff Weds winning at SMS that’s clearly not what SR are going to do.

Hope QPR win 5-0 and Weds beat us as well. Would be a fitting epitaph for these wankers.

Very heavy QPR victory please to stop Spors appointing Tonda Eckert. Hope the Owls get three off us as well.

Plenty around the Cotswolds and some of the more notorious families are best avoided.

That’s Sheffield Wednesday and Saints down then.

It’s a telling comment too.

There’s a theme emerging @Smirking_Saint if that’s true…Saturday’s selection did not make sense in light of Still’s press conference beforehand. Could be on the manager and I’d never let a failed ownership group tell me what to do in my area of expertise, but easy to say where you’re older and more miles on the clock, rather than a kiddo in his early 30s (in such a high profile role).

He sounds like one of the Marzen beers that was in my Oktoberfest Lidl pack. Repeating the Selles mistake - marvellous. SR really are total cretins.

Selles mistake about to be repeated if that’s the case. Along with repeating the Carrillo mistake with Onachu. And before SR/Reed, Lowe with Gray/Wigley. In the case of Southampton Football Club, stupid does as stupid says.

And the core of this group of players. Correct decision of course but like @Turkish and @S-Clarke I do not have any sense of celebration, actually sadness. Until the goalkeeping and centre forward positions are sorted out properly, along with certain ‘senior’ players behaving like professional adults, the second half of the season will be as grim as the first.

Rasmus really did break it didn’t he?

Pity the Antiques Roadshow gig didn’t work out. Antique 🥄 can be highly valuable.

‘America First’ and no more getting involved needlessly in overseas wars. Ukraine - invaded by Russia, US’s historic enemy and threat to entire NATO alliance - ‘why did Biden help them?’. Nigeria - let’s carpet bomb some Muslims thousands of miles away.

Nic seems to meet as many different people in Thailand - if it is Thailand - as Soggy meets in Romney Marsh.

An experienced interim might well steady things short-term and keep us up, but until SR can identify a clear direction and aspiration for the club beyond making the odd profit on player trading (bar the odd fluke they aren’t even capable of that) then how can they decide objectively on the type of manager they need to deliver that? This accounts for the mixed bag of managers we’ve seen under them.

Fair comments, but if you look at Ings’s record in poor teams v Moran’s in very, very good ones, they are impressive numbers indeed. AA was bought to replace Ings….after several weeks of Semmens and Crocker very publicly patting themselves on the back for the £35m fee received from Villa with a year of Danny’s contract left. That was a key step towards the chasm. Wallace duo (not Ray) were different gravy, explosive pace and directness. The 1984 goal v Liverpool. Kelvin is miles better than either keeper now let alone Shilts, Timmy, Beasant, Taylor, Jones, Antti… Fonte, Hammond, Chaplow, Puncheon, Lambert - they’re more comparable as we had them in L1 and Champ. As players but most importantly characters they are x100 this current shower.

Always been the same with them, stems from Nicholson era. Always otherwise been a streaky cup kind of team, some superb individuals but Arsenal and latterly Chelsea with the shady funding the clubs in London who can grind out title challenges. Spurs are more akin to West Ham, just a bit bigger. They’d hate that analogy.

@S-Clarke and @Smirking_Saint whilst coming it at from different angles, are coming to the same conclusion - nobody truly knows who is responsible for what at the club and lines of responsibility are blurred. I’ve had this in my career but you can only make it work with a very experienced manager who can cut through it and make the core of their operation work. At 33 that’s such a difficult ask. The lad at Brighton wouldn’t be anywhere as impressive without the stable structure Bloom has built over time. Whether they agree with decisions or not, everyone should be clear - supporters, stakeholders, sponsors, players, managers - on who is responsible for what.