Gloucester Saint

Unless people enjoy being gaslight, there wouldn’t be much purpose. Better to protest in the stadium.

Needs retiring this summer, voluntary or not. With the helpful stupidity of Rasmus, Wilcox and Martin, him and his agent have swindled enough money already.

There’s been a bit of internal wrangling about whether the barriers were set up quite as originally intended at the market itself just prior to Christmas from a security vs trading perspective. Not seen any more since.

Musk is turning seriously weird. If the article was 1 April that would have been a convincing April fool.

Known AFD supporter but sounds like with mental illness he didn’t know what the fuck he actually was angry about https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-christmas-market-attack-suspect-mental-illness/ Usual suspects in Germany and Musk still saw it as a gift https://www.politico.eu/article/magdeburg-christmas-market-attack-europe-far-right-elon-musk/

It’s irrelevant which PL club he goes to, and £10m say is £10m when he’s out of contract in the summer. Not sure he will want that move though.

Would like to see Saints causing an upset but against a pressing side it’s quite unlikely.

Pleased for him, an upgrade in terms of club and some normality to get away from the sheer dysfunction of SR-run SFC.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/09/andrea-jenkyns-defends-rude-gesture-no-10-protesters-should/

Would be happy with that, Charles has benefitted from working with Rohl at Champ level.

These modern managers are dreadful with their fixed tactics hiding as bullshit philosophies. Amorim is just an expensive Russell Martin.

Hopefully Rupert Lowe’s political career goes the same way as his time with Saints. Doesn’t live too far from here, in Withington IIRC, although will have a bolt hole somewhere in the Broads. No way someone from his background is living in or near Great Yarmouth!

Needs to be retired, whether the player wants to or not. Find a friendly insurance adjuster to write him off. He’s stolen enough wages already off the club plus a signing on fee. He won’t be fit to play again above lower levels of League One, probably League Two, and bar a purple patch/fluke spell of a dozen games in the Champ he’s unproven outside of League One or lower SPL. We’re not talking Rickie Lambert reeling off 25+ goal returns over several terms.

A few chants of ‘you can stick your fucking spreadsheets up your arse’ would leave no doubt with both sets of fans who it was aimed at. No way our lot would have the guts to sing that at Rasmus though. A good opportunity to see how we should have been playing since August but they have Thomas Frank and we had a village idiot. 1-3 - a batting effort but futile against better players, and a much better club.

I agree with that LD but there’s an elephant in the room - the players would be recruited by Rasmus Ankerson (Bitcon is a front for Rasmus let’s be honest). If we had a genuine, independent, DoF with profile - different story.

As we saw with Russell Martin, many of our fans are not the sharpest tools in the shed. That said, when we did protest against Jones with that brilliant P45 held up, the supporters were disgracefully apparently forcibly ejected. So focus protests at home outside the ground, funeral marches to SMS with some anti-SR chanting and then really go for their throat away from home in numbers with banners.

Although the biggest statement against SR would be thousands upon thousands of empty seats, which is what did for Rupert. Then turn out in large numbers at away games and protest with banners where SFC security can’t confiscate them or eject supporters.

I suspect this is what is riling many posters as the penny drops that this is how Rasmus is holding onto his position within SR, whilst doing it with players purchased via SFC. Unfortunately I don’t think your average supporter has cottoned on yet, because SR would have a very challenging match day experience, which they fully warrant suffering, if they did.

Recruitment of players has to be driven by athleticism and pace. Core attributes for goalkeepers. The smaller, technical players and sweeper keepers are added when you have some success with your core squad and you can afford it.

Our last two appalling owners and Directors of Football ruined the club, not the PL per se I’d contend. That’s not to say I like the PL by any means but we liked it under Adkins, Poch and Ronald, and before that WGS. Saints just aren’t a club which can ever afford to be complacent , take their foot off the gas and or dwell on philosophies thinking they’re smarter. Lowe did it, Reed did it, Semmens did it and Rasmus and Martin did it. And look where it has led. Saints are a sustainable regular competitive PL club with the basics right and no bullshit.

Rasmus is a classic, over-promoted bullshitter. We’ve all come across them at work or when trying to do deals with other firms and they clearly get exposed for how limited they are yet have a way to sucking up to executive boards and smelling of roses. He seemingly stole the credit for Phil Giles work at Brentford as well, which is also classic bullshitter and highly political behaviour. I’m glad about the amount of threads about SR and they are now starting to get the scrutiny they deserve at national level. Whilst I’m not a fan of Alex Crook, we need more posts like his from yesterday.

Agree on RVN, former strikers who become managers often struggle to set up and organise (also see situation in South Devon currently). McKenna is excellent because their League 1 squad that got double promotions wasn’t at the same level ours or Norwich’s was. A higher proportion of their signings are working out from this summer which combined with a superior manager gives them a chance. But Ipswich had the hardest task this season and Wolves are picking up. Everton also taken over.

Whether it is or not, none of those roles or personnel in them are effective in the slightest. May as well have them vacant if people recruited aren’t going to show any heart or backbone.

Someone from the national press or at worst local needs to reflect that horror list on social media and rub Rasmus’s nose in it. The managerial selections have also been appalling but the player recruitment has been far worse than Les Reed and Ross Wilson which I didn’t think was possible. Regarding Ross Stewart and especially Larios, they ain’t going to play again so retire them whether they like it or not and claim the insurance. Sick of them sponging off the club. Bazanu won’t make a professional goalkeeper above League One as long as he has a hole in his arse, and judging by the horrific goals he lets in he’s got holes in plenty of other areas too. Offer 50% of his wages up front and terminate his contract. Give ABK some starts so people can see the heart issue was made up and help him out of the door. A decent start next season means a core squad who as a minimum are fit, capable of top two Champ finish and want to be at SFC. Anyone else can leave or be dispatched.

I’m not bothered about words, David Moyes or another good name Southampton FC Director of Football backing Juric, Rasmus exiled to Turkey, and biggest transfer budget possible next summer with the aim of biggest in the league, that would be a start. Get the players fit, stop the excuses culture and get back to being a well-run, efficient outfit as per 09-17. No philosophies or strap lines, get the basics right over the next 3 years. Also, get the pathway back to the academy and stop buying third rate tat from Rasmus’s spreadsheets.