Gloucester Saint

10000% agree. Southampton Football Club, apart from its supporters who are blameless in this, mean nothing to me until SR have sold up lock, stock and barrel. Can’t abide Solak, Rasmussen and the other 🤡. Go, go now.

So sorry to hear that. Often these things are purely financial and nothing to do with how you or your team has performed. And they quite often remove the wrong bit… It’s chance for a re-set. Happened to me during the pandemic and actually taking a package was better then furlough because I’d worked solid for 20 years+ without a break so I took 5-6 months out after the final lockdown, walked big parts of the SWCP, got fit, turned down a few offers and took a short-term contract with an organisation I liked but was never going to relocate for. Took the open-ended option after that with a world leader in their field, doing the favourite job of my career. With the national and global turbulence, I’m taking it 12 months at a time. Former colleagues at the previous place still ask me for advice especially where I’m working at the top now. But key headline is that it can be onwards and upwards.

He’s right though. SR have no legitimacy owning SFC and need to sell asap.

If they do win, and I’ve a feeling they won’t, they’ll be looking over their shoulder like a VAR goal is it/isn’t it. Join the club folks…

I agree. And yes, I’ve had that issue at Paddington, not with the toilets closed but so rank that the train has been the better option.

Sounds like @Draino76 nearly did though, when he didn’t want to.

I’m out in our back garden, lovely temperature, some GWatkin Perry on the go and reading CAMRA’s guide to Perry. Bank holiday, sunshine, enjoy it. Just turn the Sky Sports/TNT apps off for a couple of hours tomorrow and then watch McBurnie’s winner at teatime.

Got a feeling they will, the heat will neuter how Boro like to play.

Beavis and Butthead couldn’t have defended 150 on a Taunton shirtfront to be fair. Need some more first class batters from somewhere. Find a couple with a dual passport in a southern winter where they need work and let the lads in the top order take up those posts managing Curry’s/PC World near the Utilita Bowl and demolish New Milton’s bowling attack on a Sunday.

Not until Rod has stood down.

They’re something rhyming with anchors…

What did people expect from SR after 4 years of pure ineptitude? They don’t give a shit about SFC, never have and never will. The only preoccupation they’ll have discussed is any lawsuits, and in the main, the fact that the value of the players they intend to sale might have fallen.

The type of strong, decisive and effective leadership which is a hallmark of Sports Republic and Dragan Solak* *I am being ironic, just in case some posters weren’t sure…

Get them prosecuted, imprisoned and on final day of sentence permanently deported.

As for the legal representation getting flak, Parsons already cut them off at the knees in the first leg.

It gets worse, the three boys were from a GRT background, have low IQs and weren’t complete morons during the trial. That’s OK then not to issue any custodial element - not. What a naive old fart. Best if he retires though. https://ministryofinjustice.co.uk/his-honour-judge-nicholas-rowland/

As is no custodial sentence for these lads, from Southampton Crown Court. No wonder there’s disgust right across the spectrum politically. Judge Nicholas Rowland needs extensive retraining before being allowed anywhere near a courtroom again. It’ll get overturned but very poor from the courts and costing needless extra money https://news.sky.com/story/attorney-general-receives-multiple-requests-to-review-lenient-sentence-of-boy-rapists-in-hampshire-13546972

Why is anyone raising eyebrows? Have they been living in a cave? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd6pzg7z319o

It’s not an aura, it’s some not very sharp supporters who even after this episode can’t see or read what’s right under their noses. Phil Parsons is another example - incredibly naive. You and I can actually see the obvious and know that nothing good will come from SR owning the club (best case) and in 5 years’ time there’s a reasonable possibility there won’t be a club to support (worst case) if the EFL or our fanbase doesn’t force their removal.

Because they own the club, are supposed to run it and oversee those who they appoint to senior frontline positions. Like every other football club, large to medium size company, local authority, NHS Trust etc in the country so they are accountable to shareholders, lenders, creditors, regulators, customers and the communities they operate in. Repeatedly they have promised to take more interest, get more hands on to prevent the various calamities on their watch and time and time again they fail abysmally. Only this time, they couldn’t ever cover up cheating remotely properly when the damage could have been limited with basic oversight and club lawyers telling Parsons to shut up. I don’t believe a word they say and past the point where I ever will.

Les Reed put a good framework in place before he went mad, ousted Ronald and though he had re-invented football. That’s why Cortese’s behaviour wasn’t an issue on the pitch, but was costly on the Staplewood renovation project which is why Kat removed him. That framework is missing with SR and needs to return, hence why a senior football consultant on a few hours a week would be essential if SR are permitted to carry on as owners by the FA and EFL.

Having seen the chaos in neighbouring Worcs where the residents have just paid for their xenophobia with a whopping 9% council tax rise, I’m not surprised. Warwickshire is also a basket case as is Kent. Paying through the nose for less services might be the education these areas need. There are plenty of shit Tory and Labour councils too, but Reform councils and councillors are Phil Parsons-level naive from what I’ve seen so far. When they’re not resigning for far right tweets or fighting each other.

Yep, Roy Hodgson as senior football consultant. Could also keep an eye on SR for the FA and EFL because they have to be regarded as a Chansiri/Sheff Weds risk. Pulis on there as well - local, doesn’t want to work FT but a few hours a month would be OK. Cortese’s behaviour was erratic but people forget how much of a structure Reed put in place 2009-16 before he ousted Koeman and started believing his own shit around re-inventing football which is where the current disease started. The structure needs to return and SR are the bank and trading exchange with SFC as the clear anchor club. EFL kicked the legs away, now they need to do the other side of their governance role and review SR’s ownership, insisting on all of the above for conditions of ownership and concerns over the professionalism of how a member club is run.

Time for the EFL and FA to actually do their jobs now and think about whether SR are the fit and proper outfit the PL passed in 2021/22. There are huge question marks over that.

Solak is ultimately responsible, having been a chairman myself the buck stops with him. FA and EFL need to seriously consider whether SR is capable of running a club of Saints’s size and learn from Wednesday and Chansiri. Turkish and French authorities also need to do the same. Certainly, if he’s allowed to keep it, which is highly questionable, I’d want a senior football consultant to pull them through by the nose for the 12 months and keep them clean on a regulatory level and solvent.