Gloucester Saint

Anyone is inspirational if you’re paid good money to defend them by arguing with supporters. Not the first time the club has done it either.

It’s a reasonable point. Doesn’t in any way excuse Russell Martin being a toxin in the club and city’s bloodstream to be expelled, but my faith in Ankerson is absolutely zero. As much an empty, image-driven vessel as Martin.

Yep, the PR person who lurks on here had been upstaged with you posting that. They thought they’d got one over on 🦆 by presenting what seemed like fuller quotes but the BBC ones showcase the full level of delusion that Russell though we competed with Chelsea for most of the match. Don’t even get me started on the Stephens comments. Doesn’t have a clue about people management, let alone basic organisation, tactics or transfers, what is he actually bringing? And how many times have we conceded rubbish goals (his own words) since August 2023 as a direct result of his Dirge of the Light Brigade tactics, pure as the driven snow bringing the ball out from the back? A good third of last season’s horrific 60+ conceded and at least 15 this season alone. And we are not even at Christmas yet.

You’re killing it today S-Clarke. Should be read by Dragan if he had any sense, which seems very unlikely.

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No coincidence that the PR fluffers have vanished off here last couple of days, too busy preparing those brown nosing pieces. Means they are feeling the pressure.

Not a recent thing, kids from my middle school allegedly torched a derelict house in the 1980s. That group came from messed up households where fags, alcohol and fighting were more important than structure and education, technical or intellectual. They weren’t poor either, just parents not caring, not turning up to school open evenings etc. Most of our parents on here gave a toss. Sadly, some don’t.

Just sick and tired of our club being run by amateurs. Have a look at one of the threads about how Vestergaard was signed behind Bowen and Hughes’s backs (they were on holiday) when they’d clearly said no to him because he couldn’t run (and still can’t as Leicester found out). The place needs professionalising, no philosophies or bullshit from Rasmus and Russell, carrying on Reed’s legacies. Just decent, counter-attacking passing football with pace that suits the medium-technical players we can normally afford.

Even Freddie Kreuger wouldn’t have approved that ✍️. His nails would have messed up the doors on the Exec corridor though. Apt though, as post-2017 the club has been a nightmare on Britannia Rd for all of us fans.

Wow. just wow. Knew Reed was a wrong un but feel sorry for Hughes and Bowen there and glad he’s spoken out. Ronald wouldn’t have played Vestergaard, in fact with his standing in the game Reed wouldn’t have dared to sign him behind his back. The board level at SFC has and continues to be absolutely rotten at the club post-2016. Amateurs playing at something they know nothing about. This is why Saints manager always need to be big names, to keep the board on their toes and energise the supporters. It’s astonishing how many are drinking the Lego Kool Aid at the moment and accepting abject failure.

And the style in midfield and the final third doesn’t need to change, if we get the ball there much more efficiently it’ll also be more effective because the opposition has less opportunity to get set and Archer/Dibling can play off the shoulder as suits them best.

Microphones can pick up discontent and chanting though. And do. He can’t avoid you at home games next up. The best way to get rid of him is to lose his head in interviews like Jones did. He’s not far off it, hence the Walter Mitty ‘everybody is so supportive in Southampton and Winchester’ after Chelsea. We know it’s made up but when he really crosses the line and loses it with us like Jones did, SR will act. You don’t even have to swear or risk ejection, a slow handclap in place of the ‘we’ve got the ball chants’ is audible and no-one can eject you for that. But it will wind Russell Martin up a treat. We all hate the style of football as much as did Branfoot 30 years ago.

Away games are a good place for Martin and SR Out banners, less likely to be confiscated or destroyed than home games. At home games, there’s been some notable pockets of discontent - after two of the dickhead goals conceded against Liverpool playing Martin’s dreadful dirgeball and the ‘We’ve got the ball’ Weds night. It needled Russell nicely, so we turn up it up x5. Media are noticing it as well. Time to turn up the volume, the manager won’t change so force SR’s hand on changing the manager. Protests lose them sponsorship, signings from Rasmus’s shitty AI databases - that’s what SR cares about. Jones was really sacked because he lost his head in interviews - Martin is not that far off doing the same, but the fanbase should push him further towards that. We did it to Jones and we need to again.

There’s an away end that grew a pair of bollocks when it comes to challenging an appalling and insipid away display where they should have been hammered 3-0 or 4-0. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c878xrw894eo

Prefer Cooper but OGS would be alright. Anyone who doesn’t enjoy 30 passes between centre backs, a goalkeeper slice and a goal conceded would be 100% upgrade right now.

Nathan Jones is disliked at that level but Russell Martin is genuinely despised. Was chatting about a recruitment gap a couple of work colleagues had today, WBA and Sunderland fans, and joked that Martin might be available soon. ‘Fuck off, wouldn’t employ him if he paid us’ and cited several incidents of provocation to home fans when Swansea played away. Swansea fans on here mentioned about that not being one of his positive traits either. Wish his teams had a hint of that on the pitch! OK if you win to be an arse but that’s another Achilles Heel for him.

Russell is truly the laughing stock of the Premier League. A lot of clubs’ fans hate him in the Championship as well because how he behaved at Swansea games.

Liked it, need more of that humour. Plenty more Martin out and Sacked in the Morning needed but some dark humour is important to make Russell feel small and cheer ourselves up.

Rasmus Ankerson will be buying them so that’s a given. All the more reason to not employ the worst manager in our history for another season to mitigate the Danish disaster.

Nobody. The parachutes give us a big advantage season, quite big season two. After that you cut your cloth. Far more prospect of Cooper and others taking us up than Martin. It won’t be scar tissue after this season with that cunt in charge, it’ll be 90% body burns.

And lost to a set piece. Ange is good on camera but they concede some very basic goals for a top 7 side. Whereas their great rivals have scored more goals from corners than anyone else in Europe. Eat that stat and eat shit Russell Martin. If it’s good enough for Arteta, good enough for a prick like him.

No guarantees whatsoever that happens, and SR’s complacency is infecting the fanbase in that and other regards. Come on fellow Saints fans, think critically unlike those boardroom muppets lit up last night on camera as their failing football club sank yet again without a whimper. Even if we did, Martin is the worst ever PL manager by any metric.

Passing and moving is lovely to watch, what we did under Lawrie when I first watched, Nicholl, Ball. WGS, Poch, Ralph - we pressed but then zipped it around in midfield and opposition half. Koeman - we passed and moved. Don't confuse a zippy passing game with ponderous shit leading to leaking 2 a game and no goal threat like our dickhead of a manager does. Clough’s Forest counter-attacked but they passed it than anybody.

The Championship is a tough, highly competitive league. Sunderland 5-0, 9 conceded to Leicester, Stoke and Hull at home, Cardiff away. Two stronger and bigger clubs will come down with us, I was going to say better run but Everton are about par with Saints for being pathetic on that front. Might get top 6 under Steve Cooper, mid-table at best with Martin and remember Ramsdale will go and Martin will put our worst ever keeper Bazanu back in, along with Stephens his best buddy.

Up to the fans as well. If protests and empty seats get onto Serbian national TV and press from Dragan’s domestic rivals, he won’t like it one bit. Rasmus will cop it and then do what every bullshitting little political rat does in the workplace and push his mate Russell under the bus as soon as they find a way to it under PSR. If the crowds don’t turn the pockets of dissent from the last two home games into something more substantial, they’ll lose what’s left of their club. No other top flight or good-sized Championship club would let what Martin is doing for his own agenda at their expense run on for months and years. Mass boycott would be even better but our fanbase doesn’t stick together like it did in the 90s and 00s, lacking the humour and bite we had. The threat of people’s kids watching Bournemouth, Brighton, because they don’t want to watch that dreadful slow, loser crap for playing style should be motivation to help force SR to flush the toilet on Russell. Gauntlet is there for our supporters - our generation did our bit with first Branfoot and then later Lowe. Their turn now. Not having a go at you at all Saint Clark, I know you can’t stand him as much I cant, but I can see in your mindset and others that the bastards are wearing you down. Don’t give Martin and Ankerson what they want. We shouldn’t give them a millimetre, neither of them have the club of our parents at heart.