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We agree, 🦆 said earlier that we probably should have backed Juric for longer where the Martin crew played up. But then we might have also have ‘claimed’ Derby’s record. I don’t think they’d have put in at West Ham or v City like they did for Rusk and Lallana. The players are a disgrace in the main I concur bar the new arrivals and solid people like Bree returning. I think the fans handbrake will come off a bit more after Sunday and they’ll be clear where they stand with us if they aren’t already.

The leak plus AA’s admission makes it clear he was being undermined. Too much too soon but that squad of players outside of Fellows, Leo, Charles, Jandar, Weligton (as far as we know), Robinson, Peretz and Stewart (when fit), and probably Alex are trouble with a capital T. THB maybe cares a bit more as well. Not to mention lazy with their Martinball and disinterested in the club’s league position and pride.

This is true both ways, only a handful actually know the facts. On the face of, it’s bizarre that a young kid gets offered ahead of someone with 30-odd full international caps, coaching badges and a rising coaching reputation. Equally, Adam might have thought ‘fuck me, they’ve messed the window up again and I really don’t want to manage Flynn, Ryan, Nathan and others. I’ll carry on with the u21 because this lot change like their underpants and it’ll come around again by February, if I want it at all’.

Got a rough wall or floor?

There were very specific reasons though for his majority, same as Phillips that won’t be there in the same volumes in 2029. They’d have both been pretty solid majorities otherwise. You have a fairer point on gender as the Tories have had three female PMs. Although have the Labour Party since Barbara Castle objectively had a female minister of genuine PM qualities in the same way Thatcher and May were? Some very talented ministers and people like Mo Mowlam for certain but not sure PM skill set. That said, I don’t think Truss being elected by their members is anything to reflect on with pride. She’s almost as mad as Trump.

A goalkeeper just launched a full goal kick without 50 needless passes between a back 5 and a goal conceded. It offended Russell’s purity,

Not if they’re in the bomb squad they won’t. But it means SR and Spors backing a manager to manage and there’s the issue.,.

As @saintant posted above, any improvement would have been contingent on the senior players putting some effort (only Scienza was, and Fellows wasn’t even getting a game). Given AA practically admitted that they didn’t for Will afterwards, I’m not convinced. We were creating a lot more chances but missing them but also conceding horrifically eg Hull away, which has only re-appeared at Boro onwards. He did at least drop Baz and Jack which probably was fuel for more stabbing in the back from the dressing room and Staplewood. He was still wedded to the same formation and we just went longer without a midfield. Even the wins like Wrexham were a 5 minute purple patch with us very patchy through the other 85. That game could have been 5-5, we had no pattern as a newly relegated side v a newly promoted one. I liked what he said and clearly capable of independent thought unlike Tonda-bot. But it rarely translated onto the pitch and in our job our size you have to manage or dispatch Martin’s lovers, the rest of the players, the press and upwards with SR. Very challenging and needs a more experienced head who will call Rasmus, Spors and Martin’s core out on poor and slow performance, on the pitch, and in bringing in the much-needed strong and quick spine through the squad. Neither Still nor Tonda have the body of experience to help them deliver that.

I would put a laughing emoji as it did make laugh but bar the Jay Robinson sentence the rest of it is far from out of the equation with SR. Rasmus is as mad as a box of frogs. 🐸

No chance - huge wages and his agent has already poo pooed it. Agree that he wouldn’t add a great deal - hasn’t scored a free kick for the Hammers, some good early corners but we never get bodies on the box anyway. The opponents or ours. Just a more deluxe Flynn Downes recycler sideways on administration-inducing wages.

Given how long Biden was allowed to stay on by his pathetic party, I have little hope that there will be a bulletin soon that he’s had a severe stroke and cannot continue in office (whether true or not) with an even weaker GOP. People knock our political system but when Truss was bezerk she was dispatched very quickly to apply some limits to the damage. He won’t do his full-term but it’ll take massive civil unrest verging on civil war in year 3 or 4 to finally unseat him/pop him off if he isn’t deceased before that.

The Norway tantrum letter has been confirmed by CBS https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2k7gv0znmt 7 year olds have better emotion control and grammar, at least in European countries. Not sure about America anymore.

He won’t be rich for much longer letting Rasmus run riot. Kicked off his own company board seemingly as well.

Or even better, an actual adult manager. You know, like Phillipe Clement at Norwich.

Although 6 points above the drop zone and rock bottom of the form table…. A couple of experienced loans through the spine who can organise, one of them as captain, would at least ensure survival. Their idea of change is to sack Tonda after Fratton mauling and scour the local garden centres and sixth form colleges for an acne-stricken adolescent to hire as manager. The zits and oozing pus would at least put Blackmore off the scent of SR’s bungling during post-match interviews. Essential Criteria - must love XG and possession data and always obey Rasmus Ankerson.

We’d be several points adrift with only Sheff Weds below us by now. Appreciate that the current form is where we’d have landed anyway and relegation looks very likely still without appointing a manager whose balls and voice have dropped. But it wasn’t for that string of victories in November, we’d have been nailed on to join the Owls in L1.

That’s ok for them then, because they will win.

Ben Garner for a start, digging shows clear links between him, Right to Dream Academy in Ghana, and Ankerson. There was a more detailed piece of research done on the Ben Garner thread which made it crystal clear. Sulemana graduated from it as well.

Just that SR are doubling down with Ben Garner, yet more analysts arriving, the formation and style of play is intransigent (as well as glacial). I’d say Rasmus has got unchallenged control of the SR asylum and Spors is helping rather than challenging him. In a way, if the rate of decline accelerates towards and over the cliff edge towards League 1, at least the rebuilding post-SR can happen quicker too as Dragan sells at a knock down rate and jumps out of the cab Rasmus has been steering.

Well, he promised it (if you’re referring to Will Still) but didn’t deliver on it, or at least didn’t drive the core of Martin players to do so. Should have dropped them, squad big enough to do so. 21at in the Champ. If you’re referring to Ivan Juric, the bloke never had an earthly chance.

Going to get quite a bit worse I suspect.

Dreadful attitude too. The most direct thing he’s done all season was told a supporter to fuck off.

Southampton Football Club is providing far more entertainment and humour with the ineptitude and fuck ups from Ankerson, Spors and Tonda off the pitch than on, where watching is like being anaesthetised. The Manager is analyst with no practical football experience, so are 99% of the people around him. I know, we’ll hire another analyst. Great…

But he’s the leader, he’s the leader of the gang. Come on, Come on, Come on….

It probably is Hoey but it would be like the Lib Dem’s claiming Heseltine, knowing that he’s been voting for them since Boris took the leadership and was expelled from their party for it. For Farage to claim any sort of scoop on that is desperate indeed and shows the fear that he’s let far too many recycled and failed Tories in his boat, and it’s sprung a bad leak.