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Interesting to see https://www.cbi.org.uk/our-campaigns/driving-green-growth-and-the-transition-to-net-zero/

Elon has messed up with Saturday’s email, condemned and being opposed across the political spectrum https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0qrj20g5vo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly25yny3ego

£40m and it’s done. JWP wages unaffordable even @50% subsidised great as he’d be in the Champ with some pace and power alongside him.

Tennessee learning the hard way as the UK has done that Xenophobia and nationalism are very expensive to your economy. £20bn tourism economy with Canada, #1 visitors to Nashville and 150k jobs locally depend on Canadian tourism, down the toilet with the national boycott Trump’s behaviour has caused. Whoops, that MAGA vote felt good in the booth for a lot of those 150k but it bet it doesn’t now. Trump has done what he said he would and it’s impacted you.

I’ve got the perfect song for that clip

As another poster would say, noddy behaviour.

JWP was a great servant but it highlights how one dimensional/one paced/lacking physical presence we’d become as a midfield unit. He will do a job as a squad player for the Hammers but his peak was with us and briefly with them at the start.

I don’t think it’s acceptable and is a lie IMHO, as was Schapps selling Ponzi schemes as Michael Green and Jenryck’s various corrupt activities. The stuff around Reeves I don’t like much either, even if it’s a bit more opaque.

I had to look up who they were, must be getting older not knowing who some of these social media figures are https://www.newsweek.com/who-gonzalo-lira-pro-putin-american-expat-dies-ukrainian-jail-1860496 Sounded like a charmer.

Good to see it, using their remits to bypass Elon’s retarded behaviour. Oklahoma the latest state to express grave concerns about DOGE and another acknowledgment it will choke off spending with smaller companies https://www.newsweek.com/kevin-hern-confronted-donald-trump-federal-job-cuts-elon-musk-2034891

The German Daren Powell. At least Powell knew he was a Championship player.

What is a judge supposed to respond with? ‘I banged up five perps last week’. What about if their fraud trial is 3 months long? The request has no actual status or legal bearing but creates more choas. What a fucking lunatic https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-says-us-federal-workers-must-justify-their-work-or-resign-13315365 More lies as well exposed https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-calls-famed-astronaut-andreas-mogensen-an-idiot-after-being-accused-of-lying-about-stranded-astronauts-13313772

The WBA and Leeds games by Martin’s own admission the ‘philosophy’ was banished, partly because of McCarthy replacing Bazanu and partly the wretched form before the Leeds away game. The play off final in his own words was ‘driven by emotion’ after the goal. I’m not suggesting Juric is any better it’s another left field pick from SR so the extent of the mess can’t be exposed by the limitations of Juric’s language but at the Chelsea and Spurs games under Martin we’d easily have conceded double figures if they hadn’t taken their foot off the gas/woodwork. The lack of any defensive organisation and structure was evident right across those defeats, the shambles at Bournemouth, and Juric’s heaviest defeats. And it correlates directly with conceding 64 goals last season.

It’s depressing though from whoever it is - Jenrick, Schapps, Reeves, Reynolds. Gift to populists with their own shady sources of funding (Nick Candy). And a stain on the offices they hold/held.

Good article about how Pep’s possession-focused style stopped working a few months ago. Which of course is what Martin styles rigidly on. Put simply, we artexed all of the ceilings in 1989 or went to the barbers and asked for curtains https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c20l7lw3ypzo

Agreed, I’d like to see Spores tackling SR’s and Saint’s leadership head on about many of these issues, and he can do it in public because their stock is so low and his is quite decent. Get Dragan and his new SR board members onside and win the politics inside SR early so Rasmus and Kraft are irrelevant. ‘Gavin needs a fresh start elsewhere and we haven’t managed a young goalkeeper well’. - honesty goes a long way.

What’s Duncan’s or anyone’s politics go to do with valid opinions on the team we follow? Why don’t you and you lads have a read of S-Clarke’s post above. You might learn something.

A key role Spores has in the miracle turnaround he’s being asked to produce is to speak truth at the SR boardroom level about the likes of Bazanu, McCarthys extension, the very long-term injured and ensure Dragan writes off some of the dreadful decision on ‘assets’ even if he winces writing the cheques. No face saving for the likes of Rasmus and Kraft, the full Pandora’s Box has to come into the open warts and all for any trust from the supporters to ever be possible again,

That’s the PL to an extent as well. Might be a bit better next season with a manager, DoF and new squad who actually try/give a shit bar the three names mentioned. Ship Downes off to Goztepe as well, that’ll cheer the crowd up. If Goztepe don’t like him either, he might turn up in the pre-match kebabs on sale. Properly cooked through though.

It’s so hard to make an objective view when this season has been one of the worst ever recorded at professional levels. The numbers are impressive in the circumstances, but they could sing for 90 minutes and there’s only Fernandes, Ramsdale or Dibling who would respond to it/are worthy of wearing the shirt. The rest are just SR’s journeymen and mercenaries, a jizzum stain on the history of the club and city. We’d be wasting our time. They’re SR assets, I don’t even recognise them as being part of Southampton Football Club.

For me, Bazanu not being #1 is a key early test of whether Spores and the new manager are going to be up to it. I’ve never seen a less natural or obvious goalkeeper.

If his appointment works and he gives him a decent spine of athletic players and results stabilise, he’ll get some credit and time. How quickly they can move forward depends on how much backing Dragan gives them both.

Frankie used to be a waiter. Based on his shooting accuracy, diners would have been wearing more soup then they ever ate.

I agree with all of this but it’s got to start turning around somewhere. Whether that’s Spores and finally making an obvious sensible managerial appointment (Cooper or someone similar) not a left field Jones/Martin/Juric gamble, or Dragan selling up, who knows. Let’s hope for the former and that some football common sense comes to the fore. Main thing next season is to avoid a relegation battle and build a decent spine to stem the blood losses. Then work from there.

I’ve tackled some challenges in my career with mess left by others but what faces Spores dwarfs that and then x1 million. I hope he’s got some very heavy financial backing from Dragan because there’s players to retire through injury who haven’t played any serious football for 3 years, multiple loan outs (Edozie, Edwards, Charles) who are probably not sweet with SFC, raising funds through selling remaining talent (Fernandes, Dibling, Ramsdale), and a boat load of Martin groupies who didn’t put in the work for Russell or Juric in the top flight seemingly causing trouble. Then there is recruitment at scale to build a spine from keeper to centre forward of pace and physical power lacking throughout the squad. All this at a club with losing in its 🧬 at levels rarely ever seen in the sport. Oh, and finding a new manager who can work hand in glove with him to roll this out who will command respect and being much-needed discipline, realism and industry-knowledge who is willing to put their reputation on the line.