Football Special

Players.....and the board for not recruiting a striker in summer transfer window

Yeah I agree, and I terms of match going I kept going in other bad eras , doesn't feel right to stop just because results are bad, eventually players, managers, directors of football, owners come and go , it's us the fans who remain the constant

I'm with you on that , £39+ booking fee for QPR on a Wednesday night FFS. What are we doing????!!! Waste of hard earned

Also need to factor in which players will be ill this week

Sorry mate we have QPR and Sheffield Wednesday as well before international break

Expecting a big crowd for the u21s game v Real Madrid on Wednesday, roughly 7,500 tickets sold , I've been sent this apparently works for 4 free tickets but I'd already purchased, anyway regardless of all the negativity around the club I'd definitely encourage fans to come along and see the youngsters, been playing some great football and it *might* just be a rare enjoyable game of football at St Mary's , scan the QR code

Beat me to it 🤦🏻‍♂️

They did, apparently he took Woking from the conference to the champions league in just six seasons, those sort of things don't go unnoticed Chez

Yeah there's definitely more to it with him than just feeling a bit poorly, since he tried to force a move to Ipswich he's hardly played. Lack of leadership and authority within the club leaves us with high earning players never actually playing, I know Aribo isn't illness but that also requires some explanation, I believe he's still one of our highest paid

What did Blackmore say? Would be interesting to read / listen

Sesay was also in Leicester and actually scored for u21s , could have shared the cab! Aribo still one of our highest paid players None of it makes any sense

No it's not normal "Downes has previously been forced to miss games with illness, and Ross Stewart pulled out of the squad against Northampton during the warm-up back in August. Tom Fellows came on against Bristol City on Tuesday evening, despite feeling rough, while Damion Downs did not travel to Ipswich earlier this season due to illness. Asked why Southampton have suffered with so much illness during this campaign, Still added: "I'd love to give you an answer to that. "I'd love to have a doctor's degree and understand it, but I'll be honest with you, I don't at all. But it is a recurring theme, and it's something that we need to fix"

Both of them were ill apparently

I've never known a team have so many cases of sickness, we've had multiple cases in just first few weeks of the season where players have been unavailable due to a "bug" My experience in business is when things are good everyone is there and wants to be involved, but when things start going wrong people go missing, something isn't right behind the scenes

I'm not sure if that's enough for me, let's say Still gets the sack and we end up with Lallana as caretaker what would we have to get behind? The same problems caused by the board all remain and in my opinion we still struggle to start with a cohesive starting XI

To be fair if I was them I wouldn't be posting on social media either, assume that's Scienza's personal account not written for him by an agent which makes a change nowadays

How about strongly worded letters?

Has he even done it in a form of loans that the club will need to repay him for? I'm not an accountant but I'd be surprised if he's just gifted funds to the club

Sports Republic are too afraid to appoint a proper leader who would call out their nonsense approach to running a football club and player recruitment

I feel sorry for lads like Bragg , u21s had been having a great season , that squad should be left alone for now and not infected by the loser mentality of the first XI, instead he gets a call last min he's needed in Blackburn and ends up like a contestant on Race Across the World trying to get to the checkpoint in a taxi, chucked on in rubbish circumstances

I think Cortese is irrelevant to be honest. You could argue any other professional or semi professional team would plan better. And don't get me started on other squad members being paid handsomely to sit at home.doing jigsaw puzzles, utterly bizarre sequence of incompetence that would verge on someone deliberately sabotaging the club to be believable

https://x.com/AlfieHouseEcho/status/1982067765549859189?t=W8ne8_Mb7HnPf_bF5CrOcQ&s=19

Because he was never part of the planned squad, Saints "illness" problems meant they got him from u21s who were in Leicester for the game so they got him to travel at short notice, literally got a cab up to Blackburn arriving just in time, poor lad made error for their winner as well

Not all the shares though , others have a portion like Ankerson and Kraft I think