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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

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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

Any potential owners can see promotion to the Premier League is not a viable possibility for this season so would value the club accordingly, he'll have to sell at a loss if he can afford to do that

Personally I think it's better for fans to turn up and direct their anger at the directors box for 90 mins rather than just stay away. They have broken this club that means something to us, the fans, and deserve every bit of abuse they get

He was at Bristol City on Tuesday night, but I think he's mates with their manager? Can't imagine he'd be impressed with what he saw of Saints but then again he did get us two 0-9 results so maybe nothing phases him

100% Echo this, I'll be at the game but won't spend anything, please use pubs in town, where possible the independent ones

Interesting, whether we want him out or not I'd imagine his attention is elsewhere

Hahaha make your mind up, we keep being told we have superior players, well if they're that fucking good they'd manage to get a result today even if Mr Blobby was our manager. We've got 24 points from last possible 150, read that a few times to let it sink in

Preston's sponsor would be a fitting nickname for our back 5

Isn't he being forced out at board level of his other business?

I've got contacts at Luton and follow their fortunes through good mates, I can tell you we really are as bad as they were last season , reality is starting to kick in for some of our fans

I've got to agree, the tactical naivety is off the scale, we play 5 at the back and manage to still give so much space to the opposition, consistency get overrun in midfield and strikers who can't finish. Manager has to go but my goodness our problems go further

Other championship teams with MUCH smaller squads seem to manage it. We also have by far the most "ill" players , I sense some odd goings on behind the scenes

Fans have well and truly had enough, booed them off 3 times in a week, I didn't go today but from lads up there sounds like plenty of abuse aimed at Still and the players