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The thing is the club is too big to be 'fan owned'. I'm close to someone involved with Exeter City, and the club operates on a real shoestring with player sales ensuring the club can keep going, for saints it would mean minimal signings and probably a life bumbling around the bottom half of the championship if not league one.

U ok hun?

A former colleague is an AZ fan. His words when we signed him were 'great lad, good getting forward but cannot defend at all. Not Premier League standard'

Maybe, but I still think someone like Blackburn with sod all investment would still manage to get more than 9 points. There is a mentality problem with this lot, there is no energy and they just can't be arsed.

'If' they get there, like the psychological damage of us becoming the ultimate top flight bin juice. Leeds have a knack of ballsing things up.

Cannot wait! Once it's done and dusted we can finally 100% focus on next year.

About right. My better half is an Exeter fan so I pop down a few times a season, he looked a little lost in the few games I watched.

He was on the original SR hit list back in 2022, Jones has been and gone, Juric is stinking the place out now...third time lucky with Cooper!?

He's certainly talented but he's realistically two to three years away from the 1st team. We signed Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh last season from the Irish leagues too, he was similar having played for Cork at a young age and is playing reasonably well at Accrington currently...

Can Steve De Ridder's dad get a shout? He's done a fair bit for the club charities in the past..

I said recently he has a relatively easy job. We have the chance to move Juric on and appoint someone who works well with Spors, he'll most probably know what budget we'll have way before the end of the season due to the early relegation and will probably have agents already telling him that players wish to leave.

I have ADHD and I have to admit since moving away from medication and investing in diet, exercise and making sure I have certain vitamins it's been reasonably under control. I'm never going to go down the RFK JR route and basically claim a bit of Vitamin A stops Measles but certainly eating right and getting good levels of Vitamin D, Zinc, Magnesium, B12 etc can go a long way...

Carrying jet fuel for the US military, so the shadow fleet then!

I'd let Ballard go personally. I've watched him a few times in League One and he looks miles off it, certainly not good enough for the Championship and probably League Two at best.

Seeming though there is currently an oil tanker on fire in the north sea, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the latest shadow fleet disaster..

Being denied by the White House Press Sec, which means it's probably true..

He knows the Russian economy isn't as rosy as Putin likes to make out, especially now you have the domestic banks refusing to take on more debt. Ukraine will still receive ammunition even from the US, it's the donation of arms or that through Lendlease which has been stopped. Ukraine does have signed defence contracts with the US which gives it the right to purchase weaponry.

To an extent. I think the hostility on the US part is to force Europe into heavier defence spending, which they've managed to do so far..

Is there an issue commuting from London though? I remember Jonas Olsson and Cisse living in London and driving to Birmingham every day when they played for West Brom.

I think he's a realistic target for a club like us, he's had reasonable success in the division and could probably build a team which will work hard and grind out results. I know a lot of fans like Rohl, but watching a few Wednesday games this season they've looked a little iffy at times and the performance against Burnley a few weeks back was woeful.

Absolutely. I'm feeling reasonably positive about this summer and I have a feeling SR will appoint a solid manager (still putting money on Cooper) and will make some smart signings. It's easy when we have such a bad season to want the owners gone but the replacement could be so much worse. At the moment, it looks like finally the club are starting to wake up a little bit and change those at the top.

That being said, his stock hasn't been talked up much in the press which I find strange considering how good he has been. I still believe that both him and Dibling will be with us for next season, I think the main departures this summer will be those who have been at the club a while and Ramsdale who could still walk in to almost any team in the top flight.

Both went off at half time, Stewart didn't achieve much but Larios looked reasonably lively. If you look at potential loans and futures for them, Larios in particular might have something going for him especially with the rumblings of Sevilla looking at a possible move. Stewart, who knows, I wouldn't be surprised if 12 months down the line he announces his retirement.

For years the worst Saints team I've ever seen was the one that played (and lost) to Swindon at the start of the 09/10 season, with the likes of Lloyd James, Lancashire, Paterson, Mellis etc I don't think we really had a shot on target that day and should of been beaten five or six nil. But, watching the last few performances I think this side has finally overtaken that one. I've never witnessed a team who look so disorganized, disinterested and totally uncompetitive, those Chelsea fans are right and I think Morecombe are probably better than us. My biggest concern was a comment I saw from a Sunderland fan recently, when you suffer such an embarrassing season which saps every little bit of hope from the club the rot can really set in and become terminal. There is a strong possibility that in 12 months time this club could be sat at the bottom of the Championship staring at another relegation..

Yes and no. In terms of rapid deployment then we're pretty good and logistically we've always been well set up. Certainly the armed forces are talking up problems because like any government department they want and need cash, that being said, we are understaffed massively in certain units and there are some concerns on the amount of suitable equipment we have available. Just remember, it was us and Dutch marines that managed to 'defeat' the US marines in an exercise not so long ago. We may be small but we certainly still have the talent and power to compete.