Willo of Whiteley

He’ll probably go at the end of the season. It would be foolish to let him go now. Wreckless in fact.

Sport Republic want a head coach. Not a manager. For that reason, prospective candidates will either be desperate or content to be a scapegoat, a yes-man and have a quick pay day six months later.

Everyone slags off Adam Armstrong despite him for years demonstrating he is good at this level. Those same people will be moaning and whining if we sold him this window and we had Ross Stewart and Cameron Archer to finish our season. 😂 Ronaldo he isn’t, but he is still by far a stand out player in our squad. Likewise as I mentioned on the last page, could you blame him for wanting to go? He was messed around last season with Juric and the club, chucked out on loan when we’d have been better off keeping him. Also ask yourself, if you were a player would you want to be around this bad smell of a club right now?

That table makes for uncomfortable reading doe the bottom. It’s the same every year, there’s always a splurge of teams at the bottom that start to pick up points in the new year and then others get dragged in that you were expecting.

“BuT tHe XG sUgGeSts…..”

I wouldn’t blame him. He isn’t the problem. The problems run a lot deeper than him. Given that he has been the most creative and scored our goals this season you can’t slag him off in that regard. I wouldn’t want to be at the club if I was a player.

Absolute bollocks. Some very outlandish views from them

I couldn’t ever see what Ivan Juric was trying to do with us. There was no distinct style of play or anything like that. He was poor. Will Still was just very bland in terms of his style. Slow, horrible. But I did clock how for him it was about just chucking crosses in there and hoping something would come off. Tonda’s tactics just involved slow sideways passing across the back, whip into a CM, quick one-twos between another CM and ST dropping deep and then someone running through. The problem is, that was sussed about seven weeks ago, and there’s been nothing different since. All too predictable

I don’t think we’ll make much change because it’ll be plainly obvious they’ll be changes in the summer again. I don’t see Spors sticking around. Tonda won’t be here come July 1st.

Surely if the stats say we should’ve won and we didn’t that means you’ve failed at your job?

I’m sure we’ll feel the multi-club model benefits of transfers any day now.

I always quite liked this design (3rd kit from 2018). Fully expect Sport Republic to sign off on some hideous designs. I would say that maybe at least nine of their twelve kits under their remit have been pretty awful.

I mean, now with Russel Martin you could argue that because of his Rangers stint. But keeping someone and building a squad over time is better than scattergun chopping and changing. It’s all ifs and buts. Juric was crap. I’m sorry but he just was. There was nothing he did that inspired any form of difference or change. He dropped Flynn Downes when he had his sulk, that’s literally it. I couldnt see what he was trying to do, certainly not trying to win games.

Agreed. Excellent podcast as always. The Bazunu point mentioned could be applied to any of our squad.

I reckon we’ll make maybe one more loan and that’ll be it.

I don’t think Juric would’ve been beneficial in anyway. There was no noticeable change in style of play or aggression or attacking intent after he joined or during his tenure. He was no different to Tonda Eckhart in the grand scheme of things. You could argue that sticking with Russell Martin would’ve been the way to go. Look at Ipswich, still with Kieron McKenna - they started slow but will win the league without a shadow of a doubt now.

It is the classic “if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry”, so I’ve decided to find this continuously and endlessly hilarious from now on. It takes me back to the old Pompey Takeover Saga days, where every day was a news day and a funny one. Sport Republic are shambolic. 😂

That is pretty damning and accurate, cannot fault that. I wonder if the fan advisory panel have been as direct?

Why hire an analyst to state the problems. Us fans have been doing it for free, on mass, for years.

They won’t sack him until play offs are mathematically impossible. Like Juric when we were relegated last season.

BuT oUr xG pEr GaMe!!!!!

It’s mentalist it that people like Alex Neil are now getting the approval rating from Saints fans. This isn’t a dis towards Hypo, it’s purely indicative of how far we have fallen. We have fallen so far that we’ll take any relative low end EFL manager now over the PE teacher.

Imagine picking a manager that had some kind of authority. Mad right.

Just been listening to TSP, quite interesting the thought that if we don’t get a result against Sheffield United, would you trust him to lead the team to Portsmouth? Or would SR?

They touched on it in Adam and Jo, he’s an analyst, not a coach, not a manager