SaintsRoyalty

Because you have been cornered and are too dim to think of a way out. I couldn’t have planned it better, pointing the finger at happy clappers and then you reply with a cut and paste happy clapper post. Oh if you don’t empty out your pockets and sack of your family and friends every weekend you’re not a fan. Only on a fan forum could you receive instant validation like that. one of the biggest mistakes a football club fanbase makes is thinking that the owner down to the players and staff think the same as you. They don’t, it’s just a job that leads to a payslip. As long as the pay slips keep coming, they will go through the motions just like the vast majority of us do at our jobs. The only thing that affects that is when the chance of that payslip arriving is threatened. Fans actually have the power but unfortunately the vast majority are blind to it or too scared to do anything else than watch football at the weekend.

Flushed one of you out then. The issue with people like you, well apart from being a grown man with a cartoon character as your profile pic, is that you are not bright enough to connect the dots. If there are enough seals like you going down for pints in plastic cups out in the cold, fried frozen food, playing Tetris in level 1, paying £40 a ticket to watch players looking like they are doing a light passing training exercise for 90 plus minutes then why would Sports Republic buy new players, hire a manager that’s going to say no to them and have demands, buy proven experience players rather than children so they can use the club as a player trading vessel etc. if you lot keep turning up and worse still spend time before and after the game giving them money then they won’t give a shit if we are in the national league. As to your comment on support, you might think Tom Cruise is a good actor, would you go and see every film he makes even the bad ones? Same goes for any other form of entertainment. Here’s a brainwave for you, support doesn’t equate to how much money you spend on something. If so Dragon is the world’s biggest Saints fan and clearly he doesn’t give a shit. If this club hadn’t bought a player that I’m closely related to I wouldn’t exist. So suffice to say I have a much stronger connection to the club than you ever could you grease spot.

100% this. I rarely go to games now as despite always supporting my home town club when it comes to spending money on entertainment you have to get something in return. I’d like to say I’m being facetious by saying we are usually lucky to see a goal or perhaps even a shot (never mind a win at home against a weak opponent!) but I’m not. Let that sink in, we are lucky to see one measly goal and it’s been like this for 2 seasons. However, I went to the Sheffield Inited game because a mate was offered free tickets. Yes that’s right, the club rang up where he works and said he could have as many free tickets as he wanted. I can only assume it was to make the stadium look more full. So there is some news for all of you, they are begging people to take free tickets. I was absolutely flabbergasted by the amount of people in the fan zone, buying overpriced food all game up and down the stairs, drinking pints in plastic cups out in the cold when they could be in a warm pub. The fanzine and bar was even open after the game which was boring as hell and there were still people hanging around and giving money to the club. What hope have we got with getting Sport Republic out with these absolute morons we have in our fanbase. We haven’t had an ounce of fun or entertainment in years and these happy clapping seals still turn up and empty out their pockets for nothing in return. Until this stops the misery is going to continue and Sport Republic are going no where.

29 January and not a single rumour. Not one. How are Sport Republic able to keep finding new depths of ineptitude? I bet we could google any club right now and there would be at least one player linked to them. I don’t for a second think we are going to make the play offs but we are only 7 points of it as we speak and an experienced manager and a new striker would get us there and within a shout of being back on the premier league gravy train. The biggest prize in world football and we are not even giving it a half assed try.

Exactly this. I’ve said before but we have awful local journalists. Blackmore seems to not work all week and only appears on match day. Alfie House is a total no mark and a perfect example of the dross now working in journalism. The fact he can happily post these soundbites that say absolutely F all week in week out shows how useless he is. I know managers won’t reveal confidential information but House could at least ask whether it’s incomings or outgoings, what positions, what sort of profile we are looking for etc. You know some actual news that any self respecting reporter realises is their job. He clearly doesn’t even have an inquisitive mind which again you would think is a fundamental of journalism. The biggest red flag these guys are useless is the ludicrous situation with Edozie. We still don’t know why he hasn’t appeared all season. Maybe ask the club? His agent? Through other contacts in the game? Some actual journalism?

Birmingham have just outbid Ajax for a player. £7m outlay for a club that hasn’t been in the premier league for 15 years. Meanwhile at this club who were in the prem last year and who are £74m up on player trading this year there is not a single rumour or penny spent all window. Make it make sense.

Sorry but how the actual fuck are the owners of Atletico Madrid investing £48m into Wrexham for only 10%?! They worth £480m??? Just when you think football has produced the ultimate bad boss of vile corrupt unjust putridness along comes a new one to take crown. Fucking hate this club with a passion.

Don’t get the hate for Matsuki starting. Whenever I have seen him he’s been a little terrier going around and getting stuck in. Exactly the type of player you need on derby day. It’s not like Jander or Downes actually tackle someone. The real surprise is Bree. Throwing someone in who has been playing for another club all season for a derby is batshit crazy. I don’t think another manager on the planet would do that. Not saying he will have a strong allegiance to Charlton but it’s still a mindset change going back to another club that we don’t need in a game that demands the most loyalty.

Still think we need to replace him asap with an experienced manager but he has a point about us creating enough chances. Ok Sheffield United were poor but we could have had 6 goals last night if our players actually decided to shoot or could strike a ball semi well. Fellows might be the worst shooter I’ve seen at the club and that’s saying something. If we could get someone in who can at least strike a ball or have some instinct in the box we might make the play offs. The issue is average joes like Sesko and Gyokeres are going for £50m nowadays when usually they would go to a team like us first. If we can’t find anyone I still think Gabbiadini would be a great pick up on a free. We shouldn’t let the horror show which has been Romeu’s return cloud our judgement. You need legs in central midfield in this country, being in the right place at the right time is an art which he has.

Of course I wouldn’t. Are you seriously comparing a tiny shithole like Wrexham with Southampton? I know our club has shit owners and so are the council, but it’s one of the fastest going cities in the country with lots to tap into. The waterfront development alone is a reason to own the club which sports republic have been exploring. There is absolutely no return in owning a small potatoes club like Wrexham. It’s the type of club that should be owned by the local businessmen that hovers around league 2/non league. What’s happening with them is the most egregious example of financial abuse in football. At least with city etc you can get it to a stage where it can sustain itself. Thats never going to happen with Wrexham. Hate them with a passion and it doesn’t get enough bad publicity.

For me this when you know football has gone fully rotten. Ok we have had Chelsea, Man City etc over the years, but those are big clubs in big cities. You can see why a business would invest lots knowing there is a large fanbase and city to invest in. Wrexham?! Where is the investment return there apart from some crap show on Disney? Shouldn’t be allowed.

Possibly a player moving to or from Salzburg.

Believe someone might be off to Rennes. Not sure who. Possibly a CB.

Interesting to see that Norwich are starting to pick up points and be competitive since hiring a real manager in Clement. Same can obviously be said for Sheffield United since sacking off Tonda prototype 1. Apparently it’s rocket science for Sport Republic to associate experienced managers with betters results. The disrespect towards older managers/players in football nowadays is appalling.

Now being linked to a child at Wigan. We are going to need a bigger crèche at this rate. https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/southampton-plotting-move-for-wigan-athletic-harrison-bettoni/

We all saw this coming when it was said that they had 8 payers or whatever missing. We knew they would not only compete but dominate us. Blackmore and Tessem saying the players look devoid of ideas. I guess we could all say it’s almost like we have a guy with absolutely no experience managing the team? Let it sink in, that’s actually the reality!!!!

Are you saying Fellows a winger and Manning one of the worst excuses for a defender I’ve seen in my life are a safer bet than Wellington and Jelert? Genuinely one of the worst takes I’ve even seen on this forum and that’s saying something.

And how do you move the ball fast if more than half the team are defenders and are inclined to stay in our half? If you play with an extra CB then your attack is going to be less affective but you should be tighter at the back. It’s why small teams park the bus when the play a big team. Are you seriously questioning why fans of one of the biggest clubs in the league who have more expensive clubs than most opponent’s whole squads are annoyed that we play a defensive formation at home? And as I write our defensive focused team makes another screw up that leads to a goal!

The real scary thing is that he’s already been out on loan to Standard Liege and was so bad they sent him back early. The doubly scary thing is that they replaced him with a guy who is younger and shorter than Baz who went on the let in half the goals he did. why on earth do people still think there is a chance he’s going to play well for Stoke??????

Got more chance of scoring than Smallbone surely?

He's been there and there abouts nearly every season with one exception for obvious reasons. Already got 11 in 15 games this season so think he’s doing alright. Did you not like washing his jockstrap or something? Remember when you’re old and grey and your grandkids ask what you did as a career your answer will be that you assisted another bloke who washed other men’s dirty clothes. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. Certainly should be reigning your neck in and keeping a low profile.

That’s when he was playing up front In the premier league with one of the worst squads to ever play in it. He had no runners around him and was effectively having to do it all rather than just be a focal point, linking play and being in the box for crosses. He’d score around 20 goals in this league if we played to his strengths which would be possible now we have Fellows, Scienza etc. he didn’t want to be here though and who can blame him. Interesting fans are now all calling for a player like him after largely giving him abuse whilst talking up that wet tissue Stewart. Oh and by the way unless we are spending £50m we are not getting a tall strong number 9 who also has pace. We will only get one or the other. If we are looking to spend £4m we will get neither.

Average Joe journeyman striker being linked. Have we been linked to him before? Rings a bell. Can’t be worse than Downes surely? https://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-approach-must-be-worth-less-than-e4m-minimum-fee-set/

Think you need to read the small print. This is the wages in proportion to the points the club has. So of course Coventry are top of this table as they have the most points. Conversely that’s why Sheffield Wednesday are bottom. Pretty pointless table. I guess it highlights two teams that are underperforming in Leicester and us but again that’s pretty obvious.

Managers usually fall into two categories at this level. One they have good few years of management behind them and two they are ex players so at least understand what it’s like to be players, have picked up knowledge from managers they have played under etc. Rather astonishingly, this guy is neither of those things so is as about as green as it gets. I’m not someone that thinks you have had to play the game to manage, or that age is a limiting factor, but the odds of this guy being up to the job were about as long as they get. It was a huge gamble even by Sport Republic’s standards. He is already showing that all he has in his arsenal is to play one formation and sub like for like. A literal novice with no interest in the game would have those tactics. We need to cut our losses with him asap.