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I said weeks ago we should go for him IF he's considered fit enough for X run of games.... (A "pay as you play" arrangement would be ideal, but I don't think that sort of thing really happens in the professional game, does it?)

You could well be right. Alas, I'm not qualified to judge.

Yeah, I was going on the stats, which I guess are debatable. Either way, I don't think its guaranteed or inevitable that the more chances you give a poor striker the more goals they'll score (proportionately) Stick me in a Formula One car as many times as you like and I ain't getting close to winning a Grand Prix, whether I try 10 times or 100 times...

That logic assumes our profligate strikers will score more goals if they get even more chances than the shed load of chances they're already getting (and not converting), doesn't it...?

As above, we're creating plenty of chances to do just that already.... We just need someone who can consistently convert said chances....

His argument is that 'tactics' and 'formations' are different things, and the latter doesn't necessarily dictate the former. In other words, the stats show we are are creating loads of chances and getting into good shooting positions, so it's predominantly our lack of clinicality in front of goal that's the issue, and that's got nothing to do whether we're playing 3, 4 or 5 at the back. I'm inclined to see his point to be fair. If Sport Republic had bothered to buy a clinical centre forward in the summer (and any transfer window since Ings left for that matter) then we'd likely be converting much more of those chances.

As I always say MLG, please never change

Have had a quick look at the top 2 clubs... Coventry... DoF in post since 2022 Middlesbrough... DoF in post since 2021 Assume they're also being head-hunted by bigger clubs as we speak, given they're not "plodding along" at the moment....?

We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Grateful if you could also answer my first question rather than gloss over it. Cheers 👍🏻

Out of interest, what other clubs struggle to keep hold of their DoFs after 6 - 12 months due to better clubs enticing them? (Genuine question) If the answer is "not many" then perhaps we need to stop employing DoFs that are seemingly too good for the club as it's obviously counter-productive...?

I asked several times why the Spors interview didn't happen... Perhaps my tone was a tad sarcastic...? Probably a bit too much for the snowflake generation... Hey ho, will have to follow him with my other Twitter account I guess... 🙂

Ha... Now that's amusing... The last journo to block me was Factless Allen... What is it with the these local journos that can't handle critical questioning...? Note to self: be more sychopantic in future....

Would explain why 'someone' at the club pulled the planned interview(s) with Spors during the recent international break. I could sense something was 'up' when Alfie House went into radio silence mode on the matter... There is something fundamentally wrong with the ownership of the club for there to be such a regular turnover of 'sporting directors'. We need the buffoons that are Sport Republic to sell up pronto. What can we do as fans to accelerate that eventually? (A pointless question given how apathetic and meek we are as a fan base... Aided and abetted by equally placid / sychopantic local journos / reporters...)

Are you ruling it out as a possibility?

I'm sure, as we speak, our crack local journos are working on securing an interview with Semmens to hold him to account on this...

Adam Blackmore will quite often post a fairly scathing post-match tweet but usually reverts to 'Mr Diplomacy' mode when he subsequently interviews the manager...

But Semmens found the "perfect solution" don't forget....

Imagine for a moment that Solak is a closet Portsmouth fan and bought the club to slowly destroy it from within... If such a hair-brained conspiracy was actually true, how much different would things look in that scenario compared to how they look now...? Other conspiracy theories are available....

Anyone know when we're likely to see this high intensity approach to the game that Spors is supposed to be in favour of....?

You'll never reach Saintsweb intelligentsia level if you make the manager accountable FFS...

And who do you entrust with finding a better manager...?

Indeed. House was happy to engage with me in conversation about it initially, but has now gone incommunicado on the subject... Under pressure from the club to not mention it again perhaps...?