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Fair point 👍🏻

It's almost as if you have a vested interest in not saying anything negative about it MLG....

Might be partly due to his better managerial stats compared to O'Neil, albeit in the Championship vs the Premier League. Carrick's win % over 139 matches is fairly impressive at 46.76%, whereas O'Neill's is 31% over 100 matches. As I say, not directly comparable due to different leagues, but I guess it might be a factor in swaying people's viewpoints.

Ralph Kruger knew more about running a football club (and I'm only half jesting...)

Inept and/or toothless industry regulators; e.g. the Gambling Commission

Bloody hell... Talk about déjà vu... "No plan B".... "Totally predictable tactics"... "No in game management"... I was unsure about Carrick, but having watched that I'm now certain... No thanks!

The sad thing is, none of that surprises me. In fact, it's been blatantly obvious for ages that the current ownership would struggle to run a bath, let alone a football club. The only way this farce ends is when they sell up. It's as simple as that.

P.s. could explain why the players were training at SMS, and also the pre-match press conference was there... Easier to keep things under wraps...

Cheers for the insight. Appreciated 👍🏻 Out of interested, have any of the "few others" flown under the radar, i.e. not been mentioned yet on here on in the media?

His previous posts would suggest he's a bonefide 'ITK'

Holding / central midfielder.... Bragg has "been feeling his hamstring" so Williams is set to replace him on the bench tomorrow...

It amuses me somewhat that when managers are asked if they're sticking to 3/5 at the back they never actually stick up for it as a good tactic; instead they resort to deflection by saying that the numbers in any formation don't matter, it's more about what the players do on the pitch... I wonder why are they so reluctant to sing the praises of it as a formation...?

Its either running late or Alfie got his timings wrong...

I'd have him over O'Neil though...

I'd rather have gonorrhoea than GON

A 51% defeat percentage maybe...?

Yes, I did just do a web search on Reinald Gerhad... (you git! 😁)

Players (Sport Republic's signing approach thereof)

Not only a great midfielder but a master mathematician to boot

And therein lies part of our problem....

Actually, if we go on win percentages, then Carrick is probably the most attractive of the names in the frame...

Is that the same Paul Sturrock who has a much better career win percentage than the current front-runner for the Saints job...?