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Deliberate handball, surely?

This has got me thinking (dangerous I know) but didn't Kelvin Davis fulfill a 'player liaison' role at the club after he retired as a player and before he became part of the coaching team? In other words, he acted as a middle-man between the players and manager and could therefore nip any changing room unrest in the bud before it became problematic....? Maybe we've missed someone in that kind of role given the player cliques 'revelations' in that article?

The first thought that occurred to me when reading that article (and Lord D will want to kiss me on my buttocks for saying this) is how weak JWP must be as a captain. Yes, I know it's ultimately the manager's job to engender unity and team spirit in the dressing room but it's also a key off-the-field role for the club captain too. Ankersen needs to go and take his ill-fated experiment with him otherwise we're heading for back-to-back relegations. #rootcause

Best evening of the year! Bring it on

The only reason I do it is to give the forum experts the opportunity to question my poor judgement...

McCarthy Bree - Bednarek - Lynaco - KWP Lavia JWP - Alcaraz Sulemana - Ballard - Doyle

Another membership application to the ambivalent club here

Any good news though...?

How the **** did Miss Moneypenny go from assisting Pompey to avoid paying tax to a prominent role in this? Still preferred her in Splash...

It's "Monkey Chicken Petting Zoo" FFS

£30m is too low but £50m may be a tad on the high side. Somewhere in the £40m bracket sounds about right.

This guy looks quite good...

Just seen this fella arrive..... Looks similar but not sure it passes the earlobe test?

I think Winnersaint must be confusing Sid with Greek poet Alexandros Panagoulis. Easily done.

Yep, Everton and Leicester too for me. "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

Agree, but I would hold fire on any optimism for the last point....

The bottom line is that there is no point keeping a player that doesn't want to be here. The "putting our foot down" approach to a player who would rather be elsewhere rarely works out well IMO.

I'm leaning towards us going down the "high profile ex-player" route.... so, the likes of Rooney or Vieira. We need a manager that'll command respect from the dressing room as well as being able to attract and retain decent players, and the best way of ticking those boxes (IMO) will be to get a world class ex-player on board. Another relatively unknown manager from the lower leagues and/or a foreign league won't cut it for me.

And it would be very Saintsy for 'summer' to be August rather than June....

via Glasgow....? (Sorry, bit of a Saintsweb Forum 'in joke'.... )

I agree that next season in the championship has the potential and all the ingredients to be a good one... However.... One's excitement is tempered by the inevitably that we'll screw things up, starting with a piss poor managerial appointment...