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Anyone know the B-Team line up this evening? The club's social media bods don't seem to have posted it as per usual for some reason...

ITK or a punt?

I knew there was a good reason why I've recently gone over the 50,000 post mark... Not showering often enough. Either that or not enough fornication.

Yep, @Pilchards is defo one of the good guys on here over the years and, yep, people can only report what they're told, regardless of how things transpire thereafter. All good.

Given it's now nearly 24 hours since the formalities were reported to be done and dusted, can we read anything into why the club haven't announced this transfer yet? Pre-occupied with working out what to do with the managerial situation maybe?

I doubt 'Colin' is a Saints fan. Sounds like someone with a grudge (Stoke fan probably) who signed up to the forum on 26th Dec and had posted just once.

Cheers for the insight @St Louis - appreciated 👍

He was probably too preoccupied sending off his registration application for this year's National Contrarian Convention...

'Interesting' first post klaxon...

THEVMAN.... well, there's a blast from the past....! Welcome back to the forum sir

Sounds more like a blessing in disguise to me....

I think he's more out out than out?

Cheers Benjii So, in layman's terms... Dragan Šolak is Peter Jones and Ankersen & Kraft are Levi Roots...? #dragonsden

Depends if the money he gave SR / SFC was a more of a loan than a straight-forward investment I guess?

As I said above, I don't really understand the ownership model of the current regime so take my old loud thinking with a pinch of salt!

Sports Republic? From the investment money that Dragan gave them? As I say, I've no idea whose name it is on the 'deeds'... I just thought Dragan was an investor in SR, not the 'owner' per se.... (?)

I could be misunderstanding the ownership arrangement here (so apologies in advance for the likelihood of talking bollocks), but.... isn't Dragan simply an investor in Sport Republic....? i.e. he's not the owner of Southampton Football Club, Sport Republic are? So, he can't actually tell SR to get out of the club and run it himself and/or under another 3rd party, can he? All he can do is withdraw his funding/investment, but that still leaves SR at the helm, albeit without a pot to piss in....

Solution? - Hope Chelsea sack Potter shortly (a cricket score defeat Vs Man City this evening might do the trick) - Replace Jones with Potter - Buy back Ings Sorted

Yep, I agree. Clear as day how much difference having a reliable goalscorer makes to an overall mediocre squad (stating the bleedin' obvious I know).

Our squad for that game...

I was a fully paid up member of the Ralph fan club and gave him the benefit of the doubt many times, but it was clear in the latter stages of last season that his heart wasn't in it any more, and it was the right time for him to go. Yes, he was hampered by poor decisions from above but it certainly is blinkered not to see he had his own faults too.