VectisSaint

You and the Dalek are clearly confusing business sense (or business acumen) with personal gain. Taking as much money out of the business as possible is nothing to do with business acumen, it is purely about personal gain, some might even say greed (though I probably wouldn't). It wasn't difficult to make a lot of money from the base that her Father and Nasty Nic had set up, and as soon as she had the power to do so she made every effort to get as much for her person gain as was possible. Good for her, that was her right, she inherited the business, but to not criticise her from the business/club point of view is just plain dumb.

There is really not much value in many of our players. We would lose a great deal trying to sell them off. Who would we make money on? Bertrand, JWP and Stephens, and hopefully we would keep hold of the latter two (be nice to keep hold of Bertie but it won't happen). Anyone who thinks we would get much for any of the others is sadly deluded. Maybe Lemina. Most of our other players would only have a big price if we were doing well and they were looking good. Can you imagine anyone paying anything like good money for Carillo, or our three backward passing midfielders (Tadic, Boufal and Redmond)?

She chose to get shot of Nasty Nice, put Ralph in charge, keep Les and sell to Gao. Ultimately the buck stops with her. In the end you can trace the current shambles back k to her. It was so sad that Markus' untimely demise led to an heiress with no business or football sense was allowed to take over. Cannot understand anyone thinking she is untouchable.

It won't happen. To be honest even if they do sa ck him we are still left with the same feces who appointed him and Puel, so why would they do any better this time? We need Gao to sack Krueger and Reed, then find a new CEO and fire MoPe, but it's too late to do that now. The club management is **** from top to bottom, owners, CEO, Director of Football, 1st team Coach, Academy head etc etc.

Well that would be a positive, 2 games with at least 2 goals scored, we might even win.

Would be hard not to contribute more than them. Our reliance on the trio of Tadic, Boufal and Redmond who are all good footballers but who create the square root of fu k all is in my view our biggest problem this season. Ackward passing, unwilling to beat their man, giving the ball away in midfield, all three are as bad as each h other. It may not look to exciting on paper but would rather go with Sims, JWP and Davo any time as AMs.

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Yes, but sounded like he was a possibility for Stoke so can't be far off. The haters will be pleased.

We played 3-5-2 for much of the successful part of that season.

New signing?

One misguided kick, you're having a laugh. One calamitous mistake in a good many games is what people are judging him on. Directly responsible for (at least) 3 goals so far this season, and lucky to have got away with several more. He is a very talented player, but has to cut out these big mistakes, would still rather see Yoshida alongside Stephens, but that's not possible at the moment.

Leeds away 24 Jan 1979 League Cup SF. Seems to be a theme here, Leeds is bloody cold.

With you on this. Perhaps I missed it, but have no recollection of any issues at Wembley, all very good humoured mixing with Utd supporters. There were a few scuffles at Stamford Bridge for the SF, but these were just Saints supporters scuffling with other Saints supporters. Had a few incidents at Highbury in the late 60s with bottles thrown at coach windows, but didn't really experience much Bovver until 77/78, Chelsea main culprits, and then the infamous visit to Luton which was very scary getting out of that s h I t hole.

I would prefer not to blame anyone specifically, but these people that post the nonsense about Stephens really **** me off. It's very easy to identify 3 howlers by Hoedt that directly resulted in goals but some gimps who clearly do not a tally watch games lambasted Jack and don't mention Wesley who is far far worse. In the end its a team thing, if blame is to be apportioned then Tadic and Redmond should be lambasted for the things they give away. But no let's blame Stephens. I wish some one would explain why they have this hatred, bit like Londonderry and Verlaine wither hatred of Steve Davis, has to be some sort of personal issue.

Nonsense. If anyone has to be blamed it would be Hoedt, 3 goals given away Dire try from his cock ups. Really don't get the hate for Stephens, based on nothing.

Championship was not fun when we were relegated. It only became fun after promotion.

Pellegrino will not be sacked before the end of the season. [He should be, but our useless management team (Read and Krueger) don't have the balls to do what is needed]

The signs were clearly there at the end of last season with Puel. Club had chance to do something about it but cocked up by employing someone even worse and not making some required signings.

Yoshida playing for Japan (x2) ?

So do you think 3 assists is great then? It was designed to show how poor we are this season at assists. I said also that Cedric is not involved in free kicks and corners, whereas Bertie is. Bertie's 3 league assists, include one corner (v Leicester) and 2 crosses in the Everton 4-1 win. So he has made assists from open play in one game this season (and excellent plays they were). The point is criticising anyone based on assists is just daft, assists are one of the most stupid metrics used these days. You can't assist if no-one scores. In the same Everton game Cedric made a great cross that Austin contrived to hit against the upright. It was as good a ball as either of Bertie's but you don't get an assist for hitting the post.

The old "no assists" stat. Trouble with assists is that they require someone else to have scored a goal. Our strikers don't score, therefore there are very few assists. Most of our assists come from set pieces in which Cedric is not a factor. 16 assists in the PL for the whole squad this season to date (Tadic, bertrand and Redmond 3 each). Assists are a very poor measure of a player's quality and effectiveness.

Who knows. Meant to say Mile 3 by the way.

Roads closed in town centre until 1430, but DW Stadium is at Mile and roads closed until 1100.

Not sure you can say the u23s have been on great form. OK, won last 2, but 2 out of 4 before that this year., clearly improving from a very low base. The u18s have been good and thats been for quite a while now (since Danny Butterfield came in).

Good to know their front end configuration was broken. WTF, do people really write such absolute ******** (and mean it)? Clearly the person writing the mail hasn't got a Scrooby.