S-Clarke

I don't think he did. Gao came in under Kruger when he was in charge. The issue we had is that Kruger went back to Canada with the 5 pledges, so we'll never know what Gao's plans were for us....!

Managers appointed by SR: Nathan Jones - A failure, promoted beyond his means. a 'try to be clever' appointment when it wasn't needed. PPG - 1.07 Ruben Selles - A failure, promoted beyond his means. a 'try to be clever' appointment when it wasn't needed. PPG - 0.44 Russell Martin - I can't say he was a failure, as we got promoted under him. It was a 'try to be clever' appointment from the outset though. In the PL he was an absolute failure and we were not setup to compete in any way. Ivan Juric - A failure. He was an experienced coach (one of the only experienced they've appointed) with a specific style, the polar opposite of what Russell Martin had implemented before - so the players didn't fit, a weird call timing wise. They probably use this as justification as to why 'experience' didn't work. PPG - 0.44 Simon Rusk - A complete waste of time this one. Promoted way beyond his means, I don't believe they ever saw him as the manager - just someone to see it till the end of the season. PPG 0.29 Will Still - A failure. promoted beyond his means, and another try to be clever appointment you have to say. PPG 1.13 Tonda Eckert - A failure. Promoted beyond his means, a try to be clever appointment when it wasn't needed. PPG - 1.13 (not including his caretaker stint). Overall there is a consistent theme here - they promote and appoint people beyond their skill level, hoping to turn rough scraps into diamonds to provide THEM with an opportunity to pat their ego because they were so revolutionary. Similar themes follow throughout the coaching staff, with the likes of Ben Reeves, Ben Garner, Adam Lallana. Obviously it doesn't work, so why do they keep doing it? Because it enables control. They are able to retain the control of the narrative across the entire group. Whether that's formations, style of play, tactical approaches, transfer targets etc - with people in these roles promoted beyond their means it allows SR to assume the decision making, and the rest just nod along. Juric was the only change from that, but he wouldn't have lasted long when he discovered they wouldn't have allowed him the autonomy.

We've spent £55m this season, and we're closer to 23rd. We are 15th. Why is next season going to mean that we are more competitive than this year? We're not going to have more money to spend next year, or better players. We're going to be up against teams stronger and better than us too. Doesn't add up I'm afraid.

Great goal, good to see Reed made a good career for himself. Same as Targett really. Both were let go from us at a time when we were 'upgrading' our squad, yet they're both many many levels above what we can currently field. So, well done everyone. The blueprint of how not to run a football club since 2017!

Oh absolutely not, it's not about promotion next year - it's survival, 100%. We will not be in the promotion picture ever again with SR in charge.

The rather scary thing is that you can find another 10-20 goals of that exact standard that he lets in.

The moment we gave Stephens a new contract was the moment I knew were were staring into the abyss. The hope I had was all gone.

Do you know what this game reminded me of in terms of a marker/moment - 5-0 loss to Hull back in 2008. We were vile, it was when we were floating a side with Wayne Thomas, Vignal, Powell, Poke etc. We didn't get relegated that year amazingly, we came close though. Obviously the following year we did as we imploded financially. It all feels rather samey to me.

I was more looking towards Manning, Wood, Downes, THB, Stephens, Bazunu, Armstrong - that cohort have been here for many years and have always shown this way, it's in their blood. They're weak as piss. I can't speak for Leo, Fellows, Azaz etc yet as they've only been here 5 mins. The general vibe of the room before they came has always been like this.

I don't want them to spend any more money. I fear for the future of this club financially, as failing to get PL after spending £55m will equal disaster - so I don't want us to add to that, we've got enough damage to navigate. We're never getting promoted under this lot.

Doesn't that sum the group up though? They are all weak as absolute piss. Scared of their own shadows, get floored by any single piece of adversity. These are not the guys you'd want anywhere near the trenches when the going really does get tough. Hopefully Romeu lumps them all in the changing room.

I'd have probably played Tommy Forecast ahead of this fella.

It was 4 years ago that they took ownership of us. Just over 4 years ago, we beat Brentford 4-1 at home in the Premier League with them set looking over their purchase - not having actually had any influence up to that point. Fast forward 4 years....we have had 2 relegations, one of the worst ever PL seasons by any team, and we are sat 15th/16th in the 2nd tier. They have cycled through 7 managers and 4 directors of football in that time. They are an absolute unmitigated disaster. It will never change, it will never get any better. They are destroying our football club and if they are allowed to continue unchecked we will not have a football club. A lot of people use the argument 'there are many worse owners out there' - well, I ask you to read what I listed as their achievements over the last 4 years and tell me another club who have been killed as we have?

How about coming out and having a chat now, Spors? All of the bollocks from your interview a few weeks ago felt bollocks the moment I read it, It was hollow and full of 'look how well we did' nonsense, using it as an opportunity to manipulate the fanbase into thinking the club knew what they were doing. I saw right through it.

Yeah I'm convinced he's a troll, he's not worth your time responding to him. Let him drift away into internet obscurity and we'll see what next username comes up with the same style in a few months. So many weirdos out there.

O'Neil would have been another huge mistake. At this stage there was absolutely zero point sacking Will Still, zero point. You gave him an entire summer, transfer window. The club have put this season in the bin and given up, so would it have been any worse sticking with Still and allowing him to mould more of his approach into the team? Maybe that was the problem - he was getting to independent with his changes to the GK and away from a back 5. I think he saw the same game as we saw, he was limited by some very poor players though - but given what we've lurched to, we might as well have just stuck and allowed someone to build for once.

They need to put it to the club though, Blackmore still pisses around the edges in his interviews scared to have his access taken away.

Ignore pingpong, he's a massive troll around Bazunu. He sticks a line out most games.

What's disgusting about that? Stick him on a boat and send him to Greenland, Iceland, Germany, France, Africa, America - i don't care. What's disgusting about that? I don't want him at this club.

I think Fabrice is the chair of that, with Manji as vice chair. So it's pointless.

Release him, sack him because he can't do the job he was appointed for. If I was appointed to do a job for a big company and it turned out that I didn't even know what I was doing, I'd be sacked. I wouldn't get a pay packet, I'd just get sacked. Do it Southampton. gross dismissal for being a fraud trying to fool us into thinking he's a footballer.

Get this fucking goalkeeper out of my club, tonight. Just get this fucker gone. Stick him on a boat and ship him to France, I don't give a shit. I HATE him. HATE.

I wouldn't say Jesse Marsch was a top manager, but even he saw the wood from the trees. As soon as he sat down with our buffoons he saw straight through the bollocks. Selles didn't though, because he was just grateful to have a job. So if Jesse Marsch can see through it, we've got no chance of ever appointing an actual manager ever again.

He'll go into hiding now.

We can't play 2 CB's because we have poor CB's, so thank goodness that we have 3 CB's on the pitch today whilst we only let in 3.