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Thanks will wait to see when we play Swansea away before making a booking then. Wonder if she charges a £1.50 booking fee like the ticket office.

Don’t remember any issues with West Ham at Brisbane Road itself . In 1978 though it was rumoured that Spurs would ‘turn up’ as they were competing with us for automatic promotion. The West Ham story I remember, possibly from that Orient match, is that they attacked a tube containing loads of Saints fans as it went through a known station on ‘their turf’. Recall hearing of windows being smashed and bricks, bottles and a broom handle following it in.

Does she charge then? have to bow to your knowledge.

Almost reassuring to see that being absolutely shit isn’t just a recent phenomenon. Not only the defending, but Moss in goal looked as if he could challenge Bazunu for a place on the bench, or being left behind at Staplewood on matchday.

Perhaps Myfannwy from Swansea might offer him some relief

Might be a good option( he’s perhaps a more experienced Rohl) but difficult to attract him to the Championship I’d have thought.

Of the ‘name’ managers who rely on their playing days to get management jobs I’ve always thought Lampard the most likely to make it as a manager. I don’t think his record is too bad, but I lost a lot of time for him with his touchline spat with Klopp which was pretty poor. And I wouldn’t be impressed if he just walked out on Coventry after a few months. Having said that about his record, he did oversee his Everton side losing at home to Nathan Jones! Hopefully just media bullshit.

Looks like this motivational team talk has done the trick up to this point. Pleased that he’s moved on from the time spent with us, which was abysmal for everyone involved (including him).

Think we know how some of our players will react to that. Mostly wilting, and heads dropping after conceding a goal, especially an early one.

Perhaps you’re right but I suspect we know who we want, and may even have offered the job, or come to a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ for the end of season. The problem is if we came to such an agreement a couple of months ago, or longer, things might change with another better or more lucrative offer from elsewhere. Then we’re left scurrying around for Option II. Wonder how quickly Spors will be able to get a Plan B in place.

Probably a good idea to look for a career other than being a professional footballer.

Although a former player of theirs I’m not sure he was ever that good for them. In fact in one interview I seem to recall he apologised for how his time there went. From that it wouldn’t be a glorious homecoming of a former hero for him, or them.

This is my fear …. If not, Still then might well be doing some other barrel scraping

Perhaps it’s been thought through more than you give credit for. Just leave it standing for a while on Merseyside and some bastard will eventually be along to nick it.

So, not so much growing with us as seeing their careers go down the shit shute by association….

I like the idea of this but the last manager I felt would ‘grow with us’ was Adkins and we know how that ended. We can probably also hazard a good guess how it might have ended if he’d got us top six for a couple of years and then Liverpool came calling. As for, plenty of managers who might do a decent job, and (stay to) grow with us, who did you have in mind ? That description leads me to the Eustace, Cleverly band, as you’ve perhaps left out one other important bit - someone not sought after further up the food chain at this stage of their career.

Agree with most of this. But I'm not too bothered by Sheff Weds end of season form with the other things going on there, and possibly the rumours of him leaving causing performances to drop off. Remenber us after Hessenhutl's retirement interview, and years ago the Strachan to Leeds rumour. The interviews as reported though aren't great.

Interesting how your perception of him has changed from that, but lets not forget Martin is regarded by some as talking a good game. Still hasn't really done enough to convince me he should get a crack at a club like Saints who despite everything this year, are still a good club with potential in the Championship, although that position can soon be eroded by poor selections over a couple of seasons. I have read Still is a West Ham fan by the way, so perhaps that will be his spiritual home, once Potter is found not to be such a messiah after all.

It wouldn't be summer if we didn't have some barrel scraping by Saints, either manager or players at some point between now and 1stv September.

I have read that Wolfsburg were lining up Neestrup (mentioned on here before) from FC Copehagen as their DOF had worked with him there before. Leipzig is the interesting one. As it stands they are out of the CL places so may not want a CL ready manager. Glasner was reportedly their preferred option, but he's also linked with Spurs.

Fred says : Sign BBD and Archer .. guaranteed goals ...

This will be the same appointment thatt the club announce on their website : We'd like to welcome Stevie, Tom, Will, Franco... [insert as applicable] to the club ... from the time we started our diligent search it was clear that we wanted someone who aligned with our values and style of play, from the outset ... someone else was the outstanding candidate, in fact this cunt wasn't even in the top three ... "

Good and important result yesterday, bollocks to Pep, Diaz, and Sutton, and the fact they had 26 shots, hit the bar etc. We were due a bit of luck, especially in injury time. The one point is all we craved. Anyway, Simon Rusk - Football Genius. I just hope Rasmus and Spors managed to nail him and Nivea down to the five year contract extensions before they left the stadium last night. We can't let this opportunity slip through our hands...

Thinking about the Rohl interview highlighted on here a couple of days ago, fuck all in it in my view other than a bit of self -marketing on his part. Have to remember his stock is probably higher here than it is in Germany. I don't think it would come as a surprise if he is keen to move back to Germany with a young family and you wouldn't begrudge him that. Die Frau und die Kinder kommen zuerst, Brian * (as he might say in Germany - according to Google Translate). On a downside on this though, Rohl has come across well in the interviews I've seen and what I've previously read but I don't think this reflects well on him or his agents. Bloke is still under contract to Sheff Weds so not good to be hawking yourself to the media in this fashion. In my view anyway. We know how we'd feel if it was our manager doing it. *The wife and kids come first Brian

Surprised if true. Evemn more surprising that it hasn't researched a few other names mentioned on here, Bo Svennson, Rodger Schmidt, Marco Rose etc.... Pretty bloody lazy by Chapgpt or whatever.