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Nick Leeson. Wasn’t he recruited by Rupert Lowe ? Probably the most damaging he ever made if so. At least he didn’t leave his worst appointments until he came tonSaints. Or perhaps he did.

Think we should play Bazunu for this one. Just in case he picks up an injury.

Do they give them access to £million deals and make financial decisions?

The recruitment is one area where you can defend Still on, in that players are recruited by others and he has to work with what he’s given. Same for Ralph, and to a lesser degree Lego although he obviously had an input witn signing his chums. Having said that, Still should be getting a lot more from the amount we’ve spent, and players at his disposal.

Wasn’t that two or three seasons later ?

This is the sort of bollocks that must have entered Spors and co thinking in their recruitment.

Interesting how people see it differently. Still seems a decent young bloke, and his back story of getting into football was novel perhaps. But he hasn’t really come across that well for me. From his early interviews he’s seemed a reluctant, nervous perhaps (not surprisingly given age), and the whole demeanour has just screamed inexperience (which he is). Feel sorry for him, clearly out of his depth, which was all too predictable. Except for the fuckwits who run the club.

The difference being that Les had , to his credit, been previously associated with some success in his career. (Some low spots as well, eg at Charlton, but he still had a reasonable reputation). Sports Republic just lurch from one clusterfuck to another.

Lampard’s success with Coventry last season is another example of taking a team up the division into play offs, and even promotion from a poor start in the Championship. Others are Cooper and years ago Keane at Sunderland. Shows it can be done. But depends on doing it in good time, and making the right appointment. Therein perhaps lies the flaw in the plan. Over to SR.

How has Dragan been successful in business? He seems to be a magnet for egotists, duds, dunces, and total retards in his time at Saints

Could be the next interim manager, and possible permanent with SR in charge (I agree with you btw)

I was shouted down for making a comment about hoping he wasn’t Mara Mk II earlier in the season. Perhaps not so wide of the mark.

I think Trollope managed in L1. Perhaps that offers some consolation and comfort.

Or a part time job with the recruitment team

Credit where it’s due, I thought he played the media quite well last week. Even taking into account he was making sounds to appeal to the skate audience ( and I didn’t agree with him on some of what he said).

Good question. Which leads me to wonder “how many Sports Republic management structure does it need to change a lightbulb?”. I’ve calculated 8 although may have missed someone Presumably: Dragan to pay for it. Spors, Lederer and a software bloke formerly of Barclays Bank , to scour the market for the best one available, probably a prototype that’s still in the early stages of development and not widely known to the rest of the market. A technician to give it a check up, but if it doesn’t work now it’s not an issue as it may be okay in about two years, even if it doesn’t shine as brightly ever again Then, another one, the person to implement it functioning , if it was Martin he’d make sure it was a eco friendly, or Still to check how it would function on FM or his X-box. And he’d be assisted in this pursuit by a bloke from Luton, because they’ve dealt with light bulbs before. And Nivea, because he’s there.

Someone daft enough to pay in excess of £200m I’d have thought

The reset needs a reset.

This is a comment I posted 20th May on the ‘who do you want as manager’ thread (now locked). No idea how to post a quote from it but here’s a screenshot (of one I made earlier as they used to say) Appointment was another huge gamble, which many accepted on the back of the French journalists talk on Solent and his tactics talk with Carragher.

Carrick was supposedly high on the Rasmus list a couple of years ago (before we appointed Lego). Although we’re told Rasmus is hands off. Rohl would have been my choice in the summer, although he didn’t do himself any favours with his interviews etc at the end of last season and summer.

Has already gone somewhere.

Go back to early in this and the who do you want thread ? Think you’ll be surprised how many were taken in, especially after the French journalists bit on Solent

I had a ticket for today but a family illness put paid to that. Thankfully. Turned in the box to watch the wimmin’s rugby, just as France scored a try. ( Used to happen frequently on Solent v Saints so shouldn’t have been surprised). I’m done with sport on a Saturday. Have to find a new hobby. Any good ‘stop the boats’ protests next weekend? Doesn’t matter which side you take, bound to be more entertaining than this shit

This stood out like the dog’s bollocks I most fans. Why the fucking retards we have in our recruitment team couldn’t see it is bordering on criminal neglect. But there were people on here saying our GK’s were adequate for this level, as were our strikers.* *To save MLG the trouble I’ll remind everyone that Archer scored 18 goals in 40 championship games earlier in his career.

He’s had two weeks at Staplewood. We’ve coached any talent out of him