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I fully believe that the last minute goal at West Ham was a turning point in our season, and with Rusk at the helm, ably assisted by Nivea we wil now start our climb up the table. Foam hands at the ready, can't wait for tomorrow.

A good read, thanks for posting it, glad you enjoyed the day. My late father was an 'Old Salt' (as he described himself) and never lost the fascination. There are many things more important than watching 22 prima donnas kicking a ball around.

If we get our own appointment right we've no need to worry where Martin ends up. Now what part of that represents a challenge and possible flaw in my thinking ?

he's unbeaten in one, and has a 100% record in that time. Interpretation on statistics can be misleading. Someone tell Rasmus.

Critical issue with us in our decline over last few years. It certainly buggered Ralph’s time with us 2022, and have some sympathy for Martin with this background ( although still blame him on tactics, and selections).

No idea if any of this is the case, but by saying our CEO fucked it up, do you mean by not paying the amounts asked, specifically O’Reilly ? No idea on Delap but wasn’t that reported as due to wages ? Clearly Delap wasn’t happy with our offer.

Where might he seriously expect to end up ? Leicester might be a better option if offered to him, or a back room or lower ranking team in the Man City group.

Very impressive switching between two languages fluently. But there does seem a bit of a comic Harry Enfield caricature in there going from what sounds fluent French to a Danny Dyer/Michael Caine “ three fucking points on Sunday …” (Just remembered Julio Geordio was the character years ago).

Reassuring that they’re on the same sort of Clusterfuck spectrum as us.

Yes, but he doesn’t seem like a manager who’d fit the Spors job description.

Didn’t Ralph say he wanted to retire at the end of his last contract with us ? Which might be the end of this (or last) season. From that I’m not sure he’d have the appetite for another two years with us.

Agree with most of what you say. But he isn’t quite the success for our Recruitment team you and they may now claim. My recollection is that he was third choice RB or RWB that year after Maehle and then some bloke Zeefuik (or similar) with bids reported but rejected. Maehle would have been a good signing in my view, but Zeefuick seems to have disappeared without trace. This isn’t to detract from KWP who’s been a good signing for us, but does seem remarkable that a successful signing wasn’t the one our esteemed recruitment team had targeted.

I liked Ralph, and bear no grudge against him for how things turned out, but don’t really see him coming back or being our saviour this time round. A concern might be whether Wolfsburg see Rohl as a replacement.

Exactly. I’ve previously made the comparison with how our form nosedived after it was strongly rumoured that Ralph would be going. And if you want another example of how such things affect a club,team, and morale think back to Strachan to Leeds rumours. Perhaps pure coincidence but our form didn’t really recover. And this is without the financial shenanigans of players not being paid on time.

Did he ever complete that film for release, or was it just another ‘ unfinished Cronenberg?’ (With apologies to those who don’t remember the original).

Christ, I hadn’t seen that when writing my original post !!

That’s Martinesque 2.0 after the saying the week before that ‘those guys are so brave, and he has so much love for those guys .., ‘ In terms of Rohlwatch, I’ll keep a close watch on his next press conference to see if he takes it to the next level : ‘when I left Bayern I could have married a buxom serving wench from Oktoberfest and taken a job as a PE teacher … ‘. * * which fair play, sounds a fucking sight better than being a shelf stacker in Merthyr and a Welsh bird from the valleys ..

Definitely looks like reinforcing a parting of the ways there. Little chance of turning back after publicly criticising players, and throwing down a challenge to the Board to spend (knowing they’re cash strapped). I like the honesty, and better than some of the banal crap ( ‘ the lads are disappointed but will definitely be giving it 120% next game …’ etc) but if this were Saints I’d rather this were left unsaid until the season was over.

Thought he was meant to be highly rated. Possibly a Northern Ireland Bazunu though

When he’s not injured

Bruising encounter between two heavyweights.

Wonder if Norwich’s form and defeat today will help lay the ground for Lego to return to his spiritual home.

Didn’t our results also fall off a cliff when it was rumoured that Ralph was on his way, wanted out, talked of retirement? Agree not making the best case for him, but there is a lot behind it.

Ideally from early June so that they’re closely involved in recruitment. We have to avoid the new bloke arriving looking at the squad first day and asking ‘what’s this cunt doing here, what did we sign him for?’

One if those players that I forgot existed and have conveniently airbrushed from SFC history. Christ we’ve had some horrific players in recent times !! No wonder we’re going down. AGAIN.