Dr. Kucho

Pochetinno indeed made a huge impact when he arrived. But he inherited a squad that had 2 back to back promotions and wasn’t doing to bad in the league. Still has inherited the second worst squad in premier league history. That said he now has the players he wants and the results have to start coming in the next weeks.

Missed the first 15 minutes but wish I had missed the full 90. It was so frustrating watching us and seeing the lame attacks. I like Still and really hope it’s works out, but he made some crucial mistakes today. Should have changed the formation in the first half as it was obvious it wasn’t working. Brought the subs on to late for them to make a impact and playing this way he should have started with Stewart as a target point. Let’s hope next match will be better when all players have trained together as Jander and Scienza look like good additions.

All set and ready here, walked the dog, table set, girlfriend has her nun costume on, now all I need is a good livestream. To everyone in the stadium, make us proud and everyone watching from wherever you are, let’s beat the Skates. COYRs

My ITK contact just texted me that Scienza chose us over Paris after reading the comments in this thread how shit Paris is.

Spertsyan has 9 letters in his name, does that make him the 9th signing?

What an absolute waste of talent. Could have been a good Premier League defender but for his attitude, assuming it’s his attitude.

We’ve had Shields, Wilcox, Spors and whoever did the transfers between their appointments, and all make similar mistakes in going for cheap talent instead of proven players. When you look at when we went down to league 1 in 2009 we did a good job in recruiting (yes not every player was a hit). We bought the league top scorer (Lambert), a proven defender (Jaiidi), Hammond, convinced Fonte to drop a league and built a team of experienced along with young talents like Lallana and Schneiderlin. Resulting in promotions and the best time I had in supporting Saints (started supporting in 2002).

Don’t know, possibly the board and whoever is part of it. It’s just strange that we’ve had different directors of football and all seem to make the same mistakes.

I am under the impression that Spors doesn’t have free rein of who he wants to buy, but has been given a profile of players he should look for. You don’t have to be a football expert to conclude that to get promoted you look at the best players in the league for the core of the squad and maybe a few young talents to develop. Like we did in L1 and the championship under Liebherr.

On the exception of Fernandes today’s squad was made up entirely of Championship quality players.

Still has to work with the second worst Premier League team ever. You can’t repair the damage that’s been done in just a few weeks over the summer.

There you go, https://archive.ph/jZe6O

His older brother Charlie Setford is a Saints fan, don’t know about Tommy. Charlie Setford is still at Ajax but so far hasn’t played for their first team, even though their nr 1 goalie is 41 year old Remko Pasveer.

Thank you for sharing. Only listened to the last part when he spoke about his time with us. And a little spoiler, best managers were Ancelotti and Koeman, worst Pellegrino. And talks about a big bust up with Hasenhuttl.

There’s a flight arriving at Girona from Bournemouth at 13:49 CET. It departs at 11:00 GMT. Someone near Bompey airport at this moment?

Do you mind sharing that running drill Newcastle did? Or posting a link where I can find it? Cheers.

I know his cousin and father through work, his parents live 5 minutes up the road from here. That said I haven’t seen them in ages so I am not much use and can forget entering the CoT.

Pleased with Still becoming our new manager. Let’s hope Spors can give him the players he wants and we can shift some others. Looking forward to the new season.

Talking of Wotte, he now coaches HVV, an amateur football club in the 6th tier of Dutch football (only the top 2 are professional).

Mods can we have a poll who we want? With Rohl, Still, Cleverly (please not but has been mentioned quite a bit) or someone else.

It’s a shame that besides us Leicester and Ipswich have been so poor. If one of them had a decent season we could have seen Spurs or United get relegated.

For the people who say Still has no experience in the English leagues, Guardiola, Iraola, Slot, Frank, Pochettino and Koeman had no experience and did/are doing a great job. Arteta, Emery, Howe, Nuno and Silva have experience and are also doing a good job. Martin, Van Nistelrooy, Loptegui, had previous experience in Premier league as a player or manager and have failed. Conclusion, it can work out it can go horribly wrong. It’s not just the manager, it’s the whole set up at the club that has to be good for a manager to succeed. With the mess Sports Republic have made of the club I doubt even Klopp would have got a decent tune out of this (yes I believe we would have more then the 12 points we have now with him in charge, but still we would have been relegated). I like Still and think he could do a good job, just hope he can attract good players who believe he can make them better and help them move up in their career.

Would be pretty pleased with Still becoming our new manager. Has done well in France and Belgium and doesn’t stick to one system. That said he’s young and we are coming of our worst season, so would need at least 1 experienced assistant to help him.

And not to forget that absolute helmet goalkeeper of theirs Stephen Bywater.

We could have that boat the guy in Bitterne built, that never left his backyard, on our crest. Certainly one of very few boats that never left Southampton.