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Dom Ballard should be an obvious target for us. Young, hungry, bound to improve. Loves saints, hates Pompey. Best striker in the tier below, 25% discount for saints, and gives us something different to Larin.

So, in summation, you agree with my general sentiments of alarm over the prospect of Long and Baz being our backups 😅

Do you think Bazunu and George Long would be of suitable quality to get us promoted after a long term Peretz injury? Really? 😅

Our form under Eckert with a back 4 equates to 113points over a 46game season. Its not all about West Ham. Need to keep THB, Scienza, and Jander though.

Desperate stuff. One injury to Peretz away from mid table / relegation.

I agree. He had a disjointed season last year. Started off at wing back being played out of position in a poor side. Did he then lose confidence or pick up a knock? He seemed to fall in an out of the team going into our incredible run and struggled to recover. Regardless, he's definitely got the right attributes to be effective - his wing play is very dangerous and he's got a cracking cross and good engine. Hopefully we see more of him this coming season.

Not sure about that, I think Sullivan is majority owner and the speculation is that his kids will now take up a greater role in management. Eitherway, it's a potential limbo at the top of the club during a critical period.

Fucking get in! And WTFILN Gibbo!!!

I think this coming season has the potential to be the making of Solak as owner of saints. He started off with a bunch of idiots in charge and it went badly. He's got more involved and cleared them all out / installed Spors whilst taking a step back still. Spors to me clearly knows his stuff and has been slowly righting the ship, if we can pick up from the momentum of last season now - with the same squad - you'd back us to be very very good by the end of the season. Let alone if he can whip out some more deals like Jander, Scienza, Azaz etc. And on top of that, i think whats happened recently will mean that Solak is going to be right there now, keeping his eye on things, and having learnt the lessons from the previous seasons... Bodes well imho. I can respect that Solak is being even handed in not punishing/sacking anyone for whats happened - its a very fair and forgiving approach he's taken - but it doesn't change the fact that Parsons oversight of the whole thing initially was an absolute car crash. Hopefully Dragan will be on top of things more now, and will make sure the whole operations and coaching/analysts teams are a damn site more organised and professional.

Think the boro contingent of the press are busy raging at Hackney leaving for circa £10M, Ayling and Fry both likely to go on free transfers (or minimal fee) as well. Its gone under the radar, but looks like Gibbo has allowed a variety of key players to run their contracts down 😄

Fantastic news. I want to think there was a chance we'd keep him, but very very pleased its actually come to fruition. I was fully expecting to read news of him signing for a Bundesliga team or possibly a lower prem side. Cracking signing, well played to all involved, and Peretz deserves much love from the fans as he could have had his choice of clubs and made decision to come back to saints (in spite of everything that's gone on).

There is no evidence at all of Eckert bullying...

Well yes - if we intentionally did it and if we ultimately used it, but not in the same way as an analyst being instructed to go over there, watch and record etc. Sounds more like our analyst team were a law unto themselves - and in that instance had some contacts with Eastleigh and got hold of the CCTV. In a similar vein to Middelsbrough getting hold of the golf club's security footage and transaction details. Or to put it another way, i doubt very much that Tonda was on named terms with the Eastleigh security team and told our analysts to go and collect their cctv footage. Similarly, i doubt the first team coach instructed a team of hackers to get it illegally - or do you disagree? 😅 Could have had some interesting ramifications for Eastliegh i guess - i.e., if we had beaten Ipswich and it had been discovered after they missed out on promotion. Although you'd then have the whole debate over whether or not we used it (we're saying we didn't), and whether it had an impact.

I don't want him to roll over for the club. But what he is doing right now is ignoring all the actual evidence to repeatedly push a negative narrative, hammer the club publicly, and specifically and directly attack the manage over bullying offences which are seemingly un-evidenced. If Blackmore wants to keep pushing this narrative he needs to back it up with actual evidence that shows it was Tonda, otherwise he needs to drop it.

Sounds like we've admitted that someone got hold of the CCTV footage. Eckert states in his recent video that the footage wasn't used - it would be beyond stupid for this to be a lie given its now a permanent video record that will need to align with the EFL evidence. There was no mention of the rumored spying by our analysts at Eastleigh's stadium dressed in Eastleigh kits - so sounds like that was just more media BS as part of the whipped up witch hunt.