Daft Kerplunk

Prize for ecellent reading of the room goes to this post

Why 10-14 days? Other refunds from anyone else can be processed quicker. Club just delaying processing the money. Come on Michael Fenn, do the right thing and process faster.

We are definitely up there. In order to move on, ther ereally does need to be a significant clear out of staff across the board. Unless this happens, and a big noise about it, there will be a stink about the place for years to come. It's already bad enough but if they were a political party, they'd be clearing out their desks now after a existential election defeat. A whole new way of running this club needs to be implemented, with new teams across all departments, and sharpish.

I am not sure the club realise the damage they have done. Kids have been getting bullied at school this morning for supporting Saints, the reputation of the club is at an all time low, fans have been let down and have to take the punishment more than anyone. And yet, absolutely nothing from this football club as an apology to the fans. Forget the legal process, where is the statement of apology to the fans and to the game that begins to repair the damage this whole episode has done to a 141 year old football club that they are lucky to be well-paid to work for? The reputation of the football club is in dire straits and the sheer stupidity of people who work at football clubs is clear, because they believe they can do what they want and get away with it. Not just from a cheating perspective but with them behaving like they can do anything they want because they know fans will be crazy enough to keep turning up because we aren't standard customers. The longer they stay silent to the fans, the more they show that they hold us in low regard and just people to milk for their money. Damaged.

The reaction of the club, and of Tonda's pre-match interview would suggest there is probably some truth in it. I am not one of these saps who think that everything we do is above board, always well intentioned and that we'd never do anything bad, and that every other team is bad, dirty etc. It would appear that the club has been stupid, it's okay to say this. Football is full of twats, why should we be any different. .

Spying on other teams is just rank stupidity from the club. Absolutely daft. Who thought it would be a good idea? There is no way the benefit of spying on opposition outweighs getting caught. We have motivated Boro, given up the idea that we win fairly and lost any neutral support. The EFL will absolutely want to make an example of us and for what? Knowing who might mark Scienza on a corner. FFS. Really fucking stupid from those at the football club.

Very much hoping that the excellence of Tonda so far hasn't been the result of spying on teams, and is just a moment of stupidity by the wider team of analysts.

Superb

Not a great way to play in the second half, far too passive, acceptable away to a top team but at home?

Uncanny likeness, and country of origin 🤣

Good job we didn't sign Bukkake

He's a tricky one to read. He seems like he might not have the personality to deal with the big characters of an allegedly ambitous football club but then he also doesn't give much away, which might be very helpful to deal with that pressure. We are still pretty dull at times and that period after we scored last night was mostly crap, but second half was a big improvement. The game is pretty much the same (stats say nothing more than anyone who has watched the game for years can see with their own eyes) but the way it is coached is obviously changing, and if he is able to coax performances out of players who lack the self-motivation of top players, and remain calm under pressure and not lose it, he could be well-suited to make good progress.

It's because a forward loses posession when he shoots. Devastating for stats. Best to not sign them at all.

The black box was a glorified excel spreadsheet, and relied on the data input of Paul Mitchell. There was a little bit of time after he left where the data set was decent but without that input, it went kaput.

I mean, they are all top quality at this level...apparently. Stats down the pub says so.

Female co-commentator is a difficult listen, just so dull in the delivery. Shite.

Unfortunately we have players who are good on paper, but absolutely lack the type of character needed to succeed. SR, in continuing the work of the previous administration, believe that it's only physical and technical data that counts but attitude is vital for success. On this season's showing, only Scienza has anything like the sort of character needed to succeed. Unless in the transfer window we sign 2-3 players with the sort of leadership skills that could drag us higher, we will likely be mid-table. This, for this football club (and fans), should be utterly unacceptable. We should unquestionably be a mid-level Premier League team consistently over time with occasional highs and perhaps the odd flirt with relegation that we comfortably avoid. It's frankly pathetic that we aren't, and worse that some seem to think it's okay not to be. Crazy.

There's air at the training ground and on matchdays so that's an ample replacement for what we'd be missing

Looks like SR are continuing the 'potential into excellence' false drivel of the Les/Semmens era. The first team should not be an experiment, it should be the pinnacle of the club where the people operating there are at the highest standard possible, even if that means they go to bigger clubs. SR are having an absolute shocker.

Too little too late really. Defenders passing it between each other at the end says it all.

So they are down to 10 men, and we are 0-1 down, and he continues with 3 at the back. Odd

I would suggest that women's football will never reach the level of the men's game, and nothing to do with anything other than that it's highly unlikely that as many women (let alone men) will follow women's football in the same way that men (and many women) follow men's football. Men get paid so much for playing football because there is a market that is willing to pay to watch it, to engage with it, to buy the associated products etc. As it stands, the women who play are probably overpaid if you looked at it from a purely commercial perspective. In a way, the international women's football team is like rugby where England draw good crowds but the club game is comparatively small. That's why male rugby players get paid a fraction of male footballers. Men's football is many times more popular than men's rugby. No need to knock women's football but some acceptance of the reality of the number of people who watch it, follow it religiously and base their lives around it compared to the men's game may help.

Thank goodness we are a great second half team

Tonda test time

This shit Russell Martin style of passing along the goal line puts us under so much pressure because it has to be so precise when progressing to the midfield.