Daft Kerplunk

Semmens next? He employed all of those apart from Toby Steele who was a Gareth Rogers hire.

There are plenty of people at the club with influential/blocking/yes person roles that people don't know. Fenn is apparently one of the good guys, and remarkably for this club, is a Saints fan as well.

Don’t worry about me, I’m over it. The use of the age range was that Bale, Lallana, Shaw, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chambers, Targett and so so on were all recruited between 8-12. I was just pointing out to the previous poster that someone who’d been in post for 2 or so years responsible for academy recruitment wouldn’t see results for awhile, especially when it comes to the first team.

Let me break it down for you. At what age do academy players sign for a club, and when do they start making their first team debuts? If they signed at 8, that would make them now 18...so Les was here then. If Dan Rice oversaw the signing of a player for the academy in the last two years, they might make their debut in anywhere between 2 and 12 years.

He’s been in post for two years. The lack of talent currently is the result of the Les Reed years.

1. Always mean to pick on players who simply shouldn’t be at a Premier League club but Moi is the one who offers so little. But it’s not his fault he gets picked. 2. in the modern tradition of being indecisive, all 3 in their own way. 3. Forest. Sat there laughing at the way it all went. But there’s been plenty of competition in this tough to call category. 4. Statistically the most aggressive front footed manager in Europe v we should be grateful to be in this league v amazing light show when the team was dreadful. Hmmm. 5. Toughest category of all but Joe Aribo wins for me. 6. Martin Semmens. Instrumental in allowing Ankerson in so he kept his job. And even if you deny that, he’s instrumental in the culture of the club telling us we should be grateful to be in the league and also creating the type of culture where an on-pitch experience for kids at the end of the season gets cancelled without explanation to the kids, and where home sections get treated badly and away fans can do what they want. Has to go, and the pathetic board and other directors should go with him.

Similar form to those chasing the final Champions league spot then. Just to put in to context for those who still imagine we will conjure a level of form we’ve not had since 2021.

According to employees at Saints, directors say if you don’t like it leave when they make shit changes, and that kind of attitude is the same they take with fans. We are nothing but customers to them, which is fine if you treat them well, but not when you take them for granted. Rotten from the top.

When you see the damage betting does to vulnerable people (including footballers and people who are easily manipulated, which is plenty), this is about time. Betting, no problem, but these muthafucks make it way too easy for people to get in serious problems, and football just takes the money and hasn't given a shit for too long.

About sums us up at the moment. The football club that has forgotten it’s a football club.

The game was supposed to be sold out but there were so many empty seats, including groups of seats together. Are the club keeping some behind for match day walk-ups? Is it some weird security or accounting ploy? Are they selling tickets to tourist groups who don’t sell them? I know there were saints fans trying to get tickets for yesterday so surely our fans would be better than so many empty seats. Really odd.

Selles was always facing a near-impossible task to keep us up, but he is far too defensively minded and our football is too risk-averse. And this comment after the match might be useful not to lose players but to say we have enough goals in this team is mad. "We knew it was a gigantic task when we took it on. We are performing and we are going to keep fighting for every point. We have enough goals in the side and we are going to go for it."

With a front line as penetrating as Sammy the snake

Don’t need evidence for anything religion-related, just belief.

There is logic here but Martin Semmens has had the ear of Katrina (still has a stake) for years. He managed to work his way through Gareth Rogers, Ralph Kruger to get to the top job. He was the person who found and led the sale of Kat’s first sale to Gao, then was a key person in the most recent takeover. He needs to go now, and SR may make this decision but Semmens has been the key player behind the scenes, and more recently, in front, for a good number of years. I know people at the club who would back this up, as making it up would be weird.

Has anyone seen what can only be assumed to be Martin Semmens’ salary? In the echo today 🤔

Opened this hoping you’d found a new goal scoring centre forward

Wow. 13 years. Felt like it was the beginning of something special. Followed by some magic times. Then totally fucked up by people who joined the bandwagon thinking they were the bees knees when there were actually bollocks.

Quick Tim Greenwell, better close block 2+3

Indeed, but we are behind them so it’s tougher for us. I agree that there are plenty of teams in the mix for relegation this year, but have a tough close to the season and have no indication of getting out of the mire. This year would stand alongside the great escapes, something we all had hoped were a thing of the past until not that long ago.

I like the optimism but out of the last 10 matches, you have us winning half of them. Form-wise over the season, that’s pretty much where Man Utd are and above Newcastle Utd. We’ve won 6 of 28. We have improved of late but we need European qualification form to get to 38 points. Can it be done? Maybe, but the odds aren’t in our favour.

From a footballing perspective, it is likely to be dull. From an impact on either team’s season, it will be anything but. It’s not entirely win or don’t survive but it would leave us with tougher games on paper to need to win. A draw would be good but to get out of this mess, a win is vital.

Unfortunately the good team we have on paper is 20th out of 20 teams at the moment. A good team on toilet paper.

The board has spent most money on stadium improvements in the hospitality areas, which is their comfort zone, and those ‘customers’ won’t be paying as much as the club asks for in the lower leagues. They’ll probably leave.

Anyone good enough for the Premier League will leave. Thankfully, that’s not many. Unfortunately, that’s not many either 🤣