Daft Kerplunk

Congratulations Russell Martin. Hope you get a decent war chest for next season

The majority of Saints fans don’t really get that stuck in, too reserved perhaps, too restrained in showing emotion because of upbringing, too middle class with all the repression that comes with it, thinking a football stadium is for quietly watching the game, being embarrassed by the thought of it all. Hopefully the return of an end with standing will at least see some noise return to the stadium and people feeling like them have a role to play in the match day experience. If the players didn’t want it then they wouldn’t gesture for fans to make more noise. But then how uncouth and clearly lacking in table manners. If you want silence, go and watch rugby or golf.

Set up for a draw so there you go. Unambitious football.

If an ex player and someone who has become a great ambassador for the club’s real values (not the corporate bollocks) getting some annoys you, imagine your frustration knowing how many freebies the directors and senior staff get for their families and friends.

How dare anyone try to create something different and potentially noisy 🤣 Life moves on, new things occur, things change. Fans used to clap both teams. Saints and Pompey fans would go to each other’s games when their team wasn’t at home. Everyone wore flat caps. People drank pints of brown. People used to stay to the end of matches unless their team had had an absolute shocker. Rattles were once a thing, now they aren’t. Jumpers for goalposts. New, old, borrowed, things just keep moving on in new directions.

You can but dream

Should be useful for next year’s promotion attempt

He’s done a fantastic job at Chelsea I think, next up he should join Man Utd 😎

Since the unbeaten run, the players have shown their true character. Technically good for the most part, apart from the ability to take chances but weak bottlers really.

The saddest thing for me is that he just doesn’t appear to be able to adapt. I’m all for people having a good crack at it and I think that Russball is hampered somewhat by the level of players we have but therein lies the problem; play to your strengths and get the best out of the personnel. This could also be a Sports Republic/leadership issue as we still have delusions of grandeur.

Instead of responding to 20,000 individual emails they’ll probably release the information at some point so people can work it out.

A good win ruined by the match day DJ playing dog shit music 😂

Thank goodness for that. Downes has at least got bottle

Nobody wants to do anything with the ball. The fear of losing possession makes them fear trying to do something to actually win. Pathetic really.

The tendency now is for every manager/coach to have to overthink/over okay everything. Working day and night to fix things. Why? Is no-one efficient and effective any more? Working long hours is going to lead to overthinking and mistakes. It's a simple game overcomplicated by xG, duels, low blocks and other total bollocks. On another note, was watching a bit of Wolsfburg v Mönchengladbach and they were saying how Wolfsburg had really dropped a level in the second half, and looked unlikely to score whilst BM equalised and ended up winning 1-3. Ralph up to Ralph things. Another manager who worked long hours and was a tinkerer.

If by brave you mean hiding behind the sofa when the wicked witch comes on screen, then yes.

One benefit of this powder puff piss poor end to the attempt to get promoted is that we will get to play our local rivals twice in a year. Scarily, they’ll be fired up after being promoted and we will be stripped of talent off the back of a disappointing non-promotion season that for awhile looked promising.

Play offs will be tough going for 2 matches.

Staplewood’s pavillion building is a small space and the manager’s office is pretty much next to where Wilcox would’ve been, and the management and players eating area is also where the leadership eats. The idea that there be a close working relationship between manager, coaches and JW isn’t far fetched, and that Wilcox would have been around the players too and they are feeling the potential loss isn’t hard to imagine. Players are paid well but they are human and they’ll know that change is coming and that’s unsettling. It’s a big shame.

Probably because sport is quite different from business.

I like the idea of flat earthers living around the other side of the tea tray they imagine the world to be. Do fine people live on both sides of the flat surface? Would it be easier if it was a globe with a central gravity force keeping us all stuck down? Funny how the earth was always flat before people starting sailing around it. Makes you think 🤔

I wonder how many people are burned by seeing Mane turn into a world class player after slating him early on. The big difference with Mane for me was that he was still very capable, and showed it sporadically early on, and contributed in the Premier League. At the time, people wanted the finished article straight away. With Kamaldeen, people are being more patient but he should really be tearing it up in the Championship by now. He isn’t yet and that’s not a sign that he will one day be a world beater. Fingers crossed he does though but that’s out of hope, not expectation.

This is one of those situations where a change is very much needed, and the thinking behind how it is now wasn’t the best. Apart from the clear fact that it will be annoying for some, and change routines for a chunk of people, most objections can be overcome, and actually could be better. For one thing, it’ll much easier to contain fans in those rare cases where it is required along Melbourne Street. This is for the benefit of the bigger picture. We need to have our fans at both ends for the majority of games. It’s about what will be created, not what exists now.

Me, and him, and them.