ErwinK1961

No thanks Dragan, please don’t fuck this up again.

So waste pre-season and another transfer window on the basis they’re low risk financially? Then have to bring someone else in (which will cost us additional money anyway). Seems a great plan.

They’ve already got enough points to have kept them up the last 8 seasons.

I’m sure Crouch scored from one in our relegation season, Everton at home maybe?

Of course it’s relevant. No one is judging Spors on previous mistakes, they are judging SR (who we’re still owned by) who have overseen two disastrous campaigns in last three years. You can’t just ignore everything that has gone by because they have bought in a new sporting director. You, I and everyone else also have no idea just how much control / autonomy Spors will have. Blackmore alluded to the fact that Wilcox wasn’t as in charge as was being made out, so whose to say that isn’t the case again now.

After predicting BBD could prove to be a better value signing than Delap, I’m just going to go and give this window a 2/10 already, to save the embarrassment this time next year.

If he’s an absolutely awful footballer, how would we get £10m for him?

‘Literally anyone could have got us promoted’

Decent bloke, did a good job turning the club around and getting promotion. Will always be grateful for Wembley. Completely lost it by the end, was evidently out of his depth and had no idea of the difference in levels. Good luck to him in his future career.

Will you be back with your motivational pre-match thread posts as well? That’s when I’ll know football has properly returned!

37 I believe. I can’t see him going anywhere, it’s a very niche market that could buy him. No premier league club is going there and most of the championship can’t afford him. Only place I could see him going is Ipswich if (when) they sell Delap.

Any chance you’ll take another year off the forum when we go down?

I can’t find Will Still on the betting odds?

Two managers with completely different footballing styles.

This.

If only.

Spot on, we were flying (by our relative standards), skirting on the edge of the top half, decent run of games to come and FA cup quarter final (I think?). After that drubbing to Villa (who weren’t in great form I don’t think), it all seemed to go downhill.

You are right, but would you trust the club to spend those sorts of fees wisely?

I know this season has been an utter shit show and we’re all a bit mentally drained, but this is such a bizarre take. This is an 18 year olds first season playing regular men’s football, in what is likely going to be the worst ever premier league team. He’s clearly got ability and a big future, which I am sure he will achieve once he’s away from this utter shit show. Id suggest you are better off directing your ire at at pretty much anyone else, including a £20m CB who has been utter shite, an £18m CM who can’t be arsed to play, a catastrophe of a right back, a set of strikers who have shown consistently they are not up to the level, two managers woefully out of their depth at this level and an ownership group that haven’t got a fcking clue. Focussing criticism on one of only two bright spots this season is odd behaviour.

Jamie Carragher hates Liverpool FFS!

Question is, to who? Best thing he can hope for is Ipswich to stay up and they take the plunge at £15-18m. Will they spend that on him if they go down? Would we even want to sell him to a ‘promotion rival’? Can’t see a premier league team taking the plunge as all he’s proven so far is he’s not adequate at this level. This is the issue a lot of them are going to face. It’s the same with Armstrong - championship is his level, but the only ones who will afford his fee and wages are premier league teams who will never buy him because he’s not good enough. We’re not going to sell these guys for buttons and most are on lengthy contracts. So they will need to either knuckle down, accept their level and play, or sulk and watch their career die a slow death.

Fraser I’ll give you, but I’d wager pretty much every saints fan wanted Downes and THB to be signed permanently (plus THB was pre agreed on promotion).

Who are these people? Can’t say I’ve seen many saying that.

Or, people are entitled to criticise Juric and his tactics in the same way people used to do the same when Martin was here. Not sure that makes them ‘intellectually challenged.’

Southampton 0-6 Chelsea - 2022. Could have been 16, pretty Forster was our best player.