Sport Republic

[Wade Garrett]

It will be a great day for the club when these fucking clueless cunts sell up.

Dragan is a fucking idiot, and that permeates all the way down.  Fucking amateurs, spunking money left, right and centre.

[Willo of Whiteley]

They can leave now.

 

[Football Special]

[S-Clarke]

The shit against them has got to ramp up, we can't allow them to think that their propaganda nonsense has appeased us.

They were out to chat to the press when we won 5 out of 6, but are silent at all other times. It shows you all you need to know about them.

[AlexLaw76]

Have been appalling owners since their stance On Ralph… ie, from Day 1 almost

[Gloucester Saint]

23 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Plane flying over SMS for the Millwall home game please and make sure Sky know it’s coming so it gets a good 60-90 seconds on camera. Even House and Blackmore might have the backbone to mention it.

[Osvaldorama]

It’s clear the trajectory that we are on. 
 

And it isn’t upward. Terminal decline under these chumps. 
 

Looking like we’ll be back in league one again within 3-5 years. They get every big footballing decision wrong. 

[Mboto Gorge]

7 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

It’s clear the trajectory that we are on. 
 

And it isn’t upward. Terminal decline under these chumps. 
 

Looking like we’ll be back in league one again within 3-5 years. They get every big footballing decision wrong. 

Absolutely guarantee the next time we leave the championship under these owners, it will be to league one. And once there we will just conform to mediocrity too and settle ourselves into a cosy mid table position. Thats how bad these owners are, not a clue how to run an actual big football club and not the other noddy clubs they own. Treating Saints as a little experiment. Makes me sick 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Unless people stop going the rot will happen. 
It’s not difficult.

[saintant]

Get them gone. They have been a disaster since day one and not one of them knows what he's doing. Martin Semmens takes most of the blame for bringing in these charlatans. Presume he was very well rewarded for making that mad decision.

[EssEffCee]

15 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Plane flying over SMS for the Millwall home game please and make sure Sky know it’s coming so it gets a good 60-90 seconds on camera. Even House and Blackmore might have the backbone to mention it.

Are you organising it?

[Katalinic]

They need to go. The poor decisions repeated again and again, the money they have wasted, the lack of dealing with the blindingly obvious weaknesses on the pitch, the seeming need to try to re-invent football, the propaganda that we should be delighted when we get good fees for young talent - it is a catalogue of failure and I'm not sure many on here have any confidence in it changing. 

[Miltonaggro]

If it was ever going to get better under Sport Republic Solak would have made decisive strategic decisions in May 2023 after the first relegation debacle. Removing Kraft and Ankersen from the club and appointing proper advisors and staff, most importantly a credible football manager to cull and rebuild the squad. Instead its been a drain circling pattern of negligence, insincere apology, and timid failure.  The main architects of this are Solak and Ankerson who act like a pantomime oligarch and his indulged idiot son. It beggars belief that the owner is still listening to this fucking cretin, who was sussed out as a charlatan by the supporters weeks after the takeover by a simple fucking google search.  I can’t see any viable route to redemption for Sport Republic from here, last throw of dice was the replacement of Still with a football manager and a surgical January window -we are getting neither! 

[Jack]

Reckon we’ll struggle at Birmingham then it’ll get toxic again at home against Millwall on NYD. The fanbase needs to fully get behind a movement to get rid of these jokers. The decline from Premier League stability to mid table Championship mediocrity has been achieved in double quick time under their watch, and they think that doubling down on their clever decisions that got us here are going to get us out of it. Hate them 

[Miltonaggro]

16 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Plane flying over SMS for the Millwall home game please and make sure Sky know it’s coming so it gets a good 60-90 seconds on camera. Even House and Blackmore might have the backbone to mention it.

I’ll put up £1000 towards it if the finale is a kamikaze dive which takes out the directors box and our bench! 

[SouSaint]

Its just groundhog day with these cunts. 

We will finish somewhere between 8th-14th and the manager will pay the price. Those clowns at Solent and the Daily Echo will be invited out to do their propaganda piece in the summer and we will have folk on here say that they deserve a chance to fix the mess because they've admitted mistakes. 

We will be a League One club under these cunts. They need to fuck off ASAP. 

The toxicity will ramp up once Pompey batter us next month. 

[SaintsRoyalty]

Maybe I’m wrong but I wonder how much Dragon actually knows about what goes on at the club. Obviously he can see the scores and the relegation, but it looks like he just flies in for the odd game and I doubt he is kept in the loop on much. Some might say that’s his fault but anyone that’s worked in business knows that even the leadership team hears very little about what’s going on day in day out and much less the ownership. Why hire a leadership team if you’re going to still be fully involved. Yes he hired the leadership team but telecoms bods might know telecoms but that doesn’t mean they have the first clue about football.

The real failure here lies with the other idiots who are apparently experienced in football with their previous involvement with Brentford. As we now know, Brentford’s success had little to do with them. Kraft is gone leaving just Ankerson. I’m torn between holding him up as the villain or whether he’s the new Erick Black and a fall guy. He also appears rarely at games.

There are two key questions to be asked. What is Ankerson’s role nowadays and is 5 at the back a Sport Republic must and forced upon managers. The issue is we have soft shit local journalists. Blackmore to his credit sometimes asks probing questions and let’s not forget he works for the BBC which is going to be a bind for any reporter especially when it’s a cushy gig. Alfie House on the other hand has absolutely no excuse for being the drip he is. He works for an absolute rag where any other gig is going to be a step up and the club are unlikely to ban the local paper. He literally has nothing to lose and everything to gain from being a diligent and tough asking journalist if he wants to make a name as a young journalist. He met with Dragon recently and could have told him some home truths that perhaps Dragon wasn’t aware of but of course he just behaved like the yes man he is. He couldn’t even bring himself to call out Bazunu during the Oxford game despite clearly wanting to in the fear he would be criticised for calling out statistically the worse keeper in the country for 4 seasons. If he self proclaims his fear of doing something simple like that what hope have we got of things changing. Again, it’s us placid fans that let the likes of Alfie House be our mouthpiece to the club. We should be getting the guy out of the job.

Edited 22 hours ago by SaintsRoyalty

[stknowle]

There seems to be this bizarre need for validation of bad decisions by doubling down and repeating them with these wankers.

3 at the back, not working, we can’t be wrong, keep doing it.

Young inexperienced manager appointment doesn’t work, can’t be wrong, get another even less experienced one.

Keeper decent with his feet but utter shit at everything else he needs to be good at, we’ve decided the feet thing is most important, can’t be wrong, keep playing him.

Ridiculous.

[bugenhagen]

On 26/12/2025 at 17:55, Willo of Whiteley said:

They can leave now.

 

Says it all, really…

[Challenger]

Utterly sick and tired of these tards and their wonderful brand of boring, pointless  "football" .

[ally_uk]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Sums up Sports Republics ownership.

Dragon either needs to sell up or grow a set of swedes and tell Wankerson to piss off and get some proper footballing men at the helm....

No more experiments or young and upcoming managers, We need a experienced no nonsense battle axe who actually is capable of tactical nous.

This new manager needs to come in with a proper team and to filter out the pussies, weak mentality bottle jobs from this squad. Is it a culture thing? Possibly standards have dropped for a few seasons and we still have a select few who think they are the dogs bollocks. As a result they will put a shift in and play for the team and manager when it suits them.

Lastly change the transfer policy and bring in a few experienced heads who actually have some physical attributed and a bit of bollocks and heart about them and height. 

 

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[pimpin4rizeal]

I’m actually really worried we are going to be stuck with sports republic for a long long time, with the way it’s set up as this multi club model it seems very unlikely they would just cash out one of their pieces ?

[Football Special]

22 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

I’m actually really worried we are going to be stuck with sports republic for a long long time, with the way it’s set up as this multi club model it seems very unlikely they would just cash out one of their pieces ?

Best bet is for Solaks business interests to go bad and need to cash in his assets , not sure how likely that is 

[FredVaFC59100]

SR is unlikely to go bankrupt, the only way out is for SR to lose so much money that Solak calls it quit. But with the guaranteed parachute payments, it will take it at least another 2 years.

Edited 1 hour ago by FredVaFC59100

[sockeye]

You have to wonder if Solak even cares that much and if this all starts and ends as Ankersen’s pet project 

[Badger]

On 27/12/2025 at 09:17, saintant said:

Get them gone. They have been a disaster since day one ..,.  Martin Semmens takes most of the blame for bringing in these charlatans. Presume he was very well rewarded for making that mad decision.

Semmens was an employee at the club, and despite him talking up his role in the change of owner, he wouldn’t have been a decision maker. That rests  with the owner at the time who was looking looking to cash in, Gao. 
 

He was one of the stream  of muppet management we’ve had, and takes some blame (no striker in 2022 and the signings made) but I doubt he was individually making high end corporate decisions. 

[Badger]

36 minutes ago, sockeye said:

You have to wonder if Solak even cares that much and if this all starts and ends as Ankersen’s pet project 

I’d expect him to keep a close watch on developments and finances. Rather like Katherina Liebherr and Cortese he isn’t going to allow the management or CEO to fritter away unlimited millions  without keeping a check on it. Can’t be that naive can he as to give Rasmus a completely open cheque book ?? 

[Turkish]

On 27/12/2025 at 09:46, Jack said:

Reckon we’ll struggle at Birmingham then it’ll get toxic again at home against Millwall on NYD. The fanbase needs to fully get behind a movement to get rid of these jokers. The decline from Premier League stability to mid table Championship mediocrity has been achieved in double quick time under their watch, and they think that doubling down on their clever decisions that got us here are going to get us out of it. Hate them 

To whom?

it’s all very well making statements like this but for them to go they need to sell us, they’re not going to hear a few weeks of boos after games, shrug their shoulders and walk off letting someone else have a go. We’re stuck with them they sell us or go bust. 

[Bakovnetski]

47 minutes ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

SR is unlikely to go bankrupt, the only way out is for SR to lose so much money that Solak calls it quit. But with the guaranteed parachute payments, it will take it at least another 2 years.

Only one more year I think as the previous time in the Championship counts as 1 year of the 3

[trousers]

12 minutes ago, Badger said:

Semmens was an employee at the club, and despite him talking up his role in the change of owner, he wouldn’t have been a decision maker

He may not have been the one who signed the contract but he seemed instrumental in the whole process to me. A defacto decision maker if I ever saw one...

 

Edited 59 minutes ago by trousers

[Dark Munster]

5 minutes ago, Badger said:

I’d expect him to keep a close watch on developments and finances. Rather like Katherina Liebherr and Cortese he isn’t going to allow the management or CEO to fritter away unlimited millions  without keeping a check on it. Can’t be that naive can he as to give Rasmus a completely open cheque book ?? 

He's naive/stupid enough to keep Ankersen as his football advisor (confirmed recently by Alfie House).

[Badger]

4 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

He's naive/stupid enough to keep Ankersen as his football advisor (confirmed recently by Alfie House).

Fair comment. But surely there is a breaking point which he’ll eventually reach ? 

[Badger]

9 minutes ago, Turkish said:

To whom?

it’s all very well making statements like this but for them to go they need to sell us, they’re not going to hear a few weeks of boos after games, shrug their shoulders and walk off letting someone else have a go. We’re stuck with them they sell us or go bust. 

There’s bound to be a fake sheikh out there they’ll sell to, or a US consortium who want a bit of this soccerball for themselves. Then people will look back with nostalgia at this golden era … 

[danjosaint]

Wasn't Turki al sheik rumoured to be looking for a football club to buy 

[FredVaFC59100]

24 minutes ago, Bakovnetski said:

Only one more year I think as the previous time in the Championship counts as 1 year of the 3

When does the counter reset back to 3 ? you have to stay up more than one year in the EPL then ?