Sport Republic

[AlexLaw76]

1 hour ago, Ex Lion Tamer said:

I remember how convinced people were that we wouldn't get promoted this time two years ago

We are many points off this time 2 years ago.

in fact, to match the points total of 2 years ago, we can only drop 13 points during the rest of the season.

yeah, not happening

Edited 29 December, 2025 by AlexLaw76

[ItchenRob]

I saw someone put up a 'Sport Republic Out' sticker coming out of Millwall. Any idea where I can purchase some? Being in my 60s, and childish, that might be the extent of my activism.😁

But they need to go asap.

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We are many points off this time 2 years ago.

in fat, to match the points total of 2 years ago, we can only drop 13 points during the rest of the season.

yeah, not happening

this time 2 years ago we were 4th with 45 points, 14 more than now with 5 more wins and half the losses. 

We MIGHT get lucky and scrape the play offs but i'd say at this stage even that looks very unlikely. Piss poor.

[sockeye]

the year is 2035. Saints are languishing in the bottom half of the National League licking their wounds after a defeat by Woking, during which their forward signing from FC St. Pauli's academy (Saints' one closed down) failed to score yet again despite 90 minutes. Fortunately the club have Gavin Bazunu's 500th club appearance to look forward to and the players have been given a day off for it by their head coach, which amusingly coincides with his GCSE English exam. Social media is abuzz as there are rumours of Roerslev a seriously seasoned professional who once played for Saints in the Premier League returning in the January window. On top of this it seems that the go ahead has been given to build the sixth bar-restaurant at St. Mary's 'The Slug and Andersen' generously serving a mix of Fosters, Carling and Saints' own IPA 'Red and white' which has been applauded by local journalists Alfie House and Adam Blackmore who admit there is work to be done in the transfer window but it's ok as money is still steadily flowing into the club. An exciting new year beckons indeed.

[Wade Garrett]

49 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

If they’re ‘business and profit managers’, why on earth would they care about a bunch of people waving banners and protesting?

Boycott if you want but people don’t give up on investments worth hundreds of millions because someone wrote ‘SR Out!’ On a big piece of cardboard.

Agreed, might achieve getting Ankersen out though.

[Dark Munster]

4 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

He probably has the right intentions, but he's clearly pretty clueless when it comes to running professional sports outfits and that's why he needs to shift it and go back into media or whatever he did before (god knows how he made money)

His problem is he continues to put his trust in his Rasputin, a.k.a. Rasmus. Until that charlatan, fraud and cancer on the club is removed we will continue to circle down the drain.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We are many points off this time 2 years ago.

in fat, to match the points total of 2 years ago, we can only drop 13 points during the rest of the season.

yeah, not happening

A couple of good players in January and we can easily get promoted through the playoffs

[Willo of Whiteley]

9 minutes ago, Ex Lion Tamer said:

A couple of good players in January and we can easily get promoted through the playoffs

Agreed. But I wouldn’t trust Sport Republic to get the players we need.

[aintforever]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We are many points off this time 2 years ago.

in fact, to match the points total of 2 years ago, we can only drop 13 points during the rest of the season.

yeah, not happening

What a pointless fact, that season we finished 17th points clear if the team in 7th, we only need to finish one point better than the 7th place team to reach the playoffs. Automatic has gone but playoffs are still a realistic target.

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, aintforever said:

What a pointless fact, that season we finished 17th points clear if the team in 7th, we only need to finish one point better than the 7th place team to reach the playoffs. Automatic has gone but playoffs are still a realistic target.

n/t fuck it

Edited 29 December, 2025 by Turkish

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, Dark Munster said:

His problem is he continues to put his trust in his Rasputin, a.k.a. Rasmus. Until that charlatan, fraud and cancer on the club is removed we will continue to circle down the drain.

We have made it to the u-bend

[Ex Lion Tamer]

38 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Agreed. But I wouldn’t trust Sport Republic to get the players we need.

They brought in mostly good players this summer to be fair. The problem was they didn't bring in a keeper and their big striker signing was a huge flop

[trousers]

Genuine question..

How do we get these buffoons away from our club?

[Willo of Whiteley]

Just now, trousers said:

Genuine question..

How do we get these buffoons away from our club?

Stop going.

Stop buying merchandise.

Stop going to the bars and pubs on the outside of the ground.

Unfortunately, none of the above will happen.

[qwertyell]

Absolute banger of a year, 2025.

Started it bottom of the Premier League, ended it 13th in the Championship. 

What joys will SR bring in 2026? 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories but now I'm thinking these idiots have put a diktat in place to revert back to the shitty possession based game.

[Galway saint]

I think these guys said their project was  a ten year plan. I don’t know when they started the project to play terrible crab like football ( maybe after Ralph left) but I reckon we are about 4 years into this bilge, so we have 6 more years to go and I don’t seem changing the ‘Southampton way’.

Thought last night was very depressing as we have seen that sort of game so many times now, with the aimless passing from one side of the pitch to the other. The kamikaze passing in your six yard box followed by an aimless boot up field. I can’t understand how we have gone from the football seen at Charlton and Leicester to the crap we had reverted back to in recent games.

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

I wonder if the ten year plan involved yo-yoing for at least the first four seasons and wasting a lot of money on dross that we wouldn’t recoup.

[coalman]

On 30/12/2025 at 07:58, Galway saint said:

I think these guys said their project was  a ten year plan. I don’t know when they started the project to play terrible crab like football ( maybe after Ralph left) but I reckon we are about 4 years into this bilge, so we have 6 more years to go and I don’t seem changing the ‘Southampton way’.

Thought last night was very depressing as we have seen that sort of game so many times now, with the aimless passing from one side of the pitch to the other. The kamikaze passing in your six yard box followed by an aimless boot up field. I can’t understand how we have gone from the football seen at Charlton and Leicester to the crap we had reverted back to in recent games.

 

People who have a ten year plan are usually just trying to distract you from the fact they have no one year plan.

[Galway saint]

4 hours ago, coalman said:

People who have a ten year plan are usually just trying to distract you from the fact they have no one year plan.

I think their plan was to try and be a Man City lite team hence signing of a load of shit Man City academy players and playing tipppy tappy possession football. The signings clearly didn’t work out and the world has thankfully moved on from the tedious possession based game but we are still stuck in 2021 with the club intent come what may on seeing the plan through till the bitter end. 

[coalman]

1 hour ago, Galway saint said:

I think their plan was to try and be a Man City lite team hence signing of a load of shit Man City academy players and playing tipppy tappy possession football. The signings clearly didn’t work out and the world has thankfully moved on from the tedious possession based game but we are still stuck in 2021 with the club intent come what may on seeing the plan through till the bitter end. 

That's a strategy, not a plan. A plan includes the mechanisms to determine whether it's working over a variety of time horizons. All along they've said "it's a long term plan" without ever saying what success looks like at 6 months, a year etc.

Which is about the same as saying "fuck off and stop questioning us".

Edited 31 December, 2025 by coalman

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, coalman said:

That's a strategy, not a plan. A plan includes the mechanisms to determine whether it's working over a variety of time horizons.

The news just gets worse. Now SR have failed in both their plan and their strategy. 🙂

[SuperSAINT]

I think most of their problem is Dragan isn’t a genius like Bloom or Benham and relies mainly on his mate Rasmus who’s a “2 ideas out of 10 are good” kind of a guy.

[SaintNewForest]

5 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

I think most of their problem is Dragan isn’t a genius like Bloom or Benham and relies mainly on his mate Rasmus who’s a “2 ideas out of 10 are good” kind of a guy.

2 ideas? I wouldn't even say he gets 1 out of 10, right. 

[Matthew Le God]

1 hour ago, SuperSAINT said:

I think most of their problem is Dragan isn’t a genius like Bloom or Benham and relies mainly on his mate Rasmus who’s a “2 ideas out of 10 are good” kind of a guy.

I've worked for Tony Bloom's company. Was that one of his off days?

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

I've worked for Tony Bloom's company. Was that one of his off days?

What score did you give on GlassDoor?

[Weston Super Saint]

16 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

I've worked for Tony Bloom's company. Was that one of his off days?

The decision to hire you?

[Gloucester Saint]

Get out of our club.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Got to admire the ambition of getting promoted by boring all the other teams and the fans to death

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Willo of Whiteley said:

Got to admire the ambition of getting promoted by boring all the other teams and the fans to death

Not getting promoted but we are definitely boring the tits of everyone 

[Mboto Gorge]

On 31/12/2025 at 16:34, Galway saint said:

I think their plan was to try and be a Man City lite team hence signing of a load of shit Man City academy players and playing tipppy tappy possession football. The signings clearly didn’t work out and the world has thankfully moved on from the tedious possession based game but we are still stuck in 2021 with the club intent come what may on seeing the plan through till the bitter end. 

This in itself should’ve rung alarm bells within the fanbase that we have owners this delusional, arrogant and naive that they thought they’d be able to successfully implement this for a club like us, in the toughest league in the world. Just astonishing mis-management , didn’t once occur to them that there’s a reason similar sized clubs like us have never attempted to do this before , or since. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

I would love to be a fly on the wall at their board meetings.

What the fuck happens?

What do they discuss?

[FredVaFC59100]

4 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I would love to be a fly on the wall at their board meetings.

What the fuck happens?

What do they discuss?

I'd rather be the elephant in the room. Fly has too short of a lifespan; plus they won't be able to ignore my discontent. 

[Dark Munster]

40 minutes ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

I'd rather be the elephant in the room. Fly has too short of a lifespan; plus they won't be able to ignore my discontent. 

And you could leave them a huge, steaming pile of discontent on the boardroom floor. Even better, on Ankersen's seat.

[Gloucester Saint]

8 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

And you could leave them a huge, steaming pile of discontent on the boardroom floor. Even better, on Ankersen's seat.

SR wouldn’t be able to get that dry cleaned successfully when elephant dung was piled on top of all of the bullshit already on Rasmus’s chair. 

[Whitey Grandad]

11 hours ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

I'd rather be the elephant in the room. Fly has too short of a lifespan; plus they won't be able to ignore my discontent. 

But nobody would talk about you.

[sfc4prem]

All the fan commentary over the summer and during Still's tenure about the failings of Sport Republic still apply.

The fish rots from the head.

[trousers]

6 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

All the fan commentary over the summer and during Still's tenure about the failings of Sport Republic still apply.

The fish rots from the head.

Indeed. All discussions around player performances, manager capability, formations, etc, etc, are periphery and largely futile all the while these owners are at the club.

[Badger]

Has it ever been established if Parsons is still at the club ? Rumours of a parting a few weeks ago, but nothing heard since.

[Dark Munster]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

Has it ever been established if Parsons is still at the club ? Rumours of a parting a few weeks ago, but nothing heard since.

We surely would’ve heard if he’s gone. 

Edited Friday at 14:56 by Dark Munster

[Willo of Whiteley]

I wouldn’t say you hear a lot of leaks from the club now, that’s one thing that has always been generally good.

The flip side of that is there has to be some transparency when things aren’t going so well.

Burying heads in the sand isn’t the way to go, but we’ve seen this already this season when they refused Spors to be interviewed by Alfie House, supposedly JS was happy to do it but was told no by someone above him.

[Willo of Whiteley]

I did used to have contacts within the club but that was a couple of years ago.

I do still know one or two that are closing to the set up so hear the odd thing, but nothing spectacular.

[Gloucester Saint]

5 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

We surely would’ve heard if he’s gone. 

Not least from Saints Loyal….

[EBS1980]

On 29/12/2025 at 21:29, Willo of Whiteley said:

Stop going.

Stop buying merchandise.

Stop going to the bars and pubs on the outside of the ground.

Unfortunately, none of the above will happen.

That wouldn’t work.

Vocal protesting is the only way. Look what happened when the fans turned on SR briefly earlier this season, they sacked Still. 
 

Protests and anti SR songs at games will be the only way to put pressure on them. Something we as a fan base are too soft to do.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

19 hours ago, trousers said:

Indeed. All discussions around player performances, manager capability, formations, etc, etc, are periphery and largely futile all the while these owners are at the club.

"Hello Holmes! Hello Watson! We're certainly seeing more of you here, these days."

"Since trousers made us realise the futility of supporting my club, our weekends have really opened up. Thanks trousers!"

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

What a waste of season. I was looking forward to a top 2 finish but that looks highly unlikely now.

Playoffs is the minimum. However Saints seem to be making a right mess of it currently. 

Be nice to get some consistency but we cant get that with SR doing their Venkys impression with shitty decisions across the whole club.

Edited Saturday at 17:15 by JohnnyShearer2.0

[Willo of Whiteley]

If we went up this season we aren’t in any way, shape or form ready for the Premier League.

I wouldn’t trust SR to make the right deals based on last time round either.

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

If we went up this season we aren’t in any way, shape or form ready for the Premier League.

I wouldn’t trust SR to make the right deals based on last time round either.

This, 100%. 

Getting promoted again this season would be counter-productive in the long run. Two woefully inept successive Premier League campaigns would set us back years, possibly decades. Any promotion back to the PL needs to be predicated by the departure of these inadequate owners. That's the simple truth. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

I think Sport Republic have fucked up so much that it’ll take years to get fans back onside, they’re not trying to rush it on the cheap than do it rationally.

I’m of the opinion they fucked up even to the point of the home kits. Two seasons we’ve basically played it white under them, we aren’t Spurs. Yes there are kit manufacturers but someone ultimately has to sign off.

There’s just lots of weird decisions around the club.

 

[SouSaint]

The shit thing is that the club will be absolutely fucked if we find ourselves still in the Football League come the end of next season as next year will be the last of the parachute payments. 

The money spent in the summer should have given us the tools to compete for the title. It is new levels of shite from these shitbags to find ourselves very much midtable despite spending £50+ million in the Championship.