Sport Republic

[Patrick Bateman]

48 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

One other clear motif of the Sport Republic era is their dithering, procrastination and time wasting. Lack of leadership resulting in lack of urgency has always been clear. With this latest avoidable mother of all shitstorms they have to act decisively and fast, no excuses, no safety blanket of bullshit and lies. I have little faith. 

That's so true. Reading Neil Warnock's book on his time in Management (*), he was talking about trying to sign players before Tony Fernandez got the club and the chaos he has to go through with sign off from the CEO (name escapes me) then Bernie Ecclestone, then Flavio Briatore. Flavio was often unobtainable and so he missed out on many players.

But given how slow we seem to be when making key decisions, it's obvious we decide by committee and some of that committee may not be easily obtainable.

(*) Warnock also talks about a dislike of dealing with Saints when Cortese was here. Said he couldn't stand him and he was a nightmare to deal with. Puncheon loan fee of £200k suddenly increased from £150k, just "because" as an example. Good book.

[Miltonaggro]

18 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

That's so true. Reading Neil Warnock's book on his time in Management (*), he was talking about trying to sign players before Tony Fernandez got the club and the chaos he has to go through with sign off from the CEO (name escapes me) then Bernie Ecclestone, then Flavio Briatore. Flavio was often unobtainable and so he missed out on many players.

But given how slow we seem to be when making key decisions, it's obvious we decide by committee and some of that committee may not be easily obtainable.

(*) Warnock also talks about a dislike of dealing with Saints when Cortese was here. Said he couldn't stand him and he was a nightmare to deal with. Puncheon loan fee of £200k suddenly increased from £150k, just "because" as an example. Good book.

Whatever Cortese was, and for all his shortcomings (lol!) as a human being, you always had the impression that he was in charge and the buck stopped with him - club first, fuck anyone outside of the tent. If the current mob dither or muck about now in making immediate refunds and a huge show of contrition and action to the supporter base they will lose more than they could imagine. It’s pathetically obvious they don’t understand English football. 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, StrangelyBrown said:

-4 points in the championship from mid table in the premier league.

This is what we have achieved.

Coming soon, Rasmus' new ted talk: If it isn't broke, break it.... then fuck it up and turn it into a collosal pile of shite

You just dont get it do you.

This is a 10 year plan, we are only 4 years into it.

When a navy seal joins the military during training they are stripped down, tested to the very limits of their capability, they want them to quit they want them to walk out, but they stripping them back and building their resilience to deal with EVERYTHING thrown at them to turn them into ELITE WARRIORS. Consider we are in the training phase. The club is being tested, stripped back, so we can rise into a robust, elite warrior like club capable of going to heights we never thought imaginable. This is a deliberate, planned de-construction of SFC to shift the loser mentality or the last 130 years before Rasmus, to turn us into the greatest footballing machine on earth. Now the rebuild starts. Rasmus will carry us kicking and screaming and in the end we will thank him

[Midfield_General]

20 minutes ago, Turkish said:

You just dont get it do you.

This is a 10 year plan, we are only 4 years into it.

When a navy seal joins the military during training they are stripped down, tested to the very limits of their capability, they want them to quit they want them to walk out, but they stripping them back and building their resilience to deal with EVERYTHING thrown at them to turn them into ELITE WARRIORS. Consider we are in the training phase. The club is being tested, stripped back, so we can rise into a robust, elite warrior like club capable of going to heights we never thought imaginable. This is a deliberate, planned de-construction of SFC to shift the loser mentality or the last 130 years before Rasmus, to turn us into the greatest footballing machine on earth. Now the rebuild starts. Rasmus will carry us kicking and screaming and in the end we will thank him

To build on your analogy if I may:

When patrolman Alex Murphy had his arms and legs all shot off by Clarence Boddicker and his gang and was left in a pool of his own blood on the ground of an abandoned steel mill, did he give up? Did ambitious junior executive Bob Morton of OCP give up? 

No, they did not. They had Murphy's corpse converted into Robocop, a heavily armed cyborg with no memory of his former life, who went on to be hailed by the media for his brutally efficient campaign against crime. 

And if I know Dragan like I think I do, I think he will be taking some lessons from that. 

We're in safe hands, gentlemen. It's 4D chess. The long game. The club has been playing it all along.

Matt Le Tissier knows. 

You just wait. You'll see.

Edited 8 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Osvaldorama]

12 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

To build on your analogy if I may:

When patrolman Alex Murphy had his arms and legs all shot off by Clarence Boddicker and his gang and was left in a pool of his own blood on the ground of an abandoned steel mill, did he give up? Did ambitious junior executive Bob Morton of OCP give up? 

No, they did not. They had Murphy's corpse converted into Robocop, a heavily armed cyborg with no memory of his former life, who went on to be hailed by the media for his brutally efficient campaign against crime. 

And if I know Dragan like I think I do, I think he will be taking some lessons from that. 

We're in safe hands, gentlemen. It's 4D chess. The long game. The club has been playing it all along.

Matt Le Tissier knows. 

You just wait. You'll see.

Who needs limbs anyway?

 

We are the football club that say ‘ni’

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

To build on your analogy if I may:

When patrolman Alex Murphy had his arms and legs all shot off by Clarence Boddicker and his gang and was left in a pool of his own blood on the ground of an abandoned steel mill, did he give up? Did ambitious junior executive Bob Morton of OCP give up? 

No, they did not. They had Murphy's corpse converted into Robocop, a heavily armed cyborg with no memory of his former life, who went on to be hailed by the media for his brutally efficient campaign against crime. 

And if I know Dragan like I think I do, I think he will be taking some lessons from that. 

We're in safe hands, gentlemen. It's 4D chess. The long game, and the club has been playing it all along.

You just wait. You'll see.

Not the long game, the INFINITE game. No one wins the sport of football. Okay you might win the match, a cup or a title, have a brief period of success which is followed by periods of failure. These actually deceive fans into thinking their club is achieving things. You learn far more when you fail than when you win. You learn about the people around you, the resilience they have, the desire to keep going when everything is against you. We are building more than a club, we are building a dynasty of strong, powerful, resilient people who will fight, forever.   I would swap being kicked out of the play offs for cheating every single day over say, a short term dopamine hit like Aston Villa had last night. Sure they celebrated and enjoyed their moment in the sun, but are they winners of the infinite game? Good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men, strong men create good times. We are the real winners here.

[Miltonaggro]

Just now, Turkish said:

Not the long game, the INFINITE game. No one wins the sport of football. Okay you might win the match, a cup or a title, have a brief period of success which is followed by periods of failure. These actually deceive fans into thinking their club is achieving things. You learn far more when you fail than when you win. You learn about the people around you, the resilience they have, the desire to keep going when everything is against you. We are building more than a club, we are building a dynasty of strong, powerful, resilient people who will fight, forever.   I would swap being kicked out of the play offs for cheating every single day over say, a short term dopamine hit like Aston Villa had last night. Sure they celebrated and enjoyed their moment in the sun, but are they winners of the infinite game? Good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men, strong men create good times. We are the real winners here.

Beautiful Turkish, poetic. I actually felt sorry for Aston Villa last night, knowing that their model is so deeply flawed.

[AlexLaw76]

It is more an soldiers of fortune with SR

 

This morning, still wanted by the football authorities, the Saints survive as players of fortune. If you have a playoff problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them… maybe you can support Southampton FC.

[Osvaldorama]

Leaked footage from the EFL hearing: 

[Whitey Grandad]

11 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Not the long game, the INFINITE game. No one wins the sport of football. Okay you might win the match, a cup or a title, have a brief period of success which is followed by periods of failure. These actually deceive fans into thinking their club is achieving things. You learn far more when you fail than when you win. You learn about the people around you, the resilience they have, the desire to keep going when everything is against you. We are building more than a club, we are building a dynasty of strong, powerful, resilient people who will fight, forever.   I would swap being kicked out of the play offs for cheating every single day over say, a short term dopamine hit like Aston Villa had last night. Sure they celebrated and enjoyed their moment in the sun, but are they winners of the infinite game? Good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men, strong men create good times. We are the real winners here.

Hell yeah!

Dopamine is for Dopes.

[Midfield_General]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Not the long game, the INFINITE game. No one wins the sport of football. Okay you might win the match, a cup or a title, have a brief period of success which is followed by periods of failure. These actually deceive fans into thinking their club is achieving things. You learn far more when you fail than when you win. You learn about the people around you, the resilience they have, the desire to keep going when everything is against you. We are building more than a club, we are building a dynasty of strong, powerful, resilient people who will fight, forever.   I would swap being kicked out of the play offs for cheating every single day over say, a short term dopamine hit like Aston Villa had last night. Sure they celebrated and enjoyed their moment in the sun, but are they winners of the infinite game? Good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men, strong men create good times. We are the real winners here.

Exactly. It's like William Blake said in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, his philosophical satire of 1790:

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, 'til he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

As you'll remember, Blake uses prose, poetry and vivid illustrations to challenge traditional morality, arguing that opposing forces — such as reason and energy, or good and evil — are both essential for human progress. 

Which I'm pretty sure is what Mark Dennis was alluding to in that video. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Miltonaggro]

4 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Exactly. It's like William Blake said in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, his philosophical satire of 1790:

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, 'til he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

As you'll remember, Blake uses prose, poetry and vivid illustrations to challenge traditional morality, arguing that opposing forces — such as reason and energy, or good and evil — are both essential for human progress. 

Which I'm pretty sure is what Mark Dennis was alluding to in that video. 

Mark Dennis is more of an Andrew Marvell man.  Also, like Blake and Marvell, a right handful after six pints.

[benjii]

6 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Exactly. It's like William Blake said in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, his philosophical satire of 1790:

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, 'til he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

As you'll remember, Blake uses prose, poetry and vivid illustrations to challenge traditional morality, arguing that opposing forces — such as reason and energy, or good and evil — are both essential for human progress. 

Which I'm pretty sure is what Mark Dennis was alluding to in that video. 

Thanks Chat GPT.

[Midfield_General]

1 minute ago, Miltonaggro said:

Mark Dennis is more of an Andrew Marvell man.  Also, like Blake and Marvell, a right handful after six pints.

Marvell's good too. 

Captain America - brilliant 

[Miltonaggro]

Just now, Midfield_General said:

Marvell's good too. 

Captain America - brilliant 

Base, yet again...

[skintsaint]

Someone get on the blower to Klopp and get RB to take over Saints. Can't get much worse.