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Comment | Can This Be The Dawning Of A New Era At Southampton FC
at 08:30:12
Of course 'new dawn' talk is premature but I think Nick is basically being optimistic because the alternative is rather depressing. It is a grim old world out there at the moment and I would like my football team to at least cheer me up occasionally!
There is an opportunity to build for an enjoyable season next year. I would say the main thing is to start with a set of players the new manager is happy to pick and who fit into his style. I don't know how good Charlie Taylor is but the 'why was he bought?' question is a good summing up of where SR have got us to... |
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Comment | Southampton FC Issue Ivan Juric Statement
at 14:55:02
I feel no hostility towards Juric. Underwest's 'hiding to nothing' sums it up well. The root cause of the dismal nature of this season lies in SR's player recruitment. RM's tactics didn't help of course and Juric just seemed bewildered. Nick questions the timing - yes, this might as well have happened several games ago. Yet again SR were too slow to act. Fingers crossed they will get it right now. |
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Comment | Southampton V Crystal Palace The Preview
at 10:23:30
Could have done this yesterday (instead of the theme park thing) and predicted a win!!
Even with a 'cup hangover' Palace will stroll to a victory tonight.
Why did we sign Charlie Taylor?? |
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Comment | Southampton To Play £100 Million Hardball With Manchester City & Spurs
at 21:54:18
Express website eh? Aren't they the ones always screaming about ten inches of snow and incredible heatwaves that never materialise. Likewise 100m for Dibling. The rich clubs aren't that stupid. We should bite off the hand that offers 50m though. He is a prospect for the future, possibly, but cashing in on him is a no-brainer in my view:
I reckon he would struggle with what passes for 'tackles' in the second division next year and the lack of protection from refs who are even worse than the first division ones. The big problem is that the 50m would be going to a bunch of people who cannot be trusted to spend it wisely! |
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Comment | Sugawara Wanted By Italian Giants
at 09:35:16
I'm with DellBoyWally on this one. Not sure I would trust him with a garden though. Everything would be planted in the wrong place. At the very least the pretence he will be staying next season needs to be put to bed asap. Players leaving because they hate a manager who is not staying anyway would seem daft even by SR standards. You can bet none of those going would be on our 'love to be rid of' lists - and let's face it those are pretty long...
We need a solid base of players like Sugawara for next season. Then all will depend on how SR spend the transfer money. To be fair they just about did enough last time but there will be less cash coming in. Last time we had Livramento, JWP and Lavia. No one of that saleable value this time around - unless Pep has his eye on JS??? |
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Comment | Sport Republic Can Be A Big Success For Southampton Says Spors
at 11:02:43
We can but hope. A vital summer ahead. The fire sale needs to be managed to maximise income and then we need to recruit well. That means a solid, sensible manager and a high majority of player recruits bought for the purpose of challenging for promotion. We have no choice but to hope for the best. SR's record so far is not encouraging.
" I think people maybe don’t really see the benefits of it yet." he says. And the Pope's a Catholic mate. We need to see those 'benefits' NOW, not in some unspecified rosy future. NOW. |
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Comment | The Time For Managerial Change At Southampton Is Now
at 15:01:42
Difficult to argue with Nick on this one. What is the point of Juric? He came in far too late to have any chance of keeping us up and now seems to be cynically trying to demonstrate to potential employers that it is the players ' fault and not his. Of course, he has a little bit of a point but even so he is clearly needs to go NOW. I wonder if he is angling for the sack so he can spend the next few weeks on paid leave - give him his wish I say.
The whole thing stops at the door of SR. They are hopeless and I would like to see the club up for sale. I don't accept the idea that we will be relegation candidates next year but I don't trust SR to do the right thing to give us a realistic chance of promotion... |
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Comment | Southampton V Wolverhampton Wanderers The Verdict
at 10:22:10
I'm sure Nick is right. Juric seems to be messing around and the players want the season to end just as much as we do. Ultimate responsibility for managerial appointments and player recruitment/transfer market lies with SR. RM told everyone what he intended to do this season and competent/responsible ownership would have said to him during the summer: adapt or you will be replaced. Instead they let him p1ss away the small chance we did have. As for the Juric appointment, who knows? Given the whole season, or the vast majority he might have done something but the squad was always going to be too weak and uneven. Now he is just marking time, and, I think, cynically showing his potential future employers that it is the players who are no good, not him.
I agree that Juric needs to go now but we know SR will wait too long, they always do - and who trusts them to make the correct appointment? I don't. We need a manager who maximise our chances next season but that person needs to be able to make the best possible fist of keeping us up if we were (small chance I fear) to get promoted.
I would like to see the club put up for sale - we need, at least, competent ownership. NOW.
As for the match - we can all just repeat until late May. |
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Comment | Southampton V Wolverhampton Wanderers The Preview
at 16:07:22
This or away at Leicester are certainly our two best chances to reach the wondrous pinnacle of 12 whole points. If we do win the wild celebrations need to ignore the fact that it is a total can be reached in the first four games of the season!
Perhaps we are due a home result against Wolves, maybe an atrocious VAR decision in our favour would help. Breath is not being held in the San Marco household though... |
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Comment | Former Saints Striker Could Be Coming Home !
at 14:24:44
Recent history with Theo and Adam suggests that ageing heroes are best left elsewhere. For this to have any chance of happening Ings has to accept he is finished in the top division. I suspect there will be some lower half or newly promoted Prem teams who might be happy to meet his wage requirements. |
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Comment | Southampton V Liverpool The Verdict
at 10:39:30
The revolutionary idea of 4-4-2 with players playing in their right places worked quite well. Who would have thought it!!
The VAR worked correctly to the extent that neither was a clear and obvious error. As long as if the ref had made the opposite decision on both, they would also have NOT been overturned then that is how it needs to be. We know from earlier in the season though that 'clear and obvious' is not consistently interpreted. Unless mistakes are blatant I think VAR should only get involved if the ref has not seen something. Also there should be a rule change so that a footballer collapsing is seen as a medical matter unless the propulsive force applied to him was adequate to send an average person down. i.e. if Nick was in the bar and was nudged like Nunez was he would have no choice but to crumble like a sack of the proverbial.
Also on the red card - I was, in the end, secretly pleased that in the second half we lost against 11. I'd put my mortgage on the fact we would have lost anyway and this way was less disappointing - and we had the first pen to moan about!!
PS note to future managers - if we play Liverpool while Sugarwara is still here DONT play him.
PPS Anyone else remember all those incessantly whining scousers after the game at our place. All decisions seem to have been just fine this time... |
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Comment | Southampton Have Ivan Juric Replacement Lined Up
at 15:07:20
Rohl is not the worst idea. Good ideas are not SR's forte though...
I agree with the Juric out now view Nick. What is the point of him? If he is alienating those vital players for next season then it seems obvious that NOW is best. There is not a manager on this or any other planet who could keep us up now - so keeping a negative force is pointless. |
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Comment | Crystal Palace Linked With Southampton Defender
at 09:24:19
I know these are only rumours but it always interesting to see the level of clubs interested in various players. Like Downes, Harwood-Bellis has not really moved forward this season. Not all his fault of course (and some would say not his fault at all) but a fact nonetheless. I doubt we will see Liverpool and Arsenal in the rumours in coming weeks... |
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Comment | Southampton V Brighton The Verdict
at 11:14:51
We are now well into the longest relegation post-mortem in history and like A1079 I can't think of anything more to say about the shambles on the pitch. Hats off to Nick - he has twelve more verdicts to write, not an enviable job.
For what it's worth I am not as hard on the players as some. In my youth I played in some sh1t teams and it is tough. I think Juric is playing some sort of stupid game, perhaps hoping to be sacked. He inherited a near impossible situation and he appears to be doing everything he can to prove that it was impossible. (The fact that it almost certainly was does not excuse him.)
We are going down in a far worse situation than last time. We had three big money sales in the bank last time, our sellable assets this time will, combined, not fetch what we got for JWP. If SR are capable of learning (big IF) then they need to get a manager in now for the promotion effort. Not some RM type appointment who might get us up but would be hopeless if we got up. It is SR's fault that we played like we did at the start of the season. RM just did what he said he was going to do and his employers let him.
Message to the tiny minority of 'RM would have kept us up' blowhards: wake up and make yourself some strong coffee... |
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