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Comment | Will Still Appears To Have Decided Loanee Has No Future At St Mary's
at 10:49:32
It does seem strange that SR have employed the same tactic every season since they arrived by spending a large sum of money on several mediocre players who generally do not improve the team and end up sitting in the reserves leeching money of the club and leaving us with a bloated team of junk.
It adds fuel to the fire that they keep employing inexperienced and at best average managers like the several shots in the dark they've appointed since they arrived at the club.
It would be illuminating to appoint an independent auditor to assess the finances of SR to investigate to see if something odd is going on.
Like DorsetIan and others I'm also bored with the way SR run the club. I know there is an argument that we could end up with a genuine bunch of pirates like SISU, the lot who did their best to kill Coventry, but with the infrastructure at this club we could also achieve the success that Boscombe and Brighton have enjoyed over the past 5 years or so with a strategically savvy owner at helm.
Something odd is going on at Saints as the same things under SR keep happening. |
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Comment | Rangers Sack Ex Southampton Boss Russell Martin
at 10:02:25
Reading the comments over the past few months by the Scottish press felt like deja-vu from a Saints PoV. Surprised he messed up this quickly and be interesting to see if he gets anther job. Although with 2 big pay offs he can probably take some more time off to rethink his strategy.
Very very odd attitude to football management. |
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Comment | Southampton Sign Goalkeeper
at 09:59:27
Hi Bowlercow, I understand your comment and it's much healthier outlook than doom and gloom but I think the issue isn't one signing its the wider actions of sports republic. I've read this morning that the striker who came over Wellington earlier this year has been sold to SR's Turkish club. If this is true it is another strange transaction.
SR are often a hive of activity in terms of young players that arrive at Saints to then be loaned out straight away. Lots of financial transactions and paperwork without a positive impact on the first team. It begs the question of what is happening.
Running a successful football club requires both long and mid term planning but also it needs to address the current deficiencies in the first team, of which Saints have at least 2 (stopping and scoring goals) The manager has said he does not have the players to set up the team as he wishes.
Not many days left to address the first team issues and as you say we should wait and see but based on the last 3 years of SR's first team football decisions what is the likelihood of bringing a commanding CB and a proven striker? If I was a betting man I'd say 100-1. |
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Comment | Farewell To Jan Bednarek
at 13:59:35
Glad to get Jany B (as the welsh clown called him) off the books. Should never have come back into the team after going to Villa reserves. Clown |
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Comment | Southampton At Espanyol The Verdict
at 13:55:46
I've been trying to think who Will Still reminds me of and the penny has just dropped. He's got a confusingly long standing soap actor look about him - like Ian Beale. |
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Comment | Southampton Keeper Makes Move To North West
at 14:23:55
Can't we loan Bazuka joke to poopey (or any other championship team) that way there's one less team to worry about in terms of any potential relegation battle next season :) |
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Comment | The Ugly Inside Verdict On Southampton’s 2025/26 Shirt
at 09:12:10
I like the new shirt but I've got a decent quality Score Draw heavy cotton version so a horrible polyester the sponsor on the front (hello sailor) for £65 is a clear no go for me.
Regardless of the shirt design it's what's inside them that really counts.......the clock is ticking :)
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Comment | Southampton Target Ex Liverpool Midfielder
at 12:24:48
Sports Republic have got to convince us they are capable of making the correct managerial appointment and buy sufficient players who can play today rather than those which 'might' make them money in several years time. If they pursue the process they have done over the past few years we'll stagnate in the championship for a few years until the parachute money runs out. Best not speculate beyond that.
We've been sleepwalking into tragi-comedy since they took over. However, giving them the benefit of the doubt for now, they have at least put someone in charge of football matters now (how the hell did they leave this gap unfilled for most of last season) but it still feels like everything they do is still a speculative risk rather than a strategy led process.
I do not trust them to get things right due to the pigs ear they've made of recruitment so far and my expectation is low but that is part and parcel of being a Saints fan. When we succeed its a genuinely ecstatic feeling.
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Comment | Rangers Supporters Are Not Enthused By The Appointment Of Russell Martin
at 11:59:41
From memory the turning point was when Bazuna got injured and RM seemed to realise that McCarthy could not play the gratuitous passing game (to be honest neither could the others). It was weird then that he resorted to suicide football from day 1 in the prem.
To give him his due though he did bond a disparate and despondent team and got them promoted in his first season. |
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Comment | Southampton Happy To Let Aaron Ramsdale Leave St Mary's
at 09:30:08
Unfortunately saints are negotiating from a position weakness. Being realistic the talent will leave and the deadwood will stay. If West Ham really want Ramsdale and offer even half the asking price Saints will let him go as they can't afford to pay his wages and bring in the handful of improvements they need to.
The best outcome for Saints is to loan out the mediocrity (maybe to Rangers) and hope that Sports Republic don't make a pigs ear of recruitment again. It'll be an interesting season and I hope they support the new manager by providing him with the tools he needs rather than the ones they can profit from down the line - a system which hasn't exactly worked out well so far.
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Comment | Turkish Club Planning Raid On Southampton Front And Back
at 11:56:14
Bad news about 'Janny B' I was hoping to sign him for the Sunday morning veterans team I play for, although a bit worried it's above his level nowadays.
It's a shame there isn't a way of getting rid of the dead wood in the club via a VES scheme as most companies in the public and private sector can do for failing employees. Give our players 10% of their annual earnings based on how many seasons they have been with us or have left and then get rid of them. |
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Comment | Southampton V Bournemouth The Verdict
at 11:01:45
Sport Republics raison d'être is owning lower European leagues teams and using them to bring through young talent to sell off and make themselves profit. That is their idea of success. Being competitive isn't an objective but is a nice by-product before the calf is fatted up and sold off.
This club has a lot of potential as we have seen in the not too distant past. We just need ambitious owners whose measure of success is on the pitch not solely on making money from selling players. |
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Comment | Southampton V Liverpool The Carabao Cup Verdict
at 14:10:23
Agree with the above - impressive second half lost first half. It's so refreshing watching the team break quickly from our half rather than pass back and forth for 70 minutes. It may have been half of the Liverpool first team but they pressed at every opportunity in the first half under RM we would have been 5 down by HT.
So happy to have got rid of RM - should have done it after the Norwich game last season at St Mary's :)
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