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How do we know he can still have day to day involvement. Though?

Covert communication devices should be avoided though.

Would end up with this guy just to sum the last 5 months up...

Won't happen but would be f'kin funny if it did!

He was always an average player, but it’s easier to look incredible when most of your teammates are awful. Tyler Dibling was exactly the same in that season. Some flair but not much more.

His agent might disagree with that though.

I agreed with much of his interview until he backed Ben Brown. Another loser I want to see go, but if there isn’t a better wicketkeeper option then I suppose we’re stuck with him. Not as captain though, ever. If Lehmann doesn’t want to do it, then let one of the better kids grow into the role, or Scott Currie has a good cricket brain, but always concerned at all-rounders being skipper from a workload perspective https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cmd68p7lpzdvo Weatherley and Albert are good for white ball but not red ball. Prest needs to find a new career and direction outside of cricket. Gubbins century at Leics fools nobody and I think he might be out of contract. Ali Orr - not cut it and rumoured to be going to Middx. Felix Organ out of contract, surely he’s going? Fuller ditto, good player for us but past it. Brad Wheal has a year left and if fit, not a bad D2 option. So him, Abbott, Lehmann, Patel, Hudson-Prentice, Brown, Baker (mostly England now), Mayes, Currie and plenty of new signings. Lost so many top category players with Dawse white ball only, Turner retirement and the OOCs, we should be able to sign a lot of new players and chance for the owners to show their mettle. And FFS, get two genuinely good overseas players. Not second string Saffer crap or middle aged Kiwis who weren’t any good in the first place and not charged with serious offences.

Some laws just need breaking.

In my opinion Tonda should have been sacked as soon as all this mess started, he knewn what he authorised was against the rules and it was not a one off. The club handled the hearing poorly kept him on as manager surley they would have realised that the FA would be getting involed It's as if they condone what he did so it drags on he's let the club down and possibly cost them a massive financial loss a four point deduction for this season let the players and fans down and stained the clubs good standing and it's not over yet.

My plan would be the first time you do anything like that you're restricted to cold food and drinks, no cutlery. Every time you use something as a weapon it's withdrawn, pretty soon you're eating dry bread off a table bolted to the floor, drinking water out of a paper cup - and it's your choice. Then again I am a woke lefty.

Depends entirely upon what sanction is applied to Eckert. If he gets a touch line ban only then we can cope very well with Garner and Lallana in the dugout. If it's a total ban for 3 or 6 months then we might as well release him from his contract and find somebody else. If the FA has decided already on a total ban then it is quite likely the Club will have been advised through the back channels so that it can make alternative arrangements. Nohing I have read or heard suggests the Club are interviewing prospective candidates to succeed Eckert. Wishful thinking but make of that what you will.

Anything for than a two-three month ban messes up a lot of things. We’d have to replace him if we are serious about promotion. But you have to trust there is a legitimate plan in place and not just Ben Garner or Adam Lallana standing in. What a shitshow that would be. With the likes of Matt Le Tissier close to the board you would hope be saying “don’t pull a fast one on the fans”.

You’re forgetting a suspended transfer ban for Chelsea and another Watford managerial appointment. Tut tut 😅

and yet some (former) Saints players also hold football records. Fastest PL goal Shane Long in 7 seconds Fastest PL hat trick Sadio Mane in 2m. 59secs ....or something close. Ron Davies 39 "First Div." goals in 1966-67 used to be a record ...of some sort.

It will be Garner or Lallana for sure.

That could annually employ 5 teachers instead and educate 150 kids per year

Ah well I can tell you Claude Puel's name never left that list and is currently available, having spent the second half of last season back at Nice to prevent relegation. Familiar story... his win percentage wasn't great, but on the other hand reached yet another cup final (Lost to Lens, who seem to have really flourished since Will Still left them to join us).

The obvious SR links aside, I've always felt he'd be a good fit here

Frank is an interesting name actually.

That would be just perfect! Maybe we also could get a 2-for-1 deal to include the black box with all the players we had been tracking for years - just a coincidence they all had connections to Koeman.

Well it wont happen but 'Arry' was at staplewood the other day

Just seen he's also on international duty... Larin it is...

If only we had Les Reeds secret file of managers we’ve been tracking for ages, honest we have, so we knew when this situation occurs exactly who we want to replace and outgoing manager as we’d been watching them for ages. The fact they were all unemployed at the time is a complete coincidence

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I think you are jumping to a conlusion here that takes it a bit too far. It does not have to mean that they have identified someone from outside the organization. I think it is far more likely (based on how smart the club thinks it is) that the contigencie plans they have involves Adam Lallana or Ben Garner.