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Forum legend Brian Stock. Used to post on here as Always SFC I believe.

Fair summary. Why people seem to slag him off is beyond me. Easily good enough to be part of a good team next season and would be very low on my list of players to actively try to get rid of.

Just to check do you mean local lad Will Smallbone who was very good last season in a Saints team that got promoted at Wembley - getting the assist for the winning goal in the playoff final, added to a vitally important goal in the semi final as well?

An example of what good recruitment looks like for a club like ours IMO. Lacking opportunity at a big club despite clear ability, available for almost every game, great attitude despite being harshly dropped for Livramento and often asked to play different roles. Over his time here pretty much all our best attacking performances have involved him driving down the right. Imagine he leaves with the best wishes of all and the fact he has experienced successive PL relegations is harsh on him. One of our best RBs, shame he wasnt around as an option when we replaced Clyne as part of a better Saints team.

So he basically understands the shortlist is all the names mentioned in the media. They taught him well at Football Insider!

Milan van Ewijk - Cov RB - has looked decent when I have seen him.

Paul Warhurst is an interesting name to throw into the proverbial ring.

Maybe we missed our window of opportunity with Rohl. You don't often get a second chance if you are where we are in the food chain. Hopefully with Spors in place we can at least be decisive, whatever that ends up being. But please, not Wagner.

Russell Martin is by far the best appointment SR have made so far and achieved the goal he was given in his full season in charge. At the time I said the mid table stuff was stupid because any job has to be viewed in context and he joined Swansea when their parachute payments ran out and showed he could coach them (and us) to play the way he wanted - something the likes of Jones and Juric both totally failed to do here. As much as he made mistakes this season our recruitment massively failed him and we were all on a hiding to nothing really. As you say, Rohl has done a good job in difficult circumstances and would seem a good option that majority of fans would get behind in part due to his history/hype here. In our situation I think fan and player buy-in are the keys. Martin got both spot on last summer and whoever joins will need to do the same. This is the most important aspect as we will have better players than most clubs anyway - it was clear Martin wouldn't be mid table again and neither would Rohl. Personally not a fan of Cooper, find him extremely dull and think we a more personable man to try to motivate the whole club again. I hope Spors is able to get who he wants, whether that costs £5m in compo or is free.

Check complete - no. Please wait for 'Best Saints Marcelo?' thread.

Candidates include, but are not limited to: Wright, Forbes, Draper, Paul, Dennis, Whitlock, Bitcoin, Hughes, Walters, Fry Note: Markus deemed ineligible

Appreciate slightly early but any plans for the 16th anniversary celebration? Perhaps Duncan could reveal his paperwork alongside a kit launch?

Doing very well at Crawley of late. Some nice goals.

A shame that Sport Republic can't clone Rasmus Ankersen. The team he is Chairman of has gone from strength to strength whilst the two overseen by the now departed Kraft have suffered.

LB Stephen Crainey?