Patrick Bateman

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3378054g1no This made me chuckle, imagine the future King on your football forum ...

Musk is not my cup of tea, but to be fair it's easy to show a graph of a decline if you zoom in. The Metro has conveniently only shown 2025, but if you look at the share price over 1, 2, 3, 5 years, you'll notice the share price, whilst now being the lowest in 2025, is still higher than most of 2024 and a lot of 2023. It's all market manipulation anyway.

Rhino, Flynny and Fraze?

Agreed. I watched Monday Night Football just to see what he had to say. It's interesting and he can definitely pitch a story really well and break down analysis nicely - maybe his role would be great as an assistant to someone rather than being the guy at the top of the day to day tactics / decision making? Anyway, just to say the end summed up why he and we needed to move on; what would he change or tweak, he was asked by an unsure Carragher, who you could tell was under pressure after trashing Martin so much. Martin's answer; "be more aggressive". Sigh. Oh well, we plod on.

Agreed. Never a serious party, especially given the Musk backing then not backing and then his PDA that Rupert Lowe was the best Reform MP ... always going to go one way.

Thanks Duncan, I enjoyed reading that weirdly, I take some comfort from the fact that they do actually seem to care, there is some investment and there do appear to be the right changes happening. Too many mistakes; senior management hiring, first team management hiring, ridiculous player transfers - but hopefully that can be started to put right from NOW (not next season, NOW) with the right senior management getting the right manager and sorting out the transfers. But the key is now, we need to hit the ground running when the players come back from their summer break. Next season I want to return to St Marys seeing a committed team, playing good football, up in the top 6 - perfect. The nail on the head you hit was communication, it has been poor and that is something that can be improved today. I don't mean posting marketing guff on LinkedIn (which seems to happen a lot), I mean proper communication with the actual fan base. Statements of intent, a high level strategy and how they'll action it. We march on?? (I hope)

Absolutely this. Starmer went up a lot in my estimation yesterday, fair play to him. As for the MP who resigned today, she's a wally - idealistic wally totally detached from how the political game is being played right now.

Spot on. Trump and Vance are bullies, sat there like a pair of weedy bullies picking on one guy. They've lost most of the world's support over this, fk them.

Paul Merson said last night "the groundsman needs to put extra lights in the scoreboard" ...

Did anyone watch Sky Sports afterwards? Paul Merson was the most scathing I've ever heard a pundit about how utterly terrible the Saints team are as footballers. He was saying something like "I've seen Saints results and heard about the performances, but I hadn't seen it first hand this season but god they are terrible, really terrible, probably the worst Premier League team I have ever watched" and this went on for quite some rant. Some might not like Merson, but regardless, that is an ex-pro sat there destroying fellow pros, a damning indication of just how bad this team is, how bad the recruitment has been, how bad the management are, how half-arsed the players are and generally just how shoddily run this club has been. The owners were lucky to see promotion and get the extra income, but manager after manager has been utter trash and player hire after player hire has been beyond trash and frankly it's like they're letting a 9 year old pick players from Football Manager. Is it any wonder Jesse Marsch turned the job down after meeting them? (I'm sure he wouldn't have kept Saints up, but would've been better the following season). No wonder Moyes, Potter and co were nowhere near the job either. Absolute shit fest all round. I was calm last night as it was inevitable, but the more I read, the more I watch from people saying how bad it was, the more angry I get. I was going to get my son and I season tickets in the Championship next season, but I think that unless drastic changes are made NOW, we won't bother. The club are down. Strip out the management right now, top to bottom, recruit well now, well ahead of the summer break to allow a fast start to a championship season with players that give a fk with a competent management team.

I actually have no real emotion ... I don't like anyone who is part of our football club. Not one member of staff to do with the men's team and not one member of senior management. Please can you all just fk off.

I guess this is "shop window" time for him. However looking like a lumbering oaf won't get him any bids from Premier League teams and if he was English born and bred, I'm pretty sure he'd be at Luton or Millwall or something. Sorry, I didn't see anything to think he's going to be anything special.

Absolutely 100%, this! Utterly useless

I think the point is that we have a load of melts in the team who would crumble in a derby at Fratton park. I hope I'm wrong though. I'd love to have had Alcaraz here for this one, at least he had fight in him.

I've said before, but with this team, I would not be sad if any player left the club - no player makes me feel like we should go all out to keep him. So as sad as it is, because I thought he was going to be good, if Downes is being a stroppy cock, then he can leave even sooner. If he ends up staying, he better be bloody good next season - a lot of goodwill to make up.