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When you fill your team with mediocrity that you then have to loan out because you can't sell then this is where you wind up.

He's just waiting for Martin to get the Leicester job.

It's why we've given Manning so much rest since the busy Christmas period so that he'll be fresh to nullify this part of Boro's game and have our most positionally astute defender in the best shape for this key fixture.

Let's face it - do we really want to be reminded that we're playing football again in a day's time? Far better to turn on Sky tomorrow morning and be pleasantly surprised.

That's another argument against the Sport Republic manager recruitment philosophy. You want your manager to be part of the reason that players want to come to the club so you need someone with enough stature that players will want to work with them. And you want players to have the confidence that that manager is still going to be there in a few months.

Proper captain's performance. Representing the team in a positive light to the press. I can see why Spors was so keen to extend his contract.

It's what the fans of other teams feel when they play us

You have to admire Rasmus for running a tight ship. Having completely restructured scouting across the group under his personal supervision he's also managed to completely stem the tide of leaks and rumours.

You don't need coaches when you have analysts. Duh

The data clearly shows that for a 37 second period before Christmas that he was good enough to dominate the final of the Champions League. These kind of bargain certainties don't come around very often.

This is Saints. We'll just send one or both out on loan without an obligation buy and face the same saga in the summer.

BBD will be back in the summer too. A strikeforce of Downs, BBD and Archer is going to take some beating..... Stewart will also have a couple of good games and get a new 4 year contract before promptly getting injured again. Oh what a time to be alive as a Saints fan.

Sadly true. I think we're such a long way past hoping that this time is going to be different that we've resigned ourselves to a saga where the outcome is also the answer to the question: what's the most embarrassing way that Sport Republic can screw this up?