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By my understanding the project's very much driven by Dragan. The club's spent an awful lot of money developing plans - way more detailed & specific than anything shown to date - for land it doesn't own yet. Unfortunately the relevant landowner(s) know the future value, so are asking silly money. I don't know whether the club will just cough up or if there's an ace up the sleeve. Whatever happens, full council & transport provider buy-in feels critical. Beyond a couple of buses (passing near but not through), St Mary's has scant links - and the surrounding roads are frequently heaving as it is. Pie in the sky perhaps, but I hope there's an exploration into dusting off the old service rail line and popping a platform by the stadium.

Tonda is talented if flawed. Spors has the provenance and has earned some goodwill. What is Parsons? I don't expect to see a CEO getting his hands dirty, but equally see very little evidence in his ability to get the best out of (or inspire) others.

Parsons leaning on his (almost certainly invited) ex-Saints mates in his closing speech was fucking cringe. And sadly sums the man up.

Whoever just asked that question to Parsons: I want to buy you a pint. 😆

Throwing our weight behind Tonda was a strong message, but there was an inherent risk to putting it all on red. There's been an arrogance from day dot that we'd escape with a slap on the wrist. I've seen little to no evidence our leadership has learned from it. Did they expect the FA investigation to pass without incident? Or was their master plan really to hope the ball wouldn't land on black?

The black box no longer exists.

Aha, I knew you must have links in the office. I'm no longer there, but over the past few months noticed a few ITK snippets cropping up on here as they were breaking internally.

Boro now so focused on litigation that they didn't feel the need to bother with, say, a shot on target to win the match. ⚖️

Eurgh. Supposed to be at Beer Merchants now, sipping ill-advised pre-match imperial stouts at their Omnipollo takeover. Thankfully managed to get a few online, so today's not entirely fueled by FOMO. Enjoy the sunshine and don't get sucked into doom scrolling, folks. ✌️

It's interesting how much people are gunning for Hull, who themselves have been under a transfer embargo across the entire season. What a grim state football is in.

I don't know how I'm ever meant to sleep again. Buzzzzzzzz.

Can't start a fire without a spark.

Close - it was coins. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/3998485.rupert-lowe-barracked-at-southampton-fcs-plc-agm/ There was a full transcript of that AGM online but I can't find it now.

Cyle's goals per 90 mins is 0.84 in the league, which is best in the Championship for those that have played 800+ mins. Stewart second on the same criteria at 0.73. Simms was 0.72 and Vipotnik 0.7. Not to claim Larin's stats would've definitely extended across a full season. But what an impact.

1st in the division for big chances created (21), and 3rd for assists.