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Absolutely. Even if they don't get picked, and probably won't, their enthusiasm will lift the mood of training sessions.

Chinese buying official merchandise, and not a knock off, you're funny

Absolutely irrelevant in such a closed and easy to influence environment (an impression could just be a pointless pop up that someone closes out of annoyance). For comparison the most watched video on Southampton FC's official YouTube channel has 414,262 views and 1,600 likes and is three years old, a much more accurate representation (for comparison Man U's equivalent YouTube video has 19 million views and is less than a year old).

Not by me you won't as you're right. I'll get shouted down for this but Stephens and Yoshi are still the best CB pairing we have and should start every game unless they're injured, tired or we've GENUINELY bought a better player.

Even the rock solid Smooth Streams was iffy for the first half, and they used to provide the streams for most other resellers of sports.

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Look at a player like Bruno Andrade, currently at Lincoln City, to see how we were mugged when we bought that French show pony.

Nah, put an eye patch on Ralph and he's the Governor / Davis Morrissey.

Welcome Ralph (bugger, I was going to post a cheeky photo of David Morrissey, but this lame ass forum software won't support it in a IMG tag!)

All these replies and not a single person's posted a pic of it

30% Jisheng Gao and 70% Katerina Liebherr. Don't hate the players, hate those who incorrectly recruited them / were allowed too much freedom with no accountability.

Goa?.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa

He makes Gao look like the rank amateur he is. I wouldn't say to no to the club being owned by someone with a net worth of around 3 billion USD. Gao has nothing as his lack of investment has shown as has Krueger's interview.

Trump is intelligent, as far as business is concerned. Gao should have done what Trump does... get your own person in on the ground asap, that knows their field of expertise damned well, and that will give you the cold hard facts that you can then act on ... but Gao just drifted for his first year of majority ownership and trusted those already in place who'd spin any old line to keep their wages coming in. I'm very glad that Reed has gone, however all the past few days (and the news on this thread) have shown me is that Gao has very little innate business acumen and is 100% clueless about football. I'd place money on things getting far worse before they get better, and as LeG has said above I could see Gao selling his 80% once the loans are clear and he can walk away with a lot of cash in his pocket.

Thanks for the comment eric, and regarding the above... https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/16230126.ralph-krueger-discusses-gao-jishengs-plans-at-southampton/ "My role is to represent ownership and be the voice of ownership and my responsibility is to then carry their wishes and their ambitions into the club." ... this comes across as contradictory. Has Krueger's role been altered since the Daily Echo article? I'm just trying to identify the most expedient path to express frustration in the running of the club, and without an active and participatory owner Krueger seems to be it?

It's been interesting watching the meltdown since yesterday afternoon, the majority seem to be singling out Hughes, however he's just doing his job / what he's being told to do (and is earning good money no matter what happens, no motivation to succeed other his reputation). I'm not seeing anywhere near enough anger directed at Gao and his mouthpiece Krueger. Leicester's owner was pretty unique in being so hands on, they were incredibly lucky to have him, and in my mind this just highlights what a truly pathetic new 80% owner we have in Goa. For those who are somewhat ITK, like Guan 2.0, I'd love to know what Gao and Krueger are genuinely doing to be leaders and what example they're setting to all of those below them?

https://old.reddit.com/r/IPTV/ I'm with Smooth Streams as I was able to quickly sign up when they had a small amount of open subs.

I think there's a good chance he is, and I would have liked him to have been the starting keeper for Chelsea to see how he did after the cup game (as we all knew we'd never beat them).

I'm incredibly calm about this and if it comes to it more than happy for Gunn to get a run as our no.1 keeper, he's looked top drawer in both the cup games.

1: Not directly his fault, however he's happy to leave things as they are so complicit in it all and its continuation (the real blame lies with KL, the rot set in three or so years ago, she lost interest and just wanted to cash out). 2: Come on, that's just the VVD money, he personally made no new money available.

That's starting to be my line of thought as well, something in his contract is influencing this?

Which leads onto the question "is it really his investment?". How much of his own personal wealth did he use for the purchase? (I can't remember). All I recall is that substantial loans were taken to support the purchase, which I'm assuming he's not personally liable for, so all he risks is his reputation and not his own personal assets and wealth if the club went into administration. Under those circumstances if he has other business ventures that are, or could be, more profitable he'll focus his attention on those (or those where the Chinese government would hold him responsible for failure).

That's the first thing that anyone genuinely interested in politics needs to do nowadays when reading an article or comment piece that's purely online. Read about the organisation first that's publishing it, check out Companies House, looks for other articles about them on Google etc. Usually you find out that the organsiation is sponsored by various trusts and funds, and you then have to bounce to other searches to find out about them, and finally you find out that they have an overt political agenda. Almost zero online only articles are truly independant or unbiased.

If Gunn does well who'd rather he stays on than going back to McCarthy?

That looks like it's just audio only, is Merrington going global ?

It's not listed on Smooth Streams schedule so probably no, also don't forget that there are loads of Championship games tonight.