ErwinK1961

Fantastic work

Still ignoring the question then?

Cyborgs can’t compute irony, so appreciate it must be tough for you. Incidentally, I notice you still haven’t responded to my questions on the running of the club, any thoughts / opinions on that?

The irony of this is fantastic.

Massively overstating the ability of saints players on a make believe computer game isn’t something I’d be shouting about. Going back to the original point, id be interested to know your opinion on; - do you think someone, who has spent pretty much all their career in rugby performance, is suitable to be heading up football operations at a premier league football club? - would you expect a head of football operations to be heavily involved in football decisions? E.g. picking and appointing a new manager? - do you believe the current DOF has the credentials to successfully pick a manager? - do you think the management at the top level of the club right now is acceptable? - what do you think about the SR ownership right now and do you think the club would benefit from having someone highly experienced in running a football club involved in day to day affairs at SFC?

“oohh look at me, I give my opinion to a computer game.”

So you have no opinions (as per). Another fantastic thought provoking contribution to the forum.

Well as DOF, you’d hope he is responsible for most if not all footballing decisions. If he’s not, then what’s the point of his existence and we should be bringing someone in to properly replace Wilcox. If he is, then what qualifications has he got to be heading up football operations at a premier league football club in the first place? Head of performance at the academy at Man City, 6 years ago, hardly seems an adequate base.

6/1 - it means either someone has put a bet on, or bookies amending odds to try and get gullible punters to waste their money on something that is never going to happen.

He was also absolutely shite against Spurs.

Can see him at Brighton.

Odds aren’t worth looking at on new managers until they get heavy odds on.

Röhl feels like it would be a good fit. No logic behind it, just a feeling in my plums. No chance we’re paying that compensation though, so suspect it will be Hjulmand.

He also hardly got a run in his favoured position. It’s hard to come in and out of the team, playing in various positions (CB, RB, CM). I think there’s a very good player in there and his loan will have done him the world of good.

Not sure how many you’ve had, but it’s 11 we’ve got to beat.

He rejoined on 5th December - when they had 5 points from 14 games… after a 5-0 defeat to Burnley… hang on a minute.

It only took £4m to get the pound for pound best manager in Europe here, so £10m does seem far fetched.

Still mental to me that we somehow lost 9-0 twice with a far superior manager and a better squad.

Not this again… is he time sharing with Martin O’Neill?

£70m?! Not a chance in hell. He’ll go for probably half that.

Heard he’s a Farley good coach, but can crumble under pressure.

A return to the super successful Adam Armstrong centre midfield tactic. We’ve got this in the bag.

After the Lazio friendly, I mused that BBD would be a better signing than Delap..

The (valid) point he’s making is we have been limited on what we can spend on our PSR allowance. We had a net spend of c £63m. £35m was spent on keeping two players from the previous year, essentially to stand still. I’m sure the club would have tried to spend a lot more than that if they could. £63m investment into the team (in my opinion) was never going to be enough to keep us up. Ipswich by comparison have a net spend of £104m. They’re probably still going to go down. Forest spent £160m to scrape staying up (and got points deduction in the process). Whether spending more under SR leadership would have made a difference, probably not based on their track record of transfers. But we have been limited on what we can spend, that’s a fact.

Sums up my feelings exactly.