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Saint Marky

Saint Marky

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On 09/12/2024 at 20:48, FredVaFC59100 said:

What the difference between SR and Eddy Zdziech ? One is taking us to the cliff faster than the other !

They both put up a merde show! the team was constipated under Zdziech, it now has diarrhea under SR! 

We were in ligue 2 with a tiny glimmer of hope at the beginning of each season and the youth teams were doing quite well under the 'dictator'. Now everything is crap. Look at the way SR manages Southampton FC for Pete's sake! 

Is Pete in trouble again, for fucks sake!

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Saint Marky

Saint Marky

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1 hour ago, Turkish said:

Show some gratitude!! Apart from a footballing philosophy, re-promotion to the English Premier Soccerball league, a new pub inside the ground, an elite lounge themed on a tree somewhere, a fanzone, selling Lavia for £55m, posh seats in the Itchen what have SR done for us? 

 

 

Not got 30 laughing emojis on a single post, that’s for sure.

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Turkish

Turkish

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27 minutes ago, Saint Marky said:

Not got 30 laughing emojis on a single post, that’s for sure.

not many have pal. When someone did it turned out to be a fraud anyway. 18 years undefeated. 

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franniesTache

franniesTache

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16 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Wait are you trying to make this thread about you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If we all said you are right and we are wrong will that make us play better football 😔

It's not "all about me" it's pointing out that some of us warned about SR very early on and that blind faith to the owners leads you down the same route the skates went with their various owners.

We as a fanbase should be far more critical of those in charge, but many want to just drink the Kool Aid and believe all is fine.

You still see it with the Cortese love, we've seen it with SR, we saw it with Les Reed too. We get taken for suckers way, way too often when we should be demanding they do better.

Ironically of all the people who people do go after, the one that gets the most shit is Kat, who actually cares more and has done more for the club, than any of the others combined.

Oh and I'm also in a minority in that i don't think Gao was a particularly bad owner, he kept us on an even keel and left the operation of the football side to football people, he'd have invested more too but that was out of his hands.

FredVaFC59100

FredVaFC59100

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4 hours ago, ChristopheVAFC said:

Why constantly compare yourself to others? Every situation is different and every heritage is different too!

I'm not sure that Dunkerque and Boulogne had the disastrous social and financial situation that Valenciennes had before the takeover by Sport Républic! 

As far as maintaining professional status is concerned, the rules have recently changed! Each club goes before a committee every two years with a dossier to defend and criteria to meet, knowing that with the move from National 1 to Ligue 3 decided by the FFF and the LFP, this will no longer be the case!

Valenciennes' situation at the time of the takeover was more than catastrophic, on the verge of bankruptcy and relegation to National 3 or worse.

Patience will be the best asset if the project is to take shape, and personally I have no doubts about that. Rome wasn't built in 1 day, was it?

Being a supporter means being there through the good times and the bad!

Hello ? Rasmus ? is that you ? The barn just called, it is running out of bullshit.

What about B Chorley last April asserting that we will be back in Ligue 2 next season or that we own the best DC in the world (Sanda),  Manager being sacked ~3 WEEKS AGO, and still no replacement. and I could go on and on...

You call out the lies of the previous owner but never keep SR to the same standard. Yes you must definitely be Rasmus or his twin brother.

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Bakovnetski

Bakovnetski

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4 minutes ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

Hello ? Rasmus ? is that you ? The barn just called, it is running out of bullshit.

What about B Chorley last April asserting that we will be back in Ligue 2 next season or that we own the best DC in the world (Sanda),  Manager being sacked ~3 WEEKS AGO, and still no replacement. and I could go on and on...

You call out the lies of the previous owner but never keep SR to the same standard. Yes you must definitely be Rasmus or his twin brother.

 

 

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ChristopheVAFC

ChristopheVAFC

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3 hours ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

Hello ? Rasmus ? is that you ? The barn just called, it is running out of bullshit.

What about B Chorley last April asserting that we will be back in Ligue 2 next season or that we own the best DC in the world (Sanda),  Manager being sacked ~3 WEEKS AGO, and still no replacement. and I could go on and on...

You call out the lies of the previous owner but never keep SR to the same standard. Yes you must definitely be Rasmus or his twin brother.

I'm not Rasmus, Ben or Dragan!

What's stupid is dumping SR when they've ‘only’ been at the helm for 2 years!

Who doesn't make communication errors? At any club for that matter! 

Like most of my compatriots at Valenciennes, I'm sad about the club's descent into N1 and the fact that ‘for the moment’ the project isn't working out that well, but is that a reason to shoot the owner when he's only been there a short time? Unlike Zdziech, who has had 10 years to prove his worth... That he's absolutely useless!

I'm sorry for the friends of Southampton who read our exchange because I know that their situation is complicated at the moment and I'm here to give them my full support.

I'm going to stop here with you because I can see that we're not going to agree about our current owner.

When you understand that a project needs time to get off the ground, we'll be moving in the right direction!

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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Like everyone else here I have absolutely no idea what is going on at board level. If though, it has been decided at the highest level that the club will play the same way at all levels, then unless they make a u turn they have painted themselves into a corner. If they sack Martin they will need to replace him with someone who will play with similar tactics (which kind of defeats the object of making a change). I suspect the reason we haven’t heard from them yet is because they find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place.

OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint

OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint

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24 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Like everyone else here I have absolutely no idea what is going on at board level. If though, it has been decided at the highest level that the club will play the same way at all levels, then unless they make a u turn they have painted themselves into a corner. If they sack Martin they will need to replace him with someone who will play with similar tactics (which kind of defeats the object of making a change). I suspect the reason we haven’t heard from them yet is because they find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place.

It's all guesswork but I reckon they've gone out and approached managers to join "the project" but they've all turned us down.

It's patently obvious to everyone that the current style of play isn't working. As an owner, my plan B would be to direct the manager to change his style. In fact, I would sit him down and make him watch the 9/10+ mistakes that have resulted in goals against because of this style - and then I would show him Real Madrid's goal last night which was a boot up to Bellingham who turns and scores. If direct football is good enough for Real Madrid, it's good enough for us!

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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1 minute ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

It's all guesswork but I reckon they've gone out and approached managers to join "the project" but they've all turned us down.

It's patently obvious to everyone that the current style of play isn't working. As an owner, my plan B would be to direct the manager to change his style. In fact, I would sit him down and make him watch the 9/10+ mistakes that have resulted in goals against because of this style - and then I would show him Real Madrid's goal last night which was a boot up to Bellingham who turns and scores. If direct football is good enough for Real Madrid, it's good enough for us!

This so-called football will never be successful. Defensively it’s as porous as a paper bucket. Instead of a wall of players blocking the way to our own goal we invite the opposition to invade our defence and run amok amongst us. Instead of a limited arc in front of them to concentrate on our players need to have eyes in the backs of their heads to see where the threats are coming from and they get overwhelmed.

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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10 hours ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

It really winds me up that people are looking at this as ambition. 
go look at the record signings for each club.many of the  teams we wanna be competing with are in the 40million range.

we buy the cheapest players in the league ffs  we are pretty much shopping in the same price range as we did 10 years ago ..

just because we bought a shit load of items shopping at Audi does not make us big spenders 

People need to stop looking at total spent as ambition. We never push the boat out to sign a expensive player, if us and another club are in for a player it’s game over . Is that how you define ambition ?

Take the post as a whole and not part of it out of context (by ignoring the final line I used). Spending £260m+ on transfers is ambitious, the issue was how it was spent. We may perhaps have been better off spending that £260m on fewer higher quality players.

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Badger

Badger

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28 minutes ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

It's all guesswork but I reckon they've gone out and approached managers to join "the project" but they've all turned us down.

 

Seems possible. But they’ve probably targeted the upper end of the market for those available (Potter, Moyes being the obvious names) who wouldn’t touch us in our position.

Remains to be seen whether SR amend their ‘offer’/ demands when relegated to a lower tier of managers 

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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6 hours ago, FredVaFC59100 said:

Hello ? Rasmus ? is that you ? The barn just called, it is running out of bullshit.

What about B Chorley last April asserting that we will be back in Ligue 2 next season or that we own the best DC in the world (Sanda),  Manager being sacked ~3 WEEKS AGO, and still no replacement. and I could go on and on...

You call out the lies of the previous owner but never keep SR to the same standard. Yes you must definitely be Rasmus or his twin brother.

You know it's bad when fans of other clubs are on the Southampton forum arguing about our owners.

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trousers

trousers

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3 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Take the post as a whole and not part of it out of context (by ignoring the final line I used). Spending £260m+ on transfers is ambitious, the issue was how it was spent. We may perhaps have been better off spending that £260m on fewer higher quality players.

I'm just popping to the lavatory to flush the contents of my wallet down the toilet. If that's not "ambitious", I don't know what is... ;)

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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3 hours ago, Badger said:

Seems possible. But they’ve probably targeted the upper end of the market for those available (Potter, Moyes being the obvious names) who wouldn’t touch us in our position.

Remains to be seen whether SR amend their ‘offer’/ demands when relegated to a lower tier of managers 

Candidates are probably letting Rasmus and Martin sit in their own faeces until nearer the summer when Dragan might clear out the lot from exasperation once all manner of ‘worst ever’ records are smashed. Let’s face it, I can’t see a bigger name comparatively wanting Phil Giles’s spreadsheet and tea maker as a direct report. They’ll want their own players for next season. 

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FarehamSaintJames

FarehamSaintJames

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SR have probably approached managers in recent weeks but no doubt would’ve offered something like three magic beans as a salary.

Point is they would’ve gone tight.

The funny thing is the more that gap enlarges between relegation and safety the more desperate they become, the more incompetent they look, and the more steeply they’ll have to pay.

SR are done. Only a monumental miracle will save them now. They’re being found out for who they are.
Either inept chancers or incompetent fools.

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St. Ciervo

St. Ciervo

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4 hours ago, spyinthesky said:

Rasmus Ankersen must be rueing his departure from Brentford.

Seems that the club is on the market for £400m!!

He got lucky with that project. It is always better to be lucky than good, I suppose.

pimpin4rizeal

pimpin4rizeal

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8 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Take the post as a whole and not part of it out of context (by ignoring the final line I used). Spending £260m+ on transfers is ambitious, the issue was how it was spent. We may perhaps have been better off spending that £260m on fewer higher quality players.

Well apologies if that’ was your meaning ..  it just read more as they where ambitious and we just made poor signings with the money …

I was just trying to point out that the total spend itself isn’t really ambitious if your just spending it on lots of players whilst not competing with the other clubs in the league 

we have really stood still in terms of spending back in 2013 etc we was spending similar anmmounts to west Han . All the likes of Brighton Brentford Bournemouth have got promoted and now buy more ambitiously and this was happening before relegation was a excuse .If we are serious to compete with these clubs we need to be moving with the times 

and yes agree fewer signings at higher  fees and wages is the way forward .. half the players we are spending the money on  are not improving the team they are just stuck on the bench like bbd after 3 or 4 starts 

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david in sweden

david in sweden

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In the past few days I've watched a number of English / European games on TV.. everything from Championship level

to European matches and (surprise ) most of them seem to be playing a variation of " Russball " - except that they had

attacking wingers who centred the ball occasionally.  The most surprising game was Man City v. Juventus (city lost 0-2 ,

and Pepe Guardiola seemed very disappointed.     So you see Pep... is doesn't work for you , either. 

danjosaint

danjosaint

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6 minutes ago, david in sweden said:

In the past few days I've watched a number of English / European games on TV.. everything from Championship level

to European matches and (surprise ) most of them seem to be playing a variation of " Russball " - except that they had

attacking wingers who centred the ball occasionally.  The most surprising game was Man City v. Juventus (city lost 0-2 ,

and Pepe Guardiola seemed very disappointed.     So you see Pep... is doesn't work for you , either. 

Because at 0v2 with 10 minutes to go there still passing it around the back, sound familiar 

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Turkish

Turkish

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Just now, Wade Garrett said:

I believe I exceeded that.

Unless you can provide evidence it didn't happen.

14 lols plus one like on the spurs thread for me, not a PB but another great performance. Consistency is king.

Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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1 minute ago, Turkish said:

Unless you can provide evidence it didn't happen.

14 lols plus one like on the spurs thread for me, not a PB but another great performance. Consistency is king.

You don’t get a world record in consistency.  I exceeded your 30 emojis while striking lucky with a single post.

I’ll definitely give you the consistency award, certainly over me.  I have become the most miserable bastard!  Keep up the good work 👍🏼.

Turkish

Turkish

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1 minute ago, Wade Garrett said:

You don’t get a world record in consistency.  I exceeded your 30 emojis while striking lucky with a single post.

I’ll definitely give you the consistency award, certainly over me.  I have become the most miserable bastard!  Keep up the good work 👍🏼.

You're the Leicester of mongboards pal.

 

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SouSaint

SouSaint

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24 minutes ago, trousers said:

The club collaborating with a navigation company... Make up your own punchlines... ;)

 

 

More official partners than points. 🤝

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Bakovnetski

Bakovnetski

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1 hour ago, trousers said:

The club collaborating with a navigation company... Make up your own punchlines... ;)

For the Carabao Cup so will only be for 2 games realistically....unless the FA Cup is included in the deal.

 

For the Carabao Cup so will only be for 2 games realistically....unless the FA Cup is included in the deal

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david in sweden

david in sweden

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3 hours ago, trousers said:

The club collaborating with a navigation company... Make up your own punchlines... ;)

OK  let me guess, Saints strikers need a GPS to find their way to goal ?...

 

 

3 hours ago, trousers said:

 

 

 

FredVaFC59100

FredVaFC59100

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On 11/12/2024 at 11:41, S-Clarke said:

You know it's bad when fans of other clubs are on the Southampton forum arguing about our owners.

We won't stop until you guys agree to trade us Russell Martin for Ben Chorley.

Badger

Badger

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On 12/12/2024 at 14:03, david in sweden said:

OK  let me guess, Saints strikers need a GPS to find their way to goal ?...

 

 

 

Possibly an indication as to why there’s a reluctance to see a shirt with stripes on the back. 
 

Looks tacky, and lower division in my view. But could be worse (TY Beanies springs to mind …) 

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trousers

trousers

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41 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

Interview with Dragan.......late on in the video......don't expect too much... 

 

MLT obviously under instructions not to ask Dragan any 'difficult' questions (about our league position and the management) then... #puffpiece

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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2 hours ago, trousers said:

MLT obviously under instructions not to ask Dragan any 'difficult' questions (about our league position and the management) then... #puffpiece

It would be a struggle to find any club media output that asks the owner difficult questions. Not just Saints.

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