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trousers

trousers

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54 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Countless player/staff recruitment disasters, but now new person in charge of that and he shouldn't be tainted with mistakes of others. They invest money into the club and heart appears to be in the right place. If recruitment is finally sorted out then there are no real other issues. Other clubs have much bigger issues with owners than something fixable like recruitment. 

 

"If recruitment is finally sorted out then there are no real other issues." 

That is, of course, correct, but there's no certainty that Spors will be the knight in shining armour that we all hope he is. After all, he's been employed by the very people that we agree are crap recruiters... Go figure...  ;)

Still, if you've got faith in Spors being able to deliver then that's a reasonable stance to take.

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trousers

trousers

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2 minutes ago, Channons Windmill said:

I heard the club was for sale yesterday

You may want to read the previous 7 pages before posting 'breaking news'.... ;)

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saintant

saintant

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21 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Only thing they've really done wrong is recruitment of managers and players.

That is fixable. At least Sport Republic appear to have club's interest at heart and have been investing money into the club.

As far as things to be unhappy with owners for we do not have it too bad. Sure, recruitment has been a shambles, but they have tried to fix it this summer.

Yeah, pretty minor things for a football club....hardly crucial.

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Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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2 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

A new takeover thread, hooray!

Let's dust off the Saints takeover bingo card so we can all play over the summer. To kick things off: 

- Yacht spotted in Ocean Village

- Barry the Briefcase

- Earlobe identification (hopefully the advance of AI will make this process more efficient)

- Posts that start with "I can't post it on here but I have it on good authority", people using each other's real first names to demonstrate they are on the inside and saying "I've PM'ed you Brian"

- One or two people who actually know a few things drowned out by loads of absolute fantasists making stuff up and pretending to be important

- Micky Fialka mounting a late bid from his bedroom in his mum's house

What have I missed? 

 

Monkey Petting Zoo and that fucking muppet photocopier bloke.

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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2 minutes ago, saintant said:

Yeah, pretty minor things for a football club....hardly crucial.

I didn't say it wasn't important. 

But that is a lot easier to fix than having owners that do not invest and don't care for the club. Neither of which we have evidence for about Sport Republic. 

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trousers

trousers

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1 minute ago, Channons Windmill said:

Merely validating what had been written to date…

Yeah, sorry, I'm in a bit of facetious frame of mind this afternoon! :)

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sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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4 minutes ago, saintant said:

Yeah, pretty minor things for a football club....hardly crucial.

I think that his point is that these are areas that, unless you have piles of cash and the pull of a name like Manchester United, you can easily get wrong. Just look at the number of managers who get sacked every season. There are plenty of transfers that don’t work out too. They are there to employ people to do this. Again, you are reliant in making the right choice which is usually dependent on what sized pool you can fish in. Even when we were doing much better in the Prem there criticism of the managers and recruitment. Look where the likes of United, Tottenham and WHU are this season. Nothing is nailed on, and the less money you have to burn, the more limited your chances are of getting to majority of decisions right.

We have had a crap season but so have Ipswich and Leicester. Our owners aren’t alone in making the poor choices department

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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8 minutes ago, trousers said:

Yeah, nothing significant... ;)

I think everything is fine with the team apart from we don’t score enough goals and concede too many.

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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36 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Only thing they've really done wrong is recruitment of managers and players.

That is fixable. At least Sport Republic appear to have club's interest at heart and have been investing money into the club.

As far as things to be unhappy with owners for we do not have it too bad. Sure, recruitment has been a shambles, but they have tried to fix it this summer.

You are special

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Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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11 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

I think everything is fine with the team apart from we don’t score enough goals and concede too many.

Exactly. That's only 2 things. 1, if you combine them as "things from kick off to final whistle.

"fixable"

🙂

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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40 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Countless player/staff recruitment disasters, but now new person in charge of that and he shouldn't be tainted with mistakes of others. They invest money into the club and heart appears to be in the right place. If recruitment is finally sorted out then there are no real other issues. Other clubs have much bigger issues with owners than something fixable like recruitment. 

 

 

OldNick

OldNick

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47 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

I think everything is fine with the team apart from we don’t score enough goals and concede too many.

A fair assessment, spot on. I must add we give up midfiield as well

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ApprenticeBillionaire

ApprenticeBillionaire

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1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

Only thing they've really done wrong is recruitment of managers and players.

That is fixable. At least Sport Republic appear to have club's interest at heart and have been investing money into the club.

As far as things to be unhappy with owners for we do not have it too bad. Sure, recruitment has been a shambles, but they have tried to fix it this summer.


I'm off to drink a bottle of bleach.

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franniesTache

franniesTache

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56 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

I think everything is fine with the team apart from we don’t score enough goals and concede too many.

Yes but on the flip side we have a new pub, a champagne bar coming and the best gulags this side of siberia outside the ground.

All we need now is a picture of a train on the wall of st mary's, a championship spoon hide and seek game, an award winning radio station, and the best catering in a football ground in an SO postcode and we'll truly be in a glory era of the club

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Saint86

Saint86

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2 hours ago, leesaint88 said:

He's been quoted before saying he'd love to run the club (see link) but he won't throwaway his own money....

 

Putting politics to one side (which should always be the case in football frankly) - I could see him as owner, and actually would be quite happy if it happened tbh. At the end of the day he's from the city, clearly a fan of the club (which would make a change), his wife's family are loaded, and he's got a lot of connections internationally as a former PM and Chancellor - particularly from his role with the Ukraine conflict. He's also not a Chinese criminal or an arrogant hipster Dane who gives Teds talks about how much smarter than everyone else he is... All in all, an improvement on the past few years...

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OneMrsWallace

OneMrsWallace

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1 minute ago, franniesTache said:

Yes but on the flip side we have a new pub, a champagne bar coming and the best gulags this side of siberia outside the ground.

All we need now is a picture of a train on the wall of st mary's, a championship spoon hide and seek game, an award winning radio station, and the best catering in a football ground in an SO postcode and we'll truly be in a glory era of the club

At least we will be able to marvel at the quality of the catering as we slide in to relative obscurity. Pimms anyone? 

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Miltonaggro

Miltonaggro

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3 hours ago, IFHP said:

I wonder if there is a thread on Pompeyweb ( or whatever their message board is called) titled Scum takeover saga - and if it will last as long as the old Pompey one on here .? 

Doubt it, they haven't got many contacts in the Square Mile or Wall Street, and you don't get the same level of insider trading at Home Bargains or the STD Clinic.  

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Saint86

Saint86

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What i would say, is that at least this gives us something unexpected to talk about this summer... as opposed to which players are leaving, kit mock ups, followed by when the actual kit reveal will be and how many stripes will we have on the shirt, where we rank in the UK's worst seaside B&Bs, or how Wrexham/Ipswich/Birmingham/Leicester are having better transfer windows than us... 

Silver linings and all that.

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lambtiss

lambtiss

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1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

I think everything is fine with the team apart from we don’t score enough goals and concede too many.

What has SR ever done for us thread? ..

Football Special

Football Special

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17 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Putting politics to one side (which should always be the case in football frankly) - I could see him as owner, and actually would be quite happy if it happened tbh. At the end of the day he's from the city, clearly a fan of the club (which would make a change), his wife's family are loaded, and he's got a lot of connections internationally as a former PM and Chancellor - particularly from his role with the Ukraine conflict. He's also not a Chinese criminal or an arrogant hipster Dane who gives Teds talks about how much smarter than everyone else he is... All in all, an improvement on the past few years...

I completely agree and his connections would come in handy in lots of ways, Kuti can take over the catering, Vindaloos all round at half time 

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sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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20 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Putting politics to one side (which should always be the case in football frankly) - I could see him as owner, and actually would be quite happy if it happened tbh. At the end of the day he's from the city, clearly a fan of the club (which would make a change), his wife's family are loaded, and he's got a lot of connections internationally as a former PM and Chancellor - particularly from his role with the Ukraine conflict. He's also not a Chinese criminal or an arrogant hipster Dane who gives Teds talks about how much smarter than everyone else he is... All in all, an improvement on the past few years...

The current and previous owners have been slagged off for not knowing anything about football. What makes Sunak a better prospect (apart from his wife’s money)? And before you say ‘at least he is a fan’, just look at the opinions of some of the fans on here. Would you let them loose on the club?

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Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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29 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Putting politics to one side (which should always be the case in football frankly) - I could see him as owner, and actually would be quite happy if it happened tbh. At the end of the day he's from the city, clearly a fan of the club (which would make a change), his wife's family are loaded, and he's got a lot of connections internationally as a former PM and Chancellor - particularly from his role with the Ukraine conflict. He's also not a Chinese criminal or an arrogant hipster Dane who gives Teds talks about how much smarter than everyone else he is... All in all, an improvement on the past few years...

He’ll get his mate Kuti in as finance director.  What could possibly go wrong 😂

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Football Special

Football Special

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4 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

The current and previous owners have been slagged off for not knowing anything about football. What makes Sunak a better prospect (apart from his wife’s money)? And before you say ‘at least he is a fan’, just look at the opinions of some of the fans on here. Would you let them loose on the club?

I don't think any owners know about football, Man City's certainly don't, it's about paying the right consultants and employing the best people available to make those decisions 

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lambtiss

lambtiss

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2 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Countless player/staff recruitment disasters, but now new person in charge of that and he shouldn't be tainted with mistakes of others. They invest money into the club and heart appears to be in the right place. If recruitment is finally sorted out then there are no real other issues. Other clubs have much bigger issues with owners than something fixable like recruitment. 

 

Outstanding,this is the funniest piece you have ever written 🤣 

Miltonaggro

Miltonaggro

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22 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

He’ll get his mate Kuti in as finance director.  What could possibly go wrong 😂

Manzils in Bevois Valley to take over the catering. Open to 4am on matchdays.

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beatlesaint

beatlesaint

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19 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

What is wrong with it?

Tbh I don’t see anything wrong with what you’ve said, recruitment is a very big issue admitted but they’ve put up more money than Gao ever did and let’s face it SR aren’t that lunatic at Sheffield Wednesday to name but one.

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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1 hour ago, Football Special said:

I completely agree and his connections would come in handy in lots of ways, Kuti can take over the catering, Vindaloos all round at half time 

There’s the song the team come out to sorted.

Although ‘we’re going to score one more than you’ is rather fanciful.

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lambtiss

lambtiss

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25 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

What is wrong with it?

Two relegations and 5 managers in three seasons, still the potential to be the worst PL club of all time. Countless, dithering changes in direction from the Hassenhutl press to Nathan Jones variation on Wimbledon, to Russell Martin's possession obsession to Ivan Juric's death metal football or whatever you'd like to call what we saw. Hundreds of millions wasted on players who were either not ready or would never be ready for premiership football. Key players like Romeu let go.

No, you've got me there. I really can't find a problem with Sports Republic's ownership.

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Just now, lambtiss said:

Two relegations and 5 managers in three seasons, still the potential to be the worst PL club of all time. Countless, dithering changes in direction from the Hassenhutl press to Nathan Jones variation on Wimbledon, to Russell Martin's possession obsession to Ivan Juric's death metal football or whatever you'd like to call what we saw. Hundreds of millions wasted on players who were either not ready or would never be ready for premiership football. Key players like Romeu let go.

No, you've got me there. I really can't find a problem with Sports Republic's ownership.

Strawman fallacy. That does not counter anything I said. I asked what was wrong with what my post said. 

lambtiss

lambtiss

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9 hours ago, Turkish said:

there aren't hundreds of us you fool. We've also had to lose a few but for the greater good

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Are you Rasmus Ankersen?

Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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11 minutes ago, West end Saints said:

Have I missed anything?

Unsubstantiated rumour mentioned in passing on talk sport subsequently denied by local press, local radio and indeed talk sport?

I checked in with long standing Saints fans, Toto, for an update...

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But I hear only whispers of a possible transition
Rumours always seem in flight
Their hopes reflect the passion that guides me towards promotion

I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some ITK tweets or online exclusives
He said things were better in my day
Don't hurry boy, patience is a virtue

So, there you have it. The line was a bit crackly from Africa, but there's seems to be no more than some formerly quiet things at an early stage.

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trousers

trousers

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42 minutes ago, lambtiss said:

Two relegations and 5 managers in three seasons, still the potential to be the worst PL club of all time. Countless, dithering changes in direction from the Hassenhutl press to Nathan Jones variation on Wimbledon, to Russell Martin's possession obsession to Ivan Juric's death metal football or whatever you'd like to call what we saw. Hundreds of millions wasted on players who were either not ready or would never be ready for premiership football. Key players like Romeu let go.

No, you've got me there. I really can't find a problem with Sports Republic's ownership.

Personally, I think MLG's faith in Sport Republic is admirable... ;)

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lambtiss

lambtiss

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Ok. You originally posted. that, apart from recruitment, there are no other real issues with SR. Well, there is also, as I pointed out, the complete lack of a football strategy and direction with the flip-flopping of approaches from one manager to another. This would require a complete change of recruitment from one manager to another, regardless of the quality of recruitment. By the way, why do you think SR will suddenly fix their appalling recruitment at all levels? Isn't the definition of doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different outcome, the definition of insanity? 

lambtiss

lambtiss

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12 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I checked in with long standing Saints fans, Toto, for an update...

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But I hear only whispers of a possible transition
Rumours always seem in flight
Their hopes reflect the passion that guides me towards promotion

I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some ITK tweets or online exclusives
He said things were better in my day
Don't hurry boy, patience is a virtue

So, there you have it. The line was a bit crackly from Africa, but there's seems to be no more than some formerly quiet things at an early stage.

Based on that, you must be in the Circle of Trust, then?

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