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2 hours ago, Master Bates said:

Neither Kraft or Ankersen were at the game to join the party 

Apparently Rasmus W. Ankersen hasn't been at any matches since Chelsea away.

As they say, when the going gets tough, the fraudsters responsible are nowhere to be seen.

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19 minutes ago, Crazy Diamond said:

308 words that say absolutely nothing. No apology, no acknowledgement that they got it wrong.

Whilst it didn’t say much they did say significant improvement is needed which is kind of an acknowledgment of culpability 

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11 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

Apparently Rasmus W. Ankersen hasn't been at any matches since Chelsea away.

As they say, when the going gets tough, the fraudsters responsible are nowhere to be seen.

That's a bit unfair. If he had been at every game people would be accusing him of meddling. He's shit but let's stick to criticising things he's actually guilty of. 

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1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

That's a bit unfair. If he had been at every game people would be accusing him of meddling. He's shit but let's stick to criticising things he's actually guilty of. 

As was alluded to on here earlier in the season at Brentford he was the ideas guy but had someone to reign him in, as the athletic article said he’s still The ideas guy but got free reign now. With one idea in ten being any good

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1 minute ago, Turkish said:

Whilst it didn’t say much they did say significant improvement is needed which is kind of an acknowledgment of culpability 

Didn't say from who though! If they had to have a statement I'd have liked a more personal and less robotic version that have me confidence that they understood the gravity of the situation and wrre going to make significant changes. That statement just makes me worry. 

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17 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Whilst it didn’t say much they did say significant improvement is needed which is kind of an acknowledgment of culpability 

Perhaps you're right. I may be expecting too much for a statement that includes 'We're sorry, we got it wrong'.

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The more I read that Athletic article the more I just think SR really need to implement their own people and ways fully. It's clear the club is divided with the people who were settled in their ways at the club and the new guys with fresh ideas and it leads to bitchy articles like that. If I'm SR I'm doubling down this summer and going all in. Whether people like it or not SR are here for the long term so I have absolutely no issue with any staff that don't like it being made uncomfortable and leaving and quite happy to be rid of a squad that seemingly have a weak mentality and unable to manage itself. Full revamp needed and that includes the people bitching in the background to journalists. 

There will be sensationalist snippets taken from it and continued to be thrown about but it just smacks of a club and environment that was slowly declining for years and didn't like having that being pointed out and being changed.

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4 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

The more I read that Athletic article the more I just think SR really need to implement their own people and ways fully. It's clear the club is divided with the people who were settled in their ways at the club and the new guys with fresh ideas and it leads to bitchy articles like that. If I'm SR I'm doubling down this summer and going all in. Whether people like it or not SR are here for the long term so I have absolutely no issue with any staff that don't like it being made uncomfortable and leaving and quite happy to be rid of a squad that seemingly have a weak mentality and unable to manage itself. Full revamp needed and that includes the people bitching in the background to journalists. 

There will be sensationalist snippets taken from it and continued to be thrown about but it just smacks of a club and environment that was slowly declining for years and didn't like having that being pointed out and being changed.

I'm a bit worried about the whole bit about all the scouts working for sports Republic. Doesn't really foster any loyalty to our club. 

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2 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I'm a bit worried about the whole bit about all the scouts working for sports Republic. Doesn't really foster any loyalty to our club. 

I can see the logic behind it, that's the nature of the multi club system and some clubs get success and some don't, that's just natural in any system.

Found that whole section odd to be honest, like it's some sort of negative that the scouts were asked to provide data to the people making the ultimate transfer decision? I'm not sure scouts need to be loyal/emotional tbh, their work is quite the opposite. Of course you want people to buy into ideas and that's what I mean about SR needing to employ people who are fully behind their ideas. People challenging things is obviously needed as well but the if SR want it to work that way then it requires people to be behind that idea and I'd rather the people that aren't left, than just staying, bitching about it to the Athletic and undermining it on a daily basis. 

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32 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

That's a bit unfair. If he had been at every game people would be accusing him of meddling. He's shit but let's stick to criticising things he's actually guilty of. 

Attending a match isn't meddling!

On top of that, the chancer arrogantly justified keeping Jones on at the time because he saw "reference points" that the rest of us didn't. How many "reference points" was he missing by not attending the bloody matches?

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5 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

Attending a match isn't meddling!

On top of that, the chancer arrogantly justified keeping Jones on at the time because he saw "reference points" that the rest of us didn't. How many "reference points" was he missing by not attending the bloody matches?

I said people would be accusing him of meddling. It may be the case that he realised he had made mistakes and took a step back. We don't know. 

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Just nipping it in there again:

Sport Republic have been a disaster since coming into the club.

Jisheng Gao was statistically a better owner, (and SR love their statistics).

We didn’t spend beyond our means. A slow cleanse was happening of the deadwood.

 

Sport Republic come in.
Signed off on a horrendous kit.
Spent money recklessly.
Alienated the fanbase.
Appointed two horrendous managers and didn’t back his predecessor.
Fluffed every major decision going.

Tell me any of the above is wrong.

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2 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Just nipping it in there again:

Sport Republic have been a disaster since coming into the club.

Jisheng Gao was statistically a better owner, (and SR love their statistics).

We didn’t spend beyond our means. A slow cleanse was happening of the deadwood.

 

Sport Republic come in.
Signed off on a horrendous kit.
Spent money recklessly.
Alienated the fanbase.
Appointed two horrendous managers and didn’t back his predecessor.
Fluffed every major decision going.

Tell me any of the above is wrong.

Yep - one bit is wrong. They didn’t fluff every major decision. They did sack Ralph - just 6 months too late. And they did sack Jones - just 3 months too late.

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2 hours ago, Turkish said:

Whilst it didn’t say much they did say significant improvement is needed which is kind of an acknowledgment of culpability 

This is how I read it tbh… I know we’re all angry, we all know its a fucking shambles, internally they know its a shambles

Those words were the closest we’ll ever come to an apology.. what we need to see now is improvements and things learnt

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1 minute ago, Smirking_Saint said:

This is how I read it tbh… I know we’re all angry, we all know its a fucking shambles, internally they know its a shambles

Those words were the closest we’ll ever come to an apology.. what we need to see now is improvements and things learnt

I’m not filled with confidence. They’ve taken a relatively stable club, divided a fanbase and by the sounds of it the staff and the players, and subsequently relegated it.

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11 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

This is how I read it tbh… I know we’re all angry, we all know its a fucking shambles, internally they know its a shambles

Those words were the closest we’ll ever come to an apology.. what we need to see now is improvements and things learnt

Yeah they’re never going to come out and say we know it’s been a disaster. I’m not really sure why people excepted anything more. We will see over the next few months if they’ve learnt anything. 

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7 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

I’m not filled with confidence. They’ve taken a relatively stable club, divided a fanbase and by the sounds of it the staff and the players, and subsequently relegated it.

We’ll see where we are, tbh the club was a bit of a mess when they got here Im not really convinced it was all that stable

IMO they need to clear the decks and get a DoF in that is good at what he does, Ankerson isn’t really going anywhere but I do think he is getting pushed back upstairs to a more senior SR overall role

These guys, as far as I’m aware, are pretty motivated in taking us back up, which is a start… for instance a relegation under Gao would have been far more disastrous 

All that being said though, the major decisions this year have been calamitous, we need to reign in the ‘against the grain’ decisions are start making some sensible, stable signings/recruitments

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Good statement from SR in my opinion. Confidence moving forwards. 
 

Clearly, Rasmus has made mistakes, but i Don’t think it’s fair to tarnish the money man and the other bloke with the same brush. 
 

We need a football person in, asap, let’s hope this new DOF is the right one. 

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Whatever is happening close season needs to be started at the earliest opportunity.

Whoever is coming in with Jason Wilcox needs to be announced.

A manager needs to be in place within the first week of June.

A statement of intent needs to put down, the first week of June.

That is the only way to starting the long road of getting confidence from the fans.

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On 28/04/2023 at 17:24, Morse said:

If I was Dragan Solak,  I would ditch Semmens and Rasmus Ankersen.  Neither are up to the job, and that's a demonstrable fact.  He needs an experienced CEO and a respected Director of Football. Get those in place quickly and let them pick a new manager/ coaches etc. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

Good

Not sure really....

Henrik and Rasmus simply don't agree with each other (according to the Athletic article), Dragan is very much a 'hands-off' manager, so the future doesn't look very bright with those three (two) steering the ship.

If it just had 'Dragan' on it I'd be more hopeful the other two blithering idiots would be gone as well.

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1 minute ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Not sure really....

Henrik and Rasmus simply don't agree with each other (according to the Athletic article), Dragan is very much a 'hands-off' manager, so the future doesn't look very bright with those three (two) steering the ship.

If it just had 'Dragan' on it I'd be more hopeful the other two blithering idiots would be gone as well.

I don’t think Rasmus is going to be as close to the core running of the club either thankfully… not exactly sure what Kraft offers either though

But the removal of Semmens should be a huge bonus

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You can’t have separate factions in a successful organisation, and SR and the Semmens and old school people are clearly at loggerheads. It’ll need a complete clear out for SR to succeed. Whether they are right or not will take proof. But it’s clear Semmens and the rest, including some of the old school at the training ground, need to go to allow the club to be freshened up. 

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21 minutes ago, Daft Kerplunk said:

You can’t have separate factions in a successful organisation, and SR and the Semmens and old school people are clearly at loggerheads. It’ll need a complete clear out for SR to succeed. Whether they are right or not will take proof. But it’s clear Semmens and the rest, including some of the old school at the training ground, need to go to allow the club to be freshened up. 

Exactly this, it might not to be to everyones liking and they may take a bit of time getting things right but we need joined up thinking, we just simply didn’t have that with two factions with differing ideas

Sweep out the old and move forward with joined up thinking

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2 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Signed by 'Dragan, Henrik & Rasmus' but not by 'Martin'.

Seems fairly clear he is no longer part of the plan....

Signed by those from SR. Martin is part of Southampton rather than SR 

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14 hours ago, Turkish said:

Whilst it didn’t say much they did say significant improvement is needed which is kind of an acknowledgment of culpability 

See your point but don’t totally agree about needing improvement is acknowledging culpability.

May be semantics, but needing improvement covers a wide area.In Rasmus’ large ego but tiny mind the things that need improvement will probably be with Semmens and Crocker etc rather than him accepting responsibility.

As I see it, using a nautical analogy,  Semmens &Co had us aimlessly drifting towards an iceberg, but rather than steer away from it (with time on their side when they took over) Sports Republic have just accelerated full steam ahead into it. 


Sure Semmens and co can be criticised but the blame must rest with SR.

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1 hour ago, Daft Kerplunk said:

You can’t have separate factions in a successful organisation, and SR and the Semmens and old school people are clearly at loggerheads. It’ll need a complete clear out for SR to succeed. Whether they are right or not will take proof. But it’s clear Semmens and the rest, including some of the old school at the training ground, need to go to allow the club to be freshened up. 

"A house divided against itself, cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln

Probably from,

“And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.“

Matthew 12:25

 

 

 

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5 hours ago, John B said:
On 28/04/2023 at 17:24, Morse said:

If I was Dragan Solak,  I would ditch Semmens and Rasmus Ankersen.  Neither are up to the job, and that's a demonstrable fact.  He needs an experienced CEO and a respected Director of Football. Get those in place quickly and let them pick a new manager/ coaches etc. 

 

Semmens will be leaving and for the hundredth time Jason Wilcox is the new director of football https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2023-01-20/announcement-jason-wilcox-southampton-football-club-director-of-football-2023 Rasmus will move back to overseeing the Sports Republic roster.

it wasnt SR plan to have Rasmus in charge of recruitment but Shields quitting for Chelsea dropped us in it. Still rate Rasmus long term but I think his success at Brentford made him overconfident. 
 

I know I’ve been accused of being an SR stooge but SR have a long term plan which all good businesses should have.

I do wonder if some of this is too complicated for some of our fans. When I mentioned there is a new stadium in the pipeline I was met with derision.

FFS I didn’t mean next season. The SR project is long term.

If anyone investigates the history of Dragan its unrelenting success there’s loads to read and watch online. I even get it translated. Dragan takes on the Serbian Government successfully on a regular basis. He is the richest man in Serbia about £ 1.5 billion.

Hes a big headed/proud man there’s absolutely no way he’s going to let this project fail.

ironically long term the clubs that will be in trouble are the Oil City clubs.

To back end things I’ve been housebound for a couple of months so I have the time to investigate quite thoroughly.

 

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, manji said:

Semmens will be leaving and for the hundredth time Jason Wilcox is the new director of football https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2023-01-20/announcement-jason-wilcox-southampton-football-club-director-of-football-2023 Rasmus will move back to overseeing the Sports Republic roster.

it wasnt SR plan to have Rasmus in charge of recruitment but Shields quitting for Chelsea dropped us in it. Still rate Rasmus long term but I think his success at Brentford made him overconfident. 
 

I know I’ve been accused of being an SR stooge but SR have a long term plan which all good businesses should have.

I do wonder if some of this is too complicated for some of our fans. When I mentioned there is a new stadium in the pipeline I was met with derision.

FFS I didn’t mean next season. The SR project is long term.

If anyone investigates the history of Dragan its unrelenting success there’s loads to read and watch online. I even get it translated. Dragan takes on the Serbian Government successfully on a regular basis. He is the richest man in Serbia about £ 1.5 billion.

Hes a big headed/proud man there’s absolutely no way he’s going to let this project fail.

ironically long term the clubs that will be in trouble are the Oil City clubs.

To back end things I’ve been housebound for a couple of months so I have the time to investigate quite thoroughly.

 

 

 

 

What a patronising post.

Guess what, nearly all professional sports clubs have a long term plan.

How is ours going so far?

Sports Republic have proved to be not just bad owners, but fucking awful owners

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5 minutes ago, manji said:

Semmens will be leaving and for the hundredth time Jason Wilcox is the new director of football https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2023-01-20/announcement-jason-wilcox-southampton-football-club-director-of-football-2023 Rasmus will move back to overseeing the Sports Republic roster.

it wasnt SR plan to have Rasmus in charge of recruitment but Shields quitting for Chelsea dropped us in it. Still rate Rasmus long term but I think his success at Brentford made him overconfident. 
 

I know I’ve been accused of being an SR stooge but SR have a long term plan which all good businesses should have.

I do wonder if some of this is too complicated for some of our fans. When I mentioned there is a new stadium in the pipeline I was met with derision.

FFS I didn’t mean next season. The SR project is long term.

If anyone investigates the history of Dragan its unrelenting success there’s loads to read and watch online. I even get it translated. Dragan takes on the Serbian Government successfully on a regular basis. He is the richest man in Serbia about £ 1.5 billion.

Hes a big headed/proud man there’s absolutely no way he’s going to let this project fail.

ironically long term the clubs that will be in trouble are the Oil City clubs.

To back end things I’ve been housebound for a couple of months so I have the time to investigate quite thoroughly.

 

 

 

 

Out of interest, what is your link to Sports Republic? There has to be one as you talk like an insider

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5 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Not sure really....

Henrik and Rasmus simply don't agree with each other (according to the Athletic article), Dragan is very much a 'hands-off' manager, so the future doesn't look very bright with those three (two) steering the ship.

If it just had 'Dragan' on it I'd be more hopeful the other two blithering idiots would be gone as well.

Dragan isn’t just a football director for example one of his many companies  one of the most dominant media companies in Southeast Europe, providing broadband, mobile and TV services in eight countries. Has huge companies in Greece, Hungary.

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6 minutes ago, maysie said:

Out of interest, what is your link to Sports Republic? There has to be one as you talk like an insider

No link. As I explained I am fascinated by Southampton of course and I have spent a lot of my free time investigating SR. The informations there if you have the time to investigate it.

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4 minutes ago, manji said:

Dragan isn’t just a football director for example one of his many companies  one of the most dominant media companies in Southeast Europe, providing broadband, mobile and TV services in eight countries. Has huge companies in Greece, Hungary.

In regards to Dragan, I have been following reports on the protests in Serbia against the Government after the 2 mass killings which happened a week or so ago.

These protests have taken a wider focus now and have extended to wanting Government run TV stations shut down. I would imagine this is of great interest to Dragan with his media company being, I believe, the only non-government one in Serbia and previously reported as being in a tussle with state run TV channels for market share.

Obviously this is not directly Saints related but could be of interest to some.

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4 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

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Athletic have deteriated they’ve realised there no money in vaguely intellectual sports article and Saints Extra are just a clickbait Twitter site.

people have to realise Twitter is as much a news site as Facebook.

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10 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Mangey is a Serbian / Russian sympathiser - as per the snippet of the flag in his Avatar.  I imagine he has pictures of Dragan on his wall.

Typical ignorant comment. One of the reasons Dragan is always fighting the Serbian government is because its pro Russian stance.

Serbia has historically been pro Russian ( read Tolstoys Anna Karenina 1878 ) Serbia was one of the only countries in Eastern Europe that didn’t side with Hitler.

Dragan wants to move to a free market stance.

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14 minutes ago, manji said:

Dragan isn’t just a football director for example one of his many companies  one of the most dominant media companies in Southeast Europe, providing broadband, mobile and TV services in eight countries. Has huge companies in Greece, Hungary.

This is why I’m confident that they will continue to invest and get us back into the big time. The next explosion is going to be The Premier league broadcasting it’s own content, followed by clubs streaming their own games. The money they’ll make will be eye watering, far in excess of what we’re seeing now. 

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18 minutes ago, manji said:

Athletic have deteriated they’ve realised there no money in vaguely intellectual sports article and Saints Extra are just a clickbait Twitter site.

people have to realise Twitter is as much a news site as Facebook.

Or The Sun. 

Talksport, The Athletic, Saints Extra/Saints Centre Twitter pages are just click bait.

I think everything that was posted last night on Saints Extra I’ve thought about over recent weeks, as I’m sure others have. It’s not news. It’s starting the bloody obvious.

Absolute sensationalist headlines to spark a response. 😂

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29 minutes ago, manji said:

Athletic have deteriated they’ve realised there no money in vaguely intellectual sports article and Saints Extra are just a clickbait Twitter site.

people have to realise Twitter is as much a news site as Facebook.

Are you suggesting that none of this is true? That it is all "click bait?"

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99% certain, someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that Manji was on here saying all the Nathan Jones reports (about us appointing him) was all speculation made up by journalists and not true.

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1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

99% certain, someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that Manji was on here saying all the Nathan Jones reports (about us appointing him) was all speculation made up by journalists and not true.

I cannot believe he/she actually submits posts about Sports Republic having some sort of grand plan (including a new stadium), and that is it all too complicated for us plebs.

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5 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

I cannot believe he/she actually submits posts about Sports Republic having some sort of grand plan (including a new stadium), and that is it all too complicated for us plebs.

It's almost he leaves this stuff on here as, well, clickbait.

I definitely remember he did a load of stuff on here about how the club were told "money no object" last summer and we would get a front line striker (spoiler alert: we didn't).

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