Sports Republic

[ally_uk]

I was optimistic when it was announced Sports Republic came in and purchased the club. 

I'm sat here now scratching my head amazed how they could royally mess things up so badly in the maiden season of ownership. 

It has been one cluster fk after the other with no end in sight. 

Rasmus and Co are responsible for our current predicament. 

If we do go down and it's looking inevitable Rasmus please take a backseat put the ego to the side and get some proper football men in....

Massive changes will be needed 

The board ultimately need to hold up hands and admit they have messed up big time this season...

 

[Turkish]

Been a succession of errors since the start.

 

keeping Ralph when it was obvious to everyone his time was up

The disastrous and ridiculous appointment of Jones
 

The debacle with shields, being allowed to spunk all that money on kids and then leave within 6 months. 

The failure to sign a striker in the summer 

Awful recruitment, expecting young players who had never played a first team game or top flight game come in and become premier league players 

all in all they really couldn’t have got more wrong. Strange that for the first time ever we’ve spent relatively big money it’s all been spunked up the wall and we’re going down with the worst team we’ve had at this level for decades 

[RedArmy]

SR’s money without Rasmus, Semmens and Shields and we might have actually been alright. 
 

 

 

[Morse]

They are an utter shower of shít. Genuinely clueless. For success at Premiership level you need a coherent strategy of quality recruitment and retention of players, coaches, technical staff, statisticians etc etc. 

From appointing Jones, to dismantling our scouting network SR have proved themselves to be totally inept. 

Our only hope is Dragan Solak dumps Rasmus Ankersen and Semmens and gets someone in who knows hoe to run a football club. 

[Archers Road Stand]

Reason Semmens picked them was that it kept him in a job. Shite owners. Shite board. They're taking us down. 

[Saint Billy]

We have been in decline for a long while but SR have certainly put the final nail in the coffin with their dire and unbelievable decision making. 

It seems that their primary objective was to rely on our past and long since gone exploits of breeding young talent and selling for vast profits, when what they should be doing is clearing out the dross and rebuilding a side capable of holding its own in the premiership. 

The managerial situation has been an utter shambles and some of the player purchases have been as bad. We needed owners like this like a hole in the head. 

[Micky]

I think the focus now needs to be on what do we do next season,  that is their main problem.  The championship is a tough uncompromising league, how do they intend to run the club next season.   Personally I think we have seen the last of the Premiere League for many years unless something really drastic happens next year. 

[Fitzhugh Fella]

17 hours ago, Turkish said:

Been a succession of errors since the start.

 

keeping Ralph when it was obvious to everyone his time was up

The disastrous and ridiculous appointment of Jones
 

The debacle with shields, being allowed to spunk all that money on kids and then leave within 6 months. 

The failure to sign a striker in the summer 

Awful recruitment, expecting young players who had never played a first team game or top flight game come in and become premier league players 

all in all they really couldn’t have got more wrong. Strange that for the first time ever we’ve spent relatively big money it’s all been spunked up the wall and we’re going down with the worst team we’ve had at this level for decades 

Never a truer word and it was all avoidable too

[saintant]

SR have shown themselves to be clueless especially the snake oil salesman Ankersen. I'm pretty sure there would have been better options when the club was for sale but Semmens had a vested interest and this mob probably suited his needs the most.

[saint1977]

At the end of the season, there has to be some humility from SR. Apologising to the fanbase and city first and foremost, and confirming Semmens departure. Much as I’d like to see Rasmus packed off to Turkey, I don’t think that will happen. However, appointing Benitez initially as first team manager with someone like Lallana or a Kompany-type equivalent with the coaching badges learning with him and ready to takeover when Rafa is Head of Football Operations would restore some sort of credibility as a business. Rasmus can then play with his stats but Rafa would have the final say on everything. Good development for Rasmus.

Depends on who comes down with us, but could be in a Burnley situation next year with top-two budget in the league. 

Ball is in SR’s court to bring in the football expertise in needed to arrest the slide. If it’s still Semmens and Rasmus in the summer, I reckon we are playing Barrow and Harrogate in two to three years time. Still, the latter would be a local away game for Turkish I suppose…

[Badger]

7 hours ago, saint1977 said:

At the end of the season, there has to be some humility from SR. Apologising to the fanbase and city first and foremost, and confirming Semmens departure. Much as I’d like to see Rasmus packed off to Turkey, I don’t think that will happen. However, appointing Benitez initially as first team manager with someone like Lallana or a Kompany-type equivalent with the coaching badges learning with him and ready to takeover when Rafa is Head of Football Operations would restore some sort of credibility as a business. Rasmus can then play with his stats but Rafa would have the final say on everything. Good development for Rasmus.

Depends on who comes down with us, but could be in a Burnley situation next year with top-two budget in the league. 

Ball is in SR’s court to bring in the football expertise in needed to arrest the slide. If it’s still Semmens and Rasmus in the summer, I reckon we are playing Barrow and Harrogate in two to three years time. Still, the latter would be a local away game for Turkish I suppose…

I think the Benitez suggestion is out of the question, as manager, and even more so for a Hd of Football Operations role, isn't this the position Jason Willcox was due to be taking ?

At board level, I've been critical of Semmens, especially for last summer's recruitment, but he's been completely eclipsed by Ankersen's handling since. 

[saint1977]

18 hours ago, Badger said:

I think the Benitez suggestion is out of the question, as manager, and even more so for a Hd of Football Operations role, isn't this the position Jason Willcox was due to be taking ?

At board level, I've been critical of Semmens, especially for last summer's recruitment, but he's been completely eclipsed by Ankersen's handling since. 

Sadly I think it will be, although for me a very experienced manager is the only way I can see any sort of top two push next season. As for Wilcox, the club already had a supposedly coveted Man City senior football employee last summer and he was effectively on gardening leave by October bound for Chelsea having scouted bar Lavia, total junk. So low to no expectations.

Don’t think his or Semmens ego could handle an experienced football manager telling them what was needed. If you think the squad chopped and changed a lot last time we went down, you ain’t seen nothing yet. 

If they can’t get a Kompany-type big name with one or two managers’ jobs behind them with heaps of contacts for the best loans you need in the Championship to go up, get a Wilder or if Forest go down, Cooper that can organise and know who will cut it at Champ level and who won’t. Benitez got Newcastle up with a good budget and likes to develop the club not just the squad which is why he’d be my choice with such a rookie board running the club. Not going to happen but that’s my opinion.

[adrian lord]

Shallow shysters. After they have crashed Saints I could easily see Rasmus and his SR cronies turning their hands to running a televangelist type credit card ministry.