| No subject 10:33 - Feb 17 with 1211 views | kingslandstand1 |
Pretty good summary taken from one of the Echo online comments after Bree has said things can't get any worse
"Unless and until we get an NC or Peter Kenyon type CEO with a clear cut vision to improve in every area, even mattresses, then we are truly dead in the water.
It wasn't luck it was pulling everything together, there will be bumps in the road, Paards won a cup but was expected to get promotion, we should have won the Championship and Kat should have stayed out of the picture, nonetheless until her last mega fall out with NC we were flying and as Wenger, SAF, Bruce, MoPo all stated we were the best team they played in 2012/2013, everyone was on board.
It was an era of three steps forward and an occasional step back, now it is full retreat and not a single battle won except by sheer luck.
We can accept set backs as long as the direction of travel is overall onwards and upwards.
SR keep taking cheap options in place of a defined mission to get on the front foot, managers, player choices, what was the point of Archer, Lallana, Frazer, why lose Alcaraz, I mean it's left right and centre atrocious decision making, any good 'uns have been sold, it's crazy in technocolour.
Get as close as you can to an NC and start afresh. |  | | |  |
| No subject on 09:21 - Feb 22 with 805 views | SaintNick |
I don't really agree with most of this, although the footballing side of things was ok under NC, the commercial side of the club was in a terrible state and when he left without Kat stepping in, we would have headed for bankruptcy.
Now it is the opposite, it looks like the club is in a good position off the pitch in terms of sponsorship income, marketing and trying to make St Mary's something more than a football stadium and in doing so bring in more income.
Where I do agree with is that we need a director of football who knows what he is doing in terms of running that side of things, NC had Les Reed, much maligned by some on here at the time, on reflection he did much of the groundwork that took the club from League 1 to the Premier league, we need someone like that now |  |
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| No subject on 12:05 - Feb 22 with 709 views | mushinexile |
Oh, Fu cking goody! The club has an income and we aren't going bust. Whoop de doo!
Although we have managed nine points in twenty five games- so what? We have got sponsorship income.
NICK HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? |  | | |
| No subject on 12:14 - Feb 22 with 692 views | Southamptonfan |
| No subject on 09:21 - Feb 22 by SaintNick |
I don't really agree with most of this, although the footballing side of things was ok under NC, the commercial side of the club was in a terrible state and when he left without Kat stepping in, we would have headed for bankruptcy.
Now it is the opposite, it looks like the club is in a good position off the pitch in terms of sponsorship income, marketing and trying to make St Mary's something more than a football stadium and in doing so bring in more income.
Where I do agree with is that we need a director of football who knows what he is doing in terms of running that side of things, NC had Les Reed, much maligned by some on here at the time, on reflection he did much of the groundwork that took the club from League 1 to the Premier league, we need someone like that now |
Things won't be good off the pitch, if we stay in the championship for a few years. SR are terrible owners. 6 managers in what 3 years? Wasting millions on terrible players. 2 relegations in 3 years. I would have NC back in an instant. The culture then was about success and winning. The culture now is lose every week, who cares, let's build a theme park outside the ground. | |
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| No subject on 13:02 - Feb 22 with 654 views | Butty101 |
| No subject on 09:21 - Feb 22 by SaintNick |
I don't really agree with most of this, although the footballing side of things was ok under NC, the commercial side of the club was in a terrible state and when he left without Kat stepping in, we would have headed for bankruptcy.
Now it is the opposite, it looks like the club is in a good position off the pitch in terms of sponsorship income, marketing and trying to make St Mary's something more than a football stadium and in doing so bring in more income.
Where I do agree with is that we need a director of football who knows what he is doing in terms of running that side of things, NC had Les Reed, much maligned by some on here at the time, on reflection he did much of the groundwork that took the club from League 1 to the Premier league, we need someone like that now |
Thats not true regarding commercial income. Its improved by approx 2% in a decade ago.
2022/23 turnover 145mill commercial 18mill (12.4% of turnover) (last accounts) debt 94mill
2015 turnover 114mill commercial 11 mill (10.4% of turnover) debt 66mill
https://swissramble.substack.com/p/southampton-finances-202223
https://swissramble.blogspot.com/search/label/Southampton |  |
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| No subject on 16:43 - Feb 22 with 530 views | Ron11 |
| No subject on 12:05 - Feb 22 by mushinexile |
Oh, Fu cking goody! The club has an income and we aren't going bust. Whoop de doo!
Although we have managed nine points in twenty five games- so what? We have got sponsorship income.
NICK HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? |
Even sponsors won't want to be associated with this shite | | | |
| No subject on 16:56 - Feb 22 with 489 views | saintwizzler |
We need some decent players.
These are Championship standard at most.
Ramsdale aside. |  |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| No subject on 17:23 - Feb 22 with 424 views | grumpy |
| No subject on 16:56 - Feb 22 by saintwizzler |
We need some decent players.
These are Championship standard at most.
Ramsdale aside. |
You won’t get that until we get things right off the pitch. |  | | |
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