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Reply | SFC 5th worst ranked in the PL for paying players who don’t play!
at 16:34 22 Dec 2024
If we are ranked 1st not 5th then why are Chelsea shown as top of the rankings with a 1. beside their name to denote they are ranked 1st???
Overall, Southampton are ranked 5th as there are two criteria clubs are judged by,
1) They are ranked by the raw value of all of their players unused minutes
and
2) They are ranked by the percentage of their payroll that's going to unused minutes.
To give the overall ranking as shown on the site they combine the two separate criteria to give an overall ranking. So, we are the 5th worst ranked as the site and London Saint rightly say. |
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Reply | Rohl
at 00:03 17 Dec 2024
and Rohl out the red carpet to give him a decent welcome  |
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Reply | Are football managers immune from 'Fair Dismissal?
at 19:09 10 Dec 2024
Agreed, and to add to it, Martin could claim he wasn’t given the tools to enable him to do his job properly, I.e. quality of players, no established PL CF signed, failure to sign his No.1 requested target O’Riley who went to Brighton ect, ect…
Please note I am NOT sticking up for RM here just agreeing it would be very difficult to make a ‘fair dismissal’ happen.
The answer lies with rolling contracts. Make all managers contracts 12 months rolling contracts that renew on June 1st every year. Maximum pay-off would then be measured in months and relinquished at the point the manager was re-employed. Yes, it would technically make good managers at smaller clubs more susceptible to being poached and the compo less but if a manager sees what he thinks is a better opportunity they walk anyway (as RM did from Swansea)
It would take UEFA to grow a pair and bring this in as a rule to put an end to the nonsense of over rewarding failure for an extended period of time. |
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Reply | Rumours
at 14:46 10 Dec 2024
RM should wear a Hat Knut as he appears to have a screw loose 😃 |
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Reply | Hang on. Why is today a day off???
at 15:55 9 Dec 2024
I have a solution to this logistical problem that would give him a full 7 days every week to split between The Pinder and his kids 😀 |
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Reply | Is fan sentiment changing?
at 12:55 9 Dec 2024
Some years ago David Pleat was co-coms on a live game where the fans were protesting loudly for the manager to be sacked, Pleat’s observation was along the lines of when the fans call for the manager to go the board back him but when they call for the board to go they sack him!
I think the Spurs game is the perfect opportunity for the Northam Wall Of Sound to cause maximum embarrassment to SR as it is live on TV and therefore broadcast to the world. To the same tune we first sang Nathan Jones, your football is sh!t (away at Palace after about his sixth game in charge!!) I would suggest the following:
1 - Same song, just swap RM for NJ
2 - Same song, but change lyrics to RM f@@k off out of our club
3 - Same song, but swap SR for RM as in 2 above
4 - Same song, but change lyrics to Our owners are sh!t, our owners are sh!t. sport republic, our owners are sh!t
That should get the message across pound and clear. |
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Reply | End of the world according to the heil.
at 23:15 3 Dec 2024
Like the fabled cockroach you can bet RM would survive, the metorite would be heading for Southampton but RM's vibes means it would go sideways, backwards and further sideways before totalling P****mouth and doing £5bn's worth of improvements. |
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Reply | Never mind the (VAR) B0ll0x
at 21:04 30 Nov 2024
Make that 3 pens! Boscombe got awarded a third Pen about 15 mins from the end of the game. Can’t wait to see the ex-Skate do his post match interview on MOTD! |
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Reply | Var
at 22:36 29 Nov 2024
VUNTS |
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Reply | Return Dates Set For Injured Southampton Duo Ramsdale And Bednarek
at 17:44 22 Nov 2024
Last week, at the age of 51, Paddy McGuinness cycled from Wrexham to Glasgow on a Raleigh Chopper bike for BBC Children In Need raising over £9m. He did this in 4.5 days so was cycling approx 70 miles a day, there or thereabouts for the first 4 days, less on the last day arriving in Glasgow Friday lunchtime. The route took him through the steep hills of the Lake District and then over Shap Summit. He’s a 51 y/o Radio 2 DJ, had Ross Stewart, a 28 y/o professional sportsman been asked to do it, when they went over to the mobile reporter based at the first day lunch stop and asked if he was there yet, the reply would have been…. he’s two weeks away 😂 |
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Reply | Return Dates Set For Injured Southampton Duo Ramsdale And Bednarek
at 15:12 22 Nov 2024
What will it take for him not to be proud of his team?
* 35% possession
* The keeper hoofing the ball clear so long and so high it comes down with snow on it midway in our attacking half of the pitch
* Defenders clearing the ball in a similar fashion
* Midfielders playing quick incisive forward passes, not sideways and backwards triangles
* Wingers putting crosses into the box for AA who forsakes his wide position and plays as a CF or for Tall Paul when he comes on for the last 20 minutes
* In summary, totally ignoring RM’s cr@p tactics and doing their own thing
#Mistrust the process, he can’t drop everybody ⚽️ |
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Reply | Bollocks…..
at 19:44 20 Nov 2024
Agree 100% with both of you. I have always maintained that we got promoted last season despite RM not because of him. Because he is so stubborn I don’t think he is either capable of change or even willing to consider it so we are effectively relegated as possession football seems to have SR in some kind of induced hypnotic state and therefore they seem to have no intention of changing anything. What grieves me is how unnecessary this all is and what it will cost us going forwards, and I don’t just mean in terms of lost revenue but also our best / most promising young players. All for the flawed belief in a system of playing that was never fit for purpose. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 18:56 19 Nov 2024
That’s an improvement on my mate in Chicago who has just got shot IN his Tesla 😮 |
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