| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? 17:26 - Feb 8 with 2973 views | saintmark1976 |
Two Premiership wins all season and another pathetic display today against a makeshift Burnley.
Sports Republic, as your only skill set appears to be building Fanszones and Pubs here’s an idea for you :-
Sell St Mary’s for property development, take the proceeds and bugger off.
At least then the fans could reconstitute a proper football club with the same objectives it had when originally formed in 1885, to play football and win matches.
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 08:34 - Feb 9 with 2210 views | City_boy |
None of us are happy how this season has panned out, but this suggestion (if you are serious) is absurd. | | | |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 09:30 - Feb 9 with 2138 views | arfurdent |
It would make a great site for a new gasworks
but it would be a shame to mess with things |  |
| And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 11:09 - Feb 9 with 2031 views | saintmark1976 |
The point I was attempting to make was that Southampton Football Club and Sports Republic are basically incompatible.
Supporters of The Saints want a football club. Sports Republic want an entertainment business with a couple of football teams ( mens and ladies ) attached.
Every week nearly without fail I receive another email attempting to extract money from me. Play on the pitch, buy your Christmas Party in January, visit our Pub to watch the Super Bowl etc etc etc.
Whilst all their requests for money are going on we have one of the worst mens football teams I’ve seen since 1959 who were utterly pathetic against Burnley yesterday.
Ideally I wish Sport Republic would sell the club to a buyer who was interested in football or as I mentioned previously just bugger off. [Post edited 9 Feb 11:13]
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 11:26 - Feb 9 with 1974 views | PatfromPoole |
It has become increasingly clear to me that the business model is to use money from the Premier League (not the Premiership, there is little money in Scotland) to fund the advancement of clubs in Turkey and France.
We have massively overpaid for a young CB from Valenciennes. That will help them to fund a bid for promotion.
It is a ridiculous business model. They will not make big money from either Turkey or France.
At the same time, we have recruited horrifically badly.
Difficult for me to see a happy ending to this farrago. |  |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 14:41 - Feb 9 with 1816 views | SonicBoom |
For me it's clear that SR have had one problem. Recruitment.
We've spent money but over the last three years we have just bought players who turned out not to be good enough. Very few have been a success.
That extends to the managers.
It's a simple equation. If you buy well and those players come good, you rise, like Brighton and Bournemouth. If you buy and those players don't step up then you start to drop.
It's not easy. You just need more hits than misses. Clearly we were spoilt in the Pochetino and koeman days. |  | | |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 15:45 - Feb 9 with 1731 views | dirk_doone |
You should read The Bromley Boys: The True Story of Supporting the Worst Football Club in Britain.
Bromley are now having the best season in their entire history. Unfortunately, Dave Roberts, the author of that book, never lived to see it, which just goes to show, there is always hope that things will get better, even if it happens after you die. |  |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:00 - Feb 9 with 1697 views | saintwizzler |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 15:45 - Feb 9 by dirk_doone |
You should read The Bromley Boys: The True Story of Supporting the Worst Football Club in Britain.
Bromley are now having the best season in their entire history. Unfortunately, Dave Roberts, the author of that book, never lived to see it, which just goes to show, there is always hope that things will get better, even if it happens after you die. |
It’s like the last relegation season all over again.
Sacked Hasenhüttl too late.
Sacked Martin too late.
Got Jones in, a cheap manager with no PL experience.
Got Juric in, a cheap manager with no PL experience.
Will these cretins ever learn!!??
But we’ve got a pub and some fanzones.
They’ve bought the cement works to redevelop.
CLUB IS FÜCKED |  |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:30 - Feb 9 with 1661 views | City_boy |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:00 - Feb 9 by saintwizzler |
It’s like the last relegation season all over again.
Sacked Hasenhüttl too late.
Sacked Martin too late.
Got Jones in, a cheap manager with no PL experience.
Got Juric in, a cheap manager with no PL experience.
Will these cretins ever learn!!??
But we’ve got a pub and some fanzones.
They’ve bought the cement works to redevelop.
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Which manager, with Premier League experience, that was available and willing to come to Saints, should we have got ? | | | |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:13 - Feb 9 with 1615 views | PatfromPoole |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:30 - Feb 9 by City_boy |
Which manager, with Premier League experience, that was available and willing to come to Saints, should we have got ? |
Cooper.
Ridiculously sacked by Leicester.
He would at least have got us back up. [Post edited 9 Feb 17:14]
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:19 - Feb 9 with 1589 views | saintwizzler |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:30 - Feb 9 by City_boy |
Which manager, with Premier League experience, that was available and willing to come to Saints, should we have got ? |
This relegation season or the last? | |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:20 - Feb 9 with 1579 views | saintwizzler |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:13 - Feb 9 by PatfromPoole |
Cooper.
Ridiculously sacked by Leicester.
He would at least have got us back up. [Post edited 9 Feb 17:14]
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Yes but like Moyes or Dyche he isn’t good enough for our fanbase. | |
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It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:21 - Feb 9 with 1579 views | sledger |
agree with most of whats said but dont include the young french centre back in that hes going to make a good player in my humble oppinion | | | |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:24 - Feb 9 with 1554 views | Bridders2 |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:30 - Feb 9 by City_boy |
Which manager, with Premier League experience, that was available and willing to come to Saints, should we have got ? |
After the Bournemouth game we should have dug deep and appointed Moyes. Potter would never have come but Moyes might of fancied the beautiful South Coast as he nears retirement.
SR left it all too late. | | | |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:32 - Feb 9 with 1526 views | saintmark1976 |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:30 - Feb 9 by City_boy |
Which manager, with Premier League experience, that was available and willing to come to Saints, should we have got ? |
If it were not possible to obtain a manager with Premier League experience what then stopped them obtaining Danny Rohl from Sheffield Wednesday ? A manager with Championship experience to attempt to guide us back to The Premiership next season.
Answers on a post card please to Sports Republic.My suggestion being that they would have had to pay compensation, so the man with no Premiership or Championship experience got the gig because he was free.
In my opinion Sports Republic couldn’t successfully run a bath or manage to get home on a dark night as is proven by their record of relegating a Premier League team twice in three seasons. [Post edited 9 Feb 19:58]
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 18:18 - Feb 9 with 1456 views | PatfromPoole |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:32 - Feb 9 by saintmark1976 |
If it were not possible to obtain a manager with Premier League experience what then stopped them obtaining Danny Rohl from Sheffield Wednesday ? A manager with Championship experience to attempt to guide us back to The Premiership next season.
Answers on a post card please to Sports Republic.My suggestion being that they would have had to pay compensation, so the man with no Premiership or Championship experience got the gig because he was free.
In my opinion Sports Republic couldn’t successfully run a bath or manage to get home on a dark night as is proven by their record of relegating a Premier League team twice in three seasons. [Post edited 9 Feb 19:58]
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The Premier League. | |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 20:08 - Feb 9 with 1351 views | saintwizzler |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 17:32 - Feb 9 by saintmark1976 |
If it were not possible to obtain a manager with Premier League experience what then stopped them obtaining Danny Rohl from Sheffield Wednesday ? A manager with Championship experience to attempt to guide us back to The Premiership next season.
Answers on a post card please to Sports Republic.My suggestion being that they would have had to pay compensation, so the man with no Premiership or Championship experience got the gig because he was free.
In my opinion Sports Republic couldn’t successfully run a bath or manage to get home on a dark night as is proven by their record of relegating a Premier League team twice in three seasons. [Post edited 9 Feb 19:58]
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Danny Rohl has Premier League experience.
£5m was too much for Sport Republic.
We have some fanzones and a pub that opens at 9am daily though
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| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 22:19 - Feb 9 with 1207 views | PatfromPoole |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 20:08 - Feb 9 by saintwizzler |
Danny Rohl has Premier League experience.
£5m was too much for Sport Republic.
We have some fanzones and a pub that opens at 9am daily though
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I think Juric must be waiting for them to open at 9am based on his selections yesterday. | |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 07:42 - Feb 10 with 1036 views | saintwizzler |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 22:19 - Feb 9 by PatfromPoole |
I think Juric must be waiting for them to open at 9am based on his selections yesterday. |
A team with 4 full backs and no striker.
Nice one Ivan. | |
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It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 12:43 - Feb 10 with 862 views | arfurdent |
even Wayne Rooney would do better | |
| And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 12:57 - Feb 10 with 840 views | franniesTache |
Put this elsewhere but this is my opinion on it all.
It's been death by a thousand cuts really, I liked Ralph for large periods but by the end he was completely spent, the mistake with him was not getting rid sooner - especially as he said he was off at the end of that season and became a lame duck.
We should've sacked Ralph at the end of the season and spent the summer getting the right man in. We didn't so it went to shit.
Then we brought in Jones, some of the stuff he did i actually still don't think was as terrible as people made out, he kicked the players up the arse which needed doing and he called out our more self entitled parts of fanbase which needed doing, but on the pitch he was fundamentally not even close to being good enough.
Unfortunately once again we waited far too late to get rid of him, which should've happened after the Forest home game when it was obvious how bad he was.
Then we brought in Selles who just felt like SR had basically given up, held their hands up, said "f*cked if we know" and put him in. The major mistake there was bringing in a person who'd never managed a club and expecting them to learn their trade at possibly the worst time you could learn your trade, during a catastrophic relegation battle where what we needed was someone who had been there before (but probably wouldn't have been popular with our more hipster elements in our support).
So obviously we went down and sacked him, that brought in Martin. I still think Martin was the wrong choice from day one but luckily we had a squad good enough to get us up anyway.
I think it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that if Martin continued with his footballing style we'd be torn apart every week, he took a team that conceded a ton of goals and created a small amount in the championship, but managed to win because we had better players, into a league where we'd concede loads of goals, create very few and have significantly worse players.
It was a recipe for disaster.
In my opinion a good owner would've said thanks for promotion and here's your P45 the day after the play offs, but i could sort of understand the logic that said give him a chance in the premier league.
The issue once more came about because we didn't just give him a chance, we hung on way, way too long, put the club in a position that meant we couldn't rescue it, destroyed the players confidence and made us deeply unattractive to any other manager.
So when the finally sacked him and brought in Juric they basically had to bring in a "Mark Hughes" style coach. Juric probably wouldn't have been my first choice.
We had two choices in reality, give up on the season completely, look at the long term and build going forward. For me that choice would've been spending what was needed and getting Rohl in, and given the way Rohl plays it would take time for that to bed so doing it now wouldn't be the worst thing, because if we do sack Juric and go for him we'll potentially f*ck up the start to the championship season.
Or option two get in a pragmatist like Juric who will spot fix the worst things - an inability to attack, playing players in the wrong position, the beaver like approach to damn building through slow, ponderous, insane passing and the woefully poor fitness levels of the squad. But know we'd probably still go down and know that we've got ourselves a fairly bog standard, nothing special but competent manager.
SR obviously went with option two, the big question now is if it goes wrong will they finally learn to act faster. I very much doubt it, and i'm not that confident about coming straight back up next time round either. |  | | |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 12:57 - Feb 10 with 840 views | franniesTache |
duplicate post ignore [Post edited 10 Feb 12:59]
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 15:04 - Feb 10 with 711 views | felly1 |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 12:57 - Feb 10 by franniesTache |
Put this elsewhere but this is my opinion on it all.
It's been death by a thousand cuts really, I liked Ralph for large periods but by the end he was completely spent, the mistake with him was not getting rid sooner - especially as he said he was off at the end of that season and became a lame duck.
We should've sacked Ralph at the end of the season and spent the summer getting the right man in. We didn't so it went to shit.
Then we brought in Jones, some of the stuff he did i actually still don't think was as terrible as people made out, he kicked the players up the arse which needed doing and he called out our more self entitled parts of fanbase which needed doing, but on the pitch he was fundamentally not even close to being good enough.
Unfortunately once again we waited far too late to get rid of him, which should've happened after the Forest home game when it was obvious how bad he was.
Then we brought in Selles who just felt like SR had basically given up, held their hands up, said "f*cked if we know" and put him in. The major mistake there was bringing in a person who'd never managed a club and expecting them to learn their trade at possibly the worst time you could learn your trade, during a catastrophic relegation battle where what we needed was someone who had been there before (but probably wouldn't have been popular with our more hipster elements in our support).
So obviously we went down and sacked him, that brought in Martin. I still think Martin was the wrong choice from day one but luckily we had a squad good enough to get us up anyway.
I think it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that if Martin continued with his footballing style we'd be torn apart every week, he took a team that conceded a ton of goals and created a small amount in the championship, but managed to win because we had better players, into a league where we'd concede loads of goals, create very few and have significantly worse players.
It was a recipe for disaster.
In my opinion a good owner would've said thanks for promotion and here's your P45 the day after the play offs, but i could sort of understand the logic that said give him a chance in the premier league.
The issue once more came about because we didn't just give him a chance, we hung on way, way too long, put the club in a position that meant we couldn't rescue it, destroyed the players confidence and made us deeply unattractive to any other manager.
So when the finally sacked him and brought in Juric they basically had to bring in a "Mark Hughes" style coach. Juric probably wouldn't have been my first choice.
We had two choices in reality, give up on the season completely, look at the long term and build going forward. For me that choice would've been spending what was needed and getting Rohl in, and given the way Rohl plays it would take time for that to bed so doing it now wouldn't be the worst thing, because if we do sack Juric and go for him we'll potentially f*ck up the start to the championship season.
Or option two get in a pragmatist like Juric who will spot fix the worst things - an inability to attack, playing players in the wrong position, the beaver like approach to damn building through slow, ponderous, insane passing and the woefully poor fitness levels of the squad. But know we'd probably still go down and know that we've got ourselves a fairly bog standard, nothing special but competent manager.
SR obviously went with option two, the big question now is if it goes wrong will they finally learn to act faster. I very much doubt it, and i'm not that confident about coming straight back up next time round either. |
Spot on summary of our club 👏.
We are tailspinning out of control and it just feels like whoever comes in won't be able to arrest the slide we're on.
Any decent manager will want no part of this car crash club.
Maybe this Spor fella will be our saviour. | | | |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:03 - Feb 10 with 654 views | arfurdent |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 12:57 - Feb 10 by franniesTache |
Put this elsewhere but this is my opinion on it all.
It's been death by a thousand cuts really, I liked Ralph for large periods but by the end he was completely spent, the mistake with him was not getting rid sooner - especially as he said he was off at the end of that season and became a lame duck.
We should've sacked Ralph at the end of the season and spent the summer getting the right man in. We didn't so it went to shit.
Then we brought in Jones, some of the stuff he did i actually still don't think was as terrible as people made out, he kicked the players up the arse which needed doing and he called out our more self entitled parts of fanbase which needed doing, but on the pitch he was fundamentally not even close to being good enough.
Unfortunately once again we waited far too late to get rid of him, which should've happened after the Forest home game when it was obvious how bad he was.
Then we brought in Selles who just felt like SR had basically given up, held their hands up, said "f*cked if we know" and put him in. The major mistake there was bringing in a person who'd never managed a club and expecting them to learn their trade at possibly the worst time you could learn your trade, during a catastrophic relegation battle where what we needed was someone who had been there before (but probably wouldn't have been popular with our more hipster elements in our support).
So obviously we went down and sacked him, that brought in Martin. I still think Martin was the wrong choice from day one but luckily we had a squad good enough to get us up anyway.
I think it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that if Martin continued with his footballing style we'd be torn apart every week, he took a team that conceded a ton of goals and created a small amount in the championship, but managed to win because we had better players, into a league where we'd concede loads of goals, create very few and have significantly worse players.
It was a recipe for disaster.
In my opinion a good owner would've said thanks for promotion and here's your P45 the day after the play offs, but i could sort of understand the logic that said give him a chance in the premier league.
The issue once more came about because we didn't just give him a chance, we hung on way, way too long, put the club in a position that meant we couldn't rescue it, destroyed the players confidence and made us deeply unattractive to any other manager.
So when the finally sacked him and brought in Juric they basically had to bring in a "Mark Hughes" style coach. Juric probably wouldn't have been my first choice.
We had two choices in reality, give up on the season completely, look at the long term and build going forward. For me that choice would've been spending what was needed and getting Rohl in, and given the way Rohl plays it would take time for that to bed so doing it now wouldn't be the worst thing, because if we do sack Juric and go for him we'll potentially f*ck up the start to the championship season.
Or option two get in a pragmatist like Juric who will spot fix the worst things - an inability to attack, playing players in the wrong position, the beaver like approach to damn building through slow, ponderous, insane passing and the woefully poor fitness levels of the squad. But know we'd probably still go down and know that we've got ourselves a fairly bog standard, nothing special but competent manager.
SR obviously went with option two, the big question now is if it goes wrong will they finally learn to act faster. I very much doubt it, and i'm not that confident about coming straight back up next time round either. |
totally agree | |
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And the Red Queen's off with her head |
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 16:49 - Feb 10 with 599 views | DorsetIan |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 15:04 - Feb 10 by felly1 |
Spot on summary of our club 👏.
We are tailspinning out of control and it just feels like whoever comes in won't be able to arrest the slide we're on.
Any decent manager will want no part of this car crash club.
Maybe this Spor fella will be our saviour. |
This Spor fella who was selected by Sports Republic ?? [Post edited 10 Feb 19:15]
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| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 19:03 - Feb 10 with 464 views | dirk_doone |
| As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ? on 15:04 - Feb 10 by felly1 |
Spot on summary of our club 👏.
We are tailspinning out of control and it just feels like whoever comes in won't be able to arrest the slide we're on.
Any decent manager will want no part of this car crash club.
Maybe this Spor fella will be our saviour. |
"Any decent manager will want no part of this car crash club."
There are so few well-paid managerial posts available, that we should have no problem finding a good one who wants to come here in the summer. The bigger problem will be recruiting decent players. The worse our reputation becomes, the harder that's going to get. You can predict already, that our better players would all rather move elsewhere in the summer and you can't see them encouraging other players to come here.
"Maybe this Spor fella will be our saviour."
He's a Sport Republic appointment and has he ever saved anybody else?
Our underlying problem is that Ankersen likes to do things his own way. He writes books and gives talks about it. "Embrace Failure" is a key part of his philosophy. Cortese had the right idea. He studied what other successful clubs did and then copied it. His philosphy was essentially, Copy Success, and that's what we should be doing now. [Post edited 10 Feb 19:14]
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