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Reply | Team news for Newcastle game
at 21:10 24 Jan 2025
Honestly Nick is there nothing that you won’t say to provide cover for Sports Republic’s individuals ?
I’m totally disinterested in which one of the incompetents has responsibilities for this that or the other.
Two relegations in three seasons and one win ( a lucky one at that against Everton ) this season speaks volumes as to their collective uselessness. |
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Reply | That’ll do me
at 08:22 23 Jan 2025
Not difficult to see why England haven’t won a major tournament for 59 years is it ?
England managers never play in form flair players.
Perhaps the new guy will be different but somehow I doubt it. |
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Reply | Newcastle Ticket Exchange
at 12:41 22 Jan 2025
Spot on wizzler.
What’s interesting to me is not the fact that there are 250 tickets going spare. More relevant is that unlike last season’s “ sold out” games, very few people want to buy them.
If season ticket holders can’t be bothered to attend and non season ticket holders can’t be arsed either then Sports Republic really do have a long term problem.
I suspect that next terms season ticket take up ( or lack of ) could well come as quite a shock to the incompetents currently in control of our club. |
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Reply | Cornet sounds flat note
at 21:56 20 Jan 2025
Even that’s stretching the definition of “ played “ to its absolute limit. |
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Reply | Burnley FA Cup
at 21:53 20 Jan 2025
Absolutely UTS1885.
Send the completely out of touch incompetent doughnuts at Sports Republic a message.
Don’t purchase their overpriced F A Cup tickets with insidious booking fees.
Spend the money you save by not buying tickets, travel and food on something useful for yourself, your partner, kids or just give it to charity. |
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Thread | Is Ramsdale the keeper he was or is he simply behind an utterly pathetic defence
at 18:33 19 Jan 2025
Beaten today by two shots from way outside the big box and a header from distance, not forgetting letting one through his arms that looked exceptionally fortunate to be ruled out by V A R.
To me he looks a shadow of the keeper he was when he played for Bournemouth/Sheffield Utd and Arsenal although he was of course relegated from the Premiership with his first two clubs.
Whatever happens for the remainder of the season it’s very doubtful he will play for us in The Championship but on his current form it’s looking extremely unlikely that we will recover what we paid for him. [Post edited 19 Jan 18:41]
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Reply | A thread for good news only
at 14:47 17 Jan 2025
Given the fact that we have only one major trophy to our credit in 140 years, I don’t imagine that those tasked with dusting the trophy cabinet will be overly stretched n the next 125. |
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Reply | Record breakers
at 09:15 17 Jan 2025
It’s all gone very quiet on here from the “ It’s all Russell Martins fault” brigade.
Different manager, rinse and repeat results which simply confirms that the squad assembled by Sports Republic never had a chance of being vaguely competitive.
Sports Republic’s employees are an object lesson in ineptitude a fact confirmed by two relegations from the Premiership in just three seasons. |
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Reply | Man U - Saints thread
at 22:45 16 Jan 2025
Spot on Southamptonfan.
I got slaughtered early in the season when I attempted to point out that it wasn’t all Russell Martins fault and that the whole squad weren’t good enough to compete at Premiership level, irrespective of the manager.
Here we are now with a different manager and “ yes” the playing style has changed, but it’s made no difference whatsoever to our results.
Fault for our current situation doesn’t rest with our managers. Fault rests squarely with Sports Republic’s total ineptitude in the assembly of a squad which never had the slightest chance of being competitive this season.
We were relegated weeks ago and unless and until our owner dispense with the services of the likes of Ankerson to name but one, we will not be playing again in The Premiership for many a season. Put simply, as two relegations in three seasons prove, they aren’t up to the job and never will be. [Post edited 16 Jan 22:52]
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Reply | Man U - Saints thread
at 22:08 16 Jan 2025
Rinse and repeat, it’s the Southampton way don’t you know.
Exactly the same every time we play away in the Premiership, which season it doesn’t matter.
Boss the game for Seventy minutes once again tonight, creating multiple chances, can’t convert and end up losing a game we should have won easily yet again.
And tomorrow it will be the same old rubbish spouted again.” Good effort, we were unlucky etc etc“.
It’s the Southampton way and it’s the reason we have only won one major trophy since 1885. |
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Reply | Shareholders in Sport Republic
at 17:20 14 Jan 2025
Nick, for all the good he has been to Southampton Football Club and its supporters, there’s a view to take that if Ankerson where to be replaced tomorrow by a pantomime horse, the club and its supporters probably wouldn’t notice any difference. |
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Reply | SR are at it again
at 15:19 14 Jan 2025
Well done Nick “ There’s more joy in heaven at one sinner who repentive etc etc” given that you now appear to acknowledge that the buck at least stops with someone higher up the food chain than some poor unsuspecting ticket office employee as you previously suggested.
Reference your last paragraph.How I wish Solak had said it. At least then we would all appreciate that we had a major shareholder who took a day to day interest and cared for fans who support the club. I’m sure you would agree that recently, all evidence points strongly in the opposite direction. |
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Reply | SR are at it again
at 14:22 14 Jan 2025
Nick, if you think that there is the slightest similarity between the management of a business the size of McDonalds or for that matter Sports Direct compared to Sports Republic you are very simply way off beam.
McDonalds and Sports Direct have thousands of outlets retailing hundreds, if not thousands, of different items in some cases worldwide.
In comparison Sports Republic’s task is to attempt to run a relatively small business with a turnover a fraction of that compared to the two examples you have quoted, with one product and one product only to sell-football.
The fact that they can’t attractively price a 3rd Round Cup game against Swansea with a 16.30 Sunday kick off, speaks volumes as to the ineptitude of their whole organisation. And no that ineptitude isn’t just restricted to a faceless ticket office employee who you suggest was responsible.
Any number of senior management employees from the C E O downwards with their finger on the button should have been able to see that the suggested pricing was wrong. The fact that they didn’t act is testament to their inherent ineptitude fully exampled by the second relegation in three years that now awaits us.
Will today’s Titanic Deck Chair shuffling exercise at Board Level provide a better future ? One can only hope I suppose. |
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Reply | SR are at it again
at 12:39 14 Jan 2025
Nick, over the years you and I have disagreed ( and on occasions agreed ) on many subjects. During that period I’ve always admired you for standing up for S F C when others ( including myself ) were taking them to task.
However, your ongoing defence of Sports Republic in relation to the exorbitant cost of F A Cup tickets is starting to make you look slightly ridiculous.
As a fellow contributor pointed out, if Sports Republic through the actions of their C E O and senior management aren’t responsible for all aspects of S F C ( including ticket pricing ) then exactly who is ?
Honestly Nick, sometimes it really is better not to try and defend the indefensible and this is one of those occasions Sir.
Going forward, what will be interesting for the Burnley game is if Sports Republic learn from their pricing error of the Swansea match. Given the pigs ear of everything else they have done this season I’m not hopeful personally. |
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Reply | Are the days of "woke" ending?
at 16:44 11 Jan 2025
How many more times is it necessary to ask contributors to get the definition correct regarding people who come to this country ?
My understanding is that at law they are asylum seekers and only become illegal immigrants if and when their request for asylum is denied.
By all means have an exchange of opinion as to whether or not they should be in the UK but at least get the basics correct. |
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Reply | As if things could not get any worse for Saints
at 16:21 10 Jan 2025
Well if he did go in January it would save his C V from having to show that he was a keeper who was relegated from the Premier League three times with three different clubs ! |
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