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Reply | Was it wrong to dispense with RM this season?
at 15:28 18 Feb 2025
Results dictate whether a manager needs to go and results dictated that Ralph, Jones, Selles and Martin all had to go.
Usually, of course, those in charge are not as hopeless as SR in picking a successor and when replacing 4 managers, at least one of them would be a good choice.
Results dictate that Juric needs to go. He has been appalling. And just because Sports Republic couldn't replace a lightbulb doesn't change that fact. |
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Reply | Next Season
at 14:16 17 Feb 2025
Sports Republic were given a real let-off reversing their first relegation after only then finishing 4th.
They couldn't have blown that chance more spectacularly if they'd tried.
Extraordinarily incompetent on pretty much every footballing level, recruitment, managers, contract extensions, you name it. |
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Thread | Self awareness
at 09:59 17 Feb 2025
I am wondering whether those in charge of Sports Republic are every going to look at the string of disastrous managerial decisions that they have made over the last few years and conclude that they are doing something very wrong and that, clearly, these are not decisions that should be left to them.
It's unusual for a turkeys to vote for Christmas, but Keegan did it when he was England manager. Held he hands up and said 'nah, I don't think I can do this'.
Is this level of humility even possible for these people? Or are they busy blaming someone else every time?
Time for a look in the deep dark truthful mirror. |
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Reply | Does Juric know what he is doing?
at 22:48 15 Feb 2025
Season ticket holders have been mugged off this season.
I paid to watch to watch the Club at least try to stay in the league. That’s certainly not been the case since the end of the transfer window and prob since 10 games in when Martin should have gone. |
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Reply | Does Juric know what he is doing?
at 22:43 15 Feb 2025
First half against WH, it looked like Juric had had an instant positive impact.
That didn’t even last until the second half.
Since then he’s been generally abysmal with the odd bright spell to keep those of an optimistic disposition interested in him.
No sensible football club would keep him next season.
Do I need to add the punchline?.... |
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Reply | Exeter
at 19:18 12 Feb 2025
Whereas we are a fan-zoned football club. |
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Reply | Where are we today? And where will be be next year?
at 14:45 12 Feb 2025
Where will we be next year?
It will turn out that Johannes Spor is a footballing genius. He quickly identifies a footballing plan that will both storm the Championship and then act as a sensible platform to push on from in the PL. More to the point, he manages to get all the Sports Republic amateurs to buy into his plan.
A manager to implement the plan is found. He is brought in as soon as we are mathematically relegated and give the chance to asses the current squad for the rest of the season.
A sale and recruitment plan is worked out. Spor turns out to have nose for recruitment too, new players are identified quickly, Solak provides the necessary funds and they are brought in quickly.
The new manager has the whole pre-season to work with them, and we are unstoppable next year.
By mid-Feb 2026 we are 12 points from automatic promotion and the bookies are no longer taking bets on us being Champions.
The team will have moved on fantastically.
And I will still be sitting here eating these mushrooms. |
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Reply | 5 Things About The Burnley Game
at 13:50 12 Feb 2025
"4. I am concerned about the manager, his team selections and substitutions are woeful and I think he is fast splitting the squad into factions"
Exactly this.
He has taken a sledgehammer to what has gone before.
The team needed shaking up and improving, not smashing into chaotic pieces. |
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Reply | As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ?
at 19:21 10 Feb 2025
Background reading on Spor highlights his skills in operating with multi-club structures.
Would explain his appointment.
And we should also all take a massive reality check if we think that he may be a football or recruitment genius or someone with any experience at all in building a team that can win the Championship and then smoothly segue into an outfit that can compete in the PL.
I suspect he might be very good at musical chairs but less good at pinning the tail on the donkey. |
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Reply | Burnley and yesterday
at 10:03 10 Feb 2025
So much now rests with Johannes Spors.
Got to presume that he'll have a major say in whether Juric goes and, if he does, in the appointment of his successor.
If Spors is as effective as most of the recent Sports Republic appointments then we are probably f*cked. We can only hope that he's not. |
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Reply | Juric calls Downes unprofessional live on air
at 09:51 10 Feb 2025
It's too easy to say noone could get results with this squad.
Everything Ron said about Juric is correct. He was an uninspiring appointment and his results have been consistent with that.
Why assume that he isn't any part of the ongoing problem? Just because SR are clowns and the squad is weak, does not mean the manager gets a free pass. |
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Reply | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 09:43 6 Feb 2025
Never mind that, Jelly. What land would you be grabbing if you were the UK? |
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Reply | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 21:45 5 Feb 2025
He's a complete crackpot and completely amoral.
But at least we don't need to take too much he says seriously, given that 99% of it is performative (or simply the first thing that pops into his head). |
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Thread | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 14:36 5 Feb 2025
With Trump offering to buy Greenland, incorporate Canada as the 51st State, and now adding Gaza as 'Miami Beach' on the Med, what 3 areas should the UK be pitching for?
Andalusia would make sense in terms of removing any Gibraltar tensions with Spain and it's a Brit home from home already.
Then I'm very fond of the Dalmatian coast and its always strategically sensible to have a foothold in the Balkans.
And finally, Iceland probably makes sense in terms of geography and promixity to the US (i.e. Greenland). |
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Reply | Adam Armstrong
at 11:01 5 Feb 2025
Can second what Grumpy said at the start of this thread. Lots to thank AA for, including Wembley.
But he is not a PL player. That much is obvious.
So, the answer to improved performances this season does not lie with him.
Maybe it doesn't like with others either, but it definitely does not lie with him.
A loan to WBA was therefore sensible.
The unforgivable thing was not getting anyone else in to try something different with. |
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Reply | Adam Armstrong gone to WBA on loan
at 14:51 4 Feb 2025
He's a great Championship striker. Has proved it all over.
But he's not at PL level and we should have know that from last time around.
I remember watching Solak talking to him and pointing at him when they were picking up the play off trophy and could just imagine the 'you're man, you're going to do so well in the PL' comments.
And he deserved all the praise in the world for his contributions last year, but it was foolish or sentimental to involve him again this season.
But same goes for so many of them. We haven't really tried to build a team that could compete in the PL, and Armstrong personifies that failure.
And letting him go out on loan without replacing him this window just confirms what we already knew about these terrible owners. |
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