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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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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 13:22 28 Jan 2025
Good conspiratorial stuff, Jelly. I'm glad you're still keeping the flame burning.
I suppose it would be silly of me to ask who will be telling them to hand over the batton to Farage? Or is that the point, we can never know. We know 'they' will but we can't know any more than that.
She's a good actor Rachel Reeves because she never mentions any of that when she's interviewed, the little minx.
Don't take your eyes off the moon Jelly. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 11:50 28 Jan 2025
Adopting a Thatcherite 'austerity' response to the financial crisis, taking us into a futile Bexit sideshow, appointing a clown as leader, then (it seems to me) a complete nutcase who crashed the economy, meant that for 14 years this country treaded water at best under the Conservative Party (and the decisions of its stupid members as to who should lead the country).
Labour has a massive majority so is not bothered by infighting and trying to stay in power like the Conservatives were.
It had to balance the books in its first Budget which was painful but now at least they seem to be trying to focus on growing the economy, without too much infighting or other distractions. It isn't all about tax.
They've got 5 years. They haven't even had 1 yet.
I'll judge them after 2/3 years to see how they're doing. They're not going to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse in 5 minutes. [Post edited 28 Jan 11:50]
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Reply | Juric
at 13:37 27 Jan 2025
Wake me up in August 2026. |
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Reply | Walker-Peters - off to Galatasaray??
at 21:20 26 Jan 2025
I've seen few players as comfortable on the ball as KWP.
He's not got the tricks of Boufal, but his close control is sublime. |
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