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Comment | Manchester United, West Ham And Leeds Circling Over Southampton
at 14:32:36
If Bazunu is between the sticks next season we will not be promoted.
He may be a better than average distributor of the ball with his feet but the rest of his game is poor by any metric.
To be frank, I don’t even think we would have made The Championship playoffs had he not been injured toward the end of the season.
McCarthy gets a lot of stick but his inclusion at Bazunu’s expense was ultimately the reason we got to Wembley. |
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Comment | Southampton V Aston Villa The Verdict
at 10:06:38
“ Arsenal aside in the last game of the season, Aston Villa are probably the best side we will face for the rest of the season” ?
Forgotten about Man City Nick ? Current League Champions who are presently ahead of Villa in the table, and put five past Crystal Palace whilst coming from two down on Saturday.
As for our Saturday’s umpteenth humiliation of the season. I didn’t go, so won’t comment.
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Comment | Saints Set To Offload Striker In the Summer
at 10:07:38
I would have thought that Onuachu would be an ideal target man for the rough and tumble of The Championship, but then again I don’t know anything about building fan zones or opening pubs either. |
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Comment | Can This Be The Dawning Of A New Era At Southampton FC
at 11:59:34
Nick, I hardly think that a prosperous and successful new era will dawn simply because a recently hired Sports Republic employee in Spors, does what he’s told by our owners and sacks another recently hired employee in Juric.
Given their disastrous record of two top flight relegations in three seasons, a new era is only in prospect if Sports Republic depart the scene entirely. Unfortunately however, that doesn’t look very likely does it ? |
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Comment | The Odds Are Out On The Next Southampton Manager
at 18:46:06
Gerrard is just another player who attempted to be a manager and failed miserably, much the same as the village idiot Rooney.
Given that our club is owned and run by a bunch of total incompetents I imagine it would be a marriage made in heaven were he to be appointed. |
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Comment | Back To Reality For Saints On Wednesday But Sadly Nothing Has Changed
at 10:18:56
Nick, I’ve disagreed with you previously for in my opinion you being far too pro everything Sports Republic and Southampton Football Club Ltd.
This morning however I take my hat off to you for finally posting an article which I suspect reflects the views of the vast majority of fans.
Will the doughnuts who own and manage Sports Republic take any notice of your views ? I doubt it,
but at least thanks for trying. |
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Comment | Southampton Supporters Enjoy A Rare Happy Weekend
at 11:55:07
Let’s hope that Mr Spors takes the trouble to read your comments Nick. Given Sports Republic’s previous record of non communication with us I’m not hopeful anything will change, but give the man a chance I suppose. |
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Comment | Southampton Supporters Enjoy A Rare Happy Weekend
at 10:45:24
Good effort at rallying the troops Nick.
Honestly though if Juric were to have gone before season end would it not have happened already ?
My concern is that our majority owner has said that we will start next season with Juric in charge.Should that be the case then I don’t fancy the Club’s chances of selling many season tickets during the close season. |
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Comment | Sport Republic Can Be A Big Success For Southampton Says Spors
at 09:28:46
So, a man recently employed by Sports Republic says that Sports Republic can be a big success for Southampton.
What else is he going to say for pity sake ?
He’s hardly likely to say that his employers are utter and complete incompetents is he ?
The facts however ( two Premiership relegations in three years and on course to be the worst team ever to compete in that league ) speak for themselves. |
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Comment | Southampton V Liverpool The Preview
at 14:43:09
Saints are 20/1 with Bedfred for the away win which says more about Sports Republic than it does about the team selected to play Liverpool tomorrow. |
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Comment | Ivan Juric Sacking Rumours Surface
at 22:18:45
So, if he goes it’s because exactly the same as Russell Martin, he was asked by Sports Republic to do the impossible and keep a team of Championship players and football journeymen in the toughest league in the world.
How long is it going to take for supporters to realise where the blame truly lies ?
It rests full square with our owners choice in appointing employees at all levels who haven’t the faintest idea of how to run a bath or get home on a dark night,let alone manage a professional football club. |
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Comment | Henrik Kraft Resigns As A Director Of Sport Republic
at 13:49:38
Absolutely not landsdownsaint, they should never of allowed Ralph to remain in position to start the season during which he was dismissed.
If you recall under his guidance the previous season, we won only one game out of the last fourteen. Had it not been for a brilliant display of goal keeping by Forster in that home game against Arsenal, we would have been in the relegation shake up even then.
Having said that, Sports Republic have made so many mistakes I suppose we all have our individual favourites don’t we ? |
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Comment | Henrik Kraft Resigns As A Director Of Sport Republic
at 12:51:18
So, if your list of board member and senior executives is correct Nick, (and I’ve no reason to think it isn’t) the club can afford to pay these doughnuts inflated salaries to make our club a football laughing stock,but can’t pay staff minimum wage to keep the club shop fully open during the week ?
Sports Republic really are utterly pathetic. |
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Comment | Southampton At Chelsea The Verdict
at 11:50:43
Don’t feel bad about leaving early Nick, a good few season ticket holders can’t now even be bothered to attend home games from the start and they have already paid for the “ privilege “.
I listened to the pre match build up on Radio Solent. Even the perennial fence sitter Blackmore finally appears to have found the courage to apportion blame where it truly lies. He and Tessum both said that fault doesn’t rest with the players who clearly aren’t good enough, nor with the managers, but squarely with Sports Republic and its owners. Unsurprisingly another humiliation followed shortly thereafter.
Will anything change for the better whilst they have the custody of our club ? Not the faintest chance unfortunately.
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Comment | Southampton At Chelsea The Preview
at 13:20:35
Juric picked the team against Brighton by writing all the players names on separate pieces of paper and got someone else to draw them out from a tombola machine.
Unfortunately this evening there is no room on the team coach for the machine, so the names will be draw from a top hat.
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Comment | Juric Gives Reason For Albert Gronbaek Absence ! Why Sign Him Then
at 10:18:40
Good luck to what’s left of our club in trying to sell next season’s tickets if Solak sticks by his promise that Juric will be our manager in the Championship.
There will be plenty of space in the Dell Pub and fan zones and they may as well shut the club shop completely. |
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Comment | Have Southampton Fans Finally Lost Faith With The Club
at 10:50:37
Nick, I glanced at the ticket exchange last Saturday morning. There were 752 season ticket holders seats for resale not 250 as you suggest. Whatever the true figure it certainly didn’t include season holders who couldn’t be bothered to attend or put their tickets on the exchange.
Any organisation that relies upon repeat business ( next season’s ticket sales ) finding that its customers can’t even be bothered to use what they have already paid for ( this season’s tickets ) is in considerable problem.
A contributor to the Forum section of your site pointed out that there is now a chasm between the Club’s ownership and management who want to turn St Mary’s into a theme park ( fans zones, Dell Pub and overpriced hospitality ) and the majority of supporters who just want a competitive football team.
Our club is at a crossroads and sadly I don’t think that its owners or management have the slightest idea as how to get its core supporters back onside. It certainly won’t achieve it by only opening the club shop on the third Wednesday in Lent or alternate Jewish high holidays.
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Comment | Southampton V Bournemouth The Verdict
at 10:33:43
“ Southampton supporters turned up in their usual big numbers”, they didn’t though did they Nick ?
As of Saturday morning there were 752 unsold tickets on the ticket exchange and that figure didn’t include season ticket holders who couldn’t be bothered to put their ticket on the exchange and also stayed at home.
In reality there were unoccupied seats all over St Mary’s for a game against our geographical closest rivals.
As for the game itself you could have rehashed any one of your reports from pretty much any one of this season’s home games bar our only win against Everton.
A clueless rabble of mainly lower division players led by an equally clueless manager. Is it their fault? Of course not.
Blame for our total ineptitude rests with the owners and their employees total mismanagement of what was once a respected Premiership football club.
If Sports Republic remain in control next season’s Championship experience won’t be the novelty it was last season and there will be many other opportunities to see St Mary’s partly full.
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Comment | Southampton V Bournemouth The Preview
at 10:51:48
Spot on Nick, Juric still hasn’t the faintest idea as to his best team, which if nothing else is at least consistent with all other members of Sports Republic’s senior management.
Collectively totally and utterly clueless the lot of them.
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