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Reply | Played for Saints and Palace
at 11:58 31 Mar 2025
Im not a great fan of Mccarthy but he has been a decent back up over the years and yes he got an England cap |
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Reply | Back To Reality For Saints On Wednesday But Sadly Nothing Has Changed
at 11:57 31 Mar 2025
You are right their aspirations are different to ours because at the moment they are an established Premier League club, so can attract a better standard of player and manager.
We need a manager who can get us out of the Championship, so in that respect Rohl might be a better bet than an experienced top flight manager.
Our mistake with Martin was that there was no one overseeing him and counselling him, telling him that he had to adapt and stepping in and sacking him when he didnt.
Truth is sometimes good managers fail at one club and succeed at another |
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Reply | Whos Going On Wednesday
at 10:45 31 Mar 2025
Bizarrely almost exactly 49 years to the very day when both clubs were semi finalists in the FA Cup and we met on April 3rd 1976 at Stamford Bridge |
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Thread | John Sainty
at 10:21 31 Mar 2025
According to the Daily Echo he has a new book out, they say
"A book chronicling the footballing adventures of the man who laid the foundations for the famed Southampton Academy and worked with players including Gareth Bale, Adam Lallana and Theo Walcott has been published.
"The completion of Last Man Standing: John Sainty, from Saint to Saints and Beyond has been a labour of love by John's wife of 20 years Lindsay and author Neil Vacher."
I'm not sure that Ted Bates or Lawrie McMenemy would agree that he was the man who liad the foundations of the "Famed Southampton Academy", we were producing great youngsters for 40 years before he arrived at the Dell with David Jones in 1997.
I think he spent about 5 years at the club running the academy.
His best period was in the 70's and early 80's when he was assistant to John Bond at Norwich City and then Manchester City. |
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Thread | This City Is Ours
at 22:15 26 Mar 2025
Anyone watched it. a sort of Scouse Sopranos with Sean Bean |
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Thread | Wanyama
at 22:14 26 Mar 2025
Signed for Dunfermline |
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Thread | Pompey Relegation Fight
at 12:36 26 Mar 2025
If they lose at home to Blackburn at the weekend they could be right back in the mix |
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Reply | Now the can’t even get their own ticketing info correct
at 10:16 26 Mar 2025
I can turn the tables here, I have written many things about Sport Republic, virtually every week I put up something that is critical of Sport Republic, but it is about the manager and the playing side of things.
I have loyalty to Southampton Football Club, but that is a seperate entity to Sport Republic.
But what i see on here sometimes is the opposite, rather than a love of everything SFC, it is a hatred of all and everything and a blame culture.
Sport Republic are not directly responsible for "ALL" things SFC, they pay people to deal with that sort of thing and sometimes in any business things go wrong..
So I chastise SR for not putting in place a Director of football for a year, but if they send out an e mail with a wrong price on it and quickly rectify it, I don't get too bothered, sh*t happens as they say,
I don't think you understand what I said with this
"If you take your last comment that it’s wrong, clouds the water and is counter productive to its ultimate conclusion, then no criticism of Sports Republic ( however small ) would ever be allowed."
You miss the point, i am making, constant bickering about small things just clouds the bigger issues, plenty of criticism of SR is allowed, but when it is of every little thing it is just counter productive, a bit like why people have got sick of the Government blaming the Tories for every thing.
God knows what you mean by these expressions in this contexts |
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Reply | Now the can’t even get their own ticketing info correct
at 08:42 26 Mar 2025
No one is saying that Sport Republic have done a good job, but the way they are getting stick for every little thing is firstly wrong, secondly just clouding the waters on what the real issues are and thirdly counter productive.
Lets get perspective on the core issues |
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Reply | Now the can’t even get their own ticketing info correct
at 10:53 25 Mar 2025
I am taking it in good humour, yes you could say that the ultimately what the ticket office manager does ultimately rests with Sport Republic, but there is the chain of management.
someone mentioned if they have a bad meal at the restaurant they complain to the manager, if it is a small restaurant the manager will probably be the owner, if you are in a Harvester or another chain, not so likely, but you still complain to the manager and not the owner.
So why are people blaming Sport Republic and not the ticket office manager, at the end of the day in the scale of SFC's woe's this year, an e mail giving some wrong info out that was quickly rectified is not the end of the world.
Dragan Solak has a lot more things on his plate than popping over to have a few sharp words with the ticket office manager. |
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Thread | Womans Game At St Mary's
at 22:35 24 Mar 2025
Anyone go to St Mary's on Saturday for the game against Pompey what was it like |
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Reply | Strikers in the Sport Republic reign
at 14:18 24 Mar 2025
I probably wouldn't, but he played his part in our Promotion season and was a good back up.
Yes you will mention Hull City, which is ironic as when I mention Broja and his 6 goals, you always tell me it was his hard work off the ball that made him a good player 
So no I wouldn't sign Mara now, but I think under the right manager, these 5 players might have been looked at a little bit differently |
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Reply | Lies, damned lies and President Felon.
at 14:14 24 Mar 2025
Napoleon was a great General, that cannot be ignored, perhaps it was an age where chivalry was still in place.
I don't think Hitler will ever be replaced, however a few people seem to be fancying their chances these days |
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Reply | Strikers in the Sport Republic reign
at 14:12 24 Mar 2025
When Saints got promoted in 1978, Mike Pickering at the back was a rock in defence alongside Chris Nicholl and Tony Funnell came in late and scored vital goals , both only played 2 games each in the top flight, before being sold on |
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