| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? 07:06 - Mar 17 with 1696 views | PatfromPoole |
The list of runners and riders:
Ankersen
Bitcon
Kraft
Parsons
Dragan
Katharina
This has the smell of Ankersen all over it.
Dragan needs to buy his shares and get him out of Sport Republic. [Post edited 17 Mar 7:07]
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 07:50 - Mar 17 with 1598 views | saintwizzler |
Jones
Selles
Juric
The list goes on. |  |
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It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 07:51 - Mar 17 with 1592 views | Heisenberg |
It’s astonishing. Juric has a terrible record so why he was appointed is a serious question that needs to be answered. |  |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:07 - Mar 17 with 1541 views | arfurdent |
or did the Board ask Baldric for a cunning plan:
- get promoted with Martin
- let Martin's ego loose to let him dig his own P45
- employ a total numpty
- get relegated back to the Championship with two years worth of parachute payments
- sack Juric as the fall guy
- keep the matches hidden until needed again |  |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:07 - Mar 17 with 1541 views | saintmark1976 |
The whole lot of them gather in the Boardroom and the Club’s ceremonial tombola machine (also used to pick the team on match days) is brought out.
Names of applicants on separate pieces of paper are entered into the machine, it’s spun and a cleaner is blindfolded and he/she draws out the name of our next manager.
The Board members then congratulate themselves in once again having avoided all responsibility for the way our club is run. Doubles all round then follow. |  |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:08 - Mar 17 with 1538 views | Butty101 |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 07:50 - Mar 17 by saintwizzler |
Jones
Selles
Juric
The list goes on. |
To be fair Selles is doing alright. Did a good job at reading and now got Hull out of the bottom 3 |  |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:23 - Mar 17 with 1504 views | saintwizzler |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:08 - Mar 17 by Butty101 |
To be fair Selles is doing alright. Did a good job at reading and now got Hull out of the bottom 3 |
Yes as is Nathan Jones at Charlton.
They’ve both found their levels.
Premier League they ain’t. | |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:27 - Mar 17 with 1491 views | saintwizzler |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:07 - Mar 17 by arfurdent |
or did the Board ask Baldric for a cunning plan:
- get promoted with Martin
- let Martin's ego loose to let him dig his own P45
- employ a total numpty
- get relegated back to the Championship with two years worth of parachute payments
- sack Juric as the fall guy
- keep the matches hidden until needed again |
Don’t forget them giving Russell Martin a £75k per week, 3 year contract in the summer.
Shrewd.
When they freeze Season Ticket prices for next season say thanks.
After this record breaking season Sport Republic deserve a thank you. | |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:32 - Mar 17 with 1463 views | Butty101 |
Selles is on par in that case with Danny Rohl. They have a similar record . | |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:42 - Mar 17 with 1429 views | saintwizzler |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 08:32 - Mar 17 by Butty101 |
Selles is on par in that case with Danny Rohl. They have a similar record . |
Correct.
Right up Sport Republic’s street.
The only stumbling block will be compensation to Sheffield Wednesday.
Could be a problem. | |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:15 - Mar 17 with 1368 views | SaintNick |
Why does this smell of Rasmus Ankersen, if it did then we would be in mid table, Ankersen has been running Goztepe who are up in the top 7 of the Turkish League, he was also successful at Brentford and Midjytland, so his CV is good and the smell of Rasmus Ankersen is success in what he does.
I'm not sure what you have got against him or why you believe that he is involved deeply with SFC when his remit is Goztepe.
The issue lay in the fact that for the best part of a year we have had no director of football as such, Bitcon is a stats man not a DOF, Parsons is CEO good at what he does, but no experience on the football side of things in terms of appointing managers buying players etc,
Henrik Kraft left under a cloud in January and had been the Sport Republic man responsible for running SFC up to that point, he would have been consulting both Solak and Ankersen, but ultimately he was were the buck stopped.
I don't know why we didn't replace Wilcox, he may have been big enough to perhaps counsel Russell Martin and not let him run his won personal agenda, we will never know, but the course of this season might have been slightly different, perhaps not staying up, but at least making a fist of it. |  |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:25 - Mar 17 with 1351 views | saint901 |
The fault for the season begins and end with the Board and ownership.
They have tried to do things on the cheap in a league where literally money talks and can be used to gloss over all manner of financial cheating.
You can say that either our Board/owners are too honourable to do that or that they don't have the resources - and therefore not the players, coaches, managers - to compete.
I prefer the latter. | | | |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:29 - Mar 17 with 1343 views | SaintNick |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:25 - Mar 17 by saint901 |
The fault for the season begins and end with the Board and ownership.
They have tried to do things on the cheap in a league where literally money talks and can be used to gloss over all manner of financial cheating.
You can say that either our Board/owners are too honourable to do that or that they don't have the resources - and therefore not the players, coaches, managers - to compete.
I prefer the latter. |
We have spent a lot of money, we have just spent it wrongly both this season and in 2022/23, in the Championship we spent wisely. | |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:42 - Mar 17 with 1319 views | dirk_doone |
I'm not sure that it's a case of lack of money spent ; it's more a case of money being spent unwisely.
Wolves' goalscorer, Strand Larsen, cost them £3 mill for a year's loan. His goals have helped keep them up. We spent £15 mill on Cameron Archer. Maybe, SR thought he'd be a good investment that they would make a profit on. That's the crux of the matter really. We needed to focus on building a Premier League team instead of just buying players in the hope of selling them for a profit. Unfortunately, over the years, prospective owners have seen that as our MO, and that's what's attracted the likes of Gao and SR here: the prospect of buying players cheaply as well as getting some from our academy, and then selling them for a big profit. But, what they fail to realize is that the man responsible for it all, Paul 'Black Box' Mitchell, is long gone, and is now working his magic at Newcastle.
What SR need to do now is study what successful clubs like Bournemouth, Brighton and Forest have been doing and copy them. [Post edited 17 Mar 9:43]
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:50 - Mar 17 with 1286 views | PatfromPoole |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:15 - Mar 17 by SaintNick |
Why does this smell of Rasmus Ankersen, if it did then we would be in mid table, Ankersen has been running Goztepe who are up in the top 7 of the Turkish League, he was also successful at Brentford and Midjytland, so his CV is good and the smell of Rasmus Ankersen is success in what he does.
I'm not sure what you have got against him or why you believe that he is involved deeply with SFC when his remit is Goztepe.
The issue lay in the fact that for the best part of a year we have had no director of football as such, Bitcon is a stats man not a DOF, Parsons is CEO good at what he does, but no experience on the football side of things in terms of appointing managers buying players etc,
Henrik Kraft left under a cloud in January and had been the Sport Republic man responsible for running SFC up to that point, he would have been consulting both Solak and Ankersen, but ultimately he was were the buck stopped.
I don't know why we didn't replace Wilcox, he may have been big enough to perhaps counsel Russell Martin and not let him run his won personal agenda, we will never know, but the course of this season might have been slightly different, perhaps not staying up, but at least making a fist of it. |
Turkey is a schmuck League.
We have signed a number of players and just sent them to Goztepe.
We are the cash cow that Ankersen has used to improve Goztepe.
He is still involved with Saints; he has been at a number of our games this season. I don’t believe he is just focusing on Goztepe. | |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 10:15 - Mar 17 with 1234 views | DorsetIan |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:15 - Mar 17 by SaintNick |
Why does this smell of Rasmus Ankersen, if it did then we would be in mid table, Ankersen has been running Goztepe who are up in the top 7 of the Turkish League, he was also successful at Brentford and Midjytland, so his CV is good and the smell of Rasmus Ankersen is success in what he does.
I'm not sure what you have got against him or why you believe that he is involved deeply with SFC when his remit is Goztepe.
The issue lay in the fact that for the best part of a year we have had no director of football as such, Bitcon is a stats man not a DOF, Parsons is CEO good at what he does, but no experience on the football side of things in terms of appointing managers buying players etc,
Henrik Kraft left under a cloud in January and had been the Sport Republic man responsible for running SFC up to that point, he would have been consulting both Solak and Ankersen, but ultimately he was were the buck stopped.
I don't know why we didn't replace Wilcox, he may have been big enough to perhaps counsel Russell Martin and not let him run his won personal agenda, we will never know, but the course of this season might have been slightly different, perhaps not staying up, but at least making a fist of it. |
It smell of Ankersen because (a) he was front and centre in appointing and then not sacking soon enough Nathan Jones and (b) he just seems like a someone who is a bit of tit and too clever by half and this is what our managerial appointments feel like too.
When you sack a manager who has failed like Martin did, the obvious thing, to most fans, to do is to get in someone who at least has a bit of premier league experience. But again we go for a bizarre choice and fall flat on our faces (just like we did with Jones). | |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 10:33 - Mar 17 with 1199 views | saintwizzler |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:29 - Mar 17 by SaintNick |
We have spent a lot of money, we have just spent it wrongly both this season and in 2022/23, in the Championship we spent wisely. |
We only bought 2 players.
Well Charles and a crock. | |
| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 10:37 - Mar 17 with 1181 views | TripleNiemi |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:15 - Mar 17 by SaintNick |
Why does this smell of Rasmus Ankersen, if it did then we would be in mid table, Ankersen has been running Goztepe who are up in the top 7 of the Turkish League, he was also successful at Brentford and Midjytland, so his CV is good and the smell of Rasmus Ankersen is success in what he does.
I'm not sure what you have got against him or why you believe that he is involved deeply with SFC when his remit is Goztepe.
The issue lay in the fact that for the best part of a year we have had no director of football as such, Bitcon is a stats man not a DOF, Parsons is CEO good at what he does, but no experience on the football side of things in terms of appointing managers buying players etc,
Henrik Kraft left under a cloud in January and had been the Sport Republic man responsible for running SFC up to that point, he would have been consulting both Solak and Ankersen, but ultimately he was were the buck stopped.
I don't know why we didn't replace Wilcox, he may have been big enough to perhaps counsel Russell Martin and not let him run his won personal agenda, we will never know, but the course of this season might have been slightly different, perhaps not staying up, but at least making a fist of it. |
Schmuck league (mind you, give it a few seasons and Saints……..)
* apologies, Pat beat me to it [Post edited 17 Mar 10:38]
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 12:16 - Mar 17 with 1053 views | SaintNick |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:50 - Mar 17 by PatfromPoole |
Turkey is a schmuck League.
We have signed a number of players and just sent them to Goztepe.
We are the cash cow that Ankersen has used to improve Goztepe.
He is still involved with Saints; he has been at a number of our games this season. I don’t believe he is just focusing on Goztepe. |
Turkey is not a top league that is for sure, but we are certainly not a cash cow to Goztepe, how many players have we sent there ? 2.
One Matteus Lis who we got on a free transfer and sold for a million or so and Juan, who we paid about £1 million for and have loaned to them.
If you look at the structure Sport Republic have, Ankersen's remit was at Gotepe, probably because we had Jason Wilcox as DOF, Henrik Kraft was the man overseeing us after Wilcox left, as part owner of SR Ankersen would have input to Kraft as would Solak, but the corporate governance structure would not see him on a day to day or even week to week basis and it is natural that he might attend games from time to time. | |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 12:52 - Mar 17 with 992 views | MytchettSaint |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 12:16 - Mar 17 by SaintNick |
Turkey is not a top league that is for sure, but we are certainly not a cash cow to Goztepe, how many players have we sent there ? 2.
One Matteus Lis who we got on a free transfer and sold for a million or so and Juan, who we paid about £1 million for and have loaned to them.
If you look at the structure Sport Republic have, Ankersen's remit was at Gotepe, probably because we had Jason Wilcox as DOF, Henrik Kraft was the man overseeing us after Wilcox left, as part owner of SR Ankersen would have input to Kraft as would Solak, but the corporate governance structure would not see him on a day to day or even week to week basis and it is natural that he might attend games from time to time. |
One thing I think we can all agree on, despite who has been where and responsible for whoever. Sports Republics time at our club has been a disaster and not many people have any trust in them getting anything right anytime soon, one poor decision seems to follow another. Dragan seems to get a pass whilst Rasmus and Kraft seem to be the fall guys but he's as much to blame as anyone. |  |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 13:30 - Mar 17 with 886 views | saintwizzler |
The strategy
If there is one…
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| We thought that we had the answers,
It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 14:23 - Mar 17 with 842 views | saint901 |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 09:29 - Mar 17 by SaintNick |
We have spent a lot of money, we have just spent it wrongly both this season and in 2022/23, in the Championship we spent wisely. |
A "lot" of money by our standards but nowhere near enough to acquire the quality we needed if we were to look even inept in the PL.
As it is, you are correct, we have spent unwisely and have gone inept to total joke. | | | |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 20:33 - Mar 17 with 682 views | TripleNiemi |
| Which numbskull on the board wanted Juric as boss? on 14:23 - Mar 17 by saint901 |
A "lot" of money by our standards but nowhere near enough to acquire the quality we needed if we were to look even inept in the PL.
As it is, you are correct, we have spent unwisely and have gone inept to total joke. |
Sadly I feel the time has come to move on from St. Mary’s .
Back in the 90’s we had to move from our then small home in order to help us compete financially. After several decades of challenging the elite in the PL we now need a new home with an increased 75,000 capacity to aid our next push.
Onwards and Upwards - We March On | |
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