Sport Republic Announce Major Changes - Semmens Gone

Yes, this infuriates me. Normally it’s an excuse to be ignorant and not vote.

 

Thanks....oh...

 

This is the horrible part of relegation, but sadly part of parcel.

 

Whereas some of those that brought this about by not putting a shift in, week in, week out, will move on and possibly get a pay rise.....professional sport in a nutshell.

 

So you could say Southampton has been expelling Semmens

 

Sure the players (who got us relegated) will still enjoy picking up their huge pay packets.

Makes me sick.

 

Saints confirm further senior appointments at Staplewood
https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/ne...irm-further-senior-appointments-at-staplewood

Southampton Football Club is pleased to confirm two further senior appointments at Staplewood Campus, with Mark Bitcon joining as Director of Performance and Darren Mowbray as Head of Recruitment.

Bitcon moves to Saints from England Rugby, where he has been Head of Athletic Performance and Innovation for the past two years, working across both the men’s and women’s programmes. He previously spent four years as Director of Performance Services at Manchester City’s academy and prior to that held similar roles at Wigan Warriors and across international sport.

He will oversee all performance areas including science, medicine, psychology and performance analysis at Southampton and across all Sport Republic teams.

Mowbray arrives from Aberdeen, having joined the Scottish Premier League side – who finished third in this season’s table – as Head of Recruitment in 2021. Prior to that, he held senior roles at Burnley, Middlesbrough and Leeds.

Bitcon and Mowbray will join the club later this summer, with Mowbray serving his notice at Aberdeen until 1st July. They will both work as part of the team under incoming Director of Football Jason Wilcox.

 

Bitcon sounds a bit cryptic.

 

I'm not sure if we should we be investing in cryptocurrencies.

 

Also heard the goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes is leaving as well.

Is anyone staying on?

 

Makes sense, Russell Martin took Dean Thornton along to Swansea with him and I guess he'd want him here too.

Will be quite happy if we stop forcing the same coaching staff on managers, as we did with Ralph.

 

It looks like Solak has had enough after this season and decided on a root and branch complete overhaul at all levels of the club and who can blame him? it's his investment.

 

Shame that W.Ankersen is still around, and survives the purge

 

Best advice is to Hodl

 

Didn’t we have him as a manger in 2001?

 

Exactly as I thought he would.

 

Keep your eyes peeled.
I'm extremely interested in what Dragan has to say, And it'll be interesting to see if Rasmus will openly say he will keep himself away from the recruitment side too.

 

Interesting they’ve done it via the Echo. Always used to be The BBC or The Athletic who got these kinds of exclusives.