I think we misunderstood his mission when he first turned up at St Marys. We had been used to a hands-on, dictator style chairman, who used to give very few interviews, and in each one of those he would re-state that world domination was the aim.
Then along came Krueger. A former ace ice hockey player, and now legendary coach, motivator and public speaker. Unsurprisingly, there was a taint in the air of a certain highly successful rugby union coach [Clive Woodward] and how his time with Saints was received. Consequently, Ralph has been an uneasy fit into his role as both he, and we, adjusted. Descriptions like
Southampton Saints didn't go down well, even if the first Saints team off your lips might be
New Orleans. But he's getting better. We know he's a believer, and he puts his words into deeds - get any othe current PL chairman to do a charity bike run or chase Franny down the road for 30+ miles. And perhaps most importantly of all, he's beginning to say less and mean more. We can only hope that his legendary powers of motivation carries through to the role that he was employed for. To get the name of Southampton FC well known throughout the sporting world.