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  1. Song to be sung "... Nathan Jones...... And there's no room in my heart for you no more"
  2. To add to my comment above about Burnley, they look very vulnerable to key losses of players. They have eight players out of contract in the summer, including Ben Mee and James Tarkowski. Tarkowski is linked to Newcastle and looks an ideal fit for Newcastle.
  3. We need to be realistic about our chances of relegation. The best news is that one team, Norwich, look certain to be relegated. So are there 2 or more teams that will finish below us? Today there are 3 other teams below our 8 points. Leeds 7, Burnley 4 and Newcastle 4. The bookies have all of these on shorter odds than us to be relegated. So anyone really pessimistic should consider the 5/1 available on Saints! That said, looking at these 3, the common expectation is that Newcastle will have many millions to strengthen in the transfer window and therefore we should expect Newcastle to spend their way out of relegation. Leeds have recently been missing 5 starters and key amongst them is Kalvin Phillips. He was on the bench yesterday and if he does play consistently he can be expected to pull Leeds up the table as his win ratio as a starter is high at almost 50% in the Prem. Burnley however could suffer from player departures to teams such as Newcastle and could therefore be weaker after the transfer window. So we have 2 teams probably below us Burnley and Norwich and we will need to see teams currently above us drop below us. Any one of Palace, Watford and Villa?
  4. Look on the bright side. After this weekend we will not be bottom. Arsenal will be beneath us....
  5. My rough calculation has us winning just 4 Prem games in 2021, drawing 2 and losing 16. So why the pessimism? Two of the 4 wins were against sides that were relegated....
  6. Bournemouth just not battling to stay up. At home vs Watford and only 1 shot on target whereas Watford have 6. Bournemouth have 3 fouls and Watford 13! No heart.
  7. How about Moyes and Pearce coming in to save the season? They would frighten the life out of the half hearted players we currently have.
  8. Match stats Everton 24 shots, 5 on target. Saints 4 shots, 3 on target. Why should anyone expect a win?
  9. After spending the last two seasons in relegation battles, today the team we started with had just ONE new player (Djenepo) from those that played in the previous season. The Squad needed a major overhaul and by now almost half the starters should have been players that did not play last season. If we go down, I hope that Gao is personally responsible for all the debt required to but us, since his lack of investment in the team is the main cause of the problems aligned with Reed's inadequate scouting system and inadequate Academy (in recent years).
  10. Last season we conceded 1.7 goals per game. We start off by conceding 3 in one game. I judge it as worse. Let us see what Liverpool bring. Miracles happen.
  11. A good point and the sight of Bertrand jogging along watching the opposition score was the usual state of our defence.
  12. A good question. What we do have is an awful defense, this season and last season. Danny Röhl was a defender in his brief playing career. In the coaching team after he left we have 3 former goal keepers....
  13. The defence let in 65 goals last season. It was clearly an area that had to be improved. Yesterday the 5 starting defenders were the 5 defensive players that had the most Prem appearances last season. Nothing had changed. The Club had not brought in one player able to start the season ahead of our woeful 2018-19 defence. It needed to have brought in or promoted from the youth at least 2 starters better than 2018-19. We let in 3 goals to a team that finished just one point above us. On that basis the Summer 2019 transfer window was a dud.
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