Ted Bates Statue

They've already taken our director of football, very concerning news if Russell Martin is in the frame to replace Ten Hag. Why can't they leave us alone?

I think we might still get away with this style in the division we're in currently, but it certainly won't get us anywhere in the PL. I reckon Sport Republic are banking on Russell Martin getting us promoted and preparing for a swift change when we get a baptism of fire. Someone like Steve Cooper, who I believe was sounded out as a potential Hasenhuttl replacement when Semmens was still in charge.

At least it can't be 9, can it

Need to make sure that this makes an appearance in this thread. It's only been a few weeks since it was last posted.

Would be peak Saints to drop points in this fixture

Guessing the 😐 face is down to you getting paid to work at a certain club down the road 🤣 I'll probably make a beeline for safe standing as my back hurts if I sit down in stadium seats but I'm also curious if it will be priced competitively or are they going to charge more for the privilege of leaning against a bit of aluminium.

Funny how nobody thinks to scrap the endless pre-season friendly matches held in far-flung continents. It would never happen, but my preferred rule-change is if the higher-ranked club can't beat a lower division side over 90 minutes or AET, then they should forfeit the match in favour of the lower-ranked side progressing.

What you're saying makes sense although someone on here said that we were looking for a winger and a midfielder back in December before the transfer window opened, so it looks like it was a deliberate strategy

Good choice to play I'm Still Standing at the end, bonus that it would have pissed off the Watford fans.

The forum has declared already that he will not recover from his injury or his transfer fee, much less score a goal for us, so I will have to question whether RM knows what he's talking about.

Sky have had an app available on Oculus Quest for a few years now which lets viewers see the action from different parts of the stadium. It looks very cool but they don't really promote it, and I've never bothered to actually shell out and try the live experience. Edit - it's been discontinued as of this January.

Aha, what with all the excitement about the privilege of once again facing a local and traditionally lower-division side, I was wondering if there was a major trophy to be won. I'm with you on the perspective of 2012. Even though we drew with them last time, we were comfortably gliding towards promotion so it didn't exactly feel like a tragedy to give them a big nudge into the league below.

Before I take a generous helping of schadenfreude, can I double check that we aren't at risk of getting slapped with something similar in the not-too-distant future?

I think it might not be the worst thing to allow Saints to consolidate in this division. Reading were the most recent team to get relegated from the WSL and they were way off the pace, as are Bristol City this season. Until the worst team in the WSL can get closer to the rest of their peers, I can see the argument for not expanding the promotion/relegation slots just yet.

Every now and then I get a hint that such internet figures were compiled by a friend of a friend of Donald Trump's accountant. It's not like you can obtain them with a FOI request.