Fabrice29

Nothing comparable about Scienza and Dobbin in terms of playing style from what I can see. Don’t think that aligns with being a replacement at all. Dobbin played and scored against us twice last season both from starting centrally from what I can tell. Most his clips show him doing his effective work from central positions too. Suspect with Archer wanting out and Stewart going this is a nice flexible attacking option that allows us to invest once to cover those two and Azaz…if it’s true.

Odd the new echo reporter tweeted an article he’d done on the Dobbin interest but has seemingly deleted that now.

Good start by getting rid of Skip to be fair

Stop comparing a subjective view of players ability to try and work out transfer fees.

I think you have wildly mis judged the context of his situation when we sold him. Saints had to judge if a lad who was still growing, a little behind his development because of his injuries and had underwhelmed in the lower league loans he had, was able to justify the playing time he needed to progress ahead of a player who had scored goals in the PL and a lad who had scored some goals in the German 2nd division and had broken into the USA set up (albeit due to rotation and injuries). All well and good you judging them on hindsight and all well and good you just not realising that his top scorer season in the lower league doesn't happen without the move and doesn't immediately translate into being able to push us to promotion either but it's not the reality Saints or Ballard faced last summer.

‘Doing a job’ for someone isn’t a move Ballard should be making given he’s just had his first season as a regular starter. If you assume he’ll be an Archer replacement then those minutes Archer got last season shouldn’t be appealing to him. Think people need to get over him, tidy player but was clearly the right move for everyone when it happened and don’t really see the appeal for either side to jump back in immediately at the first sign of success. Let him flourish elsewhere, it’s okay.

James Justin the Leeds fullback?

Sorry, why? 😂

For someone so committed he is doing a very good of quite literally not committing.

This is utter nonsense btw. He was quite literally a vital part of a team that just finished in the top 6 of the Championship. Barely proven ffs 😂 Football isn’t dictated by starting 11’s anymore either.

Don't think THB is going to a give a hoot who is at Saints next season tbh.

It isn’t just money and the material things. There’s plenty of footballing reasons to go to bigger clubs too.

Will be decent next season with a pre season behind him, am I right or a wally?

Gunn, Sugawara, Caleta-Car, VVD, Tino, Mane, Valery, Adams, Sulemana, Larin, Stewart. - Jones and Danso on the bench.

Don’t really see the need for the ‘ungrateful’ narrative personally. Lads got a short career, made even shorter by his terrible luck and him and his advisors probably have had a whiff of something better for them that we’ve offered. He doesn’t owe us anything, he got given a contract here and it hasn’t worked out due to injuries but it’s not like it was an incredibly selfless act for us to continue to rehab him and chuck him in last season when fit. Just as we don’t owe him to offer him the best deal he’ll get just because he scored some goals for us last season. Good luck to him.