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Absolutely. We were two nil up at home at the beginning of this year (it feels like about a decade ago) and still lost to Wolves. A decent away point. Bloody hell though - how many more Portuguese players did they have ready to come off the bench??

What a performance. Wish we could have been there. 32 fucking years! Thanks boys, thanks Ralph, thanks Marcus.

The good news via Adam on twitter - it’s nothing to do with the old injury... Adam Blackmore @AdamBlackmore 3m #saintsfc Ralph explained to me that Danny Ings tried to train yesterday but they quickly realised there was a problem He has a small meniscus issue and they’ve made a decision to have a routine surgery now and not risk it further - injury is unrelated to old knee problems

Boll0cks. Unless we’re lucky he’s not realistically back until Christmas. Misses 4-6 games. At least it’s not 4-6 months. Time for the other forwards to step up. Theo and Che up front?

Er lads, we won.

So did Van Dyck a couple of weeks ago. Hope Danny's ok. Waiting to see the goals later (eff off sky ppv)

I actually think that's fair - yellow for the first attempt to take his legs, and then yellow for clumsily standing on his calf. Two yellows = one match ban.

Don't know what the telly situation is for Everton but this was class from the barcodes https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54597058 and we should do something similar next time we're on at £15 a pop.

Was thinking exactly the same - would’ve been a cracking away day! Well played lads - good to see Theo back in the shirt!

The ‘kissing the badge nonsense’ is often totally manufactured. Not in this case I think. He grew up here - Saints helped make him the player and the person he is. What’s not to like if he gets emotional about it? We all have formative periods in our life that we look back on with happy memories - I don’t see why footballers should be any different, and I don’t understand why anyone would feel negative about this move given that we had no money left. Welcome back Theo! It’ll be great to see you in the shirt again. Still remember the buzz in the stadium on your debut v Wolves when it looked like their defenders were running through treacle.

Agreed - both West Brom and Fulham look shocking so far. Shame Brentford didn't come up, shame we can't go to away games, and shame Griffin Park has closed down. Ah well...

Whoosh!!!

Really interesting 20 minute podcast all about Diallo right here: https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/the-players-podcast-8-ibrahima-diallo-brest/ Don't want to tempt fate, but sounds vv promising.

Early days but that was painful to watch. Why did I expect anything different? We'll go on a run at some stage, finish between 11th and 14th and zzzzzzzz.

Romeu, Redmond, Ings so far today... and don't get me started on this high line. Time for a big 2nd half response.

Still on the beach.

But how much income are we earning? LD Sports was reported at £7.5M pa so this lot probably got it for 5M knowing we had no other option. What's that equal? About a quarter of Guido Carrillo maybe? One of Jannik Vestergaard's legs? Nothing wrong with putting the Saints Foundation on the shirts for a year - that would have generated massive goodwill and record sales. But hey ho - money.

Terrible decision, and still a sh!t logo. Won't be buying one of those.

The fact that Poch and Koeman seem to be the front runners to take over at Barca shows a) how well we did for a few years and b) how inexplicable it was that we tried to replace them with Claude Puel, Mauricio Pellegrino and Mark Hughes. But somehow we dodged three bullets. Thank God we now have Ralph whose previous team are one crunching tackle on Neymar away from the Champions League final. I can’t think of any manager I’d prefer to have at the moment. Anyone else?

Can anyone tell me what has happened to Kayne Ramsey who looked pretty decent when he made an unexpected debut against Man City about 18 months ago? We should've won that one... (I know he went on loan to Shrewsbury - did he play much... is he still in Ralph's plans...?)

We should try hard to keep him for at least one extra year. Just posted on the Bompey reaction thread about how good he's been for us. Really p*sses me off when people say 'yeah, but he doesn't smile'... best left back we've had since Bale, still better than Shaw IMO.

I voted for KWP as MOTM but the last few games have also been a reminder of just how good Bertie is when he's on it - both in defence and attack. That little pass in to Oba at the end, when most players would have gone for the corner flag, created the goal - and he's had some big Prem names in his pocket over the last few weeks. I think we often take him for granted - he's one of those we won't realise how good he is until he's gone.

And let's face it, it wasn't a penalty anyway. Karma I reckon.

Has anyone ever tried to raise this with the club? I’d certainly pay a tenner more. One of the reasons why the 125 kit was so popular, and why I tend to buy training tops instead of shirts.

That’s the one I’d be buying