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Well, it's still nil nil.

I'm looking forward to the "well it's still nil nil" optimism at half time.

Potter has finished above Saints and Ralph an entire one time. Their record transfer fee is an astonishing and unimaginable for Saints twenty million pounds. Yes, they look okay for another season but the way people carry on you'd think they are on an unstoppable march to Europe forever now.

Quite. Also, it is an incredibly "entitled" opinion to describe a club that have been in the top flight consistently for the best part of 50 odd years as "shit all my life". Talk about taking things for granted.

If Forest go down then no one can say they haven't had a decent crack at it. If we stay up we'll have done it, yet again, on scraping together the absolute barest of bare minimums.

Christ. That's proper tinpot. You've signed a loanee from a team you finished a couple of places below last year lads. Calm down.

I MEAN FOR FUCKS SAKE SAINTS

And we basically gave VVD away for paltry loose change world record fee for a defender. Sickening.

Only just caught up with this. Honestly feels insane to me. But hey, let's get the sale through quick as you like and then get on with the "well, we couldn't quite get the deal over the line" routine with the replacements. Just like old times. Make sure you get the sale done though Saints. Don't let other clubs ever suffer what we have to.

Would most likely deliver another three seasons of finishing about 15/16th. Clearly competent but a bit dull.

Not really. That would only be an issue if they were skint. They've spent unbelievable amounts on wages and fees, more than enough to win the league and the Champions League.

Watch Match Of The Day from last night you absolute div.

No, you're just wrong to say that there is "no such thing as the league table at the moment". There is, and it's been that way for at least a decade. At least. It gets published from the start, not after three games which is the old way of doing it. Published in papers and on TV and so on. Official on the league website and everywhere. It's not complicated, you're just wrong.

It's just incorrect to say there isn't a league table now. There is, it's here, published on the official Premier League website. Newsflash: It's not 1991 anymore. https://www.premierleague.com/matchweek/7831/table Teams with zero points and zero goal difference are above us in the table. Its not that complicated.

There's no early International Break weekend this season, its not until end of September this time. Basically that feels like an obvious working deadline for any club looking to go early with a manager change. Edit: thats 7 games including homes against Brentford and Leeds plus a couple of aways we should expect to get something from. Would be a fair assessment period for a manager 3 years in.

Such a silly question. Get someone else. Just like Pochettino was someone else once. Just like Ralph was someone else once. He wasn't some universally suggested name on this forum at the time. Adkins wasn't either. Koeman wasn't. They were just someone else. I think Sports Republic have some ideas.

If MLG thinks he can score 15 goals that's a real confidence boost for me because he is across all the stats. Great news for the season👍 👍

OK, whatever. Anyone can say "no one knows" about anything and everything forever. Doesn't really make for an interesting forum. The original exchange was this That post seems a strange reply coming from someone who themselves doesn't actually think we have improved the first team squad.

So you think we have improved the spine of the team but also don't think we're better than last season. Absolutely crystal clear. Well done all involved for our pre-season/transfer activity to get us to this place where we aren't better than last season.

Before anyone replies I'll save you the bother. Livramento Livramento Livramento every young kid we sign is Livramento. Livramento did it so they all will do it. Livramento Livramento Livramento.

A young kid keeper from League One, a kid in midfield from, er, no appearances anywhere ever and a player from a league where Elyounoussi looked a world beater. What a spine improvement. Baz is probably going to be better than shit McCarthy. But that's hardly an accolade. Let's hope they come good but let's not pretend we are significantly better than last season. If that really is tomorrow's line up then we are in serious trouble.

Which away days are people looking forward to most next season? QPR? Preston? Hull is always a good night out.

But it says "Excl" right there, which is journalistic for "exclusive". He knows his stuff.

When was the last time a team actually had a significant marked improvement in their league position because of a change to backroom staff? I know it is an obsession on this forum but when it is observed anywhere else in English League football? When did Wolves or Burnley or West Ham or Leicester or Palace change a first team coach or a fitness coach and that in and of itself made a huge impact?

Seems fair enough. Anyone predicting us to finish anywhere in the bottom six I think is realistic. Stone last or 15th both possible.