CB Fry

I'm just looking forward to a "well, if we play like we did for those first twenty minutes for the rest of the season we'll be absolutely fine" type of performances. 1-4.

Well, we paid £5m each for Bednarek and Gardos both a few years ago and inflation has happened since then. And we paid £18m for Vestergaard and £16m for Hoedt. So thats why I think we should be expecting something similar to replace the front line CB we've lost.

This idea is what is keeping me going. I just refuse to believe this guy is actually the Vestergaard replacement- he just can't be - and we will bring in a "proper" replacement on the deadline as the dust settles. This guy is utility squad meat, he's not the first choice CB we desperately need. If it turns out we're wrong and this guy is the guy, then relegation awaits. Penny-pinching suicide.

This is reminiscent of the time Brian Clough signed Robert Rosario.

When I saw the thread title I thought this was the announcement of a new commercial tie-up with a Malaysian Telecoms company or something. This is actually a player?

I think it might be sensible to calm down a bit on Livramento as well. If he was dreadful vs Everton and there were grumbles you wouldn't have been able to move for people here saying "how dare people write him off after only a game etc etc etc typical knee jerk reaction etc etc". But instead he had a great game and that's it, he's brilliant and that's that. Congratulations everyone in the club, great signing, let's get more kids from big clubs. Pretty much exactly the same kind of knee-jerk reaction as if he played terribly, just the opposite response. That one performance (in my mind he was good for the first half) certainly does not give the club licence just to buy highly regarded kids that aren't quite highly regarded enough for the big clubs to keep them.

Obvious that the deal has a "gentleman's agreement" built into it that is big enough to land a helicopter on. He has another good season, and there is interest, he's gone next summer. But he's not gone this summer, so it shuts up the dins on here for another year.

Nail 'em up I say. Nail some sense into 'em.

OK this is absolute bollocks.

Agree with all of this but I'd make one small amendment just to make sure we get it in the fucking mixer for the big lad.

Just a brilliant comic, easily one of my all time favourites. Saw him live and he was so good. Brilliant on Cats Does Countdown week after week after week. A couple of years ago it was clear something was up - there was a series of Countdown where he sounded different and looked unwell. So not a massive surprise but still a shock. And no age, 58.

If he starts playing regularly it will be like having a new signing.

New Athletic article this morning covering centre back search. Says Nat Phillips is not in the frame but might be if circumstances change (to be clear its a really vague article) A pointless paragraph on Cahill concluding he's not our type. Kabak briefly mentioned as a possible. Really the main target seems to be this Tosin Adarabioyo from Fulham. A bit of analysis on why he is a good option and fits our Young/Hungry/GTI requirement. Lastly no mention at all of Worrall, which in an article that is essentially just a scattergun list it's interesting that he doesn't even make the cut. So maybe nothing there. All in all Sheldon/The Athletic are pretty much just fulfilling their contractual obligation to write a new article about Saints 3 times a week. As a result it is little better than a post on here. You're welcome.

Yes I nearly wrote that too - this is where I get a bit lost.

Just a rebooted Antrimsaint. Exactly the same gibberish about Brexit and "the Tories" and God knows what.

Funnily enough "the majority of the PL" is not you. The "majority of the PL" could not give a flying f**k who gets relegated in any season, ever. Why would they?

Jesus wept.

Adarabioyo Adarabi-o-yo I want Adarabioyo and I want one now

Worrall load of rubbish, more like.

Your definition of Liberal/Left Wing posters is basically yourself, and everyone else is a right wing Katie Hopkins worshipping, Tommy Robinson inspired racist. It's very easy to be Liberal/Left-wing (I am) and at the same time see you as a bellend.

What Allies have we dropped?

Blathering on about £350m Brexit bill, and the cost of Test and Trace (what?) and bloody World War 2 is entirely butbutbut whatabout whatabout whatabout. So I am not sure why you are accusing others of it. Your stuff about "anti-British cowards" and "dropping our allies" is just like a fucking random word generator. What are you talking about? What allies have been dropped? You're taking a highly complex issue and reducing it to easy-solution garbled soundbites. Hilariously, for you, it looks like it all boils down to "they're all terrorists they're going to bomb us" which on a different thread on a different day you'd be slating someone else for making that kind of assertion.

Especially when you consider the US airbases in, er, the UK.

Funny really, because next time that does happen, you won't be able to move for people saying "this is what happens when the imperial West interferes in other nations". But here you are calling for more and ongoing interference.

Agree, and there is plenty of money the UK have gained off the back of imperialism as well. Which of course, on another thread, on another day, the people on this thread with their crocodile tears and their "empathy" over this thing whats in the news today, will suddenly change tack somewhat.