CB Fry

It's basically Guilleme Balague versus every other football journalist on earth. He's gone out on a limb to say Emery is going to reject but it doesn't feel that likely now - Emery's press conference quotes yesterday sounded like a "come and get me" as much as anything. Let's see what happens. Although Emery is obviously an excellent manager I'm not entirely convinced he's the absolute best person to haul them out of the shit.

Sorry, being thick

Saints without JWP would be like Villa without McGinn.

I am seeing some absolutely unreal news about McGinn.

Probably minimum 3,000, not maximum. I doubt it is against the rules to sell 300 more tickets if that’s what the home club want to do. Agree annoying.

A really important metric and very encouraging to see how we have improved in that area. Its frustrating we haven't scored enough or taken enough chances but when you're fighting relegation clean sheets are so much more valuable than goals. So right now we have it the right way round. If we can get A Armstrong to come good then we've got a decent season ahead of us. Locking Villa out next week would be a huge leap forward.

Absolutely buzzing for Howe's debut match against Villa on Friday 🤩

Why are you fannies still going on about a libel related to some guy who runs a clickbait bullshit website?

I think it is massively pushing it to describe Theo as a player who cost "£0". His wages are huge and likely to be much higher than some players we have paid fees for. So you can't say "£0 except wages" like that's not the issue. It is the issue. On the club's balance sheet, Theo is going to represent significant expenditure.

Fucking laughable that anyone thinks Veysey and football insider have "sources". Just a throw-enough-shit-at-the-wall website that hopes it can build its reputation on occasionally getting something right. Its a shame the Echo is churning it up but local newspapers have fallen a long way in recent years.

Could be a good strategy by Newcastle - in January just make disruptive awkward bids for the best players from the clubs around you in the relegation zone. Ward Prowse, Tarkowski, Zaha, Toney. Just chuck in some big bids, make some noise in the press, wave some money in argents faces: unsettle them and if they prise them away in January it makes direct rivals weaker as well as own team stronger. Even if they don't sign them it might just fuck up rivals dressing rooms a bit. Get the stories and rumours in the press from about December. Everyone hates Newcastle now so they might as well be pricks about it.

Probably yes. He didn't work with him much before Saints either. Koeman's success before Saints (eg Feyenoord) did not involve Erwin.

Er, that was not the situation he joined. He built a team from the wreckage of "that" Summer. I don't think he should come back but he did a terrific job with us. Much like Adkins, what he has (not) achieved since he left is absolutely irrelevant.

Welcome back to football after a year out, here, why not take a penalty. Madness.

Insanity to let him take one.

er, no.

Shane Long has come on so that means goals goals goals.

That team tonight is going to be such a pile of shit that Southern Water will be trying to discharge us off the coast of Worthing.

The "article" you've linked is just some words off the press release the day he was appointed. Lowe was obviously behind appointment of the Dutch duo. As every fucker knows, including Poortvliet and Wotte themselves.

I thought this was solid-to-excellent Fergal Sharkey/sewage based pun content so I am personally disappointed that this post did not get the numbers I was hoping for

Jesus wept.

You've not actually read this thread then.

Some are. Not mine. I said we'd finish bottom four pre-season and I've not seen anything to convince me otherwise. We're cast iron undeniably one of the worst four clubs in the league. So the battle is to stay out of the bottom three. When we were relegated before we had plenty of "well, on another day we'd have won that" "we've got some good players" "now that we've won that one game we've got some momentum" "[before match] I think this is a win today, I can't believe people are so negative [after match] we haven't got a divine right to beat anyone, I can't believe people are so impatient". All that shit I've seen before. We're relegation candidates all day, all season. Nothing else is on offer. We need probably eight more wins to stay up. Starting Saturday would be a massive help.

We're not a league two team having a rare visit to Anfield hoping for a cup shock FFS. We have won there before Ralph arrived you know. And has others have said, twice a season every season is run-of-the-mill.

He picked Broja against Sheffield United. He was fucking shit.