CB Fry

You think David Batty was better than Matt Le Tiss? Up to you mate, we've all got an opinion 👍

Every living football player is "an option". And there were far better "options" sat on the bench already and could have started or come on. Honestly absolutely insane that anyone would think that the difference last night could have been JWP. But obviously it's just on this forum. As said many times before, if JWP was a Crystal Palace or Burnley player, none of you would give a toss if he was in the squad or not.

Not even a discussion. Worked far harder, achieved far more.

"Dross Domestic Product" would be an excellent title for a book chronicling the last 50 years of the England team.

So the objective is to "not do any worse" but just to be able to say "look look there's a Saints player on TV, there's a Saints player on TV". There were choices from the available squad that would have actually improved things.

Or: lunatics on SaintsWeb have managed to escalate a marginal decision of JWP squeaking into the squad as twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth pick as being a footballing outrage and the reason we won't win the trophy. I don't understand that people don't get that if he had made it ahead of Ben White he'd have just been sat on the bench for two entire games. He wasn't going to go from not in the squad at all to "okay James, you're first name on the team sheet and taking all the set pieces for the entire tournament". Big fan of JWP but this forum has lost its mind. Also, Paul Scholes is better than MLT for fucks sake.

That performance was stultifying, lifeless and without inspiration. I can't believe that anyone can be seriously thinking that the solution was for JWP to be in the team knocking around his tepid little sideways passes.

Anytime you can find anyone, ever saying anything remotely close to this: the godly, perfect, faultless vaccine that of course has no evidence against it whatsoever Please do post it up on here. But it is nice to get an insight into how your warped mind works. Get help X X X X

Yes, I agree with everything Lighthouse is saying there, as do the vast majority of the population that aren't thick as shit. That is absolutely not even close to saying what you think was said: the godly, perfect, faultless vaccine that of course has no evidence against it whatsoever No one, at all, anywhere has said this. Thanks for proving my point for me.

Sweden, Slovakia maybe Spain.

There was something not quite 100% perfect about that corner, otherwise Stones would have buried that.

Gutted for Stuart Armstrong. Surely he should be starting. They seem to have someone from the Dundee branch of Walkabout up front FFS.

So no one then. Lighthouse never said the vaccine was godly, faultless or any of that bollocks. Nobody has said that.

By my calculations this should mean that the Liberal Democrats should secure a 304 seat majority in the next general election.

Who has ever, anywhere, said this?

That's some pretty impressive selective quoting there: the second half of the sentence you decided to cut was the critical point, the sentence exists as a whole for you to read and digest. Try it. You have several times used the fact that Toby subsequently signed for Spurs as "proof" that Koeman was not a factor in him signing for us in the first place. As I say, stop embarrassing yourself.

If this supposed "specialist" played for Burnley or Crystal Palace you wouldn't give two shits whether he was in the squad or not.

Why do you keep going on about Spurs? Not one person here is saying he signed for Koeman and said he would never ever play for any other manager ever again for the rest of his career. You have absolutely embarrassed yourself on this thread, you really need to just take the defeat mate.

To pretend RB Leipzig are just a normal "newly promoted team" is equally nonsense. You expecting Brentford to finish second and end up un the Champions League semis the following season?

Well, this thread is insane. The Koeman appointment was amazing at the time, and the job he did was outstanding. Ralph is still hovering around Dave Jones achievement level for me. Just okay but pretty forgettable. Just no comparison.

It looks a lot cheaper than I imagined. I obviously know it is not for the likes of me but I did think it was going to look shiny and slick, with some nice whizzy graphics etc. At the moment it looks like a TV channel that has been created during week six of The Apprentice.

Ha - I was just about to write something similar. I had to look him up because my assumption was it was just coincidence or he had a younger brother who played for Ajax or something. Another ex Saint at the tournament then.

It was brilliant but you're right: a lot of hype for a tournament where we actually won two games (and one of those was against bloody Scotland). The 4-1 v Holland was amazing and the whole thing was a great summer. The fact that we went through the entire semi final including extra time without Venables making a single substitution is absolutely astonishing to this day. Unthinkable today: unthinkable then really. Italia 90 was better in that we were up against it and as you say Robson was hated in the press. The Platt goal especially was a fantastic moment to be a young kid watching football. I was that kid.

JWP was never, ever, ever going to be picked ahead of Henderson. He couldn't get in ahead of Kalvin and Ben White. Hope that makes it clear for you.

All in all really good. He got the team selection correct - Kalvin Phillips was simply excellent and Mings proved me wrong, nicely solid and he will take a lot of confidence from that. Rice solid. Well done Sterling. Kane barely broke sweat. Best tournament opening performance I can remember.