Ted Bates Statue

I see there's no blue present in P&O's logo, must have been a funny conversation during the negotiations. Not keen on the candy stripes, but I guess there's a lot of nostalgia towards it, as with the Danish kit two seasons ago.

The whole Delap thing is tragic on a number of levels. First up, we chase him for years before he was anywhere near a proven goalscorer, only for bloody Ed Sheeran to beat us to his signature in a gamble to stay up. Then when Chelsea come calling as they're so flush from cash after selling the hotels to themselves, Man City get to scoop up all the profit. Makes me wonder how long will it take for us to get around to replacing Danny Ings, and what would the transfer fee be for a James Beattie in his prime today?

I'll still be watching the mighty Saints on DAZN or ESPN for the Saturday breakfast brunchtime kick-off with a bowl of Lucky Charms and washed down with a Bud Light. Failing that, I can set my VPN to the US Marshall Islands to ensure I'll get my fix. After all, I have been a lifetime supporter ever since my old boss Paul Allen was looking to buy us. For sure we'll be back pronto, returning to the premiere division where we belong. SoHo til I die!

There certainly is and I use it, but because you spam the board and successfully bait others into responding, it's nigh on impossible to avoid. It is not your fault alone, but excuse me for my lack of patience.

I don't remember Ralph checking the camera was on him while the match was still on before he started the waterworks. As I recall, the players got pissed off with Hasenhuttl because of the fist-pumping in front of the Northam as they felt he was stealing their limelight. If that behaviour upset them, I can't imagine what they thought of Nathan Bloody Jones' antics. Mind you, we won fuck all with him so there was zero credit for him to steal away from the squad.

Not sure whether it would be better to have him promoted so we can beat his side (would like to see us play Charlton away again, it's been too long) or have him fall at the final hurdle with Orient giving glory to God as their promotion celebration. Either way, look forward to finding out whatever God's will is going to be. For Nathan Jones, it's got to be nailed on there will be some kind of bathos involved.

Fucking freak

Sale of the Century... Simon Jordan's just piped up that we're for sale on Talksport this morning.

On the contrary, to me it shows how a good managerial appointment can have a team performing above their usual level (a bit like Marco Silva at Fulham). Hope they go on to win it.

Oh, but he speaks so well in press conferences 🤤

Took long enough but I have finally managed to dig it up

Battle of Britpop - Rohl with It ended up at No.2 in the charts. If we end up 2nd in the table next season I'll accept that

I remember your posts on Nathan Jones (and the response) but not Ivan Juric. Appreciate there can be a delay before things coming to pass, so maybe your warnings over Juric got lost in the post, similar to how Lallana has only just learned about his new role as player-coach which you informed us of last summer 😉

Sometimes when I'm watching the match live in the actual stadium I'll have an idle thought about whether there are any streams ahead of whatever I'm witnessing. Interesting to know it can happen.

Lallana - the only way his signing could be justified was for him to identify how we needed to seriously up our standards to compete in the Premier League, with him lined up to get appointed caretaker player/manager within 10 games of the season starting.