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Charlie won’t be happy, Stella will be delighted. 1-3 Saints 😇

Leroy Whale? Bit old…

Turning into a modern day Nick Holmes… does a great job when on, but often goes under radar. Always missed when absent, but it takes a while for folks to work out why…

And such a melee that there are points deductions for both…

It’s an amazing trophy actually. The old football league trophy. Much classier than the tacky PL trophy.

Just this please… 🔴⚪️🔴

Path of least resistance… Leicester win, but a draw wouldn’t be a bad result in the long-run…

I guess. Though he woke them up a bit today!

Yannick Bolasie - not a name I like hearing as a sub…

Let’s hope he plays like Eddie Yeats…

Closer game than recent ones, but 2-1 for me 😇

Team today? Would like to see a few changes, but not too many. Maybe Baz; KWP, Stephens, THB/Holgate, Meghoma; Charles; Smallbone, Dibling; SAA, Adams/Arma, Fraser ?

I’m not sure I’ve seen such a dominant half of football as the first half… yet we hardly troubled their keeper at all. They came for a 0-0 draw and their goalie was wasting time from about the 5th minute. They can feel aggrieved about the disallowed ‘goal’ but can have no complaints about the result. Well deserved 3 points, and a continued great unbeaten run 😇

Just thinking…. we could finish with Adams, Stewart, Stuey & Fraser on the pitch (unlikely I know, as SA typically goes off). BUT, if we did might this be our highest number of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿internationals on the pitch at one time?

I really don’t miss it - and have surprised myself by how quickly I’ve detached from it (used to watch MOTD religiously but now really haven’t bothered watching). If a Sky game is on at home I may watch while doing something else but rarely sit down to properly watch a match. All of that said - and despite enjoying the Championship - we’re all desperate to get promoted and be a PL bottom-feeder again!

It’ll be Charley / (Che) surely.

It will no doubt involve a gear-less bike, a frappuccino and some blue sky thinking. I hear there is a guy doing great things in the Moldovan third-tier (reserves league), who has done away with positional football altogether. Watch this space…

Nothing. That’s the problem.

#NotSatire🎯

https://x.com/solentsport/status/1705629429907472881?s=46&t=6zx5qf2H7nuEX1l3EabHng

All hypothetical of course, but… Given we won’t go for Potter (won’t pay his wages], we may have to wait for another PL head to roll before a decent candidate becomes free. Cooper at Forest would be my choice, but they’re doing annoyingly well. [Ex-Swansea managers are the new black…]. Howe would be a pipe-dream at this point.

Always thought his corners were a bit crap for us, but perhaps it was just those who were in the box waiting for the cross?

From what I have read/heard from him (not including recent baffling post-match comments) I like RM as a human being, he seems a decent guy. I really want him to do well, but do worry about his ability to turn this around. The atmosphere in the ground is quickly moving from apathy to toxicity. This was supposed to be a season we could all enjoy, watch fast-moving passing football and see some home wins. It’s not panning out and his pleas for patience is falling on deaf ears, and here’s why... He talks about ‘scar tissue’ with the players. Well you know what, we fans have it too - we’ve suffered three years now of the most frustrating football I can recall in recent memory. Mismanaged by a series of managers, each with different but equally entrenched and rigid ideologies, who over-think things and who all found (or are finding) it impossible to get a song out of what on paper should be a decent enough squad. It’s no wonder our patience has snapped… I’d really like to know what Wilcox is making of all this.

We were baffled by that too - were sure the ref blew up, it was so abrupt. And that’s a great example of the biggest issue with ‘Martin-ball’ - we’re asking players to go against their natural instincts; strikers to drive forward, defenders to get it out of danger areas as soon as they can. They are being asked to do things that don’t make sense (to them or us). No wonder they are confused and end up making mistakes.

Another one bites the dust… https://x.com/alfiehouseecho/status/1700956292800479485?s=46&t=6zx5qf2H7nuEX1l3EabHng