Saint Keef

Get "SAINTS BRASS" to do away with OWTS just for this game and as the teams walk out, play this instead.......🤣 🤣

If it was a World Cup just for full-backs, we'd win it. TTA, James, Trippier, Walker, Shaw, Wan Bissaka, KWP, Livramento, Chilwell, Cresswell, Lamptey to name 11 off the top of my head - there's bound to be others. All very good attacking options and just shows how important "attacking" full-backs are in the current game. Of course, they'd have to be managed by Stuart "Psycho" Pearce.

Scores with his feet, scores with his head He makes defenders wet their bed Ooooh Che Adams, Ooooh Che Adams He can shoot, He can pass He can even score when he's sitting on his arse Ooooh Che Adams, Ooooh Che Adams.

They don't seem to have recovered since we beat them. I think we truly knocked the stuffing out of them. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. It would be great to finish above them. I've just read the interview with him - he's basically offering to walk away as he doesn't think he can help them is how I read it. Hardly an inspiring speech. I wonder who will be their next "first choice" coach. Please not Ralp..........no, don't even go there.

Apologies if this has been shown elsewhere - but for those who can't attend I've just noticed it is being shown on the BBC (Red button) and BBC iPlayer. https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-english-football-on-tv.html

If "Frankie Lampard's Everton" had sneaked a 0-1 result though, they would probably have been on first or second.

Back to OWTS. I took along a mate of mine, who is a Man U supporter. It must have been good because even he joined in singing it. He came to the Brentford game and now the Everton game. I'm slowly converting him, but based on results of the games he's been to, he can come whenever he wants to. (He even jumped and cheered when Shane scored).

Quoting myself here, weird I know, but if it wasn't to be Newcastle (please let it be), then I would settle for the mighty dug outs, Everton. That would be funny. I met some Everton fans at the services on the A34 after the game. We got chatting, and I tried to be diplomatic with them, in the way that I said I thought they'd been absolutely crap and that I was expecting more from them. They were actually decent lads.....and totally agreed. They are genuinely worried, saying that Lampard has inherited a "fucking piss poor squad". They were actually very complimentary about Saints overall organisation and in particular the role of our full-backs. They still had a four and a half hour journey in front of them. I said the only silver lining was, if they carry on playing the way they did against us, they won't have to make the same journey next year!!! 🤣

I reckon Burnley might be turning a corner and all of a sudden that puts pressure on Saudicastle, Everrtoffee, Leeds and Brentford and with pressure comes nervousness and that can play havoc with performances. I can see one of those four dropping into the bottom three. I don't mind which one of those four.....as long as it's Newcastle.

Yeah I agree. In today's market Stu has to be a £35m + player. And Oriol is invaluable to our system. His understanding with JWP just goes from strength to strength. Hard to put any price on him. And JWP.....playing better than ever. He was everywhere again today. Got to be north of £70m now. Happy Days.

Let me help you with your dilemma .....Stuart Armstrong. 😀 I agree, KWP and Romeu were immense, but in my eyes Stu was "immenser". Hope that helps!

With all these storms coming in, I'm expecting games to be cancelled this weekend. Apparently "Storm Trippier" is likely to hit the East London area at about 12.28pm on Saturday just as The Toon are about to kick off against West Ham.

Yeah, let's just assume he was allowed to play for us against Chelsea in the FA Cup Semi Final....or indeed the Final, the pressure on him NOT to score would perhaps be too great. Can you imagine it if he scored the winner for us in the Final and the following week had to return to Chelsea as his loan period was over. "Ah welcome back Armanda, Mr Abramovich would like to see you in his office". Ain't gonna happen.

Newcastle + Saudi Money + Unceremonious sacking of manager Steve Bruce + Appointment of their "first Choice" coach (NOT!!!) Eddie Howe + Injuries to key players + Cancel games before they can spend the money "allegedly" because of Covid + Winter break "Don't worry about rearranging cancelled games. Let's all go on holiday to......Saudi" + Spend big in January + Buy striker (Chris Wood) from main relegation rival + Buy Trippier, he scores a couple of vital goals and things are suddenly looking better + New striker (the same Chris Wood) yet to score + Trippier breaks foot and could be out for "weeks" = Karma. Just need Saint-Maximin to get injured and I reckon they'll be deep in the mire again.

Nothing trivial I hope.

Newcastle have picked up a couple of injuries including Trippier. I guess they'll have nine players testing positive for Covid this week. Leicester fans singing something about Zouma (even though he didn't play) I couldn't make out all the words but it involved the words"Zouma", "Cat" and "lives in a council flat". He's going to get that for the rest of the season and possibly his career. Moron! No sympathy here. Spuds 0 Wolves 2. Blimey, we must have really knocked the stuffing out of them. I haven't seen Conte's reaction, but it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke. How many more home defeats before Levy decides he's not their manager anymore?

Well they certainly did a lot of running against us.....mainly chasing our shadows though! I think I'm correct in saying that Lineker said on MoTD that the Spuds v Saints game was one of the games of the season. Coming from an ex-Spuds player, that's quite something. Anyway - Everton - same team please and I think we have enough to beat them. They've got some good players, but their defence still doesn't look that great and one of Lampard's criticisms at Chelsea was they were good going forward but couldn't defend. 3-1 for me.

It doesn't matter what differences of opinion we have on here, at the end of the day we are all members of the same "Saints Family" and although most of us will never have met Minsk, he is still one of us. Always has been. Always will be. RIP fella. Peace & Love.

Absolutely. And It may actually work in our favour, because with results like that, he'll soon be on everyone's managerial radar again, when in fact he has apparently said to the new owners (if I understand it correctly) that he's happy to leave here in 2 years time...... to retire. In the meantime - just enjoy tonight's result. Absolutely fantastic.

The new manager "bounce" is over at Everton then. As much as I didn't want Newcastle to win, the consolation is, it's pulled Everton right into the mix and looking around that Everton team, I wonder if they have the right characters for a relegation scrap. I can also see Brentford dropping further into the mix.

I only went to White Hart Lane once. I was with a Spuds supporting fan so had to sit/stand with that lot. The memory fades with age so I've just had to look up the date. 6th January 1990. 3rd round of FA Cup. Final Score 1-3 with Matt Le Tiss, R.Wallace and Horne scoring. (and I couldn't jump up and down 😀) Funnily enough, my abiding memory from that game is Jimmy Case "owning" the midfield and really "putting himself about" I'd take a 1-3 tomorrow........(I'd take a draw to be honest). Get at them early and who knows. KWP is becoming a "goal machine" and I'm sure he'd like to score against his old team.

Haha.....you're giving him that long?

Congratulations to Boreham Wood for beating the "biggest" team on he south coast. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Changing subject - Well played Nottingham Forest too. I popped over to the Leicester "Foxes Talk" Forum. They definitely think Brendan Rodgers has lost the dressing room and want him out. Vestergaard gets quite a few mentions as their worst signing ever.........and he didn't even play yesterday. They say whoever sanctioned his signing should be sacked. I have to say, without Vardy (as much as I dislike him) they don't look a great outfit and one wonders where they would have been and what they would have achieved without his goals for the past few seasons. And Maddison.....Mr Billy Big Bollocks.....undoubtedly a talented footballer, but to me, his attitude stinks and I actually think we dodged a bullet by not signing him him. It makes me wonder, when they got Bertrand (on a free) and paid big money for Vestergaard, why they didn't also buy Wesley Hoedt for £25m at the same time. I think they missed a trick there. 😉 In seriousness I do find it odd that they signed two defenders (half of the back four) that leaked so many goals last season. My prediction: Brendan will be the next Prem manager to go......

I feel a new "anthem" maybe in order for Oriol Romeu. Would love to hear the Northam singing this....not just when we play Man City, but whenever. To the tune of "This old man, he played one, he played nik-nak on my thumb, with a nik-nak paddy whack give the dog a bone.........etc". I'm sure OR would appreciate it. OR-I-OL RO-ME-U OWNS JACK GREALISH DON'T YOU KNOW WITH A NIK-NAK WHACK A JACK HE GAVE THE C**T A COMB AND TOLD JACK GREALISH TO F**K OFF HOME. 🎵 There.....I feel better for that.

Gosh. What terrible news. That really puts everything into perspective. My thoughts are with you and your family Minsk. My very best wishes. You will always be a Saint. Peace & Love.