do i not like fizzy pop

If it is Juríc then I can't wait for him to change the music the team come out on the pitch to on match days to Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod 

https://tidal.com/track/223725?u

No interview with Rusk after the game? Thought it was a contractual obligation that both managers had to speak to the media?

Sky will be pleased it gave them chance to shove their tongue up Slot's arse. 

The more I see it the more I'm astounded the ref - looking directly at it - didn't give a free kick and red card to Quansah.  He's leading his challenge with his arm desperately to try and block off Fernandes and could only have been pulling him down.

Hooper is a cheat and a disgrace 

There's a real possibility we go down with fewer points than Derby Countys record of 11. 

According to text updates Salah was booked for taking his shirt off after the goal and booked again for a foul ten minutes later. All the booking icons have disappeared from Sky and BBC. Cheating c@nts 

Still doesn't detract from us being terrible 

On 24/10/2024 at 06:37, Master Bates said:

Apparently interested in a loan move for Bamford in January.

Jesus no. Why do we want another dogsh!t striker? He's been stealing a living as a footballer for years at Leeds. 

1 hour ago, John Boy Saint said:

Pretty certain that when it was being built, it was said the stadium design allowed Chapel, Kingsland, and Northam to have 5000 extra seats bolted on to them. I also seem to recall more recently that adding 5000 seats to SMS would cost more than the £32m it cost to build the whole stadium.

It wouldn't be cheap but I do know that the Barr's price of £32m to build SMS was a huge loss leader and that the second placed bidder was Mowlem at £51m. That skews the figures somewhat when making comparisons 

2 hours ago, charliemiller said:

i desperately want i to win today and beat dirty Leeds BUT .........i will be sad to say goodbye to the championship , no VAR , winning games and good banter with good sides etc .......

Back to the greedy premiership , losing more games than we win , VAR and bigger teams stealing our players .........its kinda a win win really in my heart i want us to win ..BUT 

For the third season running they'll be using VAR in the play off final. This is either going to be a good thing or a bad thing. 

We are such a Jekyll and Hyde team. 

That's really sad news. Hero and a Saint. RIP Eric, condolences to your family and friends.

We've been very poor at the basics tonight. The warning signs from the Huddersfield game don't seem to have heeded. 

Let's see how Martin gets them back on track. 

2 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Wrong thread! If you determined to have a  pop at Cortese then have the decency to do it on the Cortese thread where people can respond.

That didn't come out quite right, Cortese said it would have been hypocrisy if he had voted in favour of FFP as we'd spent above our means. Might have to edit my comment 

1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

We were one of the few clubs who voted against it at the time it was introduced.

From memory Cortese was quite open about having to spend above our means to get back to and survive in the Premier League and for him to vote in favour of FFP was pure hypocrisy. 

EDIT: Not a pop at Cortese, it was him that said to vote for FFP in our position would be hypocrisy 

So was the West Ham offer the only proper bid? Hard to criticise JWP if that's the case. 

40 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

I'll forkin' drive him there if Agent McCarthy gets Everton relegated. 

Let's be honest, we are in the position of having to sell at what is perceived as cut price due the ineptitude of a board that monumentally cocked up managerial appointments not once, but twice in a season and got us relegated with barely a whimper.

This was inevitable and I don't blame any player leaving.

If we are going to have a Micky Fialka Day then I want a Monkey Chicken Petting Zoo Day too.

It's Saints, and typically being Saints we will play abysmally but somehow sneak this 1-0.... it'll be an own goal, goes in off van Dijk's arse after a mix up with Alisson 

Like others, this doesn't compare to 2005. That hurt. Big time. This time the incompetence of the board, management and players has just introduced a feeling of total indifference.  And that feeds into my wider feelings towards top flight football in general and the need to Americanise the game as an 'entertainment' spectacle, the botched implementation of VAR, ludicrous TV coverage and idiotic commentators, i could go on.

It's the ideal place for a monkey-chicken petting zoo?

On 05/03/2023 at 11:39, Lord Duckhunter said:

This article pretty much sums it up.

 

FOOTBALL is a simple game, complicated by idiots.

Bill Shankly wasn’t impressed with the evolution of the game in the sixties, goodness knows what the legendary Liverpool gaffer would have made of the 21st century version.

It’s hard to imagine Shanks with the big beard and sleeve tattoos, sitting sipping a skinny latte and talking about Jurgen Klopp’s side’s xG stats.

Yeah, I said it. That’s xG stats. It means Expected Goals. Still no clearer? Well hang on, this is going to be a bumpy ride.

It turns out football is not simple any more, far from it. A lot of us have done our best to resist the dark ways of modern football but maybe it’s time to step out from the shadows.

There’s a whole world out there most of us dinosaurs don’t know about.

This dismantling of the game is happening in the shady recesses of the internet, the domain of the football hipsters.

But, much to the beardy boys’ disgust, the stuff they talk about is creeping into the mainstream. Nerdy football was cool but with more folk looking at this kind of analysis it’s probably not cool any more.

The hipsters will need to move on to something else but a lot of us still need to catch up with the trendies.

There’s no choice, by the way. We can resist all we like but when top bosses start talking in riddles then you can either get with the programme or get involved with carpet bowls.

He spoke about how he was happy playing 6, 8 or 10. There were some puzzled looks in the press pack. Six? That was left half back in the day. Not now.

Strap yourselves in here for a quick zip around the modern game. The six or eight positions can now be the deep lying midfielder. It used to be the holding role but not any more.

It can be the Destroyer – the spoiler breaking up the play and giving it to a more talented guy.

But it can be the Regista – a playmaker who dictates the flow of the game from deep.

Then there is the Volante – a combination of the two, an athlete who can read the game, make interceptions and then pick out the passes that will break the defensive lines. You’re slipping away here, aren’t you?

Further up at 10 is the Trequartista. The playmaker, the second, deep striker, the man who unlocks defences.

A false nine? Don’t be so 2011. It’s the shadow striker now, the role Lionel Messi made famous. The striker, who’s not a striker, who comes deep and confuses the heck out of defenders.

There’s also a false 10 these days but you need a degree in astrophysics to explain it. Then the Raumdeuter. It’s German for ‘space investigator’, a wide player who comes inside to look for spaces, often to the middle, or zone 14, which is a coaching box in front of the penalty area.

He’s not to be confused with the inverted winger who cuts in Arjen Robben style, or the inverted full-back, or wing-back.

There’s even a Forward Destroyer but that’s for the advanced class, along with the stats blitz, the high press and low block, and the transitions.

Confused? You should be.

 

Big Ron Atkinson started it with Ronglish. At least that was amusing.  It's just deteriorated into management bollock speak.

 https://dangerhere.com/2020/10/12/learn-ronglish/ 

1-2 Saints, JWP with two direct free kicks to take Beckham's record.....

Nurse, can I have more meds please... 😆

Pretty basic negotiation tactic... Let's see how much the board want Marsch

Get in! 

I'd have a celebratory pint if I wasn't so hungover from yesterday 

Lived in York since 2010 having been to games infrequently while living in Winchester and Horsham while growing up, was born on IoW so that could have gone either way I guess!  First game at The Dell was against Villa in April 1982 when we lost 0-3. 

Last went to a home game at St Mary's in 2015 purposely to seal the allegiance of my two lads (6 & 5 at the time), we beat Hull 2-0 and Pelle scored right in front of them - so job done!  Don't get to many games due to work, but i've seen the U23's a couple of times vs Leeds.

Apart from my two there's another couple of lads in their junior football team that support Saints, it's quite funny being up here and seeing four or five lads running round in Saints kit outnumbering those in Leeds, United or Liverpool kits.

I've met another four Saints supporters up here through friends, which isn't bad going. 

We were in Turkey the other week and my lads are now wearing my old 90's Saints shirts between them when an Asian guest at the hotel rushed up to them beaming and speaking excitedly about their shirts - he didn't speak much English but we managed to establish he'd been a Saints fan since the early 2000's.