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Radio Solent being slightly more complimentary today. Can't get the link to work on Firefox..

I'm off to see if Radio Solent have anything..

I'd agree with your general analysis. I'd add that you don't want to bring a young player into a struggling side, and we are definitely struggling. Pre-season might be interesting though. I think with Romeu you are right and as Steve Grant says in The Guardian article, his legs are beginning to go. He's far too intelligent and professional player not to recognise this and he'd do well in a less frantic league, like Steve Davis has done.

This week I've had a number of events coinciding which means quite a few drinks consumed and an impact on my liver, so I need to take it easy. I've promised myself a beer if we win though, so should be safe..

Hear...it's late..

Well done! Were you one of the noisy bu**ers we could here on the telly? 🙂 Couldn't here the Wolves crowd at all, well done!

I presume you went back to sleep? Give a wave to the cameras as there'll be a few of us trying to watch.

Can you make up a set of bingo cards, then we could all play?

I agree, and I bloomin' well hope so. Only that when they have been playing well this season they've been a class above anything shown under Puel. All I can say is that we need improvement all round, but as Manchester United and Watford, two ends of the spectrum, have shown just changing the manager doesn't always help when the underlying situation undermines them.

Yes, I'd have preferred Adams starting, the other two benefitting more from not playing the full 90. The only reason I can see is Tella's pace but it would have been better used being closer to Broja. I get excited about new signings: my natural optimism I suppose. But I want to be _really_ excited this summer! 😉

Last chance perhaps? Some largely absent pace? I think Romeu and Armstrong have been looking tired recently: the latter since he came back from injury seems to have lost that burst of speed that took him past players. He's tried it and failed quite a number of times. But certainly they should have come on earlier and our passivity was worrying. I believe Tella was at Arsenal. He's probably one of those players they let go whilst assuring him that he'd make the grade in the professional game "somewhere in the lower divisions".. I think we missed Perraud and Livramento more than we might imagine, but I still don't know why A.Armstrong hasn't had a few more chances off the bench recently. He's not one of the worst forwards we've had to put up with over the years, and I go back to before Dixon and Speedie..

From the Everton-Brentford MBM in The Guardian.. 28m ago18.51 “Why is no-one talking about the Saints being in danger?” emails Chris. “Assume a spanking from Liverpool and they may need to get a final day result away at Leicester (if Burnley win their midweek game at Villa).” Anybody care to reply..?

As opposed to being force fed your opinions? Anyway, how do you know it's shit if you're not interested in it? Plus it engages you enough to comment. Must dash.. I'm off to a motoring forum to tell them I'm not at all interested in Formula 1.

It's to fool them into thinking it's the start of a new season so that they'll be all enthusiastic..

I was reading this thread and wondering when you'd turn up! 🙂

Hmm, equaliser on 6 minutes. What's Villa's defence like compared with ours..? Rhetorical question, please don't answer!

No, I don't know, but they haven't impinged on my consciousness like Doyle, Dibbley, Pearce who seem to have something about them.

I worked it out from the context! I see Wycombe beat MKD in the L1 play-offs tonight: two ex-Saints scoring and 3 in total playing: Tafazolli, Vokes and Gape.

Didn't you used to have a favourite spying tree? Anyway, 0-0 at half time according to Saints twitter.

Ok, I'll give you that!:-)

Ramadan finishes tomorrow, I believe, so let's hope the thought sustains him.

I know there is often a default pessimism amongst Saint's fans, but DT takes it rather too enthusiastically, don't you think? Quite a few Palace fans on the train and around town. Let's hope they're miserable on the train home..

A quick edit is in order, Dr...

I had noticed that there was no match thread but I didn't want to start it because Lord Duckhunter is such a fragile snowflake it might have given him the vapours..:-) I'm going to wear some lucky boxers, in tribute to John Boy Saint..;-) As to the result I rather agree with SNSUN, so if we can manage two halves like the second half against Brighton, and if one of the WPs can wind up Zaha we should be OK.

I've a number of alternative suggestions for next time: turn the sound down, use a dodgy stream in a foreign language (Al Jazeera or a chinese one for least understanding) or even a non-UK one for fewer nauseating Liverpool old boys. The South African one for Brighton - Saints had a player who seemed to know his stuff, no idea who he was.