miserableoldgit

I genuinely dispair of some people on here. Having been watching Saints since the mid-1950's, I have just about seen it all, but the over-reaction on here today almost takes the cake. First game of the season on our return to the Premier League, away to a well established, very rich club, where we lose 0-1 and certainly didn't disgrace ourselves, and the doomsters are out in force. Could we have done better? Yes. Could we have done worse? Most certainly. We can come away from that game with our heads held high. Things to bear in mind...RM's first game as a PL manager. Integrating new players. Losing 0-1 at SJP is not a disgrace. Transfer window still open for another week or two. Most people used to say give the team/manager 10 games to bed in. Nowadays (certainly on here) you are lucky to get 10 mins! Had it not been for AM we would hopefully got at least a draw and things may have looked different, but I suspect even that would not be enough for the Marvins on here.

So we got promoted and went on a record-breaking unbeaten run despite crap tacticss?

I don't know. Perhaps it will be explained at the aftermatch interview.....

Do you know why he was taken off? Was he injured?

Dunno, but he kept saying that BBD had conned the ref. I supposed he conned VAR as well?

You could have been the first to use "shoe-horned in" this season.....big chance missed!

It was absolute dreamland stuff. I still can't believe it all these years later!!!

Can't quite see RM putting up with that.....

Les Reed said that the VVD fee would see us OK, transferwise, for a few seasons.

Yet another "enigmatic" post.......

MIGHT still be on....

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/tYuQeZ2bqZYUQKzf/

This is a weeks time......expecting them to still be here?

Just come up on FB. Interesting choice of players....

This Transfer Window just gets better and better.....

CDAJFU??

Old and young his praise have sung........so might be worth a go.....

Freeze him out? TBH, none of us really know what is going on behind the scenes.....

It's just that when I switch my phone on, I more often than not, I have notifications from him and I am not sure how that happens.

How reliable is Saints Socialite?

I would count KWP staying as a success. We know what we get with him. Sell him and spend the money on a gamble signing?

Came across a nearly new copy of a biography of Nelson, written by CS Forester and published in 1929. I was obviously aware of his "Hornblower" series, but didn't know about this. A very good read!

Oh God......Father Ted! Beer and Burgers!!

Is this going to be on the website or Youtube or is it just on Solent?

You are assumimg that we are able to move the "dross" at a price that suits/helps us......that isn't guaranteed. It would appear that if we fail to do this, we will struggle to improve the team much further. The point is that despite winning "the richest one-off game in World football", we can only improve the team by balancing the books. We have to manage with one hand tied behind our back while watching the "Top Six" spend/waste money like it is going out of fashion. The thought that "we are back in the big time" is often tempered by asking "can we really afford it and is it really worth it?"