John Boy Saint

Because of his movement he distracts the eye of the defender opening the space for Adams in this case - and given the uncharacteristic porousness of their defence these last 2 games the last thing they are going to want is route one running at them.

Given your location I think we can forgive you for being influenced by a diet of Hockey - influencing you to consider who you could get 2 minute stints of productive ice time out of and be good at changing efficiently on the fly - 😜😜

That looks a horrible run of games for Everton - you can see the way Liverpool are playing they could really open the taps on them. Burnley might not be everyone’s cup of tea (although they were on here tonight) they could dig their way out of this, Watford are the joker in the pack as Roy seems to have given them a bit of steel Leeds and Newcastle just have to make sure they don’t do anything silly

Burnley!

0-0 then

No good trying to hide, we all nose it’s you Thomas

Wow - God help us on Saturday Benzema has just produced 2 minutes of damage 2-0

He certainly hit that particular nail squarely on the head - Hoddle had fears for "his legendary status" with Matty around.

156 goals difference between us and Hounslow is just surreal!

Probably because he is like a bottle shaken pop - and an apprentice of Longy in being a proper pain in the arse. In the immortal words of Corporal Jones (defenders) they don’t like it up em! 😜

Probably be a massive Covid outbreak on Tyneside this week 🤪

Rasiak played like we were beneath him - I think the night before he was shipped out on loan at the end of the transfer window, he played like his life depended on it (against Norwich?) the cynical tongue in cheek chat amongst the regulars around us was “he’s first on the list for a drug test tonight”.

Might be the day for AA to seize the opportunity and step up to plate - or Redders is straight in to serve up a worldie ……….. of course Tella is back to blind the defence with his smile and run amok

Unfortunately Diallo is a bit like Yoshida in his early days - with not much game time, pretty much a bag of spanner’s left in a puddle, all the rust needs knocking off to get them to work properly.

A point - ain’t had one of those for a while

I've heard this advice given plenty of times regarding Leeds. Friend of mine Brighton fan, hard as nails, most would consider crossing the road if they saw him coming towards them on a dark evening, not shy of looking after himself when needed (that said he is an absolutely top bloke) Going away to Football a trip to Leeds he always said - Pour himself off the train into a pub, then get a taxi to the ground, slip the driver a good tip to pick him up after the game to go back to the station. "Look at me 6'5", shaved head, pissed" "the place is full of too many Smirnoff Ice drinking heroes wanting a shot at a trophy - me", "I'm 50 something and too old for that caper, and you know full well who's getting a tour of the police station if I react"!

Fodon is resembling a pause button nearly every time he gets the ball

I've thought the same for years - the only reason we binned them off was because as the season went on the Navy Blue Knickers (as shorts were referred to back then) got lighter and lighter in colour after each wash. Now that sports kit is made out of plastic bottles fading colour is a thing of the past.

I knew I had seen something about him very recently. Seems to have his head well screwed on https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/19990078.carlisle-uniteds-southampton-loanee-dynel-simeu-this-carlisles-club-community-love-it/

Being an old duffer, he will hopefully make the reference in a derogatory manner and give himself the Keys and Gray exit treatment

I thought the idea of these games was to test the options and have a little tinker with things - both with players and tactics to improve and learn about various options should something go awry. Southgate knows he will get hung out to dry with the media what ever he does, Tyler made a negative comment a few minutes after we went one down along the lines of the world was coming to an end for England: build the ducking stool and hire the Executioner. With your head screwed on it’s hard to criticise Southgate when he has delivered one semi final and a final (sod whatever the route to them was), since 1966 England has, aside from Robson and Venables, been mostly Fur Coat and no knickers. Both Switzerland and Ivory Coast are good teams to dabble against, as both are capable and offer different challenges, ideal for a dabble.

Far and away my favourite kit - maybe influenced as it coincided with when I started going down the Saints - it’s a very smart stripe. if that version means we don’t have to do the solid back to appease blind refs and stupid commentators all the better.

Seems that going there has taught him which side of the bread is buttered - Carlisle fans appear to have taken him to their hearts and through that he’s recognised that football is more than having a fat wedge in his pocket; that what he does on a Saturday puts smiles on the faces of community. Hopefully that means he comes back a more rounded character and an asset to us - at the same time we might have found a nice club in Carlisle to enhance the nippers on the cusp that we need to keep ticking over with proper football - whilst keeping their feet on on the ground.

Just had a look at the highlights of Ipswich v West Ham. We all know BBC edits favour the bigger teams, but it looked like a game of attack against defence, the defence only letting West Ham score the one, seemingly one way traffic for 90 minutes.

I concur - I was working and listening to it, 3 points were in the bag then Crouchy had a brain fart. Still you could toss the Boro game into the hat too. If Memory serves me well it was Redknapps first game at the helm - 2-0 up and comfortable and Danny Higginbottoms head suddenly resembled a 50 pence piece, in the space of a couple of minutes we were suddenly under siege and panicking 2-2 just like that. I’ve always said under Strachan we were fit for 120 minutes - Redknapp seemed to have us fit for 80 minutes then all our good work fell away.