Miltonaggro

Then again, I've got it on good authority he loves the new kit and has just bought Juan Larios's toaster.

Maybe. I like the bloke and in an interview said his boyhood hero was Jaaskelainen who played 500 games for Bolton - above all else Ramsdale wants to play every week I feel, but doesn't look prepared to give us a season in the Championship. Also think he was sold Saints by his bestie Brooks when we had momentum during the play offs. Shame, as he felt like the first old school proper Saints signing in years.

Apparently he's the Captain.

Just checked and the jet is recently purchased, registered to a Mr J Stephens out of Eastleigh airport.

Exactly this. The next red morale flag is Ramsdale exiting (whether loan or permanent) and us counting down to Wrexham with Baz and Macca in the wings.

As I've been saying since the end of last season, club should do all it can to keep Fernandes (a one man team second half of last season). Offer him a pay rise with promotion bonus, make him captain and build the team around him, slap on a Lavia sized price ticket. But that's all we can do. If a big club turns it's eye of Sauron our way as the window starts to close, he's offski.

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Trying to crank up the roubles!

Exactly right, and common in all physical sports. On average an adult man has something like 40-80% more maximal force than a woman and between 60-70% in terms of upper body strength. In contact sport this can be highly dangerous as much as anything else. The boxing pantomime at the last Olympics was a horrific case in point.

No need for that type of thing on here!!!

Sam Allardyce

Good post and the Koeman point is interesting - replace the Eredivisie with the Bundesliga and you may be on to something.

Looks like the squad trimming is continuing apace.

I raise you a Steve de Ridder

Always difficult in a video montage but really good feet, close control and quick footballing brain in those clips - movement reminds me a bit of a Shaqiri or Kinkladze. One to get excited about if we get this over the line.

If this is done under the ready made excuse that WS is still 'assessing' his squad options in the first few games it's a huge avoidable fuck up. We can put the Stephens contract down to a trigger happy Spors but not the team selection for competitive matches - that's squarely on the manager.

That's the most entertaining womens football match I've seen so far. Are Wrexham over 50s planning to play a team of trained chimpanzees next, another sure-fire crowd pleaser - 11-0!

Hope so.

Thing about the three you mention is that they have mistakes in them every single game, all whilst playing in crucial positions down the spine of the team. In the Russell Martin Championship season there was an element of you score three we'll score four against poor opposition, but it's still a complete liability in the literal sense. If those three start in the first few games the majority fanbase will be anticipating and expecting the Bazunu trademark flap and freeze, the Stephens slip and grab, or Smallbone brushed off or absent. Will Still has already mentioned a desire for 'fortress St Marys' but if he picks that trio and we ship points it will be an avoidable self-inflicted injury when you desperately need a good start. I hope that he's got more nous than that.

Similar to Sam Johnstone in that regard, a solid keeper in the Maik Taylor mould. I would have been happy with Johnstone in May 2023 and again now assuming Ramsdale is offski.

One way to look at this fee is that £6.5M pays Jack Stephens contract for the next three years or so @£40k a week.

I think so, and I'd still be hoovering up as many decent loans as poss until midnight.

Can happen when defending against a Brazilian.