Hawkswood

Yeah I just saw that. What a knobhead

I, for one, am loving your positivity. 👍 However Im a little bit more nervous, especially with Dannys reaction to it. Its gonna be a long 24 hours til we find out.

Why is it weve won away and scored 4 goals yet Im really bloody irritated to concede 3. Bit annoying how we fell away after the fourth.

What really really hacked me off was their perspective of the first goal. Oh yes, they let the player drift. They switched off. Terrible marking. Horseshite. Nothing about him moving into space and losing his marker. Nothing about the lovely flick in the first place. Nothing about the great one two or the perfect thru ball. All they focused on were Everton mistakes. Couple of dullards !!

Wow, what a team performance. How you pick a MoM from that is beyond me. Cant think of one bad performer. What a cracking win which I didnt see coming. COYS

Christ. Imagine if we'd got relegated with all that lot still on the wage bill. Doesn't bear thinking about.

Urgh........Walcott. Thats ruined my deadline day excitement.

For me, really solid performance throughout. I thought Armstrong was really tidy in the midfield but KWP was excellent today. Dont think he put a foot wrong. However OR gets player of the season by default for that volley.

Thats what I was thinking

Okay....Ive been debating with myself whether or not to put this on here as Ive seen some of the stick some people get. Im no itk whatsoever, however, a few days ago a lifelong friend of mine text me to say great signing. I asked him what he was talking about. My friend is VERY well connected at one of the top 6 clubs. I mean regularly chats with the chairman, manager, players etc. Has all their numbers etc and still in contact with some players that leave. I cant tell you what he does there cos I shouldnt even be telling you this... So when i said what signing he said RLC. I said I dont think we can afford his wages and he said oh ok. I asked him where he has heard this and he said youll laugh when I tell you. Obvs he told me, it came straight from the managers mouth. Thats it, thats all Ive got. Dont know whether it will happen......Waiting for some abuse....

Herman Munster 😂😂😂😂

No shooting down here. All fair points for me.

Yup, absolutely. Youre just waiting for it to happen.

Thats exactly it for me also. Im so tired of my club being run like a mickey mouse outfit. Ive had nearly 40 years of it. When I was younger I would become irate. These days I just shrug, feel completely apathetic Ive got more important things in my life to get more upset about ( altho it takes many years of frustration to get to that point). Im not asking or expecting my club to get out and blow billions, but like others have said, we knew our cm was leaving, surely any business/club run properly would think, yeah, we might need to strengthen there. How could something so blindingly obvious to everyone not be seized upon. And it happens time after time after time. Its honestly a bit embarrassing.

Like a few others I knew this was coming after the last two games so also went to play golf. My brother watched it tho, and without any hint from me he said, "" the first 44 minutes your lot were unplayable........whats up with that high line though ""..........ermmmm.

Oh. My. God. This is like bloody groundhog day. ( Not digging at anybody on here cos youre all right). No news from the club. No mention of signings. No money. Crap start to the season. Desperately wishing to sign our ex players. All expectation killed after the first week. Oh to be a saints fan. I feel like punching myself in the face.

My highlight of the weekend was just watching the spurs game when PEH booted it out of play. Neville " oh thats awful from Holjberg". I was wetting myself particularly as Ive got a few good mates who are spurs fans and they were telling me hes the missing piece. I would say to them, chaps, hes really not very good. Then they would get a little condescending and point at his stats, to which I would reply, dont let the stats fool you, they dont tell the full story. Then they would claim I was just bitter that he had gone to a bigger club and they had managed to flog their bitpart fullback to us, regardlessof the fact I would tell them I was happy with the signing. Plus 3m. Ahhhh, schadenfreude.

My mistake, I misread the original post. Defo Nige then and I quite agree with you, I loved our time in the lower leagues as I often banged on to this to my mates who support other clubs. Loved Poch and huge fan of Ralph. I added Hoddle cos of the way we played when he was here but like I said, my bad as I misread it.

Poch Ralph Hoddle Ive judged it on managers who took a bunch of players and made them better than they actually are. Didnt enjoy our style under Koeman. I felt we were very rigid and a little dull. Love Nige but this is PL.

Sorry if this has been mentioned previously but I honestly cant be bothered to trawl thru the messages to look for it but can someone please tell me how long these players have left on theirs contracts. Thanks in advance. Hoedt Carillo Boafal Vest Lemina Bit of a roll call there !

Sorry if this has been mentioned previously but I honestly cant be bothered to trawl thru the messages to look for it but can someone please tell me how long these players have left on theirs contracts. Thanks in advance. Hoedt Carillo Boafal Vest Lemina Bit of a roll call there !

Exactly my thoughts

Yeah same for me. Im very happy with this bit of business if it goes thru. All about perspectives I suppose.

Tend to agree with this. I actually think KWP looks a far better player than Targett.

Id always Like Ralph since the start. I like his demeanour and his tactics, I thought he was a breath of fresh air after the last few years and when the season started I thought, right, lets really see what you can do. And then......Im not really sure what happened. I was so surprised by the performances, I really didnt see it coming. I have to also admit that after THAT game, I thought he needed to go but purely because I thought he had lost the dressing room. I didnt see any way back. Im so glad I was proved wrong in this instance, seeing my saints play the way I expected them to originally under him ( and in this case I was proved right to myself about him). Watching our last few performances leave me genuinely excited about the new season and watching us play. I think he has us playing better football than we did under Koeman. I preferred us under Poch and I believe we're on that track. Feels so good to feel good about my team again. Also very happy for Che. Thought he'd come good.