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AA is working his bollocks off.Criticising him is just plain stupid. We need a central striker.

Much better start to second half for saints. All in there half

IMG_8840.mov Pre match mosaic. Sadly could not see the Northam part!

Lucky to be 0-0 at HT. Lesley in MF might be a good shout. Play 4 at the back?

Was just getting better. Before we go back to being weak in mf again. Should honestly be 2-0 forest. We need ht desperately.

At last. Kwp runs and shoots. Straight at keeper though. Better.

Defence is ok tbf. It’s our MF been killed

Yuki is a class player. But we are gonna lose this match keep playing like this. Another chance for forest goes begging. Matter of time.

Make that four from Will. Not seen him so out of a match. Mf is nowhere.

Will given ball away three times already. Not his best game so far. Yuki doing well. Another save from AM and they just miss from a corner..🫣

They are very physical athletic team and we are kind of getting outmuscled. And they RUN! A lot. Hoping that catches up with them later second half.

Forest the better team overall.

BBD avoids yellow . Somehow.

Jan playing well

Ref letting a lot go. Forest break well saved by AM. We getting back into it but still bit sloppy in mf.

Much better start by forest

Think the atmosphere will be febrile despite the weather. Expect cards. Red(s) also. Saints cannot show lack of passion first match back. Think this inevitably means cards. I’ve bought bookings on Spreadex to back up my hunch.

Will be So much better for us kicking into the Northam second half. IF noisy fan support is required to fight back or hang on they will get it far more from newNortham wall than was achievable last year, sun or no sun. it can work the other way of course but the opposition will certainly hear the noise as ball gets close to there goal. More chance if that 12th man narrative actually aiding us this EPL season unlike last time. Interesting to compare it.

Players will arrive at 12.45 to no pyrotechnic and very well restrained polite round of applause from the smattering of fans present. Once inside respectful supporters will lift there little placards en masse at c 14.55 to reveal a massive mosaic tifo revealing the immortal words : 🎼“When I was just a little boy…”🎼 😂😇

Ramsdale is£120 pw and £5m fee. Bijlow is c £15m and probably £50k pw, In year1 with Ramsdale we commit to near £11m including wages. Thats before any haggling. We may get him for c £6-£8m with luck for one year of his services - if nobody else bids. And then there is obligation to buy. If that’s a sensible figure ( say £20m) then that’s another THB situation for what turns out to be a high class player for Saints. He may be worth much more than £20m if he keeps us up for instance. Bijlow otoh is going to be c £15m and wages c £50k pw. The transfer fee may get haggled down -but the wages won’t. He costs saints c £3m on a 5 year deal plus c £2.5m in wages total £5.5m. He may be worth double in a year if we stay up though - and gets to be Dutch #1 accordingly - value nearer to £30m. Both good goalies. One rather injury prone. I personally think the buying option is simpler and gives longer term ease of mind but it’s a close call either way. Very Happy with either. Both incentivised to stop goals cos they want to be national #1. Thumbs 👍 up either from me - and they start NOT bench!!

Is it possible Aaron is being lined up if Bijlow fails his medical?

Interesting alternative way of looking at it. Different to how fans generally think and a level or two deeper than the “ obvious” we need a striker-buy a striker thought line. Archer is in, BBD is in and the MF improved. We have not bought another winger to aid supply despite the impression we get that RM wants one who can deliver goals and assists rather than just step overs ( which is a rather direct criticism of our current and plentiful young wingers) but I guess Saints potentially have the Wee Man card up its sleeve for that at close of window.

Wow if you get Shea on loan it’s a masterstroke. He will improve your first eleven no question. Prediction now- he will play every match and at end of season you will vote him Player of the Season. And then he will return to Saints or be sold to another EPL team for an inflated fee.

I was there too and we hardly gave him a pass and certainly not a goal scoring opportunity. It was embarrassing all around how ignored he was. And how terrible whole team were except for one bit of Charlie skill. Yes TP had a couple of terrible first touches but frankly the storyline that he’s a shit player cannot play EPL has been way overdone. He can and does score goals if used intelligently. RM is pretty smart so I’m surprised he has not to date tried him out more. It’s a bit late now to see if it’s worth putting him in at the death for him to score. He will go to another club - and maybe score the goals we should be getting out of him if we were only cute enough and flexible enough to play to his strengths.

He did not get those kind of chances at Gillingham. We never chucked the ball into the box for that to happen. And he was playing in a crazy team. Not a settled team knows what’s what like we currently have ( pretty much).