Holmes_and_Watson

Sequel

There's just no future in a nostalgia thread. 🙂 Now that's out my system, nearly all my Saints stuff is in my parents loft. I've definitely not got the horrid Dimplex one with the v at the top. Just a pile of hagiography books round here somewhere.

Stealth

There's a joke in there about at least Amazon can be counted on to deliver something, but I'm not making it. 🙂

Our performances don't deserve upper case. 🙂

If it's anything like their list of potential strikers they'd have liked to have brought in, Ralph could be here for ages. 🙂

Cat

Game

An innovative, interlocking human pyramid in the goal. RalphBall v3 10-0-0 🙂

Fire

Radio chuffed for TAA putting Liverpool ahead, as if scoring somehow balances the poor defensive ability, which is why he's not picked for England.

For a second I thought he'd been sent off for a high boot, before I remembered who Boot was. 🙂

My memory is of annoyance when NA would make tactical subs against bigger Prem teams, when we were clearly on top of them. He must have been doing something right to be in that position. There were signs we were getting to grips with the season when he went. His record with us shows he was easily good enough for the two leagues below. Remember, when you are feeling stressed or are in a bad place, just ask yourself "What Would Nigel Do?" and let that positivity in. 🙂

Hubby will have been looking at his contract to see if there was a wage reduction on relegation clause in there.

Being surrounded by alcohol seems like a good place to be when you hear the score. 🙂

Despite being poor, Forest still managed to create 3 excellent chances, that they then wasted.

That

Head

With so far to go, it's hard to see who Ralph will want to build his championship team around. 🙂

Shrug

I do agree. By "step up" I was meaning that I hoped his experience in a number of roles would help him fill a gap here. While I've not seen loads of his Arsenal games, I don't recall him in a Romeu role. Hopefully, he's got the all round game to do a job there.

Today was his peak. It's all downhill from here, starting with a massive slump and 3 own goals next week. 🙂

A save is that he didn't know the names of any City players. Obviously at 6 , Turkish will have ensured his son can recite full commentary of the '76 final. 🙂

I'd point out that:- - The entire team was underperforming after RalphBall v1 got found out (and quite a lot of the time around that), so far from being just Romeu. - Romeu was one of the players that, even when under performing, we really missed, with performances slumping even more without him (for the most part) - That his position/ role in the team was a key one, while several other positions contained interchangeable players. - It was also a key postion in all versions of RalphBall, to counter the press breaking down / shielding our defence. - Diallo clearly wasn't able to cover in this position, and it was not an uncommon view that some cover in this postion was really needed. - Some of his departure thread will mention his importance. So it's not a case of hindsight, as one of simple contingency planning the club should be capable of. - Had Lavia impressed, made the first team on merit then great. Even better if he was super fit and played lots of games. But at that age, and in the competitions we are in, having Romeu as a sub (Ralph keen on having the 5), as a replacement when resting developing or tired young players, or as a supporitng player on other competitions would still have made plenty of sense. - I hope AMN comes good. And in that postion. But it was an uneccesary risk, when we had a player on our books in that role already. Right, off to start my rant about how Romeu was our best ever player and the Saints board should be prosecuted for forcing out our star player. 🙂

No one likes a show off, and I'm glad we don't have any here. >sob< 🙂