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£15m is still close to the record Championship transfer fee which was Ruben Neves at Wolves (worth every penny) at £15.8m, so if Saints needed to get rid to strengthen elsewhere he’d probably be going there at a loss of some description.

I agree with your post in the main, we saw that at Hillsborough, and he won’t be cutting his pay by 75% next season to re-join us. Would definitely need pace and power around him if he did, which is the priority to get into the core of the spine over the summer.

That’s Foley’s influence (and investment). Very different to their previous PL spell and a certain East Hants club’s spell.

The prick (Rasmus) has a face like a smacked arse and that was even before the game started. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d been informed that Spores now controls recruitment for SR and that he now has the everyday management of Goztepe in the main.

He takes the blade with trembling hands, can Spores make the Final Cut (of all the weak shit in the squad)!

Yep, we need pace and raw physical power. Love JWP but far too many lightweight players already.

That’s what eight years of dreadful ownership, three managers (Pellegrino, Jones and Martin) worse than Ian Branfoot, pathetic scouting and laziness does to an established mid-table PL club. It’s a wonder the damage is even worse tbh, if we’d lost the Swansea game in 2018 we could well be playing Bromley and Morecambe by now, if we existed at all. Bournemouth are like watching us under Pochettino, perhaps not quite Koeman level. Eg strong, quick, pressing and counter attacking side who can cause the very best in the PL problems. If we get away with 1-4 we’re fortunate! On a different level, that’s where this summer’s recruitment needs to go 100% - quick, strong athletic units. We can add a couple of more creative midfielders near the end of the window but no more weaklings, midgets or Man City academy cast offs for the foreseeable. If they don’t look scary, don’t sign them.

The time is gone, The Season’s over Thought we’d something more to say

The market is quite niche - parachute clubs or the odd club with serious backing coming up from League 1 (Bham, maybe Wrexham). WBA already enjoying AA but wages of £65k pw rumoured even with a 40% reduction that’s still beyond most Champ clubs to attempt to make permanent. And Downes only recently went for £18m. Only way I can see is if Ipswich stay up and pay Saints what he cost from West Ham. Otherwise as you say, it’ll be about knuckling down, getting fitter and re-integrating.

They just wear it now instead https://www.duckandcover.co.uk

I didn’t even need to login to guess who the confused emoji reaction was from….

Good for Plymouth and for the FA Cup. And if they build on today and their last result v WBA it could be another headache for Pompey. We wouldn’t have progressed any further if we’d have scraped by on penalties yesterday - the spirit, work ethic, determination you saw at Home Park today, this Saints squad don’t have any of that which you need to go deep in cup competitions let alone win the things.

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Looks miserable as anything, trying not to look at Spores with the expression of ‘you’re taking my dream job you cunt’ written across his face. But marking his territory like a dog cocking its leg just by being visible in the Director’s box. Probably spouting off about Goztepe’s league position around the SR board table to massage his Burj Dubai-sized ego.

Don’t disagree with much of that analysis, although Reform might need a different Chair https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm23p33emrdo I suspect it was to head off the rumours of a super-pact party headed by Farage and Johnson.

I’m laughing at the directness of expression, not the gist of the post which I very much agree with. The club needs half-a-dozen quick, physically strong units right through the spine of the outfield and another in goal after Ramsdale goes. We’ve needed that since 2016 as well. The weedier players we have with more a touch will benefit as well and it’ll set us up to be the counter-attacking and pressing best version of ourselves. They don’t all have to be the size of Everest, express pace can compensate. But no more 5/8 to 6 foot ten stone dripping wet signings until we’ve built a backbone. The technical players are the icing on the cake in late July.

Barnsley 1985 with a very good team was a bitter one.

It’ll turn consumer financing into the Wild West - that car you bought still has unpaid finance in it - unlucky! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau Billionaires and scammers all over the US will be delighted with that, as will the payday loan industry. Oh well, the poorest Americans voted for Trump enthusiastically. Enjoy your poverty!

The reason the UK Conservative Party was so successful was their ability to compromise with the British public and what was important eg Thatcher and ‘The NHS is Safe with Us’, pragmatically bringing in changes important to them balanced with a core of what sits well with the bulk of the electorate and helping those who need it. Reform as you say are a big break from this and won’t benefit many apart from non-doms. I was certainly glad to see Saints liberated from Rupert Lowe! The bloke couldn’t run a bath.

If he’d been a standout like Fernandes has in an ocean of 💩 I might have some understanding of his seeming outlook. But he’s been arguably the worst midfielder regularly starting this season and that’s going some with such a dreadful midfield. If Ipswich want to give us our £18m back after they sell Delap to Man U then fine by me. But Flynn can stop acting like a bell end in the meantime when he hasn’t contributed anything positive this season.

Only the player will know if that’s the case. May be a lack of belief that he can physically compete but has to compete as best he can.

We can only judge by what we see on the pitch which is him brushed off very easily. No-one is expecting Roy Keane 50/50s but in central areas he has to be able to at least nick the ball and hold opponents off when he’s on the ball. He’s coming on in games and they pass him by. He got totally destroyed by Declan Rice in the Nations League as well.

The alpecia I knew about but Chaplow had that as well. Be careful around the chemo - it can trigger people. He probably isn’t a PL athlete but he can pass, good touch, finish, with a bit more strength he could play in a 2 in a decent Champ midfield which Martin couldn’t do with him last year because we got swamped.

Something I do agree with Donald Trump on.

Go down the pub with Guided Missile/John Misselbrook who also stomped off here with his nappy around his ankles. John can seriously drink so take plenty of money when it’s your round.