Gloucester Saint

LA Galaxy seconds. Getting some sunshine in in his career.

Well done, that’s him. https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/youngster-rodriguez-departs-saints Now plays for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UD_San_Fernando at least getting some Canary Islands sun and enjoying the Maspalomas sand dunes. Guessing he’s part-time with a job.

Wasn’t there a 17 year old Spanish LB also signed around the same time Livramento was? Cost a couple of £2m and disappeared. Not Larios, it was before that. All adds up.

I remember they also had trouble during the petrol strikes when Hoddle was manager with a very tasty side managed by Robson. Lost 2-0 and Saints could’ve won by more. The Archers were singing ‘What a waste of Petrol’

Yes, when you look at the LB issue in the round it’s not good even if one transaction made a modest profit. Especially for a club that’s had Peach, Dennis, Statham, Bridge, Bale, Shaw and Bertrand in that position.

It’ll tell you if Rasmus really rates him or not as to whether he will risk his vanity project and their Europa League push. I’d actually even be impressed if he did well there for a string of games without one of his trademark horror shows, and as anyone who posts on here knows, Gavin is firmly in my worst ever XI. Chez has Ian Andrews in it, pays your money takes your choice.

I’d have reserved it for Bazanu - even Martin said he cost us that game. An Ipswich fan would have made more effort to save at least two of them. First one just bursts through open hands, shouldn’t be going in from there and should have got a strong hand on the third. Any hand really. Second one not great visibility and the defending was woeful but still not acceptable to miss it altogether.

Jeff Kenna weirdly miscued the ball back across his own area for the equaliser. I think it was him anyway. Didn’t matter in both senses as a historic win on penalties. I remember Shearer’s little jig of joy when he scored his. A rare Stuart Gray goal for Saints first in normal time.

It was disappointing but that was arguably along with the 1971 double team Arsenal’s best ever and Henry could have gone to ground in the first minute and Claus was off. WGS played the long game based on our fitness and we finished strongly, one very good save from Seaman but not quite enough.

We’d have beaten Watford, very handy side under Taylor but the emotion of the day go to them. We were actually the favourites in 1984. One I missed the following year - Barnsley at home in the cup when we were strongly fancied again.

I do wonder if some of them struggle with organisation because of learning difficulties eg time and money management. To be fair, supplies and supply chains have gotten more difficult, one big job got postponed becuase we literally couldn’t get a price on bi-fold doors because there was a shortage… The very good ones can advise you on the spec as well if it’s not your own area of expertise and it leads to both parties understanding and executing the job to a good standard. They are the ones we repeat with and the ones you need to book well in advance. Just need far more like that. I agree on getting what you pay for but even when they’ve come with good recommendations and a premium they still require more supervision than they ought to.

Norris one was annoying at the time but we didn’t do enough to beat them. Sharp’s second was scrambled and should have wiped the floor with them given the form the teams were in. Dominated possession as expected but it should have been a Fratton 2019 outcome and scoreline. They still went down and we still went up, and they had four years of League Two whilst we enjoyed Pochettino, Ronald and the San Siro. Whereas Heath denied our best ever team from winning another FA Cup in my first season following them. The club’s narrative would be different. If only Steve Williams had been fully fit…. Zlatan goes without saying after our great comeback and battering them second half.

That and Bond’s back pass to Rush at White Hart Lane in extra time. Marcus Bent for Everton in 2005 was a body blow. Zlatan’s the worst though in terms of impact. Best’s own goal at Derby was both painful and WTF at the same time. Now the answer would be ‘none’ because after two of the last three seasons and 2x 9-0 my ability to feel much about goals conceded is pretty much zero!

I don’t think Chelsea will recall him anyhow. He’s been better under Juric on the whole but still not pulling up consistent trees that would get him a start at Chelsea.

They’ve seemingly shaking him around for loan all month - plenty of injured keepers too but the silence is deafening unless the club wants a hefty loan fee and wages paid. Turns out the market for a keeper who struggles with low shots, central shots with power, catching and coming off his line but is potentially a good kicker (so claimed but seen little evidence) is very limited.

It’s not been good for some time in this country but it’s got a whole lot worse since Brexit and less competition. Trades are even worse than retail - trying to get them to turn up to a job you’ve arranged your day around is a hard task in the first place, level of supervision required from a clearly agreed job spec is something else again. I have found some gems as well amongst UK trades who have pride in their work and want a happy customer where they get offered fresh jobs and recommendations from us to others we know but far too many that want to do half the job contracted and invoice. They end up taking less because of it even after they’ve tried to fix mess ups but the email exchanges to facilitate it and resolve disputes because the job isn’t done as specified are as costly to us as to them. Beef up consumer protections and more people will have confidence in commissioning new work. I know the law and this frustrates rogue trades, but a lot of people don’t and it’s a national issue that standards and attitudes are so poor. When there was more competition they were less able to get away with it. Is it just me or do others have this experience?

Agreed, I was going by the extent of my shock and horror. There’s been some evil bastards around like Robert Black, Jebson and Ian Huntley but there was something so calculated and evil about this case. It emerged that he actually tried going back to his old school and doing similar but his dad stopped the taxi driver.

Hilarious that they have trouble with it now after their plastics infiltrated away ground home areas for years when they were winning things. I still remember one of them popping up at the back of the West Stand when they won the league in 2000 IIRC and an old Saints fan whacked him with an umbrella full pelt. Made quite a sound. Bet his head hurt in the morning https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg8ejpplp2o

I would actually rate this as even worse than that the Jamie Bulger murder, and I never thought I’d be typing that. What was especially sickening is the admittance that he quite deliberately went for the smallest and what he perceived as the weakest kids. He is definitely bad, evil, calculating, not mad, prison is going to be hell for him.

Although he was just too young for a full life tariff, he will never be allowed out. And shouldn’t be either.

It wouldn’t be surprising if he ended up meeting ‘Stanley’ a few times in custody.

Quite, and Bazanu was by some distance the worst keeper in the Championship. If he is back in goal, we’d be doing well to stay up let alone go up.

He is, and much prefer his policies, but weird nevertheless turning up to that formal event looking like he was gone for a light jog around the block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman

Good point - Ely scored regularly for Basel including v City in the CL and at Celtic.

And very cold - not during the ceremony itself which was indoors but it was very cold outside in DC.