Oldandtired

Gonna be needed for those wet December mid table Tuesday evening games against Stoke...

Not on his present form he won’t.

Fed up with watching it, fed up with talking about it…. You know the barrel is not very deep when scraping the bottom of it involves bringing on JS as a forward. For something a bit different has anybody else noticed that the number of empty seats in the directors box seems to be growing? Anyone got any good conspiracy theories?

Who with these credentials would want to come here atm, and, possibly more importantly, who have we got that is capable of identifying them?

Nah, two clicks down on the left hand paddle…

I’ve seen a lot worse shouts on here….😎

The problem is he's not wrong.

Watching that I felt sure that RM has been taken on City’s coaching staff….all looked so familiar.

We ought to send SR to the dark side of the moon, pigs that they are.

I would contend that in our case the line between those two is extremely blurred.

...bar one.

and replace with what? As far as I can see we are in a catch 22 situation of the worst kind. Yes we can get hopefully get rid of the dross but how are we going to replace with anything better? I can't see anybody of quality wanting to come here, so is it just more mediocrity to make the numbers up? I don't trust our system to find the quality in numbets that we are going to need, we don't just need one or two we need virtually a whole new team. Where are they going to come from and who is going to find them?

Thanks Russ.

I'm not totally convinced that we are going to attract the kind of players we are going to need nor have the skills in our club to identify those players. What I most fear is that we are just going to end up with more of the same. As I've said before we won the lottery last season but you don't very often do that twice.

Under ffp rules clubs are only allowed to spend so much on shirt name letters in a season.

I believe that’s called ‘hedging your bets’.

Compared to 2 other Saints cbs that's a definite plus...

I think once you let go the hope and just look for moments it makes life a lot easier. This was definitely a moment.

I didn't actually mean the COT, I meant SFC.

Unfortunately the patient appeared to die a while back…

I don’t know where we go from here tbh. As has been pointed out we have a bloated squad of, with very few exceptions, fairly mediocre players so I suppose the picture will become clearer after all the wheeling and dealing of this and the summer transfer window. You’d like to think we’d keep some of the players deemed to give it a go in the Championship next year and get rid of the most limited ones , but given SR’s history I can’t be optimistic. The other side of the coin is who we would be able to attract into the club. The last thing we want in my opinion is more of the same, just numbers for numbers’ sake….again given the owners recent history who knows? If nothing else should be interesting…

Most of the senior first team squad have proved they can’t handle the PL this season, so yes in my opinion they are blocking others from getting into the team. We have nothing to lose by giving others a chance.

This.

Could you repeat that in English please....😎

Or a pragmatist...