Ken Tone

The pricing is disappointing, but closing the Kingsland....the biggest stand which is also where many ST holders go..... is a bigger mistake IMO. I am going , but it nearly put me off, sitting away from my usual neighbours and having to walk further round the ground etc.

I wasn't expecting any contracts to be cancelled. Legally tricky! I was referring to sending out players on loan, to lower league clubs of course, with the incentive to the player being to actually play, and put themselves in the shop window -- or even prove themselves worthy of a recall to saints next season.

If it were down to me, I'd try to offload as many of the also- rans from the squad, bring back Shea Charles, and try to sign a striker that actually scores. It's very unlikely that any striker who's successful in England will want to come to us for a relegation, but one from abroad might want to, to show they can do it in the Premier league and hope to be signed by another PL club in the summer. That will be a risk of course because success abroad doesn't guarantee success here but we don't have much choice unless we just give up.

Surely we have to recall Charles to cover defensive midfield?

Looks quite an attacking team, but 3 full backs and a CB on the bench. Plan to score early and then hang on grimly? 😉

Read somewhere we were getting another player along with Welington -- a winger/forward? Anyone know any details? (Btw Welington spells his name with only 1 L.)

Does anyone know how good Juric's English is? Presumably, as a Croat, he was managing in Italy in his second language. Is his English fluent too? Although, on second thoughts, all he needs is to be able to shout "just bloody clear it", "no, pass it forwards" and probably "oh no, not again!" 😏

You'd probably find that if 1984 was read more widely, people would accuse Orwell of plagiarism in using the term Big Brother 😉😱

I think the first question is, will there be any wins? 😱

Pity about the umlaut in Röhl making it closer to 'rerle' than 'roll' but hey, I'll go with it 😉

Has anyone seen any even vague details of this expansion plan? Most of the publicity I've seen seems to be about developing the area Anything on stadium capacity?

I don't think they'll sack him now, battering or no battering. The reasonable time to sack him was about 4 or 5 games ago. Looks to me like they've decided he'll lead us back out of the championship, and they'll only sack him if we start next season badly. Depressing ain't it!

In the Sunday Times today, Martin Samuel (admittedly a bit of a pillock) says it cost United £21.4 million to sack ten Hag and his staff......and that the cost would end up being by the fans in increased ticket prices.

What we really need is a few more full backs 😉

I'm honestly beginning to believe that they're content to be relegated this year, taking money from being in the Premier, selling off a few more players, then thinking they can use those profits and parachute payments to bounce back up again. Of course life rarely works out how you want. And football hardly ever does! As to us fans having to watch this .....tough!😡😱

Not a popular view on here I know, but I still think Shea Charles is the long term answer as partner/ cover. I certainly don't think Les is any better than him and I wonder how their wages compare, with a loan fee etc as well?

But Taylor not even on the bench. You can never have enough left backs😉

Feels like Martin is just frantically trying random selections in the hope something will click. No plan, no consistency

No. He'll be CB so Stephens can play LB !😉

Harsh IMO. Thought he showed promise last season, in spite of Martin playing him in so many different roles so he couldn't settle. And he's obviously done really well at Wednesday, captain of NI, and now linked with Arsenal in (admittedly unreliable) click bait.

Don't think managers like Clough, Feguson etc allowed much disagreement in the players. Clough said something like if a player disagrees with me, we have a frank and open discussion .....and then we agree that I'm right.

Disagree. Thought he was very good against Everton, after improving steadily over the last few weeks.

A cracking old ground? Jesus, you make me feel old! I went to a game there whilst it was being completely rebuilt. They turned it through 90 degrees and at that game they only had one side stand in use.....yards away from the touchline.

Surely should be taylor ahead of manning for defending today..

Suspect Potter is hoping for the Man United job.