Oisin

I have to disagree - this squad has been crying out for a proper number 9 for years. We need to loan someone in if we can’t find a permanent option. Experience tells us Ross will get injured very soon and likely be out for the season … which will leave us without any number 9 and trying to make ArmA work in that role again. We can cope elsewhere but not up front. It’s not so much the goals but the whole pattern of play, as evidenced on Wednesday evening.

It’s proved that saints find it difficult to do this … I think there’s one or two other clubs that have successfully obtained the services of a half-decent striker in the last 5 years. Congratulations for helping to confirm and demonstrate that saints are especially inept in this.

This would be a fair point, if it wasn’t for the fact that we’ve now used this rationale (or variation of) to justify our inability to sign a competent striker for 10 transfer windows.

Sorry, but from what I’ve seen of our right back options I’d be picking Bree. In a back 4. I’m no fan and I’d let him go this summer but he can at least defend which is more than Jelert can do, and Roerslev has been p1ss poor. And of course, Fellows is a winger, not a full back. Our options are really poor but he’s the pick of the bunch in my view.

If only it was just our weekends … we get a midweek booster jab too!

They need to go and I think whichever of us are stupid enough to go on Wednesday need to spend 90 minutes telling them that very loudly and incessantly. Seeing as I have a season ticket and have already paid I’ll follow my own advice - think it’s almost a duty. Feel at least 20 years too old to be behaving this pathetically but it needs to happen. It has to get toxic for SR. They are utterly toxic and need it back at them. And b0llocks to anyone who says it’s unfair on the players. There’s only 2 or 3 of the likely starting 11 that don’t deserve our ire for their dreadful attitude anyway.

Assuming he’s an option I’d keep Ramsdale. Of the current 1st team squad I’d keep Quarshie, Charles, Bragg, Jander, Fellows, Leo and Robinson. And Williams if we count him as 1st team squad. The rest I couldn’t care less about. To my thinking that leaves us with 4 full backs, 3 centre backs, 2 keepers, a winger and 4 forwards to find. And that’s after SR have spent well over 100 million. What a shambolic waste of time, money and effort

If there is genuine interest in ArmA I’d cash in. This whole club needs a reset, we need rid of the core group from the last couple of seasons and quite frankly we need a proper number 9. He is clearly of a good ability for this level, one of the few places on the pitch we have a genuine quality player for this league (not that we deploy him correctly). But we’re not going up and in order to facilitate the reset I’d be open to seeing him go.

There is no right answer … they’re all crap. I’ve decided to go for Wood and Quarshie because of being young enough that they can improve and my interpretation of attitudes; I don’t like THB’s basically. THB is probably just about the best but I’m so done with weak, entitled losers that I’d rather put up with someone slightly worse. Happy to be disagreed with though, it’s not as if Wood and Quarshie deserve a place themselves to be honest

I hope we don’t lose … if only because we’ve gone 4 at the back and I would hate for it to go wrong and spend another 18 months with a back 5

It’s comments like this that reinforce everyone’s opinion of you as being a) tedious and b) an idiot with zero footballing intelligence. We currently employee a 1 striker formation (and for starters, maybe we shouldn’t given our win ratio ever since we moved from 2 strikers under Ralph), but having just loaned out the utterly useless attempt at a number 9, currently have 1. And he is fit less than 5% of the time. ArmA and Archer are not strikers suited to a single striker formation. Every single person except you and, alarmingly, the coaching staff (or is it SR hierarchy?) who pick the team recognise this. We don’t have a fit number 9. Of course we need one. As we have for the best part of 10 transfer windows. Your comment is fatuous. And pedantic. Rather like you and everything you write here.

The players will now be customer success partners … Dont worry, the ability to succeed doesn’t matter in the slightest

Stewart is fit for about 30 minutes every 3 months. I wouldn’t waste those 30 minutes on a cup tie at Doncaster. I’d swap in Robinson for probably Scienza and may as well give Archer the striker spot for a laugh, but otherwise that team makes sense to me. Alas, it has one too few centre backs for SR … I mean the manager

Even if I were to agree with the above optimistic assessment, the point you seem to be missing is that every decision SR make is a bad one. If we do replace Bazunu, are you actually and genuinely confident it’ll be for a better player? Cos I’m not. They’ve had 4 years to resolve the same issues - keeper, defensive leader, striker, manager, coaches, players with character. We’ve actually regressed with all aspects of the footballing operation, spunking millions on failed players and managers in the process. With less Money to spend, against clubs with higher budgets next season (which we’re not competing against this year), less of a budget and total ineptitude in every decision making position in the club, it stands to reason we’ll be in a worse position next year to this. And we’re currently closer to relegation than promotion. We’re a shambles, and all the evidence points to us getting worse, not better.

I wasn’t at the final game at the dell so missed what would undoubtedly have been my favourite moment. So as it is I’m going for Liverpool 4-1 as favourite game, play-off final for favourite experience/atmosphere and as a small boy, Steve Moran’s late equaliser against Leicester in a 2-2. I was hooked!!