adrian lord

We are, quite simply, a very ordinary team this year.

The Poch Press has completely died away now.

Black Box got malware in it?

Not a valid comparison

Not sure what Wren's on about above, but the boffins behind the fabled Black Box should look at performing Stereotactic Prefrontal Lobotomies on all Academicians at 12, making them devoid of ambition and totally subservient to Les. Getting adult transfers to consent to the procedure might be a challenge though, but worth a try.

Mm.m....nothing changes though does it? Channon was lured to move to Citeh and Malcolm Allison's superteam for more £ and the promise of winning the league. Of course the "superteam" tanked and he came back.

Mercenaries to a man, modern players.

I sincerely hope and expect so, but stranger things have happened...

We face the looming spectre of Bournemouth eclipsing us this season unless we improve dramatically. The Cherries were very unlucky in their first 2 games and what's transpiring so far at wetSham is not a surprise.

Watford 2, Saints 0.

Watford suddenly looks a daunting prospect.

A season of chasing the coat tails of the likes of Palace and Stoke is not what I had hoped for.

This is his last season here. He is too good to put up with "make do and mend" every season.

Successive annual evisceration of the team is doomed to lead to decline. No amount of black box wizadry can fullly mitigate that.

We aren't going to be the media's darlings this year, that's for sure.

Tend to agree, and there are too many hope and prayer factors in there for my liking.

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Koeman won't stay another season if he has to rebuild with cheap replacements yet again. He will want to progress his career and take a club forward not try to tread water at Saints with smaller flippers every season.

Turned on the TV to see Clyne in a Liverpool shirt, filling the screen in close up. Kinda made me realise why we got thumped at home by Everton.

The narcissist treated her and the physio very badly on the day for carrying out their professional duty of care, and after having been beckoned onto the pitch by the referee presumably. Then he has gone on to, in effect, constructively dismiss them by suspending much of their roles. At least Souness called it just now on Sky, in stark contrast to the other 3 sucking up to Mourinho: the dumb Henri, the other pundit (I can never remember his name...) and that drip of a presenter.

Comparing now to last season's first 2 fixtures is a complete red herring. Different Saints, different opposition, and 12 months ago. A specious argument to distract from the manner of our home thumping at the hands of what is at best a workaday Everton outfit. We have a lot of work to do in order to get the team fit for purpose this season.

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At least Ron will know exactly what the problems are now. Remedying them might not be so easy though.

Jackson Pollox?

Perhaps prescient of your Dutch friend, but lets pray not. Mmm... Ron have history of quitting in tricky second seasons?