Saint_clark

Worth noting that Spurs have played exactly the same side that played their FA cup game whereas we are much fresher. Could also work against us if their players are sharper but I'm looking for the positives.

I don't see it as the big issue others are saying. It is a long, long time away in football. It's longer than Pochettino or Koeman spent at the club. By that point there will be a whole different crop of good, bad, upcoming and on their way out managers in world football. And personally, if we end up pushing the Europa League places in the next two years (which I think we will after this summer) there is no chance he walks out at that point.

Minsk I'm so, so sorry mate. Utterly horrible. I've enjoyed this thread and your other posts on the forum for a long time now.

Would imagine by that point Sport Republic would be looking for someone to join to help oversee the group of clubs they'd acquired so he might still be involved with us indirectly.

This is true, but he wasn't a prolific scorer even playing for the best team in a poor league. 2 goals and 5 assists in 30 appearances apparently (although how many as sub I dont know).

Hasn't our upturn in form coincided with KWP back to RB and Perraud at LB? Don't think we should be rushing to put Livramento back in there, no matter how good he has been previously.

Well that's up to them isn't it? As it stands home fans in the northam/Kingsland would have to go all the way round the stadium to get to the North side of Brittania road if they were sealing off the away fans section.

I would put them along the chapel/kingsland corner, spreading more into Kingsland than Chapel. It would be easy to police as you can just direct them through the industrial estate after the game and not allow them access towards Britannia Road or the bridge, coaches for away travel groups can park up in the industrial estate itself (saints travel coaches used to do it all the time), and it also means a good chunk of away support is forced to pay the higher price of the Kingsland centre (although as I type this may not be allowed, isn't there a ruling that away fans can only be charged the cheapest home ticket price?)

Shit draw.

Does FA cup still allow 5 subs?

Just had a glance at comments on social media, lots of diehard saints fans unhappy about the website crashing, commenting all the way from America, Africa and Asia in broken English.

That's terrible really. Shouldn't have offered it online if people are then going to be incapable of getting in there before those buying in store.

I don't know why you say you'd be amazed if Walcott left as he provides competition and cover, but then suggest we sell Djenepo and Elyounoussi for small fees.

I would imagine all the money is going to the charity, releasing it as a normal kit means Hummel would take a piece etc and then there wouldn't be much left from £55 a shirt.

This is the big window for us moving forward. All of the terrible signings and expensive overvalued players finally off the wage bill. Carillo, Boufal, Lemina, Hoedt, Bertrand, Vestergaard, Forster, McCarthy (maybe) all gone in the last year or so. I know a couple will have been "replaced" but all told that's almost £500,000 a week in wages saved and available for new signings. Something I always remember from the excellent book Soccernomics is that amount spent on transfer fees doesn't correspond to where teams finish in the league, but that amount spent on wages corresponds almost exactly. If we think about saints since promotion this is pretty evident - the amount we spent on the players I listed above did us no good. But if we'd instead spent that money on larger contracts for players like Van Dijk, Wanyama, Schneiderlin, Lallana, and given Koeman the contract he'd wanted, we'd have undoubtedly finished higher than we have been, perhaps even pushed on and established a place in the top 6. These players may still have wanted to leave but being able to offer contracts of £150,000 a week instead of selling and gambling on replacements would have helped. I think that should be our strategy moving forward. Get the key players tied down to longer, larger contracts and make a couple of additions a season rather than needing to rebuild the squad after cashing in and we'll be better off, on the pitch and financially.

I'm hoping for a late playoff push just missing out on the last day.

It's the hope the kills you, glad they got the goal back so it hurt more at full-time. And there are the boos.

We're signing that young lad that's missing from the Charlton line up then? 😉

And now Robertson has injured one of his teammates as well, is he one of us in disguise?

And an own goal to make it 2-0 down at home. This has been a fun watch.

Ref blows for half time while they're on the attack and they go mental, love it 😂

Thank Christ for that.

I'd take him on loan with an option to buy.

Why the hell is Kyle Walker reporting for sky sports? He is still playing, right?

Decent money to play in the champions league, win the vast majority of games you play in and be a star player without much effort required? I can't really blame him. He's tested himself at the highest level for long enough.