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Just caught up on this thread after a few days away. So we are being taken over today? Or maybe not? There was a time a few years ago that all our announcements were made around 10pm (think it was to piss off The Echo), so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for another 4 hours at least .

ITK? Not heard of him before , unfortunate name , but if he's got the money to invest he'll do for me.

And 3 more games to go. Come on Saints, we can do this ! 😂

Article in The Athletic recently pointed out how we always have a player go down around the 60 minute mark and whilst he's being treated the rest of the team grab a drink in a group whilst RH gives out new instructions. I had noticed myself we do it most games but not the coincidental timing. I had to laugh when I looked at the clock as Tella went down, he timed it to the second 🤣

Definitely need that. On the plus side first time JWP famously used his shithousery on Zaha it probably won us the game (did Zaha end up getting himself sent off? ). On the even plusser side, JWP ends up getting himself sent off and strengthens our side for the next 3 games.

Defence in watching the man with the ball not the runners shocker.

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I'd agree with that. I'd go as far as to see in the past few years he and Romeu were our most important players, the type that go relatively unnoticed but get the job done. But all good things come to an end and we let him go at the right time. I've guessed from this thread's re-emergence that Leicester played last night so have just found the highlights. I can honestly say from watching that I have no idea what position Bertrand was - or thought he was - playing in last night. Slow chasing back (after only 3 minutes) for their 1st, played them all onside for their 2nd. You could argue that he was very exposed for their 3rd goal, having to cover a player in the centre and out on the wing, but even when he got to the player with the ball he was bypassed easier than a pitch invader avoiding an overwewight steward.

From a playing point of view the BIB is very much needed to the extent I'd make it a January priority. This policy of youngsters coming through the academy plus up and coming youngsters from other clubs bought relatively cheaply to improve and sell on makes sense from a business point of view. But on the pitch we end up with a team full of players that have learnt their PL level street smarts -or rather lack of it - with us. I'd guess Theo has the most PL appearances of anyone in our squad, could therebe a more nicey nicey after-you-sir type of player? We are crying out for some experienced heads for no other reason than to teach the younger players a thing or two about holding on to leads and game management. I'd swap half the current squad to bring in a modern day Jimmy Case. JWP often gets mentioned for his shithousery, christ if that's as tuff and streetwise as we can manage no wonder we're going nowhere. Hopefully any takeove can bring with it a change of emphasis on the playing staff side of things.

True, only one football club, but then we don't have the popularity of rugby to compete with. I'd still put them ahead of us in the "big club" list though.

.As we've got no keeper maybe we could confuse Arsenal with a 6-4-1 formation and scrape a nil -nil. I am willing to make a Fantasy League sacrifice for this one and keep Aubameyong for one more unproductive game. If I transfer him out he'll definitely score a hat trick

How long was McC injured? MotD showed a clip of him rubbing his leg and Lycanco taking goal kick with a big 16:54 caption in the corner. Can't have been early in the first half can it?

Probably also clutching at straws but he did purchase Nice from a Chinese owner. (Well Cinese/USA consortium but that makes my straw a bit shorter). I'd love it if it was INEOS, just a question of whether the cycling team starts wering our kit or we change to theirs.😂 Next concern, which is not only clutching at straws but seriously counting my chickens, what's the ruling nowadays if 2 teams owned by same owner get drawn together in Champions League/Europa League/That other one?

Always had you down more as an effluencer myself 😂😂

Possibly the biggest WTF! moment I've ever had seeing a line-up. Confusingly I can't make up my mind if my shock was despair or excitement. The more I look at it I'm veering towards the latter.

Doubt we would call it anything. Far more likely to be renting out premises for a guaranteed income to the likes of Wetherspoons, Costa, Wagamama, Prezzo, Rock Up, Hollywood Bowl and various other chains willing to pay high rents for premises guaranteeing 30k potential cusomers on their doorstep once a fortnight but also benefit from a riverside location with views on non-match days.

Probably because of the increase in commercial income (needed to increase our transfer/wages budget under FFP rules) they could obtain from the bars, restaurants and whatever else they built on it. But disapointingly, I'd imagine if the club were seriously interested in a plot so close to home it wouldn't have needed to be advertised for sale in the first place.

Can someone remind me. The scrap of paper featuring the MPZ is now legendary but was it just a piss take or meant to be a genuine idea? There was so much going on on here around that time truth and fiction seems to have blurred in the memory

We don't know if he was in their top ten, there could have been plenty laughed at their approach / politely turned them down

Wasn't it the weekend after that when we were mathmetically safe last year as it turned out, just didn't know it at the time.

And if relegation happens what's the betting that just like his retrospective "only ever intended to see out one contact at Saints" when he thought he was good enough to go to a bigger club, he'll suddenly announce it was always his intention after plying his trade elsewhere to return to his boyhood club again one day and see out the remainder of his career there. Would we take him back if it happened? Purely on ability I'd still say yes, but with that injury record probably not.

Not for me either. If 19 is preventing McCarthy getting out with that touch he must have the strongest arm in football.

Couldn't believe that all the freeze frame back and forth replays for Brighton's penalty concentrated on the leg contact. It was clear from the one, normal speed, replay they showed from the opposite angle that player tried to stay on his feet but it was actually the yank on the front of his shirt that pulled him off balance. And talking of shirt tugs we were very lucky to get away with Romeu on Mings. Did VAR even look at that?

I wondered that as well. It was first half so if it was tactical it didn't work. Can only gues it was "buck your fucking ideas up or I'm having your balls at half time" or "Tell the ref there's another £500 in it for him if El Ghazi stays on till half time"