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Orinoco Rooster? That's his next user name sorted then.

Why are you still here ?

Rear view only Could be a stunt double. The plot thickens.

Sad reflection of modern day football that that sentence includes the word "only"! Good signing, now to get FF off the payroll.

WTF! Seen some strange posts on this forum over the years but this one is going to take some beating!

Any keepers out there? What would you have done? His lob straight to the forward was atrocious but for me the even bigger mistake was as soon as he saw what he'd done he went backwards. Surely a better option was immediately charge at Rebic spreading arms and legs as wide as possible and screaming his head off, anything to put him off. It was such a slow up and down lob chances are he'd have been on him before he volleyed it, certainly close enough to distract him. Having said that, it was a very enjoyable moment

I feel the same (about the kit, not Prowse). In the photos of players (and the Aussie fan) wearing them the red area across the top of the chest looks much smaller than in the leaked photos on hangers . And the collar looks a better shape as well, in the hanger photo the black collar seemed to merge into a black inner back panel or something giving it a weird blocky shape. Still don't like stripes, still wouldn't buy one but definitely liking it more the more I see it.

I remember this time last year seeing our "easy" start and predicting we would be top of the league at Bonfire night. That went well then. I'll keep quiet this time round although our fixtures till the end of October look pretty comfortable

Don't like it but nice to been seen on a par with Chelsea, Juventus & Barcelona. No idea where that was taken but maybe our standing abroad is higher than we thought.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44360546 Never heard that referenced before. Anyone know how long and what age he was here? Can we add to him to Ramsey, Hoddle & Keegan as ex-Saints England managers

But that shirt DOES have We March On inside the collar. Fingers crossed it's a fake after all, it's horrible.

Yep that makes sense, although that's effectively 2 week breaks staggered over a 3 week period. Probably just badly worded.

After years of talking about it the PL has decided on a winter break in February https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44414487 Could be just me but not sure how this works Does that mean 10 teams have 2 weeks uninterrupted whilst the other 10 have two separate weeks with a game in the middle?

Assuming the same squad as well, in his short spell he showed he could get more out of them than MO could (both tactically and attitude/effort wise) Think Hughes would have won the same games MP won. Without being over optimistic I think he'd have secured at least an additional 5 wins among our 15 draws, and another 5 draws among our 16 defeats Which, whilst not spectacular would have put us 8th comfortably above Everton and just behind Burnley

Read this last week on holiday. About half the book is about his time here. Not that you'll learn much about the club. It's really about his constant striving to improve himself as a player, from childhood to present day (up to date enough to mention MH arrival but not staying up so ). He really does seem one hell of a committed guy, deserves any success he achieves in his career.

7:58pm this evening

To be fair the PL has had 4 different winners in the last 6 years. It's far more open than most of the other big European leagues. For me that is the most important thing. Admittedly desire and belief and confidence don't win points on their own, but without it even the best tactician in the world will struggle.

Putting 2+2 together and making 5 I would interpret "so far" as "not any longer". After all they have only really had a chance to see our transfer strategy in action in the January window. They've had plenty of time since then to assess it's effect. If club wants Hughes and Hughes wants to stay then maybe it's only the decision on LR that is delaying things. If I was MH I'd like to think I had enough experience in British football to not need to defer to LR or any other DoF

6min55secs in, to save you having to endure it all again.

No, he correctly said they were inexperienced - the context being managing an English team in the PL. That's something completely different to no one had heard of them.

Except he didn't say that at all did he.

I hope they didn't. He kept us up with 8 points from 8 games. He could have achieved that with 8 0-0 draws but that would have made him even more boring than the last two, and we'd have no idea of he was any better than that. I wouldn't want to keep him under those circumstances. Thankfully his 8 points were achieved by arguably improving the side with every game, so no reason not to think he can't continue improving it into next season. I'd like to think with hindsight it's now just a case of the board rubber stamping a new contract.

The Tadic that ended the season compared to the Tadic that played the first 30 odd games is like making our first summer signing before the season even ended. 2 months ago I wouldn't have picked him, now he's a must keep (provided of course we keep Hughes or sign a new manager who can continue to get the best out of him)

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