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I suspect Martin won't want to risk him all the while it's 0-0....

# Trousers probably talking nonsense again klaxon # Anyone think it might be better to go into the second leg on 0-0 rather than with a slim advantage? Would rather we knew that we had to go for it at St Mary's as opposed to sitting back to protected a slender lead....

Mara looking for space between the lines now....

Easy for you to say

Isn't that the geezer from the Finnish Eurovision entry...?

Oooh... close KWP!

Che often drops back into midfield if he's not getting a sniff of the ball. Mara stays put waiting for the ball most of the time.

Mara's attitude has seemingly been shite recently, so there has to be better options otherwise, quite frankly, we don't deserve to go up if there isn't. Just because he had a good performance versus WBA once upon a time doesn't mean he's suddenly going to change his attitude today* #nonsequitur *Cue a superb performance now I've said that of course....

The tinkerman strikes again.... Edit: on reflection, poor choice of phrase. Ignore me

WBA 1 Saints 3 Easy peasy.

Uranus?

That's seven more than Rickie Lambert at the same age (for example)... (if that comment doesn't warrant one of CB's scathing pithy retorts then I'll be highly disappointed... )

Have the club ever divulged what Larios' injury is? Hasn't he now been out longer than players typically are with career threatening injuries such as ACLs, leg breaks, etc? What injury does he have and why is it taking so long to recover from...?

I've always found the German pundits are the wurst.

Is it Dusty Bin?

A "slight knock" probably....

Gotta be, surely? Out of curiosity, do we know if this is because he's not taken (m)any or if he's taken plenty but lost his touch...?

You can get a degree in "Sports Psychology"....? Is that the 21st century equivalent of "Media Studies"...?

Ha... yeah, perhaps not one of my best "seeing the opposite point of view" attempts.... 😂

Or.... If the players are big fans of Russ, rumours of a replacement manager could actually work in our favour as it'll galvanise them to put in good performances to try and convince the hierarchy to keep him....? #twosidestoeverystory

My only concern with Downes is that he's had a few "slight knocks" that turn out to be longer term injuries. Just makes me ponder if there's an underlying issue there somewhere, or if it's just a case of him being a tad unlucky this season. If we do sign him then the next thing we need to do is make sure we've got a better back up option available than we had this season....

I think I preferred the 'sanctimonious but had a valid underlying point' version of gio1saints. Not so keen on this 'talking gibberish' incarnation...