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I personally think we should be thankful that we have an intellectually superior poster such as Lord D pointing out how shite JWP is 17 times a day. Without such a valuable contribution to the forum there's every chance we might forget just how woeful JWP is and for that I'm extremely grateful. Keep it up Lord D. Promise you'll never ever stop reminding us how bad JWP is.

*Hajduk

'Harold' has a 100% track record on kit ITK snippets and said this a few weeks ago:

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I've seen examples of that in addition to examples of the reverse. Human beings in believing what suits their agenda shocker...

I'm very much clutching at straws here but could a solid block of colour be easier for deeper players to pick out the runs of more advanced players during attacking moves? Or maybe easier for the coaching/performance peeps to identify players from the touchline? Seems highly unlikely but one would have thought there would be a specific reason rather than some pen-pusher in procurement and/or marketing tossing a coin as to how they wanted the back to look....?

Yeah, it's almost as dull as some posts on here...

There was quite a lot of detail in his Barnard Castle story/explanation, but many disbelieved much of it...?

How do we know how much of said account is accurate? (Not taking sides here, I've genuinely no idea how reliable a witness Cummings is)

Cummings seems to have a bit of a soft spot for Sunak and Raab.... promise of a job offer once Johnson has been forced out...? He's also given Gove an easy ride.

Cheers for the insight Craig - appreciated

Since when did Cummings go from an unreliable, deceitful charlatan to a trustworthy arbiter of honesty?

Oops...

I'm in the same camp but am fast running out of 'give him the benefit of doubt' cards. I'm still somewhat bemused how a team can go from "top 6 in calendar year 2020" to "worst team in 2021". I hear the cries of "because teams have got wise to his tactics and he doesn't have the managerial ability to adapt" and I'm still open to persuasion on that synopsis. But... there's still a small part of me that thinks Ralph can rekindle 'the spirit of 2020' and thus give us a decent 21/22 season. I'm basically an open-minded pragmatic kinda person, which is probably why I'm struggling to deduce which way things are likely to pan out if we stick with Ralph. Of course, none of us actually know how things will pan out whether we stick with him or not but, either way, the self-congratulatory "told you so" brigade will no doubt have their day in the sun in due course

Ah, yes, fair point. May be best if I keep my ponderings to myself in future

Yes, of course I'm aware that you never know how many points are going to be enough until looking back at the end of the season. But I'm geniunely interested if, looking back retrospectively across each season, which Saints managers have amassed enough points that ended up being enough to avoid relegation earlier in the season than Ralph 'achieved' this times around. (And, yes, I'm also blissfully aware its a meaningless 'achievement' but it was just something I was pondering upon, purely as a matter of curiosity)

Clutching at straws for some positives, who was the last Saints manager to secure premier league safety by 4th January (matchday 17)?

Because the Saintsweb intelligentsia will predict it for the 9th season running...?

You're so clever Lord D. Gotta be worth some kind of medal?

Best team on the South Coast. Happy days.

Getting quite aroused now

I love you Lord D. You make me moist

Please promise me you'll never stop entertaining us with your inciseive wit Lord D.