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One assumes Bazunu has dropped his pen and McCarthy has stubbed his toe on the desk....

Unusual for it to be this late in starting....

Twitter... or whatever they call it these days

Hasn't started yet. Will do when it does

If only this had been work-out-able during the summer transfer window rather than coming as a massive surprise to the geniuses in the Sport Republic recruitment department....

You, sir, are far too old fashioned for this team selection malarkey these days....

You missed off our in-form keeper....

13:30

Fair enough. Happy to agree to disagree

I don't see anything wrong with hypothesising in a discussion forum how things might have turned out differently in a given scenario... I've got two cars... Historically, Car A breaks down much more often than Car B... If I use Car B for a journey and get to my destination OK, it wouldn't be unreasonable to say: "there's a higher chance I wouldn't have made it if I'd used Car A instead".... (Other dubious analogies are available)

The "alternate reality" is Bazunu not being consistently at the bottom of the 'expected saves' rankings...

Source?

Just about.... Given his top half is leaning in a lot, it's much closer than I thought when seeing it live on the TV. His shoulder is pretty much level with the grass line on the pitch, as is our defender's foot.

So, in summary, we're agreed then? i.e. it's fine for people to have different opinions as to who the least worst keeper is out of McCarthy and Bazunu? Glad we got that sorted

Twats that use 'trendy' new terms when describing football tactics... "Low block"... "Double pivot"... Just f*** right off. Twats.

Is this from an official comment from the club or another source? Cheers 👍🏻

Just a hunch

I'm not aware of the background but, yeah, quite possibly. Put him in the U21s and see if that unearths any hitherto hidden talent.

Yep, I posted this in the Downs thread last night. USA are ranked in the world top 16 and Downs is considered one of their best two strikers (by none other than Pochetttino) so he *must* have something about him that we're not currently seeing in a Saints shirt, surely...?

That's sort of how posting thoughts on an internet forum works to be fair...

We've been short of confidence.... Despite the narrow defeat, tonight's players will have gained some confidence from their performance... Ergo, start the same players on Saturday and tell them their places are theirs to lose now... But, alas, I doubt Still will go with such a logical approach on Saturday 😕

What puzzles me is that Pochetttino obviously sees something in him to have called him up for the USA squad this year... Unless the USA talent pool is much worse than one assumes it is...

Quite amusing 🙂