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It's been a while since they did one of these matchday behind the scenes videos...

I would venture that our form since Hasenhuttl took over is more indictative of where we'll end up in the table rather than looking at our form over the whole season thus far... p.s. If only Cedric had played more than just 2 sub appearances in those 8 games we'd have been far higher than a somewhat disappointing 5th in the form table....

Done. Btw, since when did fans get to vote on the manager of the month? Surely those votes are just a measure of the number of fans a club has (or a measure of fans of other rival clubs) rather than a measure of who is the best manager? (yes, I know it's combined with a panel vote but the fan weighting must play a part otherrwise why do it).

Assuming, of course, that we get these new players in at the beginning of the summer window rather than fannying around and leaving it until the end of the window

Maybe I worded it badly. All I'm saying is that it doesn't surprise me, or overly concern me, that we haven't brought anyone in this window and I'm expecting to see some significant ins (and more outs) in the summer. (based on what I've read/heard from recent RH interviews and a bit of reading-between-the-lines)

The key word there is "looking". He also said we wouldn't bring people in for the sake of doing so or going for any short term fixes. In all his interviews I've read/seen, its been clear to me that it was far more likely that we would wait until the summer before signing anyone. Ralph simply wasn't ruling out the possiblity that a long term prospect(s) could be brought in this window. It's quite a refreshing change of policy IMO given the folly of some of our previous knee jerk purchases.

No, you're far from alone. The majority will share your view. The minority just shout louder and more often...

Dennis Skinner... Good old fashioned socialist or outdated dinosaur? [video=youtube;PMWpPLmi-0Q]

Wrong forum?

A good time to buy shares in companies that manufacture 'Told you so' and 'Glad I was proven wrong in hindsight' cards. Will make a killing in May one way or the other.

Did you mean to post rational and pragmatic twaddle on the SaintsWeb Forum...?

They're probably busy polishing the medals that will be awarded to the self-congratulatory "told you so" brigade...

Ronaldo was aggressively in the ref's face telling him to send Rooney off. So the wink was Ronaldo smugly saying "Ha, there you go, my protest helped get him sent off", whereas the fist clenching yesterday from JWP was just a simple expression of delight in seeing Zaha getting himself sent off. So, not a like-for-like comparison IMO.

It'll be ok

Isn't that a good thing though? I thought most people hated these overpaid investment banking leeches? Maybe Brexit could be the downfall of rampant capitalism in the UK? Every cloud and all that....

For all you Portsmyth lovers out there.... #rewritinghistorysince2012

Bite prediction = 6

Textbook #nonsequitur

Oh go on then... I'll give you the benefit of that erotic tingle you get when you receive a bite... Cedric was fit for at least 4 PL games between reported injury and leaving, and "played a part" in two of them (both off the bench, and only because one of Valery or Ramsey was unavailable as back up IIRC).

Probably why he's deleted his Twitter account...?

Personally, I'd rather take the gamble, with Hasenhuttl at the helm, than chug along in 'going through the motions' mode under Hughes.

What if RH wasn't happy with Cedric's supposed 'don't really want to be here anymore' attitude and it was affecting the 'all for one and one for all' ethos that RH has instilled in the squad? Might the pros of ditching him not outweigh the pros of keeping him in that scenario?

I guess what I'm saying is that if I walked up to you in the street and asked you one question, i.e. "What do you guess the result of the Saints v Cardiff game will be next month?" I reckon you'd be more likely rather than less likely to give me the same answer if I replaced 'Cardiff' with 'Fulham' in that single question. Anyway, enough pontificating from me. MLG mode now switched off

Appreciate I'm about to go into full blown MLG mode here but.... if we were to agree that Fulham and Cardiff are pretty much of the same quality then, logically, why would one predict a different result for these two games? Unless you're going more on hunch than logic? (which is fair enough)

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