Matthew Le God

The other three have deeper squads and more resources behind them. Swansea and Bournemouth have built that up from recent time in the top league and Brentford have had a sustained period as a top Championship team. This season has been a sudden upturn in fortunes for Barnsley and they still have a lot of lower Championship elements to their setup.

I'd rather Barnsley went up. Not because I think Saints will be in a relegation battle, just that I want the weakest opponent possible to come up.

1) Only a moron would want his club relegated 2) Why do you have an issue with that?

1) The accounts show the owners have not been 'lining their pockets' by taking money with the club’s money. 2) What contempt for fans are you claiming?

1) There are only two shareholders. The accounts show neither of which have been taking money out of the club. 2) How are Saints not a football club in 'a number of years'?

I said recent recruitment. How many Hasenhuttl era signings have been flops?

That would leave us with 2 PL quality fullbacks. I think we'll get two new fullbacks at worst, but hopefully three.

Thomas Frank

No they aren't. Recent recruitment has been pretty good. To compare now to the mess we were in from 2005 to 2009 is bizarre.

Beating Liverpool on 4th January to earn the 29 points possibly needed for safety (despite the panic on this forum we'd need a lot more than that). 😉

That was in League Two, not League One and his career has gone backwards in the two following years.

Not really, Hasenhuttl wants two players per position. Having 3 players for 2 places in the team is very risky. Having Armstrong play there weakens the team in the number 10 roles.

He is leaving things late, he isn't young any more at 25 years old and has struggled to make an impression in League Two.

It was even earlier than that! We moved onto 29 points on the 4th January after beating Liverpool.

It doesn't mean anyone is off. Hasenhuttl has stated he wants more depth. Playing Armstrong in CM does not add depth in terms of numbers as it removes him from the role he is first choice for as a 'number 10'.

As things stand he'd be our 3rd best player based on CA... behind Ings and Ward-Prowse.

Delaney is left footed which we rarely have had in our central midfielder line-up.

I don't think he does anything particularly bad in that video. The last goal he had an obscured view.

Not really, as where have you plucked the '£80m we had to spend' figure from?

I'm not using Wikipedia, the club website says he is 191cm tall.

He is 6 foot 3. He is hardly small.

Would be interesting to know why we didn't get a look at a VAR review for the first goal for possible offside or a replay of the possible penalty on Walker-Peters.

Hasenhuttl stated they would be rotated regardless of performance... so clearly not dropped as it was pre arranged.

Centre back is possibly the area of the squad we have the best depth. It should be the lowest on the list of priorities.