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Don't know enough about any of the alleged targets. Looked up Russell Martin and he's the youngest or one of the youngest managers and he's finished 13th, 15th and 10th in the last few seasons - it's not that inspiring a record although there's probably been mitigating factors. I'd be happy with a possession based game and by all accounts Swansea haven't invested for a while so arguably he could be getting the best out of a poor side. Martin feels too much of a risk for me though - I'd prefer it if we could get someone who had achieved promotion and knows what it takes (or at least made play-offs). If Steve Cooper is available then he's got a much better record so I'd probably go for him. Or Potter. Or Tommy Widdrington.

Bazunu has to have a mention - isn't he supposed to have saved 16 more goals than he has? That would have made a huge difference. I feel bad mentioning him because he isn't as obviously crap as say Moi or A. Armstrong but it's probably had a bigger effect on the season.

In terms of incomings it wouldn't surprise me if we were back in for the Danish fella, Morten Hjulmand, at Lecce, and Carlos Borges at Man City. Heavily linked with both and seems like we were pretty close. Whether we could persuade Hjulmand now we're relegated could be an issue though. Could be back in for Liam Delap as well although considering the season he's had that might be a tough sell. Don't know enough about any of them to have much of an opinion but thought it might be good to speculate on players we might buy as well as those who are or will be off.

He'll be 24 in a couple of months so he's not that young and he's had one good season in the Championship for a side that walked the league pretty comfortably. Realistically the clubs that will be in for him will be clubs around the same size as us. So it's Burnley, Palace, Brighton etc etc and i don't see them dropping 40M on someone like Tella. Agree that we probably never saw the best of him and he certainly wasn't used in the best way though.

I quite like Tella and was looking forward to seeing him again but if Burnley offer anything around the 20M mark then it's probably a good deal for everyone.

I hope we replicate what we did with the search for a striker - get linked with a load of really exciting players from abroad that we've never heard of but sound really good. Come really close to getting them only for them to get a better offer at the 11th hour. We can then settle on someone that unites the fanbase in apathy and march on with some nice PR soundbites. It's the Southampton Way.

Prigozhin threatening to pull Wagner troops out of Bakhmut : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65493008 Wonder how the Russians will spin this?

Fuck knows but probably. Seems very convenient but further evidence that God moves in mysterious and yet entirely predictable ways.....

Wouldn't mannerisms fall under the nurture side of the nature vs nurture argument?

Of course it's important to me - I pretty much said that. You're very good on spotting the blindingly obvious

And that's entirely fair. If it's not important to you then don't worry about it. Personally it does bother me.

That's my sole reason for objecting to monarchy. Everything else is a distraction and detracts from the argument. If you believe that the head of state shouldn't have that job simply through the hereditary principle then you don't believe in a monarchy. We can have the debate over what replaces it once we agree that it's a stupid decision to appoint someone based entirely on who their parents were (or in Harry's case who they weren't). How much money they bring in/cost, what they're like as individuals is entirely irrelevant to the argument.

I've been using MidJourney a bit recently for AI images and it's quite impressive. Can get some pretty convincing photography and artwork. Don't get a whole lot of control over the image so general terms and themes work well but the moment you try and get really specific then it's a bit limited but I expect that'll improve pretty quickly. Looks like it could destroy the stock image industry almost overnight. Have to say I find the whole AI debate fascinating. I'd assumed that your creative industries would be fairly safe from AI but looks like they're more under threat than anywhere else.

I haven't really checked - that's just what he said. I guess every fan thinks their club could be more active and spend more money. Bloke I spoke with goes to a lot of their games so I tend to trust his judgement. Shame as I thought Viera was a decent shout. I doubt we'd go for him anyway. From what I can see Ankerson appears to be a a fan of more direct football and I expect an appointment that matches that philosophy.

Spoke to a Palace fan at work about Viera and he wasn’t very complimentary about him. Reckoned he didn’t play players in their best positions (particularly forwards) and their success last season was mainly due to Conor Gallagher. He did think Viera had a case that he should have been backed more in the transfer market but overall didn’t think he’d be any good for us.

BBC news spending a whole fucking hour on Wrexham as though getting promoted is some kind of miracle

There's no need for that law cos when they had their referendum it was a unanimous vote in favour of becoming Russian. What's the point of the law if there's no one in the occupied territories who doesn't want to be Russian?

I think if we can score an early goal, and then follow it up by scoring a couple more times, and then manage to keep a clean sheet then we'll probably win this.

We're down. No manager is going to turn this lot around and if there was a manager that could and was that good, then he wouldn't take the job because he'd already be in a better one. Club should be scouting and sounding out managers for the summer and the championship.

I'm a bit more optimistic. It's a shame FOX didn't get dragged through a court case but we've already had Murdoch, Hannity and Carlson admit they were talking bollocks about the election. The court case wouldn't have added very much more to that. They've been humiliated and everyone knows it. I'd imagine they'll be more careful in the future about what they say which is only a good thing. The other cases will most likely be settled out of court but these are expensive settlements, even for a company like FOX.

That's cos he's our secret weapon - much like the Spanish Inquisition no one expects Bree.

If Moi plays then surely the fans would be the 11th man?

Saints 9 - Palace 0 Moi to score all 9 goals with assists from Diallo (7) and Bree (2)

I am getting pissed off with a few things - BBC News channel seems to have done nothing except cover his visit for the last couple of days. Does it really warrant that much coverage? Secondly Biden keeping on about how Irish he is. FFS you have to go back to his great great grandfather! He's not fucking Irish, and if he was then he wouldn't be President. I'm still missing Outside Source on BBC News channel - Roz Atkins would never have talked about Biden for a whole hour when nothing of any significance actually happened. Having said that, it's not all bad - Yalda Hakim is pretty easy on the eye.

I'm not sure - probably worth asking Alex Jones about that.