Toadhall Saint

21 hours ago, CheshireSaint said:

At left back? 😆

Branfoot

4 hours ago, Saint86 said:

What do you mean the cycnic in you? Its fucking obvious that this is how all these rules have been designed. Started with Uefa getting concerned at the power of the premier league, then you've got a bunch of foreign owners in this country that want to protect their assets and try to stay at the top table. Whether by design or opportunity, all the big clubs / owners across europe have in parallel devised a system that entrenches existing financial disparities between clubs and gives increased competitive weight to commercial incomes for established brands - they then set about introducing more and more competitions aimed at shuffling funds away to only the select few clubs that qualify for them (world club cup, rejigged champions league, conference league etc), and if an upstart club dares to challenge the elites by qualifying for these, PSR and the increased fixture congestion essentially ensures that they cannot build a team to compete on multiple fronts for that season - and so they then drop off in the league and then have to gut their squad to meet the arbitrary 3year spending limits. Its a fucking brutal fixed game - and there is no point even crying about it in the premier league - if British clubs don't comply with UEFA rules they can't play in europe.

If you wanted to design a system that protected the established rich clubs and limited competition - it would look pretty similar to this. One day though, it will all come crashing down, because it is unsustainable, and they're killing the goose that was competitive exciting football.

Look up G14 allegedly no long around.

Welcome aboard

3 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Earlier than Stewart then?

He didn’t say what year tho.

Good luck

4 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

They've both made the English look like fools on several occasions though.

Not hard that.

Good luck big man.

Welcome aboard 

No

10 minutes ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Hasn't the tree recently been said to represent the 500 year old 'Knightwood Oak' from 15/20 miles away in the New Forest, hence that new champagne lounge also being named after it?

Certainly not very 'Southampton' - should have been a ship.

The only ship I can think of in regards to saints is the titanic.

No surprises- I was hoping he could set us up defensively but he was not capable add to that some absolutely bizarre formations and I’m surprised he lasted as long as he did.

1 hour ago, Midfield_General said:

Was an unused sub against Wolves, apparently. Can't remember the last time was actually on the pitch though. 

Remember all those games he was going to be so valuable in, to come on for the last 20 minutes and use his experience to help us close them out?

Waste of space and money.

Well well well - thought we deserved our goal tbh 

51 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Don't think I can face watching today.

Got some gardening to do, and that'll be much more enjoyable I think.

Might stick Solent on.

Ditto 

11 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Tough pack around VA. While Le Mans are closest to racing into the top 2, you can't discount Dijon, who are keen as mustard or Orleans who are maid of stern stuff.

👏👏👏

1 hour ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Depends on the bridge.

Bridge over troubled waters

Bridge of sighs.

Both useful this season. 🙂

Bridge too far more like 

1 hour ago, gio1saints said:

From what I understand ( and no big surprise either) he is going to have a lot of work to do.

Juric only fancies 5 or 6 in the current squad. Would not be surprised to see 15 + out and 10+ incoming during post season. That may or may not include the manager and his sidekicks. I think the latter will largely depend on what Spors thinks if Ivan’s ability in these last few matches and his assessment of wether he has got what it takes to get us out the Championship. 
It seems ever more apparent that we may need one team, including management, to get us out the championship, and another, probably including management, to make us competitive in the EPL.. Hell of a lot of buying and selling and inducting and integrating -ahead. 

IJ is crap - I wouldn’t back him end of - our squad might not be the best but his lunatic line ups have not helped. All he needed to do was make us more defensive and not leak goals but he hasn’t/cant. 

22 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

I was going to get a ticket for this, but then I decided that doing sexual favours for sailors down Pompey dockyard for £20 was a far more dignified way to spend my Saturday.

Normal Saturday for you then?  😉

This could get messy 

Juric needs to go. The fucking tea lady could do better. 

Brainless

Chelsea player wanted it more  

24 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Juric obviously wants the early payoff.

And he should get it like now!

He is fucking bonkers

57 minutes ago, Green said:

Yes, I thought that, it reminded me of that game against Spurs during lockdown. Pathetic defending when we just don’t seem to learn. That’s one of the most frustrating things about Juric because he must be able to see what we can and surely he could try something to combat that.

Nah it’s all the fault of the players - not capable of taking his tactics on board (mind you he does tell them in mandarin).