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6 hours ago, beatlesaint said:

What’s all this postcode crap? I thought when they originally planned for fans to come back Shroppie made it clear where fans lived didn’t come into it.

Why should it now ffs?

Because there's a.... pandemic on.

Anyone else quite enjoying watching fanless football?

4 hours ago, MarkSFC said:

Thanks SO16_Saint for posting that. 

It feels like we are very lucky with the managers we have; Ralph, Matt, Martin and Toby. 

Lets hope we get a prolonged stay from all of them, a new owner and build something special!

To be fair to the bloke we've hired Ralph, Crocker & Semmens while he's been the owner. We're seemingly on the up in all areas of the club, maybe turbulence and change isn't what we need right now? Not saying he's the perfect owner, you'll understand.

12 hours ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Bear in mind most of the first team - only KWP and Adams are exempt - were part of Hughes' disaster class.  So I can understand that there's objective hesitation to suddenly think we're worthy of a top 8 place.  Shows the miracles Ralph has performed.

I was just about to go all MLG on you and say we didn't have Ings under Hughes but indeed we did! Bloody hell, that's how crap Hughes was, I forgot we had one of our best players in recent years during his tenure. 

8 hours ago, saintquin said:

Reading other fans forums most seem to think our squad if at best in the bottom third. I don't think they're correct but, the way we play I would say we are better them the some of our parts.

From the outside it probably does look like our squad isn't all that special. We've got one or two top, top players but other than that to most Premier League fans our team and squad looks fairly average I'd imagine. The difference lies in their ability to perform superbly as a unit and exceed expectations. Gotta be largely thanks to the management team.

Trouble is we can go from looking world beaters one week to relegation candidates the next, so we'll probably end up around mid-table as a result

4 hours ago, saintwbu said:

Will be a travesty if a 29 year old midfielder of his quality and character leaves on a free. But I have a feeling he will return to Spain at the end of the season. Hope i’m wrong. But regardless, what a fantastic contribution he’s made to this team in his time here. £5million and if he carries on in this form he will be in the running to collect his second player of the season award. I love the guy, and he was centimetres away from putting us in front in the cup final against United too with his header off the bar. 

Just watched the highlights again. God damn we were so close to that cup. Aside from the onside goal which was ruled out, Ori hit the post as you said, Redmond had a cracking volley saved, Bertrand was inches away from a Cedric cross, DeGea made a decent stop from Prowsey, Tadic totally fluffed a great opportunity (surprise surprise), Steven Davis had a great game. Man Utd had their chances too. Good game, great day.

Sorry if already discussed, but for the first time in what seems like a long time we appear to have goals all around the team. Last season with Ings out for any length of time we'd have been totally fudged, but this season we're far more potent going forward.

So far the goals have already been spread out a little:

Ings - 5

Che - 3

JWP - 3

Vester - 2

Armstrong - 1

Ori - 1

Djen - 1

I think Walcott's arrival has helped, even though he hasn't scored yet. His direct running is something we've missed as Redmond hasn't been fulfilling his role in that regard of late. When Theo gets his first I can see him bagging in a few. Great to see Ralph getting the most out of what he's got and demanding more goals from midfield and if we can have Theo, Prowse and Armstrong popping up with goals every so often we can absolutely achieve a top half finish. 

How far away are we from actually being able to push for a European spot? Top 6 would be so tough but definitely not impossible.

Not old enough to leave this world. RIP

12 hours ago, whiteleySaint30 said:

Some people's idea of a nice gesture certainly varies from mine but I'm glad your happy. 

They could have let his free shirt deal expire, instead they called him to make sure he used it in time. Nice gesture.

6 hours ago, Mattio said:

Forgot it was international break weekend 😑

Ah mate commiserations, that's the worst 😩

Ralph really is working wonders on our players. Vester is another to have dramatically improved under him.

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

If Newcastle score can we launch a legal case?

We were all ready to go out and celebrate something good. Something big.

It looks like we won the league, in fact we have won the league.

Stop the goal count!

1 minute ago, saintwbu said:

Stephens is a right footed centre half, playing at left back having been out the team for weeks. Give the lad a break! He’s playing it safe, which is completely sensible. 

Can't speak for others, but my comment wasn't a criticism of Stephens. Rather a comment on how it's hard to watch a centre back playing at left back because it stifles our attacks and momentum. Not a slight on Jack.

2 minutes ago, ChrisPY said:

Why do refs let clear offsides run their course ‘just in case’ but blow up for a 50/50 like that?!

Because they're all absolute idiots who don't seem to understand the game. Seriously.

If we hadn't been so careless with possession we could be further ahead here. Stephens at left back is difficult to watch, not a single forward pass. Armstrong and Theo giving it away a lot.

Overall good, just sloppy in many areas and we won't hold a 1-0 lead playing like that.

6 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

Wouldn’t take that. 
coukdny think of anything worse. 

Just missing out on 1st place and not being able to watch? Gotta be worse than winning it.

1 hour ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Perhaps “not match fit” is a euphemism for “a bit shit and not fitting into the system just yet”? Why would the club come clean about that?

😂 would be hilarious if they did

2 hours ago, wadesmith said:

Cheers mate..so you’ve padded along you’re mums box room..in your semen stained boxer shorts..sat down in your little gamer chair..& typed something that you literally have no knowledge of. Brilliant. 

Bit weird. What ever floats your boat I suppose.

Trousers is right, the club should be more transparent with us but they won't. It must be something they don't want other clubs knowing about, they don't get anything out of hiding info from us. Unless they're worried of a fans backlash for buying a crocked player... not gonna happen.

5 hours ago, Dorchester Saint said:

I would have to seriously question the sanity of someone who wants Biden to be POTUS ...

Psssst... you're supposed to keep the batshit crazy stuff to yourself

4 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

I like when people come up with numbers, trends and statistics to cleverly explain how they’re going to donate £10 to a bookmaker. 😃

Remarkable isn't it? So strange how the phenomenon of football betting has encouraged a generation to boast about their sickness, and how their addiction has become a part of the culture.

Brexit, the disregard of covid restrictions in many places, record numbers regularly donating money to bookmakers... the UK is not awash with intelligence. 

Just now, Monk said:

Any streams? Been kicked off all TV's by the missus and kids. 

https://www.eplsite.uk/stream11.html

6 minutes ago, nta786 said:

Also Kieron Dyer on Sky Sports ‘the top 6 will definitely take another punt on Ings’

Go away please

Could see him at Spurs if Kane leaves

Agree that the bench looks a little light but hopefully we'll see N'dundalundu get his debut

17 minutes ago, Alanh said:

Mods - any chance you can get Turkish and MLG to stop the petty bickering?  Turkish is all over almost every post MLG makes - it's borderline cyber bullying.

Can we reach out to MLG and make sure he's ok?

He came on for the last 14 minutes against Slovakia, replacing Moussa Diaby. Got booked in the 93rd. France won 1-0