The Kraken

Seriously fella, you really need to reign in your Narcissus complex and your desire to be perceived as some sort of online social justice warrior. At the moment you’re just making yourself look very daft.

Newspaper reports suggest he was on £10m to £12m a year, 7 months into a 5 year contract. He’s got enough money to wait it out until the summer or even later and see what his options are. I don’t think Chelsea will damage his reputation too much, he’s done a bit of a shit job there but I get the feeling it’s a bit of a basket case of a club and their transfer strategy has been somewhat illogical. Getting a PL job or even a top side abroad shouldn’t be a problem for him.

Yep, just looking at this. We’ll get some reasonably close games like Reading, Bristol City, Millwall and QPR (love Loftus Road). But yeah, really a lot of games that are a good old chew away.

Despite our insipid performance I’m still furious about the West Ham goal being given. It’s probably the correct decision according to the laws, but it’s an utterly stupid law. When the ball has been played in it was aimed towards at least 4 of their players, 3 who were blatantly offside and all made movements towards the ball as it came In. You simply can’t convince me that the presence of those offside players makes zero difference to the positioning and actions of the defenders and keeper. They’re interfering with play as far as I’m concerned. Dopey law. Ah well, season over now, we’re done. Just need to get to 30 points somehow so it doesn’t look completely embarrassing.

Little and little up front then I guess. Reckon tall Paul will get the nod soon enough.

Blimey, Elmo did something useful.

Fuck off with that. Onside my arse. Fucking joke.

West Ham fans getting on the teams back already, good to see.

I’d love to know what really went on with Caceres. Yes, he’d been injured before he got to us but after leaving us he went on to play another 100+ games in Italy. Just bizarre. There’s a story there I’m sure. Jack Stephens though, fuck me.

Sergei Gostsmanov didn’t quite live up to his high billing.

I’d disagree, I think mad Nate was very efficient in dragging ourselves right to the bottom. TBF Selles is doing his best but the damage was done in the lunacy appointment of Jones and his disastrous tenure over games that we simply had to take more from. An absolute shambles really.

I tend to agree. A win tomorrow makes things look actually possible, if still unlikely. A draw isn’t game over but it doesn’t leave any wiggle room at all. I still think we’ll come up way short by seasons end, and I’m expecting us to get done tomorrow anyway. Get a win tomorrow though and and these fuckers will get me starting to believe again Ffs.

Hope they go up, having the derby next season as clubs in the same division would be a bonus.

Wolves could be in a bit of bother according to my mate who supports them, Neves booked which takes him to 10 and 3 games out.

Bloody hell, dig up man

Best leaving him to it at this stage, he’s in his 70s and basically just barking at the moon about his Brexit victory. It’s just a bit sad, really. Very strange fella, always has been.

I do. He also confuses me, I think I must be having a Mandela Effect moment with my memory. I was sure that there used to be a Saints chant that went “2 Johansens, there’s only 2 Johnasens…” as we had another fella called Johansen. Fucked if I can find him though.

I remember I played at a charity golf event shortly after Jones signed, and MLT was there and gave a little speech and Q&A (thankfully then just about football). He was polite about it but said the Paul Jones signing really surprised him as he thought that we already had an extremely capable keeper. Always remember that. Like you say, Jones was OK but Taylor was highly rated. Just the Dave Jones new manager thing, wanted players with him that he know hence P Jones and Lee flipping Todd.

I think he does. Certainly in his book he framed that whole affair as “we got close but in the end couldn’t quite get the deal over the line”. I’ve heard him say similar since then too, not an ounce of contrition that he got utterly duped. MLT has on occasion made some reasonable points/questions regarding covid. The trouble is, they’ve been accompanied by a significant number of assertions and statements that have been very easily refuted and/or proven entirely incorrect, and I don’t think I’ve seen him go back and correct himself. In the end The easiest thing is to just shut out the noise, his rare moments of clarity were surrounded by too much utter nonsense so he has no credibility.

I see that as over estimation. Yes, it’ll be as sure as we can be that it would be a safe points haul. I also think it’ll be a few more than is actually required. Five wins and five defeats gets us 38 points. 5 wins and 2 draws gets us 40 points. In the past 10 years the 18th placed side in the PL had the following number of points: 35, 28, 34, 34, 33, 34, 37, 35, 33, 36. So, in very simplistic terms, get more than the 18th placed side and you stay up. Its not beyond the realms of possibility that we could potentially stay up by getting 3 wins and 4 draws. That would give us 36 points, and would’ve been enough to stay up in at least 8 of the last 10 seasons. 4 wins and 2 draws gives us 37 points, that stayed up at least 9 of 10 times. Personally I don’t see us getting much more than 2 wins and a few draws. But we need to be a bit realistic about just how tight it is down at the bottom of the table. There’s still only 4 points between Saints and Palace, who are 12th (effectively 5 points really due to our risible goal difference), so the notion of getting to 38 points or whatever may be exaggerated. We won’t know until the end of the season of course, but there’s enough of a possibility to stay up. That said, I just don’t think we’re good enough to get to mid thirties of points, but remain hopeful of an upturn nonetheless.

🤣 Miguided Weapon in being as clueless as ever shocker.

Magic grandpa isn’t happy about being given the shove, bless him. Think he’ll likely end up standing at the next election as an independent and will view it as a personal exoneration exercise. I find it a bit remarkable just how many cranks there are that still show unbending loyalty to the mad old goat.

You know what is needed to stop these mass shootings? More guns!! Go ‘murica. Land of the free, baby.

We don’t need 6 wins. 6 wins, even with 4 defeats, gives us 41 points which in all likelihood will keep us up with a number of points to spare. Potentially 4 wins plus 1 or 2 draws is enough to keep us up, depending how the other games roll. Even 3 wins plus a high number of draws could well be enough.

Agree to disagree, it would end up looking like the 2012-13 kit which was crap.