The Kraken

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.

Nope, never realised we had that. I like it.

I’ll give you a Brexit benefit. Since Brexit, I’ve gained Irish citizenship. Irish passport incoming. So I get to enjoy the previous land of EU milk and honey, plus gaining on all the as yet undefined Brexit benefits. And I didn’t even have to vote for it 😎 Tam O’Kraken to play me in the film.

Not necessarily a terrible thing. I loved Hummel kits from the 80s but I have not really liked much they’ve done since they returned to the fold. I dislike all of the three kits from this season; the home kit only looked good on the rare occasion we wore it with white shorts and black socks (Chelsea away IIRC) thus doing a very decent alternative to the 2010 sash kit.tge wave kit and the green one are bloody awful imo.

Replace “hard” for “rarely” and you’re probably there.

Surely not on business but ON BUSINESS ffs?

Don’t be daft, reading Soggy’s posts equates to comedy gold. I His “you are on ignore” mantra is excellent, I’m a big fan of the pious man. Who wouldn’t want to read his rambling nonsense? It’s fucking brilliantly funny, though maybe not in the way intended when written.