The Kraken

Christ I hope so. He’s the absolute embodiment of the lack of drive and ambition at the moment. Should have been removed for coming out with that shite that team position doesn’t matter.

Well done, you win the prize for spotting my intentional mistake…… 🤥 Swap in a young Oriol Romeu for the departed Frenchman. Or Jordy Clasie if you prefer.

Ignore the numbering, it’s already triggered my OCD.

It’s worse than that. We’ve basically sold a whole team and not replaced them. The formation below is based on the players who made the most appearances in season 2015-16, when we finished sixth. How many of our current players get in that side? You could maybe argue JWP if he’s having a good day, and argue about KWP I suppose, but that’s about it. Shane Long is on the bench, he only started 23 games that season and scored 10 league goals. We’ve been decimated with below average replacements since.

This. Lyanco at CM would make Maitland-Niles look competent by comparison.

Of course I expect to be entertained. Football is an entertainment industry, it’s why many thousands of saints fans pay their money every week. Why do you go if not that? Christ.

Almost correct, respect is earned over time. Or not.

I did it in Rhino, I was helped out by the bouncers. They sat me down outside the back of Caspian, patted me on the head and said ‘see you next week’. I think.

Where’s option 8, relegation from the PL followed only by subsequent relegation to L1? Because that’s what happens apparently.

Three. And you earn respect, you don’t just get given it.

Depends if we sign anyone else in that position in the window. If we’re still persisting with Adam Armstrong wide left in February then we’re fucked and there’s no hurt getting Tella back. Armstrong seems to be getting worse, not better. But we definitely need someone better than either of them. Tella didn’t too much for us last year for us, and during pre season he looked awful. That said, particularly in pre season, he was being played up front central and looked like a fish up a tree. The low benchmark to clear is whether he can be any worse than our other options. And being as he’s our player already it might be worth a roll of the dice if we can’t bring anyone else in.

Sounds about right. By 1 or 2 goals is a defeat, 3 goals a sound beating, 4 goals a big defeat, 5 goals a heavy defeat, 6 or 7 (seven) and upwards is a hammering. I reckon we might be able to limit the damage to just a defeat. Though I’m not confident and a sound beating or worse could well be in order.

Tbf they’re 9th in the table and defying all pre-season predictions of relegation. That said, if they were 19th in the table I’d still be expecting a heavy defeat. We are absolutely garbage.

Stones

The slippy Santa race fat man who split his pants? I got an infraction on here back in the day for calling him a fat embarrassment.

Nathan Jones reminds me of the latter days of George Burley, a pissed up over-enthusiast windmilling his arms on the sidelines while a shit-show ensues on the pitch and none of his players actually listen.

No he didn’t. He said himself he wasn’t a defender and he had much to learn there as he was an attacking midfielder. As Turkish said, he came in for Arsenal as a makeshift right back, I think when Hector Bellerin was out injured. But before that he’d played in midfield for Arsenal as a nipper before going on loan at Ipswich where he played in midfield (before acting the cunt and getting himself dropped for off field reasons by Mick McCarthy).

Lawrie McMenemy got us relegated and didn’t get us back up for years. Or something.

He plays in midfield He plays on the riiiiiiight Ainsley Maitland Niles He’s just fucking shite

Best Xmas present, new year present and 2023 present there is on here. Im writing a letter to Santa @northpole as we speak. Hopefully not too late for it to get there.

You’ve never seen away fans cheering in the home sections? I simply don’t believe that, I’ve seen it loads down the years. I’ve seen it on TV when I’ve not been at the game. And it’s been commented about on here. Away fans wearing kit in the home end, much less common. But….There was even a picture put up on this site earlier this very season of a man United fan in his shirt in the itchen I believe (who, apparently watched the first half then maybe got hooked after that). So it clearly does happen.

I think everyone knows how away fans can buy tickets, that’s not the problem. The problem is away fans turning up in away kit and being shown to their seat in the home end, or just being allowed to wander through. It’s away fans cheering in the home end and stewards doing absolutely nothing about it. And as said above, these people should be thrown out and their ticket taken so they get barred from the database, all very simple things that are simply following the clubs own documented rules.

Yeah, I posted a video the other day from an interview he gave when he was playing at Arsenal as a RB. Link below. https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11813263/maitland-niles-right-back-not-my-position At that time he said he was not a defender and hadn’t really done it before, he was learning as a defender. Said he’s an attacking player, central or wide. As the interview above says, he needed to find a proper fixed position but he’s never done that, and like you say he’s a Jack of all trades and master of none. The AMN thing with us is akin to getting someone like Oxlade-Chamberlain a few years back but then playing him as a holding midfielder. It’s just not going to work all that well.

I think we’ll continue to massively struggle if we rely on AMN as a defensive midfielder. Alongside Lavia he might have the odd reasonable game, on his own he’s just not cut out for the role. On Tuesday it was noticeable how much better (or less shite) he looked when going out to RB. Hes not a holding a midfielder. At all. And with KWP fit, he’s not our right back. I wonder if he could do a job in a 4-2-3-1 on the right of the 3. Maybe, maybe not. We need Lavia fit and firing. And until then our next least-worse option is JWP doing more of a disciplined job in front of the back 3/4, which is far from ideal.