The Kraken

Have another go.

Yep, though I’m not sure how much of a compliment that is. He buzzed around well especially first half, very nice pass to play Elmo in for a shot on goal, worked hard defensively too. The sad thing is that I can say he showed he was one of our best players and also that he’s not quite good enough at PL level.

I dunno….seemed like a gamble worth taking. I think it emphasises just how meh our midfield and attacking options are, they’re all pretty much like for like in terms of impact, a full collection of beige (I’d omit Edozie from that tbf but he’s extremely raw). You could probably rightly argue for/against who came off, but I saw this more as getting some fresh legs on. There’s plenty to rightfully bash Ralph about, this isn’t one IMO.

Who for? Hes literally the only reasonable option we have at CM right now.

Vote for your Saints MOTM.

Probably would’ve taken a point pre game. But, my word, we are not good to watch.

Fuck, ABK on the oxygen.

Me too, always assumed that, happy to be wrong.

Not sure how we got that! KWPs foot over the line, and the ref obstructed Bowen. Fortunate.

The ref has done us a favour there!

Can we just fuck off with these pathetic long throws please.

Looks like JWP is playing higher up the pitch than usual.

8 minutes in, we’ve had as many shots on target as we had in the past two games. Baby steps.

Don’t know who two muppets commentating on mine are but apparently Saints have a player called Ashley Maitland Niles and West Ham have a lot of good headerers in their team.

Players in the tunnel, AMN just gave Rice a cuddle. Hopefully that’s not the closest he gets to him all day.

Still can’t make my mind up if I’m going to watch the game or not. Think I’ll probably give it 20 minutes and see how it goes.

Kamikwasi leaking to the papers against Truss already.

Yuck. Sounds too much like Southgate. Harrohampton is much better.

Agree with Badger. I’m not convinced on all our summer signings and the wisdom of investing so much in youth. The non Man City players (Lavia aside) seem to be our best signings; don’t know if Shields was involved with them or not, but they’re not exactly hidden gems. I agree the timing is terrible though, especially with the club bigging up the whole investment in youth mantra.

Saints foam hand and Harrogate scarf are in place I assume.

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We definitely had the finances. Under Gao saints took out a massive loan and a good deal of the cash from that was unspent. It’s why there’s an argument to be made that SR haven’t actually yet invested their own money in the squad.

No, not in the slightest. I do find watching her on tv to be very uncomfortable though. She’s so obviously massively out of her depth. Unfortunately she’s also hugely arrogant and self-entitled, so it’ll take more mockeries like today to hit home that she should just GTFO.

Far be it for me to stick up for them, but unfortunately that’s not actually an error. The Tories, for some reason, put the name of the addressee at the bottom of all correspondences. It’s Truss’ signature. There’s plenty of other examples of it, eg:

Is there much point in making him seeing out his contract? We’re probably not going to sign much in the January window, maybe a striker at best. Shields is going to be using his time to prepare for his next club, he’s not going to be committed to Saints’ best interests. Get rid, get some dough for letting him go early, get a replacement in quickly.