The Kraken

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.

Certainly doesn’t seem like a harmonious camp.

It’s a mystery since MLG has relegated himself to posting exclusively via confused emojis.

Well, yeah. It was mostly sign some kids he’d worked with before, granted.

🤣 There goes our recruitment strategy.

Could realistically be up to 4: JWP, Caleta-Car, Salisu, ABK.

🤣🤣 excellent find. I mean, we all knew that Bradley was talking out of his arse and in no way did he have pre-season expectations of getting promoted. But his flailing about avoiding the question multiple times and now that post highlighting just how full of shit he is; well, it’s really quite humorous.

Their first team let in two goals to a bunch of kids with ten men 🤣

Didn’t know that, cheers. I just find it very odd.

I don’t get what the message is with Lancashire. ‘Train hard lads and show loyalty, and if you fail like me you could be the next me!’ Do any other clubs do it? I mean, put him on the coaching staff if that’s what you want to get across. Having him as a mainstay in the team is absolutely weird.

Sorry, you don’t think anyone has said what?

Let’s be honest, I absolutely wouldn’t.

When we were in League One a good number on this board said that we shouldn’t waste our time with the paint pot cup. Now we’re in the Premier League it seems there are some who think we should be ramping up for the Hampshire Senior Cup. A cup whose current champions are Farnborough FC. 🤣

I’m glad we didn’t play them, confidence and organisation is at floor level already, this could have really been problematic.

Bloody stupid move if so. A few drips might believe it but the majority of fans see through it, and most people don’t like being told it’s raining when they’re being pissed on. If/when Ralph goes, I think Semmens has to go too, the geezer has done some good things but the standard of outward mediocrity he has set is pitiful.

Bazunu KWP - ABK - Salisu - Perraud Caleta-Car - Lyanco AMN - JWP - Larios Adams Go all out for the 0-0.

^^ this Lavia is a definite prospect, but having him back isn’t suddenly going to change the whole way the team plays. We’ll still be creating a shockingly low number of chances per game. He will hopefully give us a bit more grit in the midfield, but the sum total of our problems are nowhere near being fixed just by getting Lavia back.