The Kraken

That is good news 👍 Its a long recovery yet but very encouraging signs, kudos to the lad and best wishes for his further recuperation.

It was very passive aggressive indeed. And, despite many people watching the game via a stream these days, it still happens! During the Leeds game I remember someone got very shirty about all of the negative comments in the first half and came out with “it must be very different actually down here at the ground rather than for those who can’t even be bothered to leave their own house”.

The thinking must surely be that Che didn’t train most of last week so needs the run out.

He made a prat of himself yet again by starting a James Garner transfer thread which then got locked by the mods. MLG has been hiding/sulking since, though a quick check shows he’s still logging on, he’s just a bit too moody or embarrassed to post at the moment.

Thanks, Ill definitely do that 🤙 It would seem a bit daft IMO to get an RB over a LB, but it’s their choice and I’m sure they know what they’re doing.

Why? We’ve already got a good RB, and hopefully Tino will make a full recovery. We don’t currently have a starting LB, who knows when Perraud will be back. And, last season, Ralph often preferred a right back playing at LB over Perraud.

I think I read it on fantasy scout website, they publish on Friday and he was down as out with a knock. https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/team-news/

Fairly sure Chelsea said the day before the game that Broja wouldn’t be involved due to a knock.

I’d hazard a guess that that’s exactly their point.

Yeah I noticed watching last week that the pitch is the worst I’ve seen it at st Mary’s, very brown and a bit bare in places.

0-1, penalty

Given Ralph’s comments I can’t see us deviating from three CBs at the back. I think we won’t be too far off the starting XI from last week. Hopefully Elmo out, Bednarek maybe dropped for Lyanco given the situation there. If we went 4 at the back, we’d have to play Djenepo at LB and it would be a big weak spot which is the main reason I think we won’t do it. If it is a 4 though, it needs to be a very solid one, so: Bazunu KWP - ABP - Salisu - Djenepo JWP - Lavia - Romeu Aribo - S.Armstrong Adams It won’t be that though.

McTominay is on close to £100k a week and has three years left on his contract. In addition to what would be a massive transfer fee, we simply aren’t paying that.

Criminal eh. Lets consider that when Adkins took over in league 1, Saints had played 6 league games and lost 4 of them. Saints were in the bottom 3 and 8 points off top. Under Nigel, Saints won 27 games out of 40. We won 13 of our last 15 games. If that’s criminal, lock me up. In our Championship season, hardly anyone in pre-season called us for direct promotion. If you did, well done, it was far from the common perspective at the time.

I bet you do. What a silly billy, again.

Just a shame he’s such an utterly shameless cheat.

This is one of the dimmest things I’ve seen on here in a while, and it’s a low benchmark. If I’m to believe your supposition correctly, there are significant numbers of Portsmouth fans who masquerade on this board as Saints fans, and make negative comments about the team. Also, there are significant numbers of Saints fans who want us to lose only so that they can say told you so about something. I’m not sure what the something is though. Rightyho. Play up Pompey and down with all of our new signings forever, cos I knew 3 at the back has looked rubbish since July.

Elite development squad. Edit. Already been answered, thought I was on the past page, apologies.

Like you say, we’ll agree to disagree about the approach taken so far. My opinion is, it’s been a poorly executed integration as the formation has been utterly awful. Using a Valery/Stephens approach was also imo clearly dreadful. Let’s go 4 at the back, bin off Bednarek, use ABK and Salisu as a pair, and play our best players. No need for patience, play the best players in positions they know.

We didn’t lose 6-0, that’s just a made up scenario. And let’s just say I don’t agree that 4 debut players losing by a big amount makes much difference to the 3 players on debut that did lose. Ketchup isn’t someone making a top league bow, he played more than 50 games in the bundesliga 1 and 2, 22 last season at top level. It’s a daft thing to say Saints were protecting him while playing two debutants who have barely played at all at the top level.

You’ve answered your own question then, I feel 👍

Has anybody stated is as fact? It’s just a suggestion made by some who were there.

Yeah we’ve played 3 at the back quite a few times before so I’m not going tin foil hat about it yet. It could very well be just another daft Ralph innovation, I thoroughly accept that. I just find his negative comments about it after both our games more than a little bit odd.

That’s what he said then, yes. His comments after each of the two games in the league seem to contradict it though.