The Kraken

Just to clarify, what permutations do you think we have this year that we didn’t last year? I don’t see it myself, Perraud looks like for like to me, jury is well out on how good he is of course. Livramento too early to tell IMO.

I’d be interested to hear where we’ve added the squad depth that we lacked.

That Hummel kit really was an absolute delight.

Not sure that this result proves anything we didn’t know already. Our first XI is alright, we have 2 or 3 genuine first team options outside of that, much of the rest of the squad options are worrying, and we need to replace our premier striker.

Be lucky to get 20p

Well, they are.

Surely there must be a replacement lined up? I’ll pass judgement if/when a replacement comes in, as only then we’ll really know if it’s a good deal or not. At the moment I’m not all that optimistic at all we’ll get anywhere near a like for like striker in, though. So, yeah, somewhat concerned.

Not a fan of the blue arms. The picture from the hooky site also made the yellow colour look better as it was a bit washed out, the actual one is a good deal brighter. Not an overwhelming fan of any of the three to be honest. They’re ok and perfectly fine, but I’ve preferred others in our recent past. Hummel seem like a decent pair of hands though, hopefully they’ll come up with some decent future variants.

He looks like someone who won a raffle to train with the first team.

I remember we got him from Osasuna. He was absolutely rubbish, so fat and slow. I reckon when Bally played in the Alan Knight testimonial game, he was quicker than fat Sammy.

Saint Pete is in charge of the gates IIRC. Pete would just tell MLG to hop it to hades.

Yes MLG, I know it’s not his actual name.

The vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission or catching the virus. What it does do, extremely well, is cut down on severe illness and death from the virus.

The Southampton scooters are supposed to require a provisional drivers license, I thought.

This one is absolutely remarkable. Not in a good way, but somehow captivating.

By my limited maths, he’s 35 games away from tying Wayne Bridge’s record for 112 consecutive games played and 90 minutes completed per game, and 36 games from tying 113 consecutive games (Bridge went off injured in game 113). Quite an ask but, given his past two seasons and having the summer off, not out of the question.

Absolute fruit loop.

This thread is funny. Mostly for the fact that MLG seems a bit confused that people might consider him a twat. Jolly good work all round 👍

Indeed it is. What I see as a backwards step is that players are very rarely punished for diving these days. It used to be a yellow card but I can’t remember seeing that in ages.

It’s a flawless prediction. Other than that Henderson is doubtful to start, Rashford will do well to start, so will Sterling (arguably England best team has Rice, Grealish and Foden in those positions). A shortage of genuine strikers is an issue, and I think the idea of playing a set piece specialist because he’s good at set pieces is flawed. Foden, Grealish and Trippier are fairly useful,at set pieces too. But Scotland beating us is a definite potential, even with a full strength team out.

Les Reed.

I think so up until tournament start but only for "new" injuries.

Sadly predictable. But in the general swing of things, JWP was never likely to get much/any game time anyway, particularly with Billy Big Spuds Henderson back available. White is the right choice, but Southgate has made a bit of a cobblers of the whole thing.

Yeah that’s what I thought, it would announce after the game. Southgates comments suggested only one player being announced though, he didn’t want to give away position as that would give away the player. JWP has done enough to get in imo but I still wouldn’t be surprised if he missed out and it went to White or Godfrey.