The Kraken

Brett from Camden bites the bullet for relentless whining, how apt 😆

I agree with you, and I wish the best for him. Certainly looking forward to seeing how he gets on and I hope he can establish himself, prove me wrong, and keep Fulham up.

Joke is lost. When it appeared on my screen it appeared as a long long list of html code, not the text as now. It was a crap gag to begin with but I’ll get my coat anyway.

From what I gather he was indeed good. But he only started 21 games all season with another 4 as sub. Overall, very close to just half their games. And, as you say, they may think he can play at Premier League level. He certainly will, of course. We’ll see how effective it is. Like I said, I’d be concerned if I was a Fulham fan. If they’re gonna spend another £100m or so on improvements then that’s another thing altogether, but history has told me as a Saints fan that I’d only want either Reed or Lemina as a short term backup.

£10m for a newly promoted team on Reed and Lemina is an interesting approach. Not sure if I’d be feeling all that confident; though lots of time to go in the window. Wouldn’t mind giving their ground a go when it (and COVID) is done. Fulham pre match pubs are great.

Not sure if we’d get away with that sort of formation....

Could go either way. If Lemina finally pulls himself together then Fulham could get an absolute bargain. Perhaps more likely is that he’ll continue as before with us, just about get through 20 appearances and have his mix of looking really good together with looking like he can’t be arsed. Either way, worth the gamble for Fulham.

Romeu and Vestergaard should have traded numbers IMO. I always prefer to see a holding midfielder as a 4 and a CB as a 6.

Leeds maybe? Single team in the city, decent fan base, still seen as a pretty big side after their successes under Revie and winning the last Div 1 title before the PL came in, just back in the big league, a bit of a blank canvas behind the scenes perhaps. If not I agree Newcastle might be a likely target. We know that the amount of tickets sold at the ground is only small percentage of income these days. That said there’s still IMO a big correlation between size of ground (and if you can fill it) and perceived growth potential for success. Hence the likes of Newcastle will also always be seen as an attractive option.

https://mobile.twitter.com/wwfcofficial All done! #SaintsFC U23s 0-1 #Chairboys

Hopefully the match report will have the lineups published, haven’t seen A.Trialist and his lesser spotted brothers B, C and D included in the team for a while now.

Sadly that’s proving to be the case, can’t get rid of the useless lump.

Saints to fail to win on opening day.

I keep hearing this, but does he? Barca has by all accounts a bit of a ropey manager last term and they still only finished 5 points off Real. They were also 12 points ahead of third. There’s a job to do, granted, but he’s got some extensive resources and some excellent players available. Spanish club fans are notorious cnuts, mind, so unless he gets results immediately his legendary status could be very quickly tarnished.

Alan Ball - gave us MLT in a free role. Ronald Koeman - some top results and just a general look of quality to the whole team rarely seen before. Gordon Strachan - did well with a limited team and took us to a cup final. Decent interviews too. edit: I’m swapping Strachan for Nigel Adkins, misread the OP and thought it was just PL.

Lemina has already trained under and played in the league for Ralph Hasenhüttl, so it wouldn’t be the first time.

8 available for JWP if he wants it.

KWP could take 2 with Cedric gone, Bertrand could take 3 now that Yoshida isn’t here. Salisu 6 you would think.

Feel sorry for them if they’re having to do exercise out in this heat.

Very good post.

I’m always fairly bemused at how British (English) people think that they have a natural right to this island. We have mostly always been an immigrant race. I’m not even sure what you would call indigenous English. But yeah, foreigners = bad.

I used to stick up for the Echo; local paper, local people that work for it, an old institution, used to bring a decent bit of inside information to us all. And, perhaps going back 5-10 years, I used to think there was a place for a print copy local paper, at least for those (mostly of the elderly generation) who hadn’t quite grasped the nettle of online media. Those days have rapidly passed and, sadly, the local paper has seen a rapid decline. A shame. I remember the old days of, after the game, trying to get a copy of the Pink as soon as you could. Time moves on, I guess. #wipestearfromeye

Wow 🤣 Lets get those dinghies and RIBs sunk, just in case.

Quite right too. The notion of a massively stretched and under-funded naval force being enabled to try and prevent a minority of desperate souls trying to reach these shores is utterly absurd. Anyone who thinks the MoD has got reasonable bandwidth to pursue this and do it effectively needs to give their head a wobble.

At least someone has eclipsed MLG in the fucking weird stakes.