The Kraken

They can and they will. Or at least they’ll try.

His name is Stephen, not Chris. The pint-size prick.

Utterly ridiculous thing to say. Fuck me. GK: AMc is a perfectly ok keeper for the championship. Bazunu can get in the bin. CB: THB has been promoted twice from the championship. Jack Stephens is a twat but he’s championship level. Wood is ok for backup, Ronnie Edwards was a fans favourite for a side that finished 15th in the championship last season, and he can’t even get in our first team. CM: Shea Charles, player of the season last term playing for a club who finished in the top half of the championship. Flynn Downes, a shadow of a man these days but 2 years ago our most influential player in the side. And Finn Azaz, 40+ goal contributions last term. Plus new guy from Germany. CF: Downs seems awful but to suggest any of our others aren’t good enough for Championship is mental. So, yeah, absolutely hatstand to claim we don’t have the players to be better than where we are. Just a crazy thing to suggest, especially after we’ve spent so much.

I’m in the Still out camp I’m afraid. For any (decent) new manager you can see very quickly what it is that they’re trying to implement. Time and again we’ve had managers who you can see instantly what they’re changing, or trying to get across. I’m yet to see any of that with a Will Still side. Just a completely rudderless side at the moment that I don’t see him improving. I was at hull yesterday in the prawn sandwiches and sat not far behind the dugout (got drenched until I turned it in after goal 2 to return inside). I noticed how utterly passive Still is as a manager, he stands out at the extent of his technical area but does very little to influence matters or try to get an uptick in style or performance. He just struck me out there as being completely out of his depth, he just looked lost to me. He’s relied so far on blaming not having any players to play his system. Well he’s got them now, and yesterday was a complete mess, we got completely done tactically and physically. Listened to some of the Hull players post-game and their pre-match analysis of how to play against us was so obvious and so spot-on. They read us like a book and put a simple plan in place to completely negate us. In comparison we were utterly weak and had no clue how to change anything in our favour. I can only see us getting worse, not better, under this guy. Genuinely saw nothing at all yesterday to make me think “yeah, build on that and we’ll be ok”.

Its exactly what the SFC release said, Still said that he has problems with his immune system.

Flynn Downes is ill again.

Yes. It really is that simple. Well done for explaining it as far as your limit though. Bravo.

Not sure how anybody can be so unequivocal about the fact that JJM has made an awful decision and stunted his development. But lighthouse is gonna lighthouse I suppose.

I found Starmer’s grandstanding of Christian Wakeford pretty poor. I’d have been pretty pissed off had he been my mp.

IMO yes. Like it or not, a large part of what people vote for is the party. There are obviously some MPs who are popular with their constituents for work they’ve done, but for the large part the average voter votes for the party. If you want to move parties then you should have to get elected under than banner IMO. And if that means a by election then so be it.

I think the latter is far likelier than the former in the short term.

Yeah I don’t buy that entirely. No doubt he was key to a Martin system. But he was excellent for us in the championship, our performances without him were notably worse (visibly and points gained). He was very influential for us, and my memory isn’t that he was just a crab midfielder, he was more than that. Has definitely been way off that since promotion.

We won 3 of our first 4 games last time out. It was September when things went tits up. Up to that point, for better or worse, you could see the massive change in playing style and how the layers were working on adopting Russell Martin’s methods. The last ten minutes of keep ball against Sheff Wed was unlike anything I’d seen in any saints side before. With this lot, I’m still failing to see what Will Still brings to the party. The first half today was absurd, just looked rudderless. We keep saying game after game that he needs to be given time. And to an extent any manager does. But there needs to be some seeds of improvement, evidence of what he’s changing or bringing together. Not seeing any of that yet.

3 of the new signings on the bench. Strong squad on paper. Come on then. Let’s see it click together please.

That’s an interview that screams “please just pay me off and I’ll be gone”.

“A Jew born in the holocaust”. Is that the right term for direct comparison? She was born in Oxford to British parents, wasn’t she? I don’t want to invalidate her argument, nor downplay how utterly awful the situation is now. But not sure why she’s so worthy a cause just because she shares a religion and common ancestry.

Thats debatable.

Ant bloody Middleton trying to keep the grift alive 🤣

Genuinely can’t believe just how bad he has made them. Kind of hope he gets a win soon so it keeps him in place.

Getting booed coming on 🤣

I’m talking about the guns video. It does exactly what I expected from reading the text, it’s an awful video. And imo it’s a frankly horrendous thing to say. You seem to think otherwise, so ok.

In any case £3m for that looks to be a terrific deal, compared to some utter dross we’ve seen in on much more.

Quite looking forward to MLG pointing out that £3M is actually only a little bit under £5.6M and that he wasn’t wrong after all. Well done for definitely not being wrong MLG 👍

It’s just so very odd. He seems to have now taken to showing videos which completely back up the intent of some of the statements being referenced. Wonderfully weird.