The Kraken

I’d need to know who “the left” are to begin to answer that. I’ve no idea who ”they” are, as you put it. Or how you know why annyone talking with you an out this issue and not being in full angreement are “left” except for the fact they don’t agree with you. It’s an extremely bizarre concept.

Honestly, your ability to shout “the left” to anyone who comes close to disagreeing with you just makes you an utter parody.

“It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights...That is a prudent deal.” Out of interest, what do you make of his guns statement? Some might call that a derogatory thing to say.

Probably to ‘Nige’ as well tbf

I think we’re in a financial era where it makes more sense than ever to spend money on the stadium. If we get back to the top league of course. Back when we built St Mary’s it cost £32M and we took out a long term mortgage to pay for it. Nowadays that’s the cost of one fair to middling premier league player. And the annual TV revenues on offer eclipse that significantly. The game is more awash with huge sums of money than ever before. As ever most will go to the players and agents, but the cost of expansion / new stadium as a ration of annual revenue is incomparable to just 10 or 15 years ago. Some of the arguments for not expanding don’t hold like they did back then. Plus I think evidence shows that ticket demand has slowly risen year by year for a while now. Will be interesting to see our average home attendances this season.

Well he sounds very reasonable and definitely not a chap with some extreme views.

Until you get to the other end. I fly into Malaga a lot. To be fair they’re quite good at opening extra passport desks when they can, but the non Eu queue can be utterly horrendous at times. No problem for me though as I can stroll through the EU line unchallenged with my Irish passport 😎

Will Smallbone - Boner Joe Aribo - Big Boner

Too many Americans.

It’s alright, these lads are on the case.

Yep. A very ugly development. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6ppn2rpqvvo

You said some. I thought there might be more. Oh well. She sounds awful.

Which fringe views does AOC have?

I haven’t been for a couple of decades now but in my younger years I used to travel to USA a lot with work, I went all over the country. No matter where I was always surprised at how entrenched in their political support a lot of them are. “We’re a republican family and always will be” and such like. In fact, quite proud of the fact that they don’t float votes very often if at all. As someone who has voted blue, red and yellow (and none of the above) at least once in my life, I found it pretty surprising.

Dirk saying “I never said them fings” 🤣🤣🤣

There in a nutshell sums up the complete lack of intelligence and understanding of an issue.

I guess there were plenty of verbals during the game. Their manager got booked for waving an imaginary yellow to try and get our player booked, got booked himself for that. Maybe things just kicked on from then. Looked like Still wasn’t having a kiss and make up and handbags ensued.

Unless I’m mistaken, Edozie and Aribo haven’t made a single matchday squad. BBD has, but one of those was only because of the late dropout of the LND. Hard to see them getting integrated other than as a complete bit part: wee man, Robinson, Armstrong, even Ross a bloody Stewart being used as wide players ahead of them so far. If we’re so desperate for “wingers” I’m keen to see what that does for Robinson. He’s only 18 so needs to be taken care of, but if we sign a genuine first teamer on the left like we seem to have done with Fellows, what’s the lineup? It’s a nice problem to have of course.

I’ve noticed that he seems to make an awful lot of runs on the shoulder of defenders looking to break in behind but rarely gets played in. And doesn’t look to drop back all that much to play the target man and bring others in. Similar to how he scored his goal in pre-season IIRC, break the lines for a through ball. I noticed it again today, he was caught offside as he’d made a run behind earlier and not been played in first time. Maybe with more width up the pitch there’s more opportunity for him, but for a big man he seems different to a Lambert/Pelle who were happy dropping deep to get the ball. As such he just ends up looking isolated as nobody wants to play that ball.

The Moyesiah is doing ok isn’t he?

true. Tbf I do still remember watching us against Sheff Wed in the first game of the season and keeping the ball for the last ten minutes and thinking “I’ve never really seen a saints side do that before!”

Thats the point, I don’t know what to expect from a Still side, and after 4 games I don’t really know either. Maybe I am being unreasonable, I don’t think I am, it’s not a demand as such, I’m just curious to see what this guy will do that makes us successful. Look at any half successful Saints manager of the past 20-30 years and most fans can pick out some attributes of why they were decent. Alan Ball, WGS, Adkins, Poch, Koeman, Ralph. All had styles that you could distinguish between. Maybe in time we’ll see what the Will Still equivalent is. Just not sure where we’re headed yet. Aim not sure that’s a controversial thing to say, but whatever.

Tbf I think today we were massively hamstrung by Downes. He was even named in the 2pm team sheet, so that’s a real blow. Charles, Jander and (if he’s here) Downes available at CM in any given week is very good for this level IMO. Add Azaz to that mix and it’s strong.

And that’s we are is it?

Yeah maybe you’re right. But right now I don’t know if we’ll be a side like the first half where we play good one touch. He talks about wingers, what does that mean for the striker(s)? He talks about pressing high, haven’t seen much of that (or at least not doing it well). Maybe not a style as such, but I just don’t see much yet of what he’s doing. It’s very early days so probably being hyper critical, just something I’ve noticed.