The Kraken

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p24l5254xo Bbc report on the next Tory leadership hopefuls 🤣 They’re absolutely fucked if the list in that report is anything to by. Even Mel fucking Stride thinks it’s worth giving it a go, the feckless wankstain. Honest Bob Jenrick, Cruella, Priti the evil weeble, James not Cleverley and Bad Enoch already starting their engines. Tugenhat and the abominable Atkins also likely to get their elbows out. It’s just an embarrassing collection of utter shite. Good for them they’ve got nearly 5 years to find someone at least slightly credible.

Kuntberg is a disgrace and has got worse and worse in the past year or two, nowadays she plain doesn’t even bother to hide her own feelings.

Such a thin-skinned miserable man

Harsh. I like Shane Lowry. 😉

“The UN should stop faffing around and take action” “How?” “I don’t know” I knew there was a reason I used this site, it’s the unparalleled attention to detail and in-depth knowledge. Absolutely brilliant analysis.

I’m sure it is. I just didn’t really read the team sheet properly pre game then realised halfway through the first half we’ve only got two defenders on the pitch.

Bit weird for Flynn to go CB. Assume Janny B is still on his holibobs but we’ve got THB, Wood and Stephens. Still not sure what the starting formation was.

Which channel? Cant find it on mine and the Saints channel isn’t working.

Interestingly, AA is in but Flynn Downes has been given the armband.

Maybe turn it off, unplug it from the wall, leave it off for 30 seconds then plug in try again. Bet it works then.

Can't they just turn it off and turn it back on again?

Probably just people like Colin who hate the kit and are only buying it as a protest.

Kind of telling that one of the tournament finalists only has one player in the team of the tournament and it’s a bit of a mystery how even he got in there.

I mean, he’s not wrong.

I reckon he’d definitely offer us an enormous headache on the wage bill. I know he’s only got 1 year left in his Hammers deal so transfer fee should be doable, but those wages are something else. He's 32 next week so no spring chicken either. Many happy memories of Dings here but don’t see this one. We’ve already got Lallana for the ex-Saint well past his best role.

And we only won two of those games (according to a stat I read the other day).

Good. Have a look at historical kits and you can see how often Saints vary from a traditional red and white. http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Southampton/Southampton.htm From the past 50 years: inverse Ajax 5 years; centenary solid red 2 years; Hummel half 2 years; sash 1 year; Cortese red 2 years; inverse Ajax 1 year; inverse sash 1 year; white and red 1 year. That’s 15 out of 50 we’ve gone for something completely non stripes. Then you’ve got another 5 years of candy stripes which were very non traditional, the Pony tick was pretty off the wall, and the 99-01 kit was an almost inverse Ajax. Stripes are gash IMO, very boring especially paired with black shorts and with a plain back looks crap. Tbf that twobit logo would make anything look shit, but Hummel 99 and maybe one of the Sanderson ones have been about the only striped kits I like edit, actually the Admiral one was alright). I’d still like to see us do a proper red and white halves like Southampton St Mary’s 1894-1896 with blue shorts and socks, or a Feyenoord equivalent if sticking to black shorts.

Awful. And what happens with the player name and those 5 white lines? Name printed under it would be far too low so got to print over them? Very glad I don’t buy Saints shirts as this one is very poor.

UEFA, not EPL. Look at Newcastle last season. https://www.sportbible.com/football/football-news/newcastle-united/champions-league-uefa-newcastle-united-ac-milan-265902-20230919

No idea why all of our kits have to have the cheap, terrible looking massive vinyl sponsor over the front. Every year the same. The Starling Bank one actually looks alright.

Sounds like a pretty good system to me.

You think that’s bad….. Wonder is @Lord Duckhunter will be buying one for his other half.

I mentioned a Nigel Farage once but I think I got away with it.

Not sure its even quite got us there, has it? Defenders: Looks like KWP off and replaced by new lad, jury out but massive shoes to fill. Taylor in at LB, that's an improvement on Manning. Edwards and Wood in, both highly rated but how much will they actually start for us? Especially if we keep hold of Janny B. Midfield: Lost Brooks, lost Rothwell, lost Stu Armstrong. Added Lallana. Big net loss. Edit: Charly is back I suppose (maybe) so gives us numbers but remains to be seen if he stays, and if he does what he actually produces. Striker: Che surely off (19 goals last term), Loch Ness Drogba still being talked about being eased back in, no other signings yet. I still see us as a bit net down on where we finished the league.