The Kraken

4k Northam, 4k Chapel, 8K Kingsland. 4k on the Northam and nothing else would look fucking ridiculous. Leicester put in plans to extend to 40k by extending their Kingsland equivalent (and putting a new swanky roof on it). Looked much more normal.

Always is having a normal one again I see 👍

"We did all the work and he was top five managers in Europe for improving teams, transitions and different things." Are we sure that comment didn’t actually come from mad Nate?

Way back in the late 1990s I did a couple of summers teaching golf at a kids academy in America. Basically you’d have 3 instructors to 12 kids, so 4 each, and you’d look after them from 9 until 3.30 ferrying them by minibus to a golf range and a local course. I was amazed then at the amount of times I was given ADHD medication for the kids, which I had to ensure they took at lunchtime. Ritalin was the big one for ADHD, and for some of them it just seemed to put them into a mini coma; perfectly happy kids who took a pill then immediately zonked out. I can’t really remember any of them being trouble or anything like that, it was genuinely quite disturbing to see how readily these kids were given knockout drugs.

How are Leicester in a sticky patch? They lost a game against Cov when they were leading then had a man sent off, then they drew against the second placed team in the league. Before that they undefeated in ten with eight wins. Is that really what you define as a “sticky patch”?

Poor old Dirk is going to have a fit when he sees this news, bless him. 💔

Marcelo Sarmiento knew you’d turn good eventually sonner.

Which one?

Just been looking and can’t see those odds on the main sites (I checked Ladbrokes, Paddy Piwer, William Hill). They offer outright title win but no E/W option, Saints around 7/1 to 10/1. They all offer top two but those are coming in around evens or less, which seems about right.

Nowhere near it for me. Saying that he’s been better than any of KWP, THB, Downes or Adarma (with his 25 goal contributions) is mad. Bazunu’s distribution is excellent no doubt and he’s showing signs of improvement, played well today and kept us right in it no doubt. But he’s down that list for me, we’d be noticeably worse off without any of those I listed. Not sure I can say that about Baz. Not yet.

Martin said in his post match press conference that Rothwell will play. I’d have thought the intent would be for Downes and KWP to be rested, but apart from Holgate we don’t have a spare RB. Not even sure Holgate will still be with us by this time next week, so KWP might have to play. Lumley, Stephens, Meghoma, Charles and Charlie surely will start. Reckon Sam Amo gets a go too, can’t see Downes being included. Out of that it’ll be interesting to see which first teamers get included.

That does seem too good to be true. Just checked and some bookies are still offering 10/1, so effectively 3/1 on us finishing top two. At that value I might have to see if there’s some free bet signup deals to be had.

what’s each way, top 3? If so how the flip did you get 12/1? I can understand those odds for finishing top, but not for top 3.

Not sure if Rusty agrees with you! In his presser he joked that, when he saw Flynn lining one up, the manager and coaches were just thinking “don’t”.

This is the bit that really concerns me about him, it’s like he’s playing a game of how close can he let the attacker get to the ball before he passes it. Hes not good enough to take the risks that he takes.

From Martin’s press conference above he said Rothwell will be playing against Watford. Definitely looked rusty so game time will do him good.

Jack Stephens plays like our defence did right at the start of the season. Just tries to be too clever on the ball, playing silly balls or holding on to the pass for too long. And out of possession he’s not sharp enough to give confidence that he’ll win it back. In hindsight, good for him to get 30 minutes of game time and plenty of things to work on. But it was hardly a confidence inspiring shift and we looked a bit lost when THB went off. Stephens is doing nothing to warrant a starting place and, having made him skipper, Martin has boxed himself in a bit. THB and Janny B for the foreseeable please.

Ta, thought it was something like that but couldn’t put it together.

Trying to work out what the saints fans were singing for the last 5 minutes?

Really quite shocking at the back!

Hot knife through butter, terrible defending.

Because you’re a Saints fan.

Excellent first half. Our defence shows that they can be brittle, for their goal Swansea had a 3 on 2 on the counter. But you can criticise the overall performance, totally dominant, gave away a crap goal then went up the other end and made amends.

Thwack