The Kraken

Very good half that.

I believe it’s exactly what the club did with Shields, and they were definitely pissed off with him.

If true, perhaps because Saints are pissed off that another new recruit has been tempted away within months so just playing hardball and making him see out his terms.

It certainly seemed that was his opinion of it.

Bree’s delivery so far has been way off.

Come on!

That is shit goalkeeping.

Well there it is.

Yep. Madness.

Sky showing the lineup at Stephens LB, Bree RB. Actual lineup……looks like they’re right.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7gbxyc

Tbf watching it back at half time it looked like Diaz himself was in an onside position when Salah headed it forward. However there were at least two or three Liverpool players in an offside position right in front of the keeper who I’d say were definitely interfering with play even if they didn’t make an attempt to play the ball. The defender touching it though made that irrelevant. Dopey rule.

If the defender attempts a clearance and makes contact it’s deemed a new phase of play and invalidates the original offside. If the defender doesn’t make contact with the ball then it’s offside. As you say, an absolute mess.

It comes to something that I’d still rather hear what she’s got to say rather than listen to the twatterings of professional dickhead Joey Barton.

Of course they will. They always pivot to the party that is likely to win so they can be seen to be associated with the winning side. They’ve been doing it for decades. Current polling indicates that the Tories are in store for an absolute hammering, The Sun have basically already shown their hand in the last few weeks that they’re favouring Labour.

Stop being a sad fuck. Twar knows his onions.

Like I said, agree to disagree. I think a start point of Bednarek, KWP, Bree, AArm, SArm, even Che should be a massive leg up at this level. Add in THB who effectively got promoted and Flynn Downes who I think we both agree is PL quality, that’s a squad that already looks very decent even without the other quality additions that were made. I stand by my original dissent to your point that we had a standing start, I genuinely can’t agree to that at all. And Mason Holgate shouldn’t be used as a barometer for anything other than being the exception to the rule; he won Everton’s player of the season in the PL not so long ago! How on earth….

I genuinely find it very difficult to comprehend the absolute radio silence from SFC on Chris. Forgetting it is one thing but failing to remedy the situation is just completely shameful.

Tbf I think at least some of the more successfully promoted championship sides of recent years have been ones that have worked the loan system to their benefit. But certainly our spending of, what £25M last summer? has provided a completely minimal impact in terms of VFM.

Theres such a massive between 15th or 16th in the Prem and the top of the championship that it’s a ridiculous comparison. If you can do it over multiple seasons in the PL you’re likely to be a very good standard of player at championship level. So, whether we’d want players next season if we got promoted is entirely irrelevant. Everyone knows that this squad’s job is to get promoted and,if they do, there would need to be multiple player additions to stay up. So I don’t follow the logic.

None of our actual transfers in look very good and can’t make the team / squad. Manning, Charles, Stewart, minimal positive impact. The loans have been much, much better though, Holgate aside they’ve all been positive imo.

Agree to disagree. IMO there’s plenty of evidence that a significant number of the players Martin inherited are perfectly good enough with a bit of decent guidance. The likes of KWP, Bednarek, SArmstrong, proved over numerous seasons that they were good enough for a lower / mid range Premier league team. Bree was nabbed from a championship side that got promoted, Stephens had credit in the bank from his spell at a Bournemouth, Smallbone the same with Stoke. Sulemana, well not sure what he’s about but two goals against Liverpool suggest he’s got a little bit of something. Adam Armstrong got nearly 30 goals at this level the last time he played it, and Aribo while completely lost in the Premier league clearly had something to him. Add in the potential of Edozie too. Then we added genuine quality in Downes and THB. If anything I think Russell Martin had a running start with the squad he inherited, and was allowed a generous budget for incomings too.

You never know, we could finish 4th or even 5th and events could conspire that we needn’t play any of them. Very unlikely but still possible. Seen it happen before where an automatic chasing team finish third then spin out in the playoffs.

Ipswich 1 up inside ten minutes. Leicester fans must be worrying now.