The Kraken

I only managed to catch the last half hour but, flipping eck, that was a hard watch. If that’s what we’re deeming the benefits of possession football then it’s not a great advert. Stoke looked like a poor championship team, we looked just a little bit above that. Clean sheet, what’s that?! Downes challenge looked just a bit of a coming together but Bednarek ffs what’s he thinking, both arms wrapped round the striker is a terrible look, very lucky to get away with that.

Unchanged lineup.

McMillan is and always has been a complete and utter weirdo. Alongside Chuckles Chorley and Illingsworth, these pricks have been obsessed with putting themselves in the Saints limelight for years. The other common denominator is that they’re all as thick as fuck.

In other a French football news……Lyon are bottom of the table, AMN made the bench but didn’t come on, DCC didn’t make the bench.

It’s always the same and it’s pretty understandable. After a win everyone has a contented glow and there’s not much over analysis needed, just a bit of “boys dun good, happy with that performance” etc. After a defeat, particularly a heavy defeat, there’s often a need to vent and then a bit more in depth as to what went wrong.

Maybe it’s not deleted and you just randomly moved it to the Lounge??

Is he available next Saturday? 1230 kickoff mind, so it’s an early start to get all 5 pints in. But surely doable.

We need an EGM fans forum when some old waffler can kick us off with “Oive been a season ticket holder man and boy for nigh on fifty years and I ain’t never seen anyfink loike it is now……”

Statistics don’t mean anything Barry, apparently. I’ve written scientific papers on it. Or something.

Yeah, that’s definitely about right. Makes perfect sense as usual 👍

If anyone thinks that they’re misguided. He was a big contributory factor but he was far from on his own. Same this season, he’s been disappointing yet again but just one of a too big number.

Fair play, you’re almost as good at providing straw man arguments as that Crap Wolf guy. Not quite, granted, but you’re getting there. When there are negative comments made about Bazun or quite frankly any other player, it doesn’t mean people think they are literally the only player at fault. It’s typically one of a number of players that contribute to our goals against. Nobody is saying it’s all Bazunu’s fault or that our defence/midfield/attack is otherwise ok. I feel I’ve wasted my time even pointing that out Ffs.

Tbf there’s not a lot of point in sacking him, Sports Republic will only go and find us someone worse.

Most interesting thing seen on that pitch for years.

🤣 Angry Chaz is my favourite one of the Wayman posting troup 👍

Agreed. By the end I got the feeling that his heart just wasn’t in it and he was only hanging on for the payoff. And why would he feel otherwise; as bad as his form had got he was forced over his last summer to employ a coach of the owner’s approval and seemed to be largely bypassed for what he wanted from the transfer window (“I’m totally confident we will get a striker”). Saying all that, he had been on a downward spiral for some time and didn’t look like being able to arrest it with the resources he had. The previous season had seen us finish with 9 defeats from 12 games, when Ralph was sacked we’d lost 8 from 14 and were in the relegation zone with a deeply unhappy squad who looked like they didn’t give a shit. What happened next was of course an even worse disaster, but that doesn’t change the notion that Ralph had run his race here.

💔 I bloody love all that stuff, have done since I was a kid.

The Merson analogy perhaps isn’t the best being as he was bang into booze and coke while he was still playing. Gascoigne the same. I get the sentiment but the nature of genuine addictions are that they are just deep down and always there.

I very much doubt it being as it’s closed for a massive refurb. Barca are playing at the old Olympic stadium this season.

That’s now 8 goals he’s conceded from 11 shots on target. Poor fella only needs a good defence in front of him and he’d be right as rain. Make that 9 from 12.

Turned off at half time to d something else instead, glad I did. Fuck off Saints. Going backwards at a good old pace.

Oooh, even better! In stead of only having one non-CB playing CB we’d have two!

It was the worst time of my Saints supporting career too, so he’s got company.