The Kraken

Flynn Downes is fucking brilliant. An absolute disruptor,

Edozie getting so much space down the left, just no end product again from him. Looks like he panics when it’s time to make the final pass or shot.

KWP playing left back. Bree on the right.

MLT and Franny sitting together.

Adam Armstrong? The Championship’s second highest scorer; that one? He’s League 1 at best is he? Blimey.

No it isn’t.

Yeah man, exactly. Don’t expect anything too much. Down with expecting better from these things. Down with it. Too much expectation.

Slightly disagree. 6/10 and doing just about good enough with what we have.

Strange this. We normally do so well immediately after half time….

Manning you cunt. Shit from THB too.

Is he fuck. He’s not blowing for much but he’s doing it for both sides.

Plenty of moaning so far (tbf mostly from Jamie who seems to be particularly uppity tonight) but it’s been alright so far. Coventry are not great this season but finished 5th last season, they’re no pushover. We’ve looked alright imo, nothing special but fairly solid. As an away performance it’s not yet one to start getting wet pants about. We’ve dominated, just no cutting edge (sounds familiar).

Slowmo Joe is not exactly playing in a position that exposes his strengths….

Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go

Waste of time all this politicking today about the bill. It’s only the second reading, it’ll sail through for now. Once it gets to third reading is when it gets interesting as Sunak is gonna have to find a way then to give way to both sides of his party. Then it’s got to go through the Lords; notwithstanding any further legal issues are found with it. Until then, today will just get treated as a vote on the whole idea of the bill rather than its specifics, I’d be very surprised if double figures of Tories actually vote against it (and though some will abstain, it won’t be anywhere near enough to hold it up).

I wonder if one of the nippers from the U21 could step up. Zach Awe, for instance. Let’s face it we’re likely not gonna sign a new CB who is ahead of Bednarek and THB. Jack Stephens is back in the mix, so he either usurps one of the current two or plays second fiddle (and being as he was nominated skipper I imagine Martin has a first team place for him identified). Anyone coming into the club therefore is likely to be 4th choice immediately; plus Shea Charles can fill in at CB in the short term (though I don’t think he was any good at all when he played there). Not exactly an enticing loan for either player or club as they’ll likely get minimal game time.

It’s a bit pathetic really. If this was a criminal trial they’d all be up before the judge for refusing to provide / deleting their messages. Let’s not forget that they previously put in a legal bid to stop them being compelled to hand over messages. And now they expect us to believe that a) they didn’t know / couldn’t remember that they were supposed to keep all their messages, and b) in any case those messages are long gone because I switched phones, honest I did. Everyone knows they’re lying, just the press can’t / won’t call them out on it.

Is this definite? It’s the right thing is so, iirc we’re paying around £35k a week in wages and, now Stephens is back, Holgate is probably 4th choice centre back. Everton get some of his wages paid but he’s not playing games or putting himself in the shop window so it’s not working out from their perspective.

🤣 Genuinely surprised at that comment tbf. He’s about the most pilloried player we’ve got (and not without substance).

Have another drink 👍

We could definitely do with scoring more but, to put it in context, we’re the 5th highest scorers in the league. It’s hardly atrocious. Our goals against is still pretty poor after the disastrous September but even that is much improved of late. I still think we’re a little below pre season expectations, but not by much. Leicester and Ipswich have turned it all upside down, they’ve both been incredible.

A good result for Southampton FC Women. Less of a good day for Southampton Women’s FC, who got pumped 6-1 by Watford in the same competition.

Danny Ings has got 18 months left on a contract that pays him around £120k per week. He is obviously well out of favour at West Ham (on the bench today, and Moyes was talking this week about trying to get a striker in) but I simply cannot see any way that Saints get near to being able to get him, even on loan for a few months. Just completely unrealistic imo.

Agree to disagree I think. The first one I still think was a very good save, low down and right in the corner. The goal was an absolute howler though. Still not sure how it went in.

That’s quite a bold statement.