Stud mark of doom

This is more complicated than I thought - further clarification We are after the worst team made up of saints signings. Not a team made up of the worst saints signings. i.e. Ramesdsle should be nowhere near it.

My recollection is also Hurlock - definitely a brave move

Just to clarify - I was thinking a team of worst ever signings, not the worst ever team, which I guess would mainly be players coming through the youth system who weren’t quite good enough (so someone at the club actively thought “he could do a job for the first team” - and if we decided to shell out a load of dosh on them, even better)

We can’t have as Speedie and Dixon, as they would surely reignite their old partnership and even outscore Shearer 😉 I went for Speedie as he scored four less goals and attacked a fellow player with a fire extinguisher (allegedly) making him captain material. I take your point on Osvaldo - although the smashing it in the top corner v City just made the leaving on a free to start a music career all the sweeter.

Actually can I add Patrick Colleter to my bench - hopefully causing at altercation

The rules are completely up to you - forecast is a great shout but surely sub keeper?

What’s your worst saints signings XI? I found it a quite therapeutic selection exercise, scanning through https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/players/ and being disappointed when you see a Van Dijk or a Jimmy Case. Here’s mine. Bazunu Lee Todd / Bella-kotchap / Calletta-Car / Oliver Bernard Dia / Maitland-Niles / Orsic Downs / Carrillo / Speedie (c) Subs - Onuachu / Delgado / Osvaldo / Salisu / Kanchelskis/ Alan McCloughlin Manager - Harry Redknapp

I can only assume their metric is whose sell on value might increase the most if played - nothing to do with us winning games.

Please no Baz 🙏 Please no DD 🙏 Looking forward to a tackle from Romeu

Absolute liability - as usual. How he gets a game above McCarthy is surely nothing to do with winning games of football.

I vaguely recall him scoring a cracking goal from the edge of the area (was it v QPR) and in the post match interview it was suggested it was a tackle rather than a shot. 🙂 great to have him back

Is this the official announcement? if so, I like it.

We did go top briefly, as the Newcastle game was on a Friday, but think we were 4th after the other games. it was the week after me memorably went 4-0 up at villa park in next to no time - particularly memorable for me as I watched it with a Villa supporting friend 🙂 much happier days - although we did have a terrible run later on and finished well down the table.

Welcome to the Forum Baz. Good to have your take on things.

So , we have less than a week to come up with a new name for the South Coast derby?

I can sea us coasting to promotion now.

Can clearly see him violently throwing a water bottle as the last goal went in. IIRC, he’d ‘roused’ the team (a pretty good squad really) but telling them they were nowhere near good enough.

Oops - I meant Brett Ormerod of ‘03 semi final fame. Many thanks

What a brilliant end to the first game. Two fantastic goals to celebrate - and without the dampener of potential VAR “correction”.

Is the upshot that we’ve never done it before? I can’t remember one where we were behind on 90 mins and completely turned it round. Incredible start to the season

It looked great in the ground but anyone know the legends on the flag? Here’s my attempt: not sure - possibly Ian Ormondroyd, but I’m guessing not Keegan ✅ Channon ✅ MLT ✅ Maybe Jason Dodd, or a possibly matty fernandez as nod to current team not sure - not even in Saints kit, so possible AI error. Shilts ✅ Help!

Come on guys - you can’t have surnames which are a first name with an s on the end - that’s a different name. How about to validate the saints great, you have to think of another Saint with that first name. No need for the second one to be any good. Any advance on Mark Dennis (Wise)

Me and a few mates bumped into Augustin Delgado and Klebler Charla (spelling probably wrong) wandering around a fairly deserted part of Cardiff city centre, on the evening of the 2003 FA cup final. One of my mates took the opportunity to surprise them by talking to them in Spanish. From memory the rather short conversation went like this Hi guys, pity about the final. Augustin - how’s the knee - will it be ok for next season? My knee is fine, it’s my back that’s the problem.

Can we have them added to this year’s player of the season Poll?

Definitely yes for me. Next season will be lots better - I think we’ll be up near the top challenging to return to the ‘promised land’. Will be a more difficult decision the following year if we go up - especially if the the promoted teams all come down, with a record low number of points for the third successive year - and we’ll be facing 17 teams who have been in the prem for 5+ years, with a tiny chance of matching the 17th placed team (probably Man United).