Whitey Grandad

Start with a new wife?

One game?

One that you have to pay a lot of money to watch.

Nothing much really but this is probably the first season where the team is most of Ralph’s choosing and he’s been here long enough that we might expect his ideas to be bearing fruit.

Saturday was an example. We seem to want to always take another touch, to walk the ball into the net, when a first-time shot might have better results. The only one who seemed to hit the ball first time was Adam Armstrong. There was some criticism of him that he needed a lot of shots for each goal that he scored. We never get round to taking that shot. The only chances that I remember in the second half on Saturday were the two wild shots from JWP and S Armstrong that were as near to the corner flag as they were to their goal.

I wonder how much effect Ramadan has had on this. It’s asking a lot for a highly trained athlete to be at his best if he goes without food or water for nine hours or more. As far as I know we have Diallo, Djenepo, Salisu, Elyonoussi and Valery who observe Ramadan. I wonder how other clubs cope with this?

Entertainment.

You too sir! Jolly decent having this discussion with you. Let’s hope for something better next season, in every way. 🌝

On my metric is was the worst ever, and that’s all that matters to me especially as I am the one forking out the money to watch us play. You might have different views.

I found the football more entertaining, certainly. Personally I don’t care about league position. Usually the better we play the higher we finish but I accept that for some people playing ’better’ can mean something different to me.

Two season tickets since Branfoot for what it’s worth. Value for money is relative. I was not thinking of Saints as compared to other teams but rather Saints from one season to the next.

Don’t be so petty and childish. You’re better than that.

In terms of entertainment, yes, by a long way.

The fluke is finishing in 8th position on 46 points with a goal difference of -7. Once again, you only ever look at the league table. Not how we got there. I look at things differently to you. I look back over a season of home games and think “Did I get value for money”. I don’t sit at games watching our league position and to be frank, I don’t care about our league position.

Going back to this point, don’t you think that Puel’s decision to exclude Fonte from every European game would have had a strong influence on Fonte wanting to leave? And if Fonte had played don’t you think that we might probably have done better?

Once again, you are banging on again about finishing 8th, which was a fluke. Equal on points with Bournemouth for what it’s worth.

No

I was querying your assertion that Koeman did worse in Europe than Puel.

Not at all. Bringing in money is the fundamental purpose of a professional football club. Bums on seats.

I’m struggling to see where the next point is coming from but if there is to be one it has to be at Brentford surely.

That’s a weird supposition.

I was there too. We scored nil in Midtjylland and nil in Milan. Koeman got us into Europe. Puel got us out of Europe.

Maybe Fonte and Van Dijk didn’t want to play for him

Away games are of no use to the club financially.

That was one game. Yes it was awful but Puel’s offerings were no better. Yes, I was there at Midtjylland, where we scored nil, and I was also at Milan, where we scored nil.