Whitey Grandad

Monday 8pm?

Yes... but at the moment getting a COVID vaccination is not an option for a lot of people. They couldn’t buy one even if they wanted to.

‘Deserves’ is not the word that I would use but if we can’t trust/risk him here then when can we?

He’s prone to lapses in concentration as much as anything. But who else have we got?

That’s great news. Please pass on our best wishes from all of us.

If nothing else we can treat it as a part of his training and experience.

See you in court

There are exceptions to these general rules of course, all sorts of anti-discrimination laws can apply. The general view seems to be that discriminating on account of vaccination status might very well need to be determined in the courts. By the time that happens the whole crisis might be over.

I have some sympathy for the argument that it is not fair on those who cannot get or are prohibited from getting a vaccine to exclude them. The same applies to families of course.

A very fair and balanced summary. I hoped I had forgotten that season under Puel but wasn’t that the one where we had a much better away record than home? I seem to remember a similar debate with diagonally opposite views at the time. Those who only went to away games would probably think he was fantastic but those of us who had to suffer at home took a different view. ”Played well but were unlucky to lose” applies as much to Ralph as anybody else. We’ve been unlucky lately. Stick with him.

Ouch

Quite right. They don’t care about civil liberties whilst they are keeping us under house arrest.

There’s no need for the abuse. It was only the League Cup final. Getting to that cup final was the only thing that Puel ever achieved in my view. I never went to any of his games watching where we were in the League table, to be brutally honest. Did you personally go to his homes games?

No, not boring but I still don’t see what a beer garden has to do with your experience. And we lost comfortably. “Shouldn’t have lost” is extreme wishful thinking, yet somehow we managed to lose. Sure, we played well a couple of times under Puel but not very often, and that is my point. Did you go to all the home games that he managed?

That sums up most of our time supporting Saints.

Like you and others I have been to many great away games and come away thinking we were unlucky to have lost. This wasn’t one of them. Getting there was none of Puel’s doing either.

What the fuck does standing in a beer garden have to do with the way that we played the game? Did you actually go inside the stadium? I can remember lounging on a beach in Barbados thinking what a wonderful time I was having. I have had countless wonderful trips to Europe but I didn’t have to sit through a boring game to have a good time at those.

It’s what Tottenham did to us at the start of the season.

Milan? I was there too. I’m pretty certain that we lost. Abjectly. Because I had to sit through all those turgid games. I have never been so bored in my life and yes, I was there for the Branfoot games too. And to be honest I was never as bored during those.

If I hear “8th and a cup final” one more time I shall scream and some people will be in danger of losing their future rectal functions. We lost in that cup final. What else did we win? Most boring team of the year. Ever? The real question is whether anybody thinks that Puel would do better this season than any other manager.

His football was a disaster to watch.

Because points reflect results more than position does.

The time to make a judgment is at the end of the season.

Give me lockdown over a year of Puel any day.

Against Wolves McCarthy even kicked the ball into the Kingsland. Ralph just shook his head in disbelief.