Whitey Grandad

Finding a freshly opened conker. That beautiful shiny chestnut colour doesn’t last for long.

Damn! You’ve reminded me about another place that I’ve always wanted to go to. I’ve got a pile of Virgin Atlantic Flying Miles and a couple of companion vouchers to use but unfortunately they don’t fly there and anyway I lost my lovely companion about this time last year. I must start investigating again.

Keep it quiet or they’ll all be at it.

Very low. If you asked him where the goal was he’d say “What’s a goal?”

You don’t actually have to tell anybody although they do say that confession is good for the soul. #saintsfansanonymous

That’s a single event. The key word here is ‘must’. Giving the ball away does not inevitably lead to a goal even though it makes it more likely.

Spot on. How is it that so many of us can see all this yet he’s still in a job? Maybe, but he’s not wrong.

Indeed. By avoiding our own penalty area our whole game was moved 25 yards further up the pitch and without the need to keep creating triangles our back line was more straight and solid.

A classic example of Outcome Bias. Similar to “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc“. The fallacy that because B followed A then B must have been caused by A.

Four games ago we were playing at a lower level. As I have to keep reminding you. If he plays five at the back I shall scream. If he shoehorns in Stephens I shall scream even louder. He’s a waste of space. 433 is a much better option. We already play an open game. It’s just that we’re wide open at the back. Are you really making comparisons with the Cardiff game? They’d sold out of programmes so I didn’t have a clue who the players were on either side. I spent most of the game looking at the lineups on my phone.

I shall be in Vancouver for the weekend of 5th and 6th October and I see that they have a game around then. I might try and pop along.

As the saying goes, Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality

But if you score a goal you lose possession. This must never be allowed.

I though their were five stages of grief?

Good for him. I hope he enjoys his time there.

Has he actually gone?

Whatever he’s done in the past, if he can come back and perform some useful service for the club then he will have redeemed himself to some extent.

You really are something special. The fact that you go on constantly about my post shows how much of a sense of guilt you have about what you’ve done. The more times you repeat it the more it proves my point. Germany is doing better than the UK and has been for decades. The same goes for France. There are plenty of old saying about debating with idiots. Here’s one for tonight, “Argue with idiots, and they drag you to their level & win with experience”

More like Plan Eh ??????

It was indeed a record breaking run but only a record for Southampton. 25 games is not bad but nothing special in the footballing world. AC. Milan went 58 games without a loss between 1991 to 1993. But they weren’t playing in the second tier of English football. AFC Wimbledon went 78 games unbeaten in 2003-2004. That’s more than three times as long as ours and is the record for English senior football.

There you go again. Last season was in a lower league yet you go on and on about it as though what we achieved was something special. You’re the Uncle Albert of Saintsweb..

Isn’t it just called ‘weather’ ?

There is a way to break the curse. Go outside and run around the stadium (or spin on the centre spot) three times, spit, then swear or quote another player’s name.

My apologies, I didn’t mean to be disrespectful. That winning goal was a result of a defender switching off for a moment and Adam Armstrong skilfully finding himself a bit of space out wide. It was a well-worked goal from a nice passing movement but to describe it as a justification for possession-based football is overstating you case more than somewhat.

Well derrrr. We didn’t lose possession until the ball went into their net. But there were other times where we did lose possession and didn’t score. Luckily Leeds didn’t either. But let’s not delude ourselves. That final wasn’t won by playing tricky-tacky football around our own penalty area all day.