Whitey Grandad

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.

We all know that he’ll never get his system to work so he can either fail miserably or fail bravely.

Games will be played over both weeks. Supposedly to reduce fixture congestion but more probably to suit the TV coverage so that they can have more games. That’s also probably the reason that the kickoff time hasn’t been fixed yet.

It isn’t compulsory you know. It’s just a short-term fashion.

We only scored the one goal. Far too close for comfort. Don’t forget that Leeds (Dan James?) hit the crossbar and how differently it could all have ended. We didn’t need possession football to score that goal and without it we might have scored more. Who knows, we might even have got automatic promotion without it.

He’s shy of work? When did they find this out?

There. Fixed it for you 😁

For things to change, we have to change.

There’s an old saying. Nobody ever scored from the Royal Box.

Of course it’s a big deal. It’s an invasion of personal space. I would have refused. Even emptying your pockets is bad enough. We don’t know who these people are and they could quite easily be marking up targets for their pickpocket muggermates just around the corner. What next? Drop your knickers and bend over and let me examine you up the arse?

Not nonsense. As I have said elsewhere, the errors result from the increased pressure in this league. There is less time and space and it causes mental overload. That’s why teams use the press.

That’s uncalled for.

He’s a bulldozer of a player and we’re using him as a lawn trimmer.

He kept talking about ‘mistakes’, not his mistake in choosing the wrong system but the players’ mistakes. These are not unforced errors even if they may appear so at the time. They are the result of pressure from the opposition over a passage of time. It’s so easy for them. Turn up the screw and then strike when there is the slightest opportunity. His system invites this pressure and what he calls mistakes will inevitably follow. Describing them as mistakes is to pass the blame onto his players whereas it’s his system that has caused them.

For us? I admire your optimism.

We’re already at the stage of needing a point per game to survive.