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Gunn and Baz cost us circa £25M…..let that sink in

So less than 2 weeks before the season starts our transfer thread is littered with posts about grammar. Things don’t bode well for the season I fear.

Not that many weeks Chez……3 until the start of the season. I’m with you though, it all appears quite sluggish.

Years ago when Dave Jones was manager a friend and I went to Norway for the pre-season tour. The team were based in Bergen but the team changed the date and location of their friendly and we couldn’t afford to go. Rangers were in town also and their supporters were off the scale with respect of their intensity and numbers. Anyway we got in with a group of them and went to watch them play a friendly a couple of hours away. The coach ride was something I’ve never experienced before or since following football!! Make no mistake whether it’s a friendly or not they expect to win and this start will be a nightmare for him.

His attitude and accountability is shocking. He’ll never fulfil his potential. I’m sure one day he’ll look back and think what might have been.

TBF his trial is unlikely to be before next August so we could get a season out of him!

Assuming Rusk has left I wish him well. He was handed a poison chalice but he didn’t cover himself in glory and at times was a bit gutless when we literally had nothing to lose

Neil Shipperley?

At Euro 96 I talked football at a Wembley corporate function before the Dutch game with Sir Stanley Matthews. I didn’t know who he was but he was incredibly engaging and surprise surprise knowledgeable!! It was only when a colleague told me who he was that I realised!

The South coast would be a better place football wise if we were both in the Prem. I’d rather be facing them twice a season than the likes of Norwich or Blackburn etc. I don’t get those that want their direct derby rivals relegated. These games mean something, we look forward to them and we dine out for weeks with the winning bragging rights. On the 26th it’ll be the first games we all look for.

That’s my mix mostly! Good friend of mine is the stadium announcer at Aldershot and I watch a good few of their northern games as he follows them away.

As a 50+ years Saints supporter those photos make me immensely proud. Then I think back to the season that we have just been served up ………

Get this lad in. Our last Villa signing was excellent 🙄

TBF it looked a shambles at the start of the season

I’ve seen little from him over several months to suggest he’ll be a loss either today or in the future. If he’s off I wish him well but given what happened when he left for Chelsea, the poor season he’s had and his tender years I can’t help but wonder if he’ll fall by the wayside and in years to come we’ll all be saying what might have been.