bangkoksaint

We won the JPT?

I think if we lose TD and MF, don’t replace them, then follow that up with a loss to Wrexham it’ll literally melt this forum!!!

£40M plus £5M in addition on’s will be nearer the mark and maybe a sell on clause. At that SR have got Saints a decent deal

Check out Stoke, Blackburn, Norwich et al. Not being a drama queen, just a realist as I think that’s what’s incoming for us over the foreseeable future. Nothing SR has done illustrates to me that they have the know how to recruit what we need or hang onto the few players that are worthy of wearing our shirt. TBF I’m not that fussed anymore, the PL is shot and the way it’s just about money now has pretty much ruined it for the majority of match going supporters. Just enjoy whatever we get served up.

Fans booing them!! They simply can’t lose points like that. Gone by Xmas?

If Still knew certain players were going we should have planned and trained without them and simply worked with what we had because here we are with a week to go looking very poor

From what I’ve been told the head groundsman was asked to produce a surface that reflected the quality of the team playing on it.

What’s the Brighton line up

MF unwell? Please just be honest and say he’s leaving. It’s so disingenuous to try and mug supporters off any more than they already are. We’re not stupid and know exactly what’s going on.

Just reading what the Wrexham business has been and what they’re expecting to do. Subjective as to whether it’ll be better than us and like all teams have struggled getting players in before the season starts. However if I was a Wrexham supporter I’d be cautiously more optimistic than I am with Saints. Can see us being the next Stoke/Blackburn/Norwich.

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