SaintBobby

It was “more than half”, which is 6 at a bare minimum. I’d take 1, quite possibly 2 or 3. A lot less than half! You were hilariously wrong - but it was ages ago. Move on.

Yeah, one. Maybe 2. As I said at the time. Not your hilarious suggestion that more than half of Burnley would walk into our first team 😂😂😂😂 You were wrong, but provided some great entertainment to us all. It was ages ago. Move on.

You got it badly wrong. At the start of the season. You wanted more than half of their players (so between 6-11) in our starting line up. It was utterly ludicrous and laughable at the time. Even more so now. Just suck it up and move on. You're allowed to make a mistake. Gees.

Sigh....You got it badly wrong on Burnley....not 15 years ago (when you apparently wanted to sign the Skate team), but just a few months ago. Take it. Move on. Stop blubbing like a baby. God, how tedious.

I'll look up what you said at some point. But as you say, it was nearly 15 years ago...

did anyone at SMS see this? dead leg sort-of-thing or worse by the looks?

I can't recall exactly, but - to be fair - he wanted more than half of their team (not just 4) and I don't think Cornet was one of them (was he even there at the time?). I'd take Pope, Tarkowski & Cornet probably. So, maybe 2 or 3. Anyway, time has moved on.

Yeah, over a 15 year time span, I guess you expect these things to change. Over 6 months...hmmm....maybe a bit less so....

He's been a good stopgap for sure. Next season he obviously won't be here. Who to go for? (Pope if Burnely go down? Henderson?)

A while back (start of the season) someone did make a case for that. You, I think? It's was quite strange and funny then. Now, it's even funnier tbh. So, thanks for the chuckles!

Didn’t someone work out that last season, it turned out we were safe by January or something crazy? Am looking forward to Turkish popping up and explaining how he wishes 6 Burnley players were in our starting XI (today, that might have been true in fairness)

Burnley 0 Watford 0. A match so dire I think my retinas are permanently scarred.

Classic "got away with that". Still think the win shouldn't deflect from that WTF starting XI. Very, very lucky. Props to Coventry.

Surely make 3 changes right now and reset the team?

Get to half-time and reboot. I've lost track of sub rules...is it 3 and 1 extra if it goes to extra time?

That has been coming. Really poor opening 20 mins.

This is an unnerving start. Hope the major rotation in starting XI doesn't stuff us. Surely, we are free to focus on the cup given the current league situation?

These all seem like good things, but it's nothing to do with "sustainability". Being a home for bats is nice. But not being a home for bats is just as sustainable!

God bless, mate.

It's weird, but not inconceivable. I guess there are v few knock-on effects of a 17 year old signing an extension. Pure speculation - but you can imagine reasons why an extension for Stephens or McCarthy might be better to remain private (most obviously if you don't want other simialr players to get extensions, but also don't want to demotivate those players)

Is this our quietest ever January window? It feels like it. Not that I'm too bothered - I think holding what we have is basically fine.

Cool. Looking forward to next season, I think we will obtain the winning margin in 14 league games. So, that will mean we finish on 42 points, which should be enough to stay up, I think 🤔

Is there a difference between "obtaining the winning margin" and "winning"?

No one denies you get points from wins and draws. We have 15 from wins so far and 10 from draws. The issue is that original post only projected average expected points likely to accrue from wins. You would need to add on to that the points you expect to accrue from draws. Either his "chance of winning" is wrong or his "expected points" are wrong. They can't both be right - unless you think the chance of drawing a match is 0%. He forgot to include the possibility of draws in his projection. That's why his predicted number of points falls short.

That is true on the face of it. If people suddenly put £10m on Saints to win the FA Cup, our odds will shorten. Massively. If these people are just mad (and I guess they would be!) then those shortened odds don't mean we actually have a better chance of winning the cup. But...but...but...by and large people aren't mad. If you think odds shorten and that leads people to place bets on those shortened odds, you could make millions as a bookmaker every day. Somewhere in the noise, there is often a signal. Not always, but sometimes. I think it's still unlikely he will come to Saints, but I do think a big shortening of the odds means it's probably more likely than it was.