SaintBobby

I'm up for joining a team

Try to get an early goal or two and then slow down and kill of the game. Just wan three points here, don't care if it's dull and scrappy.

Isn't the dilemma that, in some ways, ticket prices are actually too low? Sounds a bizarre thing to say, I know. But if clubs wish to reward loyalty or longevity of support (and three cheers for that), you're bound to get a situation where a select group can access tickets for, say, £30 a pop, but there's a load of less loyal fans willing to pay £100+ to get into a certain match. At some point, loyal fans are going to be tempted to trouser the £70+ difference rather than attend themselves. This means long-serving fans get rewarded with cash, rather than access, which isn't the intention at all. It's getting mental at Real Madrid. You can recoup most of the cost of the entire season ticket just for selling it on for the home game against Barcelona. God knows what the solution is unless you go down the grim route of ID cards/fingerprint access at the gate etc.

Have we ever won 3 home games within 7 days before?

Terrible signing. Cortese out! In seriousness, delighted we have him nailed down - good player and we haven't seen the best of him yet by any means.

This isn't going to end well.

Lively??? Is that the new PC word for "violent". FFS...what utter ****s.

Commentators/pundits demanding "consistency" in one breath and then demanding referees show "common sense" or "allow the game to keep flowing" in the next breath. You can have consistency OR discretion. Pick one.

Must win, game. Obviously a must win. Hard to imagine otherwise. Everything hinges on the result of the next 90 minutes. Virtually everything.

have you considered a career on MOTD?

Around about £3m a year sounds about right for Saints manager. Would be nuts to pay 2x or 3x that. Would be weird if we found a successful manager for a half or a third of it. So, somewhere between £1m and £5mpa. With a big assumption that in anything like sane or normal times that it's somewhere in the middle of that range.

Very good performance. Still lacking teeth up front. Result not good, of course, but I think we look pretty tidy. Man Utd are exceptional. They may well win the league. Great to all those who travelled...heard you loud and clear on Sky.

but that wasn't the then manager's first match, was it?

Why was he only £12.8m? Can't believe he hasn't been on the radar of a ton of top clubs.

Hojberg excellent. Why the hell JWP beat him to a starting place is beyond me. Surprised that so many on here think Romeu had a poor game, I thought he was very good indeed. Yes, a couple of noticeable errors, but otherwise v impressive IMHO. Still can't get my head around Austin only coming on with 9 minutes to go. He is a centre forward. And we needed one badly. Overall 6.5/10. Two pointed dropped, but we look okay.

Pretty happy so far. Very easy 1-0 win today. Defensively, we look very solid indeed. Agree that our attacking options look thinner. Expect we will seek to win a lot of games 1-0 this season. Might not be too pleasing on the eye but might be effective. A sort of modern, French, cattanacio.

I agree...the guy in the photo on the left is white. And I think it is Fonte. The guy in the photo on the right is clearly black. I can't believe people mix these things up. Total racists.

No.

OMG. That list is 100% accurate. How on Earth did you get it? Thanks for sharing.

I get that people would like a manager for 5 years, even for 3. Some stability would be very welcome. But is this even remotely realistic? What's the average tenure of a football manager these days? A season? Less? Who was the last Saints manager to serve 3+ years? Chris Nicholl?

You'll get your wish, most likely because Wanyama will be leaving too.

Anyone else think we might take on a manger virtually none of us has heard of? As we did with Pochettino?

Big call for Saints. If we want to start paying our manager around £6,000,000 a year rather than about £3,000,000 a year, he stays. If you want to go for the former, then please don't complain about how expensive season tickets are (and condemn the freeze this year) or your Sky Sports package costs you. With a 30% hike on tickets, we could meet Ronald's salary request.

I'm minded to sue. Outrageous.

You're right. People in Malaysia and China only support teams with over 45,000 seats in their stadium. Those seats also need to be red. With dragon logos on them. They also only support teams with average wages of £100K a week. I fear we are doomed.