SaintBobby

groan.

Hmmmm....taken off our best performing player....

When was the last time we got to 415pm without a single goal in the 3pm top flight games?

Very odd he isn't on the bench IMHO. He's one of the most versatile squad players we have. Most be a long time since Cork has been fit and not included in the squad.

Hmmm....worrying on full backs. Even more worrying re: Cork.

Barnard (?) winner v MK Dons when we came from 2-0 to win 3-2 in League One?

Thanks for the memories, big man, and good luck.

Here's my formation. I'd drop J-Rod. http://footballformation.co.uk/team/created.php?f=141354

I can't understand what the hell this is about. Is the problem that our safety deposit box is too small to store all the cash coming in from Sky? Bizarre stuff. Is the guy a skate? Or is he just thick? Or both?

count me in!

Was shocked, but unsurprised, to discover that Nathaniel Clyne will be 37 next month.The smoking gun, to prove what we all suspected, is in today's programme on page 44. His date of birth is 29th Sept 1976.The guy is clearly an Ali Dia type con artist. Fire him now. Pretending to be a promising youngster when you're in your late 30s is fraud.#appalled

Very pleased with pretty much everything today, expect the result (although I would obviously have taken a point by the time we were still 1-0 down with 3 minutes to go). Voted for Wanyama as MotM, I thought he was immense, that's the first time I'd seen him play and he was everything I hoped he'd be. Sunderland are pretty dire, a bottom six team if they're lucky. They may improve as/when they "gell", but if I was a Sunderland fan I'd take 17th now. Really good start to the season. I think J-Rod is okay, but not in our best eleven. He's a bench player. Ward-Prowe was a revelation. Surely his best performance ever? Ramirez looked good and Oswaldo is very exciting. If you offered me 12th right now, I don't think I'd take it.

At 9/2 Sunderland are a good bet to beat us tbh.

Am I right that signing "does your boyfriend know you're here" now gets you a 3 year ban from all English football stadia? Not saying that's right or wrong, just seeking to undertand the rule.

As others have said, far better to spend the money promoting the #saintsfc hashtag. That way, utterly f***witted people in Asia will suddenly get a twitter account and start cheering us on. Especially as we play in red (which all people in Asia associate with lucky dragons, snakes and serpents, thereby guranteeing our top 4 status)

This is going to sell out , right? But only just. That would indicate that 32k is about right just now (although I'm sure we will be at higher capacity in a year or three)

Have to buy this. Worth £10,000 surely once we've branded properly in the Asian market?

Basically agree. If Cortese wants to arrange the seats to say "I love Switzerland a little bit, guv" then he can do that too. The issue is that this shows how naff and useless the comms team are. Basically harmless, but also deeply low grade.

This is just "up your own arse" amateur PR. I couldn't give a damn that they have decided to put a hashtag on some seats - neither here nor there for me. The fact that Jordan Sibley thinks this is a significant and interesting PR move is as laughable as it is pathetic. He's even presenting it as some major breakthrough in comms. Get a new comms director. And fast. No biggie, but Sibley is basically a low grade, keen amateur. We need a comms person with genuine experience on c £100K per annum, not a plucky, spikey haired, wannabe late 20s keen kid. That might have been okay in League One. Not now.

Enormously instructive. Thanks!

Aye. I fear so. If we did have another £10m to spend though, Astori would be amazing. Think he is also very competent at left back? So any fears about cover for that position might be assuaged too.

Shame this transfer rumour seems to have died. Astori would be the final piece in the puzzle IMHO.

I'm nerdy enough to keep a tally as the seaon goes on :-)

7th gets a Europa league slot if (a) both FA Cup finalists are top 6 teams AND (b) the League Cup winners are a top 6 team. 6th gets Europa league slot if just one of (a) and (b) is true. Only 5th is guaranteed though. I'd say most years, you'd be very unlucky to come 6th and not make the Europa League. And it's probably about 50-50 to make it from 7th place?

I'd say we're maybe 8th best after the top six and Everton - although I doubt Everton will be as strong as last season. To be honest, a league which excluded the top six would be bloody exciting. Perhaps the "bottom 14" should run a subset mini-league, only counting 26 games and disregarding the 12 matches against the top six.