Midfield_General

Him, BBD and Armstrong will get 20 each at Champ level you know, and at the other end Bazunu is more than adequate 🤣

Let's give them their very own very special thread title update then. A morale-boosting victory for the ten-man Saints under-11s today over everyone's favourite DVD enthusiasts. Lucky it didn't go to penalties, it would have been a lot of excitement for our boys and most of them have got school on Monday. The third win out of three this season was brought to you by the numbers 3-0, 4-3, 2-1 and the letters F and U. Do we get to keep playing them every week?

LOLeicester City

Long looks poor. Shite for the goal and nearly gave them the game there, Quarshie bails him out. Better pray Peretz doesn’t get injured. Impeccable squad planning from Spors to basically have two third keepers and no proper no. 2.

Don’t be so Sillah

Archer somehow actually managing to plumb Downs levels of shit. Misses his second open goal in two games, terrific stuff

😂😂😂

pingpong29

Good pen. Didn’t smash it but put it right in the corner along the ground. Refreshing after watching Armstrong’s easily saveable waist-height jobs.

4/10

Good from Long Outstanding from Manning Then love Romeu’s casual little flicked pass to himself over the attacker’s head in his own penalty area to clear it

Well this is the thriller we all anticipated

No Brooks? Anyone know why?

Valentine's Day so I booked a table for me and the wife. She was shit, didn't pot a single ball.

Maybe they could take a few screen grabs and put them on their next DVD?

Of course - a 3 point buzzer beater

What’s that then

Winks is rumoured to be on £90k per week, and obviously no-one else would be foolish enough to pay that so he’s not going anywhere. It’s deals like that which will absolutely screw them if they do go down - double screw in fact, as they can’t sell to get the transfer fee for a player who might otherwise raise a few quid, and are also being bled dry by having to pay those massive wages for the duration of the contract, potentially with League One levels of income next season and owners who as you say appear to be pulling back. I’m really intrigued to see who agrees to go there as manager because it is a proper poisoned chalice at the moment.

That is mental. How can a 10 year old boy playing Football Manager know that it's just a basic thing to put relegation clauses in, yet they have a board full of professional businesspeople who are highly paid to focus on nothing but running their operation worth hundreds of millions, and not one of them thought to do it? That sort of thing just boggles my mind

The issue isn't this guy per se. It's that Johannes 'squad planning is an art' Spors has managed to get us into a situation where we basically now have one first team goalkeeper and two third keepers. We don't have a reserve of a reasonable proven Championship standard who can step in if the first choice gets injured, and we don't have any realistic options to create competition for the no. 1 shirt or rotate if the first choice has a dramatic loss of form. So it's now basically Peretz or one of two complete no-marks, and we are one injury away from having George Long, last seen as third choice at Norwich, in goal for the rest of the season, and potentially the play-offs with £140m and a Premier League place at stake. This at a level where an established international in Bazunu has repeatedly been found out as not being good enough. You might think that's a reasonable gamble. I think it's fucking mental, personally.

Rowett looked like a shoo-in, and seemed to be the one a lot of the fans wanted, but has made comments in the last few days that sounded like him distancing himself from it and he's now looking less likely. He's still well in the mix with the bookies, but Hasenhuttl is currently the favourite, and Sean Dyche came in with a bullet at third favourite after getting the, er, bullet from Forest last night, although most of their fans seem to think there's not a cat in hell's chance of him dropping down to that level, at a sinking ship with no money. Rusty still just about hanging in there at 12/1. I still think it could be him after a few more turn them down. When even Norwich didn't approach him, he must have realised his options are increasingly limited and they might be the best he can do, even in their current mess. Edit: Leicester, not Blackburn.

I think he's gone back into hiding after making himself look stupid once again by confidently declaring that Alex Crook was wrong about Armstrong being on his way to Wolves.

Manning is of course Irish not British, and Shea Charles is Northern Irish, so while politically speaking Northern Ireland is part of the UK, ‘Great Britain’ refers to the geographical landmass of the British Isles, which only includes the largest island containing England, Scotland and Wales and therefore excludes Northern Ireland. So it’s actually British, Irish and Northern Irish goals for British, Irish and Northern Irish people. Thread title needs to be changed to reflect please @benjii

Imagine being Dragan and standing by while these jokers play Russian roulette with your hundreds of millions with mental, unnecessary gambles like this He genuinely doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing does he, he’s just a rich useful idiot for other people to run rings around

So just let me understand this. If Peretz gets injured, it’s former Norwich third choice George Long in goal as first choice, with a signing from Warrington on the bench. When we’re one point off the play-offs, with the opportunity to get back into the Premier League and £140m at stake. Is that right?