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I can't see any bigger clubs touching him with a ten foot pole after six more games with some form. He's been injured for essentially three years.

The main thing is rpeventing the other players from being I fluenced by those tainted from last year. Our mentality always seems to be to shit down and try to preserve the slender lead we have. We never seem to relentlessly attack.

I don't see how anyone could watch that game and give Quarshie the same rating as Edwards and Manning.

I can't remember the last time we acted like that. Maybe during the promotion season we had a couple of high scoring wins but other than that it's been years.

In what world were any of sfc's play calm after he came on?

TBF the worst one was Quarshie blatantly fouling their player and he gives nothing.

Can't say I disagree. I'd certainly like them to give that a go. I don't think Charles and Downes works.

He was the worst player on the pitch for me. Was partly responsible for the first goal, would have been responsible for the second if they hadn't fouled the keeper and no idea why the ref didn't give them a free kick from his foul on the edge of the area.

Good post. Charles is good but I don't think he's as good as some people think he is. Total saints podcast were raving about him on Sunday.

Quarshie needs dropping before he does something horrendous. Not sure who else you're putting in his place though unless THB has decided to be good again. Made up for Stewart who will probably feel for the first time that he's actually contributing to our team and the second goal was superb. No idea why we decided to just do nothing near the end and that last twenty minutes were awful. Ref was also shite and they can feel a bit hard done by with some of his bizarre decisions. All in all can't complain as its a rare win that we didn't look like getting at half time.

I agree. Just making the point.

We are 4 points off second.

God we needed that. We were absolutely shite but blimey I'll take it. Quarshie is pretty gash and we got away with it. Ref awful and you have to say Sheffield United can feel a bit aggrieved.

Genuinely not sure where he would fit or that we'd have the room for him. At the moment it's a striker and gk otherwise we are well stocked in most other areas and it should be about getting rid of some players still.

Yep bunch of twats. Our Europa league games weren't even sold out. I went to them all home and away apart from Israel. We can play Fulham or Liverpool any day of the week. Bizarre that fans would rather go to those snore fests. Playing in Europe for a team like saints is a rare thing and an absolute treat and privilege.

Yes obviously in the short term we all want that but ultimately.I'd like to see us in Europe and to win a cup and that starts with sensible decisions, a bit of luck and sensible planning so we don't disagree.

I agree. It seems so unfair that the likes of Palace have to be absolutely perfect for a number of seasons to keep some semblance of success whilst the likes of United can be a basket case for years, finish near the bottom with no Europe and can still outbid everyone and sign the best players. I know this is well worn ground but really being one of those teams too good to go down with an outside chance of a cup win or a European run is the best we can hope for.

My hope for saints is to see us win a major cup competition in my lifetime and see us competing in Europe again. For both of those things to be realistic we have to be in the prem. Also one of my favourite moments watching football was seeing Lambert come on and score that goal against Scotland after I'd been bigging him up to my United supporting mate moments earlier so I'd take moments like that too.

Look at Villa. Very well run, brilliant manager yet has to sell all of their best players to meet ridiculous obligations. All of those teams you mentioned will eventually have a couple of big money signings in a row that don't work out and a manager that is underwhelming and may then be under pressure. Once it starts it's very difficult to not end up fighting near the bottom every season and then with relegation you're in the same position we are. No doubt they are much better run than us and some of them may be up there a while but in general the financial disparity tells in the end. All fans of those teams can hope for is that you can come away from that period with a trophy or a cup (Palace have got that already and the likes of Leicester if they went pop tomorrow can dine out on that league win for the rest of their lives.)

Personally I'd like to try to survive a season in the prem so we can improve the team, have another shot at Europe, get some decent players in etc. I accept that will probably involve not having sports Republic in charge but I expect they would be more likely to sell at some point if we are doing well so that's another reason to wish for it. The likes of Bournemouth aren't doing badly and I don't want to see us slowly getting worse and worse with no resources to replace any of the quality that leave. I remember going to Prague to watch us in Europe with the reasoning being that we probably won't be in Europe again any time soon and so it has proved. The whole of football is pretty broken but I'd still like to see us win a proper cup in my lifetime and we are only doing that in the prem.

I always find it funny when people say they don't want promotion this year. Don't people realise that it's going to be exponentially harder next season if we don't go up this year? Charles will likely leave and a few others who we would rather keep. It looks like one or more of the promoted teams will stay up this season which means we may be competing with the likes of Wolves or West Ham with many of their top flight quality players and resources that dwarf ours. Fail to go up this season or next season and we are essentially Swansea or Stoke and we could be down here for years with the quality of the team getting steadily worse. Come back and revisit these posts in five years time when all the quality in the team is gone and we're stuck with a team full of Jack Stephens. Do people not remember when we got relegated to league one playing the kids with no money and the potential for the team to no longer exist? It fucking sucked!

I have no issues with a voluntary ID scheme. Making it mandatory is the issue along with the potential for abuse of power.

Isn't that scheme optional?

Does it really matter if its historically the worst ever or not? The point is he's incredibly unpopular either the worst ever or close to it. You do appear to get quite defensive at the idea that Labour are doing a shit job of things - I didn't think they'd be great but they have done quite a bit worse than I expected. I know you think they haven't done a bad job so far but clearly you're in the minority there.

Apparently saintsplayer working well again. Has anyone figured out how to renew ?