hypochondriac

I mean he really hasn't has he. There's a general consensus that he was vadyku improved last year and was probably our best centre back. That doesn't mean he was anything amazing though, it just highlights how poor we are in that position.

The reason the club aren't doing it is because it was some corporate thing from the kit suppliers rather than something invented by saints hence Everton having the same top. Anyway whilst you're doing it, could you look into a matching jester hat to go with the kit?

Again that's just stating the obvious.

Seems a little bit random then. Like they've just chosen an icon to make money. Kind of like saints releasing the Muhammed Ali or Freddy Mercury third kit.

No one is expecting that. A significant improvement is perfectly achievable though with the right signing.

Is there a connection to Bob marley and ajax?

But even if that is eventually the case, it's not like he's the certain CB starter that we need straight away.

We should have got Cahill in as well. Then we could have had this guy as dm backup and seen if he was up to it with less pressure.

I don't think that's a particularly unreasonable way to think. I do think this could result in relegation if this is our last signing.

"the majority have written him off" no they haven't.

Or what a great half we had against Everton before getting spanked 3-1...

And that's great if he was signed as the backup option to learn his craft a bit like the role that Salisu had last season but we simply can't afford it. Sometimes I think saints are a bit too clever for their own good.

I don't mind the young lb if we get him because he's a backup. My issue is we've replaced Bertrand with someone who may be of similar quality, we've probably got a CB that is not the clear immediate improvement over vestergaard, we are weak in cm, we've never replaced tadic and Armstrong will have to be seriously impressive to do better than ings so overall we're worse than last year when we were absolutely terrible since January.

Was that portvliet? I remember people wanking themselves silly at the start of that season about how we were going to take the league by storm with this fresh new approach of playing the youngsters. Didn't take long for reality to dawn.

I'm almost certain that the reason we haven't got a keeper in is because Forster is on a ridiculous amount of money and we can't afford another load of wages spaffed up the wall in that position. Not getting a keeper in makes no sense otherwise.

Indeed. I bet that manual that Ralph supposedly wrote just says all about the press tactic in detail without alternatives.

What makes me sad is that we've lost the ability to keep replacing players with comparable or better quality. We had a great knack for that and now it seems like we are settling for players that are sometimes decent but are an overall downgrade on the last couple of seasons. I'd say the one big player we got right was kwp but in other key areas our team has got significantly weaker without tadic, vvd, ings, never replacing wanyama properly etc. I'm totally fine with buying decent prospects but you need that core of experience and quality to allow those young exciting players time to bed in. I'm worried this year by the way things have gone.

I think it's more a case that the opposing team changes tactics during the game and we just do the exact same thing without changing anything regardless of the circumstances. Sometimes we okay well for slightly more than half a game and I think we may have cracked it but we never manage to sustain those performances.

He hasn't really stood out for me. He's only played a handful of games in a year which is a problem regardless of performance.

Not sure why our CB recruitment has fallen off a cliff. We were superb with the likes of fonte, alderweireld and vvd. What happened?

Indeed. At least have the pretence that you're aspiring for something better otherwise it's like you've given up.

The thing is there's still a chance he could be really good. It's just he would have to confound his price tag and the Torino fans and we can't afford him to take too much time to find his feet like Salisu last year (who still doesn't look great if we're honest.). Like you say it's a huge risk and the scouts must have seen something in him that others haven't seen that makes them think he can hit the ground running and be a success. I hope so.

Kindly explain what's fickle about my post:

You've not really read any of this thread then have you.

Different regime now though innit. I'm just hoping Crocker knows what he's doing because the other signings look pretty good this summer.