Winnersaint

Indeed I was trying to take a similar standpoint. Rushed post tbh.

OP has passed this on in good faith. Not the sort to post on here to just get a reaction. Merely passing on what he has picked up. In some respects I hope it's not true, but accept that it may well be the case. My personal opinion (only an opinion) is that chickens are possibly coming home to roost re Eric Black. Always seemed a strange one considering his track record. A poor fit, considering our way of doing things. Genuinely believe there is a very good manager in Puel. Problem is he is taking more time to adjust than either Pochettino or Koeman and that has given everyone the jitters. That said if CP is serious about making a go of this he has to embrace working in the EPL and not look so readily for excuses like fixture pile ups. They happen! Get a settled side and get shot of Black and things should improve.

The level of triumphalism by those who voted for Brexit is positively infantile. Quite a few of us would like to remain, 48% of the electorate to be exact. Funny how the brexit view is the only one with facts and insight and all we do is moan. Funny old world we live in!

Puel's appointment rang no alarm bells, Black's did. Would like him out of my club, after all he hardly tore up trees in a similar role at Villa, where they played the same soporific disinterested football, and as a manager, well!

Nasty. Heal well, hope it's not too painful. For myself discretion is the better part of valour this time of year. Although not ideal and not everyone's cup of tea a turbo is a worthwhile investment, certainly better than risk hitting the deck

Well teacher, from fellow teacher I understand what you say, but these people post to be provocative to elicit a reaction and then bleat endlessly about the reaction they get. They are like the worst children that I've come across in 36 + years in the profession. I accept what you say about this being a forum but I too am entitled to my opinion. If you bother to trawl through my posts you'll see I am entirely consistent in my responses to these trolls who actually ruin the quality of debate and discussion on this site. Interesting response from you I might say.

Perhaps if you politely refrained from posting like a mouth breathing knobhead, then people would respond more politely. You are on a similar level to Glasgow the Austrian chocoholic and the sci-fi dustbin so you get what you deserve.

Take a bow! Post of 2016.

Great stuff WSS. My target was 6000K which I passed on Tuesday.

Even worse here today. Black ice right outside house. The garage beckons!

And if we are so be it. I'll not lose sleep over it, just be a fan of a Championship team, not ideal but still Saints. Far more important things to worry about in this world.

Take 1982 as an example. David Armstrong did play wider on the left in a four man midfield with Nick Holmes and Alan Ball and a combination of Steve Williams and Graham Baker towards the right. Bally was still top notch but certainly not the same dynamic player as in his Everton and Arsenal days. He had legs around him in the middle of the park and all he just had to use his fantastic football brain to get himself in position to receive a pass and move it on. This he did brilliantly, he made the midfield tick, rarely needing to hold on to the ball for any real time.

Strange year. Never a fan but only 53.

Never go back! Won't happen. As VFFT says reinforces his relative failure at Man U

Take a Premier League player who's also an established international. Amongst us mere mortals he is a hero, almost otherworldly in his gifts and abilities on the pitch, but to his peers he is no more otherworldly or gifted than they are. Pretty much to a man they are driving around in fabulously expensive cars and living in large and expensive houses in the most desirable areas whether they play in London, the South Coast or in the North West. Perhaps the only thing that marks a player's status amongst those peers is the size of the wage he gets. In the bubble that they exist in it is probably the only tangible thing that marks their career progression as most other things are taken care of and secured for life.

I always thought it was to do with Rupert Lowe securing the cost of SMS against future TV revenues. Relegation was indeed the problem, but not necessarily because we were throwing unreasonable amounts of money at it to get back in the top flight. In fact in the season immediately following our transfers out (mainly from Crouch and Theo) amounted to just short of £15M while we spent just over £2M on Raziak and Fuller. The following two seasons we operated around a £6M transfer surplus by which time everyone worth selling had been sold and the costs of servicing the stadium debt without Prem TV revenues caught up with us. Cue administration and Markus Liebherr.

If any of those goals were scored by a top 6 side the national press, Sky Sports and Talk****e would be falling over themselves in praise of Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Liverhampton, Spuds and Manure. Wonder if we'll get the same Kudos? Agree with the sentiment about the second goal, Boufal's backheel was sublime!

I think we all knew we would be a striker short and so it has been proved.

Did you really expect year on year improvement ad infinitum? If so then you are bigger clown than I thought. BTW I've got you on ignore so responses to my posts are unwelcome as I can see them. Mind you I suppose getting a reaction will be excuse enough to crack one off!

So 21 points from 15. Not exactly relegation form is it? Reckon this is a work in progress. Too many with HoTS (Hard of Thinking Syndrome) Expecting better in what was always going to be a transitional season was always a big and somewhat realistic ask. If you extrapolate the points so for across the season then around 50 will be OK. Not as many as I would like, but I an' t always get what I want.

Runs Vftt's post close for post of the year.

Come on Vfft don't hold back! FWIW I have the trolling cu_nt , fat fu_cking clueless cu_nt, and the the one cu_nt you wish would lose the use of his arms on ignore also. St Robbie must be some form of non-entity as I can't recall being annoyed by his drivel as much as the other three. As you say stop quoting them.

First live gig I saw was ELP in 1972 at Bournemouth Winter Gardens during Trilogy Tour. Emerson (RIP) wrestling with his Moog and Carl Palmer giving it beans on Drums, Greg Lake almost seemed out of place along with these forces of nature. ELP might not have been everyone's cup of tea, but as a 14/15 year old growing up in the 1970's they were just the best. It was only in retrospect that you realise quite how good they were as individual musicians. RIP Greg Lake. Another part of my youth goes. Sad!

I've been citizen of the EU in its various incarnations for over 40 years and I very much want to remain as one in the future. Sign me up!

Cheers.