Eric The Red

Think the Lampard and Silva odds could look generous come mid Septemner

I'm expecting Leicester Wolves or Villa at home. It would be 'funny' if it was Leicester, will we be able to lose by less than 3 goals?

Despite the detractors I am also sorry to see him go as definitely prefer him to A Mc. FF and A N Other (Bazuna hopefully) competing for the No 1 spot would have given me a lot of confidence.

My attitude to this depends on who was on the other end of the video call. If it was Crocker then I suspect this is absolutely correct in terms of who is their senior line manager. Ralph is/was probably away and it's not something to dilly dally over. The old coaches need to be told and then new ones can be brought in.. As someone who has had 'to let people go' I would have preferred to do it face to face but it may simply be that not everybody was going to be together after Leicester until pre season was about to start

Excellent article and thanks for all your blogs over the season. They remain one of my highlights of the (often very difficult) lot of being a lifelong Saints fan.

Surely we could sell away fan tickets using the same criteria Chelsea Fc would have used, e.g. ST holders members etc etc. Things could be arranged like setting up an online form, or even checking applicants with Chelsea before we issue the tickets. A question of whether Saints and/or Chelsea want to pull their finger out. One further thought perhaps we could also reduce the allocation to the 'medium', i.e. as per Newcastle, at the same time as 'helping Chelsea fans out'.

My wife would, and has told our daughter so! 😀

Having just seen the highlights on MoTD then sure we're not strong enough up front but with some decent goalkeeping we would certainly not have lost 3-0. I just pray Forsteris back soon - hopefully Wednesday!

I think there are risks for both sides of this. AV may be getting a manager who struggles in the tougher environment of the PL. Gerrard is putting his high reputation on the line and if his time at AV is said to be poor or even not good then the prospect of landing the Liverpool job could fade pretty fast. However wouldn't mind a cheeky wager that he could end up being the next but one England manager!

Aston Villa' board's delusions are apparent in even thinking about Gerrard. If he was even remotely interested in moving to a 'lower level' PL club he would be Newcastle manager by now. Publicly even considering a PL manager still in employment is just asking for litigation. I would suggest the best they can do right now is Lampard, or possibly Nuno, although that could more fan angst than Rafa to Everton

Haha, they've got even more 'in game' bedwetters that us!

Or possibly COVID. Smith said they had a couple of 'Covid issues'

Despite what some of the sillier comments from pundits Newcastle won't have limitless funds and very much doubt they would be bidding enough to tempt us (c£50m) or him (c£150k a week). They will almost certainly be concentrating on loan signings from here and abroad and any players deemed surplus by 1 of the big 6 who would be willing to come for around their current money to get games/get back into their international teams, e.g. Lingard

My son is going via Gatwick Airport and Cambridge, not quick but quite cheap from Havant

I said (more or lees) exactly the same thing Minsk, although our expletives may have been different!

I also thought it was a Pen. The red card is basically automatic once you've decided it's a Pen

I am thinking more of the same, i.e. encouraging good runs followed by an inability to even get a draw against 9 men, overall though I do feel some of our signings can give us more depth and options from the bench so will go for a mildly optimistic 12th-15th

I'm happy to see him leave permanently but I also wish him well at Anderlecht

My take is that Grealish must be going and they are desperate to get their buying done before it goes public. (like Liverpool when Suarez left

Well (I think) we only picked up 2 points from the equivalent fixtures last season, so 3 points after 8 games will be an improvement 🤔

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100% agree, very sad to see him go. Need to get in someone who has the pace stamina and skill to match Bertie at his best

Top read as always 👍

If I'm being relatively optimistic I'd say 8 points, 2 wins and a draw from the home games and a point somewhere away, but probably a more realistic guess is 6. Being pessimistic we surely can't get less than 4 points, can we?

Let's hope they draw and we win tomorrow!