Tommy Mulgrew

I was more or less with you until your last line; you blew it, Holmes, or was it Watson?

Not much wrong with his mum, then. A rangy central striker with more pace than the average No.9, Downs has a touch of Germany record scorer Miroslav Klose about his budding game. If so, that’ll do for me.

If you are not careful, sometimes having a trollop gives you a pain. ☹️

Nice to see MLT makes someone’s first 11. BTW, I hope that, by McGrath, you mean Big John: https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/john-mcgrath/ who was the reason for Shankly’s “alehouse” description of our beloved, (at that time, not now), team.

True: half-decent but small. ☺️

Maskell, Lawrence and Gittens: https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/craig-maskell/ https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/george-lawrence/ https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/jon-gittens/

Pompey much too high … by at least 16 points.

It took all of 24 minutes but I caught one! ☺️

As do some of us down here.

Juric is, I believe, a protégée of Gasperini so Atalanta might well think he would be a good replacement. I’d not be at all surprised.

https://sportwitness.co.uk/clamour-for-ivan-juric-appointment-despite-disappointing-southampton-spell-two-clubs-in-race/ Almost as if it never happened! Torino and Atalanta.

Great: I shall look forward to us having a potent and silent astassin next season.

The sell-on clause is widely reported as being 20% of the profit made by Ipswich on a sale to another club; bought for £20m and sold for £30m, so City receive £2m is how I believe it will be. Ipswich benefited from having Dollop for a year but will have paid out wages and fees and amortised his cost price over the duration of his five-year contract. I expect that would yield a profit for Ipswich but I don’t know how much. Better than not having him in the first place, I would have thought.

His interests, motivations and communication style is different from those of most of us on here; I have no problem with that but do consider him annoying occasionally. I believe it acceptable to engage in gentle ribbing at times of his undoubted problem with an emphasis on logic and an inability to understand emotive considerations (plenty of other people have similar traits to a greater or lesser degree) but IMO the persistent persecution meted out on this forum by the anti-MLG gang is vastly OTT and reflects badly on those who do it. On balance, I think we gain from his ‘difference”; that might not be accepted by all - fair enough - but thinking otherwise does not justify the incessant abuse that he receives almost every day. You might find it amusing but others do not. Some tolerance and understanding would not go amiss. I totally understand your point of view but not your way of expressing it. Unedifying and unnecessary.

No, just a decent person.