Tommy Mulgrew

Are they by chance related?

Agreed, especially this: and

It’s not like you to be optimistic, FredVAFC. 😉

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A lot of that is familiar to us over here, Christophe. One can certainly tell that both clubs are SR ones. Onwards and downwards into adversity and ignominy!

I agree that it was usually boring but not your first point, sorry - see my earlier post: Chelsea and Spuds both have several players who have the skill but if those clubs cannot consistently get it right what chance does lowly Southampton have? We are well rid of him and his ideas, IMO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c14x4elp3p3t Yoshida’s nightmare season gets worse. A 7:0 thrashing and now three points from 12 games. LA Galaxy doing an excellent impersonation of Saints in almost every respect. 😥

Mayflower? Titanic? Mary Rose? Or our Saintsy red and white Yellow Submarine?

Posted 48 minutes ago No Craiiiiiiiiiig David? He’s proper bo, I tell thee. more importantly, no Lucy Pinder or Sekou Mara’s mum? Or even a sexy nun?

Dave Challinor; either got promotion or play-offs every year since 2010-11 except 2019-20. Knowing SR, though, we won’t get anybody as successful as that. Yes, I do know he manages Stockport; it’s not a serious suggestion.

I hear that Ancelotti is available: Davide Ancelotti. We could do worse; and probably shall.

I see that the VAFC team consists of only nine players. Perhaps that explains your recent relegations and lacklustre results. I am amazed that no one has realised that and done something about it. 😉

Not quite enough editing, SFCaM. 😏

News about Maya Yoshida, who captained LA Galaxy to win the MLS last year: he has just returned from injury and scored an own goal in LAG’s latest game. LAG seems to be suffering from the same thing as we are this season. 3 points from the first 11 games, 7 behind the next-lowest team. The last game sums up their season: 71% possession, one shot on target, not able to score, concede an own goal, over 700 passes, more than 400 more than the opposition, and 639 accurate passes; the only thing non-Saints like was limiting the opposition to no shots at all. LAG seems to be an SR club in everything but name, with a McCarthy in goal and lots of possession but absolutely no cutting edge whatsoever; the decline from last season’s success beats anything Saints have done. I feel for Maya; his career seems to be fading away into a disaster of massive proportions. 😩

The return of the rabbit man? If Moyes can do it, so can Ralph. https://thescore.com/deu_fed/news/3280583

It’s an anagram. 😇

Now there’s a name from our past (and Chelsea’s). I wish we had now a few who played like him. He’d certainly keep Vardy in his pocket. https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/david-webb/

According to Transfermarket, roughly the same height as Smallbone, Taylor and Aribo. Are those three really the same height? Aribo seems imposing enough but Smallbone - really? 19 goals and 2 assists from 23 starts and 2 sub appearances in the Romanian league this season for a team that is consistently in the top three, and usually top, for the last several years. 1 full cap but lots of age-related caps for Romania. Promising but not guaranteed to do well for us. The last Romanian international we had did not exactly fire us to success.

Just getting it in early on this thread, please gurru991 (and any other Foxes reading it) do not get too upset over the inevitable nasty comments on here about that little rat Vardy. To make my position absolutely clear, he (Vardy) deserves every single one of them.

Birmingham reported to be about to offer him £30,000 a week: https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/kwame-poku-looks-set-to-sign-for-birmingham-city-these-2-players-could-follow-him-into-st-andrews/

It’s Saints: we’ll get either Marie Rose or the Mary Rose.

I was surprised by that. He has started 14 games at LB, LWB, RB, RWB; 20 at RW and 3 at LW. As a sub, he has replaced a midfielder 4 times and LB, LWB, LW and RB once each. Admirable versatility. I expect he’s glad he left us. When I saw him play for us he looked slow and ponderous and out of place here but he must have developed pretty well to have started so many games and in so many positions, too, albeit in league 1 and the cup.

The difficulties that Postecoglou is having at Spurs show that an inflexible possession-based style of play is bound to end in tears in the EPL even with much better players than Martin had here. Spurs’ fans are venting the same anger towards and criticisms of Ange as many on here did to Martin. Wherever Martin ends up he will not do any better in the Premier League than he did with us even if he has a successful promotion campaign with a Championship side. Despite reported interest from them, I believe Leicester can and should get someone better than him. Norwich or Rangers seem to me to be a better fit for him.

That’s nothing; the best manager in Europe looks to have played Thierry Small (usually left-back) as a right winger on Easter Monday and he got an assist for one of the goals in Charlton’s 4:0 thrashing of Wycombe. Expect to see Manning, Wellington or Larios there any time soon.

Yes, that number 24 at Everton would suit us well, driving forwards through the heart of the opposition defensive midfield, especially if Fernandes leaves. 😇