Le Timmier

Christ put a lid on it. Pelle & Mane have gone. Get over it. Austin can't play every game. And if you think Redmond looks like a Championship midfielder then you're seeing a different Redmond to the majority of us. Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

The appointment of a manager like Allardyce was never going to address raising the national side from the pitiful depths to which it sank, culmintating with the embarrassment in France. The England setup needs complete reform, from top to bottom. Allardyce is not a change agent, he's the absolute opposite. In his first squad he picked 18(?) of the 23 that Hodgson's took to the Euros. Not only did BFS retain Rooney he came out with that ridiculous statement "I can't tell him where to play". Therefore the more of a laughing stock we become the better in my opinion. It seems Euro 16 wasn't sufficiently bad enough for the FA to trigger genuine change. Maybe this debacle will be, but somehow I doubt it.

Given the option, you'd swap VvD for Alderweireld?

Apart from one back pass I thought Yoshida had a very good game Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

No but I do have a video of a massive molehill if you're interested? Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

I'm pretty ambivalent towards the transfer window. Wherever Saints finish, I'll still be happy. Meanwhile, you suggest that the club is nearing it's death. But its me that needs to "lighten up"? OK..... Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

If the club do okay this season and our signings work out, will you be prepared to hold your hands up and say that comments like this were misplaced?

Terrific post mate Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

Never read so much claptrap Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

Bet he heard it on Sky Sports News

Amen. A horrible skysportsnews-ism devised to make second-rate pundits & reporters sound intellectual. Anyone repeating it sounds anything but. Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

A big shout out to the "ignore" option. It can be a great friend today

You're really spoling us with such reasoned and intelligent debate

Average player, partially-reduced wages, always injured and a d!ck.

I think there's about 15-20 clubs called "Hapoel *something*" Hapoel essentially means "sports club". Bit like "....spor" in Turkey Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

Who is signing Martina? Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

"Last season Spurs finished in the top 4 with the likes of Leicester, Arsenal and Manchester City" No, Spurs finished in the top 4 with Leicester, Arsenal and Manchester City.

This can't be right! I hadn't really heard of him before the summer! He must be a second rate cheapo option!

I did the same - it's pretty challenging to stick with him when his answers take so long. I feel for the guy as he's doing his best to tackle the language and I think that's admirable, but it does mean his answers are fairly basic. Personally I was always pleased that Pochettino stuck with the interpreter for this exact reason. Answers in prezzers are never particularly insightful even when they're in english!

I can only think of The Red Arrows

We definitely needed a second thread about this

Difficult to say isn't it? I once got my paws on Caroline in sixth form. I didn't think I was punching above my weight, but others seemed to think so...

Me neither, and I agree - yes we were. But was that 2nd placed finish not us punching above our weight?

I remember those days too. How many times in those 27 years did we finish in the top half?