Tamesaint

If we are in deep poo, I would suggest that is because at the beginning of December we had a handful of points. It is nothing to do with not replacing a right back who did not start any match under Ralf. What a right back replacement has to do with a 19 year old midfield debutante God (and Batman) only knows. The subject of a Cedric replacement is becoming an obsession for you. Get over it !!

An interesting read. The published fee was £15 million yet the total cost to Cardiff after agents had their cut was £30 million. Amazing !

You've been quiet this weekend mate. Thought you would have had more to say about Saints although I suppose you have been busy trolling the Everton boards

Jihadi John flunked his A levels didn't you know? He couldn't get into a proper university and ended up at Pompey Polytechnic

Still don't understand what Venezuela has to do with Brexit. Are Nissan moving their jobs there from Sunderland ?

There is a separate thread on Venezuela. I suspect that the old boy has been drinking again and has got confused - hic.

I agree and said so on the much thread. He was clearly swearing at the officials in a longer rant than Zaha the other night. I think that he got booked for the rant rather than for diving.

A good intellectually based argument that sums up in one word the Brexiteers's case.

Yes their mouthing off at every decision against them is tiresome. Barnes 's reaction when he ran into McCarthy and didn't get the penalty was worse than Zaha on Wednesday night.

What's your view ? Or are you more interested in Arsenal's result ?

1 all. Would be happy with a point.

So no consistent thought apart from negativity. Thought not.

You are the definition of a mess. On the next 5 games thread before Palace you reckoned we would get 7 points. Nothing at Arsenal and won't beat Fulham and Cardiff. Presumably therefore (at best) 4 points from those 2 matches. On the pre match Palace thread you reckoned that we would lose. Hence presumably 3 points today .... yet now you say that we are going to lose. Are you capable of any consistent thought apart from a depressing negativity about Saints ?

Criticising Lawro on this forum usually ends in grief but you are right.... and although we are both unbeaten in the league this season at least we didn't lose 5 nil last weekend. He must be cheap to employ !!

Nor Alfie Jones.

So how many of the 7 did you predict from Palace? On the pre match thread you reckoned on a 1 2 defeat so presumably we are now on course for 8 points from those games ??

Why??

So why don't you follow the match on a stream rather than scouring the Brexit press and w anking off on what the next day's Telegraph has to say. T osser.

Well clearly you won't bump into him at St Mary's. Home match tonight and the "braggart" is posting about Brexit and getting off on what is written about Brexit in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph. What a strange supporter of the team.

Oh ****. No Hoedt, Davis, Cedric or Gabbi in the team. How can we possibly win without those key elements of the team ?

It's all right. Those pesky foreigners are going to see their banking system collapse any day now. Deutsche Bank are going to be the first to go. That will teach them to having their own currency. How do I know this ? Well, that font of all knowledge Guided Missile told me ... back in 2016 ... and 2017 and indeed most months since then. It is going to happen, honest ....any day now.

This is beginning to get a little surreal. "No signs of anybody changing their minds in any great numbers" quote from Wes tender. Highfield then posts evidence from an opinion poll showing how people have changed their minds. "Well you can't trust opinion polls" from Wes tender. We all know that opinion polls can be wrong ... but how can evidence of people changing their minds be found if we ignore opinion polls? What other means are there of gauging opinion? The number of letters on Points of View ????

In your assessment of cheaper food you seem to have forgotten about FX rates and the effect that a weak pound is having on import prices. Immediately after the Brexit vote GBP fell against both the US dollar and the Euro. Pound dollar average rate May 2016 ( the last month before the referendum) 1.45 Pound dollar rate average July 2016 1.314 Pound euro rate average May 2016 1.284 Pound euro rate average July 2016 1.188 Ie Imported products like food became more expensive. GBP has never recovered from this Brexit battering. Looking at average rates from 2 years before the referendum and the 2 subsequent years Pound dollar rate average 2014 1.648 2015 1.529 2016 1.350 2017 1.289 2018 1.333 Pound euro average 2014 1.240 2015 1.377 2016 1.225 2017 1.141 2018 1.130 In other words as oil is priced in dollars we are all paying at least 3p a litre more for our petrol than we would if the pound was at the same level against the dollar as it had been on Brexit night. If we could still enjoy 2014 FX rates the difference would be over 7 pence a litre. The Brexit vote has cost us all over the last 2 and a half years. The last couple of weeks has seen GBP rise a little (about 3%) as a soft Brexit is looking more likely. If we ended up leaving the EU on WTO rules as you suggest (aka hard Brexit) GBP would plummet with parity against both the Euro and the dollar being likely. Any benefit for food prices from a reduction in tariffs would be dwarfed by the extra costs from an even weaker pound.... even Spanish oranges

This comment after the Fulham game perhaps shows that Ralph also reads Billy's blog. At the time ( just 2 months ago) I don't think that anyone disagreed with these comments .... yet now these guys have been / are being moved on some posters don't like it.

That was amazing. Why a yellow card for that? Mind you the commentators 's reactions when Vallodolid scored was brilliant. Not quite Motty or Barry Davis.