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Is his sister, Stella, in charge of catering and beer sales in the concourse ?

One other thing on Stoke, just realised one of their CB’s was Ben Gibson. Nephew of Gibbo.

Few random observations from yesterday: Defence - probably not stretched or pushed as we would be by other teams, but some concern especially with the CB’s. Need for a better option than on show yesterday. (Thought Hirst might have caused us more problems). Midfield : again the loss of Charles, and Jander’s absence leaves us exposed. Stoke seemed to have acres of space to work in,especially first half, and only Galbraith looked able to take advantage. Matsuki - no taking away his effort but looked a bit lost at times. Azaz - impressed by him constantly probing for an opening. Scienza - easily worst performance I’ve seen from him. Didn’t look as motivated as usual. He’s got credit in the bank so can forgive him an occasional off day. Don’t want to read too much into it. Larin - impressed by pace and finishing. Looked to be tiring before he really hammered one before going off to remind us of his strengths. Mubama - good goal. Promising. But unimpressed that he seemed to have a strop when the penalty was given to Manning. At times we looked toothless up front despite the score(rs). Still think we need another CF (if the Ratkov profile, if not him). The penalty- seemed some uncertainty over who’d take it. In my view should have been known before the match. Reminiscent of the Man Utd game. Credit to Stephens as captain for stepping in and giving the ball to Manning to sort it. Tonda - two subs, and two goal involvements. May be a genius or just lucky. Either way he seems to get more right than wrong on the pitch. Crowd - inevitably a “we spy when we want” bollocks. Pleased there was no booing at HT after we looked to be flagging a bit. Onwards and upwards.

I suspect we’ll meet at £25 plus add ons. Possibly with some sweetener over the Archer or Dobbin deals. Does their current reported bid not spell out to THB that they aren’t too bothered about signing you, or don’t value you very highly ? Easily compensated for by the increased salary perhaps

I’ve said previously he’ll gravitate to next stop - MK Dons, unfinished business type of bollocks. But his spiritual home is probably Forest Green Rovers working with Dale Vince as another green eco warrior.

And Argentina retrospectively eliminated from the 1986 WC Final series.

Sounds more of a Quashie replacement than anything else.

Are the club able to determine or record that the ticket has been transferred to another person/email address?

Update on the Ratkov situation: https://onefootball.com/en/news/lotito-to-want-ratkov-to-start-as-gattuso-pushes-back-43313334 In short - manager doesn’t want him. Owner wants to keep faith in the player. Hope we’re not hanging on for this one. We love a summer soap opera at Saints don’t we ? Last year Spertsynation Street, now this.

What time is the fly past ? I’ll look out for it.

Interesting suggestion. If it is something like this wonder if anything outstanding from the Archer deal might also be absorbed into it. Makes it a bit more palatable if we’re paying less (or zero !!!) on those two. No idea if that can be written into the books though.

That puts a far rosier and more favourable slant on it (glass half full) than I would give looking at the relative sums flowing between us and Villa over the last couple of seasons. Scienza and Jander in my book had been funded by the sale of Fernandes. But valid point you make, that the important thing re the sale - if it happens - is not the amount incoming but who it is reinvested on.

The loan CB we might have gone for was Alleyne. But gone to Burnley. Burnley ffs….

Appalling negotiation if true. That’s effectively exchanging THB for what we’ve paid (been fleeced on) for Archer and Dobbin. How many would be happy with that ?

Let’s wait and see but fair point. Given the money we’ve given them for Archer and Dobbin though, perhaps £45m might not be unreasonable!