Badger

This might provide a bit of a charter for regular tweaking to how we look : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61757948

The Danish connection at work. Just by chance or the Rasmus choice ?

Offering McCarthy and Long new contracts we must be run by a bunch of Numbskulls. * *I was a Beezer reader as a child.

went into Saints folklore with that challenge.

Sums it up quite well for me. From the figure reported sounds as if more than Dragowski, and I expect we could find a decent experienced GK in Europe for less than £10m

Certainly need to improve the defence with an inexperienced GK. Been thinking about this, and I expect Buffon, Shilton, even Banks would have quit as a nervous wreck by the age of 23 had they been expected to keep goal behind the sort of back four and midfield that Gunn had.

We just don’t seem to learn do we ? I'm not convinced we'd go for Pope, but I was expecting a younger Gk (and 25-26 is still young for a GK) with some experience behind him.

MLG point to Whitey !

A couple of decent tackles in thevideo of him. Be quite happy with Svanberg from what I've read, but don't see him as the Romeu replacement. We still need a MF 'enforcer', shame we missed out on Sangarre.

Agree it’s naff. But doesn’t mean I want to see Saints taking to the field with a ‘dog’s breakfast’ of a design.

Thanks for your view on him ( a view from someone who has seen him play). That’s not too encouraging to be honest but if he signs can hope he exceeds your expectation. I can’t believe he’s made his way to Italy if he’s behind Smallbone or Elynoussi. Perhaps we’re not marketing our ‘surplus’ players correctly.

Does he have an arm full of tattoos and waves his arms around a lot ? We’ve been missing that over the last couple of years.

Wouldn’t be so bad if it was worthwhile when it is revealed. The kit is often released to be met with thought of a ‘hope for something better next season’ .

Wasn’t that under Cortese ?

Or is easily dispossessed. That’s it in a nutshell!

Probably because he has forgotten the bloke existed over the last few years

Could be our most capped player in the treatment room. Reminds me of the David Connolly thread for League One days .. would be our best finisher/defender … if he didn’t spend so much time on the treatment table , or words to that effect. (Can’t remember who penned those words, wonder if it was another timeless contribution from Benthelegend).

Ffs …

Forgotten all about Stig, another of our midget strikers. Around that time we were also linked with another, though more sklilful shortarse, Jose Dominguez, a winger who'd been quite good at Birmingham. Deal didn't happen and I think he went to Spurs before having a couple of good games then fading away.

I remember Lee Todd's debut v Bolton at home. Always interesting to see new signings early in the season, and this was a start of a new era with a(nothe) new manager, Dave Jones. First thoughts were Christ he's small must be about 5'2", came as no surprise when a fairly harmless looking punt or throw-in bounced over his head which he had to desperately chase after. At least we realised he was crap immediately. David Lee gave a half decent performance on his debut but didn't reach the dizzy height of ever being half decent again with us.

Linked with Leeds in a couple of articles. Think we may have missed out on that one, and the ship has now sailed. Even ahd Forest lost today I expect the asking price might have been c£20m as opposed to the rumoured £10-12m last summer.

No doubt they interviewed some witness, curly perm, big moustache, and a Jimmy Tarbuck Joke Book sticking out of his pocket: “ ehhh, me names Manuel.. and I’m from Barcelona like … and what it was like is we were stood over there doing nuttin like … “

Not sure we can take the piss too much. Glad they loss last night but they’ve still won more trophies this season than we have in our history. Sad but true.

Expect a lot of public wailing, and the Scouse Republic to make a big thing of boycotting anything French. Don’t be surprised if this escalates into a major diplomatic incident. Nothing less than a personal apology from Macron and his resignation will be good enough. In about 30 years time the UN will be forced to agree to the Scouse Republic’s demands for an International Investigation to vindicate them, and Macron, his family, and Head of Police will be imprisoned on the Isle of Elba.

Yes. Che Adams, Adam Armstrong, and Adamu. Merrington retired in good time.