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VAR deciding to revert to pube’s-width offside calls to save him. It’s going to be a travesty this season if they use VAR at a microscopic level in some matches but not in others.

So is Vest.

D to the O to the I to the G Scores goals for Saints and fucking hates Pompey Josh Doigy Doigy Doigy Doig

I think that's right seeing as the protocol isn't even in effect until 1 October. I expect this match will feature a few, but not many, spot checks to see what lessons can be learnt. With the mess over season tickets and the usual shite start to the season I can't see the club being militant over this in practice when they aren't even required to be. I expect it will ramp up match to match ahead of October (unless it causes loads of issues and the PL revisits the protocol by then).

Would this help?

Pretty obvious that we should pack the defence and midfield, play cautiously, and try to do them on the break. So no doubt we'll go gung-ho "4222", surrender the midfield in the second half and get twonked. If I was the boss, I would pick 352 (or "32212" if you want to be ein ubernonscze): Forster Stephens Bednarek Salisu KWP Perraud Romeu JWP Stuey Adams Adam Armstrong

Sounds like a mess.

Does someone really need to know all our pressing triggers to be a striker on the bench (especially with 9 subs!)? If we're a goal down with 15 minutes to go and one of our strikers is knackered then I'd rather this guy came on and tried to score than Redmond come on and do a good job closing down. Sounds like Ralph being a bit of a bellend to me.

I'll definitely stick a couple of quid on some big score lines when we play the top teams.

Stephens let DCL drift off him into space at least twice in the first half as well and we were lucky not to concede from simple crosses then. When the ball is out wide he doesn't keep track of his man and gets caught moving towards / under the ball. Stephens is a League One / Champ quality defender and will regularly make serious mistakes leading to goal scoring chances. Any team with someone decent in the air will find it quite easy to score against us if he is in the team. As 4th choice, and given the ongoing lack of supply from our academy he's ok, because who are you going to sign as 4th choice(?), but as a regular starter he's a disaster. If we don't sign a strong centre back who can play with Salisu and bring him through, or an exceptional keeper, we will probably get relegated. We conceded the second most goals last season and yesterday we conceded three to a team who were pretty poor for most of the match. It's not like they were causing lots of problems or scoring world-class goals. We are so easy to score against that we are screwed unless something changes.

Pretty obvious that we need to sign a quality centre back. We could have conceded a couple in the first half from routine, bread and butter crosses. Unless we do bring in someone who is first choice we will continue to be the team that gives away the most points and lets in more goals than nearly everyone else.

Cheers mate. He sounds like just the sort of style of player we need. Obafemi is a bit of a conundrum. He has shown some moments of real quality in some of his appearances, but a series of managers have felt he isn’t worth a run in the side and have preferred people like Shane Long and Nathan Redmond up front, who are not exactly prolific. There are question marks over whether he has applied himself properly in training or whether he is clever enough tactically and switched on enough to do the work “against the ball” that our manager loves. I’m sure there’s a decent Championship footballer in there, at least, and if he was to prove himself there then you’d have a bargain for 5 or 6m. I think we’d all like to see what he can do with a loan to a decent Champ club and some regular games.

Bertrand is virtually non-existent as a productive attacking threat any more, although he is still a good one on one defender, which left us horrendously lopsided in attack, and Vestergaard is the slowest player I've ever seen so isn't really suited to a high-press game. Vestergaard is good at passing but not very good at defending.

That match was class. Remember it well. The run of form at the start of that season was so exciting. We had just come up and hadn't really added much to the League One team so you hoped we'd be OK in the Championship. Then we just started taking teams apart and you knew something special was going on. Cant remember if it was the next match or not when we went to Ipswich and scored 4? It's a shame we didn't win it, but to go straight through the Champ in one season was a great achievement by Nige and the lads.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/british-embassy-uae-pride-flag-b1874493.html Maybe they will legalise it if they see that the overwhelming majority of people support these sorts of campaigns.

Like a stern but buxom matron.

Turkish is represented by black, cyan, magenta and yellow.

Should see the doctor for that.

Looks like a very different player to Adams. Adams is a good, all-round forward, who links play very nicely and has a good eye for a pass. One of his big weaknesses is that he lacks half a yard of movement/anticipation in the box and so struggles to get on the end of crosses. That's why, unless he fixes that, he will never be prolific at the top level. Armstrong looks much more like the traditional "fox in the box", looking to play on the shoulder and get early shots away with either foot. With that sort of player, provided they can still find a bit of space, there's no reason why they shouldn't do well. If we create chances, I back him to finish them. I think he's the sort of signing we need - the "poacher" type- to complement the players we've already got, and a proven PL "poacher" is outside our budget (and there aren't many of them anyway!).

10th isn't the average place in the PL.

Insurance?

Better at passing than defending. No big loss. Sell.

And before that he played in the Copa America. Seems a bit mental, really! I guess Brazil care about the Olympic football.

Selfish cunt, can save humanity, but only for a grand!

If anyone makes a realistic bid and he wants to go then I've no doubt we will sell him.