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A tee-shirt I'll make next season Next Season | David-Design

Fair points and I didn't watch every game so you definitely have a more valid opinion than mine. When winning 1-0 away from home with 10 minutes to go I completely understand a professional team doing this but what frustrated me was this just seemed to be the tactic regardless of the game - like I said 4-0 with minutes to go - still did it - 5-0 down still did it, but having said that it is a predominant way of playing the game in football nowadays. This is why Tonda is definitely not a man who should be banned from the English game. Okay his teams do pass around the back and so forth - but most teams do as we know - but boy he really attacks and gets things going if the game allows it or sometimes needs it. I mean Saints lost two games 9-0 and neither opponent eased off or thought 6 or 7 was enough - but I feel if a Tonda Team was 6-0 up with 10 minutes to go he would try to get 8. Perhaps I played too much local league football? Teams were 7-0 up against my side and still trying to hammer another 4 or 5 past me in goal 😂

BBC say they are closing in - it wouldn't be a shock to be honest. I know there's some debate on Bazuna and it caused a tiny bit of arguing but this opinion of mine - and it is only just my opinion not fact and not correct probably - but I do not rate Martin at all. Even when we went up that passing back and forth across the penalty area and passing back and forth inside the opponents half and then going back to the halfway line to pass it back and forth no matter what the score - we could be 3-0 up or 3-0 down we just did that - drove me insane. It was so friggin' boring. My wife - who has not much interest in football - once caught it on a game on TV with Saints, stared at it for a while and genuinely said 'Is that it?' she wasn't being sarcastic or taking the pee out of me either. Also didn't he moan that the team didn't play exactly how he wanted to in the play-off final? The one we won 1-0? Anyway just thought I'd use one of my three posts to see what others think - I mean it does not affect us to be fair does it? So plenty of disagreements I'm sure but perhaps less anger 😂

Thanks for that - you can tell I was an electrician for a while 😂 I would say that if they broke those rules, in Premiership football these clearly has an effect on your squad/managment and therefore it must affect results - therefore Burnley can easily claim what they did. Whether it is a much as that who knows but you can definitely argue that without such an advantage Everton may not have stayed up and Burnley might have - you can't prove it but you can't disprove it either. Anyway tactics - oh never mind them - who cares?! 🙃

Interesting response from Everton, ummm not saying they didn't do it, just saying it wasn't fair. Errrrr....the rules were there, it is your job to know them, you can't make excuses afterwards. So you are guilty of doing what you were charged with: The club said in a statement they were "clear in the belief the ruling is fundamentally flawed in both law and fact". "This ruling sets a dangerous and unworkable precedent for English football, given it is constructed on a principle that a club can be in breach of financial rules at any point in a financial year," the statement said.

That's interesting. There's seems to be a school of thought that Bazunu would be 'okay' for League One. This means I could have played professional football in goal instead of Salisbury and District, Southampton Junior, Wiltshire League, Commercial Houses...I could have earned money playing football....darn it.

To be fair it's not just Saints, or us fans, just think about modern football, really good, impressive, goalies who have a 'presence' are a great commodity. I know Peretz is not some sort of 'football god' but think about other team's goalies who come to mind when it comes to 'his performance can win you games' in any of the divisions. Forget about former goalies or others on the books, think of a goalie at any club, especially our rival clubs, that we could play against that will win them the game just because of the way he plays. It is a lot rarer and more valuable than you might think. In my opinion.

Well that's good news - us old farts who played in the 70s in local crap football - my mates, they were all miles better than me - love him, he doesn't take any sh*t and is big and tough and gets in the way of players - if it was just him as an attacker or players like him it wouldn't be good - but he is something we missed up front for a long time. The way things are looking we might have to thank Middlesbrough for this squad, players seem to be knuckling down as if to say 'F**k you!'

Not that I know or anything or I'm an expert, I'm certainly not, but this seems to me to be a deliberate, pushed through message by the club to us the fans. I like him as a goalie - and if it is a message or statement by the club, I like that too!

Bad news everyone. Looks like we might have lost our Champions of Cheating title. West Bromwich Albion are now being investigated thoroughly - not sure what they did to Middlesbrough but lots of talk of them being 'huge cheats'....oh well we can't even win that challenge.

I agree, these lot who bugger off the minute things get tough or difficult I dislike, I mean imagine what they would say if they lost a big match and half of us said - 'No supporting Saints anymore they don't win enough'. We have all stuck by this club, some over decades, myself included, when basically since being a Football League club they have won one divisional title [I doubt anyone is still alive when the won that], broken the record for a home defeat in the top division in the ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE, and nearly equalled the record for the lowest points total - but here we all are, even if we annoy each other or don't agree on lots of things we are still here. Yet the very rich football players who earn more in a month than a lot do in year are straight off the minute the club gets relegated.

Eeek - you last line is a bit scary - I mean a few of us almost got abuse about pointing out Bazunu is not very good, from the supporters, let alone the 'know everything better than you do' people in charge at the club. I have said it before and I'll say it again, you only need to have played in goal at any level of football to see his positioning and 'goalkeeper' style is like someone who has never played in goal before. It is mystifying to me. But of course I am a 'melt' apparently, I'm not angry.

Just popped on the Ugly Inside - I don't go very often because I'm not extreme-right-wing and angry - and somewhere is saying another EFL club has been accused of 'spying' this season? Anyone got any info' on this? If it is true - and with evidence - this is really going to stitch up the EFL, if they find out there is more than a couple alongside Saints what will they do?

Even if you have it on a plain rectangular background it doesn't have to be huge, just slightly bigger than the number and then give the number a red or white border depending the colouring.

Thank you - I honestly get the p**s taken out of me a lot due to my design work and art - but I have genuinely designed team shirts and they have been used in British League competitions by some big clubs within that particular sport. I used to love doing this - then AI came along.....