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Might help us and other teams too - some forwards/players will get inside the box and think it is easy to plonk a shot at the near post and a normal goalie will save it. I watched it and it was just the way it pongled in - but also from a goalies point of view [you all know now I have never stopped banging on about it] I felt his positioning was bad, as the player cut in I would have be further off the line - first thing that does is either make him try and square it or probably shoot to the left where it might be easier to save. I wasn't great but I was good at angles and saving shots - my height runined it for me, crosses etc I was useless, also when it started that the goalie needed to be able to play football [I always remember you weren't allow to pick up passbacks, I hated that] I was just getting close to retriing thank goodness.

I'd have saved that......now. I'm 64.

I might be misremembering or something be didn't he say the team didn't play the way he wanted in some stages of that game and it didn't sound like he was joking. As for the unbeaten run, well leading 3-0 or something with 20 minutes to go and passing back and forth on the halfway line and then back to the penalty area - back to the goalie - out wide - back up the halfway line, across the halfway line again.....they could have gone 1000 games unbeaten and I wouldn't have watched them. It is supposed to be entertainment too.

Odd isn't it? That's what teams did with us so many times last season - Leicester City away being the big one, if they'd have managed the game correctly, Saints would have lost that match. Football is a confusing sport at times.

Hey folk, anyone tell me how JWP performed for the second half - I didn't see the game, not even a 'link' today.

Yup, I wonder if they will be a team to keep an eye on?

Funny, I noticed that and was just about to post that. He was on the bench their last game, didn't come on though. I wonder if they did that so that it looked like he was okay and keep the fans quiet and now he is back to the treatment room for a few weeks.

When are we allowed to 'melt-down'? I need to mark it in my diary.

Also change the club name and badge, if we do this things will get easier and better....

I don't post very often now - I don't know that much, when I make comments I'm often wrong but this Bazuna thing is driving me insane. I do not know how he became a professional goalkeeper - honestly. I have said this about a half a dozen times I used to play in goal for 32 years - various standards, none superb and I was not successful or that good. That is me being honest...BUT....if this is your experience you can watch Bazuna and see when the opposition is attacking - he's not involved he's just 'ready' - he stands in the wrong position and gets his angles wrong every time. It is mental. When I watched him I was always saying - I don't shout - 'What is he doing?', Why is he standing there? Why is the angle he is set up like that?' Every.Single.Time! He is not very good - full stop. He is the biggest con, worst buy we have had. If he has a fantastic league breaking defence in front of him he'll look better - when I played in goal with really good defenders in front of me I looked good too.

Totally agree. Blasting home a chance that you weren't expecting, or one you were but with Saints expecting it to be bobbled past the post or into the goalie's arms. That's why last season was so bloomin' amazing. We looked like a might goal-scoring maching at times. When you've 'super forwards' missing the ball entirely or bobbling it anywhere except the back of the net it was fantastic. Just attacking too - looking like we wanted to score more than one goal! If they get it wrong it'll be back to the usual for us. All of which of course had literally nothing to do with spying on the opposition. Getting rid of Armstrong was a good move - I think he was a bad attitude influence myself [no evidence or proof].

Hey thanks for that - I didn't even realise it existed [proves how on the ball I am]. I geniunely don't want to pee anyone off - well you know no more than I do normally. I'll do that - if it is like the rest of the stuff on my design site and my art and books, it'll get ignored 😂 Weston-super-Mare? My wife went to school there - La Retraite Covent School - it no longer exists but they helped her during some difficult times - she's not even religious!

Well my 'The Cheats' design products are now online. But because I am geninuely not some sort of rip off, self-promotion bloke, I haven't put up the link to the page. Ironically it is Spreadshirt so they are printed and posted from Germany! I genuinely am only making about £1 or so a product and that is covering my costs and time. Anyone wants the link to the page let me know - if not tell me to f-off I'm sure someone will 🤣

I would say 5:29pm....

I'm with you on this - I'm retired and a carer for my wife so I'm always checking on here and to be honest it is depressing and a bit uninteresting. This is not a pop at anyone by the way, I know what my posts are like so I have no foot to stand on but crikey this and signings part is a dull as ditch water and has no real updates and it's been ages - that part on here is the FAs fault and I did comment about it earlier - it is incompotent and leaves them open for being appealed against - you cannot leave any club hanging on and on just before the season starts - it is deeply biased and unfair. Simple as that. Also I am making my tee-shirt with the design that I posted on the other Spygate Thread. F 'em!

I've already posted this twice elsewhere. They should just give him a house to live in with his family and then his friends, players, coaches etc. can see him most nights or afternoons to make sure he is getting on okay. There is literally nothing they can do about it as the players and coaches are just being kind and thoughtful friends. Unless of course the FA want to imprison him or something?

I'm with you - had my arm broken - wide break on my unla - in men's football, done on purpose, player and touchline folk laughed, ref said it was 'goalkick'. I carried on playing! My mate who broke his arm before said if I had broke it I wouldn't have be able to play or drive, so I got halfway to work the next morning then turned around and got my dad to drive my to the doctors - and the doctor sent me straight to hospital - I was in plaster in for nine weeks and lost my job in the Refinery at Fawley. When I was off I never got a collection either - like the bloke who fell of a table on a Thursday night at a strip club did! Broke my nose once, and my fingers about four times. Dead legs, foot stamped on, kicked on purpose, countless times....oh well.

🤣 I'll take that as a compliment. When I was playing down at the pitches opposite Lordshill [versus Parkside Eagles] I made a save diving at clean-through player's feet and hurt my arm, chest and face - all my mates thought it was a stupid save to make in that standard of football. One of my best mates said I did it because my face was made of 'hay' and he has called my 'Hayface' ever since - I'm 64 now. Sorry post all about me and nothing to do with the game - luckily I don't post much!

Just a different point - perhaps a lawyer would only have to prove it was incompotence by the FA that has seriously affected our build up for the new season. I mean the FA know the new season is approaching, they know teams appoint coaches and get players as early as they can for specific prices, plus clubs release players, to fit their plans, which included the coaching staff. If the FA due to diddling around and being slow and unable to check out the problem and come to a verdict in a reasonable time, so when they come up with some tremendous punishment it seriously affects this - that is unacceptable. Or maybe I'm being too 'professional' and 'logical'? 🤣

I hear you both - I have mentioned it before but I did graphic design/promotional work for a fairly large UK sport, I designed logos, used by the leagues - and still are in some cases - for teams, promotional logos, game day promos, online stuff you name it - I worked my socks off and really enjoyed it, I found it fun. I even designed shirts that were used by teams during the seasons, very proud of that. Now the leagues, every team, use AI and most fans either don't know, care or some even 'love' it. Guess what, I write and paint too - so that means I might as well fall out of hotel window 'accidentally' as if I lived in Russia.... Still hopefully Saints might sign on a 'real' player or two. Personally I'm hoping for a player who scores regularly and when he signs on our collective mouths drop open in amazement!

To be fair we signed on a few players that we thought were going to be utter crap but once the management side of things got settled they turned out to be okay and we also signed on players we thought woud be brilliant and errrr...... I know it's easy to say but this lad and anyone else we sign on who is new, well it depends on how they get on with the coach, the players, what they think of the area, the stadium and tons of other things. Also of course their personality. So this player could be absolutely the most amazing and important signing this season, or just a waste of time. We can all speculate and that is fine - but it'll be kick-off time and a run of games that'll inform us.

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 😂