OttawaSaint

I think it's known as Schrödinger's tvvat... You can't tell if he called a Saints victory or defeat until after the final whistle.

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Only 3 changes from that Crystal Palace debacle. I'm lost, is this good or bad?

I think these stats are totally meaningless. Total goals is, and we simply haven't scored enough of them. Long has 0, JRod has looked a shadow of his former self and also has 0, Tadic had missed a bunch of games, Boufal hasn't scored in the Prem yet. We don't get much from midfield, JWP has missed a bunch of sitters and Davis has never contributed many. We need another striker to take the pressure off Austin, whether that is a player who has been injured (Long, Tadic), a player who's been off form (JRod, Long, Redmond), or a new player that we bring in, we need more goals.

Nervous. Hope we get the job done with something to spare like when we secured promotion against Coventry. 0-0, 1-0, 1-1 or 0-1 with 10 to play would be torture.

Back in 11-12 maybe. In before "breathtaking arrogance"...

Come on ALWAYS, it's not rocket surgery. It's easy, we just tell the best players to come to Saints, they'll take what we offer them as wages, pop 'em on the field each week and romp to the quadruple!

These pedophiles are filth and should be punished severely, but why are you condoning that other rapists get to enjoy themselves and rape the pedos in prison?

Maybe on football manager, in real life it's a bit different. You've gotta persuade this lot to sign and perhaps you won't get what you want for Classie. You can't just pitch your Trumpesque "we've got ambition, the best ambition, it's tremendous, it's huge". Then there's salary and signing bonus and clauses. We haven't done perfectly in the market but it's not as cut and dried as you make it.

Phew! I bet on Glasgow nailing it but put an insurance bet on you putting an insurance bet. $578 noice!

Consistently wrong though eh? That Burley stance was laughable.

Maybe it was him then. Hard to remember, you fellas with your alt accounts and frequent name changes, it's so hard to keep up. So apologies for my poor memory. Glasgow, what made you do that 180 then LOL or are you just a contrarian?

Just out of interest, why did you do the 180? Back in your Delldays era, you were what you'd call a "club apologist". I particularly remember you using cherry picked stats to defend George Burley. Something like "ONLY 2 defeats in 13" when we'd drawn 10 of those 13 games. What was it the broke the camels back. Who ****ed on your strawberries?

If you listen to the resident experts we already have too many players and should just play the same 11 all year with no rotation. We don't need any more.

Better with emoticons IMO. Like this:

Why bother then having a team or supporting a team if we shouldn't play in each of the competitions out there for us. Here's an example of your logic. Hmm, it is a proven fact that the best marathon runners are the lightest. Therefore if I remove a bit of weight I will be lighter and run faster. Might as well then chop off my fingers and ears, that'll take a bit of weight off and therefore improve my race time.

And in 3rd place in outfield minutes Redmond. So by your reckoning, nice and settles in the side as he is, he should have been stellar this season. Yet he is the whipping boy on matchday with the likes of you and your merry band of alt egos.

Forster also played a lot of minutes. Not played as well as last year. Should we be rotating goalies?

Has happened many times when you can see that a player isn't giving his all and is trying to force the hand of the club management.

Right! So if they score then drawing the game is totally off the table, we will have to win to progress. Hopefully we can score a couple early to ease the (mainly us on here) nerves.

Agreed. The players have all the power. If we try and keep the likes of VVD to his contract and he has a strop about it then what? It'll affect the whole team as well as those who might be on our shopping list. Imagine that, a player as high profile as VVD in a strop and us trying to persuade players to sign. It'd be ****ing suicide.

I don't think there is a long list. I'd say: Forster Fonte Those that have improved: Romeu Austin VVD Those that have been roughly the same: Davis Tadic JWP Martina Those that have been injured Cedric Bertrand Long Targett JRod Those that didn't play here (or in first team) last season: Boufal Hojbjerg Sims McCarthy McQueen Hesketh Redmond

LOL. You link a thread that you got absolutely panned in. Good going there.

He's missed some absolute sitters including an open goal vs Arsenal. How is that Puel's fault? Saturday he had a headed chance that he should have buried, I jumped up off the sofa only to see him manage to head the ball back away from the goal. He is chronically low on confidence, having a bad time with knocks/injuries but that's got nothing to do with Puel. Is this your new routine; long list of players v.poor under Puel? Who is on this "long" list compared to last season?

It's pretty simple really. With a squad our size/quality some games are going to be stinkers due to looking ahead or fatigue. Heck, we used to look at the fixtures and say "sweet Man C play us between their home and away against X in the champs, their heads will be elsewhere" or "Everton playing us 3 days after an away tie in Europe, will be tired". We got a lot of points off the back of teams playing in Europe before/after us. Same is true when the shoe is on the other foot. As a chubby Dutchman once said "thatssssshhhh football".