Saint Fan CaM

Love the banner that says “Battered skate and chips anyone?” 😂

Only one result needed today - a convincing win - even a draw would be a disgrace given our squad and the formation chosen. Let’s absolutely embarrass the fish fuckers. COYS!

Good point well made. Can’t help starting to question everything in the excitement of it all! Goodness knows how I’ll feel tomorrow morning!

His reputation really is starting to proceed him now. The destroyer of pro football teams!

Is it me - feels like there’s not enough fire in their bellies befitting of a home derby game of this magnitude? Even Stephens seems a bit subdued and if there’s anyone I’d expect to be hyped it would be him.

Surprised they’re not talking about putting a multi-storey car park there with public transport links to the town centre. Would make more money than anything else as it would be used a lot more. Either that or affordable housing for illegal migrants (🤭😉 joke).

I would imagine that should we get back to the EPL and then push on to establish ourselves as a permanent fixture, to climb any further and compete without sacrificing squad quality in the shadow of FFP, revenue from increased ticket sales will be vital. Given all of that is unlikely with SR at the helm, the whole premise is somewhat mute.

@Rivers - thanks for sharing your story…tough time. I lost my Dad just over a year and a half ago - still miss talking about Saints with him. He used to keep clippings of Saints stories from the Echo for me - never had the heart to tell him I’d already read it all on-line. Yeah, you’ll never stop missing your Dad - make the most of the time you have left.

And there it is. The luvvies are so sensitive that even a winking emoji on a post is ignored now. How long before they demand censoring anyone with an open mind…Orwell eat your heart out.

Just stumbled on this ‘interesting’ place. Not read all the way through, but it’s clear it’s full of looney lefties wanting to spend money the nation hasn’t got. 😉😂

Clearly these guys will be re-integrated in some way back into the squad if they remain SFC players, however it would be an unwelcome surprise to find them starting ahead of the signings we’ve made - they’re clearly not suited to the way Still wants to play and/or been seen to be ineffective in the past. It’s likely their wage demands versus their ability indicate why their agent has not been able to find new homes for them, so they’ll more likely remain proverbial scar tissue rather than valuable assets.

You’d have to say though, if Aribo or Edozie get anywhere near starts, it would signify that either there’s been a disastrous series of injuries and/or the new recruits from this window have failed to bed in for some reason (possibly because Still’s management/coaching is not working). It would be damning indictment of the recruitment team if they were just deemed better than the new recruits, but I can’t see that being the case.

Trouble is, think it was reported that he wanted to go back home to Spain - can’t see him coming to the UK again sadly.

I’d have to say it’s a 7/10 for me right now and the rationale is quite simple… Pro’s: 1. with the number of incoming players, it’s easy to forget how much of a task was in front of Spors moving the lesser unsuitable players onwards. I believe Spors has done a remarkably decent job - the list of outgoings is long and while we’ve also lost our best players in Rambo, Dibling and Fernandes, we’ve also gained crucial rebuild funds. 2. the incoming players appear to be of a generally decent level and in terms of numbers, provide a healthy turnaround in 1st team make-up, particularly in creative attacking intent - time will tell of course whether they can all gel and importantly whether Still can get a tune out of them. Cons: 1. there appears to be a continued ‘blindness’ to the deficiencies in Bazunu and Stephens competency, which in terms of the latter is a difficulty masked by the Captaincy. This chink in the armour of the spine of the team will continue to plague results I fear. Manning as LB adds to the defensive weaknesses we’ve seen, however the window may have possibly solved this. 2. the only true striker addition is Downs and so far, he doesn’t appear to have the necessary guile to make a huge impact, although again it’s early days and the midfield/winger additions may influence his output greatly. It just feels like it’s an area that has once again received a lack of attention, although AA, Stewart and Archer with their past performances could very well be enough to fire Saints to the top…we’ll see.

Yeah, my immediate thought - too cultured a player for the cloggers at Millwall. Will improve their squad immediately though.

Odds for Capt Jack to see red?

Bloody hell - that’s quicker than Jonno quick! 😉😂

Think we’ll have the better of the dirty sods, but it’ll be a tense affair. 2-1.

Another addition where he looks great on paper - fingers crossed he hits the ground running because I’d prefer to see Manning get splinters from the bench.

Not only was it miles out, but the ball hit the net a little over half-way up, so had he positioned himself better (and didn’t have concrete legs) he might have had a fighting chance to save it.

Absolutely spot on.

A keeper that positions himself properly and has more spring in his legs than a brick might have a chance. Kettle. Black. Pot. See above ^^^.

And that’s why we need a decent keeper…he’s stone legs personified.

However, he can take a mean free kick! 🤣🤣🤣

What damned liability Manning is…fake defender.