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I’ll admit that the club management must know better than I do, however from a supporters perspective this stinks if only for one reason - it’s rewarding failure upon failure. He’s nowhere near good enough or worthy of the Captains armband having Captained the worst Saints team for decades into relegation and yet he’ll be expecting a start every fucking game. What was the point of signing Quarshie, even if Bednarek and ABK departs? The lad is a loser. This really does put into question the leadership of the club and I don’t want to believe this was anything other but forced onto Still because good ‘ol’ Jack the lad is a Saints stalwart. I really thought we’d be ditching the losers like Stephens, Manning and Smallbone. Nope, exhibiting soft as shit management, Saints reward failure with a new contract.

This could be fantastic news if he’s stays. I can’t see him being Englands first choice starter, so there’s no reason he couldn’t be a backup from the Championship.

That’s just too simplistic a view - he may well be mediocre, but under what circumstances? And what does that make the rest of the squad that got relegated - worse than mediocre? It’s more like breaking up with a bad girlfriend because you don’t realise you’re actually not worthy of anyone better.

Edozie is a great example of why this window is extremely difficult to determine who,should stay and who should go. On the one hand we can remember him pre-loan being somewhat ineffective and frustrating - unfulfilled potential perhaps. But then that was under changing management / systems that clearly didn’t fit with the player. So you’re left thinking “perhaps under Still he’ll come good”. But then there’s the additional fact that even on loan in a ‘lesser’ league, he still didn’t excel or indeed fulfill his potential. And lastly, as time has moved on, it might be argued that Edozie is in fact better than some of the players that collectively relegated the club…e.g. Dibling and Sulemana - such has the dilution of squad quality been over the last 3-4 seasons. On balance I think he needs to move on, but if he does what does that leave us with and what confidence is there that the club can attract a better wide player within budget that can operate well under Still? There’s many I’m sure who will be concerned that further squad dilution will be our undoing once again.

If the highlights reel is anything to go by, this chap doesn’t have a lot of goals in him, however I did get the feeling he was a level above his teammates so perhaps there’s that. And he did show a good sense of special awareness in terms of passing to a teammate - seems to be a useful provider rather than just running into a blind alley like Edozie and Dibling. Hopefully the senior strikers like AA and Stewart will work well with him and he’ll learn how to put the ball into the net more clinically well before the end of the season. Minimum expectation from me would be 6-8 goals and 10 assists.

Fuck me, most of these slackers took the entire season off last season!!! 😉😂

Byeee…

As long as Manning is not playing ahead of Welington I’ll be satisfied. If not, I’ll lose a fair bit of respect for Still.

I think we will know very quickly if Downs is the striker we’ve been hankering for. He’ll be mobile in and around the box, he’ll choose to shoot rather than pass or take one too many touches and he’ll work well with his fellow frontmen. If he’s missing any one of those attributes we’ll know we’ve just signed another Mara or at best, just signed more of the same - aka AA, BBD, Archer, Stewart.

So far SR have done their utmost best to model the club on the proverbial Titanic - perhaps this is the final jigsaw piece in that aim? In all seriousness, to be fair this is a good move as it’s nice to see a proper connection with the city instead of the dubious branding of recent years. (…yes MLG, I know P&O were not connected to the Titanic 🙄).

I reckon the chances are that Stewart will start and Downs will come on for the last 15 minutes to run at tired legs. What do you think? 😉

It’s quite possible you missed that I was being a tad facetious in my question, hence the winky. 😂

If the ground capacity is 32500 (for example) does that mean they’ve sold more than 31500 ST’s? I find that hard to believe, but if it’s true then it’s little wonder that a stadium expansion is being talked about! 😉

Meh

Byeee…

Those were the days when we cared about some of the players. Now…not so much.

Sulemana and Onuachu are a good start. Now let’s hope the next two are ABK and Manning.

I’m reminded of our first Championship game of two seasons ago against newly promoted Sheffield Weds. We trounced them because they’d not worked out how to control us and our game. Roll on to the home game and it was a different affair. Wrexham will not be a naive pushover - if our players are as mentally weak as we’ve seen previously we’ll lose this type of game no question.

Can we have the date of the fixture in the title please Mods?

Tell you what, if Guinness Zero is served that’ll be fantastic!

I’m taking this list as those who have played for Saints at some point, had some affinity to the club and had really careers whether before, during or after. With that criteria most of this list I’d have to agree with, although I’d make the following changes (not observing a particular order)… 1. Shearer was hardly here for 2 minutes and has never particularly recalled his time with us with any fondness. Would sub in Beattie. 2. Fonte was instrumental in our rise through the leagues under Markus’ watch, however in terms of pure class I’d have to chose ‘Killer’. 3. Not sure I’d agree on Bates/Franny, although they’ve clearly got a piece of Saints history around them. I’d actually reserve this spot for a future star - for example, despite his teammates putting in a poor shift, Fernandes was a shining star last season and in my view will have a stellar career injuries permitting. It would be awesome if that journey had a bit more longevity at Saints.

Just read a click bait type article off Facebook that he’s getting miffed with Saints holding up a transfer deal (Galatasaray?) because we’re holding out for a high fee. Yeah right.

I win - got the opening game correct, although I did say away. To be fair it’s a great opener, but only if we win of course and that’s nowhere near a definite.

The more I think about it, the more I realise that anything like a mass clear out is unlikely this summer. The out of contract players was a given. Beyond that, it’s difficult to see where deals are going to be done. Sulemana seems to be attracting some attention and Tall Paul has the usual tyre kickers sniffing around. Nothing but newsrag stories around Dibling. Nothing whatsoever (thankfully) as far as I’ve seen on Fernandes (pleeease stay).

I think Sugawara is better than some make out. There were some dubious decisions given against him thanks to VAR bollox and he could do well in a ‘forward looking’ system.