rallyboy

How did they get on in their play-off first leg tonight?

Fire up the Hero-Villainometer, assemble the revolting peasants, gather a bucket of dog shit - last week's no.1 now qualifies for hate mail! Judas! 😡

There have been way too many glaring errors to pick a winner. Probably the worst season I can remember for really obvious mistakes, truly dreadful refereeing and VAR through the middle of the season, beyond laughable. But as some keep reminding us, these errors even themselves out....🤣 So I'm looking forward to us benefiting from a dozen dodgy penalties/offsides/handballs/red cards in consecutive games sometime soon - and of course the extra ten points that would change our season.

We spent big to get out of League One. They've now been there so long they've spent even bigger not to. That said it might be nicer there than getting hammered every week in the bigboy Championship. They've found their level, and it's a good effort for a club that only formed in the last decade.

Young player who has proved nothing at the highest level considers that he's good enough - the manager gives him an amazing opportunity. Young player not just fucks up his chance, he fucks it up to such a trainwreck extent that he's part of a catalyst for the whole season going to shit. He then gives it large about how he should be playing. He's done nothing to show he deserves another chance yet, and every time he tells everyone how great he is by asking for a transfer, I become slightly less of a fan of his - on the Saints legends list he's currently sharing a slot with Ali Dia. But I would love for him to leave that behind and turn into a great player for us, and he may do that - but there is a time to shut the fuck up and let your game do the talking. That starts with working hard in training and earning back the respect of the manager and the fans, he's a young kid, I can forgive stupidity, but not arrogance. Hopefully he will turn it round.

He and I differ on many things, but from what I have seen of his taste, we are even further apart on the definition of a tight-cheeked lovely. 🤮

As I keep hearing that the UK leads the world in every field of human endeavour and we're a global powerhouse that is building back better, could we perhaps use some of our power to intervene in Palestine? Could we use our enormous influence to calm the situation on both sides, and perhaps remind Israel that the world is watching?

I make a comment about Boris and his very public links with the media, so you post some Theresa May piece from ancient history that's so irrelevant to the discussion even the Telegraph has dropped it. Bizarre. Just calm down, focus, and try to be kind to people.

When Boris has a reshuffle it'll be packaged by the Telegraph etc as a brave and dynamic indicator of Churchillian leadership. However, Starmer's reshuffle is being sold to the easily-led as a dithering and chaotic work of blundering indecision. I have no strong opinion on how reshuffles are performed, but the PR machine here is working overtime to dripfeed nonesense. Get informed, make up your own mind and be wary of any media that tries to tell you what you should think. You can easily become what you read.

It's all about the rebuild. From the fans' forum it appears that everyone at the club realises this and we're just seeing out this season with what we have, so a few players are playing for their future - though you wouldn't know it from some performances. The alarm bells have gone quiet since Fulham faltered so I'm not too concerned at the moment. But....if we win one out of ten at the start of next season, Ralph's great vision will clearly be in trouble and changes will have to be made. Hold your nerve, judge him on the rebuild.

But we have obscene amounts of money to spend, it's all we're doing at the moment, it might be worth getting a call in. Put a close friend of a minister under the money tree and give it a cheeky shake - voila, Solent Tram Trust! Wait until six months before the next election when the voter bribes are dished out - £500m for 75 metres of track, a bus shelter, extra for trams.

When there are so many instances of MPs talking absolute crap about their own maths, any specific reason you chose to promote that one?

The best thing we did was going straight through the Championship and not getting stuck there for years on end. We went up. It was bloody brilliant. The End.

Utter pony. He wasn't a character who wanted to be the star, he was just a really good referee who imposed himself on players. And don't bother to respond again on my behalf - you lost me after you admitted that you enjoyed the antics of Mike Dean. 😲

The best referees are not characters, they just do the job and no one notices them. Anyone who loves themselves too much should not be given a whistle.

Indeed they should be respected, but that respect gets eroded with every bizarre mistake - and we're not talking ordinary marginal mistakes that occur sometimes, we are talking huge basic errors that no one in their right mind would make. Rugby has got it right - there are so few mistakes that the respect remains and it's good to see. But football has a serious problem with the standard and consistency of refs on the pitch and operating VAR. Some of the weird things that we have seen this year are beyond logical explanation - football stands alone as a sport that has introduced all the correct tools but managed to get officiating this wrong. If anyone needs a rebuild during the summer it's the referees, they've had a shocker of a season.

Farage said the acid test for Brexit would be fishing - the UK fishing industry describes it today as a disaster. Norway is celebrating, the EU must be pissing themselves laughing at us, we appear to have voted away our own fishing rights. Our fish cannot be happy, how can we cheer them up?

So if Vardy stamps on you late, you get nothing, and if you get the ball, you get sent off? That seems fair. I can only imagine some gambling syndicate on the other side of the world made a fortune tonight on a first half red card.

Does the bus company still have an open top double decker? If this squad gets a point they deserve the full city tour.

Are we getting close to our worst ever top flight run yet? It's quite bizarre that had we started the season like this he'd have been gone ages ago. Yes, Ralph has bought himself time, but we were too generous to Pellegrino, for me he's the great lesson in hanging on too long when the obvious is staring you in the face, we only just got away with that one. I'd give Ralph the chance (and some money!) to rebuild in the summer, but if we get to November and nothing has changed, we would have to sack him.

That was unlucky.

You get rid of your former captain and he comes back to score two goals against you as the bottom side beats you comfortably?...on any scale that is a disaster. What with the ESL falling over as well it makes you wonder if Eisner's plan to be a global force by 2030 is still on track. I'm concerned about them now, they seem a little out of sorts.

With Leicester hot favourites for the title, yes.

I do hope the participants have broken Premier League rules and all get relegated. And has anyone come forward and said it's a good idea yet? Bonkers.

On a brighter note, I did enjoy Hoddle and the other twat bigging up the arrival of the footballing genius Maddison - closely followed by his free kick that required accompanying paperwork as it landed in fucking Belgium. Eeyeore could have clipped in a better cross, with his weaker hoof.