Verbal

Looks a bit like we're playing the team with subs from the start, then bringing on the first team in the second half.

Yep, it's gone the same way as the other one.

According to my Arsenal-obsessed son, no one vaguely credible on their various forums thinks this. We'll see...

Any good?

The idea might be to do what Fulham (and others) did a couple of seasons ago - let a talented player out on loan in the hope/expectation that we're in the Prem next season and he'll be back.

Can still see KWP slipping away, so expect Charles in the back four with Holgate at RB (?) If Adams is still here he'd surely lead the line, and AA to play at 8. But then again who knows...?

You're going to look pretty silly when we sell everything and groundshare with AFC Totton.

Did you hear this from the horse's mouth or did you pop round and get it from the other end?

If this were an accurate reflection on how they actually think about their ownership of the club they're fucking idiots. I don't believe that SR are idiots.

Bugger

You mean he's toast? Or he couldn't give a toffee? I'm confused by new expressions.

He had Harvey Elliott teeing them up at Blackburn, which would have helped...

Finally, a properly worded question. He's injured (?)

Here: "We would be furious if we never got that?"

Godammit, has AA still not put his pronouns on his Insta?

Good team, but not sure writing BAZ extra big is going to stop us conceding.

[Edit: in reply to Turkish's "So it's no longer a game..."] Well you can, so long as you acknowledge that, historically, the women's team's achievement could be greater, because women's football in Britain had to recover from the sexual apartheid rules introduced by the FA in 1921, when it banned women's football on member grounds - a ban only lifted in 1970 (and recovery since 1970 has been painfully slow). So rather than 1966, 1921 is the relevant date - we're a little more than a century on from when the FA deemed football "quite unsuitable for females." Not that it was plain sailing for the men's game, where the maximum wage for players persisted until 1961 - just five years before the WC win - when it was £20 pw. So it's all quite nuanced - except to say that success on the international stage only really happened after (effective) professionalisation in both the men's and women's games.

Paging @CB Fry "If they win on Sunday, they will become the first England football team to lift the major trophy since 1966." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66524191

Not sure if this is football related or Saintsweb posters related.

A finer encomium is hard to imagine

How could you have a hipster index and not include 'La Pausa'? It's practically all they talk about in the home cafes round our way.

Interesting snippet from an insider from another club last night: Mourinho was apparently a bit of a data nut about set pieces and spent a lot of time complaining about corners. He argued there was a slightly higher chance of the attacking team conceding from a corner than scoring from one. Also, around 40% more balls from a corner are delivered straight into the box in the Prem than with other major European league. He believed it was just a British cultural thing, and he hated committing his best defenders forward, leaving a lone full back or midfielder vulnerable to counterattack. Even he, though, had to send players forward in the usual way, presumably in some part because of fan pressure. Long story short, maybe our new set-piece specialist coach will be looking at issues like this to exploit the apparent advantage bigger teams have at corners... Anyway, all FWIW.

Not quite, because based on past judgements, if they want to be here, the club want them to be here, and the fans want them to be here, they're likely to be crap.

How big was your pram to hold this many toys?