HarvSFC

Great to see Gakpo and Ramos in form during the World Cup. They’ll be full of confidence when they return for Boxing Day.

Seeing Yoshida and Lovren do the coin toss as captains was a reminder of what we used to have. Minamino and Yoshida missing penalties, also a reminder, but more of a current one.

So, they didn't run away with the league again after going unbeaten in their first 9. You'd think their fans would finally learn after going ten years without second tier football.

Meghoma from Spurs joined in the summer too, 16, another one highly rated in the youth system with caps for the England Under 15 and 16s.

Wasn't up for the fight for Bournemouth and massively let them down in their relegation season. Not what we need.

Not quite. They went into January sat in 19th place with 11 points from 19 matches. We're sat in 19th place with 12 points from 15 matches and have six more points available before January, which could take us several places higher if all results were to go our way as we're only 2 points adrift at the moment. The difference being they could offer a significant financial incentive were they to continue their poor form, while we've only got Premier League football to entice players and at the moment that position is looking precarious, but not fatal.

Do we know if Wales were told you only get three group fixtures in the World Cup and they needed to win tonight?

FFS, we'll probably have to close block 1 and 2 because of those events. Awaiting the long email regarding how our hooliganism has influenced the innocents of Goztepe.

Jones has converted to satanism and summoned the devil to play upfront for us.

Regularly hit double figures for Arsenal and that was often from that wide position. 18 goals in 67 Champions League appearances, which is perceived to be the highest level. 21 in 43 in 2012-13 and 19 in 37 in 2016-17. Finishing might have been his weakness, but if he was any good now, his finishing would have been a huge improvement on anything we currently have and would have been a good addition to Ings.

This goalkeeper’s been paid off, but strangely he plays for Qatar.

So, that want corrupt at all.

I always remember his two goals against Dagenham and Redbridge as standouts:

I've previously been on board with the narrative of re-signing players I've once enjoyed in a Saints shirt. I was excited when Walcott re-signed, thinking he'd bring something different to our team and that he was a natural finisher with experience, even if his pace had started to wane. How wrong I was, he's turned out to be a huge waste of wages and a squad place, which we can't replace until his contract expires. He's become the 2022 unsellable and has declined far below the current level we're playing at. This also made me hesitant when the Bale rumours started in the summer, and again, some were on board with it, but most know club football isn't for him anymore and he's started just twice in 17 matches in the MLS this season. Would've been another costly mistake. Oxlade-Chamberlain is now, also very similar to Walcott and Bale. A crock who spends more time with the physio than he does on the pitch and will be asking for a high wage, as he also made it to the top clubs. All of these players are on the decline and they're declining to a level below us. We have good memories of what they were, but possibly like Rooney did, they've now burnt out to a lower level because they went straight into the first team when they were young because they were once that good. Plus, Oxlade-Chamberlain isn't even the winger we had, like Maitland-Niles he has some weird complex about being a central midfielder, rather than his best position where most managers played him. So, I'd avoid him.

Obvious ones been mentioned in Wayne Thomas vs Ipswich, Cuco Martina vs Arsenal and Sofiane Boufal vs West Brom, so I'll go for Tadanari Lee's one league goal against Derby at 5:40 in the video below:

The situation isn't peril. We're six points off 12th, so we're still very much in touching distance of mid-table and two wins could put us in some comfort. We just need to get those attackers in January as soon as possible so we don't lose any more games cheaply and missing good chances. Liverpool announced Van Dijk in December, that'll do. Or, we could go on one of those unbeaten runs that many predicted Burnley to go on last season so they'd catch us.

You'd hope that both Wolves and Forest spent their January striker budgets in the summer. Forest bought Awoniyi and Dennis for a combined £40m, while Wolves put £15m down on Kalajdzic to be their main man, only for an injury to scupper it, while Diego Costa and Raul Jimenez will be on a good wage too and nobody's taking on the latter after his injury problems. From looking around Wolves signed Edozie's brother in the summer, he was playing for Bromley.

Didn't really take much notice until he said in his post match press conference, but it would have been easier to sit out yesterday's match and take charge after the World Cup with a clean slate and more importantly easier fixtures. The new Wolves manager didn't take charge of their defeat against Arsenal yesterday despite being announced 5 days prior to Jones. The same happened with Emery at Villa also, announced on the 24th October, but didn't take charge of the 4-0 defeat against Newcastle on the 29th, giving himself 13 days to work and learn the squad before his first match on the 6th November. So, he deserves some credit there for not hiding from the Liverpool fixture and making himself accountable, as could have been a far worse start than 3-1.

Bielsa only knows how to play one way. Like Ragnick, the hipsters made out as though he was the second coming. However, once, his primary game plan wasn't working, he didn't know what to do. Hence the many thrashing Leeds received. He's basically a worse version of Hasenhuttl, but for some reason he actually does have a cult following.

League One clubs aren’t having a World Cup break, whereas we’ll be restarting our season. That should hopefully be the only factor that causes the match to be a tight one. We just need to get to a semi final and hope the only other three clubs remaining are Football League clubs. It’s happened before. 🤷‍♂️

At least he's got two of his own men coming with him. As said earlier in the week, Mick Harford, who is very valued at Luton and is in temporary charge now is pretty much Mr. Luton, so he would been impossible to get. Hopefully, we've got two good, young and up and coming coaches in Cohen and Sheehan, who I remember from our League One days. The problem with Hasenhuttl was that after Rohl left he didn't really have another individual of a traditional coaching team with him and that was clear on the touchlines. https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/2022/november/nathan-farewell/ Gave a nice farewell to the Luton fans also. Far better than anything we've ever got from our leavers. Time to get behind him and the team. I was apprehensive regarding the Pochettino appointment and that was a success, so hopefully this is another case of me being proved wrong and those that get paid the big money to find the individuals have identified something that we're missing.

Getting through the tie without a manager was the key. It wasn’t against the League One Skates, so despite being slightly embarrassing tonight, nobody’s going to remember it in the long run. Six Premier League sides dropped out tonight, including Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea. We all know City are going to win it, but there’s an opportunity here and it’s the hope that gets you as a Saints fan.

Brentford found/had a better alternate option in the Championship in Frank, which would imply we could find a better alternate option in the Premier League.

Says he's flattered to be linked with us and calls us a wonderful Premier League club. Semmens needs to drill it into him quick that we're plucky little underdogs who are lucky to be in the position we are. Side note, also smaller than Goztepe.