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Well his stock isn’t rising but market inflation should mean someone will pay £70m. Madness City don’t but still would just be funny if no one did and he doesn’t get what he assumed was a formality move.

Too many flipping MP out new manager threads. It has come to something that we now all want Rodgers.

Reading the title of this thread I would have staked my considerable Saintsweb reputation that it was started by that fat miserable fcker. Although maybe I should have seen some uncharacteristic optimism in ‘almost’

Thanks for the replies

Minnie Driver was slaughtering Matt Damon for his comments about different types of abuse. I’d didn’t really get what was so bad about what he said but the point is you can’t know what like unless a woman. On surface I don’t get what is so bad about griezmann’s fancy dress outfit either but Twitter needs to pile on someone to scream racist or sexist every 36 hours. He took it down after first trying to defend it.

Any tips? Always go up by train but driving this time so don’t know whether to park near ground or is there better options a few tube stops away?

It doesn’t ignore it you simpleton. Clearly how many and what type of chances you create and concede matters. But you have been smart and realised people are really hoping the traditional points system will be replaced by xG eventually. Don’t forget to campaign against them with the only one thing matters argument.

Last season I don’t remember seeing anything as poor as Wolves, Watford, Burnley and Leicester performances this season and we are not even halfway through, If thick tw ats can’t make a connection that thinking it was all Puel and successful entertaining football was just a managerial appointment away ( I know it is natural to be optimistic) they could at least acknowledge in hindsight that it wasn’t anywhere as poor as now, It seems their their simple rationale to what has clearly been deterioration is a yeah but shouldn’t haven’t been MP - good effective managers are in short supply and we had a half decent one, Yes entitled cos we don’t have some magic formula over others but recent incredible successes (8th, 7th,6th,8th) lead to entitlement of continual over achievement - fck me even Adkins is thought of as an underachiever by some.

About time we had another hashtag painted on some seats to cheer everyone up. We mock Everton for first dug outs but our guys made a thing of that being a ‘first’ Problem with PR and football is that we are tribal and cynical bastards and when things ain’t going well this vacuous guff is nauseating. Although I find it cr ap at all times and demoralising when people lap it up.

V poor today. They all played like they’d been got at.

Surely less for Benteke?

Retort

I generally hate thick people

How can our fixtures get harder? We will have played nearly all teams and guess what? We play them all again. That works for other teams as well

Pain in the arse midweek home games. Even moreso on back of weekend home game. Two aways followed by two homes is sh1t. Freezing too so my appetite for this one isn’t great but hey cannot be tempted by achieving more at work, the warmth and comfort of a stream and the joy of reading the Saintsweb wrist slitters on the match thread. 2-0 win

So you hold the manager responsible for the cup final defeat? Maybe a more assertive presence could have influenced the lino? Staggering that so many always will blame the manager regardless and overlook player and official incompetence. So much fortune in ‘winning’ although guess many think if they look in the mirror and say ‘I will win today’ they will. Coming second is for losers eh although you are wrong -it does often win you a prize but guess you’d sneer at an Olympic silver medal. Lawrie Mac let us down in 1984 - didn’t have what it took to win.

Agree Shearer has massively improved. Podcast journos and pundits so much more insightful that the tv mob generally although familiarity breeds contempt I think and only so much you can say and keep it fresh, research helps though! But likes of Talksport guys are just lazy cliched goons aka ‘proper football men’ - not that I ever listen these days. Ian Mackintosh is excellent

I take the p1ss a bit about the new xG stat but actually is one of the more meaningful stats in the days of saturation. Certainly more interesting than passes completed, even possession. This table https://understat.com/league/EPL shows we should have expected to be 8pts ahead of Burnley. Arguably that isn’t really on the manager as down to player opportunism. I am not saying they are the be all an end all of stats but do highlight over and under performance. We are also only side to have out xG’d Man City this season.

Got to go based on substitutions he didn’t make and of course no way of knowing they couldn’t have had real negative outcome. Fck me we have some plums for supporters. Same tw ats clamouring for Puel to go after a 0-0 at Anfield cos we ‘always used to beat the big sides’

It was a pen. Don’t know what the fuss is about.

Klopp being complete pr1ck with Sky reporter.

Very unlikely the council’s emergency planning group would be caught out. Sophisticated forecast planning is the norm these days. Thing is they are not miracle workers and can only prioritise the main roads. And grit doesn’t neutralise several inches of snow.

Weather won’t suit these London spivs. Our battle hardened warriors like Tadic and Boufal will terrorise them.

Next PL TV package will have 200 (of 380) games on tv So more than half. Currently 168. Will also introduce 745 pm on Saturday which will be ok with me. Personally think should have more Friday evening games too but in the minority there. Anyway the much loved Sat 3pm is going to become even rarer unless we get relegated of course. Premier League: Saturday night games among 200 on TV from 2019-20http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42278119

2-0 win. We have turned the tv curse round and don’t we’ve been beat on tv this season. They need to have a wobble and have some inconsistent performers. Hopefully Utd defeat has derailed them. Equally could easily turn on the style and turn us over comfortably.