Lighthouse

That looks like a still from one of Bonnie Blue's videos.

If more than a third of those supposed 806 fighter/interceptors are combat airworthy, I'll eat one of them. Russia has nothing that can lay a glove on an F35, their planes get shot down by second hand, eighties built F16s.

Maybe?! 🤣 Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, around 35 years ago, Russia's overall defence spending has been roughly level with our own. That's the UK, not NATO collectively. Yet here is Alexei, sharing graphics which claim that Russia has over 800 fighter/interceptor aircraft. You really have to admire Russian efficiency, being able to keep eight times the number of aircraft we have airworthy on a very similar budget.

I’d say the summer of 2007 was level with 2024 as the most utterly bewildering I’ve seen as a Saints fan. Euell and John - Completely unnecessary and on huge wages Adam Hammill - Did naff all. Bennett - Hopelessly out of his depth. Thomas - Absolute panic buy for £1.2m when Burnley wanted about £300k. Safri - The most vanilla ball recycler we’ve ever had (still hasn’t officially left, according to our OS).

Some weird picks in there. Perry was a decent, experienced player at a time when we were falling apart. Lucketti also did fine in his brief time here. Tadders scored our goal of the season before getting a serious injury, so I'm not sure he counts either. Gardos had a few decent games for us too. He was backup to Toby but largely fine when called up.

Caceres was signed as short term cover after we sold Fonte. He was never part of our long term plans so we barely played him. Danso was not a good player and didn't look ready for PL football.

He’s an odd one, Alberto. The last couple of seasons he’s been averaging just under a goal every other game in Brazil. On the flip side his blooper reel makes Shane Long look like Del Piero.

Depends whether you're criteria is who we wasted the most money on, or who were litterally the worst players. If it's the latter then there are far, far worse players than pretty much anyone in the OP. Anthony Pulis, Tommy Forecast, Stephen O'Halloran, Iago Falque, Aledine Yahia, Vincent Pericard, Nicholas Bignall, Zoltan Liptak, Romain Gasmi and Marcello Sarmiento were all useless here and did f**k all anywhere else.

TBF Azaz should have had a hattrick and we'd have been walking away from a 5-1.

On the flip side, he does need to accept that he's bald and just shave it all off.

You can't argue with two back to back wins, however they come, especially in our position. First time since West Brom and Leeds in the playoffs, if we're talking league matches. Hardly polished performances and plenty to criticise but you can only beat what's in front of you. Most importantly, we're back closer to the playoffs than the drop zone, so the new bloke has something realistic to work towards after the international break. Best I've seen Fellows and Manning play for a while. I'm not sure how Leo, decent as he was, got MotM ahead of the former. Good to see Azaz on the scoresheet and Armstrong showing why it would have been madness to sell him in summer.

Howell has left the club and joined Notts. Fairly happy with that personally, he had his moments but last season was patchy to say the least.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for the absolutely mental conversation that some of you seem to think took place when we hired Still. Spors: "So, Will, you're a promising young manager with a decent record in French football, we think you're the right man to take us forward in the Championship." Still: "Okay, I'm interested, tell me more." Spors: "Well first of all, we're going to decide what formation the team plays, not you." Still: "Errrr.... why." Spors: "Well, even though we got promoted two years ago playing a back four for the majority of the season, including our longest unbeaten run for a century, we absolutely insist on playing a back five this time." Still: "Well, if you say so." Spors: "Also, even though we signed Amo-Ameyaw, Lis, Bella-Kotchap, Mara, Caleta-Car, Edozie, Larios, Orsic, Alcaraz, Bree, Onuachu, Sulemana, Taylor, Sugawara and Brereton Diaz, then binned them off when they were deemed not good enough, for some reason we're going to insist that you absolutely must play the worst goalkeeper in Championship history at all times." Still: "Why?" Spors: "Because profits. Once every scout in Europe has seen that he's the worst goalkeeper in England, clubs will be queueing up to sign him for £30m." Still: "Anything else?" Spors: "Yes, we're going to sign some of the leagues best and most expensive AM players from last year. You're going to say they suit your prefered formation, then hardly play them, just to troll the fans." Still: "Okay, that sounds sane and reasonable, sign me up." Spors: "Great, also sign this NDA saying that when it all goes tits up, we sack you and everyone thinks you're useless, you have to stay completely silent and pretend it was all your fault the whole time." Still; "Ah, awesome, this sounds like a great idea and definitely wont be the end of my managerial career at the age of 33. .... .... Still: "BTW FU, I'm sometimes going to play McCarthy and a 4-2-3-1, just for teh lolz!!"

I know some people love a good conspiracy but that’s quite obviously not what’s going on. Five at the back is a legit formation, used by a lot of managers, Bazunu is being picked ahead of Alex McCarthy, not Lev Yashin. Still would not have accepted the job under those stipulations, which he’s spent half the season ‘ignoring’ anyway.

We reverted to a four at half time but it looked like nobody had a clue what they were doing second half, so not surprising that we’ve stuck with the formation we’ve started with since Hull. Like I said, the interim manager was never likely to make significant changes. He’s here to keep things ticking over.