Lighthouse

He has played four full seasons in the Championship, been promoted twice, one in the PL and has played for England. He has proven everything he’s going to at this level, his stock won’t be worth any more a year from now, even if we win the league with 110 points.

I didn’t say it wasn’t useful and it will certainly give us a bit more freedom when it comes to signing replacements for the players we do sell. My point is it’s not going to change the fact that there will be a couple of big sales, THB likely being one of them.

THB isn’t going to want to loiter around for another season of Championship football no matter what we pay him, which is already likely to be top dollar at this level. We will also need to make money from sales and £6.5m isn’t going to make a lot of difference to that.

A man who wants more first team football and money.

Last year’s kits were launched on the 3rd, 17th and 31st July. I assume it’s just to spread out the news during the summer down time.

I’m watching Bear Grylls on the other screen. Got an acca on Algeria, Portugal, England to win and Bear to eat a dead pine marten.

Guys, we aren’t getting Hornby. He’s already signed for Torpedo Moscow. Wait, I think I f**ked that joke up.

Nobody is suggesting we should pay his full wages, or that he is the same player he was at his peak with us. If he was, he’d be signing for a mid table PL team, not a Championship one.

Another player who absolutely nobody would want if he hadn’t already played for us. Twice now he has left, had ‘issues’ and wanted out almost immediately. Saints aren’t a comfort blanket he can just keep running back to whenever he needs to sort his life out. He can go and do that somewhere else.

VAR is a tool and it’s only as effective as the idiot using it. The technology is sound.

Calling countries by their actual names is bloody woke nonsense. Bring back fixtures I’m familiar with. Yugoslavia vs. Siam Zaire vs. Czechoslovakia Kingdom of Aragon vs. Belgian Congo

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/topic/60961-rupert-lowe/

As much as I’d like to be nice, I can’t help but feel that the number of PL appearances he made was a pretty tragic indicator of how poorly we’ve recruited goalkeepers over the years. Gunn and Bazunu aren’t PL players and he only got on the pitch at all because of Forster’s personal issues. Giving him a new contract two years ago really just showed how rudderless our recruitment was after Wilcox left. Still, on the upside he was once PotS and helped keep us up in 2018, so we can always be grateful for that. Good luck in the future Alex.

It was always a slightly fanciful signing if we’re being honest. The guy had been retired for six months and been playing in a league which was much less intense, so some of the suggestions that he’d be our fittest player and should go straight into the starting XI as captain were a tad optimistic. Having said that, I had hoped he might be good for 20 minutes here and there, so it was a bit sad to see what he actually produced on the pitch. I’ve never subscribed to the ‘great lad to have in the dressing room’ philosophy, especially after recent ‘contributions’ from Lallana and Walcott but I’ve no doubt he was at least a small positive influence on our squad. Good luck in your retirement Rom!

Good luck to him. We knew it was a risk when we signed him, if he had been fit in that first season he’d have been a hell of a player for us. Ultimately though, he has been here three years and even now he looks gassed after 60 minutes and can’t start two games in a week. I doubt that’s going to change after he turns 30 in a couple of weeks. People wishing him injury need to grow us, that really is just sad. His contract expired, he’s well within his rights to leave. It’s like reading Liverpool fans whinge about Trent, all over again.