Lighthouse

The biggest problem in defence, this season and last is Wood, not the keeper. Peretz first league game last season was a 2-1 home defeat to Hull, where we were still playing the back five with Wood in the middle. Then we drop him and revert to a back four, with the added advantage of a proper target man in the team in Larin, and suddenly we’re defending properly and winning games. Then at the end of the season Wood comes back into the team, suddenly we’re shipping bags of crappy goals again, as in the 2-2 draws with Bristol and Ipswich. This season Wood is regularly in the team and we’ve not kept a clean sheet in eight games, nine if you count that West Ham sh*t show. Even the game he didn’t start, up at Lincoln, we brought him on in the 85th minute and conceded three minutes later.

If Peretz is out, I expect we’d play Ramsdale even though he’s not normally on the bench, much like we did with McCarthy when Bazunu got injured in 2024. Or at least that’s what I hope would happen.

Yep, moving this to the Israel thread because it seems some of the details were erroneous this morning. RAF Fairford.

Genuine question, for anyone else who knows more about this than me, but have they actually broken any UEFA or CL specific rules? If they’ve only broken English PSR in the PL I’m not sure they’ll face any legal proceedings regarding European competitions.

I’ll get the ball rolling on this by offering my sincerest apologies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw980g1lem5pt A fight breaks out in the cockpit between a Russian and a Ukrainian pilot on a flight from Dubai to Israel.

So two players who chose to leave, which we were powerless to prevent, and another who we let go because he'd done nothing on loan in League 1, needed a fresh start and is now doing fairly well for the mighty Bristol City.

£5m will do. He’ll have one year left next summer and nobody is willing to pay more. Get him off the books.

I can’t think of a single player I ‘regret letting go’ under SR. I couldn’t wait to see the back of 90% of them.

If we do end up with a new manager, in whatever circumstances, he will almost certainly be briefed that Ramsdale is unavailable and that we’re actively pursuing options to offload him in January. This isn’t ’Tonda rules’ it’s a financial necessity.

As much as we ought to congratulate the Israelis on the truly heroic achievement of being less popular than Gavin Bazunu on Saints web, I feel that discussion is best held in the Lounge, where there is already a thread.

How is reporting direct quotes from City’s owners having a ‘pro-City campaign’ and why would the BBC want that?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/40501741/dani-osvaldo-intensive-care-lung-operation/ This doesn't sound to good. Whilst he clearly isn't a popular figure at St Mary's, I hope he pulls through this alright.

"Look guys, I know we invaded your country five years ago with the expressed intention of wiping it out, saying you don’t have any right to exist, blowing up schools and hospitals, committing war crimes, raping teenage girls and dumping their corpses in the streets. We’re still really keen on doing all of this, we’re throwing every man we’ve got into the Donbas meat grinder to try and conquer your land and launching as many drones as we can get into civili buildings with no intention of giving up and leaving you alone… …. But these retaliations are just completely unfair. Blowing up our oil refineries is really bad for our exports and where the f**k are we supposed to get our waffle makers from if you keep blowing up our Wildberries depots?! From now on, please could you only employ retaliation we don’t actually care about, like a pop concert where everyone is waving flags or some strongly worded #nomoreinvasion tweets."

I assume most of these players have got some decent holidays lined up because they’ve completely checked out of this season.