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TBH I’m beyond caring about people’s opinions on Bazunu but to expect him to make transfer decisions about his future based on an internet forum’s consensus about his ability is just odd.

Most likely his wages are an issue for a lot of Championship clubs, as he was signed in the PL. Having played in said PL and been promoted from the Championship once, he’s unlikely to want to drop to League 1, where he’s already played and been player of the season five years ago with Pompey. As with Ramsdale, we won’t be able to afford to keep him as back up but he won’t be easy to sell either.

We have Larin, Archer, Downs and BBD and that’s if we’re not including Dobbin and Oyekunle in the list. I do expect we’ll sign another striker eventually but I think we’ll wait until we’re sure a couple are leaving before we bring in another.

I’d say we’re only really in the market to replace people who are leaving. There don’t appear to be any holes in our squad until someone leaves. Clearly Ramsdale and Baz will be off, so we can expect a third choice keeper. Beyond that it’ll come down to who stays out of Scienza, THB, Jander and Charles.

Maybe Neal should just open the batting and we can drop Orr, who needs to go and play some regular D2 cricket for a while.

I'm not sure we have the same definition of that idiom, or what exactly I'm supposed to get a grip of (other than pearls, obviously). I'm not the least bit shocked or outraged that we got kicked out of the playoffs or that Tonda may get banned. Probably the most surprising thing for me in this whole saga was that we didn't sack Tonda.

As I’ve said before, if this exact same scenario had played out with Pompey ‘scouting’ one of our training sessions before beating us in the playoffs, I’m sure this forum would be unanimous in agreeing that it’s no big deal and wishing those chaps down the road all the very best of luck in the Premier League. No amount of friends feeling things are going to wash away the fact that we deliberately broke the rules to gain an advantage before a crucial playoff game, knowing full well it wasn’t acceptable after the Bielsa saga seven years ago.

We employed a level of subterfuge, albeit in a laughably bad manner, in order to gain inside information on their entire game plan and formations. It’s like playing blackjack, looking at everyone else’s cards and trying to claim you’re not cheating and the ‘benefit is marginal’.

I think you’ll find he did. Yep, that’s the general idea of having a rule. It was a deliberate ploy to cheat an opponent out of a game potentially worth £200m. I don’t think the ‘no big deal’ argument is going to wash with anybody who isn’t a Saints fan. Absolutely baseless hysteria. The FA have absolutely nothing to gain from punishing Tonda.

I think we got the message the last 41 times you mentioned Salech. He has never even been linked with us and I doubt Cardiff would sell him for anything we could afford. His main strengths as far as I could tell were playing pub football against part time welders. 4 goals in 40 appearances for us in all competitions.

What are your thoughts on Alex Jimenez and Alvaro Rodriguez?

It’s what every football club in the country does.

On what basis?

VectisSaint slapped Keith Chegwin with a haddock covered in marmalade.

F**k!!