Lighthouse

Last season we won quite a few games with late goals, so we were clearly doing something right. I highly doubt we got promoted and said, "alright, fitness isn’t important any more, let’s go down the waffle house." Liverpool just look like a team at the opposite end of the confidence and belief spectrum to us.

I wouldn’t say we looked unfit so much as devoid of confidence and belief, which losing every week tends to take from you.

You don’t have to defend anything if the ball just gets blown well over everyone’s head and out for a throw in or goal kick, which is happening to both sides ATM. Our best attack of the game just came from a low, direct pass into Fernandes, who played a neat through ball to Dibling.

Why? Anything long or up in the air is going to be blown off course. It’s a night for keeping it down on the deck and relatively short.

Farage looks like a man who has never seen someone fold their arms before, only read about it in books.

Agree to disagree I guess. Numerically, last season was 12 points and 10 goals better than 06/07, I always felt like we were in a fight with three decent teams, rather than just scraping into the mix at the end, like Burley's team did. My combined team would probably be: Bazunu KWP Baird THB Bale Downes Pele Armstrong Surman Skacel Rasiak

We could play him anyway and get a 3-0 forfeit for fielding an ineligible player. Just saying.

Cheers for that, I'll check it out. Incidentally, Anne Summers are selling a gimp mask, ball gag and leather thong set for 20% off, if anybody wants to wear something slightly less degrading and humiliating.

I thought they made energy efficient lightbulbs but apparently he was actually a footballer as well.

I think crawling through 500 yards of sh*t smelling foulness is a great metaphor for this season.

F**k me, Diallo, I forgot he ever existed in a Saints shirt. Possibly the biggest non-entity footballer we've ever had, I literally can't remember one thing he did here.

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Derby were worse than us. They weren’t even that good in the Championship, they just sh*thoused every team they played.

Burley scraped into sixth with three wins late in the season, then choked the playoffs to the worst team ever to be promoted. Last season was far better.

Never in a month of Sundays. We’ll do well to get 20. Agree A tall order I wouldn’t get your hopes up, this isn’t a squad full of goals. Depends entirely on the luck of the draw. We might nick a 1-0 but I can’t see how we’d ever manage a walloping.

Sounds great. Now if we could just sell a few players we could make it even okayer ready for summer.

Slightly off topic but I can't for the life of me understand people betting on something as mundane as who the next manager of a football club is going to be.

I wouldn't say last season was one of my favourites ever but it was enjoyable and ultimately we achieved our objective. We were only a point behind what Adkins achieved and we started at the complete opposite end of the spectrum in terms of confidence and cohesion. After that difficult August and September we looked consistently decent and basically matched the three teams above us in terms of results.

Achievement is relative. Adkins took Scunthorpe to 15th in the Championship but he did a cracking job for us. I’m not saying Rohl is the right man and I’ve not seen enough of Wednesday to really have much of an opinion, but he has definitely moved them up in the world from when he took over.

A quick search of the word ‘hate’ yields 108 posts. I’m not going to trawl through all of them to see who is saying what but I’m fairly sure those posters weren’t saying ‘chateau’. That’s not even touching on the posts using the words ‘c*nt, pr*ck, d*ckhead’ etc. without actually using the word ‘hate’. He was hated by a lot of people. If you didn’t then fine, but don’t pretend everything said about him on here was nothing but fair and rational criticism. The stadium expansion debate revolves around the consistency of our attendances, their projected growth, the returns vs expenditure and the increased asset value we can expect from developing St Mary’s. You persistently and deliberately ignored all that because you wanted the argument to be about Martin and being in free fall. Now that he’s been sacked, years before a brick has even been laid, that whole argument looks a bit silly.

We didn't for the Man Utd game.

There's a solid page on the St Mary's expansion thread of you arguing with MLG and trying to make the whole discussion about how terrible Martin is. It's quite clearly hatred, or at the very least an intense and irrational dislike, for a fair number of fans. Some of the insults and nastiness on this thread go well beyond what is a reasonable way to talk about the manager of a football team, who in spite of everything actually wanted to be here and wanted to succeed. Compare that to someone like ABK, who people are clamouring to be in the team despite apparently being an absolute helmet with no desire to play for us at all.

I just want to scrape enough points to beat Derby's record. That's it really.

A good window for me would be selling five players and bringing in nobody. That way we'd at least set ourselves up for next season, with a few off the wage bill and a bit of money stashed away or used to pay off debt. KWP can be one of them, sell him cheap now rather than let him go free in summer. It's not like he's done much.

Bit of a nothing game for us really but I suppose we've got to turn up at least. If we've got nothing better to do, please can we at least go with a basic 4-2-3-1 and not get embarrassed. McC KWP - THB - Bednarek - Manning/Taylor Aribo - Downes Armstrong - Dibling - Fernandes Archer Something like that