Lighthouse

Jones would have won 3-0.

A month ago most neutrals would have said Millwall aren’t beating Southampton away. Last night someone said sticking a tenner on Leeds was like printing free money. Whatever the odds are, anything can happen in any given game.

Scotsmen writing 'A' instead of 'I' when typing in the first person. You've literally misspelled a one letter word.

Pulling your small one is never a poor decision, IMO.

Bookmakers have a word for people like you; welcome.

I would happily drive Che Adams to Shakhtar Donetsk, if they wanted him, then stay for three days to help him build IKEA furniture.

We are though, aren’t we. It’d be a brave man to bet on us but we’re not out of it.

Fraser definitely, that’s a fair point. Brooks I want to say yes but I’d like to see a bit more consistency. There were games like Millwall where he was nonexistent. Mason Holgate has 126 PL apps for Everton (and 1 rather hilarious app for Sheff Utd), I can’t say that’s a particularly accurate barometer. Ultimately I think Bednarek, Stephens and most of the others mentioned are decent Championship player, nothing more. That’s my reasoning for my initial assertion that the playoffs are the bare minimum, rather than top two. If we come 4th with a points total that would have beaten the Blades last season then so be it. Not great, not terrible.

I think you’re overrating a lot of those players. KWP, yep no arguments but the rest are not PL players. Bednarek - Consistently looked a weak link, every year he played under Ralph. I’ve never thought he looked comfortable at that level and neither did Villa. Stephens - Again, only ever a weak link in a team likely to be fighting PL relegation. Smallbone - Crap at PL level. Looked decent enough without being special at mid-table, Championship Stoke. Sully - Sh*te. Danny N’Guessan in a posh frock. Has done absolutely nothing at either level outside of two goals in a dead rubber against Liverpool. Edozie - Raw potential and inconsistent at this level, did nothing last year. Bree - Decent but he’s competing with by far our best player in his natural playing spot. Stu - Not been anywhere near decent at PL level since he caught Covid. Seems to have re-settled into some form a level down. Aribo - Lazy and useless for all of last season. Looks quality down here in patches but can’t even nail down a starting spot. AA - Yep, fair enough his tenacity will always bag him a decent goal haul against Championship defences. He is somewhat sporadic and reliant on defensive mistakes. Ultimately, if you told me right now we’re definitely getting promoted, KWP, THB and Downes are literally the only three players I’d want in the team next year.

Ipswich.

A lot of people say this but however you try and spin it we are comfortably ahead of 5th in the table for a reason. It’s not as if the likes of WBA and Coventry have do or die, death or glory players, who never make mistakes under pressure and always grind out results in tough games. Ultimately they’re a lottery, although more often than not the better teams in third or fourth do triumph.

But in terms of actually playing as a coherent team, they were. The second half of last season was completely rudderless, we went into every game without a clue of how to achieve anything. Mostly Selles just set us up to only lose 2-0. Leeds and Leicester were at least in a bit of a fight to try and stay up. They’ve both got good managers and are playing well but we’ve closed the gap to them, relatively speaking. Plus we’ve lost Lavia and JWP, who were 2/3 of the players to come out of last season with even a glimmer of credibility.

Don’t be so silly! Spanners are very useful and would be good for keeping everything tight.

Games like busses etc. What do we reckon, stick out the youth team just to p*ss off the top two? 😏

Given where we were last season, I'd have said getting into the playoffs was a decent enough season. You have to bare in mind we were hopeless and starting from scratch. I'd also be prepared to give Martin some slack for two reasons: For some reason we decided the solution to our very obvious, glaring striker shortage was to take a punt on someone who'd been injured for a year. As such we're still trying to get goals out of the useless Adams and Mara. The form of the top three really has been crazy and we could well post a score which would sometimes win the league but only earns a distant fourth.

Hopefully our shooting is better than his.

No, Abbas. Not been involved in the squad at all by the looks of it and now missing from the team photo.

Why change the habit of a lifetime?

Nonsense, the Russian military would never make such a mistake. This was done by Ukrainian Nazis working with *sticks hand into hat full of paper* … The Real IRA.

Anyone know if Bas is likely to be around this season? Not featured in any of the warm up games and on his Instagram he appears to be training somewhere which is definitely not in the U.K.

I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would actively want Saints to fail promotion two years in a row, just to play a playoff game against Pompey.

I wonder if there’s a poster on Welshweb called (Not the) Keiffer Moore.

Che Adams could have tried that 40 times…

Here’s the headline you didn’t know you needed today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68664644

A sport in which it has always been complete nonsense separating genders anyway. I get the point with football and athletics but who the f**k can’t compete physically with Andy ‘The Viking’ Fordham?