Lighthouse

So a player scoring a rebound literally because he was offside and therefore nearer the ball than the defenders is now, ‘the Lino bailing him out’? Sounds like you’re in for a very miserable and frustrating season.

For Adams I agree, but I don't think we're looking to replace the likes of Paul and Djenepo. They can just leave.

When was the last time something like that ever happened to Saints? Even before SR, if we were selling our better players it was usually earlier on in the window and we had plenty of time to find replacements. I can't imagine we'd sell Adams unless we're almost certain there's a replacement lined up.

Statistically the goal Baz conceded at Plymouth and the one Taibi conceded against Tiss are both the same.

Nope.

And the argument that people should be trading in perfectly decent cars to go and buy a sub £2k, 15 plus year old cheap banger to save the planet is even weaker.

Perhaps I should have been more specific. A ULEZ compliant car which is sub £2k, big enough for a family, well built, reliable, affordable to run, comfortable and as Weston pointed out doesn’t actually emit more pollution and cost more to tax as a result.

Hopefully Wood can stiffen us up a bit.

Well that’s that sorted then, everyone just needs to go out and buy a nearly 20 year old hatchback with three previous owners. Apparently that car is better for the environment than a 2015 diesel.

I agree and I can’t personally imagine wanting to read out an impact statement in any case. It’s impossible to know how I’d really feel, without actually going through what those poor parents have, but I can’t see why I’d want to do that. The woman has just murdered a bunch of defenceless babies for her own sadistic pleasure, the idea that she’s going to exhibit any kind of genuine remorse to anything you say is completely facile.

Day five hundred and something of the special military operation. Air bases near St Petersburg are now under attack.

Who could forget Marlon King coming to SMS with Brum, back in 2011. The Northam had an absolute field day with that one.

Given that we’ve got to replace Lavia, JWP, AMN and Diallo and so far we only have Downes, Charles and Smallbone, I’d still say we’re a man light. Stu can do a job in a shortage but I’d still prefer a fourth option.

The football equivalent of a psychic telling an audience, “I’m getting the name John.”

If ever a player and the Saudi league were a match made in heaven…

Petrol only, Diesel have to be 2016 or later.

Me neither. £2,000 on a Ulez compliant car sounds like a Top Gear challenge, where they all go out and buy a Daihatsu, a Lada and a Daewoo, all with 150k on the clock, and hilarity ensues. My first car was a second hand Daewoo Kalos and it cost more than double that.

The miserable, negative, downbeat Saints fan in me says classic banana skin. Trying to be pragmatic though, it’s hard to see us as anything other than big favourites for this one. I’ll say 3-1 and the clean sheet still eludes us.

Weren’t our best players from this season (so far) and last season both Man City kids?

Adrian Mutu scored twice on his Chelsea debut, these things do happen.

Pickford millimetres away from chinning Watkins there, Everton look awful. 😆

A separate thread for people who're definitely not interested in women's football to discuss it ad nauseum.

So your criticism of him today is that he might have conceded from a 1 on 1 with a player who was unmarked, but he didn’t? Have any other keepers ever conceded from a striker 1v1, through on goal? Buffon perhaps or Lev Yashin?

The only goal he conceded today was from a winger losing his man and putting in an uncontested cross, which was slammed in from 8 yards by another man who lost his marker. The fact that you would then update us all with that statistic just shows how much bullsh*t it (and that nonsense about being the worst ever keeper in the Premier League) really is for assessing a players performance.

Absolutely phenomenal today, telling Tella and Adams to shoot on target was ultimately what won us the game.