Lighthouse

Ipswich remind me of Brighton in League 1 and Reading in the Champ, last time we came up. More consistently a goal or two better than everyone they play, which gives them the points in the table. Head to head over 90 minutes though, most neutrals would be betting on Saints.

Cracking performance from front to back, from start to finish. Cant argue with any of that. Ever since Sully got injured we’ve been a level above anything previous, IMO. I’m not saying it’s all his fault but we’ve looked better going forward with Edozie and now Fraser. Really starting to chew through the GD of teams around us as well.

What he said. We don’t need a new thread every time you post on your blog about some random player and we’re getting a bit bored with having to move these posts every day.

So did Leandre Griffit and he went on to do absolutely f**k all anywhere in his whole career.

Not seen enough of either of them to really comment but it would be a shame not to have Ellis back. I wonder if this was Nathan’s decision or ours.

I've no idea why you'd choose to add your only three posts for four months to a thread you apparently have no interest in. I personally find the CoT the most inane thing on t'internet but it seems to have a certain tongue in cheek appeal to a fair few main board posters, so we haven't moved it to TMS, which is largely empty and just used for storing emergency dining chairs.

McDermott hits 95n/o off Hobart’s 165 to rescue an innings that was 36-5. Does anyone know if he (and Ellis) are back for this years Blast?

‘Sh*tbag’ is probably a bit much but I did start rosining the bow on my world’s smallest violin when he said, "I’ve seen us win a few FA Cups AND THATS IT!"

You can’t just hang on to every young player until they’re 25 because they might turn out to be decent. We’ve been here before with so many players. Sims, Gallagher, Juanmi, Mayuka, Gaston, O’Bafemi, N’Lundulu, Hesketh…. The fact that Mara has dropped down a league and still isn’t doing it is enough for me. He’s had 18 months to at least start to show something and he just isn’t.

We had a couple when I was a kid. We lived in the countryside and never had a problem with vermin until we bought those little buggers. One would go out into the field across the road, catch mice, bring them home, then get bored with them and let them go. Usually they were badly chewed up and would scuttle under some furniture and die. The flies and the smell were normally the give away that it’d happened again. The occasional sparrows flying around the living room where somewhat more obvious.

Not a great start to the year for Boeing, this happening three days after Airbus proved the A350 was built like a Soviet tank.

You have to feel a bit for anyone who went for a dump on 153/4 and missed the next 11 balls.

I didn't realise this game went on for four days. Is it a test match?

Villa win an FA Cup game for the first time since 2016 apparently. Wow.

I believe QVC will be doing it at sunrise on Wednesday.

Yep. He really needs to get his arse in gear and improve on 6 goals conceded in 12 games.

Vince hit 79 off 57 today for the Sixers as they beat the Stars in the BBL. He’s had a couple of decent games out there.

It’s like an early noughties computer game where they haven’t got the NPCs quite right.

You get the point though, it’s very much a one way argument. A bunch of male Sunday league players analysing the women’s WC on BBC/ITV would not be tolerated. It a ridiculous sentence for a murderer. Reva’s poor family, it only feels like yesterday he was being sentenced.

Barton has never been anything other than an absolute kn*bber, so I can't say I'm in any way interested in the crap he comes out with. TBH I don't really watch any punditry or analysis these days, it's all getting pretty inane and repetitive. On the point of gender, I think if we had a debate about for e.g. COVID, with female professor of infectious disease, then got a bloke on who'd done GCSE biology to disagree with her, there'd be quite a few complaints about it, regardless of what was being said.

A bright and prosperous new year for Japan.

More like three months after it closed.

Hardly any transfer, to any club, in any transfer window has ever been done when the window opens on the first of January or whenever the summer date is. Negotiations just don’t work that way and other clubs have no motivation to sell players as soon as possible in that way.

We primarily moderate the main board because it’s a Saints football forum and 95% of users only use that particular sub-forum to discuss Saints. As far as off topic forums go, unless it starts getting properly vitriolic, hateful we generally just let it play out. The Lounge is pretty much 95% of the trouble (there are currently 106 total reported posts) from 5% of the posters/content. To put it bluntly, we’ve all got lives and none of us can be bothered to spend them moderating this crap. The alternative is we just get rid of The Lounge, which by definition anyone reading this post doesn’t want. As for SOG, he is also like alpine in that he largely brings it on himself. A few weeks ago I did lock this thread because everyone needed a time out. He immediately went on the ‘small things which annoy you’ thread (which generally seems to self-maintain a light hearted humour) and posted: "People who assume that you lie and make things up on an anonymous forum just because they disagree with you. Not everybody is a liar or on the wind up" If you’re that desperate for an argument and a petulant reaction, don’t come crying to me when you get one.

I vaguely remember it being £1.2m but yes, ludicrous. We absolutely shat a brick after the Palace game and everyone quadrupled their prices. Thomas would have been a decent enough signing, six weeks earlier for £300k buy hey ho…