Lighthouse

I'd say Baz looked better than Kelvin ever did at this level and the latter was Championship keeper of the year when we got promoted. All the Pompey fans said Baz was absolute mustard in L1, so I'd be confident in him being able to DAJFU somewhere in the middle.

I must commend you on your spelling and sentence structure, typing solely with your left hand.

For me 2009 was rather like now, just fed up of atrocious mismanagement from the boardroom downwards. The first season was a mess, with a disinterested Redknapp at the helm. The first Burley season we just scraped into the playoff and were bettered by Derby, which felt like a huge underachievement after what we spent. 07/08 was just ridiculous, letting Burley trash us financially with his borderline fettish of expensive midfielders and no defence. Then the Poortvliet season was just an acceptance of, 'so we've come to this...' The writing was on the wall from day one that year. Jamie White, Michael Svensson, Tomasz Pekhart, Zoltan Liptak.... hmmmmm.

She's the fittest bird from the Ogyny region.

The under ripe ones tend to look a bit more Aryan

No we didn’t. Everyone has been well aware, even from the reports before he signed from Torino fans, that he is a limited footballer. He was £6m when decent CBs cost £20m plus, he is the in vogue Florin Gardos or Kevin Danso. His attitude can be a liability when he goes OTT and it can be an asset in being up for a contest and having a bit of character. We will need a bit of this in the Championship. This great clear out people keep talking about… I don’t know who people are expecting to be bringing in but it won’t be the next Virgil. Lyanco is about as good a third choice, Championship CB as you can realistically hope for. Also, I don’t see why his wages would be particularly high. He was signed as cover from a mid-table Serie A team.

With the right management and better players in front of them, I think Lyanco, DCC and Bednarek would do well for us next season. They’re all decent players at Championship level. Baz and Perraud will probably do alright too.

I can’t ever say I’ve felt ‘gut wrenching pain’ and been unable to function at work for several days because of Saints. They’re a football club, not a family member. I will say that I was more affected by it in 2005 than I was this time, mainly because this time just doesn’t hurt at all. We’ve been so miserable to watch for so long that I just can’t see what I’m supposed to be upset about missing out on next season. I’ve pretty much known since Ralph was replaced with Jones that we’d go down, nothing since then has been anything much of a surprise.

Obviously not, because that would involve us having a small crumb of enjoyment this season, and we all know that is forbidden.

He was no better than Bazunu, which is what some of us have been saying all along, when others were claiming it was criminal we hadn’t swapped them sooner.

7 minutes, 12 seconds (not that I’d care).

If theirs was a penalty then we’re having that.

Just the 20 goals in 3 games today.

That’s not true, he’s done some truly world class throwing his arms at the space he should have been in three seconds ago when the ball was played.

🤨 When did I imply that?

Proper nostalgia tonight, ABK and AMN doing uncanny impressions of Powell and Bernard.

I do think it’s a little dubious, AMN was swinging for the ball and he just plants his boot in the gap. Still clumsy though.

Zero instinct or anticipation from Adams there.

Take ABK off the woefully short list of players I give a sh*t about leaving. It’s like watching Darren Powell tonight.

And do what? Put the tea lady in charge or the pool cleaner? Selles is here until the end of the season, then he’s off. It’s pointless doing anything before that.

As sh*t as he’s been this season, that was excellent all round from Stu.

What on Earth would be the point of that?

Casually jogging back towards our goal. Shot went straight through McC too.

Well, there it is.

And he’s on the bench because he’s been garbage for about two years now. Since he caught covid he’s just never looked like the same player.