Lighthouse

I heard someone say addicts aren’t addicts because they need something but because they’re missing something else. No idea to what extent that’s true and I’m sure it’s too generic to explain everything but it does raise an interesting point. You see plenty of retired footballers fall into various addictions, trying to replicate the thrill of professional football in front of a big crowd. I remember Merse on Soccer Saturday saying, “there’s no feeling in the world like scoring a goal, and I’ve tried everything.” Mick Hucknall was famously a ‘sex addict’. He claimed he was that way because he was trying to fill the void left by a lack of love from his mother, which is kind of a sad and messed up way for a guy to feel.

Been there and done that with Poortvleit, we ended up getting relegated in front of crowds of 14,000. People said Jamie White and Jake Thompson couldn’t be worse than BWP and Viafara. They were wrong.

We were in the relegation fight and one point off safety, without our best player. Ralph was the top end of what that squad was capable of, everyone we’ve tried since him has had us plummeting like a stone. Ralph didn’t sew anything, Gao, Ross and Les did, leaving us cripple with an expensive squad of sh*te we couldn’t afford to replace for years. 90th in points is such a nonsense statistic, all that really means is that we were towards the bottom of a league. If you care about that then go and hire the guy 16th in League 2, because he has more points in 2022.

I wonder if we’re planning to get Turner into this team next season. Bas, Abbott and Big Keith can’t go on forever.

Because he basically said he was going to retire after the Saints job?

What exactly do you think we need to forgive?

Right, because if we hadn’t loaned him to Burnley, he never would have wanted to leave the Championship for Bauer Leverkusen? The Tella loan worked out great for us, a player who was basically useless and going nowhere became an in demand £20m asset in the space of one season. As for Ballard, he scored against Exeter in a 9-0 win in the EFL trophy. That in no way equates to him being good enough to play Championship football.

Never should have been sacked, he kept a squad which was barely an improvement on the one we've got now in the Premier League season after season. Everyone wanted him gone because apparently 15th in the Premier League was an underachievement for this sack of sh*te, which is now getting spanked by Sunderland and Ipswich.

I assume you mean a West Brom run, not a 99% Boufal run.

My phone says 1946 and no score updates, do I have a network problem?

I know Holgate’s debut was bad, and I mean properly f**king rancid, but surely we’ve got to be better off with him in there, rather than Smallbone and Aribo in CM. They’re less of an anchor, more of an inflatable sun lounger.

I’m glad it’s not just me, I was starting to think Alcaraz was wearing the emperors new clothes. Everyone is talking about how he’s a class above this league and will rip it apart but almost everything I’ve seen this season, and for large parts of last season, has been sh*te.

If this game finishes 0-0 I will eat a pair of wellies, a Machine Mart catalogue and 4kg of loft insulation.

I wouldn’t have said Burley was random, quite the opposite in fact. Jermaine Wright. Every. Single. F**king. Game.

Between George, Brand and Martin it's been one heck of a s**t weekend for people called Russell.

Comparisons with Leicester are pointless, they’re a different club who came down with an arguably much better team and were starting off from a higher platform. We are having to start again from scratch, with one of the worst squads in premier league history, minus its best players. Im not saying Russell is definitely the man to take us forward and if these defensive horror shows continue much longer he’ll have to go, but this is going to take patience regardless of who’s in charge.

We created/split this thread so that people who are apparently obsessed with each other can get it out their system, without derailing other threads. Judging by some of the unprovoked nastiness it clearly hasn’t worked, so from now on we’ll just delete the posts involved and ban people. Some of you seriously need to think about what you’re saying to complete strangers and if you’d actually want someone to say that to you, face to face, because I’ll be f**ked if I can understand how you think it’s acceptable.

Obviously we’ve no idea if any of these stories are true but he is a self confessed massive coke head, amongst other things. He is quite clearly prone to some very erratic and questionable behaviour.

I get the impression Crane could do with a fresh start somewhere else, he’s certainly not doing it here. Does anyone know who’s out of contract this winter and likely to leave?

That just seemed to slip through our hands about five teams in one match. We were the better team, just failed completely to put them to the sword when clearly on top, not to mention a top class innings from Swindells. Leicester 19-4, boom! Halfway through their innings, 89-6, we should be pegging them to 150-200. Hants 116-2, we should easily chase them down. Dawson getting out to a daft scoop shot with a man at deep backward square Needing just 10 off the last 11 balls.

I can't go. What a pity. I may spend the money on a moderately priced item of clothing, I haven't decided yet.

Is ‘hipster’ the new buzzword for any manager who doesn’t stand on the sidelines with an egg stained tank top stretched over his massive beer belly, shouting, "oi! Get it in the f**kin’ mixer you useless c**ts!"? Ralph’s pressing tactics were ‘hipster’, as was Selles’ turtleneck sweater. Is Nathan Jones the only manager we’ve had recently who isn’t?

That’s really poor from being 89-6 off 23. You’ve got to be looking to either bowl them out or keep them sub 200 from there, we were nowhere near neither.

Big Keith making hay so far, 9-2. Budinger just gone, he scored a bagful at the Ageas a month ago.

The thought of thousands of kids searching for this woman on TikTok, some of them misspelling it and being horrified. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66823675