Lighthouse

I can’t for the life of me see Swansea refusing to sell to us out of spite, if that’s what’s being implied. They’ll want as many bidders as possible competing, like we had with Lavia.

Prigozhin?

Diego Marrowdawnr was a heck of a player in his day.

You normally come wading into this thread with a bunch of random, obscure players you've seen on Football Manager and say, "get it done!" So I couldn't be crowing too loudly about going off topic. In short, there isn't any, you haven't missed anything.

I can’t believe we’ve made it onto page two without discussing where she falls on the Begum-Nox scale.

Nooooooo! What?!?!!11oneone How on Earth could this happen!?

He did die twice in Goldeneye, so that kind of makes up for it.

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.