Lighthouse

I’ll hold my hands up to having said that and yes, I was wrong. I was hoping we’d see more from Mara and Aribo in particular, in attacking positions. What I will say is that I don’t think we could have bought an awful lot more for £70m and we had to offload a lot of players from the wage bill just to spend that.

Because everyone else has spent hundreds of millions to tread water.

Twitter, unless I’ve f**ked up the settings somehow, seems to have an increasingly sh*te interface. If I open my timeline it’s just: Somebody follows XXXX Advert Somebody follows YYYY Somebody follows ZZZZ Advert An actual Tweet from somebody I follow Some mentally deranged sh*te from Tiss because people I follow, follow him. Advert Topics: Jurgen Klopp (who I’ve never searched for or shown any interest in)

Hmmmm. I came here hoping to see a llama that could bobsled or perhaps a cracking pair of knockers. It’s been a mediocre day all round on Saintsweb, truth be told.

You can’t post full articles from behind a paywall, I’m afraid.

Interesting, please could you provide more details of your overall synopsis of his work and why you feel it wasn’t worthwhile.

I can only assume he’s an injury replacement for Dawid Malan because there’s no way he’s getting into our football team.

They’re not slim, we’re basically guaranteed survival now. Ralph was useless, clueless, even my Gran could do better and he left us only one point off safety. Literally anyone we appoint will definitely be an improvement, so I can’t see any way we go down.

Well, I'm sad to see him go personally but that's just football. I'll always remember him as a likable manager who kept us comfortably clear of the relegation fight for four seasons, despite some very limited resources. The fact that our best striker is Championship standard and we had to sell our reserve LB in order to buy him is probably the best illustration of this. Honestly, after the Reed/Wilson fiasco we knew we'd be lumbered with the massive financial burden of Carrillo, Boufal, Forster, Hoedt, Lemina, Gunn, Hughes, MoPe and others, I honestly thought we'd go down at some point but so far we haven't. If you think that's lacking ambition, well you pay for something better then. Good luck in the future Ralph.

Yesterday he was a decent PL keeper who will be ripped away from us when we get relegated. Make your mind up.

That’s an excellent turn and finish TBF, meanwhile all our players and shanking it into the car park from 5 yards away.

Makes you wonder why Man City bothered with that £230m total deal for Haaland, if not having a decent striker is just, "excuses".

I reckon if this place was an actual lounge, we'd probably see off a tin of pretty much everything between us. I'm quite happy to scoff the creams and Milky Ways and leave the nutty stuff to you guys.

So we just need to get rid of the only manager he's actually player consistently well for?

This season we’d be much better with a decent striker. The last two seasons we’ve had crap players all over the pitch, so Ings and Broja are what kept us up.

Obviously we want Saints to win, it’s just such an inane and pointless thing to be saying, “I wish we were -whichever team happens to be winning at the moment-“ Leeds have won two in a row. Brilliant but before that they had two points from eight games.

Good shout cat, I’d broadly agree with that. If I want celebrations, I’ll just buy a full size Twix, Mars or Milky Way. Next list: Yule Log/choc roulade Mince Pies Xmas cake Xmas pudding Trifle Panettone

Have a day off. Adams, Salisu and Stu wont attract anyone better than relegation strugglers. Tino, Baz and DCC are far from proven players. AMN has looked like a fish up a tree for the most part and marginally less crap in his last game. Lavia and ABK will be in demand. JWP and KWP will probably end up somewhere like Everton or West Ham, superstars they are not.

Weird how all the comments are, “I wish we were Leeds/Brighton,” and not, “thank god we aren’t Wolves/Bournemouth.”

It's only there because I can't stand the taste of most nuts. If it wasn't for that, I'd agree; bottom of the list.

Since the festive season is on the way, what's your preference? This is the correct answer but feel free to add your own inaccurate musings. Orange Cream Strawberry Cream Orange Crunch Fudge Fondant Truffle Block Toffee Finger Toffee Penny Caramel Cup Coconut Eclair Honeycomb Crunch Hazelnut Triangle Hazelnut Caramel

Which is why we have AMN and ID as back up. You can say what you like about their performances, we’re not going to find many better willing to sit on our bench and within our price range. We’ve literally replaced Romeu with two players, it’s erroneous to claim we’ve left ourselves short somewhere.

This is only being discussed at all because of Lavia’s injury. Without that we’d all be raving about how much more dynamic our midfield is now, Diallo and AMN would be consigned to the bench and nobody would be entertaining the idea of having a fifth CM on the books.

Watford under a lot of pressure in the first ten minutes. Bachmann really in overdrive.