Lighthouse

I don’t get the reference. We’re quite obviously not lacking a tall, physical CB. Even Bednarek, for his faults, is 6’ plus and gets stuck in.

We’ve got two 6’3" CBs in the team already, how massive and brutish were you thinking? Anyone taller than that is likely to be scrawny, tectonically slow or just sh*t.

It’s quite astonishing how stuff like that happens. Nathan Dyer convicted of burglary, Nile Ranger for fraud, there are countless others. Jhon Viafara must have been paid £2-3m JUST from his three years and Saints and Pompey and yet he’s currently serving 11 years for having bags of powder in his brown suitcase. Strange.

That Rob account is a proven bull sh*tter, Christ knows why people keep sharing his stuff. Just another attention deprived Twitter ‘personality’.

Christ, I didn’t realise these weren’t being played until the second week of November. Normally we’d already have played the Round of 16 (R4) by then.

Wow, we've finally lucked in with the draw. I make that seven all Prem ties and we get a winnable home game.

Seems like not enough people care to start another. Some all Prem ties coming up, which will help us in the long run if we progress. Man Utd - Villa Bournemouth - Everton Forest - Spurs Wolves - Leeds City - Chelsea

Draw for round three coming up, Saints #24.

The money it would take to find another first choice CB would be much better spent elsewhere and even if we did buy one, it'd just make Salisu unhappy and push for a move himself.

If we're playing four at the back and have MS, ABK, Lyanco and whichever of JS/JB sticks around, that seems alright to me and certainly an upgrade on last season. Better players than Lyanco and Bednarek aren't going to come here and be backup, so I'm not really sure what some of you are hoping for or expecting. I can't see Rom leaving unless we're getting someone else.

You’ve got a point but if the poll was unanimous we’d go back to the old format. It was messy and a bit ad hoc when there’re no mods around but if it’s what people wanted we’d do it. So far though, there’s not much in it.

Yeah but girls dig scars, perhaps he asked the surgeon to give him one deliberately.

I added the poll to gauge public opinion but truth be told there’s not always someone online to lock, stick and unstick threads on match days. Sometimes we’re 3-0 down and people are still going, "mods, where’s the match thread?!"

He’s kind of a likeable version of Osvaldo.

Nope. It’ll be a tragic, random accident caused by faulty spark plugs.

Right, we’ll have a Russian election on the match threads. Everyone gets to vote but if I don’t like it I’m having some of you killed.

Good idea but I’ll split the thread off for the new season.

He really thumped that. It was a power Ballard.

Can his song just be 'Kumbaya Ballard'?

Managing is one thing, being at the absolute peak of fitness is quite another. He’s on the pitch with 21 other elite athletes, so any fitness issue puts him at a disadvantage.

Yeah, never saw that coming when they were 6-2 chasing 298. Fair play.

Decent start with the ball. Good thing too, Kent aren’t beating Lancs today.

The absolute state of this pitch. If we can knock the ball down a rabbit hole, I reckon we can score about 30 whilst they grab a shovel and dig it out.

Liverpool at OT in front of the cameras is a completely different proposition to Saturday though. This is exactly the kind of game all their big egos will be well up for and Liverpool very kindly decided to help them out by being sh*te. I'm not saying United will go back to being sh*te themselves on Saturday but it'll be different.

Every team in the league, every season relies on three teams being worse than them. That's literally the definition of relegation.