Lighthouse

No Aribo clearly isn’t true, he’s on the bench on a very hot day and we have five subs. The starting XI has never been less relevant as the one which plays the last 20 minutes could look completely different. As for Djenepo and a back five; as opposed to what? Who should be playing LB in your preferred back four?

If nothing else we can at least put the, “clueless Ralph will probably start the season with McCarthy,” posts to bed.

TBF with him it was more of a weigh-in.

Cutting yourself in a place that you don’t see or feel. The first you know about it is when you see blood smeared all over your clothes or furniture.

Last season was the first and only time they finished above 15th in the table and they immediately sold their two best players. In what aspect are they ‘thriving’?

Weird supporting Brave against Hampshire’s T20 bowling attack.

36-4 and then that. Amazing.

TBH he's a body up front who may, if he improves, chip in with five or six goals. Some people would have been content to see Shane Long given a new deal on the back of scoring one goal a season, so that can only be seen as a step forward of sorts.

When you're trying to sell a golf club but it's just too damn hot for clothes.

I genuinely can't wait to see how he's going to spin tens of thousands of Russians fleeing from "Russian territory".

I bet our successive owners couldn’t believe their luck having Ralph. Here we are with a perennially tight budget and all of his dream signings have been c£15m or less. There’s not one striker he fancies for £40m or £50m plus, no; Sekou Mara, he’s THE man for Ralph.

Hmmmm, looks a bit close to a civilian area to me, I’m sure Amnesty will post a statement soon about how unwise it is to station their planes there. On another note, Russians have had their holidays ruined and are now fleeing in their thousands across the bridge towards Rostov. Boo-f**king-hoo Edit: wish they’d HIMARS that Kerch bridge next, make all the c**ts drive back up through the Ukrainian mainland and what’s left of Mariupol. Then they could tell everyone what it’s really like when they get back to Russia.

They’ve won the exact same as us in the last 72 years; one FA Cup and one Football League Trophy. The difference being we didn’t go bankrupt winning the FA Cup, followed by insolvency and three relegations in five years. Fair play for getting another dig at Adkins into a thread about the League Cup though.

How to get the best price when selling, lesson 1 - “He’s not for sale.”

People said that last time, when we spanked them 4-0 in their own back yard. I think the difference in class between the PL and L1 is sometimes underestimated; I remember one video taken from the stands of our fourth goal and you could hear some Skate mush behind describing Redmond as, “different class.”

It’ll have the affect of constantly disinfecting your child’s toys and hands. When they eventually do get exposed to something properly nasty, they’ll be I’ll equipped to cope. There was a story from Canada a few years ago about a teacher who was suspended for showing a debate on gender featuring Jordan Peterson. Whatever you think of that issue, the fact that they didn’t want students to be exposed to a debate is really quite alarming.

Awesome day out that, never saw a win coming when they needed 20 from the last 4 wickets. This lot don’t know they’re beat, in any format.

Because some premier league sides are now owned by rich countries, not individuals. Everton have recently spent ten times what we have this window, it got them nowhere. The money we’ve spent this window might be enough to stop us from sliding back towards relegation but it’s nowhere near enough to push us much beyond 14-17th territory at best.

You get what you pay for and up until now we’ve paid for relegation. We’ve been safe by February the last two seasons, since we came 11th in 2020, and the year before that we were well clear of Cardiff with a month still to play. There was no squeaky bum time, people just said that because of some bizarre paranoia that the likes of Burnley, Fulham and Huddersfield would all suddenly start playing like Champions League teams. I’m honestly baffled by what some people expect; to have one of the lowest net spends in the league and yet be comfortably mid-table just because…

But it's fine to dismiss a manager after 10 bad games, after four years of comfortably keeping us up on a bottom three budget? It's one or the other.

About 12 years ago I had a wifi dongle from Three and moved into a house which actually had decent wifi, so I tried to cancel it. Holy f**k their customer service was something else. After hours of trying I eventually got through to an Indian call centre and spoke to a guy who spent another hour trying to sell me a new deal which included a discounted laptop I didn’t need. The guy just would not take no for an answer to the point I was almost shouting down the phone, "I HAVE BROADBAND NOW, I ALREADY HAVE A LAPTOP, I DO NOT NEED THESE THINGS AT ALL, I DON’T CARE HOW CHEAP THEY ARE!!" Honestly, it would have been comical if it wasn’t such a tedious waste of time. Dead parrot-esq, he just wouldn’t listen.

Your best case scenario is that we lose but you’d be baffled and confused if we won 5-0? Wow, fantastic attitude. How about Perraud is fit enough to start at LB, ABK gets to start, we look much improved from the Spurs game and win? Some of our talented new signs start to look half decent together and we have a decent season.

There’s clearly something up for him not to even get on the pitch in a game where our only striker appeared to be AA, who couldn’t get a start for love nor money in the second half of last season. Clearly Mara is some way off and probably being seen as a Mayuka-style punt for the future.

Happens when I’m wearing trousers TBF.