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Neither did Rasiak, I wouldn't have either of them back though.

Awesome bowling, even if the wicket was a little dubious. Thought we’d skittle them for 50 at one point. 7 of their batsmen got 4 runs between them.

That’s like being England’s second best batsman. Walcott was awful for almost his entire three years back here. He scored two goals last season and none the year before. Between him and Long it astonishes me just how low Saints fans collective expectations have fallen. At any other club, 8-10 goals a season would be a reasonable return for an attacking player. For us, if you make a 20 minute sub appearance, look like you’re trying hard and make a couple of good runs into the box, people are clamouring to offer you another year contract extension. The fact that he’s ended up at Reading, a basket case in League 1, rather than another Prem club, should tell you everything you need to know about him.

This is going to be like what everyone was saying about Walcott for three years, even though it’s quite obviously not true. You can get players with valuable experience who are ten years younger and have played Championship football 11 weeks ago, rather than 11 years. We came up through the leagues last time with Dean Hammond, an experienced leader who was actually good enough and young enough to play for us every week, despite having never played for us before.

You wonder why the Aussies even bother playing Warner in an Ashes test. He needs a Romani gypsy to piss on a photo of Stuart Broad and burry it in a pet cemetery on a full moon, or something.

Mara was a striker and he signed. You insisted we hadn’t signed a striker; we did, he was sh*t. I’d have liked someone much, much better too but we did sign a striker. Yes, Romeu had been playing poorly for a while and needed a fresh start somewhere else. He chose to return to Spain and we are better off with Lavia in midfield. I don’t care if he does sign for Barcelona, score infinity gazillion goals and win the Ballon D’Or, he wasn’t doing it here.

I think it’s a bad idea and I hope it’s not true. If he hadn’t played for us before, nobody would be suggesting this would be a good move.

But Puel did play him, he pretty much started every league game, except for a couple over the congested Christmas period when you tend to get three games in a week. As far as I'm aware Fonte has never made any noises since about not being played enough. I might have missed something but I can't see anyone switching clubs over half a dozen Europa League games. No, with hindsight we shouldn't have bought in Wesley Hoedt as a replacement. For a club our size, giving a multiple year deal to a 33 year year old is not remotely sensible. We could have been relegated and stuck with a player nobody wanted to buy on enormous wages, like Leicester are with Vardy. Nobody ever says we shouldn't have sold Lovren, even though he was a better defender IMO, because we bought in Toby and then Virgil, that's the only hindsight here.

For all his faults, I can’t see it being Puel who chose to sell Fonte. That one was squarely on Reed and Fonte himself, who wanted to leave.

Why would you shower twice, before doing exercise? Complete waste of water and you’d pretty much just be smelly and sweaty again after you’ve walked the dog. If that was me it’d be dog - gym - shower.

It would seem that Wood is better than Tongue.

I don’t think we’ll be building our transfer policy around someone who’s played about 20 minutes for us so far. That said, I don’t see us bringing back Ings either.

Hate to say it but we’ve looked a lot better without Anderson this morning. I don’t see how he gets back in if Broad, Wood, Woakes and Tongue are all fit.

Absolute thunderbolt from Wood, seems to have broken the ball in the process.

Straight out of chapter 1 of the conspiracy theorists handbook; regularly make massive claims of sensational news about to break. I think we're on about the 543rd consecutive day of, "the truth about COVID and the vaccines is coming out, the cracks in the MSM lies are showing." Followed by more tweets from random, struck off chiropractors. Sadly, I'm almost certain he isn't taking the p*ss, this is his life now, his identity. I can't see his ego being willing to let go and become 'one of the herd'.

They’ll be hoping for a Turner fortunes after last season.

Astonishing really that the same man can post about how Bill Gates and big pharma controlling the world to make ginormous profits from malaria, vaccines etc. - the ultimate form of capitalist greed - then claim there’s a communist takeover.

Would you take second and a point off top, with better GD, if offered it now?

The standard of football in the Championship is inarguably far worse, your argument could equally be used to say AA should score 25 PL goals a season. Baz was, according to Pompey fans, absolute mustard in League 1, I have every confidence he will be decent at this level.

People referring to Wimbledon by its postcode. I don’t know any other sporting event or venue where people do this and it takes twice as long as simply saying Wimbledon.

We're in the Championship, where Kelvin Davis was the best keeper of the year when we got promoted. Baz will be fine at this level, GK is not a priority position this summer.

It’s hard to see where Wheal gets back into this team with the bowling options we’ve got at the moment. Batting, I’m happy enough with our openers and all rounders, it’s just the three in between we have questions over.

Please, for the love of God, will you people just get together in some seedy, backstreet bar, have a couple of drinks, then go back to a hotel and f**k each other. You would need a chainsaw to cut through the sexual tension in these threads.

The mantra of the conspiracy theorist; always question everything, but make sure you have your fingers in your ears when someone answers.

It’s okay, I’ve just realised I said ‘your’ instead of ‘you’re’, my argument is null and void.