Lighthouse

Cliches in Police dramas, like people who didn’t do it going to great lengths to look as shifty as possible for no apparent reason. Saying things like, "I didn’t kill him… but I wish I had!" Or looking guilty by awkwardly trying to hide some embarrassing but trivial secret the police don’t actually give a crap about.

We don’t need experience, we need good. This isn’t some ‘92 class of talented kids or first timers just promoted from the Championship. We have several players in their thirties who’ve been playing at this level for a decade. They have nothing to learn from Drinkwater or any other ‘experienced’ player.

No, I’d happily see the back of five of our six so-called creative players. There’s basically no risk, we get absolutely naff all from any of them. I wouldn’t put any order or preference on them, if we get an offer for Moi but not Walcott I’d still take it. He was also instrumental in being a hopeless non-event against Burnley, Newcastle, Chelsea, Villa, Liverpool and many other games.

And? That’s like being the 4th best member of Steps.

Please don't use a capital letter in that. 🤢

No goals in any of the finals, no glorious moments or iconic cup final memories. No 'taters shouting the Scouse version of Aguero!!! or Solskjaer!!!! repeated endlessly for years to come.

Phew. Two domestic cups, fairly good damage limitation in the 'sh*t we'll be hearing about for the next four decades' stakes.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-russia-media-thinks-britain-is-on-the-verge-of-cannibalism Okay, which of you lot wants to be first? Not whelk, I reckon he’s a bit tough and gristly.

You’re rather generously including a hat trick against Newport and a goal against Swansea in that. He is as bad as people make out, the majority of games just pass him by.

I’ve been laid off in the past. It was a 5 minute phone call from the personnel guy at our contracting agency, not a word from our CEO, catering dept. Or any of the board members. The message is the same, however it’s delivered. I wouldn’t be precious about receiving the news via phone or video call. If anything I’d be annoyed at getting dragged in to work for something they could have told me in two minutes over the phone.

No sooner have I said it, we lose 4 for 17. Oh well.

Decent start to the chase, albeit first wicket just gone. Got my tickets for Monday against Somerset and going with a big group to the Essex game. Should be decent.

I’ve never understood this line of thinking when it’s so at odds with what we see on the pitch. People say this about Kelvin, JWP, Long and Walcott but our performances look devoid of confidence, cohesion and at times effort. It seems to me the value of having, "a great man around the club," is minimal at best and that if they like him that much they can go and play golf on their day off.

He’s been told this numerous times but continues to ignore it, insists Russia’s economy is thriving and that had we been involved militarily we’d be sent packing after one weekend.

When I saw this thread had been bumped I hoped it would be at least a rumour of some sort, oh well. It’s like we ordered Dusan Tadic from wish.com, I’d let him go for pretty much any offer if it gets him off the wage bill.

If, and it’s a big if, there’s any truth to these rumours I really don’t see much to be upset about. This Turkish lad would just be a replacement for Willy/Lewis as third choice ‘keeper, hardly golden boots to fill. Anyway, nobody’s ever seen him to know how good he actually is. Antti Niemi, Nick Pope and Jordan Pickford have been relegated so I wouldn’t read much into that. If Fredericks is just cover, that’s hardly a tragedy with Liv being out long term. He’s no worse than Pied, Martina or Targett as FB cover.

He can cut his teeth elsewhere and come back if and when he excels in the role. We aren’t a coaching school, we need people who can come in a know what they’re doing immediately. As for a year on the pitch; no.

The Chinese Saganowski?

It was always very hard to get behind people whose main qualification for the job seemed to be, "is here already and we like him." Good luck to them but something had to change. I remember watching Tino’s debut in a pre-season friendly when he came on, darted forward and provided an excellent assist in the first thirty seconds. After a small celebration I though, "we’ll we’ll soon coach that out of him," and it’s basically how it transpired.

It is an astonishingly lucky coincidence though. Here we are, a club with no money to spend, and we just so happen to have a manager whose dream signings are half the price of all our rivals. There's not one player in the world who he rates over £15m.

How about Sheffield Wednesday? Can’t remember losing to them at home.

Last year Saints announced their retained list on June 4th, just for reference

They used to have a couple cracking strikers on Championship Manager c.2003-05. Anyone remember Kakalov and Todorov (not the P*mpey one)?

I’d take neither.