Lighthouse

We’ve got Superdry and big Tesco. No brainer.

I told you last week, I’m not sending those until you subscribe to my Platinum membership.

I’ve no idea why anyone would expect another striker. We’ve already brought in Downs and Stewart, Archer and AA should have more than enough goals in them. Those are four options as good as any in this division.

What a sad bunch of tw*ts. I wear fish net stockings, a coconut bra and a cycling helmet, like a real man.

It really is astonishing that we’re signing better players for a championship campaign than we did for the PL a year ago.

No, you misunderstand, I'm simply applying Bazunu standards to goals AR has conceded. I think if you use AI to super impose Bazunu into that video and play it back, most of the people on this thread would be wailing about how he's being beaten time and time again by low shots from outside the area, let in a header which was nowhere near the post, then spilled an absolute howler which went straight through him. Baz has already made an excellent save against Wrexham which earned us our only win of the season.

Well, here's four which spring to mind for starters, people just have different standards because of the perception that Ramsdale was too good for us and we didn't deserve him. He doesn't get the same level of unjust criticism, just like Raya gets none for his absolute howler against Liverpool today.

Interesting that you’d post that about BBD, who didn’t really do anything wrong other than being out of his depth, but not ABK, for whom playing for Saints seems to have been an inconvenience to his weekend plans for three years.

Good luck to him, was a bizarre signing and never looked a PL player. Hopefully he has a decent loan and earns a permanent move somewhere.

There’s a lot of recency bias in that statement. He may not have been a PL player but I’d have BBD up front over Nicholas Bignall, Matt Patterson, Jamie White or Vincent Pericard, and that’s just in his position.

VJ conceded the most goals in the Championship two years ago and the third most last year. People can quite legitimately point to the defences in front of him but I’ll bet if you rewatched those goals (all 140+ of them) you’d find 20 or 30 that Baz would get screamed at for conceding.

Must have been a hell of a ball from Seoul Airport.

He's just turned 18, he was never going to start every game and nor should he. Start him every game and we'll be wondering 'what went wrong with him' by February.

Back three it is then. Maddy and Azaz start.

And yet everyone raves about Johansson, who last season conceded joint third most goals in the Championship and the season before conceded 20 more than any other 'keeper.

None of those players were anything close to prolific at PL level, which is where we signed them to play.

We need to stop making these decent quality signings. It’s making it much harder to throw a tantrum that we replaced Joe Lumley with a loan from Norwich.

He’ll do.

Spertsyan all but confirmed in that case.

Decent fee, decent player. Good luck to him, it looks like he's in for another tough season.

The difference is that none of our strikers you mentioned have been crap for two successive season at this level. Plus Bamford clearly has some fitness concerns which is only really an issue for Stewart.

If we’ve got Fraser and Fellows, we just need a #10 called Joligud now.

It's an analogy. I'm sorry it wasn't literal enough for you. The principles are the same.

They're really not. We had one of the most dreadful squads in PL history last season. Even the three best players were really nothing special, they just looked good next to our midtable Championship dross.

🤣🤣 Have any of you ever actually negotiated a price for anything in your life? If you ever go to the market in somewhere like Marrakech and some guy comes up to you and says, "special price, 300 Dirhams!" he's not actually expecting you to pay that.