Lighthouse

Aye, but in his brain he'll always be 17.

You jest but given how dreadful we’ve been this year we’re going to absolutely thump Arsenal when they come to town.

It’s where I go when I want to feel like prime George Clooney.

In his last two Championship seasons he’s scored 22 and 14, which I’ll take as an option with Archer and Armstrong next year. I’d certainly rather keep him than Stewart, who would have people standing around him with a big green tarpaulin if he was a horse.

Would suit all parties as a loan but I think he’ll be useful for us next year.

You’d think they’d learn their lesson from buying our defenders

Each to their own. If we're looking for leaders and characters in the squad to get promoted, I'll take Hammond, Chaplow and Hooiveld any day over a 37 year old with no legs.

We're the joint worst team in PL history. There is absolutely nothing about this squad which is in any way 'vital'. Every other club in the country seems to be performing better than Saints, relatively speaking, without whatever Adam Lallana brings to the dressing room. Being an experienced pro and a 'good lad in the dressing room' isn't some sort of super power. There are plenty of players out there who can bring a moderate amount of leadership AND contribute to the team on the field.

The weather is sh*t but I'm not sure we can really blame that on the IRA.

TBH I wouldn't really want that either. It sounds like Shea is developing well at a level and club which suits him. I don't think it'd really benefit either him or us, coming back here into this farce of a team.

I think my diet these days is basically anything with a Club card discount. Green beans and a family sized carrot cake? Sure, why not!

Christ, the guy is absolutely done, physically with professional football. I don’t care about his touch and ability, he jogs around for half an hour a month, then gets injured. His contribution in half a season has been one decent assist against Ipswich. I don’t know when we started aiming so low as a club and a fan base that we started thinking this warranted a new contract.

Wayne Rooney has left Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth. Any idea what we call them now?

We are so blatantly going to give Lallana a new contract and come up with some horse sh*t about how vital his experience will be in getting promoted next season, aren’t we.

One or the other out of him and Manning will surfice. I'm not sure what our plans are for when the welly checks in tomorrow but when he does we'll have him, Manning, Taylor and Larios all vying for that LB spot and none of them actually playing because KWP is there.

Any negotiation on that point would likely include the assumption that we're getting relegated and the player will likely take a wage drop anyway. We could potentially work on some sort of 'pay the difference' settlement, which is sh*t but still better than paying dosens of useless players full whack to do nothing. Even if we're paying 30% of their current wages for the next year or two, I'd be looking for suitors for Fraser, Smallbone, Larios, Sully, Taylor or Manning, TP, KWP (wont need a wage drop) and if anyone will take a punt on him, Stewart.

I don't want them out so much as I want someone who actually knows what he's doing making the football decisions. There are far, far worse owners than SR, who have actually opened their cheque book quite a lot.

I'm just glad that they're dragging Everton and (hilariously) Man Utd back into the equation. The latter wont go down in a million years but the idea of their fans twitching over that shrinking seven point gap keeps me warm at night.

Newcastle hit the post with what would have been goal of the season. Absolute turkey shoot this.

No, the first one was disallowed for interfering with play, which Armstrong obviously was, not 'impeding the goalkeeper'. Yesterday's goal gets disallowed 99 times out of 100 but Armstrong's was rightfully disallowed.

We'll be no worse than we were in the second half of 2022/23 or than Sheff Utd were last season and both those teams did/are doing pretty well in the Championship the following year. We're already stacked with decent Championship players, over 30 of them by my reckoning so we don't need to sign any more. If we can cancel Cornet's loan somehow then maybe we can make better use of that in January but otherwise I really don't see the point in doing much.

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The alternative you're basically describing the first 20 minutes against Spurs. Whatever it is you are envisioning, I fear you may be disappointed.

A better team than Palace would have put five or six past us yesterday, we were so open they could just run at us at will. If we start committing more players forward we're likely to get properly embarrassed next time we play someone decent.

I've seen some people point to the number of PL appearances he's made as proof that he's a PL defender. In reality all it really proves is how awful our recruitment has been for a sustained period of time. We weren't exactly fighting off buyers when we last went down and I doubt we will be in summer either.