Lighthouse

We're one of the worst funded teams in the league, fighting over 9th-13th. You're getting nostalgic over one of the worst funded teams in the league finishing 16th-18th. People remember times like that with rose tinted glasses. Mention the great escape season and people get all whimsical over Le Tiss, Pahars and the trip to Wimbledon. They tend to forget losing 7-1 to Liverpool, 1-4 at home to Villa and 5-0 at Charlton.

Aside from the score, as has been pointed out, I'm almost certain that was at Highbury. We won the home game when Delgado got Campbell sent off, then scored with his todger. Shocking game though. Think it was 5-0 after about 20 minutes, at which point Fernandes was subbed off.

Nobody is a good fit for United until they sort their squad full of egos out. Ronaldo, Pogba, Lingard and Martial (permanently) need to go and be replaced by leaders and workers. Same for anyone else who’s more interested in their Instagram than putting in a shift.

I hope Spurs fans had a flutter on the National this afternoon. United and Arsenal losing to teams who've both lost 6 our of their last 7.

What that effectively translates to is us having three passengers in our team (namely Bednarek, Moi and whichever 'keeper we put out) and little to change things on the bench others that mixing it up with the fullbacks. Ralph has clearly been getting the latter bit wrong lately but it's not like we have obviously better players to bring in. Let me put it this way; I would look to replace Ralph but only after we've replaced Forster, McCarthy, Bednarek, Stephens, Moi, AArm, Long, Walcott, Redmond and Djenepo.

That was a different game, although I can't recall when. The game I'm thinking of was apparently on new year's day in 2008 https://www.11v11.com/matches/southampton-v-watford-01-january-2008-279893/

There’s a 3-0 defeat by Watford under George Burley which always sticks in my mind. A non-sensical farce of a team selection, people out of position all over the place, an absolutely abject performance and the clown sat there gormlessly watching until the 88th minute, before sending on Adam Hammill for no particular reason.

JWP, KWP, Livramento, Salisu, Perraud, Romeu, S. Armstrong, Adams and Broja are decent midtable players. That’s 9 out of the whole squad. The rest are substandard. The squad is better than it has been but we are still reliant on a large number of poor players.

That’s because they have a stagnant economy and people just don’t want to have families there, not because they are all infertile. I can’t imagine there are 121,000 Russian families out there who want to adopt kidnapped Ukrainian children.

As bad as Ralph can be, and on his worst days he puts out the worst teams in Saints history, I do think overall he gets more out of this squad than most people would expect. He has us consistently mid table on an absolute shoestring budget. That’s no attempt to defend today’s game, or even the last five games but the fact that Long and Elyounoussi are regulars for us shows how far away we are from squads like West Ham, Leicester and Villa, who all have players worth more than our record signing on the bench.

I can’t believe that, if 121,000 children had been abducted we’d have heard a lot more about it.

Let’s just enjoy United dropping hopelessly away from the Champions League and watch all those big name egos sulk.

Both Armstrong’s start. Probably as good a team as we can put out.

I went on a ski holiday back in February with a bunch of mates, all of us triple jabbed. There's was supposed to be one more but he was one of those convinced that the government were never going to control his freedom with their experimental jab. Basically we spent a week packed into apres ski bars watching live music whilst he sat at home, alone, in Leeds with his 'freedom'. A well meaning bloke but the penny still hasn't dropped. I did meet a denier not too long ago who had actually gone full circle. His argument was basically, "have you noticed how so many people who oppose the government's control project keep dying." I actually agreed with him, I've noticed that too.

Sometimes I think the media actively want women’s football to be mocked. The fact that they can juxtapose that video with Wayne Rooney’s all time England record is quite the feat of imagination. Mind you, it wasn’t long ago they were talking about Alex Morgan overhauling Eusebio so there is precedent.

No, the problem is that people believe there is a ‘narrative’ when in reality it’s a common consensus, backed up by overwhelming evidence. "War crimes are being committed in Ukraine," is not some official piece of state propaganda that all MSM has been ordered to adhere to. It happened, beyond any reasonable doubt, we have the bodies, the eyewitness accounts and other evidence to prove it. The biggest fallacy that conspiracy theorists cling to is that their counter argument is equal and opposite to the ‘official narrative’. The idea that a professor in infectious disease, who has been doing actual research, in a laboratory, peer-reviewed and cross checked, day-in day-out for decades, is somehow equal to a guy on Facebook saying, "yeah but what if it isn’t," is truly contemptible. The fact that you can’t decide which of those to put your faith in is beyond absurdity.

Birds of a feather flock together. I’m sure many sane people, including myself, got fed up with his delusional rantings and unfollowed him. Likewise most conspiracy theorists are stuck in an ongoing circle-jerk of misinformation, all citing each other as sources. People with little interest in Saints or even football will follow Tiss because they want to believe what he posts.

I'm afraid my burden of proof is somewhat higher than a stranger on a football forum, saying he saw, "a pentagon guy" say it on, "a random Twitter account." Meanwhile a representative from the WHO has said as recently as today that they're making serious preparations in case of a chemical attack. https://www.reuters.com/world/who-says-making-contingency-plans-possible-chemical-assaults-ukraine-2022-04-07/

Do you have a source for that? I seem to have completely missed it in the news.

Rickie Lambert ‘stands with Le Tissier’, according to his Instagram. He stopped short of providing any context of what he actually meant, which is probably the most intelligent decision either of them have made in all of this.

Two hours of pounding and still nobody has climaxed.

This topic seems to have drifted somewhat, if anyone wants to discuss media in general a few posts have been moved here.

I can well believe it. I'll stop short of actually being sympathetic towards any Russian soldiers but it must be terrifying, going to war in a badly maintained, 50 year old tank, up against sophisticated western missiles which carve through them like a hot knife through fresh air.

I still think they'll scrape safety but haha, get in!

Unless I'm misreading that post, isn't it Russia's total military inventory worldwide, as opposed to their deployment in Ukraine? Furthermore, it's also just as list of produced units which may or may not be serviceable. Russia's defence budget is basically equal to our own. Officially it's a couple of billion more but a lot of that will disappear down the well of bureaucracy, bribery and wastage with Putin's cronies at the helm. Russia claims to have 1,400 aircraft but we can just about keep 1/3 of that up to date and airworthy on a similar budget. If they have lost 150 aircraft in a month, that's a pretty big deal, bearing in mind they have to keep enough in reserve to defend the largest airspace in the world, from the coasts of Japan and Alaska all the way to the NATO border.