Lighthouse

Vest on the pitch for all of 14 seconds when that went in. 🤣🤣

Waking up bursting for a p*ss but you can’t go because you’ve got a massive horn.

Horses for courses, if there was one magic formation which wins every game, everyone would be playing it.

He seems to have helped address our lacquer goals.

It would be pretty Saintly to go a season unbeaten against United, Spurs and City but lose home and away to Wolves, Everton and Norwich.

I was looking through their team sheet earlier and basically thinking the exact same thing. Other than two academy players, every single one of them would have been comfortably our record signing.

I wouldn't argue that he's better than McC but that's not much of an endorsement in itself. FF has played 7 league games this season, following several years of performances which have been dubious to say the least (no clean sheets in that 7 either). For the massive wages we're reportedly paying him, I'd be disappointed if our scouts couldn't find someone better in summer. This thread is emotive after a match saving save in injury time at OT, I get it. This is the kind of superficial, short term thinking Ankersen was brought in to prevent.

We'll make it sticky for a bit so that everyone knows. A real shame the old boy couldn't hang around for another four days, my condolences to his family. For the record, I think 1-1 is an improvement on last season's fixture but I can't remember how that one went.

No we don't. He may be better than McC and enjoying a period of good form but we shouldn't be handing out multi-year contracts on the back of temporary spikes in form. I'd like to think we've been scouting better, more consistent players for several months, if not longer.

Has nobody told them that in 2 years time Ralph will be sitting on a beach earning 20%.

He looks like he's telling a bouncer, "Alright, I've had a couple, fair play."

TBH my only hope is that someone buys him cheap in summer, possibly one of the promoted clubs. We should never have bought him back, he seems to have brought little other than sentimentality.

I generally can’t stand most punditry these days, so I’m watching the IPL auction.

Didn’t we finish off at The Dell by beating United and Arsenal consecutively in our last two games? Everyone remembers Arsenal but I think United was the game where Pahars looked about 20 yards off but wasn’t.

Just off the M80 I think.

But they did ‘still have enough time to win this’, that’s not an unreasonable thing to say.

You’d think if everyone else started seizing the assets of Russian billionaires and blocking travel, one of them would have little Vlad assassinated eventually.

Liverpool at home in 2016 also springs to mind. Goals from Pelle and Mane.

So he's so good that you'd prefer to NOT play him, have worse results and leave him feeling frustrated and unappreciated? Should drop our chances of keeping him next season from 1% to 0%. FWIW he'll probably p*ss off to Spurs when they sell Kane to City.

TBF he will be raking it in for the next three years of his part time job. Fair play to his agent.

We haven't looked anything like 'relegation fodder' since the end of September and even then we'd picked up a few points from a tough start against United, City and West Ham. We're a far, far better team than Burnley, Watford and Norwich and have been for several months.

Thankfully Truss is never going to be asked to command a tank battalion or launch an AMRAAM against an Sukhoi, so I don't think she's a particular hindrance to the military. She's just the cheese loving face of the government, there will be hundreds of people with real brains making the decisions. Besides, Russia is hardly immune from bureaucracy, jobs for the boys, secret handshakes, yes men and arse covering. They will have their own internal problems in all this.

I thought that too. Unfortunately I can't help but like Pierce because of Robot Wars.

How unfit do you think they are? It's only a second game in three days for many of them, hardly unprecedented. The 'extra day to recover' line often gets trotted out but it doesn't seem to translate into an actual difference all that often.