Lighthouse

You won’t get a week in Centre Parcs for much less than £1,000. You can find cheaper places but not by much in the spring/summer months and all this is assuming a week of walking in the Peak District is the preferred holiday for a 22 year old. It still doesn’t change the fact that you’re basically telling qualified professionals to live a sh*t life throughout their twenties, to then get to your thirties and be lumbered with a massive mortgage on a steep interest rate you’ll be paying off until you retire.

So in other words basically not having a life? We think of foreign holidays as a luxury but in todays world it’s almost a necessity. Humans didn’t evolve to spend fifty hours a week staring at spreadsheets and Teams meetings in offices, sitting in traffic, stressing about mounting financial pressures, relationships etc. If you don’t take a break a couple of times a year, you’ll go mad. Back to the money, that’s less than £17,000 for a deposit on a home costing less than £75,000, adjusted for inflation in today’s money. Hardly surprising you had it sorted in five years.

Seriously, £106,000? If you left uni at 21, got a decent well paid job immediately and after all your basic needs, social life and holidays were paid for somehow still managed to save £500 per month, you'd be nearly forty before you could afford a house. That's in a near perfect world where you never get made redundant, have long term sickness or have children or family to support etc.

What an odd take on it all. When protestors are bringing the M25 to a halt every day, putting lives in danger and causing people to miss funerals, chemo appointments and f**k knows what else, I’m more concerned by that than a couple of journalists being wrongfully detained. Why that happened I don’t know, clearly not all of the details are in the public domain, but if the journalists concerned are just observers and not directly involved, they will be released without charge. As for the new houses, well what would you prefer to happen? We’ve got a generation of people in their thirties, renting one bedroom in a HMO because it’s all they can afford and don’t have a prayer. These are qualified professionals with respectable jobs but a four times salary mortgage wouldn’t come close to buying anything reasonable. I think I read the other day that an average person, with an average salary trying to buy an average UK house would need a deposit of £106,000. Insanity.

Make sure you keep it below room temperature or it’ll all congeal into one big, dark chocolate cricket ball.

I’ve got the weirdest feeling of Dave Ja Vu. Let’s see how this goes…

Gym - Sauna/steam room - Outdoor pool - Shower - Food - Cuppa Tea Can't beat it.

No because that’s a myth and it never happened. Poch didn’t even speak English and most would agree he’s the best managed we’ve had in the PL era. Some people didn’t like Puel from day one because they found his football boring, not his interviews.

That was all media talk and fake ITKs on Twitter. We may well have been interested and even made a couple of offers but by virtue of the fact that he’s not here and ended up in the Championship, we clearly didn’t think he was worth whatever City were asking. As for being a ‘marquee signing’, it’s completely up to you how much you’ve hyped him in your own mind. The club made no such dramatisations.

No, I said it was ridiculous to say we hadn’t signed a striker when we obviously did. I never made any assertions about how good any of them were.

I’ll hold my hands up to having said that and yes, I was wrong. I was hoping we’d see more from Mara and Aribo in particular, in attacking positions. What I will say is that I don’t think we could have bought an awful lot more for £70m and we had to offload a lot of players from the wage bill just to spend that.

Because everyone else has spent hundreds of millions to tread water.

Twitter, unless I’ve f**ked up the settings somehow, seems to have an increasingly sh*te interface. If I open my timeline it’s just: Somebody follows XXXX Advert Somebody follows YYYY Somebody follows ZZZZ Advert An actual Tweet from somebody I follow Some mentally deranged sh*te from Tiss because people I follow, follow him. Advert Topics: Jurgen Klopp (who I’ve never searched for or shown any interest in)

Hmmmm. I came here hoping to see a llama that could bobsled or perhaps a cracking pair of knockers. It’s been a mediocre day all round on Saintsweb, truth be told.

You can’t post full articles from behind a paywall, I’m afraid.

Interesting, please could you provide more details of your overall synopsis of his work and why you feel it wasn’t worthwhile.

I can only assume he’s an injury replacement for Dawid Malan because there’s no way he’s getting into our football team.

They’re not slim, we’re basically guaranteed survival now. Ralph was useless, clueless, even my Gran could do better and he left us only one point off safety. Literally anyone we appoint will definitely be an improvement, so I can’t see any way we go down.

Well, I'm sad to see him go personally but that's just football. I'll always remember him as a likable manager who kept us comfortably clear of the relegation fight for four seasons, despite some very limited resources. The fact that our best striker is Championship standard and we had to sell our reserve LB in order to buy him is probably the best illustration of this. Honestly, after the Reed/Wilson fiasco we knew we'd be lumbered with the massive financial burden of Carrillo, Boufal, Forster, Hoedt, Lemina, Gunn, Hughes, MoPe and others, I honestly thought we'd go down at some point but so far we haven't. If you think that's lacking ambition, well you pay for something better then. Good luck in the future Ralph.

Yesterday he was a decent PL keeper who will be ripped away from us when we get relegated. Make your mind up.

That’s an excellent turn and finish TBF, meanwhile all our players and shanking it into the car park from 5 yards away.

Makes you wonder why Man City bothered with that £230m total deal for Haaland, if not having a decent striker is just, "excuses".

I reckon if this place was an actual lounge, we'd probably see off a tin of pretty much everything between us. I'm quite happy to scoff the creams and Milky Ways and leave the nutty stuff to you guys.

So we just need to get rid of the only manager he's actually player consistently well for?

This season we’d be much better with a decent striker. The last two seasons we’ve had crap players all over the pitch, so Ings and Broja are what kept us up.