Lighthouse

Yep. I can’t remember the last time we had a man sent off early and he reorganised us properly to get a result.

That’s what Valery should have done with Obafemi. He’s already clobbered it out for a GK so just stand off him

What the absolute f**k Jack?!

57 minutes wins the 9-0 sweepstake.

They’re talking about Piroe.

Why get anywhere near him to give the ref that option?

So don’t do it. He’s on a yellow and nowhere near the ball, which has already run away to the ‘keeper.

Should have used his loaf.

It was a stupid challenge and so was the first. Obafemi was always going to go down to any sort of contact.

F**king plank.

Mine’s slightly better. This 3-0 looks pretty comfortable, can’t see Leeds coming back from here.

And the miserable Welsh TV director has thrown his toys out the pram and cut the feed.

Kaboosh!

Stupid lunge that from Valery. On the halfway line, 2 minutes into the game, with play going nowhere.

Just out of interest if, in 2005, all other 19 clubs had been relegated for financial irregularities, a la Rangers or Juve, and Saints had been declared league champions; would you be declaring that the greatest season in our history?

Decent team for a cup tie.

No, he already gets it. He doesn’t need help with basic logic for beginners.

I didn’t particularly think PC was THAT good at Liverpool, certainly nowhere near what Barca paid for him. He dined out on a handful of worldies, a couple of which were against us, but his all round game was nowhere near the current level of Salah or Mané.

I definitely want Willy in at the back.

The problem with saying that is that it’s all true. What you’re advocating for is judging teams by what other teams achieve in completely unconnected matches. That Liverpool team which finished runner up with 97 points or whatever they got WAS better than the Leicester team that won the league. They did have a better season; they won more of their games, had a better GD, better players and scored more points. By every metric Liverpool were the better team it’s just that Man City were even better that year. It’s no coincidence that Liverpool were the ones who won the title the following season and Leicester were in a relegation fight. In Puel’s final game we were 0-0 at half time, at home to Stoke, and 10th in the live league table. In the second half we lost 0-1 and moved up to 8th by virtue of other scores. By your criteria, that’s an excellent second half performance from Saints, jumping from 10th to 8th in the league.

Blatantly only done so we can make 'Willy gets extended' jokes but fair play, can't hurt to have another pair of gloves around at the moment.

Can't see the 'keeper situation changing now until summer, when I'd imagine FF, WC and possibly HL will all leave and we can go again from scratch. I think we're okay with the four CBs we have. If we do any business this window, I think there's a possibility of someone like Long or Moi going out on loan with another forward player coming in.

If anyone wants to carry on the media/political chat

This has been explained many, many, many times, if you’re unwilling to take that information onboard I’m not going over it again. As egg said (one of the many) the gaping hole in all this conspiracy nonsense is why? I haven’t seen any explanation as to any motive which makes any sense. If it makes you happy then yes; I am a terrified, obedient, brainwashed sheep who has been hoodwinked by the Machiavellian Boris. I’ve had my three jabs, got my Covid pass and wear my mask on the train and in Tesco. Let’s suppose Boris gets his wet dream, 67 million subservient disciples, just like me. Then what? What is the end game in all of this.

Ahhh, you mean that brutal dictatorship which basically denies the existence of Covid. Bit weird that, they must be bored with having too much control, like Lukashenko is in Belarus.