Lighthouse

I think the most surreal take on grief I’ve seen so far is Clubland TV who are only playing sad dance anthems, in the minor key. 🤨

Pretty annoying, I was looking forward to going to that. Still, let’s look at it as being a bit more time for Fandab to train with the squad and JWP and Lavia to get fit for what is definitely a winnable game.

I'm definitely in the 'hoping they don't cancel games' camp on this. I don't know how or why people would interpret that as a mark of respect, especially for a woman who was the very embodiment of carrying on with a stiff upper lip.

None of those players were average. Davis was excellent and a key part of our most successful team in recent decades. The other three are poor players at this level and a whole team of their quality would get relegated.

Call me a misogynist but I’m not sure these people on Facebook are actually selling furniture.

I liked him, just like Claus, Tessem and many other average players we’ve had, but let’s not kid ourselves. He was never on the radar for a big club and wasn’t as good as Morgan or Wanyama. He was a popular, Saints level player; nothing more, nothing less. Having said that, I’ve just remembered Hojbjerg. He can go there instead.

The problem is that they’re preaching to an audience which is that thick and wanting to believe that they’ll swallow anything.

I agree, as you pointed out on another thread. I think, if we’re using this metric to mean literally average and not as a derogatory byword for substandard, I’d pick a team something like. Stekelenberg Telfer - Williams - Lundekvam - Le Saux Redmond - Anders - Romeu - S. Armstrong Tessem - Adams

I think he’s the most okay player I’ve ever seen play for us. Good luck to him.

He's only 28 and seemingly a spent force in top level football. He could have achieved so much more, both on the pitch and financially than he has/is, retired aged 35 and then retired to his own Caribbean island.

You know sh*t’s about to go down when the signal drops out on your Sky dish.

Don’t worry, a Ukrainian winter spent sleeping in a trench and under supplied with food, fuel and ammo will soon cheer them all up.

Ukraine is a lost cause, it’ll all be over next week. Copyright May 2022.

A bit of thunder and lightning.

And still talking more sense than half the posters on here do when sober.

It’s not though, it’s a 38 game season featuring those two, Aribo, Stu, Edozie, Adams, Mara and the possibility of adding more, if needed, in January. Playing an extra striker to score more is like playing an extra CB to help the defence, it’s not that simple any anything but guaranteed that it’ll help.

Gah… still if we’d drawn the last three we’d have three points and I’d be happy. One of those days, a lot to come from this group of players.

This isn’t going to be a classic edition of MotD. Half an hour in and zero goals, even in the lunchtime kickoff.

Lucky, lucky bastard.

4.5 games? 🤨

I've never bought that line of thinking and I don't know why people think that any experienced older player is going to improve younger players by default. We have coaches to mentor the youth, that's their job. People have been saying it about Long and Walcott for years and yet the likes of N'Lundulu, Obafemi and Tella have shown little, if any, improvement. Thankfully it's a nonsense rumour which have just popped up on social media. I don't want Ross Barkley.

I seem to remember from social media that he moved to LA with his partner and daughters a couple of years back. Don’t think he was involved with any football club, just living the retired life.

You’d have to expect with Walcott and Redmond winding down to their last six months, they’d be looking for a way out.

We don't need to make any excuses for anything. We've signed 9 players and all bar possibly Larios look like they will add something to the first team. That included 3 attacking players who between them only have to surpass the 7 goals contributed by Long and Broja. We've kept hold of the only two players I'd have been genuinely annoyed to lose - the WP brothers - and offloaded a high number of substandard players. Another striker would have been a 10/10 window, hence I've given it a 9, but that's hardly a complaint compared to teams like Leicester, Bournemouth and Everton.

Then Mara or AA will have to play there. It’ll be unfortunate, same as if Bazunu got a knock, but it’s not some tragedy which will get us relegated.