Lighthouse

Im aware he’s seen more of an attacking midfielder, he’s still an attacking option we didn’t have last year who looks like he has goals in him. Doesn’t work like that, transfers have gone down to the final hours of the window for as long as there’s been one. This isn’t like doing your homework on the school bus at 0835, it’s all part of the dynamics of the market. Complete speculation, we won’t have any idea on that until after the WC probably. West Ham (who’s form dropped off a cliff much like ours at the end of last season), Leicester, Brighton, Brentford and Leeds could all have taken a big step backwards, we just don’t know.

If the Leicester game had panned out the other way around, everyone would be raging that, having taken the lead through a set piece in a cagey game, Ralph was completely out-thought by a far more adept and versatile manager, with a much better plan B.

We’re clearly looking for a striker, if we can’t find one within our budget then what do you want us to do? We’ve replaced Broja with Aribo and Mara, which on early showing is hardly a tragedy even if we get nobody else. I don’t particularly give a sh*t how the club try to spin anything.

I was wondering which insufferable helmet was going to score the inevitable winner against us at Goodison this year. Now I know.

I don’t get the reference. We’re quite obviously not lacking a tall, physical CB. Even Bednarek, for his faults, is 6’ plus and gets stuck in.

We’ve got two 6’3" CBs in the team already, how massive and brutish were you thinking? Anyone taller than that is likely to be scrawny, tectonically slow or just sh*t.

It’s quite astonishing how stuff like that happens. Nathan Dyer convicted of burglary, Nile Ranger for fraud, there are countless others. Jhon Viafara must have been paid £2-3m JUST from his three years and Saints and Pompey and yet he’s currently serving 11 years for having bags of powder in his brown suitcase. Strange.

That Rob account is a proven bull sh*tter, Christ knows why people keep sharing his stuff. Just another attention deprived Twitter ‘personality’.

Christ, I didn’t realise these weren’t being played until the second week of November. Normally we’d already have played the Round of 16 (R4) by then.

Wow, we've finally lucked in with the draw. I make that seven all Prem ties and we get a winnable home game.

Seems like not enough people care to start another. Some all Prem ties coming up, which will help us in the long run if we progress. Man Utd - Villa Bournemouth - Everton Forest - Spurs Wolves - Leeds City - Chelsea

Draw for round three coming up, Saints #24.

The money it would take to find another first choice CB would be much better spent elsewhere and even if we did buy one, it'd just make Salisu unhappy and push for a move himself.

If we're playing four at the back and have MS, ABK, Lyanco and whichever of JS/JB sticks around, that seems alright to me and certainly an upgrade on last season. Better players than Lyanco and Bednarek aren't going to come here and be backup, so I'm not really sure what some of you are hoping for or expecting. I can't see Rom leaving unless we're getting someone else.

You’ve got a point but if the poll was unanimous we’d go back to the old format. It was messy and a bit ad hoc when there’re no mods around but if it’s what people wanted we’d do it. So far though, there’s not much in it.

Yeah but girls dig scars, perhaps he asked the surgeon to give him one deliberately.

I added the poll to gauge public opinion but truth be told there’s not always someone online to lock, stick and unstick threads on match days. Sometimes we’re 3-0 down and people are still going, "mods, where’s the match thread?!"

He’s kind of a likeable version of Osvaldo.

Nope. It’ll be a tragic, random accident caused by faulty spark plugs.

Right, we’ll have a Russian election on the match threads. Everyone gets to vote but if I don’t like it I’m having some of you killed.

Good idea but I’ll split the thread off for the new season.

He really thumped that. It was a power Ballard.

Can his song just be 'Kumbaya Ballard'?

Managing is one thing, being at the absolute peak of fitness is quite another. He’s on the pitch with 21 other elite athletes, so any fitness issue puts him at a disadvantage.

Yeah, never saw that coming when they were 6-2 chasing 298. Fair play.