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That's probably about as good a line up as I'd ask for. It suits the players we have available, with the creativity coming from the WB. I do prefer a back four but RB and AM positions are a bit of an issue until we get some players in.

It was a silly way to get out too, all we needed was to keep it ticking at a run a ball and he chips one up to mid-off. It's just not going for him this season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd32lnq445o What a spanner.

A shame if true, he looks a useful batter in both CC and ODC matches.

Apologies, I thought someone had said you were an alternate login of our resident, foul mouthed TV chef Turkish, although I can't honestly remember.

The worst thread... ... In the world?

You did send me that PM about 'beef f**king stroganoff'.

Yes, but if I split something in half AI will presumably infer that I am Paul Daniels or Ron Jeremy.

I believe his contract also entitles him to a quartet of Uruk Hai prostitutes. That's four more Mordor whores for Moore.

I don't mind it. If the mainstream media is more focussed on a competition that will get more kids into cricket, that's not really a bad thing. The Hundred is a gateway drug to hopefully get them hooked on real cricket.

Surely your new tier should be called the Chris Makin tier, or the Jon Otsemobor tier.

A significant number of players have been brought in, not made much impact and been moved on for whatever money we can recoup for them. We never told Russ or Juric they must play Edozie, Larios, Mara or any other player, so I fail to see any reason why we’d do that with Still and Bazunu. More to the point no credible manager would ever come here if they were told Rasmus, or anyone else, would be picking the team over their head. Five consecutive managers have decided Bazunu is better than McCarthy, to me it’s pretty clear why. Some people are going to have to get over their fantasy of only getting promoted because of the former being injured. Likewise Stephens, he’s been picked more than enough times by various managers, going back to Claude Puel. He’s clearly competent enough to be an option in the Championship, even if he shouldn’t be starting PL games.

This window was always going to be heavier on the outs than the ins, with the squad we came down with. Two or three more signings before the end of August probably feels about right, so I don't particularly feel that we're behind schedule.

Nope.

Yes, it will basically half.

Ben Mayes having a handy debut. Turned our innings around after Prest goes for single figures, yet again.

How can they be paying lip service to the fans if they haven't actually said anything?

As in - more than the £80m we received for Virgil? 😐 I'll believe that when I see it.

Is @elbobble the random Twitter account people weirdly think is ITK for no reason, this summer? Hardly seems like a credible journalist.

You’re just making up nonsense now. We won all three league games against West Brom and Leeds with Bazunu in goal. I’m not going to pretend that didn’t happen, or that the FA would have given us an 18 point deduction for playing him against Preston, just because I don’t like him.

WTF?! I’ve seen some nonsense written on here but after Bazunu got injured we lost three out of five games and still finished 17 points ahead of seventh place. I get that some people don’t rate Baz but when people start denying mathematical certainties (including those who believe 63 and 0 are the same number) it just gets weird. Those three games lost included getting thumped 5-0 at Leicester and losing at home to relegation threatened Stoke, via a goal which went straight through McCarthy. Hardly an end of season rocket up the form table. Whether some of you like it or not, Still would appear to be the fifth consecutive manager to prefer Bazunu to McCarthy, so unless we sign another keeper in the next three weeks, it looks like he’s going to be our keeper this season.

So were Liverpool with Trent, this isn’t unique to Saints.

I watched him with my own eyes two and I can remember one howler (Plymouth at home) and maybe half a dozen he should have done better with. That’s about par for a keeper over the course of a season and pointing out his save percentage statics were 4% lower than average isn’t enough to convince me that we were ‘promoted in spite of him’.

I wouldn't say that. We need a couple of decent attacking midfielders but I think we've got a pretty decent Championship squad. There will be a few teams in the mix but I can't see why we wouldn't be one of them.

Agree with who, exactly? Criticise Rasmus all you like on a variety of issues, but you can't deny he's done well getting good fees for players we have sold. We've already received a quite astonishing figure for Sully and managed to sell Onuachu for £6m, instead of £6. It seems like we're holding out for a decent price on Dibling too.