Lighthouse

Adkins 'did fk all' at Scunthorpe, would you not have appointed him either?

No. West Ham are clearly out of sorts and we did well to get a point but we're not finding another seven.

Interetingly, I saw a couple of days ago that he had signed for CSK in the IPL, presumably as a replacement for the injured Gaikwad, so we should get a decent look at him, if he gets a game.

Ram that up your arse Derby!

I know Hampton was a late, short notice replacement but when an overseas player looks less dangerous and more expensive than Brad Wheal, you’ve not quite got it right. I’m not sure what the plan is for when he departs and Barker returns, we’re probably still light a decent batter.

TBH that would be much more enjoyable than watching a Saints match, so I’ve been told by a friend, who says he sometimes uses anal beads, apparently.

"Get rid of the deadwood," is a catchphrase trotted out by many football fans of every club, in the run up to every transfer window. The reality is always the same, some unwanted players move on and other linger. Most clubs in the bottom half of the Championship would take most of our players and many will have interest from abroad, it's just a question of finances.

Undoubtedly there are better players who would have been more useful to Saints but I'd strongly disagree that we got mugged off for £25m. I think Larios and Edozie were more of a punt along the Mayuka line of thinking. There's an outside chance they might come good and if they don't we'll make our money back and go again.

That's not a particularly large amount these days though, infact for three players I'd say it was dirt cheap. I'm fairly sure we could make our money back on them if it came to it. The injuries to Larios complicate things but if SAA is a £10m player then so are Baz and Edozie.

I went to make a sandwich at 93/3. 😂

Not in the grand scheme of things. It’ll have been forgotten by the rest of the footballing world in a couple of weeks, but if you’re on the wrong end of an 11-0, that sticks to you for decades.

I can’t see what could possibly be fun about it. The one bit of dignity we’ve got left to lose this season is that we haven’t been on the end of any embarrassing score lines. You get a dozen or so 5-0s in every league, every season but if we start messing about with the team we could be on the wrong end of double figures.

You’re asking other people to explain and give solutions to a problem which is entirely of their own making. If you choose to take hormone replacements and any other treatments which alter your appearance to the point that you’re no longer recognisable as a woman, you have to live with the consequences of that, not ask society to make special rules which don’t really work, in order to accommodate you. It’s like when people get tattoos covering their neck and face, then say they struggle to find employment and are discriminated against. Well… yeah.

As much of the off topic stuff as I can be arsed to shovel is now here

Furthermore it’s stuff like this which fuels the appeal of the far right. People say why Trump, why Tate, why Robinson? Etc. the more mainstream and widespread things like gender identities, the more disillusioned people will be driven into their arms as the supposedly sane option. The right love stuff like this, it makes liberals look like unhinged weirdos.

Cant be arsed checking who we’ve got, I assume it’s an away game. Anyway, carry on COYS etc.

In order to call someone ‘transphobic’ you have to first be able to define being ‘transgender’. In order to be ‘transgender’ you first have to be able to define ‘gender’. Since nobody seems able to do that the whole thing is one great big word salad anyway.

Why though? They’re playing at a level which is much more on par with their abilities. As I asked earlier in the thread, who do you think we’re going to bring in who is certain to outscore them and also affordable. The Championship’s top scorers at the moment are Sainz, who won’t be coming here, and Piroe, who really hasn’t done anything in the last two years to make me upset that he chose Leeds over us.

Maybe but then Lambert, Sharp, Guly and Connolly can’t have been much shy of that under Adkins. Had Sharp been here the full season, he and Lambert could have netted about 45 between the pair of them.

No, I think those three players alone could score 60 goals combined, if we play to their strengths and they stay fit.

BBD and Archer are more than capable of replicating the 16 goals Che Adams scored two years ago, when by all accounts our problem was keeping goals out, not putting them in. Looking at the players we’re most likely to left with come summer, my first priorities would be upgrading on Bree and Manning as first choice FBs. Then I’d like better creative players than Fraser and Edozie. I’d much rather spend more on four quality player in those positions than the scatter gun, safety in numbers, approach of last summer.

I’d say it was like 90:10 the French league being much worse than the PL. Just look at José Fonte, who looked finished at this level playing for West Ham, then went on to have years of success at Lille. As poorly managed as we’ve been, none of those players were PL material. If they were then other PL teams would have snapped them up when we went down. Just look at AMN - not even our player, Arsenal just didn’t rate him at all. He was basically the Maxwel Cornet of two years ago.

Great, now you’ve made me remember Salisu exists. I hope you’re happy now. 🙄

Tessem’s goal against Sunderland is literally the only one I can remember from a Delap throw. He clearly altered his technique a bit up in Staffordshire.

Bad light stops play, so that should be it. I don’t think we were ever chasing down that total but that’s a phenomenal effort from Gubbins, Albert and Prest today to but out the unlikeliest of draws.