Lighthouse

Another driving one; on a smart motorway, following another car doing just under 70. As we’re approaching a gantry, a car speeding on the opposite carriageway gets flashed by the camera. The car in front brakes and slows to just under 60. Why? For the love of Christ, what mental process led to that decision?!

Cancelling his contract isn’t a silly enough reaction to his first two months, IMO. I think we should put him in the stocks in front of the Guildhall and shove Cadbury Mini Eggs up his bum.

Two keepers who've cost us exactly zero points this season.

So you’re actually complaining about signing Fellows, Azaz and Scienza? Would you prefer another season like 2008/09? Robinson has played eight first team matches already this season by the end of September, he hasn’t exactly been frozen out. It’s going to be a long season and a lot of players are going to get their chance. Still picks the team, I’m talking about the coaches who train our youth players and know which ones are good enough and which ones aren’t.

If they decide that NO is worthy of a place on the bench for the Swansea game then great. Until such time I can only assume that he has been deemed not yet ready for Championship football. There's no such thing as the BIB at a club like Saints. If you're good enough you'll get opportunities, as Dibling and Robinson have showed. What I don't agree with is the assertion that he can't be any worse than DD. We as fans haven't seen anywhere near enough of either to make that call. Which youth players do you feel they have misjudged?

Yes you can. The coaches who've been watching these kids training and playing day in, day out will have an excellent idea if they are good enough to make the step up to senior football. So far the answer with Oyekunle seems to be no, hopefully that might change in the next couple of years.

Off the top of my head Tino, Lavia, Dibling, Larios, Edozie, Robinson and Mara have all played for us as teenagers in the SR era. Broja, ABK and Baz could only just have turned 20, too.

Not a clue what your point is.

We already did that with Brentford when they were flavour of the month, it’s not that simple. Bournemouth were below us in the table when we sacked Ralph, not three years ago, so it’s hardly been sustained excellence from them.

In the same way as literally every professional footballer there’s ever been, if we’re being accurate.

I love shoving things up my arse as much as the next man, but if 'questioning the narrative' involves taking five caramel lattes a day up the poo pipe and dying from lymphoma aged 23, I'll probably stick to being a sheep.

When they have the military capability to do so. Thankfully they don't.

Not to mention THB, Manning, Downes, Armstrong, Charles and Roeslev all being very highly rated by their previous Championship clubs.

Cheers, no worries.

It's worse than the PL, which is what we're judging them on last season.

Nope. They’ve just gone to worse leagues.

Like who?

Fixed

Correct.

Age group football. If he was good enough, he'd be playing.

Our club was relegated, they didn’t spend ten years in a Soviet, Siberian labour camp. They’re quite capable of ‘recovering’ to the point of playing Championship football.

Shearer, RVN, Pires, Roy Keane, Del Piero, VVD…

Plenty do, we'll just have to hope this injury isn't too bad. Sadly a hammy will probably see him out until Christmas or so.

Apart from Downs, who was only £6m and we'd probably get most of that back if it came to it, who have we signed who's 'utter gash'?

Coaching for me. It’s October and Still doesn’t seem to know either his best team or his best formation. He’ll say that he’s adaptable, not wedded to one specific system and that the door is open for every play to prove themself but I think it’s a bit of a mask for not really knowing what to do. Even the subs are baffling, taking off players who are doing well in a kind of scattergun approach to mixing things up. When Stewart was injured, putting Archer or Downs on, like for like, was the obvious approach in a game where the system was working but no; Adam Armstrong as a centre-forward again, where everyone knows he doesn’t work.