Lighthouse

We still need to get rid of some of the wastage on our wage bill so we can bring in other players. We could quite reasonably lose Moi, Forster, Lemina, Hoedt, Long, Valery and Walcott from our current salary outgoings, save a huge amount of money and not really lose anything of note from the playing squad. Add to that the likely departures of Ings, Bertrand and possibly Vest, that's even more wages saved and hopefully some reasonable transfer income.

No, he was just crap. Not helped by Burley’s absurd obsession with playing him anywhere at any cost. I think Hooiveld got more stick than he deserved in the Premier League. He and Fonte both looked very sketchy in our first season back up, the latter only really steadied when Lovren came in. Jos wasn’t PL standard admittedly but a couple of unfortunate own goals gave him an undeserved reputation as being a hopeless liability.

I once had a girl tell me I was number one when it came to cock size. Problem was she was a hairdresser and was actually referencing the length used on hair clippers.

The Fifty Shades series of books/films has shown us that a large number of women will fantasise about what is essentially an abusive, controlling relationship if the man is handsome and rich. Not that this has anything to do with this poor woman being murdered in the park. I think the principle of what’s being discussed can actually be extrapolated to 99.9% of the animal kingdom, not just human women. Any living organism out at night, in the open and alone is at risk of predation. All the advice which is given to women in this regard, I’d generally apply to myself anyway. The idea that men can all go strolling around rough council estates or unlit parkland alone, at 2am without fear of harm is just daft.

https://www.murdermap.co.uk/statistics/london-murders-2021-latest-total/ These are the recorded murders so far in 2021, for the London area. It would appear BLM is no longer flavour of the month on woke social media.

According to ONS, 36% of murder victims are female. I can’t imagine how terrifying that must be, being a woman - knowing you’re part of the gender which makes up over 1/3 of murder victims. 😟

Yep. That always works out for the best and never results in the manager losing the dressing room. Well we're midtable in the country's top division, I'd say it's working okay. Unless you think a bit of hairdryer treatment would have us top 8 and above the likes of Spurs and Arsenal? Complete conjecture.

You do know that not everything a football manager says in the press is the full truth, right? I mean, when somebody says, "player X isn't for sale," it means they're trying to get the best price. Or when Ralph says he enjoy bit of the way we played, he is simply trying to put a positive outlook to the outside world, so that he and his players wont get crucified in the media.

Standard manager speak for not getting complacent. He will continue saying that until it is mathematically certain, as will every manager in the bottom half.

Or they could have beaten us by 5, like Burnley and West Brom. Instead they only beat us by 3, like they did against Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, Olympiakos, Marseille (twice), Burnley (again) and Wolves. Still, it was their reserve side, having to rely on sh*t like Foden, De Bruyne, Silva and Gundogan.

Genuine young talent isn’t going to sit and watch KWP from our bench. Our options are substandard young talent, like Valery, or a mediocre journeyman like Martina or Pied.

Meh. Standard. Oh well...

Pompey to win a trophy and give it back a day later? 😂

Well, we’re not getting anything from this, might as well have one of our best players 20 minutes less tired for Brighton (and not injured, in the game at least).

This lot with Haaland....

It’s not really the right game to judge him on, not that I ever thought it was a good idea in the first place.

Sloppy there from Sally.

That should really be another pen. For us too. I guess that evens out.

Just tuned in to see that from McC...

My favourite Simpsons episode is just starting on Channel 4, might miss the first 25 minutes of this.

Haha, so basically every defender we’ve got and hope for the best. 🤣

Don’t forget the construction worker and the biker dude, they were there too.

That’s not a bare minimum. The bare minimum would have been not loaning Walcott and Minamino, with maybe a couple of loans to replace Hojbjerg and Cédric instead. If five players is a bare minimum, what would be an average/healthy number of signings? Eight? Ten? Dream on.

Bare minimum? We've signed 5 players since the end of last summer, how many did you want us to splash out on, at a time of financial strain?