Lighthouse

We have two players injured in the same position, what else would you except? We may lack quality in depth overall but not in CM.

At this rate, the 9-0 is on.

One could assume they’re two points ahead of us in the league and their remaining games are Home - Spurs, Man City, Leeds, Wolves Away - Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Villa

Why? It’s not like you’re actively contributing to their demise. Betting on Saints to go down this season is just a very generous donation to a bookmaker but if people want to do it, that’s fine by me.

Because he has left and forged a decent career as a first team player at Villa. Chelsea fans probably thought the same about Bertrand when we signed him and he started putting in consistently excellent performances. Likewise Spurs fans are probably moaning about KWP being so good for us this season. At some point a young player has to move on for his own career and start playing regular football. Not play reserve football for years and wait for someone better to get injured.

My main gripe about Puel was that we were just awful to watch at home. We had three decent League performances, the rest was dross. In the other 16 we scored 8 goals, only 4 from open play and one of them was a goalkeeping howler. I don’t hate him by any stretch but after failing to score in (I think) 6 of our final 7 home games and playing for a 0-0 against teams like Bournemouth, Be’er Sheva and Hull, I think we were right to bid him au revoir.

Imagine if he had allowed the goal after blowing his whistle. If I were a West Brom player, after that I'd have just ignored any whistle and played on, then said, "well, last time you played on after the whistle so..." It would have been childish but would have underlined the absolute prat he made of himself.

He wanted first team football, we got a decent fee for an academy player who wasn’t getting first team football. He wouldn’t have developed like he has at Villa if he’d stayed. Seems to me like all three parties were a winner here, no need to put a negative slant on it. Besides, I don’t think he’s anything astonishing.

The people who watch them every day in training clearly think otherwise. Valery and Vokins were thought of as two of the better options and yet the former especially has looked like a fish up a tree for many of his first team appearances. Throwing kids in to see if they’re good enough will just end up with more Jamie Whites and Olly Lancashires.

I actually want to see it. Just having the boot on the other foot and the big teams moaning about City outspending them.

I’ve haven’t said anything otherwise but having blow the whistle a second time, he stopped play - before the goal crossed the line. That is what VAR correctly rectified, even in-spite of Mason’s poor refereeing. Therefore not a ‘VAR shambles’ of any sort. Jeez, now the ‘taters don’t know why a free kick was given after the pen. Saying it may have been offside. 🙄

The mess was purely down to Mason, he should never have given the goal. All VAR did was stop a goal from being given after he blew for a second time, which would have been an absolute farce.

VAR covering for his f**k up, eventually.

Having rewound the video, he definitely blew the whistle a second time a fraction of a second before it crossed the line. They should disallow this.

Brighton seem to have copied our free kick routine.

Who really has a team with more than one or two academy players in it, in this league? The vast majority don’t make it, that’s always been the case at every club.

All of this is beside the point. You're trying to justify something you know to be wrong by basically saying, "yeah but other people are doing it too."

Because that’s two people who haven’t had the vaccine, instead of just one. Two is a larger number than one, that’s how it works.

Imagine if it’d been the other way round... "How are Saints doing?" "You lost 9-0 again!" "🤣🤣... no but seriously, how are they doing?" Seriously though, good news. Like you say it could happen to anyone.

What difference does it make if I don't pay my council tax? If everyone else is paying it, we'll have enough money to pay for public services, so what difference does it make? I can't believe the BIB has to be explained again. Every person who refuses the vaccine is a transmission to people who either can't take the vaccine for medical reasons or for whom it isn't effective. Much worse than that, in the grand scheme of things, you're another save haven for the virus to mutate, until eventually we get something properly nasty and vaccine resistant.

The fact that some people are unable or ineligible to take the vaccine means there's an inherent risk, which is not their fault. The rest of society should be doing everything in our power to try and minimise this risk by ensuring that anybody who can be vaccinated is vaccinated.

Anti-discrimination laws apply to things like pubs saying, ‘no blacks’. In some cases there is a grey area, like when those Christian bakers were asked to make a cake for a gay pride event a few years ago but this isn’t one of them. Terms and conditions are there to protect the wellbeing of a business and its customers, staff and facilities. Covid quite clearly falls under that umbrella and isn’t a case of prejudice.

I’ve highlighted the key difference in bold for you. You are kidding right? That’s the definition of terms and conditions. Restaurants with dress codes, go kart tracks who say you can’t be drunk or pregnant, religious establishments with all sorts of cooky requirements, bars with a minimum drink limit, professional snooker tournaments where the crowd must be silent, cinemas who say you can’t bring in your own food.... there’s a near infinite list of all the small print listed by every business, ever.

Going to Reading festival, The Grand National and on an EasyJet flight to Mallorca aren’t civil liberties. You’re free not to have the jab but you cannot demand private companies accept your admission if you don’t.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56202975 This kind of ‘have your cake and eat it’ mentality annoys me. If people don’t want the vaccine, nobody is forcing them to, but to refuse and still expect to be treated the same is ridiculous.