Lighthouse

Correct. The problem is the officials and the rules, not the technology. I've always said for offsides, there should be a 6 inch margin for error, or they use thick lines and there has to be clear daylight between them, or you just go by foot position. Right now we're in a daft position where you'd want you GK to be the captain because anyone else could be playing themselves offside, or an attacker onside, with their armband.

Nothing will top that Chelsea vs. Barcelona game from the CL. At least, I hope it wont.

Just seen the penalty claim on MotD. How in the name of Jason and the Argonauts was that not given?!

Positive tests down by 20% on yesterday. Obviously the deaths tend to lag a bit behind but it’s looking better in the not too distant future.

I don’t think it’s a case of listening to GP feedback. With a national vaccination programme like this it was never going to be dumped on the NHS and their staff. Temporary mass vaccination centres were always going to be the solution.

As I remember it you were arguing against the Pfizer jab because they came in batches of 1000, most GP practices only had one or two nurses available and any greater roll out would be a drain on the NHS. It was other people telling you it could be done in town halls by army medics and vets.

I’m not saying that we should stockpile but in terms of spreading and mutations, I’d have thought the thinner you spread the vaccines, the weaker the boost you get from herd immunity. Supposing you have two countries with 100 million people and 70 million vaccines which are 100% effective. If you give country A all of them and B none, you’ve basically protected 100m people with 70m vaccines. Whereas if you gave them 35m each, both countries would still have 65m people spreading and mutating the virus.

What if it dissolved your body but you continued to experience conscience outside the known parameters of metaphysics. Not sure I’ll risk it.

Nah, living forever would be unbearable. I’ll give that vaccine a miss.

Badly as it turns out.

I thought that’s what all the vaccines did anyway?

I’m prepared to be surprised but honestly I’d be amazed if there’s nobody else coming in.

I’m not sure I get the positivity over the one jab Janssen vaccine. It’s claimed to be around 66% effective but isn’t that barely an improvement on an assumed 60% efficacy of one dose of AZ or Pfeizer?

All seems reasonable enough to me. Last season the club were confident Vokins would be at least competent enough to be a backup to the first team (I.e. as good as Targett, Pied, Valery and Fox etc. have been in the last) but clearly he hasn’t developed to the extent we had hope. Now we’re clearly confident of bringing in someone much better, either as cover for Bertrand or with a view to taking his place long term. I don’t see how anyone could be upset about replacing Vokins with AMN.

We really are nothing unique in either of those categories. There’s very little about Saints which is going to appeal to fans outside of Hampshire, let alone abroad.

The sad thing about that is the number of innocent people trying to protect themselves he may have infected, walking around with Covid and no mask/SD. This is Darwinism at work.

You mean those fictional ones which no idiot in their right mind would dream of signing.

No doubt the loonies will described this as a whistle-blower being persecuted for telling the truth.

Maybe that's in the pipeline but I don't really like it. It's too 'jobs for the boys' for my liking. We should only be hiring people when and where they're needed based on their skill set. Not saying people can stick around because everyone likes them. I could be wrong but I'm far from convinced the likes of Kelvin and Radhi are revolutionary coaching gurus.

I certainly wouldn't offer him a 3 year deal, he's at the age where performance and fitness tends to drop off more often than not. Having spent the last two years trying to get players off the wage bill, it would naive to start stuffing it with aging players who contribute very little on the pitch. We've already made that mistake with Long, I'm hoping we don't repeat it with Bertrand and Walcott. People are quick to envy when another club signs an 'experienced pro', like Palace and Bournemouth with Cahill and Defoe respectively. The former has been fit 1/3 of the season and conceded 14 goals in 3 games, the latter spent two years of his three year deal being paid to go to Scotland.

By ambition, what you really mean is chucking large sums of money into a football club.

They were just a better team and with both fullbacks out it was an uphill struggle. In fact one could argue our first choice back four were all missing. Not something you’d expect a mid-table team to be able to overcome against a side playing that well.

We’re a 7th-12th team. Arsenal are a top 8 team who’ve been underperforming. It was always going to level out eventually.

Not even free (which it obviously would be) it would be a big slab of wage for relatively little in return. We’ve spent two years trying to shift players off the wage bill, let’s not undo it all now. Especially the way our finances look.

He’s the better of the two but I wouldn’t personally be signing Theo, aged 32 and our highest earner, based on his contribution so far.