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Ings scored 10 league goals this season. If we can find someone else who can score 8-10 a season, it’s really not much of a loss.

10 goals shouldn’t be a big loss for anyone. If we can’t find someone who can score 8-10 a season, even with our budget, then god help our scouting department. Even a slow, unfit, lazy Charlie Austin prodded in 6/7 a season for a couple of years.

I’ll see you Beattie and raise you Pellè. I’d rather have someone who was fit for every game, even if his scoring rate was lower.

SSN now joining a variety of sporting associations in boycotting SM for a few days in response to recent racist incidents. How strange. We’ve had a solid year of kneeling before sporting events, putting ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the back of shirts, randomly flashing up on the screen during matches, Martin Tyler solemnly telling us that the message is as strong as ever, black squares posted on Instagram, adverts saying racism is not nice, marching through major cities and a Policeman 5,000 miles away is in prison. Never before has virtue signalling been this sustained and ferocious and yet none of it seems to have made a blind bit of difference. Who’d have though.

Exactly the kind of asinine remark which loses my interest in any debate with climate change deniers, flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers and other, "free thinkers who don’t believe everything they’re being told by the MSM."

I think you’re being a little optimistic there. Scally’s position on the environment isn’t exactly a secret and most of his arguments are along the lines of claiming Chernobyl wasn’t a problem, by providing data to show that cancer deaths have been increasing recently anyway.

Except that we have all voted for Tiss, there’s just a general consensus that he’s been acting like an absolute spanner recently.

Well crack on, just stop complaining to me about it on random threads.

I’d agree although it’s not so much a political opinion as spreading ill-informed, dangerous misinformation.

Split from the Chauvin thread, although I do find it interesting how often it's the same teams on opposing sides of a debate even when it's a completely different subject. There must be a certain psychology behind why topics as diverse as COVID, racism, abortion and climate change all get separated into the left vs. the right. Shapiro does make some good points (IMO) but mostly it's low hanging fruit, debating against the regressive left - students and others who are professionally offended. Whenever I've seen him debate someone informed and balanced, he's always come up short.

My thinking too, so I can forgive myself for voting for Cashley, Terry and Keane among my other five.

In France. He was substandard at West Ham.

Eh? We’ve got a massively experienced squad. If anything we’re guilty of hanging onto players past their best and not moving on. Fonte was past his best when he left four years ago, I wouldn’t have him over anyone in our squad.

I’m going with Occam’s razor on that one. It’s not in the news because it isn’t news. It’s so frequent and widespread that basically, nobody cares.

You’ve got to feel sorry for Dalek. All those years in the lower leagues, talking about finishing 17th when we were top of the table and now it’s finally going to happen, he’s not here.

(Installs MLG Deluxe add on pack) That woman clearly has an American accent, although admittedly four years of listening to Trump probably would stunt your education.

All four of them? Anyway it's not real, just some troll who's managed to get a few bites.

My theory is that Glasgow log ins are like COVID variants. In order to survive they have to become more mundane and tolerable until eventually we end up with a dominant strain of the Burkina Faso variant posting, "I sorry, I no follow Saints long time, I bet 5,000CFA for make insurance of Southampton result."

I’m pretty sure most of the players we’ve ever signed have had their ‘head turned’ by Saints. I’m not sure we’re, well Saints, when it comes to acting this way. There was a day when I’d have cared about this kind of thing. Now it’s just a case of getting the best fee we can and moving on, whoever it is. All I really care about is the recruitment in this regard. If we can replace him with someone younger and fitter, capable of scoring 10 goals every season, that’ll do.

It was a half a*sed lockdown which was rendered a worthless waste of time by Christmas and that stupid one day of school before the lockdown in January. Like I said before, the actual proper lockdown can’t not have reduced infections. Anything which prevents people being in close proximity, particularly indoors, will reduce the spread of airborne pathogens. Same as the car crash analogy; airbags may well work but how can braking from 60 down to 30 first not have helped the situation?

Nobody’s stopping you. TBH I think it’s just a lazy Irish stereotype that’s become something of a worldwide tradition. As with Valentines, it’s marketed heavily so that pubs and breweries make an absolute killing. I guess poor old George just doesn’t have that cheerful, happy to lucky, leprechauns and shamrocks aura to him.

At the risk of setting off another marital between you and MLG, I think most people aren’t religious and just don’t give a f**k about saints (actual saints, not the clowns we send out onto a football pitch). St Paddy’s is an excuse for a p*ss up, St Valentines only happens because florists, jewellers and greeting card companies got together and convinced women they deserve a day being treated like Mariah Carey.

Fair point, I'd forgotten they were still in that. Still, I'd love to see it.

#Dragonlivesmatter

Come on Villa/Leeds. Would love it if the European 'Super' club finished bottom half. According to Sky it's now 'Europa League or bust' even though they're closer to 12th than even that and everyone else has games in hand.