Lighthouse

Shall we rename the thread or leave it as is? Seems a tad macabre.

Don’t store them in a shed, the damp will distort the vinyl.

No they didn’t. The first two were widely regarded as amongst the best, if not the best, in the league during their time at Saints. Mané was world class for about his last ten games here, which in itself isn’t world class as you’ve got to consistently show yourself in that bracket to be considered one of the greats.

He's the hairy Andy Johnson.

Only Glasgow claimed it was £30m. The fee widely reported in the press was around £34m with a few more in add ons (which have almost certainly been triggered) in the £36-38m category. That was a fair enough price, in the £50-60m bracket in today's money, for a player who had yet to consistently prove himself.

Given choice, I’d just about have Beattie over Ings, mainly because he largely stayed fit. Beatt’s last three seasons (not including the Wigley mess) saw 12, 23 and 14 league goals. Ings so far has 7, 22 and 7 (let’s assume 14 for the full season if he stays).

I saw a programme once where she had a chicken stripped, tied up and rubbed all over in oil. I don’t think I’ve ever been so envious.

I think the confusion stems from you conflating two separate points; being a key worker and being unable to work with your daughter at home. For example you could be a professional sex doll tester like I er... a friend of mine and the latter would apply but not the former, so you wouldn’t be justified in sending your child to school. Anyway, you are a key worker so it’s all academic.

In 2014 we lost Lambert, Lallana and J Rod, the latter to long term injury, and with them went all our goals. 6 months later we were 3rd at Christmas. We’ve lost Mané, Toby, Virgil, Lovren, Pellè, Tadič, Wanyama and Morgan, who were all key players, whether or not they quite made the headlines that Ings does. If he leaves, we reinvest and move on. Some people are reacting to our financial figures as if we’re the only club being hit by the loss of gate receipts. We aren’t, market prices will fall to a level where people can actually afford to pay them.

You can, however the point is that simply having your daughter home as a distraction doesn’t make you a critical worker in itself.

Another 1,800 deaths today. We’re really paying for that sh*t show in December.

Whether we want to sell him or not, it’s undoubtedly in our interests for him to sign a new contract first, so with that in mind we must have offered him a pretty decent deal. With regards to the second BIB, he had a shot with Liverpool but he was perennially injured or kept out of the team by superior players. He’ll get whatever offer is in the table, be it at Saints or otherwise but he isn’t entitled to anything.

He’s 29 in summer and has had one properly decent season. He’s an older, more injury prone Beattie and isn’t worth £80m. Don’t get me wrong, I love having him here and he’s a quality player but nowhere near £80m.

In any case, tens of millions of women voted for Trump after he said he could just walk up and grab them by the 🐈‍. I don’t think such a relatively inane statement is going to put many people off him. It’s like an audience with Jimmy Carr or Frankie Boyle, the more they offend, the more people turn up.

Probably very little. Many of them will not care about being abused, so long as a perceived strong leader is making promises they can believe.

Two of those aren’t exceptions as they haven’t turned down better offers elsewhere.

Nice to see such a calm, measured response to the situation. Top half of the league, one player gets linked with a move away and we’re already relegated. We will sell, reinvest and move on, same as we did with Lambert, Lallana and co.

I agree, I think and hope this is very much the crescendo.

That kind of ties in with the London lockdown a few weeks ago, when everyone packed onto the trains to flee the city. What a stupid policy that was.

The troubled genius of the meat processing industry, he once did 5 lambs in under a minute.

I’m going to make an optimistic prediction of sub 500 deaths on Friday 29th. Let’s see how well this post ages.

I saw another post somewhere (can't verify any source) which reckons 400 people per week die in care homes in Norway anyway. Obviously the causes of death should be rigorously checked in such circumstances but as more and more vaccines are delivered, more of these stories will emerge.

Unlikely, I didn't think he was great for Bolton.

I like when people say this about players who are quite blatantly not going to stay fit.

I'm indifferent. I quite like UA's stuff in general but they've had a couple of sh*t shows with getting stuff delivered on time and some of the quality.