Lighthouse

Cheers for seven years of excellent service. I think this is a good deal for all parties, he'll provide cover for a bigger/richer club somewhere but realistically he'd never be able to play consistently with the intensity we need and we can't afford to keep him purely as back up.

I think Boaty McBoatface was all the warning we needed as to the perils of democracy.

I’d go along with this, he was always an option and his movement looked intelligent, even if his own delivery was sometimes wayward. It’s quite easy to see why he was left on. Ings was puffing and needed to come off, we’d already subbed Bednarek and our game plan was, largely, working okay. For weeks people have been asking to see him given a consistent run of games to prove himself. Where better than in a non-event against Palace.

Well, that was an actual comfortable, professional performance in the end. Forget a new owner, manager, head of recruitment, ‘keeper, striker and LB. I’d forgo all of them for a decent psychologist/hypnotists who can get their flippin’ heads straight and play like that more often than not.

Booking for a frustrated Zaha, I think that’s all the Palace cliches ticked off.

Like a pigeon in skinny jeans. I just can’t figure him out.

Have you ever seen him and Gladstone Small in the same room?

Daft challenge.

Country A plays in 5 consecutive World Cup finals, loses all 5 on penalties Country B plays in 1 World Cup final, wins on penalties, fails to qualify for the next 4. Country A is clearly, the consistently better country over a sustained period of time yet Country B is the one with the medals. At some point, push comes to shove and you have to pick a winner. In your scenario party 3 has a general groundwater of mediocre support but not one constituency actually wants them in power.

1-0 down, passing it around the back casually without purpose. They must think it’s the last 20 minutes already.

Playing with freedom and joy now the spectre of relegation is laid to rest.

Trivial point but when was the last time we had a gap this big between a pair of fixtures in a season. Palace was our opening game back in September and now our 4th from last.

I can’t possibly see how. I think Ralph’s just been rotating his squad and trying different options.

At least we’ve got to the point where another loan is as good as selling him. He won’t be back next summer, wherever and however he goes. He’s looked okay for Fulham and seems to be getting regular games, he might have suitors.

Personally I’m okay with the current system as it at least gives somebody a meaningful majority to be able to enact some policies. Even taking ‘97 as an example, Labour only won 43% of the vote. I’d want whoever gets elected to have a bit of wellie, then if they’re useless we can at least judge them by their own governance and not stalemate by committee.

It’s like when Liverpool signed a bunch of players from the team that finished 8th and ended up... 8th.

That wasn’t the question. I just gave the most clear example I can think of to illustrate why this line of thinking is wrong. I could probably give 100 others if I put my mind to it. The real question is - Is it necessary to fast for Ramadan? The answer is clearly no, as PIA management have illustrated. It’s religion a la carte, when it’s convenient. As such, if an employee’s personal life was a detriment to their performance at work, I’d take issue with it. If a player can fast with no detriment to their on pitch performance, I have no problem with that as a personal choice.

Yep. https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2021/04/10/pakistan-airline-bans-pilots-from-fasting-on-flights-during-ramadan-over-plane-crash-fears/

Not Tom Cruise, apparently. The unhinged, gullible, scientologist nutcase is handing back his Golden Globes from about 1/4 of a century ago.

Just to point out, nobody at Saints Web has verified that this is genuine, so if you’re signing up to this - do so at your own risk. Hopefully all the tinfoil and coat hangers don’t degrade Matt’s wifi signal too badly.

All the noises coming from the club seem to be that we’re desperately clinging to the ageing mediocrity that’s got us where we are. First Long, now Walcott and Bertrand. The future’s not looking much brighter.

A pen and a red not given by VAR in quick succession. I can’t believe they think doubling down on wrong decisions somehow looks better on them. Refs are bottling big decisions and VAR is bottling overturning them. It’s BS.

Likewise. Good luck though.

He’s 32, we’re going to be saying a lot more, "but before he was injured..." if we keep him. Being a ‘squad player’ just means he isn’t really good enough, we’ve got plenty of squad filler we’re trying to get rid of. If we want to stay up we need to bring in someone who’s actually better than Minamino, Djenepo or Redmond. Long is out of his depth in the Championship these days, that’s scarcely an endorsement, although a year ago plenty of people were saying the same about him too. What a great lad he was to have around the dressing room etc. I’m not sure in what way you think he’s going to benefit academy players, either. Teaching them to charge full speed into tackles or how to completely fluff a one on one, they seem to be his specialities.

It’s possible for Miss Sweden to knock on my front door, declare her undying love for me and start ripping her clothes off. Not happening though, is it?