Lighthouse

Not paying £60 for a polyester T-shirt which is obsolete in nine months doesn’t make anyone a cheapskate in my book.

That’s a lot of tough away games done by the end of October, so happy with that. Decent, winnable run in too.

Straighten that duvet out, you scruffy b**tard.

I remember my first beer…

Define safe. If we banned everything more dangerous than the Covid vaccine then we’d be without: All road vehicles Dogs Power Tools Gas boilers Sexual intercourse Alcoholic beverages Saunas Pretty much every brand of fast food in the country Petroleum Cigarettes Motorsport Trampolines Bicycles Horses Swimming pools Paracetamol Chickens Holidays As aintforever said and I will verify, when I went for my vaccinations the risks were made clear to me and I was asked to sit in the waiting room for 15 minutes afterwards I case of any adverse side effects. This whole ‘question the narrative’ line is just horse s**t said by absolute muppets, trying to look clever. The truth is they haven’t got the first clue what they’re even questioning. It’s the medical equivalent of some idiot who failed GCSE science going to a Stephen Hawking lecture on quark theory, standing up and saying, "yeah but mate, what if it’s not?!” As if that’s in any way an intelligent viewpoint.

Stayed two years longer than I expected, so fair play. Will probably end up doing a reasonable job for West Ham, Everton or similar.

I think we’ll file Tilak under ‘batting all-rounder’.

TBH, I’d rather get some of the tougher, sh*thouse fixtures out of the way in August and September whilst we’re still sorting out or squad and getting into a rhythm. I’ll happily take a trip to West Brom and Coventry, with Ipswich at home in the middle. Save Swansea at home for the last game of the season when we might need a win for the autos. Statistically, we want the Skates in November, December or January. My pick for dreadful, freezing, wet 1-0 away defeat away to relegation threatened, Northern team in January is Sheff Weds. My pick for bat sh*t mental TV fixture is Preston, 8pm on a Tuesday.

Firstly, condolences on your mother. Obviously I didn’t know her or the specifics of her condition but in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really prove anything with regards to this argument. My mum had breast cancer around 15 years ago, thanks entirely to surgery, radio and chemo she’s still here enjoying her retirement. It’s just the random cruelty of nature I’m afraid. Doctors have never claimed that chemo is either pleasant or guaranteed to be effective but that doesn’t mean it should be dismissed out of hand. Every case is different but supposing a doctor said you might have three years with chemo or one year without, that’s a personal decision as to whether you value the time or quality of quality of life. There’s no right answer. What is undeniably ludicrous is a 23 year old woman with a highly treatable form of cancer dying without even attempting to fight the disease, because of her mother’s insane conspiracy theories. I’ve no idea why anyone would try to argue she was, “right to question the narrative.” Shemirani’s daughter is dead because of sh*te she reads of Facebook and values above the opinion of trained doctors.

A rather chilling reminder that the nonsense anti vaxers spread for fun and attention isn’t as quirky and harmless as some might think. There are people out there who genuinely believe it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crenzwyvpn1o

There is the three BP. As expected we’re going to fall just short of the max on overs played, but still a good team innings. Would be nice if we can push this lead up towards 200, bat them out of the game and tore them out in the field.

Flight radar 24 looking very interesting in that area right now. Stuff to and from places like Kuwait, UAE and Qatar scattering everywhere.

What’s this idiot Tilak doing, staying at the crease all afternoon. He’s not wafting at nonsense outside off stump or anything. Get the coaches to have a word, if he doesn’t get out soon we’re in danger of three batting points.

I’ve seen videos pop up on social media of animal chiropractors. The benefits of chiropractors are anecdotal at best but convincing yourself to part with hard earned cash to allow one to ‘adjust’ your cat is absolute lunacy.

How have we gone this far into the thread without mentioning the most gigantic w*nker to ever play for us, Mario Lemina.

I think you may have missed my point by a country mile. It was nothing to do with why people opposed the bill, but now that it has passed (and hopefully there are no hiccups in the Lords) you can guarantee that certain people after 15 minutes of fame will sell half truths to trashy media outlets, who will in turn fabricate them into clickbait headlines.

A wonderful day for the most desperately unfortunate people in the country. It’ll come as a relief to a large number of people that they won’t have to face travelling overseas in a terminally ill state in order to end their suffering. The shocking headlines are coming, we can be sure of that. The first terminally ill, cantankerous old goat to be offered AD as a possible option will go straight to the Daily Mail and report that, “the nurses are trying to convince me to kill myself because they all hate having to look after me!”

Car? For €20m I’d give him a pair of roller skates and drag him to Bergamo, clinging to the hairs on the scrotum. I’d even take the longer route avoiding toll roads.

F**k me, if Atalanta pay €20m for Kamaldeen Sulemana, that’ll be the greatest robbery in football, since Southampton payed €25m for Kamaldeen Sulemana.

There is no 'new age obsession' with anything. Paul Onuachu is a substandard footballer and his fitness is awful. The fact that he's 31 and Racing Genk is the only other club who's ever forked out money to buy him should tell you something. If the 'dangerous specialist situations' you're talking about are the two headed goals he's scored in his whole Saints career, I'm fairly comfortable we'll be able to replicate that with a fairly average CB, at set pieces.

TBH that sounds like a cracking toasted sandwich maker. We are seriously going to miss him though. I don’t know if we have more replacements lined up but we really need to find a decent bowler, then probably bring Orr in to fill the gap. We’ve badly missed Nelly in the last two year’s Blast, even if my cardiologist hasn’t forgiven him for that front foot no-ball.

I’d say it looks like it was made from Ukrainian curtains, personally.

Thanks for the memories Woody but…

I thought the punk kit was quite decent. Not decent enough to part with £60 but one of our better efforts.

He didn't play less than half the season, he scored 4 in 28 appearances. He would have to play about 70 games at that rate to break into double figures. He's crap, his fitness is awful and we'll hopefully be well rid of him in a week or two.