Lighthouse

Okay, we’re safe to the extent that an absolutely pitiful run of form, akin to our first 12 games - losing every home fixture, with the 9-0 included - will keep us up. We might lose against Villa, we might lose our next three. We won’t lose our last 12.

Superb batting from both teams. 222 looked a decent target but the last two overs were fairly comfortable.

Won the cricket too, not a bad 10 minutes that.

My point is that even if we've got 100 players of the wage bill in the last 2 years, we're still too heavy by 1 'keeper, 1 CB, 1 AM and 1 ST.

Yet we're still forking out wages for: 3 goalkeepers 2 RB 5 CB 1 LB 4 CM 5 AM 5 ST That's not including the likes of Sims, Vokins or Slattery or the payoffs we'd have had to give Austin and Clasie to get rid of them a year early.

Nonsense, Saints are little different to any other Premier League fans. Complete silence never stopped Arsenal from winning trophies. We're hardly Galatasaray but Austin is just trolling. When you're paid the average man's annual salary every 3 days I think you can put of effort in, even in an empty stadium.

Obviously not but you're assuming we won't have any more money to spend, which we might if we can shift a couple of players. For example you might be able to sell a £300k house and afford a £400k house. What you can't afford to do is keep the first one and have both.

We would obviously have to spend more than JUST what we'd save on Long's wages but hopefully we do have a bit to spend on transfer fees. It's our massive wage bill we're trying to trim down. We're not going to bringing in anyone special with just the money we've saved on Yoshida and Cedric.

Fair point on the 'Dinlos' remarks, Casey give it a rest. Back on topic, to answer this bit; no we probably can't... because we've got players like Long on the books. I can't see his agent accepting much of a pay cut, so where does that leave us? Two up front, so room for four strikers on the wage bill. Ings, Adams, MO and Long - There full up already, no space for anyone else. If we want to bring in a striker, someone else has got to go. Long was the obvious answer; high wages, 33 years old, limited talent. All reasons to let him go but apparently we aren't. Exactly. If the owners want to run a tight financial ship, as they obviously do, it means letting players go when we can to bring in new ones. As it is we'll probably be stuck with a similar squad again next season and achieve similar results.

He seems to have deleted a lot of it, there were some screen shots going around which aren't there now. Nothing particularly exciting, just the usual lowbrow, "mate, your fans are all s**t!" stuff.

The difference being Armstrong makes a significant positive impact to the way we play. Djenepo is young and raw but may improve with time. Boufal I’m not going into again. I’m just sick of the same lines being trotted out about Long when they just aren’t true. We don’t, "defend better from the front," when he plays, we’ve had countless terrible performances with him on the pitch where we’ve conceded easy chances and goals. He isn’t the, "Ormerod to Danny Ings," he just happens to be running around the pitch when Ings scores. Ings scores because he’s a good player, end of. Many of his goals have nothing to do with Long, just like yesterday, and those that did could easily have been done by a different, more capable striker.

Every time we brought him one last season it was like we’d had a man sent off, such was his lack of movement. Usually we brought him on thinking he was a goal scorer and he’d find a winner, when in reality the momentum swung immediately in the opposition’s favour.

I thought he was a chav and a complete helmet at Swindon and he’s done nothing to change my mind in the decade since. The fact that he can’t help himself gobbling off with the Neanderthals on twitter pretty much sums it up.

We’re not in a relegation battle They aren’t derbies We won’t need wins We’ve beaten several teams this season in a similar position to ourselves. Apart from that, you are correct.

Like when we were 19th, 4 points from safety, had just lost 9-0 at home and managed to turn it around to get into the top half?

If we lose our next 5, we'll be right in amongst it. There are some sh*t teams below us with some awful fixtures left. 2 win and 2 draws should just keep us up, hard to see us not finding that in the next 3 months.

Well, that was a bit pre-diddly-dictable

They will f**k off, back up the A34 with 3 points.

Can I just check, because I'm not sure I'm getting this... That was a nightmare for Burnley's defence, Long created an absolute bagful of chances, was the major contributor in Ings goal and Burnley never got a sniff at the other end because of all the pressure Long put on them. Correct?

No, you idiot he means Cedric. Against a team of hoofers, knocking long balls up to the big fellar on the far post, in sh*t weather, you don't stand a chance without Cedric.

There was more than enough skepticism on here when he signed.

We'll be fine. We've got Long on the pitch, he's a nightmare to play against and the reason Ings scores so many goals.

Here please.

Meh, still would have been a better squad. If we’d had scraped enough points to survive, we’d have been starting in League 1 without the minus 10.