Lighthouse

If Leicester win we’ll be 2 points behind Newcastle with 2 games in hand. No reason to hope for nothing other than that.

Always wondered what James May would look like with a proper hair cut.

I believe Turkish is on it as we speak.

A 31 year old on big wages, who's already burned most of his bridges with the fans. Literally nothing, if he was on the wage bill now I'd be trying to offload him in the summer.

Outs are pretty easy - Forster, Hoedt, Stephens, Cédric, Targett, Clasie, Boufal, Davis, Long, Austin, Gallagher, Carrillo In reality, we’d do well to shift half of those but it’s worth trying. Ins I wouldn’t have the first clue when it comes to names but - GK, CB who can play RB, AM, 2x ST

I certainly hope that first sentence is correct. Money will always talk and to that extent we can pretty much outspend anyone in Europe, outside the Champions League clubs. We managed to attract some pretty highly rated players last summer, despite barely avoiding the drop. If we can finish 7th or 8th for the second half of this season and offload 5 or 6 mediocre players, we should be able to attract 2/3 pretty good ones.

Depends really. Everton’s owners have chucked an absolute boatload of cash at that squad and achieved bugger all, they now just have the highest wage bill in the fight for 7th. They might decide they’ve spent enough and want to tighten the wage bill a bit, which puts us back on a level playing field.

I think wins against BOU/HUD, a draw against WOL/WHU and a loss at NEW/WAT would be a reasonable prediction. 8 points which sees Cardiff needing 14.

Only 20 minutes? I was in block 10 and went down for a p*ss at half time, the food queue had doubled back on itself from the far wall. Looked like people would be there until FT.

I went along for a laugh, it was a pretty flat second half after the early red card TBH. Vokins and Johnson look decent.

Nobody is assuming anything and we are more than capable of losing any of those games. What would be unlikely is us making a mess of all six and Cardiff suddenly discovering the form of their lives when they've been awful all season. Never say never but Saints have far easier fixtures and are playing far better. With the points and GD as they are, we also effectively have a 2 game head start in a 6 game race.

We have six. The only Cardiff fixture I’d swap given choice is their Fulham for our Newcastle. I’d much rather be playing Watford, West Ham and Bournemouth, who are already on the beach, than Burnley, Brighton, Liverpool and Utd who are all in a critical battle for something. Supposing we just give them Palace and Fulham as guaranteed, we’d still just need 1 extra point from our 6 winnable games than their 4 tough games.

That's a shame, I reckon $12 trillion would have bought us a decent RB to replace Cedric.

TBH Verbs I only volunteered to moderate this place to try and keep the tedious sh*te off the main board, so we could all discuss Saints without having to read about how we should be aiming for 17th every season and why we're an embarrassment of a club because West Ham just signed somebody on June 1st and we haven't. If any of you find something genuinely racist, i.e. not just naive and ignorant like some of the stuff on the Rose thread, then PM me. I wouldn't want to lose Bexy as he seems informed and articulate, whether I agree with him on an issue or not. However I've got better things to do that sit refreshing the Brexit thread every 5 minutes. If the posters on there irritate you, then don't click on that thread. It's like clicking on an alpine thread, or watching literally anything staring Miranda - you can't say you weren't warned.

I agree with docking points if it was a widespread problem and something endemic within a certain fan base but I don't think it is. Most of the stories on the Rose thread were about 'this bloke I saw at Game X last year' etc. If it was a large block of 50 or so people, stood together, Nazi flags, salutes etc. then I'd say yes but in England I've never seen anything like that. It was in the news a couple of days ago that someone had been arrested for sending a racist tweet to a Wigan player. If events that small scale and isolated are making national headlines, it suggests to me that it's not a common occurrence. P.S. I worked for a company with one of the 'worst' reported gender pay gaps in Britain. Can't speak for every company but in that instance it was blatantly bullsh*t. Anyway, that's a different thread.

Making all the necessary preparations with my fantasy team. Patricio and Jimenez in, Hojbjerg as 3rd choice, unused sub (worked a treat the last 2 weeks).

If anyone mentions Carroll on this thread, they get an automatic lifetime ban.

It did happen when we beat Sheff Utd to stay up in '08. Not my video so sorry for the poor quality and editing but interspersed with the highlights is MLT commenting on GSS. I'd imagine there were a fair few complaints from Leicester and Blades fans and I can't say I blame them.

Weirdly, both of those photos can only be taken in a 20 second window, about a minute before kick off.

My thoughts precisely. I wonder if it’s too much to hope for a ‘6-1 at Highbury’ performance from Watford B in a few weeks.

There will always be bigotry and hatred in society, it’s part of human nature. Pharaoh Rameses II treated the Israelites as second class humans 3,000 years ago, it’s nothing new and won’t go away any time soon. What we can do, and have done very well in Britain, is minimise that level of intolerance and at least contain it. To that extent, we have changed massively from the 70s, when ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ was considered acceptable television and fans were kept in cages to stop them kicking the sh*te out of each other. The problem is 32,000 is a lot of people and there are bound to be a few racists in there. Statistically speaking, a couple of people at the game on Friday went home and looked at indecent images of children on their computer and somebody in their will (or already has) murder somebody. All it takes is one idiot to have a few too many white wine spritzers before the game and lose his inhibitions and there you go...

I think we’ve reached the sell by date on this thread.

Wow. MOTD just literally didn’t even bother to mention us in their post match analysis. Not even a reference to our goal, any of our chances or how it will affect the relegation fight. Just 5 minutes of masturbation over Salah and Henderson and how passionate they all are.

Verbs, I'll add this to the obscure list of reasons why I'm a racist. Apparently questioning a black man's assertion that his career is unbearable, makes me 'an unpleasant racist, trashing the uppity black man'. I do wonder how some people would deal with incidents like the Clattenberg/Mikel incident a few years ago.

I'm a bit 'meh' about that one. If anything I think we can catch Bournemouth, in fact I'd say it was more likely than falling behind Cardiff. Anything up to about 12th is still achievable.