Lighthouse

Watching MOTD and I think our saving grace could be that Huddersfield, Fulham, Newcastle and Cardiff look consistently dreadful this season. Someone could stay up with 30 points at this rate.

Hundreds of people who were at the game probably have phones with flat batteries, on silent, left it in the car, didn’t hear it in the pub, no signal etc. Hopefully those reports are wide of the mark if nothing else.

People on Twitter know sod all, they just say dramatic stuff for likes and retweets. SSN reporting that the vice-chairman was NOT on board.

Long does not create problems. His running allows defenders a bit less time on the ball than they would like, which leads to us winning a few more throw ins. When you are defending a striker based on the number of throw ins he wins you are scraping the varnish off the bottom of the barrel. Long and Austin are both awful for different reasons. That’s all there is to it.

I disagree, drains are actually an important part of urban infrastructure. I’m struggling to think of bigger helmets in British football than Nile Ranger. I guess Joey Barton and Marlon King would run him close.

Long, Mayuka and N’Guessan gave us pace and running. Sims struggles to get into a team fighting relegation from the Championship. He’s not the answer.

I agree. If we’re going with 2 strikers, it’s got to be Ings and Gabbi by default really. Austin and Long are utterly, hoplelessly awful.

All gone down hill since they released ‘Too Shy’.

The thing is I’m not entirely sure what his point is; that conservative Christians object to people being homosexual? It’s hardly news and not going to change any time soon. As Turkish said, there are plenty of other bakers who would have had no objection to making the cake and as such the court case seems like a complete waste of time. What would they have achieved had they won? Forcing somebody to make a cake which contradicts their beliefs. It’s not going to lead to acceptance, more likely resentment.

If we signed Glenn Murray, we’d be pinging long balls over the top for him to run on to. Back to the OP, Trotman - I actually thought he was alright. Darren Powell was one of the most hopelessly I gifted footballers I’ve ever seen in a saints shirt. He had a 50p head, Toblerone feet and ran like he was carrying a sack of cement. On the rare occasions he wasn’t injured (or suspended for violent conduct in a pre-season friendly) you wished he was.

I’d make it so that there was a red and white striped sponge under the icing.

At what point then would you draw the line? If you worked for company printing custom designed flags and somebody asked you to produce a dosen Nazi or ISIS flags for their political march, should you have the right to refuse? Saying you are simply providing a service for a cost doesn’t absolve you of any moral involvement. It would be like our government openly selling weapons to a genocidal dictator in a third world country and saying, "well we don’t nescessarily agree with his ethnic cleansing policy, selling the weapons was purely a business transaction." All we can ask of society is to be tolerant. My point is that being obliged to be involved in something which you morally disagree with is a step beyond tolerance.

The word ‘celebration’ is overdoing it but this is the fairest possible outcome. As far as I can tell these bakers are tolerant of homosexuals and haven’t expressed any aggression, bad will or rudeness towards them. However, what they were asked to do is, to a small extent, promote homosexuality. That’s where people should be allowed to draw the line and IMO why the courts are correct. Going into all the reasons of why various religions are morally wrong is a never ending argument and I don’t disagree with what you have said.

That’s the point though, homosexuality is offensive to their beliefs, so they have the right to refuse to make the cake. I in no way agree with their views but they have the right to live by them.

Here’s one, it may have been posted elsewhere. In the 11 months between beating Everton 4-1 and the coming Newcastle game, Leicester have won more games at St Mary’s than we have.

Lovren, Wanyama and Boruc. Not the best but certainly the three who’d I’d say made the most noticeable improvement to the team. Honourable mention to Mané.

I think we can live without the jibes at alpine’s weight, it amounts to little more than bullying. His Saints posts are easy enough to ridicule, so stick to that please.

I'm confused as to why Liverpool fans are booing Sterling, can anyone explain it for me? They've been insisting that we should all support a player when he makes a big money move to another club, for the chance to win titles. Surely they should be delighted to seem him doing so well and give him a standing ovation for winning the title last season.

Had a dream last night that Rudiger of all people scored a brace, so put him in the team this morning. Watch him now give away a 90th minute penalty, when Chelsea are already 3-0 up, get himself sent off and lose my clean sheet bonus for Alonso and Hazard (who wont be involved in any Chelsea goals).

Sell both, neither adds anything to the squad IMO.

That's a sign of friendship in The Netherlands.

As of right now, I don't actually have much of a problem with Gao. I know all that guff about taking us to the next level was just Kat trying to smooth her exit and make it look like she had the clubs best interests at heart but to me he is just a generic foreign Premier League owner, like everyone else seems to have. Strangely, the clubs who are doing alright never seem to have a problem with it but the ones who are struggling do. It all comes down to what's on the pitch. Gao hasn't done what I feared, which is sell everybody, try to build a team out of Gallagher, Sims, Targett and Stephens and spin it as some exciting young English team. We've spent money which is pretty much par for a club of our size. If we can't get some decent performances out of Vest, Moi, Gunn and Ings, then Gao isn't the problem.

Don't see why not.

I agree. Imagine thinking a player is good, just because he got an assist in a League Cup win on Merseyside.

Blimey. We did a win