Lighthouse

It wont do any harm but that's nowhere near good enough. We needed significant improvement up front and I don't think we've found it. I can still see Austin taking home our golden boot with about 7 goals, like he has for the last 2 years. Mo and Armstrong are unknowns, Ings has a terrible fitness record; 3 goals in 14 games in 8 years. Our recruitment in the final 3rd of the pitch feels like we've made par on the 18th hole. Not bad in itself but we're already 8 shots off the lead.

I'd say we're pretty much stuck with them for the rest of their contracts; probably loaned out with Saints paying a chunk of their wages. Underwhelmed by Ings. With the thousand gazzilion million pound TV deal, could we really not find a striker somewhere in the world better than Danny 'glass knees' Ings?!

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?60110-Transfer-Deadline-Day#.W2v7-yhKiUk

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?60110-Transfer-Deadline-Day#.W2v7-yhKiUk

The time for HCDAJFU and rumour is over, Premier League clubs have until 1700 BST to complete any transfers, including loans. Free agents may be signed after the deadline. Clubs may also sell or loan out players to clubs in other leagues, where the window is still open.

I thought he was sh*t for us, always out of position and losing his man.

It's largely irrelevant how well they do, nobody outside of England will be willing or able to match their wages. I think we are stuck with Long, Boufal, Forster, Clasie and Carrillo until their contracts expire, which isn't for a while unfortunately.

I'd sell him for anything above £20m personally. Everything other than his set piece delivery is mediocre at best, even that is nothing special.

Come up with whatever rationalisations you like, he has scored 41 goals in 9 years of Premier League football. He is basically Shola Ameobi but at a big club.

Not sure why everyone would be ‘delighted’ with a striker who since joining Arsenal has scored 5, 2, 4 and 4 PL goals in a season. I guess expectations are just that low these days.

You could have said that about Carrillo.

That probably has a lot more to do with it. I don't like Redknapp any more than any other Saints fan but to blame players fitness on him, 3 days after he was appointed, isn't really accurate. There was a general decline in our team throughout the whole of 2004. It started with WGS, losing to Fulham on Boxing day and continued all the way through Sturrock, Wigley and Redknapp. I think we won 7 league games all year.

That Boro game was 3 days after Redknapp took over. Not sure what he must have done in those 3 days to make them that unfit that quickly.

Have we really sunk this low? People are actually envious of signing Calum Chambers on loan. I'm not against us loaning someone in principal, so long as they're good enough to play for us. I bet if we were offered the chance to 'develop' Mbappe, nobody would be complaining that we're getting mugged off developing PSGs players. On a different note, I see Courtois has come over all Virgil and wants out of Chelsea.

Would you mind passing the papadums please.

I think I’m just going to leave this one actually. Sort of like buying a Roy Chubby Brown DVD, the clues are there before you open the thread. If this turns into a decent discussion I’ll leave it here, if not then it’s off to TMS.

Nothing beats handing out infractions on a Sunday morning, whilst finishing off last night’s chicken Jalfrezi. Anyway Alps, in response to your PMs why not try making my agenda against you a bit more challenging by posting a bit less crap? So far this weekend you’ve called cabbage face a tw*t and started a thread lambasting fictitious club statements. Fish in a barrel TBH.

Seems little point in criticising club statements which have been issued entirely in alpine’s head. So let’s discuss things the board have actually said, as and when they are broadcast.

Can't say I've ever done 54 in a 30. It just takes one person not to see you and step out and you're looking at death by dangerous driving. If he has also been caught doing 60 in a 40 and nearly a tonne one a dual carriageway in a short period of time, he has a pretty low regard for other people's lives. And those are only the times he's been CAUGHT doing it.

I'd go with the same team as the OP personally but think Hughes will stick with the current formation fir the near future. I'd probably have Lemina in for Hoj but neither of them, nor Romeu, have nailed their credentials to the managers door in pre-season.

A lot of that seems odd. How you can be raped in the back of a taxi, I assume without the drivers knowledge, I have no idea. Also the bit about CCTV footage usually being deleted after 30 days - Why did she leave it a month before pursuing that. Surely it would be something you would try and acquire urgently, the day after the attack. Not that I'm defending the presenter, there's probably a lot more to it than what's in that article.

I’d would say (and hope) that’s our starting 11 for Burnley. Possibly Yoshida in for Bednarek.

That's not all that difficult.

There would be ways around it through endorsements etc. In the grand scheme of things, footballers aren't even that well paid. According to Forbes, the highest earning PL footballer last year was Pogba and he was only 52nd in the list of sports people. Golfers, basketball and baseball players, F1 drivers, boxers and NFL were all much higher paid.

There was one light on top of the Itchen stand, towards the Chapel End, which was pointing right at the Northam. Otherwise I quite liked it, especially having the seating lights left off.