Lighthouse

Please don't be sh*t Saints.

Aren’t Muslims traditionally buried within 24 hours of death? Sounds like a nightmare to organise but I’d have thought it’s been held already.

Must be injured. Decent enough team I think.

I think come 5pm this afternoon we'll all be begging for a 6 match ban.

I think any player should be able to play the basics of Ralph’s system. Having the fitness to be able to press as part of a team is a bare minimum IMO. You don’t even need pace to do it really, just good stamina and communication. 10 Hojbjergs and a ‘keeper could play the system, we need attackers with the ability to do something with the ball when we get it. I honestly think Long takes pressure off if anything. He gives possession away so cheaply, either through poor control or being offside.

Interesting word there. The last game he played 90 minutes of was away to West Ham last year. Yet another Saints performance where we really didn't trouble them all game and despite Long 'defending from the front' they managed to comfortably score three goals and keep a clean sheet. Football has moved on from the days when Big Sam telling you to 'put a shift in and let him know you're there' might have earned a result. 'keepers are doing Cruyff turns these days, everyone wants to play it out from the back. Long just runs around like a terrier whilst defenders and 'keepers play triangles around him. I don't know if you were at the Cardiff home game but he got nothing from that ref. and rightly so. When Sol Bamba has you in his pocket, you're in the wrong league.

I think Hazard could cause us a few problems tomorrow.

What? Long is about 5'10" and throws himself to the floor is a defender sneezes a bit too loud. I have no idea where this 'Long is a nuisance' myth comes from. He just runs around, that isn't scary for a competent PL defender. Long played in the 6-1 defeat at City and the defeat at Anfield, when they were 3-0 up at half time, in second gear.

Would only work if the club concern actually owned those facilities when they went bust. I don’t know if that’s the case with Bolton but if they do own their ground it would be sold off and the proceeds used to pay off whatever mortgage their is, with the remaining money going towards creditors. Generally when stuff like this happens the levels of debt are higher than the combined value of the assets, so there is nothing left to ‘gift’ to the fans.

Ings hasn't been great but he's still better than Long.

Both were depressurisation incidents and different to anything which may have happened to this aircraft. They weren’t high enough to get hypoxia. If they were incapacitated by carbon monoxide poisoning in the lead up to the accident it would be from some sort of engine malfunction, with exhaust gasses leaking into the cabin.

No, would encourage other clubs to gamble financially, knowing the League would bail them out. I’ve got a mate who’s a Bolton fan, beyond caring if he’s honest. They’ve been so badly run, it’s like a slapstick comedy which has run on 3 series too many.

Have you got the number of the therapist who managed to help you completely forget Sheff Utd away? Thanks

I get annoyed waiting for baggage too TBF.

The straws are biodegradable and therefore much less harmful I've not been to a British supermarket with paper bags, pretty much everywhere is reusable bags now. Harry and Meg have never claimed they would solve the worlds problems but they're doing their bit. If everyone only had 2 or fewer children, it would solve 90% of the environment's issues.

This has been said may times but it would be terrible. Basically instead of Liverpool, Dortmund and Real Madrid you'd have Levadia Tallinn, HJK Helsinki and Lincoln Red Imps. The tournament would be a non-event until the semi finals.

Get a life you lot, honestly.

So you don't think filling the oceans with plastic crap is an issue?

No reason we can’t beat one of Brighton, the Blades or Bournemouth.

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?61166-Back-Four-vs-Back-Five#.XVHCFcrTWfA

Kevin, what’s your favourite non-ferrous metal?

I think everyone has made whatever point they needed to make.

He’s 6’3" so as long as he isn’t tectonically slow and gormless, he’s got two advantages on Vestegaard already. Not saying he will be the answer but I’d like to think he’s an improvement. Van Dijk? No. Lovren or Williams? Possibly. Likewise Adams, if he’d taken that early chance he’d have 50% of Austin’s tally from last year already (and one of them was on an empty pitch).

That's basically just sitting very deep and waiting for the inevitable howler from one of the back three to gift them a goal. They will just play it around for fun in front of our penalty box and wait for the gap. We need to win it in the middle and not give them time to pick a decent pass through, that's the best defence IMO.

Last time we lost on the opening day we were 3rd at Christmas, just saying.