Lighthouse

They’re crap, get over it.

That’s not the point. You mentioned three players who you claimed could change a game against Man United, despite the fact that they did nothing in the Championship.

I can’t help but think that he and Archer were signed as very good players to have in the Championship, in the likely event that we go straight back down.

Two of those players were crap in the Championship. The other apparently couldn’t secure a move to Turkey. A classic example of players becoming better when they not playing.

Why? Even if we go down, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to go to other PL clubs and play regular football.

What a silly, drama Queen statements. We very obviously can score at least one goal; it won’t be easy but we’ve played well enough generally to still have a chance of getting something, however unlikely.

That would have been special.

Likewise, but I can see why he’s done it. Our fourth game back up, THB hasn’t been playing well and we’ve gone back to a back four. I think he wanted more known experience in there to start with, THB will get more chances.

I love the idea that they told Brydon Carse, "okay, just go out and knock a nice easy single, so we win the game," and he was like, "I’ve got you bro!"

It’s all bluster and rhetoric. Rule one when dealing with Russia; do exactly what Putin strongly warns you against. They really don’t have many cards to play here when it comes to NATO, everyone knows they’re bluffing. Politicians are just wary of saying it out loud because it’ll whip up hysteria and panic amongst thick people who think they might actually launch nukes.

I believe Estonia has exactly the same tune, possibly with different words, I can’t quite remember. Needless to say, they’ve yet to win an F1 race.

He seriously underachieved here with the resources he had available and ended up leaving us in basically the same position as when we joined. Obviously it goes without saying that we all wish him well in his battle with the big C, however.

Can we give Bas, Abbott and Wheal and collective century? Bang on 100 between the three of them.

And King Joffer.

I gave up on him as a PL player around 18 months ago, FWIW.

Now now, don’t be facetious. People are just as outraged as they were about the Saudis bombing Yemen, possibly more.

The same game we conceded the most absurd offside goal in the history of football, IIRC.

So I make that 16 wickets lost for 191 runs, at home to a pretty ordinary looking SL team.

Without it I think there’s a reasonable chance he’d have followed Poch to Spurs and we might have got a young Harry Kane as part of the deal.

Looked decent enough in the group game at the Ageas too, if I remember rightly.

I think they're the only team we didn't beat at St Mary's last time we were up. Not including one season jobbies like Wigan.

I agree, it was mad. As soon as we went five down, we started playing like it was the last four overs of a T-20. I got the feeling they thought they had it in the bag already, so might as well have a bit of a swing. Bizarre cricket.

TBH I wouldn't either; it's deadful.

I've not had an option for years, might grab some from Tesco later.

I’m not sure we’ll be allowed to play a 4-3-4 but Lallana will barely be fit anyway. For the most part it looks a decent team but I’d imagine that having sold THB, Downes, Fernandes, Suga and Ramsdale we’ll have a bit to spend.