Lighthouse

Yes. You only had to see the Ross Kemp documentary to hear about the horrific atrocities being committed in ISIS territory.

By definition, surely you have in fact seen all our goals, or did you leave early against Wham?

No he doesn't he chases them and forces them to run a bit more than they would perhaps have liked to. It would be worrying if all his running around actually lead to some goals. Mané worried defenders, Long does not.

No he did not. Aguero will scare the sh*t out of their defence, as will Ronaldo, Suarez, Lewandowski, Aubameyang, Neymar, Cavani, Morata, Kane, Messi, Higuain and a few others. Shane Long runs around a lot. I'm sure the Utd defence had to run a bit more than they might have against Rasiak or Le Tissier but I am fairly sure they weren't scared of 5 goals a season Shane Long.

Thoughts for this one? I'd be tempted to chuck Virgil back in if fit. If nothing else for his presence on set pieces. In search of goals, I'd be tempted to try something like this: Forster Cedric - VVD - Hoot - Bertrand Lemina - Romeu Davis - Tadic - Gabbi Austin

Well you'd know.

2017 Saturday afternoon At home Not playing West Ham Goals from open play... 0

Starting off well, high tempo, better team so far. Nicely set up for another 3-2 defeat. Usually there's a brace from RVP, Martial or Zlatan, so probably Lukaku today.

He has never come on as a sub and made a positive impact. As in, he has literally not ever come on and set up or scored a goal for Saints.

Surely there's got to be more to it than that. We play teams as good as Utd, City, Arsenal, Chelsea etc. 10+ times a season, it's not like we're some none league club having a day out at OT in a cup tie. Stephens is our 4th best centre half. Boufal just hasn't done anything of note since he joined. Seems fair enough to me.

Are you sure? When we signed Long, I distinctly remember Les saying his tomato space would be a huge bonus to the team.

There would still be stoppages, every time the ball goes out of play. The overall length of the game wouldn't be that much different, it would however stop things like fake injuries to waste time and players wasting an entire minute taking a throw in. You'd still be walking out of St Mary's between 4.45 and 5pm, it would just cut down on a lot of the gamesmanship in the game.

Would be a pretty daft place to put a bomb, chances are there wont be a car within 100 yards of it when it goes off. In such a wide open space, with a device not buried in the ground, it'd probably have to be right next to a car to kill someone.

I did mean every time the ball goes out of play, which would stop keepers taking half an hour to take a goal kick, etc. Maybe not 40 minutes, perhaps 30 or 35. I've never actually timed the in play time of a match but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to work out a rough average and go from there.

The obvious solution to all of this is to change the rules to a certain amount of 'in play' time, perhaps 40 minutes, like in rugby. If the clocked stopped every time we had an injury or substitution, there wouldn't be this pointless contention at the end of the game.

Failure, no but there was a marked drop in points, goals and the overall standard of football. It was just awful, negative, playing possession football in 2nd gear stuff. Playing for a 0-0 at home to Be'er Sheva, playing for absolutely nothing in Prague. The complete lack of any kind of tempo in almost all of our home games. We only scored more than 1 goal at home in 3 games and they were against really poor opposition.

No, the main criticism is that he has never looked anything other than an average midfielder at this level and offers very little to our attacking play. He rarely tries to take a man on, take a shot or choose the right ball for an overlapping fullback. He didn't really stand out in a Norwich team which got relegated and last year was part of the worst attack outside the bottom 5. I couldn't give a sh*t what Bournemouth paid for Ibe, Redmond is not a top half player.

Agree. For the sake of balance, we had similar post about Romain Gasmi when we signed him. They were, of course, correct.

But having dugouts isn't one of them.

Correct. Our points tally last year would have put us 12-13th normally and our goals for column (Redmond's job) would have pretty much got us relegated. A few goals either way on the last day and we could have finished about 16th last year.

He wont become a top player for us, he just isn't that good. He has never looked anything special, either here or at Norwich. A decent squad player to have but we aren't going to be pushing for a top 8 finish with players like Redmond starting every game.

I'd say it was a strong back 4, midfield 2 and striker (Gabbi). This gives us 7/11 of a very good team. Unfortunately: a) The other 4, no matter who we chose, are always likely to be suspect. b) 7 and 11 are both prime numbers and I am unable to simplify this fraction, or express it as an integer as a percentage.

Palace will probably nick a 1-0 win knowing the Premier League. A nice 2-0 defeat for Everton tomorrow could see them finish the weekend in the drop zone.

Hardly a classic but I'll take it. Lemon and Hoot the two main positives for me. Redmond was generally poor and slowed us down. Tadic better, Long was a 'nuisance' but never really looked like getting us a goal. Davis scuffed that shot, I don't care what anyone says. Had we beaten Watford we'd be top right now, for the first time since I don't know when.

Nah, Sunderland spent years playing this badly until November and still staying up.