Lighthouse

Christ alive, have a day off. 😂

Hoever really sucks.

It looked to me like they both got a foot on it. I don’t think it gets given, even if Fellows goes down.

Lovely move and Azaz has to bury that.

Half of them seem to think Bournemouth vs Brighton is a south coast derby, when the actual distance between them is something akin to Southampton vs Coventry.

I’ll take them as they come.

We could only afford a pig iron band, their instruments would rust in this weather.

I think it's slightly more nuanced that simply Europe expecting America to keep us safe. European underinvestment stems largely from a lack of perceived threat since 1991. There's simply been little appetite for big armies and expensive weapons when all we did for thirty years was blow up goats in Tora Bora. Until Mad Vlad flipped his lid, the rest of Europe was prioritising their own national infrastructure. Likewise Uncle Sam's relatively lavish defence spending is much less about having Europe's back and much more about waving their cock in China's face.

It's okay, I went through the exact same thought process when Scarlett Johansson divorced Ryan Reynolds.

Ben Mayes and Manny Lumsden playing for England U-19s on SS Main Event. I know it's only Scotland's kids but the former is on 122, almost exactly half of England's total so far.

He can want to leave to his heart's content but he's under contract here and I can't imagine we're entertaining the idea of selling him until the summer. Selling him now would be madness and as much as people love to pretend SR are actually mad, they aren't.

Except we're not. West Ham are staring relegation in the face having spent hundreds of millions on failed strikers over the last decade. Leicester spent £25m each on Daka and Iheanacho, who've struggle to average five goals a season in either the PL or the Champ. Half the people on this forum were fuming because we didn't pick up Danny Ings in summer, who was, "obviously proven PL quality, but that's not the SR way FFS!" Over half a season later, he's registered one goal against Norwich. Liverpool have just spent a quarter of a billion Euros on Isak and Wirtz, have they got five goals between them? That's after wasting about £80m on Darwin Nunez. Football is riddled with clubs who can't find a decent striker for love nor money. We've actually got one of the best in the Championship on the books already.

Thus proving the point that it's really not that easy to sign a decent striker and more often than not they end up being a waste of money. It's not using a rationale, it's just the truth.

I never said that, I said that if we don't bring one in it'll be because we couldn't get someone in who would improve us, within our budget. January is a notoriously poor time to do transfer business. As for Dykes... Christ if we signed a player who managed two goals in League 1 last year, that'd be a new low, even for us. I don't care if he's 7'13" he's crap.

If we don't bring a forward in it'll because there's nobody decent available within our price range, not because everyone at the club has devout faith in the fitness credentials of Ross Stewart.

I can't see Charles having any meaningful involvement, given the amount of time he's been out, and I don't want Romeu anywhere near the team for this. Since he's come back his time on the pitch has barely added up to an hour, in which we've conceded three goals, two of which he was directly at fault for. Whatever your opinion of Downes and Jander, it pretty much has to be them at the moment.

No, it really isn’t. I really don’t get some of the takes people have on the last three years at Saints. Apparently we keep ‘reverting back to Russball’ and that’s why we’re crap. That’d be Russball that got us promoted in fourth at the first attempt. Actual Russball is a million miles better than this, we actually got results. Still had us down in 20th place and the team looked helpless.

Are you refering to Still? I don't care what he 'wanted to' do, his teams were dreadful and didn't seem to have a clue how they were supposed to be playing.

If there are two or three disruptive players then boot them out, but there are people on this thread talking about getting rid of everyone but two or three players. It's just not realistic.

We’ve already sold or loaned out at least fifteen players this season and signed or loaned in a further ten. We can’t just keep demanding a ‘clear out ‘ every time it’s not going well. A manager needs to come in and get this lot playing somewhere close to their potential. Two years ago we got promoted with a midfield built around Downes, Aribo and Smallbone, in front of a defence featuring THB, Stephens and Manning, protecting Bazunu in goal. That was all orchestrated by a manager who you’d think spends his days off murdering kittens, judging by the opinion of him on this forum.

Imagine this press statement from Spors in summer: "We've been looking at two 20 year old players for the last few months. We had the option of signing either another sub-6ft striker for £1m from Blackpool, he's just scored three goals in League 1, or a 6'4" USA international for £7m, who's just scored ten goals in Bundesliga 2. We're going with option A because it's much cheaper." How do you think that goes down?

I will say with a reasonable degree of certainty that if Ballard was still here he would not be getting into the team ahead of Armstrong and that if he did he wouldn't have come close to his scoring record so far. People are rather weirdly pretending that L1 and the Championship are the same level. They aren't.

Badly. It's now being managed by another idiot. Hope that clears things up.

I agree. There's a lot of hindsight going on here recently for a player who's still never done anything at Championship level. Last year's L1 golden boot went to Charlie Kelman. This season he has as many non-penalty goals as Ross Stewart, so making the step up is hardly guaranteed. Ultimately, Dom needed a fresh start at a lower level. He got it and he's thriving, so fair play to him. If, in summer, we'd signed a man who last season scored three goals in League 1, to spearhead our promotion push to the PL, people on this board would be apoplectic.

Watching the updates on SSN vidiprinter and thought we’d scored, turned out it was actually Stenhousemuir. On reflection, I’ve decided I am now actually going to go and support them instead. Toodles!