Lighthouse

Is there any scope for a few of these at home Steve? Would be decent to get some games going fairly regularly, we'd have enough players for it.

I've finally figured out who he reminds me of

People keep saying this but he was supposed to be good cover for Balotelli last season. It's all well and good talking about how useless Brenda is but they did finish above us. Like it or not they were better than us and Rickie struggled to score there. 1 goal since November.

We will never win the Worthington Cup with that negative attitude.

I've always rated Vincent Pericard and Nicholas Bignall myself.

Swiss banker or not Cortese pretty much proved it with the Osvaldo signing, which was pretty much all about his own ego IMO. I'm sure it was more about his own reputation, going from -10 in League 1 to buying an Italian international striker and Serie A marksman. I don't think Gaston was quite the same but there are some similarities, no coincidence that he also came from Italy.

Any good?

I was planning to dress like that anyway if I'm honest.

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Not with the attitude he seems to be showing recently. If we're at home and we want to attack then it's Mané, J Rod and Tadic IMO. If we're away or defending a lead, you would probably want Davis or JWP in there. Kind of leaves Ramirez in no man's land.

There is no such thing as an ex-players curse. Of course if you player enough of your ex-players they will score a few every now and then but did any ex-Saints actually score against us last year? None of the Liverpool contingent, nor Arsenal. Shaw didn't, neither did Crouch, Puncheon, Baird and probably half a dosen others we came up against. I doubt Rickie will even get on the pitch TBH. He's got Rondon, Anichebe and one would imagine Berahino all fighting over his place.

Nivea have a distribution centre just outside Stoke on Trent. I'm just saying.

Manchester Airport having a bit of fun on Twitter @manairport 7h7 hours ago Hi @DeludedBrendan I've got 4 flights arriving from Southampton today, just in case you need them... #DeadlineDay

Woooooosh

Januzaj joins Dortmund on loan.

I think 'Girls don't like boys girls like cars and Mané' was the best one.

So this is 'The News' is it?

If someone paid half his wages for the rest of this season, plus a small loan fee I'd take that. In three years in England he has failed to deliver and seems to have fitness issues, coupled with no particular desire to get back into the team. From last years squad we've got J Rod and Juanmi replacing Elia and Djuricic. Ron didn't see any particular need to keep Gaston then and I doubt he will now.

He's had 3 years, done nothing and doesn't appear to have any particular desire to force his way into Ron's plans. I think D-Day will be much ado about nothing as it usually is. Just another day of Jim and Natalie trying to make stories out of absolutely nothing happening outside Stoke's training ground. I think we'll see VvD in at some point, Gaston and a couple of young players out on loan. That'll be it for Saints.

End of August and Saints are running their first POTM poll. Pelle, Romeu, Fonte and Mané being the nominees. Thoughts on this? Nobody has stood out but today's performance probably just edges it towards Romeu for me, with Pelle a close second.

I am pretty surprised Chambers hasn't been selected as playing absolute dog sh*t doesn't seem to matter these days.

Just 2 goals in 16 games in all comps for Kane now, since scoring on his England debut. In the same period Rooney has only scored against Bruges, Slovenia and that sh*t Villa team we put 6 past. Not exactly Shearer and Linekar is it.

I went to Derby when we came up from the Championship and they'd sold out the ground. 33,000 odd I think, which is a decent effort in the Championship when they weren't playing particularly special football. As much as I like to see minnows like Bournemouth making it to the Premier League, I can't help but feel that clubs like Derby, Forest and Leeds would make a better fist of it long term.

Today's second half team would have been the perfect choice for Thursday, that's what's so frustrating. Any kind of decent service and he could have bagged a couple against that side but we left ALL our creative players out the team. It was baffling.

Still, at least nobody is giving him any. Oh... I liked his trigger happy attitude today. I'd much rather a player was like that and wasted a couple of chances, rather than the whole team being afraid too shoot and passing it to death until we gave away possession. The goals will come, we just need to persevere with him. With him and Pelle leading the line and Mané and Tadic out wide, we've got some decent attacking options.