Lighthouse

He was consistently very suspect at Championship level. This season he’ll be an absolute liability in any games he’s asked to play, he needs to go.

No we're not. A very small number of people on the internet do not represent Britain.

Which PR system do people want? I've never claimed to have any answers but the people complaining haven't put forward a credible proposal either. The Libs, with the most to gain from this, went all in on some useless AV system when they got a whiff of power in 2010 and it fell flat on it's face. We have a system where every constituency has a local MP who represents them and most elections produce a majority for somebody to form a government. I didn't say I'm happy because "reasons". I've literally given you my reasons. I want a certain level of volatility, so that anyone who underperforms - such as Sunak and Corbyn - suffers a significant loss in parliament. I want somebody in charge, with a significant level of authority. Those are my 'reasons'.

I'm going to be unpopular again and say I don't have a problem with FPTP. I want a government to rule the country for the next five years, I don't want some broad spectrum commitee, trying to please everyone. Surely this election and the last prove just how easily your party can be wiped out by being a bit sh*t or irrelevant. I don't know or care how every other democracy in the world works but I'm quite happy with ours.

They're under 25, they've got no money, it's always been a bit like that. They'll have a rethink, try and forge a new identity and probably get through two more leaders before the next GE. Basically they'll be a bit like Liverpool, post Klopp. I'd say we're set for two terms of Labour, unless they do something disasterous, but after that a lot could have changed in ten years.

Quite the metaphor.

You have to say, if this comes to fruition it’s good for democracy and reflects well on the British electorate. The fact that so many people are willing to change their vote based on real world circumstances should keep everyone on their toes. Five years ago we had Yorkshire mining towns voting Tory in the face of Corbyn’s Labour. Now it looks like the Tory mess is being thoroughly flushed down the khazi.

That’s quite the exit poll.

So you’re saying Janet Jackson might get her knockers out at the declaration for New Forest West?

Hmmmm. My usual eggnog Sambuca is not on there.

Whiling away a bit of time watching Octopussy and waiting for the exit poll. Not sure I’ll stay up that late TBH, it’s like the Super Bowl, depends how tired I am and what mood I’m in.

‘Extremely average’ is a big upgrade on two players we’ve given contracts to this summer, so I wouldn’t use that as a yardstick.

A halfway competent agent would negotiate back pay so I wouldn’t read too much into that, assuming something hasn’t been signed privately already.

There’s a club in town where a woman dressed in leather will chain you up and you vote Tory together. So I’m told by a friend.

If Ox makes sense to anyone they need an MRI scan. Ox makes Darren Anderton look as fit as… well, an ox.

I don’t think there’s anything here which can’t/isn’t being covered on the other thread.

Well, I voted. I also rewired the electrics in the roof and didn’t blow up, so I’ve had a moderately productive day.

So how is that our use of the loan system being abysmal? If a young player does nothing here, has little impact on loan in a lesser league, then gets released and signs for someone much lower down the pyramid, it points almost unequivocally towards that player not being Saints standard. We loan these young players out to a variety of different clubs at lower levels, what else is it that you expect a good club to do that we’re so ‘abysmal’ at?

😂😂 Scott McTominay starts every game for Man Utd, get a grip you lot.

So we’ve got to win a T30, if there was such a thing, with a target of 179. Just lost two quick wickets, 92/3.

Seems a decent, low risk signing on the face of it.

That really isn’t true though. In the last few years some very okay players have had first team opportunities at Saints. Never in a million years would Smallbone get first team football at 3/4 of PL clubs. Tella made about 30 odd first team appearances for us, having been released by Arsenal. SAA played a few games for us, when he clearly wasn’t ready, even for Championship football. AGR has just turned 16, so to say your pathway is being blocked would be absolute horse sh*t.

178 needed before the end of the day then.

Don't let the general election distract you from the fact that in 2001 Kurt Angle hosed the Alliance with milk on Monday Night Raw.

You’re looking at the whole thing the wrong way around. Man City and Chelsea youngsters are more likely to play for Saints because the top 5% of their youngsters are generally much better than anything we produce. They have to take a step down in order to play first team football because competition there is so high. Edozie would never have had a whiff of first team football at City, here he’s a first team regular. Smallbone made 20 first team appearances before he went to Stoke. If he’d managed to achieve mediocrity, he wouldn’t have been loaned out at all but he needed at least a season at a lower level to develop.