Lighthouse

Ah fair point, the article I found must have been a year or two old.

29 conceded in 10 games, which extrapolated over a 38 game season would be 110. The current worst in Premier League history is Swindon with 91.

I think it’s one of Musk’s kids.

The top three worst defences in PL history are Swindon - 93/94 - 91 goals* Derby - 07/08 - 89 Fulham - 13/14 - 85 Our defence under Juric, extrapolated over a 38 game season, would concede 114. *They actually conceded 100 goals but that was in a 42 game season. Adjusted to 38 games in line with everyone else they would concede 91

A more accurate WWI analogy would be General Juric marching his troops across no man’s land dressed as Egyptian pharaohs, because the enemy sentries will be on the look out for people in army uniforms.

I think some of you misunderstand, Ivan Juric transcends football. Think of this experience as a sort of ironic kitsch, you don’t have to ‘get it’ as such, just appreciate it for what it is.

The way England bat, probably.

Goals scored by Beattie, Pahars and Marsden, what I wouldn’t give to have them in the team. I don’t mean 20 years ago in their prime, I mean I’d literally have them in the f**king team tonight.

We’re going to need someone who makes Bonnie Blue look like Ann Widdecombe.

To win this we’re going to need a nun so slutty that even Richard Dawkins thinks she needs Jesus.

F**k me! You know those low budget zombie movies which are so bad they’re hilarious? Our starting XIs now have an essence of genuine camp.

Je suis Chelsea.

That clips is actually a perfect amalgamation of recent Saints strikers. There’s the first touch of a shire horse from Tall Paul, the blast it straight at the keeper a yard away and feign disappointment from Adam Armstrong and the ‘just knock it into an empty net from two feet away with any part of your body, except your… oh FFS!’ From Che Adams.

Putin literally offering the Americans stolen material as a bribe for being on their side. F**k me, this situation gets more morally contemptible by the minute.

Remember in the summer when we were supposedly trying to get sign this bloke. Looks every inch the complete Saints striker to me.

Where is this idea coming from that all goalkeepers must definitely be very slow? It’s not 1973 any more, keepers aren’t just the fat kid who was too crap to play outfield at school. Raya is a 29 year old, 6ft professional athlete on one of the toughest fitness and diet regimes in professional sport and unlike JWP hasn’t spent the whole game tirelessly chasing around in midfield.

I don’t think Lineker is interested in management jobs.

Imagine laughing at a player who’s just bust a gut running from his own six yard box to the halfway line, at the end of a 99 minute battle with Rice, Partey and Odegaard, to help his side see out a win at the Emirates. I’d take him over some of the utterly pathetic attempts I’ve seen from our own players to track the runners who stroll casually through our midfield.

You can ignore Everton and post all the laughing emojis you want, it won’t change the facts. Burnley in 2021/22 Dyche - 24 points from 30 games - 0.8 points per game Caretaker manager Mike Jackson - 11 points from 8 games - 1.4 points per game Dyche was once a reasonable enough manager at Burnley. Now he’s yesterday’s man. He’s not the answer to our problems and he won’t come in and make us hard to beat playing ‘4-4-f**king 2’.

He got them relegated, was sacked in April and his replacement immediately won the next three games, they were then promoted as Champions with 101 points the following season. Hope this helps (I notice you've ignored Everton's fortunes and how utterly dire they were to watch until Dyche was sacked).

Dyche is not the answer and would not make us hard to beat. Both Burnley and Everton have seen massive improvement after they sacked him.

He's a competent PL goalkeeper but saying he's too good for us is the wrong mentality if we're serious about being a PL club. We needed to sign a solid half a dozen players of his calibre in the right positions to have a chance of staying up and instead we signed two, Fernandes being the other. Our problem is that signings like Lallana, Wood and BBD were so pathetically far below the standard required that the couple that are half decent look out of place.

"A tactical change is needed." The tactics we've tried so far this season The weird U shape formation in a couple of the early fixtures No recognised striker at Bournemouth Passing patiently around the defence and retaining possession Four at the back against Spurs Getting it forward direct and early to Tall Paul Fullback tombola with KWP, Bree, Welington, Suga, Manning andTaylor being tried at various times as full backs, wing backs and outside CBs. Aribo dropping in at CB Surrendering the central midfield to allow for extra defenders Every combination of TP, Archer, Sully and AA up front, with none of them managing more than two goals. How many tactical changes are we going to try before people stop demanding tactical shanges?

I’d have him in front of Morgan and Wanyama in the role Davis used to play.