Lighthouse

What do you mean by 'even you'? I don't work for the Ukrainian government. You made the claim that Ukraine had suffered from massive losses of men and equipment for very little gain, then you said it was 10% of forces comitted. This is contrary to what I've seen in the news and on social media so, I asked where you were getting your information from. I've seen a video of a destroyed Russian convoy and footage from a Russian drone appearing to show them one destroyed Ukrainian tank. These are the only specific details I've seen so far as both sides are understandably tight lipped about both the forces and the losses in that area. Of course there have been Ukrainian losses in this invasion, it's a war. However, this post is the first time I've seen it confirmed that 100 men have died, or that 1,000 were comitted.

Last time Stan Collymore finished on a bottom it was in a National Trust car park.

Fair play, you must have seen some incredibly in-depth information that I just don't have access to. 10% is a very accurate number, considering nobody seems to know exactly how many troops are involved, or how many have been lost.

Which sources is that information coming from? Most of what I’ve seen on the news and Twitter points towards very minimal resistance and small losses in an attack that caught Russia totally by surprise.

Sigh.... here we go again.

They should sit down and negotiate a peace deal. Ukraine will give back Kursk if Russia promises not to join NATO.

I’m not sure you understand how negotiations work.

Agree, I thought he was decent. Booked Getafe players for most of their sh*thouse antics.

Our net spend so far this summer is only about £5m less than Brighton and we’re clearly looking to spend more in the next couple of weeks, so I don’t know where that idea has come from.

That was a dull as dull can be. Playing with two wide forwards didn't really lead to much and Getafe were pretty dirty, considering it was a preseason friendly. I thought their number six might throw himself to the floor if he'd tripped over that balloon.

That was the Leedsiest half I’ve ever seen.

The DJ 😂

He wasn’t in squad contention for the City game, which is what I was going on. You could also make an argument for Cork being better than Downes, although we’ve not seen enough of the latter at this level to really be definitive.

I think my combined team from all the players available in both those squads would be something like: Davis Clyne THB Fonte Taylor Morgan Downes Lallana Davis J Rod Lambert

I hadn’t realised Boruc was signed that late but he and Gazza were both better than Kelvin IMO, even if it was a bit of a revolving door for a few months. Yoshida was better than Hooiveld Clyne was better than Richardson/Butters Davis was better than Hammond J Rod was better than Sharp (he didn’t score for a while but he was definitely better) Ramirez played a role we never really played in the Championship but he was far better than the likes of Chaplow and De Ridder.

EFL kicking off on SS with Blackburn hosting Derby. Will be interesting to see if the three relegated teams are as dominant as we were (with the addition of Ipswich) last season.

That’s easily six players who came in and made a first team position obviously stronger. Plus we had the emergence of Shaw and JWP that season as serious first team options. That’s on top of the best team in the Championship the season before and we still lost something like eight of our first ten games. It’s a big step up.

In the sense that our team isn’t really any better. Our strongest XI is basically last year’s team, minus Che and KWP, plus Taylor, Suga and BBD. I couldn’t in all good conscience call that stronger.

Bowled out in 26 overs, good grief.

I know it’s immature but I love hearing the ‘tators talking about somebody’s ‘biggest snatch’.

You’re looking at it the wrong way around, why would we play them? There’s no point wasting any preseason minutes on someone we have no intention of playing next year.

I used to do that when I could be bothered but you whine and whine and whine on every thread, constantly trying to get everyone else to gang up on you. It’s a weird form of masochism I can’t be arsed wasting my time with. There’s no point splitting this, or any other thread because you’ll just turn them all into the same thing. I primarily moderate the Saints forum because people come here to talk about football and we want that to stay on topic.

Day 800 of the 3 day special military operation. Ukraine invades Russia.

Can’t imagine we’ll see Holland back either TBH, especially with the likes of Albert, Jack and Kelly doing so well.