Baird of the land

Someone dropping a pin can spook markets, so as a complete layman i can assume upending financial norms could cause issues to international investment in the eurozone.

Not that hard to understand their are risks in terms of global financial market from taking the money from countries we don't like.

Was the point of the masses of existing sanctions on Russia not to put pressure on Russia.

It was the obvious lever to pull, given US main priority is recouping/cutting investment in the conflict and Ukraine is still very much on the unlikely punish russia definition of peace.

I really don’t like the strategy of starting archer as a lone striker. We just sacrifice any presence up top. Onachu may be limited but he needs to start imo. that said the big issue today was how bad our centre mid and cb were. Brighton barely had to work to be through on goal.

Think it is more our midfield options are terrible.

Get archer off for onachu Defence looks like it’s going to leak like a sieve. I remembered Abk being quick & doesn’t seem like that at all anymore.

Last June wasn’t there a so called peace summit excluding Russia.

Happy to see onachu. Also glad to see wood over manning. cm is a real issue. Very doubtful about smallbone/Aribo partnership but then don’t we’ve got any great options there. Wish we’d actually recalled Charles.

Well that was a super depressing trek to watch us lose. very confused by desperation to force dibling back into the team at expense of onachu. Dibling looked completely disinterested and really should have been hooked at ht, he was that poor. curious was the manning miss as bad as it seemed in person, seemed like delayed and let keeper get back. I was very annoyed by saints response to conceding, which largely consisted of passing the ball along the back line.

Dibling seems well off the pace. Hopefully we can get Paul on soon.

A poorer one and without any needed physicality to the one we lost who had helped get us promoted.

Is amusing seeing the change of tune on the summer window as someone who was very down on it at the time mainly for failing to get a true CF.

Got my ticket. Looking forward to it. would be nice to get a bit of a run in the cup given there’s so little to play for barring pride in the league.

Hadn't realised he'd extended his contract to 2027. So yeah think chances are pretty good he'll be playing for us.

Cmon premier league, let armstrong go back to his natural habitat.

Upgrading from an archer to a Sargent?

I must have hallucinated a striker scoring 2 in 3.

We have a relegation rival? Thought we were the only one going for Derby's record.

Trying hard not to break my new year's resolution of pre judging transfers but saints are making it hard

Can’t bednarek move happening, especially with that lowball fee.

Shame that’s he’s leaving. 2 years of barely playing will do that. Time will tell if we’ll end up viewing him as a missed opportunity.

If we got our money back I’d be fine with him leaving. He was central to the Martin system, but seems much less impressive once we’ve gone away from that.

ABK must no longer be a footballer.

Ipswich’s goal was a terrible defensive error. Kind of par for the course for 2 bad teams to make errors. At least we were clinical.