Saint86

Aha! Sorry 88, quoted the wrong person there!

I only hope people are more understanding than you are should your life and mental health take such a negative turn!

For me, BLM has no place in football. But it is also the responsibility of the game's governing bodies to sort that out and to end the black power salutes that are associated with it. Certainly parts of the BLM organisation exist and thrive by causing division, but it is sadly the people it claims to represent that ultimately suffer the inevitable push backs. I'd echo Karl Henry on the subject, it needs an apolitical movement to tackle racial equality - and i think if you removed BLM from the equation then you reduce the pre-match debate to whether its become meaningless tokenism or still worth keeping. What you can't be doing is having thousands of football fans booing a gesture that is majorly intended as nothing more than a stance against racial and social inequality. And clearly there is zero point to football continuing to do a pre match demonstration about social equality indefinitely, whilst also changing nothing of consequence outside of that gesture.

https://theathletic.com/2234408/2020/12/04/hasenhuttl-pochettino-koeman/?source=weeklyemail&redirected=1 Article in the Athletic discussing are3 best managers in the modern era. Also at least partially mentions the infamous momentum curve.

That video is so bad it makes AFTV respectable.... 😱

I actually quite like BFS. No nonsense and knows his stuff. A real shame he was knifed as England manager.

I just can't agree that Reed would offer as much as JWP and Romeu. To me he is nowhere near their level, either defensively, technically, or in an attacking sense. I haven't seen enough of Diallo to comment, and in truth he is going to struggle to get into the team ahead of the aforementioned duo. Reed would have competed with smallbone and Diallo for a spot on the bench and that's it. Yes, I would rather have a home grown academy player taking up a slot, but not if they don't want to be here. Ultimately he wanted first team football and that's fair enough, i wish him well but i'm not upset that he's gone.

Was coming a mile off, almost put a bet on 3-2 the minute they score the first. Was only going to end one way. Even at 2-0 we weren't playing well and United always had gears to go into. They're a decent side with a great squad. And they always play well against us. Loving this season and the way we've been playing - we are overachieving but we need to be wiser than this. Its about the only critique i would level at Ralph - waiting until the 89th minute to make a meaningful change is just too late. Sides are starting to take us seriously and figure us out now. Need to be able to shore it up and see games out. Villa, Wolves, United- all games where we've simply let the opposition come back at us and score inevitable goals without changing things up. At least if we are going to lose doing it, its against a team who really should expect to finish above us at least!

Been coming. Even at 2-0 we weren't playing well and United always had gears to go into. They're a decent side with a great squad. And they always play well against us. Not sure what Ralph was doing in truth, waiting until the 89th minute to make a meaningful change. Sides are starting to take us seriously and figure us out now. Need to be able to shore it up and see games out.

I fear Wolves more than I do united. But that said, they are a team with their backs against the wall and some quality players. I'm sure we'll be well prepared and they definitely won't want to play us. Can see a 1-1 draw but you'd like to hope we can get all 3 points.

Agreed fully!

He's a class player that sits at a good level for the team and squad. Add to that the fact that you can wait decades to find players with his level of passion for the club, and what exactly is there to not like?

I find a lot of that article to be pretty much rubbish tbh. The saints side is "long in the tooth" - its one of the youngest sides in the league.... James Ward Prowse's last England cap came 3 years ago? No... Saints are perennial relegation candidates? - We've finished top 8 more than we've been in a relegation crap. The Times really has let its standards drop.

It has to remain as 3. Teams with less funding didn't build squads over the summer planning to have an additional 2 quality substitutes to field. Its pure movement of the goalposts from the top clubs. Yet another attempt to unlevel the premier league playing field.

I will wait to hear from Turkish myself. Far higher chance of it happening if it comes from him 🙂

IMO, there is no chance we will play redmond up top over Walcott. This screams Adams and Walcott as a front 2 for me. And i'd fancy that to cause all kinds of problems to be honest. With Adams being a general bully and nusisance, redmond pulling players out wide, and Theo ready to run onto any through balls, i fancy him to be very dangerous. Also, Redmond is the most wasteful player i've seen at Saints for a long long time. I know he can be great at times and he does well to get himself into the final ball positions.... but my god you'd bet on him to fluff the final product up 9 times out of 10!!!

I know Tadic and Ings are shite at penalties - but surely they weren't that bad!?!?!?!

The number of our fans who've written him off over the years 🤣

Exactly this imo. The club have budgeted for it for the season. So we aren't suddenly making an unexpected £3m a month loss with no way to afford it.

An unbudgeted £3m loss per month makes no sense and would be very alarming. I also doubt it is something we would leak during takeover talks. Hence querying it rather than taking it as a "face value" gospel truth. If saints are actually making an unbudgeted loss of £3M per month specifically due to something that was foreseeable this season (and obviously would have been budgeted for) then something has gone very wrong. Given our summer transfer activity, i find that outcome to be highly unlikely - hence calling it a speculative take on what was said and querying it. As Vectis says, what the OP is saying is unclear. What Toby Steele might be have said is that our income streams are down £3M per month, or that we are losing £3m per month but it has been budgeted... not necessarily that we are making an unbudgeted loss of £3m per month. Which would be something very different indeed. For my part, I'd like to think that we didn't go and spend millions on transfers, agents, and wage commitments this summer having budgeted for a full St Mary's every home game. Instead, I'd like to think the club budgeted for an empty St Mary's this year, and our spend and wage commitments factors in no gate receipts for the season.

I don't know who Toby Steele is, but this seems highly speculative take, and to describe it as a loss is disingenuous as well. We have lost a portion of our income this season because there are no gate receipts and that can be estimated for sure. But equally, the club knew that was coming and may well have restructured the business to accommodate it - Removing significant sums from the wage bill over the transfer window being a significant example. To put it another way. outright calling it a loss implies the club sanctioned our summer transfer window spend on the assumption we'd have full capacity for each and every home game. Flip side, we are on TV significantly more this year, and we are on course to finish higher as well. Plus of course, we will have received additional transfer bonuses for Liverpool's title win.

That is all there is to it really - hard for some to understand though.

Basically, once again Liverpool have fooked us over...

Imagine Redmond and Walcott will play on the wings. We don't have any other obvious choices with Armstrong and Djenpo out. Its that or we have smallbone starting in the AMR spot? Or He plays central and JWP plays AMR? Or Ralph really pushes the boat out and puts Valery as AMR?

So.... Ay suggestions for good streaming sites these days? 😆