Saint86

What did he say? Fishing for a job?

I'd take him in a heartbeat.

Record premier league win very much on the cards tonight, and it will be for an away side. If it happens, the shame will never be washed clean. I decided at the end of the Claud Puel season that I wasn't going to pay another penny into the club under its current management and business strategy. To do so was to let people get rich on the back of ruining our club. We had a fantastic team and almost made champions league football. They turned it into this. If it takes another 10 years of struggling, relegation and administration to hit rock bottom and rebuild... well then I'll welcome it. Because nothing changes the way things are. Even if we sack the manager, get a bounce, stay up... we'll be in the exact same spiral we're in now. This board and club management are entirely unfit for duty.

I don't think people have realised that we're watching the record premier league win tonight. By an away side.

How can they give a red card and the goal. Should be a fecking free kick in that case. BS.

Its clearly a different deal to TM's one because it removes the backstop. However. I've heard that it includes a lot of level playing field clauses which mean the UK can't negotiate better trade deals that the UK has, and we can't reclaim fishing waters etc. In which point, its garbage and true dead duck to hang round our necks. Fact is though, trying to find the truth of it is impossible. The tories will paint it as the best thing since sliced bread, labour will vote against the tories regardless, the lib dems just want the whole thing revoked, the brexit party hate anything that isn't no deal, and the SNP will flat out throw their toys out of the pram until they've (and only them) have broken up the union. Trying to find the truth of it from all the conflicting agendas and arguments is impossible.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7570817/Britains-worst-paedophile-stabbed-death-makeshift-blade.html

And this is exactly why i say, if relegation is inevitable, then I welcome the fastest possible route to the bottom so we can start again. Ship any that don't want to be here out, and start again with kids and those that care. We are stale stagnant club in decline as it stands. Needs to change, or we can all may as well just skip the next 5-10 years whilst we sink.

Absolutely. We are a club in serious decline. Dark days ahead without a very significant change.

Well. You say that, but I think thats what we need now. There is no way out of this downwards spiral (be it rapid or slow). We went down before and started again, we were on course to be an established top half side and unfortunately Les Reed and his ego stole that possibility from us. Now we have no winning mentality, a bang average youth set up, a below average bloated squad of players. I am growing to absolutely despise what we have become in recent seasons. If relegation is inevitable, I would welcome the fastest possible route to the bottom myself. Then start again and this time hope we don't get any parasites like Reed climbing aboard.

Think we need to make massive changes behind the scenes. And the manager has to go if this continues.

Shocking at the back again. Gunn has to be dropped - him and our defence lost us that game - scratch that - gave tottenham that game... all in the first half. Manager has to start taking serious blame for this continuously happening. Ref an utter bender second half. Shocking bias on display. Someone very clearly had a word with him at halftime.

Another 3 potential 3 points dropped.

Easy. Not even a contest. Loving Matty Taylor praising us at the end as well. MUSIC to my ears!!

Yeah right. After all the talk on here i was expecting big things. What do we get. Sweet FA But seriously. Left mid tracking back is essential this game, and not happening.

Where are the saints fans. Can hear nothing when the Portsmouth fans stop singing? WTF. Are their no mics near our fans?...

Certainly looks that way...

It will be a draw then...

Bizzare comment, perhaps based on some serious rose tinted glasses. The elbow took the ball away from a Sheffield United player that was shaping to shoot at the back post. He would have had a goal scoring change and it was hand ball... We were very lucky with that one and he has every right to complain. He was also very even handed in his responses to both the offside goal and red card...

I remember an England U21 game at SMS (i think vs Ireland). Milner was playing to help date it Absolutely bloody freezing - the concrete was just blocks of grey ice.

Can't really argue with that in fairness. Although obviously some of our fans know better than what the players actually live through...

Les Reed is one of the worst things to have ever happened to Saints. People don't realise because we are still in the premier league / not bankrupt etc. But under his stewardship (end of 2014 - 2019), almost every aspect of the club nosedived. But we don't need to go over that again. What is important right now is that the club stabalises over a few seasons, and we establish a good young team with potential, with an academy that is once again feeding the first team. Post Les we have made the first of those steps under Ralph. But we it to continue for a couple of seasons minimum - hopefully then with some improvements of the first team. Glasgow/Heisenberg/Cabbage loved to go on about his momentum curve... But it absoltuley applies to us right now. We are currently (I hope) just coming out of the bottom dip!

I think that is a great job for him to be honest. Could be a very good fit there. Hope he does well and we get to see him in the away dugout at SMS at some point in the not to distant future.

Haha, you joke, but i got into a rather awkward altercation with (i can only assume) a passionate remain voter in the office kitchen yesterday. Never talked to them about politics in my life and I make it a point not to talk about politics in the office - it just isn't sensible in Bristol unless you are on the left wing side of the spectrum. This person probably know's I'm a traditional Tory voter and therefore assumed I was a no deal supporter, before proceeding to adopt a very patronising tone and querying why I am intelligent person who voted for leave (i neither confirmed or denied this to said person throughout the entire conversation), I then got talked at / lectured for a couple of minutes about about how Leave voters know nothing (and/or are racist etc.), and told that parliament should just ignore them. It was all very odd up to this point and all I wanted to do was just avoid an argument in the office kitchen - as you do right? So I tried to just exit and go back to my desk and this person called after me some remark which was either, "you're a fascist", or "you're views are fascist" - which to me are the same thing either way.. But in summary, the whole thing was just utterly mental and a bit surreal. It didn't really register or I would have said something, and I am still in disbelief that we've reached the point where this can happen in a workplace... People are losing all rational thought and ability to discuss opposing views with each other over Brexit (and politics in general) lately. People are just becoming more and more divided and reaching extremes on opposite sides. It does not bode well for the future the longer it goes on.

Can't tell if this is sarcasm? Boris is not playing a blinder. He's in a very tough spot as our the Conservatives in general. He has given what power their is to Corbyn in my mind. We now have a government that cannot pass any legislation in the house of commons, and an opposition that has no interest in calling a GE because they know they'll get utterly spanked by the two not so fringe parties (Brexit and Lib dems). To top it off, the remain MP's will now block no deal which completely hamstrings any negotiating position the UK government could hope to have... This whole things seems to careen from bad to worse the longer it goes on. I genuinely fear that the ultimate outcome of all this will be several more months of delays until Labour feel confident they can win (or at least form a coalition government), then a GE and a hung parliment with SNP as king makers. The result of that will be a second referendum in Scotland (who will leave), and they we'll be left with an overwhelmingly Brexit favouring (rest of) UK being led by a lib dem / labour remain government trying to force a second referendum. Its a path that would lead to years more uncertainty and division in society. I have firmly reach the point now where Brexit just needs to happen, preferably with a deal obviously(!), and if I hear one more of these self serving arrogant politicians bang on about blocking no deal I am going to go mad. Their the bloody people who stopped us leaving with a deal!