Daft Kerplunk

Agreed. We had the two most glaring problems for a football team bar some purple patches of form. Conceded easily, couldn’t create and score. If we get another attacker in and this is the team Ralph wants, then he’ll have to go if they aren’t performing by November. I like the look of most of the signings so it’s promising but if it doesn’t work, then it’ll be clear it’s the manager who can’t get a tune out of his orchestra.

My prediction for 2022/23 is that I will definitely have increasingly brutal hangovers due to the ageing process. Man City to win the title Manure to hopefully finish 8th or below and the main news sites finally realise they’re aren’t the biggest club anymore and don’t deserve stories about their ball boys above other clubs activity. Looking at you BBC, you’re the nation’s service, not Man Utd website. Tottenham to hopefully be shite. Everton finally relegated. It’s basically Revel Roulette for us with Ralph. Could get an occasional toffee but mostly a duff packet with orange dominating. We will probably get a weird parma violet flavour in there as well during the season. New coaches will hopefully be listened to by the rabbit house. We are still seriously lacking goals so give me 17th today and I would take it. I wasn’t far off last season being happy with the same thing and ending up with 16th. That said, a couple of strong signings and I’d revise to 12th to 15th. The new players are too inexperienced and surrounded by average squad for anything more. It’s a rebuilding year as long as the foundations don’t collapse around us.

It doesn’t look like PL experience is overly desirable to the current Saints leadership. With Delap, maybe the board are more able to deal/learn from the Broja situation, where we might have been able to buy him last year for £20m. If we get Delap, that might be it as it completes a strengthening of key areas, however untested.

Max?

Andy Cole?

Pedri?

Looks very promising. Let’s hope he follows in the footsteps of previous Toulon Tournament top scorers like Thierry Henry, Jean-Pierre Papin, Alan Shearer and so on.

We will see how Ralph does this year because it’s been getting progressively worse with him in charge. Fingers crossed better coaches will have fill in the man management gap in Ralph’s skills, and stop him being so erratic or trying to be too clever. He ends up looking stupid most of the time when he does that. As for goals, it would be a very tough season ahead with the current strike force. Almost certainly relegation or very close to…but it seems that we are going to invest in a decent strike force. Needs to happen, and really should happen in the next week. It is not nearly enough yet.

Total [shit] football. Also, if we are having the same amount of pre-season games as in previous years, but playing experimental sides, when do the first team players get match fit for the start of the season?

Most of the players we have signed are those that none of us really know about, let alone others. Whilst excited by some of the talent we’ve signed, from what we really know, we are still quality players short of being good enough to avoid a relegation battle. The potential might turn into excellence 😆 but we could use a bit of excellence now to make avoiding relegation an easy expectation.

Agreed. Most MLS teams would probably struggle in League One, and the better teams are barely championship level. If someone was banging 40 or more in from all over the place and showing they can shoot early, utterly dominate and be totally unplayable then they’d be worth a look.

I think there’s something there with Diallo although he’s obviously running out of time to prove it, and might benefit from a move to a team where the player in his most obvious position is the first name on the team sheet. In a 5 sub future, the more first team ready players we have, the better. I’d personally see him ahead of the likes of Djneppo, Redmond and Walcott who for the most part sadly offer very little.

Could be a bloodbath on Friday with England v Norn Iron. Friday Bloody Friday.

Can’t disagree but I reckon they’ll be happy to know they have got the players that far…if they make it of course 😎

Paying players (and parents) is something we would struggle to compete with but coaches, not so. There is no reason why we can’t attract the best youth coaches, we just have to be willing to do so. Facilities, similar but ours are good enough for what is needed.

It’s definitely positive. Some of these signings are so young that they will be up and down though. They should get there though so this season will be one of them learning the ropes unless they really are just ready and are future superstars. Another AM and a CF still needed.

Some pretty shocking defending on display but he is confident with shooting and we don’t have many players who offer that.

that’s easy as we were all at home 😎

It’s lovely to see. Am I interested? No, but nowt wrong with it being available for those who will enjoy it.

We appear to finally be doing things properly 👍🏼

Second touch is a tackle

Oh yes. Lots of good suggestions here. I’d raise you to a Pony but been there, done that.

Not British Knights as he’s Belgian

Drugs have been influential in many of the best creative elements of our world so let’s leave the drugs out of this 😎 if anything, it’s the design of someone who wishes they were on drugs but can’t because they do inebriation tests at an outdated workplace.

The ‘brave’ nonsense is such bullshit. It’s a football shirt FFS, not doing something that is facing danger, pain or showing courage without fear. Of this is being brave, then the club is actually a bunch of lightweight scaredy cats.