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Should make people finally start to appreciate how good he is though

I’d happily concede another 6 if it meant I never had to listen to Don Goodman ever again

Bednarek must be gutted Stephens isn’t playing anymore to take the blame for everything, he’s fucking useless

I couldn’t care less about this result, but I do care that Ralph doesn’t make a sub when we’re 3-0 down after 70 minutes with our most important game for about 3 years on Sunday.

Presumably they’re going to show our penalty claim after the break

Anyone gonna tell Don Goodman that ‘dominance’ doesn’t win any points? He’s doing my head in

Agreed - a strong performance and comfortable win, with key players looking sharp, and I may start to allow myself to get a bit excited for the semi final. It’s the hope that kills you!

I could definitely see the temptation to wrap a couple of players in cotton wool for Sunday but think we’ve just got to go out with our best team to win the game. KWP was a bit rusty against Burnley so could probably do with tonight’s game to get up to speed anyway. We can’t not play him for every game after the semi if we got through, to keep him fit for the final, so might as well just take the chance.

‘The Saganowski Effect’ haha, love that we all have the same comparison in mind when it comes to loan players giving their all for a contract and then turning it in after that. Great player in that loan season.

Since it ‘even out’ i’m hoping we’ve saved all ours up for the FA Cup games, couple of 4-0 wins all goals being penalties seems to be what we’re owed.

I was there for the hat trick too, and I would never have thought it was within 3 minutes at the time - never crossed my mind it would be the record! That third goal was absolutely brilliant from start to finish, they don’t often show the whole build up. Great team that was.

I don’t agree that he’s dropped off, think it’s exaggerated on here massively because he doesn’t bomb forward like KWP constantly, but mainly that option is there to enable the diagonal ball from Vestergaard. But regardless of that, for a club that has to sell to buy, where is the logic in letting a perfectly capable full back go for free, when we already need to buy at least one already?

Really can’t get my head round letting Bertrand go if it’s our choice. It’d be a perfect scenario to have a senior left back with a new understudy in (Williams) to eventually take his place.

Yes, it isn’t something that I would advise anyone to do either, that’s why i’m saying if people just represented what Matt has actually been saying it would be a strong enough case that he’s said some pretty stupid shit. Exaggerating it or twisting it just clouds the whole discussion imo, and causes some to actually side with the people saying said stupid shit.

Always wanted the genuine version of this shirt, but couldn’t part with the money - not a fan of unbranded retro versions, so this is absolutely brilliant!

No he didn’t, he shared an image posted by somebody else that said ‘the people who were protecting Anne Frank were breaking the law, the people who killed her were following it’. The insinuation being that ‘it’s the law’ shouldn’t always be justification that something is right, as i’m sure there are thousands of example throughout history. ‘He compared lockdown to the holocaust’ is the sort of bias bollocks misinformation that is rife at the moment, and naive people lap it up and don’t bother to find out the actual situation. There’s plenty of bollocks Le Tissier has spouted in the past year, so i’m not sure why people need to make stuff up - it was the same with Trump, some of the quotes and headlines were so far from what he actually said, when in actual fact if you just quoted things he actually said, most people would still come to the conclusion he was a fucking idiot anyway.

I’d love to hear you argue that Joelinton is a better player, i’m sure Newcastle fans would be impressed if you managed it.

Joelinton, Benteke, Andy Carroll, Seb Haller (now left), Dwight Gayle, Karlan Grant, Matej Vydra, Danny Welbeck, Neal Maupay, Oli McBurnie, David McGoldrick, Billy Sharp, Aleksander Mitrovic, Wesley, Willian Jose, Fabio Silva, Iheanacho (until the last few matches). These are all strikers who have been playing regularly in the Premier League over the last two seasons, most of whom cost much more than Che, that I would not swap him for. So not sure how it can be determined that he’s ‘not Premier League level’. Even take someone like Ollie Watkins, who cost 3 times more than Che Adams, and has had huge plaudits all season and an England call up - he has only been involved in 3 more goals than Che, which includes a hat trick and a penalty, all whilst being fed by one of the most creative players in the league in Grealish (don’t think he’s scored a goal since he’s been injured). Think people need to temper their expectation of what level of player should be playing for Saints to be honest.

And one we were absolutely shafted in and should’ve got at least a point from, we didn’t even play badly.

Doesn’t Armstrong have a law degree? The ‘footballers are thick’ thing is a bit cliche, in an industry full of people who aren’t employed because of their intellectual ability, you’re going to have a few that are lacking. There’s plenty that aren’t, Patrick Bamford turned down a Harvard scholarship and speaks 5 languages and plays a number of instruments, a few have degrees, plenty have businesses.

Brandon Williams surely will eventually be our first choice LB, it sounds like we’ve been begging for him for about a year now and we don’t seem to be desperate for Bertrand to extend his contract (which I think is a shame). Vestergaard always felt like one of our most saleable assets because we clearly didn’t expect him to be good this season, we signed Salisu and started the season with Stephens, so it’s been a bonus really and we will probably capitalise on that and be able to get a decent fee for him.

He’s really improved with the ball at his feet, and really improved with coming off his line. He’s clearly made huge efforts to improve the parts of his game that were weakest, you can’t ask for more than that. He’s not perfect, but he’s worked hard to get better, and it’s really shown. I’m pleased for him.

Graham Potter won something like 1 home game in a whole calendar year, and he’s still surviving. I personally am glad we have a club who don’t chop and change and are willing to back a longer term view - whether it works or not remains to be seen.

We could really do with the 8mil from Lemina if Fulham stay up i’d imagine, so got to hope they do.

Everyone saying we never beat Burnley are presumably discounting the fact that we won the previous game against them this season...