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Finally, the right decision! But if he had any shred of decency he would have resigned. Yet another legacy of the Johnson era. Sadly we still have to wait a while before we can vote out this corrupt, self serving bunch of miscreants.

These threads used to be places to avoid when we lost. Now it seems best avoided even when we win. A bit part team low on confidence avoid a potential banana skin and are in the hat again in the FA Cup but reading hear you would think we had lost. From now until the end of the season I will take any kind of win we can get, stuff the standard of football. The same happened under Puel. Moan moan moan yet we finished eight and played brilliantly against United in a cup final. Time to drop the self entitlement. Every year it gets harder for teams of our size to compete in the EPL. This year’s relegation battle is affecting teams up to just below that half way mark. Teams as big as Everton and West Ham are in the mix. We ought to be grateful for any wins we can grind out, not moaning because we aren’t playing like world champions.

Classic Delldays/Batman post. You have to admire his staying power and consistency. I guess that means that Duckie will be returning to his job as Nigel Farage’s personal fluffer.

I’m not so sure. There are parachute payments and I’m sure the players contracts have relegation clauses in them. He is a Saints man through and through. Yes, he might leave, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see him stay and try and get us back up.

Why will we struggle? We have two proven goalscorers from the Championship and Mara looks like he could do well there too. We also have a very experienced manager from that division. I think we would be very competitive there, but that is our problem, we are currently more of a decent Championship team that an EPL team.

Not seen a game since Lincoln thanks to streaming issues so was delighted to find a stream that worked so I could see the match last night. Very poor first half but we looked a lot better when Armstrong came on. So many passes went astray or out of play. Better second half but Newcastle missed a raft of sitters and always looked dangerous as DCC was having a mare and was left exposed to often. Charley looks quality and Mara looks like he will decent but could probably do with more game time in the B team before he is ready to start. I know many people were fed up with Ralph rotating the ball around the back 4 but it denies the other team possession and we gave Newcastle the ball so often with aimless punts up field that I was praying for a bit of keep ball to give the defence a break. Couldn’t believe the handball decision against us. Once upon a time it had to be deliberate, which this wasn’t, but there we go. On the plus side we did show that we can break through their defence so if we can keep a clean sheet up there (🤪) and someone finds their shooting boots, who knows?

I think he said that if we couldn’t find better players he would be happy to work with what he has got. Fair point. We really don’t want it need another Carrillo do we?

Can you fake a scan? I also recall several people insisting something was “up” with Stuart Armstrong and the club but guess what, there isn’t and he has a genuine long term injury.

Really? Armstrong and Adams can score goals in the Championship. If we do go down I wouldn’t be surprised to see us come back up within one or two seasons.

Used to spend hours in record booths trying to decide on which album to buy next with what little money I had to spend. My mate was into CS&N so I got to hear the first two albums a lot at his house whilst I was spending my paper round money on Deep Purple, ELP, Yes and Genesis so he would come round to ours to listen to them. Strange now to have everything on my phone but sadly I think music has lost a lot of its allure and romance now that it is so widely and instantly available. As crap as vinyl was (god knows how many times I had to take a record back to the shop because it was scratched and getting up to turn the record over every 20 mins was a faff) the album covers were an integral part of the music experience, something now lost through streaming. The 60’s and 70’s was such a wonderful era for music and the creative arts in general and I feel grateful for growing up in those times. David Crosby is yet another legend from that period to pass following Jeff Beck not so long ago. So sad to see heroes from your youth gradually leaving the stage.

Adam Armstrong also looked like Danny Ings in the Championship. Perhaps this loan has helped Tella develop, which is the plan with loans. As to whether he can deliver this form in the EPL, that is not a given and only time will tell.

By all accounts not the most likeable of people, but responsible for a lot of wonderful music with The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Young and others. RIP

Typical Duckie, looking for any opportunity to have a pop at someone he has got it in for just because I have called him out for being a Farage/UKIP brown noser. It seemed pointless making any comments a few games in, especially as there was some much vitriol flying around, but it is interesting that you still feel the need to have a dig even when you agree with me. Oh, and for the record, my comments had nothing to do with the three wins which you would know if you had bothered to read my post properly instead of rushing to post another silly response which misses my point entirely.

This is the issue though. The bloke has been here 5 minutes and gets crucified for a poor performance when he is still finding his way. It’s the same for new signings, if they don’t start brilliantly they are instantly labelled as useless and a bad buy (Mane being a perfect example). He wasn’t the worst manager in the world when he first started and he isn’t the greatest manager in the world now, but we won’t know how this is going to play out for a while, so why not just give the guy a chance? It’s the same on here after every defeat or poor performance, it is the end of the world and someone has to be hung out to dry. Two big well established clubs are struggling with us at the moment which just goes to show how difficult it is to compete in the EPL. None of us has the divine right to win football matches and although it is frustrating when things aren’t going well, the amount of vitriol and abuse thrown at people who are just trying to do their jobs and turn things round when they aren’t going well is often off the scale. Climbing the table involves everyone pulling together and getting behind the club. Calling for the new manager to be sacked after a handful of games really wasn’t great. The owners have obviously seen something in him and have trusted him to do the job, the least we can do is to stop abusing him (“chippy little Welsh twat” 🙄) and to give him a chance to show what he can do over the rest of the season.

Maybe the “chippy little Welsh twat” knows what he is doing after all! Perhaps, by the end of the season, Duckie will be pimping him out to his sisters? 😎

Thank you for pointing out my typo (not quite in the same league as kicking off on social media about the NHS employing 8000 diversity managers though is it? 😉)

Which doesn’t in anyway detract from my point. Ever since there have been transfer windows how often do clubs announce signings in the first few days of a new window? If you were an agent why would you suggest to your client that it was a good idea to sign for a club very early on without testing the market unless it was one of the bigger clubs? Even then it is not usual for transfers to be done very early on. Agents know we are desperate for a striker so you can imagine the leverage that gives them when looking for the best package going, not to mention the stronger position that puts the selling club in when it comes to price. Yes it is frustrating, but it is the nature of the business and I am sure the owners would prefer to get players in sooner than rather later, just as we do.

I expect if it was that easy and straightforward for a club of our size to get the player in that we want at the price we want straight away then it would have happened. There seems to be this perception that no one at the club starts to think about transfers until the day the windows open. They have made it clear that they are always working on transfer possibilities, the reason these players don’t magically appear on the opening days of the window is because it is not that easy to attract the quality you want when so many other clubs are competing for similar players and you don’t have the budget of Manchester City. Any agent worth his salt will hold out for the best deal for his client. We have to wait until we become the best deal.

What makes this particularly funny is that you can imagine him being one of the first to take the piss out of Diane Abbott when she got her figures wrong.

Good to read a sensible post at last. Sadly the knee jerk reactionary blowhards in our society (a few of whom post here regularly) suck up the rubbish printed by the likes of the Mail, the Sun and the feeders on Twitter and regurgitate this rubbish on social media a daily basis so that eventually this nonsense becomes “fact”. A bigger issue than management numbers in the NHS is how many people waste time spreading disinformation on social media when they are being paid to do a job 😏

Not now knowing the correct response to the question “does my bum look big in this”. Once upon a time it was a given. If you valued your life or didn’t want to risk the ire of your partner for the rest of the day there was only one answer, “no” (no matter if the said posterior looked nice and pert or, to quote the Divine Comedy, “the size of a small country”). Now that larger arses seem to be in vogue, what do we answer now? Is the response expected by our partner a “yes”? Not a question that I expected to be wrestling with in later life, but it seems that you are never too far away from a disastrous social faux par when it comes to commenting on your other half’s appearance.

It’s weird isn’t it? Despite the perceived wisdom by many internet Saints fans that no manager or player worth their salt would ever join us because we are such a shit club, they still do. Go figure. 😉

Souness’s comments brought a tear to my eye. It is always interesting to see tributes about people who achieved things, but to focus so much on what a great human being he was was truly touching. RIP

“Stitched up by a bird”. Yet again Duckie, you show that you don’t know what you are talking about (the “bird” in question did not bring the action against Evans, the CPS did and as you know, a jury initially found him guilty after considering the evidence) and show why you were so easily sucked in by Farage and UKIP. There is absolutely no comparison between these cases. Try engaging your brain for a change (what’s left of it after years of drug abuse) before posting.

Batman won’t be happy about this. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/03/eleanor-williams-lied-grooming-gang-guilty-perverting-justice