East Kent Saint

Unfortunately to stop Covid and more importantly prevent worse varients of covid a high take up on vacine is required . The damage to children from measles after the MMR jab was falsly said to cause autism shows the damage that can be done . That Dr that faked his research about MMR was supported by Trump and was / is still spreading his antivac message in America , that made Trump's latest stance supporting the Cov vaccine interesting. Polio has been nearly eliminated from the world not helped by some groups branding the polio jab a western plot to sterilise the local population. If not being vacinated only affected that person then that's would be their choice but it affects other people as well so it is important to inocculate as many as possible .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56424614 Matt needs to do more 'research' as Foggy put it ! Ha Ha

Agreed !

Derby takeover cancelled by current owner .....

3 points or FA Cup progress ? 3 points for me ! The FA Cup has been devalued by the big teams , reserve sides and for some reason “it’s a piece of silverware” to put in the cabinet attitude rather than a respected competition.

I thought he said the 2nd half plan wasn’t executed by the players ! In fact Brighton prevented our plan imho !

I thought he was prevented from using money by Xi who decided that Chinese business couldn’t export money to buy football clubs etc after all . GAO then had to borrow money outside of China to finance the deal .

I seem to remember when Poch and Koeman were in charge during a losing run they were said to have no plan B as well !

I think in the normal course of events the owner would be kicking arses and the manager/players might respond but what are the sanctions? He could sack Ralph but not the players and who would be manager now ? We are in the prem now but only a second rate manger would be take charge .

My point is who would want to manage Saints at the moment? No money so you can’t bring in your own support team as was the norm . No money to buy players that are better than the ones here already . You might get an old dinosaur manager on a one year contract or a total unknown from lower euro leagues but who do you think would come here , seriously ?

It’s no good changing the manager when what’s needed are some better players . Big Sam is saying they can’t really improve without a few better players. The chances of getting any better players with no money and with the club still for sale are slim indeed .

Forster just can’t get down to those , as we know but why wasn’t Vest marking Dunk ? All the sideways and backward passing was mainly due to Brighton getting back and defending in depth , cutting out options. We did look ineffective in the second half and a lot of head shaking etc at every mistake teammates made .

A classic , on live terrestrial TV , playing a team that can’t win , we were bound to play them back into form from our past history ! Brighton aren’t that bad , they set up after half time and defended well , saw redmond / Bertie were the main plan of attack and doubled up on it , to cap it all Lala finally played a good 90 mins for them !

Is having 2 men on the posts a corners in the same category as the long ball game ? They might be better employed than standing in the box watching Dunk head it in via a Forster no go area ha ha !

Players look good playing in a system that suits them , when they step up and suddenly asked to be lone striker or play left side rather than right side etc they look crap . Having said that selling teams hear Chelski and say GK that will be £70M please !

He’s come along way since his debut, described at the time as lightweight, no obvious position to play in etc on here ! MLT was , according to an “evening with” I attended , easy going , no fan of training or Hoddle , happy to be still paid if dropped so I didn’t get the impression he was over ambitious. After all Steve Williams didn’t do so well after his move to Arsenal !

VAR has slowed the game , spoiled celebrating and caused more controversy than the on field refs so far . Failed to solve penalty decisions and turned offsides into a ridiculous lottery based on parts of the body. Goal line tech works , no dispute .

Injury comebacks AND Covid recovery , I know people on here disregard Covid effects but other teams have shown that it is a major factor .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56324875 Is there a search facility for threads that are several pages back ??

And made a disallowed goal ! He’ll be over the moon !

A bit like Walcott re time to think about it !

In the last 5 results for each team in the Prem each team has at least one win except one ? Yes you guessed it !

I thought he would be OK as sub giving an option and harassing up front but getting the contract seems to have scrambled his “brain”

He still had a role when retained BUT he regressed to a caricature after he signed . Offside , total failure of first touch , never played anyone in etc !

Typical maybe of a player who wants to do well but nothing comes off so vents his frustration on his team mates . Saints need some quality players to drag the youngsters up a level .