OldNick

So sad, only now are the Brexiteers seeing the error of their vote. Sadly they will not admit it and will see their dream of an independent UK become, and Independent England that will be miniscule in the big world picture as France and Germany become the real powers the world listen to. All was done with the best intentions in mind but foolhardy. Having the world market sounds great, but try and export to say Brazil and see their import duties and tariffs that are eye watering. I know this from my own experience recently

Interesting that Ralph was praising the fans, yes that old trick to bring the gullible back in line. Lampard does this time and again, they lap it up.

I watched Smallbone play against Watford yesterday, it was a depressingly poor performance by him sadly

I have just vomited over my computer, then I looked at the poster and thought 'Thank god' it won't be true. 😀😀

Where's MLG when I need him? Ohh he's been chased off the board lol

That is a surprise that many. I assume that includes worldy free kicks and penalties. Take those out and what do we have?

Perhaps it also doesn't help when you have your midfield is more interested in playing back or sideways. When do we get a pass slid through for a forward to run onto? Rarely or never, as by the time the ball is going forward the other team have 6 or 7 players back.

Naughty, but perhaps a little grain of truth in that

He came with a reputation of improving young players. I fail to see one that has. I expected his knowledge of the German leagues to bring a few in, but didnt. He has let the more expereinced players leave and now a team like Villa bullied our kids. This will happen in any crunch game as there is not a minder like Oriel to sort the opposition. Many don't like Redmond but Im sure he would have done something in the last 3 games positive. He it seems was too vocal for the dictator that Ralph to my mind seems to be, and so pushed him out

😃 I tried but I was too accurate with my forecasts

I can't see why the worry, the institutions will know all the figures anyway, and the masses will listen to the strapline and then switch over to Strictly or Coronation Street.

obviously, every other club did as we finished so high. You cant go by one season saying 'well we finished on 46 points' and usually that would be rubbish. There are seasons no doubt where we could get 50+ points and finish in the bottom half. Fact is that season 46 points got us 8th place. Some very decent results in amongt , plus some poor ones, aka every bloddy season I have ever watched Saints

I agree, but I wouldnt have any faith in Corbyns lot to have got anywhere. Listening to the rant from the Shadow Chncellor last night also made me uneasy. Using the same tripe as the Brexiteers to gain favour 'We will put all that money into the NHS' ffs. You put 100bn more in and it still would run the same as it is basically poorly run

I do as he would have been able to get players in. All the clubs below 8th would also have to pull their socks up, which of course they did

The 2nd quote was not from me. The 6 of the llast 7 games was as I said where we missed multiple chances in these games

Not sure what you are getting at, but I doubt if you are importing or exporting to see the allied costs that is adding to every product we are buying or selling. All added to the price structure. We are shedding good profitable businesses to Europe as they can sell their goods without the add ons. The shelled fish businesses are relocating to Denmark etc, their profits and taxes going to other exchequers not ours. I have been unable to send much into Europe due to the added costs, and many of my colleagues likewise. It is a mess, perfect storm really Covid, Ukraine, Brexit, Fuel, and commodity prices going up.

No doubt the case, the last 5 or 6 home games were disappointing where game after game we missed siters that piled the pressure on. Tadic missed a penalty to brak that run which would have eased things. Watch a re-run of the Cup final against United and see the quality of football we played. To win both games against Liverpool in the semis as well as some other good football. He didn't get the chance as he only had a season. It was a remarkable thng that we finished comfortably had an amazing cuprunbut still didnt get a chance. IMO it was a shame, many others were happy to bin him. A mistake, but we have marched on

Funny that nobody is mentioning Brexit as part of our inflation. Every import now has massive add ons that gets fed into our pricing. The Ukraine war is part of the problem as well as the food, commodity, and fuel prices are being pushed up. I wonder if the powers that be will eventually put pressure on both sides (im sure Putin would like to find a way out) to end the war, then inflationary pressures can be eased. The West may well get Zelensky onboard by slowing the number of weapons down, so that he has to come to the table. Politics is dirty and you only have to read about how the Americans left the South Vietnamese and Afghans to their own devices to see how this could play out.

The problem is the same that most on here were pointing out, we needed a striker to score goals. Its all very well having these wonderful young players but if you cant put the ball in the net all their work is wasted. Im not too sure who would have been any good for us to score the goals, but we sure need someone. Che may score 8-10 but we need a player who will do more than that. We relied on JWP who had a purple patch with his free kicks last season, these is no way he will score 5 or more goals this season. I do hope your faith does come to pass, but a g0alscorer was/is a must

Perhaps or reliance at all costs on Kane may be a problem

I do understand what you mean, but it has been seen in the past the less you tax the more incentive for people to work and so they produce more profits to give in taxes. I don't like the bankers bonusses, but it seems that in theory the big earners will stay/come to UK as we have had so much slipping away to Europe and especially USA. Its all-knee jerk to the headlines, there is plenty of time for it all to be taken back again once the economy picks up. The biggest concern for me is the £slipping more against the $ as we buy most ofour imports in USD, that will mean goods costing more, adding more to our inflation.

I don't think we lost many of those games but drew 0-0. We missed at least one penalty late in the game that perhaps would have given us victory. I recall many occasions when I read, 'how did he miss that?' on match threads. He got a rough deal with some fans as he couldn't speak good English and didn't come out with funny soundbites.

Im sorry, but this will upset quite a few on here, but JWP is the major reason for this as his first thought is safety first at all costs. If there was data on passing backwards, I suspect he would be top of most lists. I don't wish us to give the ball away but playing no risk, negative passing football means we are not going to create the chances we need to actually score. JWP is obviously a good footballer, but he seems to have a hangover of preseason and perhaps disappointed not to have gone elsewhere

Redmond doesnt look so bad now, does he At least he would have run with the ball and as per last season actually made chances (on par with what JWP did last season) Where are we going to find the striker from? We seemed to get the ball and pass backwards constantly for the keeper to lash up field and then lose possession. The commentators or any on here haven't picked up on Ashley Youngs studs down the leg of Moi, it was a very cynical thing he did, very well disguised, IMO Im sure he meant to do it.

Should have sold him when his stock was high.