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Pretty sure he was called up for the last internationals and ended up withdrawing - expect it’ll be the same this time around too.

His dead balls so far this season have been absolutely shocking. He looks a completely different player to the one from last season. Two corners today didn’t get past the first man, and one didn’t get higher than about 3 feet off the ground and was promptly cleared. Someone suggested he’s playing injured in which case forget his record of continuous PL minutes and give the lad a rest.

I’ve read that before on he that he might resign. When has a manager ever resigned and walked away from the massive payoff that comes with the sack. He’s here to stay, until we finally push the button and get rid. If it’s ok for people to mention that Norwich have lost their last 16 premier league games (which includes their 19-20 results) then they need to apply the same logic to us. We’ve been fucking dreadful since January, have won what 4 games since then? I’ve no idea how Ralph has survived that run, managers have been sacked for much worse. He’s not improving us, we’re going nowhere, except down, and it’s time the club get some balls and do what’s required. I still believe we’ve got the players to stay up this season, but not with the starting XI Ralph chooses, nor the formation.

I know right - god I hope it’s just first game nerves 😳

PSG fans and even Messi turning on Poch already. Might he be sacked and return to Spurs once Nuno inevitably gets sacked soon? A panic appointment if ever there was one, seeing as everyone else turned them down. Perhaps Nuno will end up back at Wolves as part of the merry go round. Props to Brighton today too btw - what a start to the season they’ve had.

Watched the last 30 minutes of the women’s game tonight and it was enough to see how embarrassing the gulf in class is between England and North Macedonia. Fair play to England they played some decent stuff, the assist for the 6th goal was a worldie. Can’t wrap my head around just why women goalkeepers are so fucking awful though, that’s not me being sexist, they really are dreadful. Audible Bruce out chants at the end of the Newcastle game, really don’t know what their fans expect, they’ve got an owner that wants to sell so will just put in enough cash to keep them up, and they’ve got a manager that will do just that, keep them bobbing around the lower mid table mark. Their fan base have delusions on par with Spurs and Everton fans about their place in the footballing world.

You’d never hear the end of it from some of our entitled fans if we started giving away free tickets when people have had to pay for season tickets, even if it was only to kids. Get the young ones in now and you can keep them tied in the the club for life. Maybe have kids for a quid when an adult pays or something similar to get bums on seats. Don’t know our pricing for the late teen, young adult demographic but this should be affordable too - need the “lads” to help the atmosphere home and away, especially if we were to go down. Have to say fair play to Leeds and Leicester for their pricing this season. Whilst £53 is still too high to watch a game of football in my eyes it’s a darn sight better value then watching us. At least those clubs are actually trying to achieve something special.

As Captain JWP is going to start every game he’s fit by default, even though with a fully fit side he wouldn’t make my starting line up as free kicks aside I don’t think he actually contributes that much. I’d have been happy to take the £50 mill and make Stuart Armstrong team captain.

Don’t get the big hoohah about losing the 100% record in the group stage - it means absolutely fuck all once you qualify. Didn’t we do that recently and then have a shocker of a tournament? Either way, we’re gonna finish top and a point away at Poland isn’t a bad result.

Was my initial thought, seemed to duck out the way initially instead of diving towards the ball.

Always makes me laugh when people bank on the opponent having a European tie, cup tie, or players in a long haul international fixture that is going to result in giving us some kind of advantage - we’re Saints, we never get the fucking edge. Ever. It works against us but never for us, in all my years of watching this sorry lot. Honestly the opponents could come down with the shits the night before and we’d still struggle. They could travel from New Zealand 48 hours before the game and still beat us. West Ham could be in Kazakhstan Thursday, have a semi final Tuesday, and Antonio would still rawdog the shit out of our back line. Id happily take a score draw now if offered.

Yeah maybe - perhaps I’ve done the guy a massive disservice based on what we saw of him when he played for us previously, and he was a complete fish out of water. He shone at Celtic, and the fans were disappointed to see him go - it’s hard to compare his Celtic spell with that of Armstrong as Stu was part of a side steam rolling everyone where as Moi was part of a team very much in transition. I don’t want the guy to fail - I just don’t want the club to be complacent and assume because he had an ok spell out on loan that we don’t need to recruit back up.

Shines in the SPL, and shines against League 2 opposition. There’s a connection there… Well played tonight none the less, but answer to a problem this guy isn’t.

Jermaine Pennant did it at Arsenal, no prizes for guessing which team suffered the embarrassment…..

The gentleman drummer. What a legend. …and then there were 3 ☹️. edit: extra legend points to the man for dressing in red and white when they played St Marys a few years back….

They won’t be gracious enough for that, they’re going to absolutely fucking raw dog us. Wonder how bad it would have to get for those in attendance to start turning their anger towards the dugout and executive box.

1. That’s bollocks 2. Wanyama was twice the player Prowsey is, and we never did replace him properly.

If that what it looks like for Man United wait until Norwich and Burnley come to town. Good, hopefully show the idiots in charge the error of their ways.

Starting to wonder if McCarthy is a mute. Never hear him bellowing to organise his defence, and when we concede a stupid goal as a result of our error he just has this look of “oh well, never mind” about him. People say it’s counter productive, but when the defence fucks up I want to see a keeper up on their feet given said players a good fucking rollicking, A good goalie should behave like a second captain, and help marshall that back line, it’s absolute basics.

I have zero faith in this team or management anymore. I know it’s only 1 game in but for me it’s just rolled over from last season. Us 1 - 6 Utd.

Same shit different season, combine our opening day record and our record at Goodison and it was never going to be a good day was it. Go 1 up, play well, concede against the run of play and collapse like a fucking Jenga tower. We’re just so mentally fucking weak. We’re like someone being tortured for information that gives up just having their feet tickled. Honestly it’s been an issue now for years, we’ve got as much backbone as a fucking worm.

Almost as bad as when we gave the first post MLT number 7 shirt to Andrej Kanchelskis.

Regardless of their issues or fans lack of belief for the season I’m still saying home banker, 3-0, and this forum promptly implodes.

Suppose you could argue the point that not only is Danny the reason Ralph still has a job, he’s probably the reason we’re still a Premier League club - in fact I’d say without his goals we’d have been fucked quite frankly. So aside from the transfer fee we’ve received he’s probably helped the club earn over £200 million in revenue. Not bad business really.

Alex Crook - the Les Reed of football journalists.