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whelk

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Such a Saints fan mentality - woe is us there is a team with 2nd year of parachute payments still in the league. 

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goodymatt

goodymatt

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1 minute ago, sockeye said:

Next year just got a bit tougher

Agreed, 4 parachute teams and the 2 American owned teams with similar commercial revenues. That should be the top 6 but Luton show it’s not that straight forward.

tdmickey3

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10 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

Russell having the audacity to criticise United for not managing the game well 🤦‍♂️

Yep, he really is an absolute prick

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Harry_SFC

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18 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

Agreed, 4 parachute teams and the 2 American owned teams with similar commercial revenues. That should be the top 6 but Luton show it’s not that straight forward.

I'm not sure. Sheffield United weren't as good as their final points tally suggested. My mate is a fan and said they were poor in a lot of games but scraped a large number of wins. 

Football Special

Football Special

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26 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Didn’t see that coming but a cracking goal to win the game. Sheffield United must be gutted.

Wrong, Sheffield United are relieved not to have to live through another season in the top flight that we've just had. 

Football Special

Football Special

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7 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

I'm not sure. Sheffield United weren't as good as their final points tally suggested. My mate is a fan and said they were poor in a lot of games but scraped a large number of wins. 

Yeah they weren't great in a few I saw, but were well organised especially at the back , other than the Bristol City games their end of season form was poor 

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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36 minutes ago, whelk said:

Such a Saints fan mentality - woe is us there is a team with 2nd year of parachute payments still in the league. 

I think most fans of next years promotion hopefuls will be annoyed that the Blades are still in it, they’ve proven themselves to be comfortably better than Sunderland throughout all but the last 45 minutes of this season.

Football Special

Football Special

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38 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

Agreed, 4 parachute teams and the 2 American owned teams with similar commercial revenues. That should be the top 6 but Luton show it’s not that straight forward.

its an odd one with the financial fair play rules. Birmingham have wealthy owners who want to invest but not a big turnover as a business, whereas Wrexham actually have a big income due to Disney documentary that has millions of viewers and sponsorship deals that arise from that, having had three successive promotions they'll have to change a lot of the squad now 

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ErwinK1961

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42 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

Russell having the audacity to criticise United for not managing the game well 🤦‍♂️

I know right, come back when you’ve seen out a 1-0 win in a playoff final Russ FFS!

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whelk

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6 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I think most fans of next years promotion hopefuls will be annoyed that the Blades are still in it, they’ve proven themselves to be comfortably better than Sunderland throughout all but the last 45 minutes of this season.

I understand the logic but they aren’t all that and absolutely no guarantee they will continue in same way next season. If we are going to be any good we don’t need to fret over one other team.

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whelk

whelk

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40 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Yep, he really is an absolute prick

So as a pundit he is meant to not criticise because someone could lay the same thing on him?  The anger towards Martin by some fans is pathetic. This time last year was superb and he was key to that. Obviously he was shite in the PL but FFS give the bloke a break 

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Lighthouse

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3 minutes ago, whelk said:

I understand the logic but they aren’t all that and absolutely no guarantee they will continue in same way next season. If we are going to be any good we don’t need to fret over one other team.

Nothing’s guaranteed but the last two years somebody has finished third on 90 points and not been promoted. You can be a flippin’ good team and still not go up, so I’ll take any help we can get.

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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31 minutes ago, whelk said:

So as a pundit he is meant to not criticise because someone could lay the same thing on him?  The anger towards Martin by some fans is pathetic. This time last year was superb and he was key to that. Obviously he was shite in the PL but FFS give the bloke a break 

FWIW I don’t hate him but I do think he is a prick

Pamplemousse

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From a footballing point of view, annoying as Sheff Utd will be a bigger threat.

From a match going perspective, brilliant because a trip to Sunderland is fucking long. Even longer when you lose 5-0...

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The Kraken

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16 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

From a footballing point of view, annoying as Sheff Utd will be a bigger threat.

From a match going perspective, brilliant because a trip to Sunderland is fucking long. Even longer when you lose 5-0...

Christ they battered us that game. Jack Clarke tore us a new one.

S-Clarke

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Sunderland won that in 15 mins, the rest of the game they were second best.

Based on that, without significant investment and squad churn, they will be absolute fodder. They should enjoy the day though, like we did! But it will probably be short lived.

It's terrible news for us though as it means the carthorse that is BBD is back on the scene. I've never disliked a player as much as him.

 

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Gloucester Saint

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20 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Sunderland won that in 15 mins, the rest of the game they were second best.

Based on that, without significant investment and squad churn, they will be absolute fodder. They should enjoy the day though, like we did! But it will probably be short lived.

It's terrible news for us though as it means the carthorse that is BBD is back on the scene. I've never disliked a player as much as him.

 

BBD needs to get fit at least, carthorse cameo today and overall has had three very bad spells at clubs on the trot now. He’s a limited player but can be effective at Championship level, a Russell Martin pre-season just focusing on ball retention especially didn’t work for him.

In my worst ever top flight Saints XI though. 

Gloucester Saint

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2 hours ago, whelk said:

I understand the logic but they aren’t all that and absolutely no guarantee they will continue in same way next season. If we are going to be any good we don’t need to fret over one other team.

I think Spors and Still have a huge body of work to do over the next two months or so, Sheff Utd in the mix isn’t helpful but Hamer may be sold and Saints need a summer of more going right than wrong. Hopefully they take the mindset of needing to raise the bar further than they thought and take the tough decisions on Bazanu, Smallbone etc to build a smaller squad with far more quality for the level we’re at.

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Roo1976

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12 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

BBD needs to get fit at least, carthorse cameo today and overall has had three very bad spells at clubs on the trot now. He’s a limited player but can be effective at Championship level, a Russell Martin pre-season just focusing on ball retention especially didn’t work for him.

In my worst ever top flight Saints XI though. 

BBD is still yet to be in a side to win a premiere league game i think....................

Football Special

Football Special

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1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Sunderland won that in 15 mins, the rest of the game they were second best.

Based on that, without significant investment and squad churn, they will be absolute fodder. They should enjoy the day though, like we did! But it will probably be short lived.

It's terrible news for us though as it means the carthorse that is BBD is back on the scene. I've never disliked a player as much as him.

 

Behave, he had a few months in a terrible Saints team playing in a position where he hardly saw of the ball. We've wasted plenty of money on players in recent times, some with much worse attitudes, in fact ABK would be much higher up the list of dislike 

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Andrew Watson

Andrew Watson

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Great for Sunderland,my second team since the mid sixties,due to Jim Montgomery. [ I remember Monty being on loan to Saints in 1975, for a month [ 4 games ].

Also great to see Aberdeen win the scottish cup.

Colinjb

Colinjb

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6 hours ago, ErwinK1961 said:

I know right, come back when you’ve seen out a 1-0 win in a playoff final Russ FFS!

Let him come back when he owns the tactical changes that he apparently didn't make.

Colinjb

Colinjb

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6 hours ago, whelk said:

So as a pundit he is meant to not criticise because someone could lay the same thing on him?  The anger towards Martin by some fans is pathetic. This time last year was superb and he was key to that. Obviously he was shite in the PL but FFS give the bloke a break 

This time last year I respected him for showing some adaptability.

He is arrogant enough to try and say he changed nothing, it was all the same apparently. Total fucking idiot worthy of all criticism heading his way. 

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