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Maybe, but surely he's the worst pound for pound ... almost £20 million in 2018 money. Compared to about £7 million in today's money for Downs. No contest IMHO.

Just wonder how many games he’s going to get. I get the feeling Tonda will settle for a Wood / Deven S pairing as first choice. If one of those guys needs replacing I reckon he’ll pick Stephens for experience, suggesting we’d need to be in deep trouble to call on Abbott.

What’s the betting they target Manning’s side knowing full well that eventually he’ll switch off and they’ll get a cross or six onto the head of their 6’8” striker. Our CB pairing will be busy I reckon.

He formulated that particular wheeze from Mrs Dean, who used to see how much micro Mike she could endure before laughing or falling asleep. Her record was 25 seconds.

We played them at SMS in the Carabou cup in December 2022. It was Mad Nate's first game in charge and we won 2-1, after they took the lead within two minutes when Baz punched the ball into his own net from a sliced clearance. https://youtu.be/cgSajaFHuZY?is=Sn-r3Jv4hfjx8As5

Any chance of some free agents signing ?

Already been touched on by others, but GC at least looked like he had played at some kind of level before, and I seem to remember seeing him occasionally win a header or complete a pass. DD literally looked like he had just been scouted from the local park. Had absolutely no idea where he was supposed to be, ducked out of every challenge, and if the ball did come to him it invariably just bounced back off him.

Yes, and there's that nagging question: Did we have to sell him? But loyalty in football (both from a player and club perspective) is a thing of the past. He could have been instrumental in our promotion push, become club captain in the premier league and who knows. But football just sees ££££ signs nowadays. Instead, there are already signs that the grass is greener.

Like someone else said. They are fucking shit and we will batter them.

That was at the same time Pellegrino was manager, he’d managed Carrillo before and six weeks after he signed we sacked him. Kruger came out and said that they’d be thinking about sacking him for a while but every time they did he got a positive result. We were literally being run week by week in those times some utterly pathetic leadership

Yep...only 3 CB's picked, plus a couple who can do a job there. Don't get that at all.

And the rest. 1 in 4. How anybody at Southampton football club thought that’s what we needed in a relegation fight is mental.

Looks like he may have been left out of Villa's CL squad...very odd.

Double D absolutely meant that assist. He was on another level to the other players that was his issue. It was like when Papa Waigo was always offside because his mo movement was so good the other players were good enough to pick out his runs. Double D is the same the balls into him weren’t good enough and when he did manage to win one the other players couldn’t read his flick ons

Goal every other game wasn’t he?

No chance. It was a terrible signing but at least he looked like a professional footballer. That was just a shit, panic signing. We needed someone to score goals and he’s never been a prolific goalscorer in his life. Downs looked like he’d never seen a football before.

While I've noticed he tends to be better when the ball is on the ground, surely he can work on headers and controlling the ball at chest height. Of more concern is his natural instinct. JWP did some crosses at Brum and Mubama was nowhere near getting to the ball. If the ball is bouncing loosely around in penalty area, you feel Larin will get a foot on it .... but Mubama doesn't seem to be in the right place. But it's early days and his attitude looks good.

Let's see. Eckert was adamant he would play before the break. If he was close to being involved I wouldn't have expected away on Lincoln's pitch to be the return game anyway. Probably targeting a home game, so perhaps Bristol City at St Mary's

Can anyone remember the last time we played Lincoln? I went to see them at the Dell once around 1986/87 it was the second leg of what was then called the Littlewoods Cup Saints won 3-1 I remember little else about it other than the Lincoln goalkeeper said thank you to the fans every time they threw the ball back onto the pitch when it went behind. Just checked it was 1988/89 season I went to every home game in the league cup that season. We beat Scarborough 1-0 in the next then Spurs at home 2-1 before losing 2-1 in a reply v luton in extra time. A controversial refereeing decision robbing us of a goal in normal time which would have put us though. Rod Wallace supposedly fouling a Luton defender in the build up, a terrible decision

Exactly. We've got Lincoln, Swansea, Bristol City and Wrexham before the international break and three of them (at least) will be eyeing the play-offs so we need to give ourselves every chance of beating them. And then the players can be rested for a couple of weeks.

At least he meant his assist... Double D however.....

People need to vote off the “regret” of selling Dom Ballard. A year ago no one batted an eyelid. If he was given a new four year deal and was made to be our starting striker everyone would’ve kicked off. People need to move on now.

The fee Les Reed paid for him is not his fault, and at least he knew how to kick a ball, you know, you could see he was an actual footballer even if not up to the required standard.

Wade, do you get paid for these motivational speeches that get pinned on the opposition changing room wall? 😉

Excreted nugget of what!?