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Good last point. Its been awhile since Saints picked up low priced EFL players. Dont get me wrong, they may take awhile to get up to speed but why not look locally a little more.

ah, I remember that... #raisethebra

As others have said, this will be dependent on when the monies are owed. I think they'll sell 2 - 4 if the better players and take a gamble on going all out. So I dont they'll be as bad as some people think.

JWP is the epitome of crab football.

Going back to the sash would be great. Think we should make that switch permanently tbh.

The defence doesn't need major work. Bree, manning, Wellington, roerslev, Stephens, wood, quarshie, THB (sold and replaced?), and sansa coming through. Doesn't have to be flash for the championship. Bazunu is left. Ramsdale will leave. A new first choice Keeper is a must. Preferably Peretz 🤷. Midfield sadly I fear for us a bit quality wise. Charles and Jander (both sold and replaced) are almost certainly gone. But at least we'll get paid well for them and they should get replaced with a similar quality of our scouting holds up. It leaves us with Bragg and Downes - clearly lightweight for a 46 game season without major strengthening. Azaz, matsuki, fellows, scienza (sold and replaced?), edozie, and Robinson is okay for the attacking mid/wings - but for me we need one more for quality depth even with scienza staying. Should archer be included here? CF - Larin (signed), Stewart (extended), downs, BBD. It's not bad for the level in truth? But being greedy I'd want one more. Can tonda get the beat out of downs? Anyone know whether there are any more good youth prospects coming through?

We have Manning to take a free kick.

Chorley and Garner were both at Swindon Town together a few years ago. (The same Swindon Town that got kicked out of the EFL Trophy for cheating this season. Coincidence? )

Sometimes I sneak into campsites after sunset and stick an upside down pineapple outside random tents and caravans.

The one who failed at Valenciennes and then somehow earned a promotion to us, no loss. "Rasmus Ankersen — always three steps ahead." So the two relegations are just part of one long plan.

I do it a few times a year, not out of choice though. It's the only means of sleep on our dark sky astronomy trips. Instant access to electricity (to heat the tent) and running water, hot showers, toilets etc, thank fuck though. Pop up tents are a great invention too.

The club seemed to resent having to buy THB and Downes, when we went up. Even though one of them, I'm sure, was an option to buy. They felt it took much more out of their budget than they would have liked. Peretz and Larin showed how important it was to use the loan system. I think that they just didn't like the amount, and wished they could negotiate down, rather than being tied to a value.

We need to play the loan system, was a big mistake not doing so last summer. Thats how we got up last time, and how we improved in January Get 3 or 4 decent loans in and that should negate the 3-4 top level players we will inevitably lose. Cant see us having much cash to spend with PSR and this being year 3 of parachute payments. Maybe £10-£12m depending on how much we get for players. BTW has everyone forgotten about Roslev or are we all agreed that he isn’t very good ??

🎯 Not to mention the pressure exerted on junior staff. This is academic anyway, a 12-18 month ban is coming his way I suspect.

Did he play crab football? I thought he was pre crab football. And from memory his departure coincided with the start of a RM losing streak so perhaps he could do a job at this level. But my memory is crap. I wouldn’t swap him for Jander, but I can’t see any way we would keep Jander.

We send an intern around the country, with set piece tactics high on his list. It's so poorly implemented, that Taylor is fired. We get better at set pieces. Taylor then uses that information to cost us points. There's some ironing there.

This is where I’m at. Still absolutely raging that we did ourselves out of the playoffs in that manner, and Tonda has to own that. But he also got us there in the first place when the season looked a write off by October, and I have absolutely zero faith in SR finding a suitable replacement. They got lucky with Tonda, even if he’s a cheat, we need to own it and focus on what he did well rather than what he did wrong. Just hope the players can be talked round and are up for going again.

And Walcott

Please can we not talk about this guy anymore as he fucked off like Ramsdale. No way in a million years do I want him as a passenger at our club. We need more of where Jander, Larin, Matsuki, Scieza and Peretz came from. All top, top players that lifted us another level or two.

JWP was very decent for us. Like a lot of players, he was fitting into systems a lot of the time. When we pushed him up a little, he looked decent going forward. He was definitely still one of our better players at the start of Martin's tenure. A bit of everything, which helped others a lot. Showed a little by example on the field, but no one was a leader for us off it. No one that stopped there being cliques and nonsense behaviour anyway. He's a player who moved on for a decent sum, and a bigger wage. The SR dream. So, there's no real reason to go back. Not his fault, but I really don't miss the commentator build up, every time he took a free kick, just so it would make the highlights.

Our English spies were crap as well

Why would you think that?

I’m sure I heard on Football Martin’s podcast thing a couple of days ago that he doubts the leak is the correct shirt, because his “sources” said we were going away from traditional stripes. ITK status - pending….

I love the fact we are the headliners with TalkSPORT with this guy leaving. So many people are obsessed with us and we are easily the next Millwall x 10. The comments from this guy is weird regarding Garner. See you soon like he expects him to follow him to his next move? PS Our English scouts have been shit lately and whoever discovered Larin, Matsuki, Jander, Peretz and Scienza deserves a pay raise and a promotion.

There is absolutely nothing in has parting comments 😂 He simply may not have worked closely with him. Remember Tonda is a head coach, I imagine Chorley has more direct links with Rasmus and Spors than the first team. Still, didn’t stop Sky from positing about it like it was some kind of breaking news. Fannies.