All Activity

Firstly, I'm not defending Still for one second.... But statements like this are just ridiculous. You have no idea what was said behind closed doors!? Maybe Still was also telling the board that Bazunu wasnt good enough, maybe they listened and started looking at Peretz who wasnt available at that time, etc and told him they would work on bringing one in for him in January, but make do for now and see how it goes (which they did). You have no idea either that Tonda didn't rate Bazunu and demanded a quick change, as others have said, the managers have less say than ever in these things.

Driving up for us, any good tips for car parks that are not miles from stadium?

On evidence of previous transfer windows it can be seen how the manager can influence the incoming and outgoing players. That influence may have waned with Spors a more experienced DoF and Tonda a less experienced manager but I’d expect the manager to be involved in the process. Unfortunately for Saints, finances will have a big part to play in who joins when but you’re right, experienced keeper and striker were the big ticket players to bring in sooner.

Will be a hell of a game if so.

Yup also still had to cope with the changes like having matty fernandes etc at the start of the season then having a different squad after the window

I dont think many will go that way, most that i know travelling are going up night before or at least doing some of the journey Friday stopping on the way. Trying to rely on the trains to get to Preston by midday is too risky!

Rooster is very funny

Err maybe he doesn’t listen to Saintsweb predictions and the hysterical Mail, Telegraph, Express and Times desperate for it to happen

Trains are going to be rammed...! Only 3 from Sou that get to Preston before KO.

I hope these feeble cunts don’t bet on anything. Not great at forecasting

Yeah I’ll put this one with the imminent united Ireland prediction.

Could be player comps from all the players who have now been told they'll be rested. When did we last take 5,500 that far up north? Obviously usually smaller allocations, perhaps Wigan in the FA Cup but that was a bit smaller

Yes I am. Very late sending these out. Edited 14 minutes ago by Mboto Gorge I’ve phoned ticket office - tickets were apparently posted last week. Been advised that if not received by /on Friday to phone again on Friday and will be put on a list to pick up duplicate tickets from Preston ticket office on Saturday. Anyone experienced this before? I’d hate to travel all that way and there be any problem. I took a screenshot of my online booking receipt and reference. So if you show them that with all your correct details there shouldn’t be a problem I’d imagine. That’s what I’ll do if I don’t receive mine by Friday

Assume the conspiracy twats so desperately wanting to believe rent boys, affairs of Starmer etc. will be all over this story. Personally I think Starmer had a torrid affair with El Money and this was his revenge for being dumped. Truth will be out soon eh eh https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/starmer-arson-attack-el-money-court-b2967192.html

I’m still looking forward to this, shame about a 12:30 kick-off but still enough riding on this game to keep it competitive. Club have just released a few more tickets in the first small end block, must be ones not taken up by staff.

I can't decide about team selection so I'm leaving it to Tonda this week. My feelings include the usual....worried about tiredness/injuries, wanting to finish 4th if we can, rather end with a win etc etc. I haven't counted but estimate we've got around 20 players who can do a very good job, maybe 16/17 of those we can totally rely on and they play regularly. Of course that includes ones we really need for the Play Offs. I would consider having a few more of the more regular starters on the bench (Bree, Scienza, Charles, THB, Azaz, Larin) for varying reasons. But I don't want to see anyone left home unless injured, or too much change that makes a result hard to achieve.

Ok, but (I don't know what your angle is particularly) but from my opinion, if we have Spors/ whoever who manages the transfer window and gets the players in and builds the squad (his words I believe??) then it can't be Still's fault, just like you can't give all the credit to Tonda for the Jan window. Clearly the Jan window was off the back of a dreadful first half of the season, and between them (whoever was involved) they went a different direction. Weirdly, what the fans had been saying all last season and all summer, we needed a proper keeper, and we needed a proper CF to replace Che Adams, they finally did that wth Larin.

I watch John Oliver most weeks, i like him. I just wish he was funnier more often rather than 15 full minutes on the judiciary system in Ohio or some other thing. When he was on The Bugle podcast he was consistently brilliant. He could just do more jokes in my opinion.

30 minutes ago, Divergent said: Yes I am. Very late sending these out. Edited 14 minutes ago by Mboto Gorge I’ve phoned ticket office - tickets were apparently posted last week. Been advised that if not received by /on Friday to phone again on Friday and will be put on a list to pick up duplicate tickets from Preston ticket office on Saturday. Anyone experienced this before? I’d hate to travel all that way and there be any problem.

Honestly insane. Any manager or player would want the second leg (plus potential extra time and penalties) to be at their home ground. Tonda included. He wont be saying anything like your made up quote unless we fail and we're fifth and we have to get on with it. Absolutely not "some fan thing".

Of course won’t be anything to do with Islamic hate and all to do with those bad Israel people

Agree with views on all three. John Oliver is poor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3ve2nr60xzt

I dunno when i went there last time we got promoted i was surprised by how much it had improved as a city, seemed to be a lot of development there, especially around the university. Some good spots to both eat and drink i thought and pretty similar to southampton in many ways. One thing i hope if it's Boro is that we manage to find a way of beating our North East curse, because i dread every game in that corner of the country and our record there is appalling