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The likes of Bournemouth and Brighton have been able to spend the transfer money wisely and actually maintained/improved the strength of their squads. They may both end up in the same situation as Saints did when they received decent money from the sale of Van Dyke/Mane etc and wasted it on crap buys.

Learning by playing or learning by watching?

Agree. He either signs a new deal (unlikely) or is sold in this window. We've let players contracts run down far too often recently.

I think the chances of us turning a profit on THB this summer are low, he is quite someway off being ready for the Premier League.

Largely agree - assuming a back 4, we’ll probably have Sanda as 5th choice, Wood 4, Stephens 3, Edwards 2 and either THB (preferred but unlikely), Jan (I’m done with him), ABK (please go) or AN Other as 1st choice. Shea Charles can also fill in as an emergency. LB we’ll have Wellington plus one of Manning, Taylor or Latinos (I think I’d prefer Taylor but think he’ll be off) RB for championship I reckon Sugawara would be fine and with Bree as cover we’d be good for this position but if the Italian rumours are true he’ll be gone and we’ll need a replacement. Shame as I think championship football would play to Suga’s attacking strengths and enable him to work on developing his defensive side; he’s just been far too exposed in a struggling side in this league. Either way I think the defence is fine for the championship without too much work. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the rest of the pitch.

From ‘We’ll drop all tariffs and trade with everybody’ to never backing Brexit - ‘we’re an education charity strongly supporting EU membership’ - IEA are hilarious. 🤣 Never has a shadily-funded think tank been so wrong so consistently. Next they’ll ferret away from the Truss budget

THB will be off almost certainly if SR can turn a sufficient profit and the player has changed agent which is usually a sign, Bednarek ditto if Roma are still in the picture. Agree on Stephens and the market is very limited for him and the clubs who might want him can’t afford the wages so he stays as back-up with Wood. ABK - who knows?! So probably a first choice CB coming in alongside Edwards. Full backs - Bree probably stays unless Charlton come up in the POs and rejoin Jones. Wellington and Manning LWBs, Taylor like ABK unknown, Larios the Milk Carton missing kid apparently has interest from Spain. Sugawara off though - Napoli or the Italian volleyball team interested. KWP 100% off, so probably a new RWB.

No way? I had Glasgow down as Heisenberg and "love and light" 😅

Would love to see him being given a chance alongside THB next season. Chances are that bednarek is going to leave given rumoured interests - a shame as ability wise I'd rather we kept bednarek out of Stephens and him. ABK still kicking around but will surely be gone this summer? We've got woods and that young french kid as additional squad depth as well, so not too shabby at CB. Full/wing back wise, we've got bree, sugawara, wellington, Taylor, and manning. Not setting the world alight, but also good enough for most championship teams - so defensively we look okay without too much major work to be done?

If he doesn't sign a new contract the club will pretty much have to sell this summer to maximise value. Similarly there isn't much point developing him for a year only for him to leave in the cheap next summer.

It comes down to whether anyone makes a sensible offer. "Ditching" isn't an option. I expect someone will make a reasonable enough bid for Jan and we'll keep Stephens for "character" and versatility.

Sale and loan back? The important thing, if he is going to be here, is to play him as a wide right forward. Not a weird false striker or inside right. 4231 innit.

That's sad Colbury was a right laugh. I think he had something to do with saintsfun and b-anter. Was the bloke from Liverpool the Don or something like that with the godfather picture?

i think he'll be here next season, got a lot of learning to do, why not do it here?

Beeks wasn't the police, that was me messing around years ago saying he was as it was funny all those years ago. His account was shared by a few people (if you remember the guy from Liverpool and special K etc). Sadly Colbury passed away, lovely guy.

Great shout.

He is very likeable and it’s refreshing to have someone in charge who just seems fairly normal. No crying on the touch line, or getting snarky with reporters whilst running your hand through you hair, or reminiscing about the Welsh girl you could have married whilst training to be the fittest man who has EVER lived.

Not just yours.

I'm of the opinion that janny and Stephens need to fuck off for good and we start from scratch. I know some will say the experience of janny etc etc, but to me he's just getting in the way now. We need to ditch both of them. Just my humble opinion of course.

He headed off in the general direction of his bedroom

Well I finally succumbed to Yellowstone hype. I watched episode 1 a few weeks back and quickly found out about the origin stories. I went straight to those. I thought 1883 was good. Gritty, violent but actually quite removed from the Yellowstone universe. The only real link was that the main characters were called Dutton. Overall it was a good yarn which finally came together with the end of Elsa's story. 1923 has spanned two seasons and has Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren in the lead roles. Timothy Dalton and Jerome Flynn make great villains with the former having a penchant for watching prostitutes engage in BSDM twenties style. There are various story arcs beyond the survival of the ranch including that of Teonna Rainwater a native American girl on the run from abuse, both sexual and physical at the hands priests and nuns at an Indian School. Ultimately this is about WW1 vet Spencer Dutton, a post war hunter in Africa suffering from PTSD and his romance with an English woman, Alexandra, who he marries. This is where it gets all a bit far fetched, with their journey back to Montana. The number of disasters that befall them stretch the boundaries of believability somewhat in my opinion. You'd have to watch it to know what I mean and I don't want to spoil it for those that do. Which brings me back to the present day and the five seasons of Yellowstone. Kevin Costner does what Kevin Costner does as the family patriarch in a western setting. Here I start comparing the series a bit to Dallas, which is unfortunate, but there's enough of a Sopranos/ Godfather vibe and violence underpinning it to put that to one side. Standout performances are by Kelly Reilly who plays Beth Dutton and Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler. She is actually from South London not the Mid-West which makes her performance all the more remarkable. The last time I was as gobsmacked as this about a UK actor in a US series was when Stephen Graham played Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire. Anyway, I'm enjoying it as I progress to S2. Like many things that are popular it'll have its haters, simply by being popular. That said, I'm not a great watcher of TV series and it takes something to draw me in like this has done. Whether I stay the course is another matter.

Liam Rosenior signs new three-year deal with Strasbourg, so you can chalk him off if you thought he was a potential option

Glasgow was Alpine? Really? Anyone know what happened to View From The Top?

If Bournemouth get into Europe and lose a lot of their best players then they will really struggle in the league next season I think.