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Just back from two weeks in Kefalonia, staying in Katelios, our second visit to the island in 3 years. The island is beautiful, the people are amazingly friendly, the food is absolutely stunning and obviously the weather is top notch. The only bit of the island we're not keen on is Fiskardo; it's where the money people go from across Europe and that is evident in the vibe. It's not a party island (there are clubs in Lassi and Angostoli) so it's never heaving with people (unless the cruise ships are in) but go, hire a car, explore the island, eat, drink and relax.

If you want a squad of 25 you need to have 8x Home Grown Players https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4097471/premier-league-squad-lists-explained

Auditioning

Casting

3 years before turning 21? Something like that 8? But can't remember if that is PL or CL or both. There is also something about being trained at club, but I think that is only CL. That is my recollection from taking Saints into the Champions League on FM24, so I might be both wrong and outdated. Damn. Where is MLG when you need him!

So no news on Watford then?

What is the quota they need then ? Must admit I thought that had gone out of the window

Something about being trained at an English Club since the age of whatever

Problem may be the timing of their departures if it drags towards the end of August. On the home nations thing, is that still relevant ? Genuine question as I haven’t heard it for a while.

I think we’ll have a few going Saturday, looking forward to it. Anyone else going ?

Acting

I think this season double D will prove a lot of his critics wrong and literally COOK. There is a player in there for sure.

I just sat through and watched an epic. The musical score, amazing. The action great. Acting top notch. But I hate this casting anyone for the role. Does it work? I'm not sure. I mean how can Idris Elba play Man At Arms in He-Man, Masters of the Universe!

Wooden

Realistically, we can't keep both Ramsdale and Peretz so naturally hope Rambo goes to a big club like Man U. Then you think where do players like Shea Charles and THB go. Shea looks like he could be off to Fulham, but I'm hoping THB will fit in nowhere. Can see West Ham with all their millions making a bid but otherwise, not too sure where he'd fit in.

Edit: probably a bit close to the knuckle for this forum.

For all of Damo’s faults (and there do seem to be quite a few) we need to remember that his style is nothing like Larin or Stewart. Despite his size he’s not a hold up man, he’s always looking to get in behind defenders instead of bringing others into play by being a focal point. He did himself no favours at all with his performances, but Will Still did himself no favours either by asking him to play a role he just can’t do. Whether he should be able to do it is a different matter, but it’s not clever playing a young lad newly in a foreign country and asking him to do something he’s crap at. I don’t think he can ever really fit into a 4231 / 433 akin to what we saw mostly from us with Larin / Stewart last season. So I’m not sure where we go with him, especially as his loan spell at Hamburg seemed equally disastrous as his time with us. So if we’re not really going to play that sort of striker, we’ve probably just got to cut our losses and put it down to poor recruitment.

That seemed to be the same as last pre season but once we got to the regular competitive games it went to pot!

Shot dead. Only shame is that probably would have been quick. Await Polanski’s tweet about German police brutality

Let me be clear. Yes, I'll be dining on the centre circle when the game kicks off.

Proper small club behaviour isn’t it, getting all giddy at the idea of a cup trip to a big ground.

Got an image in my head now of a Saints fan sat at a table by the centre circle trying to enjoy his three-course meal while the game goes on around him.

Decent away support https://www.reddit.com/r/Championship/s/k5920dxwkK

That’s taking monetising the game a step too far! I blame Infantini!

I think his runs off the shoulder with his pace seem very effective , He always puts himself in good positions that you can put him in with a through ball . His confidence actually looks better at the moment you could see him taking on players more .. ..with Stewart leaving it could open up a chance for him, Larin seems fine as first choice starter it’s not like we need to upgrade on him really, last year I think it suited both Larin and stewart to rotate a lot for fitness reasons but Larin seems proven enough to start all the time now so it’s interesting how they go about replacing stewart