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Has there actually been any concrete interest in Jander? Is he training? Only links I've seen have been outside the Prem so can't see us banking the sort of profit we would want... remind him he's got a contract ffs

I'd prefer it if we competed with the actual West Ham.

This, this and thrice this. Bare minimum.

I'll believe it only when I see it. I don't trust Sport Republic.

Tonight was an accident waiting to happen. We started the game with a midfield that included neither Downes, Jander or Charles - the latter two for obvious reasons. These 3 guys were the mainstay of last season's midfield. With none of them on the pitch and a defence marshalled by the hapless Capn Jack the result and performance was inevitable.

5 players needed without any departures. GK, CB, CM, RW, ST Add on another CB and another CM if THB and Jander are sold.

Fawanews with a vpn has all our games and is usually reliable. Sometimes it has two streams for the match and if one goes down you can usually get it on the other one. Today the first stream got the entire game without interruption. Perhaps it would have been better if it hadn’t. For the masochists among us, bookmark this: http://www.fawanews.sc/

Paderborn are Bundesliga, top flight. Admittedly promoted last season but still you can't say we didn't play at least some decent opposition. I think one thing was overlooked was that this was Tonda's first pre-season. Totally inexperienced in getting a team up to speed after the summer break. Maybe it is showing.

Where the fuck do you start with that? Lose the will to live if I go back through that second half but ffs, can’t even price it correctly to avoid looking like a total embarrassment. Usual garbage start to a season

Stephens has been a disaster so far this season (and majority of his Saints career) and Wood just isn’t an overly good player. Very surprised Quashie or Kayi Sanda haven’t been given an opportunity but really got to either get a partner for THB or two new starters for if and when he goes. This and a big imposing centre midfielder got to be the priorities.

Couldn’t agree more. Every season I think I won’t have to see him next season but like that turd that just won’t flush he’s still there. Radio Solent Saturday Tessem tried to suggest he had made THB a better player and he was being serious ffs !!

Fuck me, it's not been a national secret.

100% this. WHY ! Why did we not play the best teams we can lay our hands on pre season? We always do this, lucky if we play one decent team pre season and this year none at all!!!

More possession, passes and touches in the opposition box (giggity) than Ipswich tonight. Maybe he's a Certified Football Genius after all?

How many times do we have to ask the same questions about the bloke. I don’t care that he’s Captain, he’s not fucking good enough, never has been and never will be. Apart from the occasional blip where he has a good game or two he’s just crap. I genuinely don’t get how he’s survived at this club for so long.

Do you know of anyone we are trying to sign, the silence is deafening

No

Are most people finally seeing how shocking Stephens really is? I've been saying this for 5 years. He ain't even good enough for the Skates. If THB goes we are proper fucked. Even if we manage to sign two capable CBs it will likely take them a few weeks to get going andTE will probably mix and match with Wood and Calamity whilst they settle in. What felt like a positive (seige mentality) beginning to the summer is turning into a right bloody mess. 2 CBs, 1 CM and 1 Striker minimum....in 6 days...

Nah. No one is basing a decision on signing for us on how we perform in a noddy cup on a Tuesday.

From a physicality perspective the Millwall game could look like an U18's side playing the U8's. So many weak, non-aggressive players in the squad.

Any journos brave enough to ask some hard questions about whether he’ll persist with players that clearly aren’t up to it?

37 attempts at their goal - and it’s still going on!

Have the club ever explained why we only played a couple of German farmers for pre-season? We looked lethargic and unfit again tonight, as we have done since the season began. I can’t help but feel like our preparation was completely undercooked.

This THB stuff is a load of bollocks. We need to tell Villa if they aren't prepared to pay the fee by Thursday afternoon then he doesn't nove to them. I know it's not as easy as that, but they are clearly stalling on the fee so we need to tell them to fuck off if they aren't prepared to pay. He's still our player and should be playing for us, until we get a fee that is acceptable.