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I would like to see 2 CBs at the back but I can't believe Tonda won't tie the company line and go with 3 as he has in every League game. I would also have Arma over Archer

Fair points, although I think the main issue that people have with Bazunu is that, statistically, he's one of the worst keepers in the league. I don't think anyone has accused him of never making a decent save every now and then....? The one question I ask those who stick up for him is, putting the stats to one side, where do they personally rank Bazunu amongst his goalkeeping peers in this league? Top 5? Top 10? Or, another way of putting it... If you could have a choice of all the goalkeepers in this league to play for Saints, how many would you choose before you got to Bazunu?

“The only clue to what man can do is what man has done”

I thought you were going to stop that at ‘doomed to fail’ just general statement with football in the whole. Because most do.

I agree, but my first message would be to compete and challenge for every ball in the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half. I think this team has forgotten that you have to win the right to dominate a match through effort and winning your 50-50s. Often, it appears that we think we can just pass a team to death without doing the hard yards, the dirty stuff.

Loan with an option to buy, by the looks of it.

Stoke, if you're reading this, forget the loan. Sign this geezer up on a permanent deal immediately. You won't regret it. He makes Peter Shilton look like Rita Stilton, and Gordon Banks look like Shabba Ranks. Trust us, Stoke. For God's sake trust us!

Might be the first time a parent club has put a 'must play against parent club' clause in the contract instead of a 'cannot play against parent club' clause

Viktor Johansson out with shoulder surgery and possible he doesn't play again this season, so a chance to get first team minutes with Stoke

Reports say that Rasmus' pitch was that 'the Championship is more fun than the Premier League anyway'

I respect and appreciate those posters who know more about goal keeping than me and can explain why Bazunu should save more goals than he does, and I'm all for improving the team in any position. I'll give a pass to those who say he doesn't look like a goalkeeper when to me he looks every inch an athlete, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Those who just swear,well this forum is a broad church and while some want to engage in meaningful discussion others just want a rant , so be it. Those who say he doesn't save anything are just daft, wrong and they know it. I just think goal keeping is a difficult job especially if you are often exposed by mistakes in front of you and most goals I see everywhere come under the category, could the keeper have done better. Those

"I am the biggliest heel. So, from now on Cuban heels will be known as Trump heels."

That’s a massive downgrade for them

I think most managers, or my mistake, “head coaches” are all doomed to fail with Sport Republic here.

Can we let him play against us please ? 🙏

Observation here is that we had quite a different team out yesterday first half and into second. Thought the complacents would be Stephens, Manning, Downes, Armstrong, bit only a couple of these were involved. This implies you think Archer, Matsuki, Robinson, Bragg, Fellows, Jelert, Welington, Quarshie are all also complacent, along with Downes (who is) and THB. I'm sure it is more to do with getting them fired up at half-time, which seems to be an issue. We need to come out after half-time and completely boss the midfield for the first few minutes.

If you get a chance watch the film Nuremberg the parallels between the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party, his ambitions for Germany and ideas for the rest of the world are scarily similar to Trump's methods in the US and his vision of his place in the world. don't we ever learn anything?

Copy and paste is great isn't it 😉

Came here to say Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector and saw it was mentioned above. Also, Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption. Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Well said. I think that changing the goalie will just give posters a new villain to address. It's our defense that's the problem. Leaky defenses make goalies look bad. You can't really quantify that by using stats (shoutout to Grandad).

Those shirts are fucking horrendous 😂

Burton, Grimsby or Macclesfield away please. I’d like a new ground.

Costs for us are off the fucking scale ATM. Two kids at private school, £700-800 a month energy bills over Winter (solar doesn't help with gas bills), Sky, Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Spotify (when did that get so expensive btw?), and I stupidly bought a second hand 2018 Range Rover which has cost me £11k in the last 8 months. Clothes - Paul Smith, Carhartt, All Saints, Gant, Reiss I like as well Phone - Xiaomi 15T Pro - only ever do Android. Eating eat we're trying to cut down on as could do with saving a bit of money. Holidays - a couple a year including skiing, but because of private schools we can go away slightly outside the normal holidays so they can be quite a bit cheaper. Luckily we have no mortgage or I'd need to go back to full time work...

Not too many localish ones left. Brighton maybe if they beat Man Utd, but next up you have 5 London teams left (Fulham, Brentford, Chelsea, Arsenal, and either West Ham or QPR), Bristol City and Oxford. Swindon another potential one if they beat Salford. All the rest are all based in East Anglia, Midlands or the North.

We stitched them up with Gunn on loan previously. Bazunu's worse.