Nordic Saint

Ironically, it was Adam Armstrong's finishing which got us promoted through his goals in the play-offs, after we'd finished 9 points off the automatic promotion places. Both Ipswich and Leicester did the double over us, with the latter beating us 9-1 on aggregate; a foretaste of what was to come when we faced even better teams. For most of the season we looked far more like a mid-table team than a promotion one. Swansea are currently 12th. Hopefully, we are the equivalent of an upper mid-table Championship team and can scrape though by the odd goal, for which we may need Adam Armstrong again.

I agree. Considering we've experienced the worst set of results in our entire history, it's been very good. With the old setup, you wouldn't have heard the home fans at all. Now, it's the away fans who are stuck in a corner, where the acoustics are worst. It feels good to have a proper home end at last: one of the few positives to come out of this season.

Yes, I agree. We can concentrate on the cup now. I know this is clutching at straws (in a gale), but there is a long tradition of clubs reaching cup finals in their relegations seasons: Brighton, Norwich, Leicester, Wigan, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth etc. A poison chalice… the FA Cup and relegation - BBC Three

He was generally ridiculed here because he wasn't as good as his predecessor, Paul Mitchell (now DoF at Newcastle). But, he's no fool and he's obviously learned his trade well. Some of Forest's buys have been genius. Ola Aina! Who knew? They got him on a free transfer and he's been absolutely brilliant for them this season. They got Milenković, currently one of the best central defenders in the world, for just £12 mill, rated by many as the best buy by any Premier League club in the last transfer window. Other clubs will be shadowing Forest and Newcastle in this transfer window to find out who they're interested in, because they obviously know what they're doing. It turns out that we've had some of the most talented people in the Premier League pass through this club. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

Brentford paid a club record fee of £5.8 mill for Bryan Mbeumo. Saints paid £22 mill for Sulemana and £18 mill for Onuachu. How can we hope to compete with a club as sensible as Brentford?

Liam Delap and Omari Hutchinson. Also, of course, they have a bloody good manager.

Is he even going to reach single figures?

That's a great tribute to our medical staff here. I bet he's glad he came.

I think it's to build up the excitement for the fans over a period of several years until that great moment comes when he finally equals Benali's goalscoring record. What a day that will be!

Sport Republic are proving to be brilliant owners for Göztepe. They're having one of the best seasons, possibly the best in their history.

I think it's a fine testament to Saintsweb that even Merry Christmas can start an argument. Good job he didn't say Happy New Year as well or all hell would have broken out.

Anyway, he's nowhere near as good as Göztepe's top goalscorer, Rômulo Cardoso, who is on loan there from a Brazilian club until June. Now, he really does look the business. I wonder if we could swap one of our current so-called strikers for him, but I guess Göztepe wouldn't be interested in any of them as, thanks largely to Rômulo's goals and assists, they are currently the 3rd highest scoring team in the Turkish Super Lig, behind Galatasaray and Fenerbahce.

It would be good if we could get Rômulo from Göztepe. We badly need a goalscoring centre forward .

How can you expect Man United, Man City and Spurs to compete with a top team like Bournemouth?

Juric for Martin and Ramsdale for McCarthy = clean sheet. I'm very happy with that. Fulham are a decent mid-table Premier League team in good form lately. In the bad old days of Martin and McCarthy, hopefully never to return again, they'd have beaten us easily.