Saint Keef

"Don't tell him Pike!"

Right......it's risky I know, but I'm going to put my head on the line and say that Eddie Howe won't be our manager by the end of October. Based on two things really. 1) It's now 8th November and 2) He's now gone to Newcastle. 🤣

No, I totally agree. I did say if the money is right. I have no evidence, but I wouldn't mind betting Gao will have "higher forces" above him, who will remind him of his duties as a respected Chinese businessman and in no way must he lose face. (Oh I do like a good conspiracy theory)😀

It would be nice to have some decent investment, but Chinese selling to Japanese? I guess the right money would make it happen, but generally they're not the best of mates are they?

Yeh.....and I think I heard one of the marching band hit a bum note in the "Oh When The Saints" bit. Disgusting. Get rid of.

After tonight, the ones I really feel sorry for are the "Ralph Bashers". Compounded by the fact that they haven't been able to blame Jack Stephens for anything for a number of weeks, they now can't have a go at Alex for keeping another clean sheet, they can't blame Redmond for anything because he's got Covid and didn't play, and Adam Armstrong's goal proves he is obviously only Championship level. I mean, how on earth are these people going to occupy their minds over the weekend and into the International break?

That's good news. Being an expert in these things, I can tell from the photo that both calf's (or is that calves?), and the hamstrings look fine. The Achilles look ready to play, so my medical report concludes that he looks alright to me .......apart from that dodgy index finger though. 😀

I wonder where Big Sam is on their list. 🤣

Strangely, based on me having nothing better to think about, I was wondering this afternoon if Ralph might be somewhere on their list. I suppose the questions would be, if they offered a decent enough deal would he go? Would we let him go, and if so, how much would we charge Newcastle for the privilege of having him.......knowing they are "holding the folding"? I guess we could pretty much name our price unless he has stuff written into his contract about leaving if an offer comes in. I'm in the "keep Ralph" brigade but I guess if the compensation was too good to refuse...... All hypothetical of course.

Fish without Chips. Morcambe without Wise. Beatles without Lennon. Villa without Grealish. None of it really works does it.

Referring to the OP on this thread. Just checking as we're now in to November.......... Has Ralph gone yet?

Yeh - I wish we'd had VAR that day. Mind you - had it been Mike Dean on VAR he still wouldn't have seen it or said that "his hand was forming part of his head".

Swings and roundabouts. Yes, we know Newcastle are "minted" so we could hold out for £50m. But then, when we try to buy someone with the proceeds of that sale, teams will know we're "holding the folding" and will automatically put their prices up once they know we're interested. And if we're still sitting around 17th (not saying we will be by then, but.....) decent players will be reluctant to come. Stick with JWP at least until next summer I say.

PENALTIES LIVE ON SKY NOW!

Yeah....when I read the negative threads on this site (and I appreciate you're not one of them Sheaf). Here we are holding the league leaders on their manor, a club 20 times richer than us, with five minutes to go and apparently our manager still hasn't got a scooby. Hey Ho.

Blimey......the tide sure comes in a long way down at Plymouth! I expected to see a boat go by at any minute. I'm sure one of those guys tripped......on a submarine.

Great bit of film. Thank you MLG for sharing - What not may be apparent to those who haven't been able to get to a game for a while, is the band are actually all mic'd up as they are marching, which means it plays out over the stadium sound system - and it is bloody loud - and (I think) very impressive. The best "intro" we've had for many a year I reckon. Cheers again.

I really hope Howe goes to Newcastle although I can't see it. Their fans would be up in arms at that one. He's hardly "high profile" enough for a club of that, recently inherited, stature is he. However, here's a thought.....absolutely off the top of my head with absolutely no "source" or basis of truth (sorry MLG). Could it be that Howe's "people" have put this story out there to try to force Saints into making an early move? (based only on the OP of this thread). I know there are people on here who think that Ralph should be gone, but Eddie Howe.......Really? God forbid! It would be like a cocktail of Mark Hughes with essence of Pellegrini thrown in.

Yep. No complaints here. I think it's a great idea. It certainly helps to generate some atmosphere.

Here you are Ralph. You're not allowed to say it, so I'll say it for you, 'cos the FA can't charge me. "Yes, we do have a problem with Mike Dean. He is an egotistical maniac who thinks the game is all about him and in my humble opinion, is nothing more than a wank stain on the duvet of life. As soon as I saw he was on VAR I knew we were utterly fucked".

7/13 Interesting though, that he has never refereed at a major international tournament. I'm sitting here scratching my head, wondering why........

It's sad I guess that we're all old enough to remember the pylons. Are there any left?.....probably still some in the lower leagues, but I don't remember seeing a pylon at a ground for a long time.

To be fair, some of us can't remember the last time we won when it WASN'T raining.

Very clever. Well done. So, we have Mohamed Elyounoussi, Mohammed Salisu, and apparently the Italian translation of Livramento (according to Google) is DELIVERANCE! Not forgetting Che Adam&Eve. 0-4 to Saints. EASY!

Livarmento to score the winner!!!! No Broja obviously.