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We are Southampton. Our good seasons are when we reach the heights of mediocrity, most of the time we are just shit.

Under Ralph Ings got into the England squad, now he struggles to get in the starting line up for Villa. Yeah he obviously hated him.

I didn’t even realise things like the Excalibur existed, you can see why it has been one way traffic since the Ukrainians have been using NATO weapons. These shells can hit a target the size of a car from 65km away.

Stupid tweet but didn’t Musk help Ukraine with his Starlink thing?

I don’t necesarrily disagree, my point was merely that the lack of goalscorer might be a reason why Ralph has been cut some slack by the board. That and the fact that we are blooding a load of youngsters in the toughest league in the world. We basically replaced Broja and Long with a kid who couldn’t even hold down a starting place in a shite French team.

Our midfield can't score for shite either so it's more of an issue for us IMO.

Exactly, Trossard has got 5 already this season, Mac Allister 4 and Gross 3 so Brighton have goalscorers so their lack of strikers is not the same issue for them.

I think he was favourite when Bournemouth, Chelsea, Brighton and Wolves all changed manager so the bookies rarely seem to get it right.

Obviously not but in my opinion the striking options of Adam Armstrong, Ché Adams and Sékou Mara is probably the worst in the league, it's bound to effect the team's performance and mean the manager is going to struggle to find the right formation. I think Ralph's days are probably numbered but I have no confidence in any new manager suddenly making that lot good enough to keep us up.

It may be that they recognise that their failure to bring a striker in means we will struggle regardless of what Brighton do?

I expect they will get rid during the break for the World Cup. It may be that they recognise that their failure to bring a striker in means we will struggle regardless of manager?

Clubs have brought in new coaches spent more than us and gone down plenty of times. It happens.

Why?

I still find it mental that 170,000 people can spend two months deliberating and come to the conclusion that Liz Truss would be a better PM than Rishi Sunak. We all know who to thank when our mortgage comes up for renewal and the monthly payment has jumped £500. Bunch of swivel-eyed fuck-wits.

Yet the US government's own website says it's a multi-year investment, and you can read about it all on twitter. https://twitter.com/ukraine_map/status/1575327548359204865?t=Klrfr7i89Py3JRWXZXm49Q&s=19

One theory I read was that the energy industry in Russia are obviously not happy at losing millions every day so are putting pressure on to stop the war (or looking to undermine Putin) so blowing the pipelines is Putin's way of taking them out of the equation. He can blame the Yanks and get to carry on with his invasion. I guess in theory it could be the US but it seems a bit of a risky, pointless escalation on their part, I doubt they will have any problem flogging gas to Europe for a while even with the pipes working.

It looks bright pink to me, fucking hideous. Giving me a headache.

You seem to conveniently ignore the fact that Ukraine elected Jewish leader and far right parties got something like 2% of the vote in 2019. Bravo, that’s definitely a B then.

Which one is it then?

This. An important fact which Minge constantly ignores.

I find economics insanely boring so don’t pretend to have a decent understanding but it looks to me like the government are borrowing billions for tax cuts to make us want to buy more shit, whilst the bank of England is raising interest rates to stop us wanting to buy more shit. So the extra few quid in our pay packet will just go straight to the banks to pay our bigger mortgage, and we are saddled with billions more debt?

If old stats are meaningless you could say his win ratio for the last 6 games is 50%.

To be fair it didn't work out too well for Redders. Maybe it should read "If you want to work and you’re are willing to listen, and you are Thierry Henry you’re going to improve with Claude Puel, or anyone."

I dunno, I would say this is probably stronger than what we have now: KEEPERS: Forster, McCarthy DEF: Van Dijk, Yoshida, Cédric, Bertrand, Stephens, Targett, Martina MID: Højbjerg, Tadić, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Clasie, Davis, Reed, Boufal UP FRONT: Redmond, Long, Austin, Gabbiadini, Rodriguez

Pochettino's win percentage was 38% and he's a managerial god but 35% makes you shit.