Farmer Saint

I don't think it's disrespectful - surely respect is a 2 way street? I don't think anything Sunak has done deserves respect from Russ, Southampton, or frankly anyone. He's an unelected, odious, cretin of an individual.

You OK hun? You seem to be getting very angry about this? Who cares what he thinks about our PM, he's a corrupt fool.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm filing it under "it was gonna happen sometime, let it happen in a match like this".

What, you gonna sub them after 30 minutes? Otherwise that's not rotating.

They haven't been dropped, they've been rotated due to the amount of games over the festive period.

And Lallana, Fonte and Schneiderlin. And the most important thing that Ipswich are benefitting from, belief and momentum. RM has had to reverse both of those things.

He's a good bloke is our Russ. Glowing about Aribo.

Well, then I would suggest using an HDMI cable. Never had any issues with them.

Good subs by Russ - we looked better after the changes and should have had 3 or 4 in the last 15 minutes.

Listening to the QPR stream they are very complimentary about the way we play, the way we probe and wait for mistakes, and mentioning how good some of the football we play is.

QPR are quite decent ATM, they are on form, so anything out of this game would be acceptable.

I think you need to read back through, we're talking about the risk when Saints signed him originally, not about signing him now.

I assume you're one of the aforementioned fannies? Pray tell me, where is the "bullshit"?

It depends on Adams - we should have cashed in over the Summer and purchased an additional striker. Luckily we have the best striker in the League already, so it's more just needed as a backup.

I don't think he's saying that - but even with the help of seeing how players are doing, he can't name one player. It is extremely disappointing, and shit business, but it's not going to be the thing that costs us promotion (in fact signing a player to play ahead of AA could have in fact cost us promotion as he's been great) .

It's alright, your prescient enough to predict that this one failed signing will cost us promotion, but even with hindsight you can't name a player you'd rather have 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, nice one. Really proving your point there.

It's fine, let's wait for @AlexLaw76 to come up with a list of the strikers that he'd have signed instead. Even with hindsight I think he'll struggle.

Fucking hell, we have some fannies on here. The reality is that we won't get automatic promotion because Leicester and Ipswich are putting up near unprecedented results, not because we don't have a back up striker (and he would be backup as we have AA, who has more goal involvements than any other player in the league (18 in 22 games)). By comparison, Piroe has 9 in 22 games in a better attacking team.

And? Was still a huge risk. Worked out for us, didn't work out for Villa or Wham.

Strange post - what does a fit and firing Martin have to do with it? The choice wasn't between having a fit and firing Stewart and a not fit and firing Stewart, it was between Stewart and someone else (not Piroe though, as said by Martin prior to him going to Leeds he was too similar to AA - and shitter by the looks of the things this season). If we'd have sold Adams in the Summer as well, like I said we should have, we'd have picked up an additional striker so that wouldn't be the situation.

Ings was a massive fucking risk as well, as big as Stewart. You win some, you lose some when you sign injury prone players.

Disappointing, but not sure it would have made any difference to us this season tbf. We have the second top scorer in the division, and we tend to play with 1 striker, so not really sure he'd have come in anyway without upsetting the balance. Waste of money, yes, but not convinced this decision has cost us promotion.

Personally I see it as an investment - and it certainly seems to have been that so far, for sure.

Forgotten what losing is like tbh. No fine margins atm, top 2 are done and we'll get playoffs. Just love to see the entitled moan that we're not spunking over all and sundrie, and playing like 1970s Brazil.