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If 99% of the squad, and actually the club’s management, coaching, scouting, and boardroom as well, had Fernandes’s attitude and will to win, whilst I’m not suggesting we’d stay up but we’d have a million times better chance and the nonsense of falling below Derby’s low points record would be exactly that. A lion amongst jellyfish thieving wages.

Another player that arrived bright and dragged down in short order by the morass of doom.

We won’t have a defence with KWP, THB and possibly Bednarek in it. Been dreadful this season but quality second tier players. On the positive side, we won’t have Martin’s kamikaze tactics either. But then with less emphasis on footwork and kicking, even less case for Bazanu. No way we’d have gone up without his injury.

You have your opinion, I have mine. But if he’s in goal (Bazanu, not Hyperbole), Saints are going to be in the lower half of the Championship next year.

Frankie Bennett-esque

I couldn’t give a fuck if it did or not. That’s my opinion on Bazanu. I’ve never seen a worse keeper at professional level. Cheltenham have two better, as is Torquay United’s. I’m sure Gavin can improve elsewhere but the situation is not helping anyone.

I went 75/25 because whilst I have no time for any of the players, when you go Ralph-Jones-Selles-Martin-Juric the player recruitment is going to be scrambled. Steve Cooper please on a pre-contract for June, but co-developing a ruthless plan with Spores now for what needs to arrive and what needs to go.

Businesses make errors and this was a Grade A shocker. Sometimes it’s fairer to individuals and the firm to write it off and allow all parties to move on.

It makes absolute sense when Bazanu costs the club £100m by effectively ruling any prospect of promotion. Who on earth is going to pay a fee for him? Unless they are barking mad. Value in Millions of Zimbabwe Dollars or Monopoly currency. He’s shot to pieces, could maybe recover whatever he had once had in City’s kids team starting again at the bottom (lower league one or two) with a good pay off behind him. He’s never going to meet what Saints need but like Bart did, could rebuild at somewhere like Notts County and get back to Championship level eventually in a few years with the likes of Millwall and Ipswich too.

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TBF, what 150 PL appearances for £6m? Can’t moan at the value, issue is the club hasn’t spent the £25-30m required in that position. Probably only should’ve been a squad player but Wesley Hoedt at £17m/£35m in todays value yet appalling and wasn’t good enough for Watford last season, and Vestergaard who can’t run (amazingly we got our money back - cheers Brendan!). Then we went down the Lidl route with Lyanco, ABK and not replacing an ageing Yoshida or non-developing Stephens.

Palace have managed it though, you just can’t afford to have a lazy window or two and be proactive/ruthless if a manager isn’t cutting it eg De Boer. Look at how long we limped on with Pellegrino beyond November, Nathan Jones and Martin when it obviously wasn’t working whatsoever.

What’s that now - 2 games and three errors? Second one is as much about the excellent cross and gambling run by the forward (remember when Lambert or Ings used to do that?) but the first one is pure Baz. Low, not well struck, even for him couldn’t believe that went in. How he doesn’t get that away to the side of the goal or behind for a corner is astonishing at professional level and we saw it so many times for Saints. Pay 50% of his contract up in the summer and move on. Lumley is better than that for back up.

Very unlikely he will be here in June, whatever Solak said on TalkSPORT frankly.

🤦‍♂️ A dog with diarrhoea would be more solid.

Rasmus and Spores probably watched Leicester tonight, and instead of clearing out the stables, they are instead preparing them for RVN.

They’re not the worst team away team since though!

Rhyming slang innit - that meal and those pints of IPA have hit my stomach, need to go for a Dr Who

Could still pick up TNT Sports with it though. Good for the autumn rugby internationals.

I feel a need for one of those McInnes facepalm emojis. ‘Sounded more Asian than European’ 😂😂😂 I bet that appears in the next Private Eye.

Can’t believe he’s still stealing a PL living nearly seven years after being a Les Sanatogen Special.

That’s the formula you need as mid-sized or smaller PL outfit. Trick is not to get clever bollocks and dip too far below the market value for purchases in key positions and/or players without the athletic attributes in your spine.

Forest rivalry though.

Which is why whilst I like him we need to move on in the summer. Managers with rigid systems/styles not what we need.

Clubs in identikit Barr stadiums 0 Brentford 8 so far this season.