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That is clearly tactical, and part of our 3cb strategy. We want to restrict opponents to crossing it in, and we rely on 3 tall CBS to clear it, baz clearly has instructions to stay back.

Fire the graphics guy, showing a red bar at about 10 percent full for a stat of 60 percent is criminal. Also why no distribution stats for Johansson? Suspicious data presentation all round. And why are we comparing with Johansson? Is he the benchmark for a 8th placed championship team, and who decides that? In our promotion season he had very comparable stats to ederson at man city, why not do that comparison? You have to look at quality of chances too - if we give oppo strikers 5 seconds to set themselves, have a fag and a poo before firing their shot, they have a better chance of scoring than a team that gives up fewer clear chances by actually defending their box effectively.

We're over reliant on bazunu, this must be 9 to 12 points he has got us this season - too many, at some point he will stop saving us and we need all the points we can get if we want to get second. I don't know what the solution is because we can't afford to change fellows the way he is playing. No arguments with the way downes and jander are playing either, but we seem to be missing the extra man a little bit too often. Will be interesting to see what happens when Charles is back.

This is fairly standard nowadays, since about 5 years ago, I believe it is related to the medical facilities and tech that is available pitch side nowadays, whereas in the past the afflicted would just have to be carted out for medical attention away from the stands, nowadays they are treated in-situ, defibs etc. Abandonment would suggest that after the incident, there were not enough medical staff available to cover further incidents and so call off will be safety related.

I'd argue that Uruguay, ivory coast and Italy would be harder, which is also possible. Other teams in our group could be Croatia, Uruguay, Norway, Morocco, Senegal, Australia, Ghana, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Turkiye. All of which I'd argue are better than Jordan or Panama.

Usually I'm blinkered about our players, while they are here, and blindly optimistic. As an example, I still think downs needs minutes. I like Stephens. I thought Mara was ok. I wanted Carrillo to have more of a chance. I thought dia showed flashes of skill. Baz is in my top eight all time saints keepers. Even I can see aribo has been hopeless. What is his top speed? I don't think we know, because his acceleration is so slow that he never gets there. He needs a hundred yards to gather momentum and as such, just lopes around and watches players run past and away from him. I always consider it game over when he comes on. He's like the antichrist. Or the Antiscienza.

For me, our top 8 GK of my lifetime would be: 1. Niemi 2. Shilton 3. Flowers 4. Maik Taylor 5. Boruc 6. Baz 7. Forster 8. Jones The rest have all been much of a much. Baz only makes top 8 because of his exceptional distribution and is the best of the modern style of keepers.

Manning not at the races today. I'd rather see welligton or Frasier even, depending on whether we want to attack or defend their rw. Not Manning though, not today.

We all bleed red and white. White blood cells make up about 1% of your blood, while red blood cells make up about 44%. It's not a disorder, although supporting Saints may well be.

Doesn't that mean they will intercept small boats at sea? (Providing no passengers on board) How is that nothing? Or have I misread it?

Badenoch calls Reeves the worst chancellor of all time. I'm not really sure that is accurate. At least this time I've not had to scramble to remortgage my house. (I took a 5 yr fixed on the day truss and kwarteng were fucking the interest rates, sneaked in at 3.6%)

Still's tactics and formation finally coming good, he is unlucky it didn't click whilst he was Still here, but then again, he wasn't picking the right goalkeeper, so maybe that came back to bite him, it's hard to dominate games when you have McCarthy slowing everything down. Funny that people on here were apoplectic about still creating the rwb role for Fellows, turns out he just needed a couple of games to learn the position.

You're not supposed to hit people around the face anymore, even if it is one of your team mates.

Here is a blast from the past when you moaners all had the keeper you wanted. https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/video/highlights-bristol-city-3-1-saints-25-26 Now imagine that was bazunu. He'd have gotten all kinds of grief, especially for their second.

People using John Barnes and Saka as examples of popular role models is crazy, when the level of racist abuse they both got was insanely high every time they made the smallest mistake. Beckham got hate for being a prick on the pitch and getting sent off when we needed him, saka got hate because he didn't score a penalty, there IS a difference in standards when judging players. I don't say it because I know people on here would melt over it, but I definitely noticed a difference in treatment of blond, blue eyed Ramsdale when he arrived (and immediately conceded a couple of dodgy goals), and the treatment that calamity McCarthy receives, someone who literally jumps out of the way of the ball on his goal line, compared to a certain young prospect who plays in goal for us (and who has zero attitude problems).