Charlie Wayman

We live in an age where everyone is scared witless of being sued by somebody else so people make 'decisions' accordingly. Hence the PL have suspended matches for 3 weeks rather than close down for the rest of the season simply to avoid any possible legal liability for compensation for clubs and TV broadcasters through allegations of breach of contract. So the PL are being forced to play the long game as they absolutely know that things cannot and will not improve by April or May, or indeed June but feel the need to fall back on the old ploy of force majeure. It is identical to what has just happened in Australia with the F1 GP, nobody willing to grasp the nettle until the 11th hour and 59 minutes when it became obvious that the event could not continue through the forced withdrawal of MaClaren which quite nicely got the promoters off the hook. It looks almost a certainty that this season is over. Promotion and relegation should be set aside and everything started again afresh next year. Of course there will be aggrieved and relieved but there is no other solution that would be any fairer. Everyone surely can agree that Liverpool should be Champions whatever the local angst. I for one couldn't stomach another 25 years of 'victim' memorials.

More to the point will ST get compensated for the lost matches?

Go broke hopefully

The UK government is playing catch-up as usual. Some experts think we are already a week or two too late to gain the benefits of social distancing in slowing the spread of the virus. (doubling rate of 4 days = out of control). Probably bordering on criminal if matches are played in full stadia this weekend.

Nice vid on the OS. Worth watching if you've not seen it.

With a COBRA meeting scheduled for lunchtime today it looks increasingly like this weekend's matches will be suspended. If that happens it will be several months without football unless they do it behind closed doors.

Norwich have a huge incentive to win this one and have improved of late. great win over Spurs after HT will give them a boost. Right now we are in a mess; even with players coming back we have lost our rhythm through all the enforced changes and have siloed back into sloppy habits at the back. Sadly, I cannot see past a defeat and probably 2-0.

A lot of people on here would love to see it happen 'though, wishful thinking or not.

Having a good day cloggy?

Easy to be cynical mate but smoke usually signifies something warming up. Unattributed rumours are often leaks for political gain.

Who?

It's probably fake news. The world's financial markets are in turmoil right now with the uncertainty over Covid 19 and the newly unleashed oil war between the Saudi's and the USA shale gas producers but both issues will be resolved within a year so any sensible investor will sit tight until the storm passes. Panic selling will ensure only that any seller of assets will lose out heavily.

It's probably fake news. The world's financial markets are in turmoil right now with the uncertainty over Covid 19 and the newly unleashed oil war between the Saudi's and the USA shale gas producers but both issues will be resolved within a year so any sensible investor will sit tight until the storm passes. Panic selling will ensure only that any seller of assets will lose out heavily.

This would be the best we could ever have hoped for.

That's wrong. Gao will want his £200m back plus Kat's (20%) £50m = £250m

Simply the buzz has gone from football. It's not just Saints, the average Premier League match is absolute dross and unwatchable, too few goals and far too much physicality. Talented ball players are kicked out of games by thuggish bullies whilst fans have to endure endless speculative long balls into the box that achieve very little other than the recruitment of 7 foot beanpoles with no talent other than heading the ball back again for the process to be repeated. Now we are told by our coach with a straight face that really skilled ball players whom we will pay to watch like Boufal and Djenepo cannot get regular starts because of their deficiencies "off the ball"! So football is reduced to what players must do "off the ball". On-the-ball skills are wasted with manager/coach who is so single minded in his own beliefs that he fail to see the obvious. In some worlds this might be staled as "having lost the plot". In our best seasons we played attractive possession football with skilful players who weren't expected to run 100m in 8 seconds and chase back like headless chickens every time the ball went into our half. Somehow this old fashioned deficient system managed to win us more matches than we lost, resulted in many 3 or 4 goal wins and lots of clean sheets and had fans queuing at the turnstiles to get in. Happy days indeed.

Just a nagging doubt that Ralph's style of play has been well and truly sussed and he has no more to offer. Be aware that this will be the pretty much our same team next season as well. Sooner or later we are going to hit the buffers. Low attendance, seems quite a few older people are getting a bit nervous about the Virus.

Certainly cheered you up hasn't it.

Who said that? St Mary's will be three quarters empty if they do it.

Catch up old lad, the no handshake craze has been around for the last couple of weeks. The only person who offered to shake my hand this week was a Hospital Consultant, naturally I refused.

He's not old enough, you have to be 28 to play for the Under 23's.

That's why we're going down, again. What happened to the clean sweep and fresh start?

They can't find a pen that works, hence all the delays.

They are the Saints Norm!

Not if you want them to be match fit and ready to go. Let's face it Smallbone and Obafemi didn't exactly tear up any trees at the Olympic Stadium.