Black Sea Saint

or West

where are all the ITKs gone?

Thought we played OK last night. We dominated the game and offered constant pressure against a very well organised on form Stoke. We're obviously lacking that little bit of quality upfront and our creative players aren't really doing - Boufal because he's still getting up to speed with the Premier League and Tadic because he's playing with that broken nose. Board's ambition doesn't match our own, nothing we can do about that unfortunately. We'll finish mid table and have a good cup run (almost done with that one), we'll flog 2 or 3 in the summer and find some decent younsgters, and so on

Redmond has been our most dangerous player. Puel has said that we don't play with wide players, so his only role is a striker. He won't be getting dropped. We need better balls in the box and under Puel's system that relies on the full backs getting forward. As soon as we sort out the right back spot the better.

wholeheartedly agreed. Players seem to be fond, too.

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Have to play our best team for Burnley. Inter can't put out their stars due to financial fair play, so we shouldn't be too concerned about that. Two wins.

No Fonte again? Odd considering all the press we saw about how proud he felt to be leading out his team in Europe. Still, not a bad decision, not been top so far this season

Lots of talk about Beer Sheva beating Inter, but let's not forget that the Inter side that are eligible for Europa are not their first team due to the Financial Fair Play embargo on them. http://www.eurosport.com/football/serie-a/2016-2017/ffp-forces-inter-to-effectively-split-into-two-teams_sto5822073/story.shtml This groups ours

I wouldn't worry too much, showed Redmond's desire and hunger. He's firmly on the bus

Him in the England squad is the last thing we want. Keep him fresh, give him a rest during international breaks. Bog off Allardyce, leave our Charlie alone.

What's Puel said about the game? I used to enjoy Ron in 60 Seconds, a minute is about right for a pre game press conference. I can't stomach a Puel press conference.

anyone hear Barry Glendenning's Boufal song on the Guardian podcast this week?

Wouldn't be surprised to see Berahino join still. Pullis says he could be sold, we've obviously been in touch re JRod loan, Puel has hinted about injecting the squad with some energy.

So, Le Goddard is our only ITK, none of the others suggested a signing like Taylor

what do you mean?

For me the worrying thing is, which of these players would get into a top 6 or 7 premier league team's starting line up? I'd say: Forster Bertrand Fonte Van Dyke Austin (depending on fitness) Potentials Hojberg Redmond I'm not saying the others can't make it, for example we know Tadic can be class, but a little inconsistent. It's certainly not a squad to push on right now.

wait 'til you get to October

what time is kick off? Is it on the Saints youtube channel like the others?

why are there no ITK posters anymore?

Quite, add to that our midfield general and Italy's number 9.

and against DC United according to kids on Twitter

You've obviously never been to France, mush

Puel's another Remi Garde, no? Although Garde's win ratio was better in Ligue 1 than Puel's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Garde

Have you seen France play? I'd prefer Sherwood