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It's back! Yes ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between, I have brought back the Magic Wheel to predict the score against Brighton. It is currently basking in a ZERO per cent success rate in all the times I've been using it so whether you believe the wheel is up to you. It's last outing was the play off final which it also got very wrong. So without further ado, here is the wheel's prediction... Screen_Recording_20250219_132626_Samsung Internet.mp4 That is right, even the wheel doesn't think we will win... but will a score draw keep the Saints fans happy? I suggest not. But seeing as the wheel is bollocks, it could yet go either way on the day.

Same can be said of any formation, if you don’t have the quality, it won’t work. I still think it’s too defensive, sacrificing an extra midfielder or striker for another CB. Give me Poch’s 4231 any day.

If we pick a manager for next season that plays 3 CBs I think I’ll do a dirty protest outside the ground.

We’ll never know. Bloody decent of SI to omit this year’s game to spare us the pain of having to play as us.

Fucking wept. Mother in law's funeral on Monday, I'll need cheering up after this. 😬

Jesus H Christos Jr the Third. Awful line up again. I know we're somewhat stuffed in midfield but seriously Smallbone is not the Premier League answer. I just want a manager that stops playing a back 3. I want us to win today, beat that lot down the road, but I'm not confident with that line up.

Ramsdale KWP THB Bednarek Wellington Lesley Dibling Gronbaek Fernandes Sulemana Onuachu Thats my XI and I'm sticking to it. Let's attack the poop out of them. Not like we can defend for toffee. 😬

I can see it now: 22nd December 2032, Saints, bottom of League One with just a handful of points and playing terribly under the management of second-chancer Nathan Jones, are playing Portsmouth at St Mary's. The score is 3-0 to the Skates at half time. Weary but loyal Saints fans look up at the sky and see the asteroid coming. "Thank God," one yells, "something to put us out of our misery." A punt from a now-35 year old Adam Armstrong hits the asteroid, bashing it back into space. Saints go on to lose the game 5-0. "We can't catch a break," says one annoyed Saints fan. 🙂

For me, this would have been the perfect opportunity to play 2 CBs and put a striker up with Tyler and Supermana. But that's just me. Lack of CBs maybe put paid to that. Enough to win in attack perhaps.

Thats my prediction.

If it came down to keeping AA or Archer, I think we made the right choice. Onuachu appears to be our number one striker now unless Juric plays Dibling and Sulemana as our main two attackers, Archer as back up, there was no need for AA who has proven himself not to be good at this level. I like AA, I hope we get him back next season but this season he wasn't going to get much game time. Granted we are a couple of striker injuries away from hoping Stewart comes back from the dead or using youth, but as we're down anyway, it's not much of an issue.

There's another Juan we've loaned out but I can't remember his name.

Probably agreed to the loan but as soon as we tried to include an option to buy he ran for the hills. 😁

Good job he doesn't have an A at the end of Malak... it's Greek for 'man who masturbates'. Anywho good to see the SR links are moving players about. Anyone 1st team ready we can sign off them? I know they've had 2 or 3 from us.

The double barrelled name cull continues. 😬

Sloppy defender that makes mistakes... he'll feel at home here in no time. 😜

If it means keeping Archer I'm OK with that. It looks like Juric fancies Onuachu going forwards and wants Archer to stay so that's our striker positions probably sorted If AA is staying put as a third choice. Good enough? Who knows but it's not like we're going to get enough points to get to safety anyway so keep what we have an reassess in the summer.

Easier for little people to get a pint.

Welcome. Please be better than everyone else.

Failed there but at least it sounds like we're trying to do something. We don't need much as we're down anywah, just enough to avoid an embarrassment. One eye on next season would be more impressive.

Well that sucks, always thought he looked promising. Strasbourg though, I wonder if related to the Sylla deal. Anyway still looks like a back door to Chelsea getting him long term if he’s a success. Really decimating the double barrelled names too, KWP and probably ABK off soon leaves Taylor if he stays. Oh and O’Brien-Whitmarsh.

Not that I'm against us bringing in a striker but Ings over Archer? I'd rather stick with Archer. Ings' day came and went, I'd be very surprised if he joined us and made a similar impact.

Nope, looking more like a closed shop every year, although it's not unfeasible someone could come up and survive, the gap between the Championship and Premier League is widening as you can see from this season. Leeds might make a shot of it next season but beyond that it will take a team to have a near perfect transfer window the summer after promotion. If we'd signed more players of the calibre of Ramsdale, or scouted more players like Fernandes, then we might genuinely have had a shot of safety but even then, with Wolves likely to pull way (which I think they will), the gap between the bottom 3 and the rest is likely to be pretty big at the end of the season. Even Everton have got their shit together (to a point) this season, after seasons of being perennial crapsters.

Saints to interested clubs: 🖕 Two positions we probably don't need to worry about next season are wing/full back. Assuming we only lose KWP and Taylor we'd still have Bree, Sugawara, Wellington and Manning alongside any youngsters. Oh, and Larios.