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And which PL quality strikers are going to sign for us in this window, given our current predicament?

I'd say probably Danny Ings was the last signing we made that was genuine PL quality - and even that was a massive gamble, given his injury record.

Just wow. I've watched Saints dish up some utter shite over the years, but that was right up there with the very worst performances I've ever seen, and I turned it off at 3-0. I shudder to think how much worse it got after that. I really don't know where we go from here, but I genuinely can't see us getting the 6 points we need to avoid equalling Derby's record. This situation is entirely on SR. I was so hopeful when they took over, but they've been nothing short of a disaster for us so far. Their recruitment, of both players and managers, has been utterly appalling. Of the players that featured yesterday, there were maybe two or three who, when in form, would get into any other PL team. It's time for protests against the board to start. We need to get these useless, incompetent cunts out of the club before they sink us even lower. Sad times.

An absolute joke that 5th yellow card was as well. He jumped to win a header and got to it. Ridiculous.

I can only assume that you had some kind of narcotic-fuelled bender for new year and were still going strong with a jagerbomb in one hand and a rolled up £20 note sticking out of your nose when you typed this.

I read on one of the local news sites up here that Wednesday were confident of loaning him, and I took from that that we might recall Charles in exchange. Not to be then.

Because whatever jostling had gone on before it, while the ball was dead, is irrelevant. Once the corner was taken, Ramsdale was solely concentrating on watching the flight of the ball and trying to get to it. Whereas Mateta had no interest in trying to play the ball whatsoever, and literally pushed Ramsdale out of the way to stop him from getting to it. It's a foul. It's a very obvious, cynical, deliberate foul.

That's a weird take. Ramsdale was simply trying to get to the ball, and Mateta was making no effort to do that and was just trying to stop him. That is 100% a deliberate foul. The ref should have been watching and blown up before the cross was even met, but he simply allowed Mateta to blatantly cheat, and VAR bottled out of correcting it.

Did we get an explanation of the decision from the VAR ref for that Palace goal? I'm honestly dumbfounded that anyone with even the slightest knowledge of football can watch the replay of that and conclude it wasn't a foul. They didn't even invite the ref to review it on the monitor - just straight up went "nah - nothing wrong with that" despite seeing Rambo fall backwards in a way that is only physically possible if he was pushed. You can't even put it down to incompetence. It goes way beyond that.

Well we were poor, and Palace were by far the better team and no doubt deserved the win on the balance of play. But they only actually scored one legitimate goal, so a draw would have been fair. That VAR decision for their equaliser was a fucking sick joke, probably the result of the PMGOL having some kind of internal bet between themselves to see who can get away with the most outrageous call possible.

Oh fuck off. The refs are just trolling us now. That is never, ever, ever a yellow card for Fernandes.

That's fucking ridiculous. How the fuck can a professional VAR ref watch that and decide it's not a foul? Just blatant corruption.

I saw some evidence of this on Thursday. At numerous points WH had possession on the edge of their box and I could clearly see our MF and forward players man marking in the WH half to limit the forward passing options. I expect IJ will have been drilling them on this more in training since then and we'll see more of it today

I think this is something of a myth. He only looks like he runs fast because he has such stumpy little legs, whereas other players can cover more distance with fewer strides. He'll always be a club legend for scoring the winner at Wembley in May, but he just isn't - and never will be - a PL level player.