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Depends on how much she is drinking!

said no woman ever! 🤣

This is something i raised before Sundays game and for the first 45 minutes i believe i was vindicated. I have felt for a while that the last few seasons we have not be prepared for the first game of the season. Last year against Wrexham at home we should of lost and got lucky. Sunday the first 45 minutes we were awful and Watford were in our faces from the start. We were not prepared for that because our preseason opponents were awful and none played the sort of football we will come up against in the Championship every week. Second half we were fitter and had we been sharper we would have won the game but our final ball was shocking. I really hope Tonda gets them working this week in training with crisp passing and bloody practising crossing a ball.

Both their goals were totally avoidable and Stephens had a hand in both of them. The first his complete blind pass that went straight to their forward and with the second goal what the hell was he doing waiting so long before trying to close down the winger who must have thought he had won the lottery being allowed a free run on our goal. If we are serious about getting promoted then Stephens is a back up defender at best, certainly not a starting 11 player!

I said this last week and got laughed at. We are nowhere near ready and the arrogance by some that we would steamroll Watford is laughable. Stepens awful, Bragg absent, Dobin poor, Matsuki knocked off the ball too easily, we are just not ready for the start of the season and its criminal preparation!

Our league season kicks off in a few hours and i'm suddenly nervous as hell. Being on -4 points to start is probably what is already making me feel nervous and the fact that we always seem to start the season slowly, which now more than ever is something we cannot afford to do. 100%agree with Hypo, a win today and we won't worry too much on other things.

if we are selling THB for anywhere close to what Benfica are quoting they are interested in paying then we have lost the plot. Personally i'm still to be convinced there is any truth in these rumours and that it's nothing more than journalists, if you can call them that causing mischief

honestly some of the reporting on who we are interested in signing or who another club might be interested in signing from saints is tiresome. Anything posted on X and particularly SaintsExtra is complete made up bullshit!

another non story

The trouble at this time of the season is everyone is looking for a bit of transfer news and all the idiots out there that do absolutely nothing all day but sit in their bedrooms wanking themselves stupid just make up random shit with absolutely no substance to it. Then all it takes is someone desperate for news to take random shit as "it's happening" and post it on here and everyone starts getting panicky! Just stay of X and if you can't do that then just keep saying to yourself "everything thing on this cesspit site is made up bollocks"

I like your optimism and our game against Watford will be interesting to see if we really are READY for the start of the season. Watford are definately a side we should be beating, they are bang average. However my biggest fear is we are not ready for the start of the season. I really don't understand why we have played such bang average teams in pre-season and hardly any games to boot. We looked really rusty in the cup game and could easily have been behind at half time had it not been for Peretz.

I watched Boroughs cup game against Wrexham and thought both sides looked well ready for the start of the season, in fact i would say they were 2/3 weeks ahead of Saints in that respect and Boroughs new lad Lankashire was a real handful, got into all the right places and eventually got his goal after missing a few half decent chances. I think he will have a good season unfortunately!

I've been saying the exact same thing for the last 4 seasons. Our preseason preparations for me have been really poor.

I have been saying for the last 4/5 seasons that our preseason preparations have been appalling. We seem to start later than most and we play absolutely awful teams in preparation for the new season. This preseason has been the worst preparation from a fans view that i can remember.

This is not exactly inspiring ahead of next weeks league opener!