Crab Lungs

Nailed it. 🤣

I'm sure the next opportunity to ask the club, all the important questions we need answers for will be asked. 🤣

Sorry to wade in on the Semmens love-in, but did he just say the women's team is the most important thing at the club and it will grow to the commercial level of the mens game? Does he truly honestly think that?

Wow. Unexpected. on another note, I fear Forster will soon be touted as Englands no 1 again on here soon. His past success with previous teams here were built on how solid we were then, not because he’s any good at all. Please Caballero next game. It’s a long shot, but it’ll be less stressful.

I was seriously ill with COVID. It was horrendous. It took me quite a while to get back to normal. However - I’m now firmly in the camp of we need to live alongside it. As it stands and from the limited data we have, Omicron is clearly more transmissible. That’s a given. What we don’t know for sure is its potency to cause serious illness. We have indicators, but not surety. That said, the media and government are not helping matters at all. The hysteria and hype of something we all knew would happen is hugely misleading. We have ‘experts’ telling people cold symptoms are almost guaranteed to be omicron. Two weeks ago, I got a cold. Scratchy throat, headaches, bunged up and snotty nose. Then a cough. I tested every day - negative. Should I truly be isolating for a cold? There are other seasonal viruses out there, but telling the population you should sh1t your pants at the first sign of a sniffle is ridiculous. Additionally, there is only one reported death from omicron worldwide. Who reported it? The UK. To top it off, no one can accurately say who has been hospitalised with it… though instead of saying ‘we don’t know’ and being honest, we’ve had politician after politician lie about it. That erodes trust completely. My parents rarely venture outside any more. They run to another room if I’m around, communicating through a wall while wearing a mask. Fine, that’s their prerogative but it’s shocking to see my own parents cowed by the hysteria and mania gripping the country. Irrespective, it’s up to you how you play this. Err on the side of caution or live your life how you want to but do it sensibly, neither answer is more wrong or right. I still take all the precautions I think I need to take and I’m still testing every day so I know where I’m at. What I won’t be doing is believing everything the government says, everything that absolute berk from SAGE ‘models’ and within reason (and unless proven otherwise), trying to continue my life in the best way possible. As for the virus, it’s not what it might or might not do to you, but if you’re infectious what it might do to others is the crux. If you’ve got half a brain I’d like to think you’d manage those risks and who you interact with and where to minimise transmission or infection - be responsible and mindful of the current situation. Early indicators are that this is more infectious but less deadly, so maybe we should tread a little carefully for now - not grind everything to a halt when we don’t actually know enough to make a call either way. But one thing is for sure… we should not be cowed or terror stricken by the doom-mongery everywhere. Let’s have all the facts, good and bad, risks and everything else and let the people decide what sits comfortably with them and how they want to go about it.

Stephens whenever he’s played has always done a half decent job but for me and most amusing of all, he finds someone to troll every game he plays. I don’t think I’ve never not seen him winding someone up or giving them a bit of stick. What a top boy. 😎

Would literally be signing a significantly worse Jack Stephens. Lol.

Steve Grant, the rip roaring tour de force of all things Saints 🤩

Will be very surprised if Chelsea let him go on anything other than a loan, or at best for Saints, a buy back clause. tidy player though, he won’t come here to sit on the bench… and might be a decent FPL punt

Ah it’s not just Saints, it’s the EPL in general tbh. I suppose I’ve been drifting away from it for a while now… … think I might go do something that makes me feel and talk a bit more positively!

Just because you don’t have the immediate funds doesn’t mean we can’t have identified players in the eventuality of our players (with just one year left) leaving the club. If not, what the f*** are our recruitment team doing? I could probably tell you what they’re doing… clicking through Chelsea U23s on football manager most likely. maybe it’s just me, but I do in the line of work I’m in. succession plans for staff, plans on how to grow different aspects or groups of the business, plans for 2022-2025 etc etc.

This is Saints all over. No forward planning, trying to portray that they’re forward thinking and everything is pre-planned but in reality, it’s a lot of people collectively winging it. Clown club.

Clown journalist 😂

This is a guy who blocked me because I categorically told him Wanyama was in Southampton signing for Saints when he was tweeting he was in Cardiff signing for them. absolute bellend.

Fair one I just think this is one thing that could have been identified a lot earlier, like, last year. No one can surely like the idea of going into the season with Adams, Obafemi, Tella and Long as the options upfront.

Finally, someone who can actually articulate a point instead of throwing around insults. this is me speaking honestly, but I would have asked ings 2020 close season what his intentions were. He must have known. If it wasn’t a conclusive yes that he wanted to stay, then I’d have moved onto my primary targets (assuming that recruitment dept has done their job) in that summer. Not that it matters as I have no say in the running of SFC but it’s a conversation I’ve had with my friends before about the Ings situation. For me, finding out last year would have made more sense and a chance of a bigger transfer fee, potentially. I get your point… tbh, mine, yours and a lot of others is all if, buts and maybes. But I was just giving my perspective. When it comes down to it, I think it’s a bad move. Saints always seem to be a club that pretends to be organised but in reality, are just winging it and have been for years.. hence the muddled recruitment, loss of good managers, bad appointments etc.

At what point is is stupid? Ings was 1 in 2 for us. selling a 10-20 goal a season proven PL striker potentially could mean relegation. Now reliant on a scouting dept with a less than glorious record to replace the above with a week and a half left on the close season. we will not spend all of the money received. Worth revisiting the post at the end of the season and see how much of it is correct..

Wow, great response.

Lots of people relying out the scouting and recruitment department spending that money wisely.. of which we’ll spend probably a third of it. Despite injuries, he’s 1 in 2 for us goals to apps. 30m less the sell on for a quick buck and hope that Tella becomes Mane MKII… or 250m cost of relegation. clown club.

I thought we used to breed our success? 🤨

Load whichever relevant football manager in the series is the latest with a small database and filter all players interested in a transfer, giving you about 30 well known duds to choose from. Do not use scouting, at all. Do not watch any players. Choose from that list.

The players you really want should be bid for starting at an insultingly low offer.. and when you get told to sod off, go up in increments of 1p until they move to another club.

We probably were, but as usual we were probably making derisory offers, slowly going up in increments of a penny.

Itll be do do do do romain perraud do do do do romain perraud anything else will be troubling for many.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can get decent PL level footballers for £3m-£10m if the scouting/recruitment is correct. Don't need big names or big fees.