Le Timmier

Won't be a popular appointment with all suctions of the fanbase

Swansea on Boxing Day, a bit of Christmas needle if they're still salty about compensation!

It isn’t the “very last roll of the dice”. SR own the club. Even if they get this wrong, they may roll multiple more dice multiple more times!

Glenn Cockerills hair never fails to captivate me. Quite remarkable.

Ralph

Love it. The original was my first ever Saints kit when I was a kid. I prefer us not in basic stripes. Different strokes for different folks.

But highly unlikely that lower league clubs will be able to cover their wages

Always seemed like a good guy. Sadly a good guy who also really substandard. An overdue exit.

A nutter off an infamous road rage video on YouTube

So what you're saying is that in 4 out of the last 5 seasons, the team finishing 17th would need either 35 or 36 points to survive? Not sure how/why you think that is any different to what I said? OK, it's been 35 points more often than 36 points in recent seasons, that's why I said "more or less" - it's near as damnit.

I said we'd likely need a minimum of 36 points to stay up. Which proved to be a an entirely accuate estimation. If we had a total of 34 points we would have finished 18th or 19th, depending on GD

Nothing about Jesse Marsch, but just saw @Fabrice29 talking about the qualities of AMN on the Transfer Window thread and it reminded me to dig this out. Cheers 🙂

Would love to see Tall Paul at left back for the lols

I'd be hanging onto AA. He scored 28 goals in his last Championship season. Decent chance we will finally see some return on our investment.

Yep, thought he was terrific today. Looked a lot more confident too

I reckon he has underlying health issues. Not based on any knowledge - just a hunch.

Damn those Nuno Ty's

Ah! Ze finest of ze german sowsez! Can’t keep my eyes off your avatar mate. Hells bells

What odds on Rasmus being in the dugout himself before the season ends? Only half joking.

Sure, but when putting forward an opinion people don’t usually post it as though it’s a fact e.g. ”I reckon the players want” as opposed to “the players want”

Dodd and Gorman and Wise and Bassett

Source?

But but but! He played 8 games for us in 1996!! And Brighton is on the South Coast! (or something)

It's not "my" magical 36 points. It's not a figure plucked out of the air. It's evidence based. It is more-or-less the points total that the team finishing 17th in the EPL usually needs to avoid the drop.

Baffling? To stay up we're going to (more than likely) need a minimum 36 points. That's a further 21 points. That's SEVEN wins. Over the course of a season, 7 wins in 16 games is comfortably top-8 form. We only managed 9 league wins in the whole of last season - and only 4 in this. The upturn in form required to attain the minimum 21 points we require just isn't going to happen.