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Actually I'd like to buy an upgrade on Bertrand and reduce him to the back up role. He ain't getting any younger and has been rumoured to be trying to get out since Puel's tenure. He hasn't really looked like his heart is in it for a long time. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Surely a LB is the priority we have one in the whole squad and when he doesn't play we have all sorts problems having to play players out of position. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Bollix. That was our best performance of the season all this Arsenal didn't turn up is just rubbish. To early say if it's a turn around or just a freak good performance by the players but in isolation it's was a good performance against a top six team. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Have to see if the players can keep it up. One thing I've got used to the last few seasons is false dawns. This group of players can occasionally put in a good team performance, that gives you hope they've turned a corner, but they seem to struggle to repeat it week after week to get any sort of constant good form going.

Arguably he did pull it off. The nature of the late equalizer yesterday put a dampener on things but that was our best performance of the season and normally a draw at Arsenal would be considered a good result. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Come on!! It's to early though isn't it? We will now try to sit deep for the rest of the game ... Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

I doubt it I imagine he is praying our basket case of club release him, with a nice retirement package, from the purgtory of trying to coach duffers like JWP and Stephens into footballers... Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Pace would be my guess. Obafemi is very rapid... sadly it's paired with Shane Long like ball control and shooting ability. Obafemi won't last the game anyway usually after one breakneck speed sprint he pulls up with a hamstring injury. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Is there any defence or midfield we can put out with this squad that doesn't look hopeless? Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Well at least we have two actual fullbacks in the fullback postions.... It says so much about the squad though that what ever CB, in a two or a three, combination the manager puts out my reaction is " oh bollix" Romeu being dropped is a bit WTF he is the only central midfielder in the squad that I rate the other three all make me go "oh bollix" when ever they appear on the team sheet. I guess the new Shane Long won't play for long his first big sprint and he will limp off.... Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

I think it's worse than you think. Pinning your hopes on us have a couple of good transfer windows to get us back on track seems very optimistic given our recent history. One massive difference between our time under Lowe and this time was we had MLT a player who could win a match and get us points through sheer bloody brilliance we have nothing like that this time. The 90s are a long time ago now and maybe I'm a bit nostalgic but I'm sure the lads back then had way more fight and heart than this current bunch. It felt a lot more like the players and fans where in it together in the relegation scraps this current lot just give the impression they're not to bothered. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

yeah I cant see him getting 200 mil if we go down he will taking a much reduced offer I reckon (though he will probably try and snaffle the parachute payments as well) after all 30 mil is better that sweet FA when he has completely ****ed us up.

I'd argue we are already Sunderland. As a club we act and look just like they did a few years back in the PL under Ellis Short even down to the record thumping, endless manager turn over, ****e players on two much money, and having an owner who wants out and no interest in investing there is only one way we are going and its league 1 the only issue is how long it takes. (on the upside going down the leagues might mean two proper south coast derbies a season)

Why? If we get relegated and he really wants out he will have to take a lesser offer. No one is going to give him 200 million with the club in its current state. It's his own fault anyway he over paid for us and then he basically lets us drift into relegation fodder. If he really wanted his investment to be worth what he paid for it he should have invested more time and money in the club. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Though I could be wrong Gao is apparently trying to sell his share of the club... https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/southampton-news-sale-gao-jisheng-owner-ralph-hasenhuttl-arsenal-epl-a9213571.html Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Just about to post the same looks like he wants out, thank ****, now does anyone know a rich Arab billionaire? Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Let's face It will be ****. We will buy some average Joe player, (probably an attacking winger, as that's the part of the team where we have some useful options already) for like 10 million euros while basically ignoring the obvious issues like fullbacks, CBs and CM. Ralph (or whichever poor **** is saddled with the job by then) will tow the party line and claim this is exactly the signing he was hoping for and the team can now push on. After a few games it will be obvious that said new signing is hopeless out of his depth.. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

To be honest I'm starting to think the only way to get rid of the owners is to crash and burn while we continue to hang on in the PL the owner will stay and carry on with their failed policies. Just scraping survival in the PL season after season doesn't really hold any appeal. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

yeah yeah heard it all before. Its not the players they're actually good strange then that changing manager has made no difference several times already. If things carry on as they are the club will sack Ralph, everyone will rejoice, someone else will come in and we may get a new manager bounce and survive and then we can go through the whole crappy experience again next season. Like I said we are like Sunderland of a few seasons a go. A crap owner, no plan, empty promises, endless managers and a bunch of crap players with no bottle and little ability, on stupid wages a lovely little package all wrapped up in a little bow of malaise. the club is a mess from top to bottom and that can't just be fixed with simple solutions like sacking the manager it runs much deeper than that.

Fighting relegation every season with this group of players is as good as it gets until we finally get relegated. This is the third relegation battle season in a row we are basically Sunderland. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

A new photo driving licence costs 34 quid assuming a new voter ID would have a similar cost. You want to spend £119000000 of public money to protect the country from electoral fraud. A problem so vast that two whole people have been convicted of it since 2017 pretty sure the country could spend that sort of money better elsewhere. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Exactly if the government are going to do this properly it needs to roll out voting photo ID to every adult voter. Ideally as some are clearly terrified that electoral fraud is wide spread the voter ID card needs to hard to easily replicate. This is going cost a fair amount of cash. Now given the electoral commission reports 2 convictions and 10 cautions for electoral fraud since 2017 it hardly seems worth the cost. I'm not against the idea if there was clear evidence of huge amounts of electoral fraud that needed to be stamped out but there isn't. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

After four managers in three and a bit seasons I'm not really sure any manager can turn this squad around except on a very temporary basis. If we replace Ralph the players might try a bit harder, for a few games, for the new guy, and then they will just regress back to their natural level of a bit crap. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Just a quick yes / no do you you believe mass electoral fraud is being carried out in the Uk If so where is your evidence? Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

I think we have problems across the squad and I was never a particular fan of Targett but he'd still do a better job than sticking some random squad member there. It's not really the point though becuase I wasn't against Targett leaving I just wanted him replaced with a better LB which we didn't do leaving us one LB who for various reasons hasn't been available for a big chunk of the season which is unbalancing our squad. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk