spyinthesky

I feel vey sorry for those fans travelling to Stamford Bridge and Anfield

And for the second time in a row, Juric replaced Welington at Half Time

I looked on the comments section of the Leicester Mercury match reports. More or less the same feelings of desperation and disappointment as has been with us all for many months now, although I suspect that most of us have moved on to a feeling of inevitability. Mind you to lose AGAIN against both Leicester & Wolves would be a real kick in the nuts

Whatever happened to the Dubai Saints?

On the Financial front wasn't Mervyn King. ex Governor of the Bank of England, a Saints fan as is Ken Bruce's son, although no financial connection there!!!

Of course this is disgraceful and my heart goes out to the many innocent individuals in Gaza who have suffered terribly from Israel's retort to the Hamas attack. All that said, I wonder what my sympathetic response would have been in WW2, after experiencing bombing here, if I knew what Dresden and other German cities were experiencing. There also appears to be a 'fact' circulating on Social Media that the Israeli Govt knew about the impending Hamas attack and allowed it to proceed to give the green light to mass bombing in Gaza.

It was all the fault of the Nazi Jew Zelensky.

It does make you wonder if Trump was compromised during his time in Moscow and the Russians have evidence of it.

As i have mentioned before the Sunderland fans I have spoken to all reckon that Roscoe is the real deal (albeit at Championship level) when fit. It begs the question how many players have returned to full fitness after such a long time out of the game. With regard to Larios, I cant see him finding a place in the team if he ever regains a semblance of fitness.

Sad fact of life nowadays is I go the St Marys hoping that we can keep the goals against no more than 5. I find myself looking at the clock counting down the time to 90 mins + hoping there is a swift respite. Heaven help us if we went a couple of goals down early doors then have a player sent off.!!!!!!!!!

Is Roscoe (and Larios) actually training or still in the 'Recovery Position'?

I always remember speaking to an ex Manager who said that if the recruitment of new player was at least 70% successful, as a Manager you had a very good chance of making a decent team, as seems to be the case with the likes of Brighton, Bournemouth and Forest atm. Below that figure there were likely to be problems. Of course Saints arent the only team with recruitment problems but the club doesnt have deep pockets so the minimum 70% success rate in the transfer market is particularly important. I understand that when Ted Bates was Manager he personally watched players when they played at home and away to make sure they were consistent in their performances. Nowadays that really isnt possible as so many players play matches outside this country.

Fair point. I was aware that Plymouth could be brought into the equation but whilst I appreciate my comment was not geographically correvct, for my sins I have only seen Bournemouth, Pompey and Brighton as being our 'rivals' along the South Coast. I suppose it is a bit like saying which are the rival clubs on Merseyside which would then have to include Stockport County

Whilst not necessarily arguing against your choices, the fact is the club will have to sell the better players such as Fernandes, Ramsdale, Dibling perhaps THB to make up for the losses that relegation brings. Likewise if there is interest in players with a year remaining on their contract will probably have to be sold for financial reasons. KWP will unfortunately leave on a Free.

MLG But are we? They beat Swansea 4-0 versus our 3-0. They drew with a full strength Burnley 0-0 whilst our more or less full strength side lost 1-0 to a weakened Burnley team. Going back to pre season we were abysmal and lost to Oxford whilst Pompey beat them 2-0. There is the possibility that Pompey will strengthen next season whereas our better players will be off. I guess it will all depend on who is the Manager and what decent recruits will be in the team next season. I have the recurring nightmare that for the only time in my long association with Saints, we could be the lowest ranking side along the South Coast.