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Given the injury to Stewart and Downs being hopeless, I'd hope we can try and get another striker on loan in January. I wouldn't expect us to be splashing the cash on players and nor should we. We've just chucked £60m at the squad, and had to pay off Still and find a replacement.

Yes we are. The ingredients are all there, we just need the right man to come in and get them playing as a team.

No, they don't. They will no doubt have considered than GON would be an unpopular appointment, but fans don't dictate how a club is run. The only thing that would make a difference would be if you run the club into the ground financially with widespread boycotting, which wouldn't happen if GON came in and actually did a half decent job.

You’re comparing the man who won the PL at his first attempt with the man who steered one of the most expensive teams in Championship history to 20th.

It’s a lot harder to interview prospective replacements if the incumbent manager is still in place. As soon as the first hint gets out that’s what we’re doing, Still’s position basically becomes untenable and he’d have to go anyway. Besides, after two points in five games, I’m not sure what you think was worth hanging on to.

That would be England who are on their way to eight wins out of nine under Tuchel, the only defeat being a friendly.

He’d be an absolute cracker of a signing.

TBH, that’s probably more sensible than rushing into a panicked appointment. None of the names we’ve been linked with have been awe-inspiring, so far. Tonda not being a disaster in the last two games at least buys us a bit of time to find the right guy.

That looks like a still from one of Bonnie Blue's videos.

If more than a third of those supposed 806 fighter/interceptors are combat airworthy, I'll eat one of them. Russia has nothing that can lay a glove on an F35, their planes get shot down by second hand, eighties built F16s.

Maybe?! 🤣 Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, around 35 years ago, Russia's overall defence spending has been roughly level with our own. That's the UK, not NATO collectively. Yet here is Alexei, sharing graphics which claim that Russia has over 800 fighter/interceptor aircraft. You really have to admire Russian efficiency, being able to keep eight times the number of aircraft we have airworthy on a very similar budget.

I’d say the summer of 2007 was level with 2024 as the most utterly bewildering I’ve seen as a Saints fan. Euell and John - Completely unnecessary and on huge wages Adam Hammill - Did naff all. Bennett - Hopelessly out of his depth. Thomas - Absolute panic buy for £1.2m when Burnley wanted about £300k. Safri - The most vanilla ball recycler we’ve ever had (still hasn’t officially left, according to our OS).

Some weird picks in there. Perry was a decent, experienced player at a time when we were falling apart. Lucketti also did fine in his brief time here. Tadders scored our goal of the season before getting a serious injury, so I'm not sure he counts either. Gardos had a few decent games for us too. He was backup to Toby but largely fine when called up.

Caceres was signed as short term cover after we sold Fonte. He was never part of our long term plans so we barely played him. Danso was not a good player and didn't look ready for PL football.

He’s an odd one, Alberto. The last couple of seasons he’s been averaging just under a goal every other game in Brazil. On the flip side his blooper reel makes Shane Long look like Del Piero.