Lighthouse

Gao's rudderless, penniless tenure here was the segue from the Leibherr years to where we are now. His era was massively flattered by two people; Ralph and Ings. Without them we'd have gone down years earlier and there's no way we'd have come back up under his so-called leadership, i.e. a PR photo of him holding a Saints scarf in some office in Shanghai.

No. There are countless other owners we could have, like those of Blackburn, Huddersfield, Cardiff, Bolton, Wigan, Pompey or Blackpool. Saints blitzing their way back to the PL, with swashbuckling football from Lallana and Lambert is very much the exception to the norm.

You’d have to be off your tits to want that. For all their mistakes, they have spent a lot of money on the club and signed some quality players for this league. Would you want to be in League 1, with owners not spending a penny and a team built around McCarthy, Stephens, Manning, Smallbone and Archer? It’s a trait of football fans at every club to think that they have it as bad as it gets. I genuinely had friends who support Arsenal asking, "what have we done to deserve this, why does God need us to suffer?!" When they were finishing sixth at the end of Wenger’d reign.

Yes but I’m not sure how taking 1/8 inch off the wood furnishings is going to improve the situation.

And that f**king goal at Derby...

When I've got one tab showing the Saints game on some dodgy, illegal stream and another showing some slapper fiddling her bean, I'm going to spend more time browsing the latter from now on. Take that SR!!

Yes basically. We lost to Millwall when he was still 'auditioning' then won the next two after he was permanently appointed, so that doesn't correlate. Other teams have done their homework on him and he has failed to improvise and adapt. I was kind of hoping that there might be a bit more to him that what we've seen but apparently not.

If you replaced Bazunu with an average League 1 keeper, then since Tonda took over we'd have: Beaten Millwall 2-1, as he'd have saved the first and third Beaten Norwich 1-0, as he'd have saved the first at his near post and come out and caught the second Drawn 1-1 at Oxford as their winner was nowhere near the keeper Beaten Birmingham 1-0, as he wouldn't have flapped at that looping header. Lost 1-0 today but that's our only defeat and the GD would be much better than after a 4-0. That gives us a record of P13 W9 D3 L1. 30 points from 13 games, which is easily promotion form. We've got just under two weeks to get the Peretz deal ironed out, then things are going to start looking a lot better.

What's wrong with the defense? An average Championship keeper would have saved all but three or four of the goals we've conceded in twelve games under Tonda. Seems okay enough to me. We've scored in ten of those games too. I doubt TE will still be here in any case but we aren't going to be in a relegation fight.

We're having a sh*t season but this is getting a bit hysterical. It's only two years since we did get promoted, without Martin or Bazunu next season we'll comfortably be in the hunt for the top six.

There’s a vacancy for president of Venezuela if he fancies it.

You could try PornHub. I doubt they’ll be streaming the match but they’ve probably got something more interesting to watch.

He scared the sh*t out of me when his head floated out of that fishing boat.

Well... good luck Greenland, Canada, Iran and basically everyone except Putin.