Daft Kerplunk

1. Always mean to pick on players who simply shouldn’t be at a Premier League club but Moi is the one who offers so little. But it’s not his fault he gets picked. 2. in the modern tradition of being indecisive, all 3 in their own way. 3. Forest. Sat there laughing at the way it all went. But there’s been plenty of competition in this tough to call category. 4. Statistically the most aggressive front footed manager in Europe v we should be grateful to be in this league v amazing light show when the team was dreadful. Hmmm. 5. Toughest category of all but Joe Aribo wins for me. 6. Martin Semmens. Instrumental in allowing Ankerson in so he kept his job. And even if you deny that, he’s instrumental in the culture of the club telling us we should be grateful to be in the league and also creating the type of culture where an on-pitch experience for kids at the end of the season gets cancelled without explanation to the kids, and where home sections get treated badly and away fans can do what they want. Has to go, and the pathetic board and other directors should go with him.

Similar form to those chasing the final Champions league spot then. Just to put in to context for those who still imagine we will conjure a level of form we’ve not had since 2021.

According to employees at Saints, directors say if you don’t like it leave when they make shit changes, and that kind of attitude is the same they take with fans. We are nothing but customers to them, which is fine if you treat them well, but not when you take them for granted. Rotten from the top.

When you see the damage betting does to vulnerable people (including footballers and people who are easily manipulated, which is plenty), this is about time. Betting, no problem, but these muthafucks make it way too easy for people to get in serious problems, and football just takes the money and hasn't given a shit for too long.

About sums us up at the moment. The football club that has forgotten it’s a football club.

The game was supposed to be sold out but there were so many empty seats, including groups of seats together. Are the club keeping some behind for match day walk-ups? Is it some weird security or accounting ploy? Are they selling tickets to tourist groups who don’t sell them? I know there were saints fans trying to get tickets for yesterday so surely our fans would be better than so many empty seats. Really odd.

Selles was always facing a near-impossible task to keep us up, but he is far too defensively minded and our football is too risk-averse. And this comment after the match might be useful not to lose players but to say we have enough goals in this team is mad. "We knew it was a gigantic task when we took it on. We are performing and we are going to keep fighting for every point. We have enough goals in the side and we are going to go for it."

With a front line as penetrating as Sammy the snake

Don’t need evidence for anything religion-related, just belief.

There is logic here but Martin Semmens has had the ear of Katrina (still has a stake) for years. He managed to work his way through Gareth Rogers, Ralph Kruger to get to the top job. He was the person who found and led the sale of Kat’s first sale to Gao, then was a key person in the most recent takeover. He needs to go now, and SR may make this decision but Semmens has been the key player behind the scenes, and more recently, in front, for a good number of years. I know people at the club who would back this up, as making it up would be weird.

Has anyone seen what can only be assumed to be Martin Semmens’ salary? In the echo today 🤔

Opened this hoping you’d found a new goal scoring centre forward

Wow. 13 years. Felt like it was the beginning of something special. Followed by some magic times. Then totally fucked up by people who joined the bandwagon thinking they were the bees knees when there were actually bollocks.

Quick Tim Greenwell, better close block 2+3

Indeed, but we are behind them so it’s tougher for us. I agree that there are plenty of teams in the mix for relegation this year, but have a tough close to the season and have no indication of getting out of the mire. This year would stand alongside the great escapes, something we all had hoped were a thing of the past until not that long ago.

I like the optimism but out of the last 10 matches, you have us winning half of them. Form-wise over the season, that’s pretty much where Man Utd are and above Newcastle Utd. We’ve won 6 of 28. We have improved of late but we need European qualification form to get to 38 points. Can it be done? Maybe, but the odds aren’t in our favour.

From a footballing perspective, it is likely to be dull. From an impact on either team’s season, it will be anything but. It’s not entirely win or don’t survive but it would leave us with tougher games on paper to need to win. A draw would be good but to get out of this mess, a win is vital.

Unfortunately the good team we have on paper is 20th out of 20 teams at the moment. A good team on toilet paper.

The board has spent most money on stadium improvements in the hospitality areas, which is their comfort zone, and those ‘customers’ won’t be paying as much as the club asks for in the lower leagues. They’ll probably leave.

Anyone good enough for the Premier League will leave. Thankfully, that’s not many. Unfortunately, that’s not many either 🤣

The dream of playing P****y twice a season is closer than ever. Our club, our rivalry, our future

Nice HoJo reference 👏🏼

We’ve been to the abyss, and we want to go back again

It’s easy to forget how shit we were when we used to beat relegation. This is a good point, and it’s a point we didn’t expect. Still find it difficult to score, and that is not going to be useful in the remaining games. But successive clean sheets is a big plus.

Infectious bad ideas called cognogens readily spread in our stressed pandemic environment. One such cognogen, the Great Barrington Declaration , is causing harm. The declaration takes its name from Great Barrington, a Massachusetts resort town. This declaration, signed by 12,000 people, is sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian think-tank. The declaration begins with the false premise that governments intend to lock down society, and cherry-picks facts (for example, that COVID-19 infections are mild in healthy people). A critical mind would look at who has funded this declaration, work out that libertarians are for minimal involvement of any form of government in people’s lives, and reach a conclusion that this doesn’t represent the whole picture. The funding by libertarians reduces the validity of the work, however valid some of it might be. It’s like those scientists who, for years, said smoking wasn’t bad for you. Because the research were funded by big tobacco companies. Also, a critical mind would read that this isn’t about whether covid is real or not but that the lockdowns are harmful against people who aren’t impacted that greatly. Again, a libertarian approach that suggests that the elderly and frail should just tough it out and take whatever comes their way, especially if it means the libertarians can then do what they want. Anyway, I just go as the football is on.