Reminds me of my mate who died from heartburn. I still can’t believe Gav is gone. 


Anyway, as said, sad for this who knew him. Awful ref but will be known as a trailblazer. Doubt he made the grade if he was a white bloke called John Smith, but a good legacy nevertheless. 

the coming of gary" wrote: ↑15 May 2025, 23:02 Guarantees TEN clubs from one city in the top two divisions. Must be unique in World football, I would have thought
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Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 May 2025, 14:39 Good form, relatively speaking. He has done better than others, that’s my opinion. At least we have a focal point. Kudus on the other hand offers absolutely fuck all.

Good form, relatively speaking. He has done better than others, that’s my opinion. At least we have a focal point. Kudus on the other hand offers absolutely fuck all.

I was prepared to give Potter time, but frankly his selections are beyond baffling and I’m fed up with him. Fullkrug is in and out every other week despite in good form. Means our best player not playing in his best position even if he does do a good job up front. Kudus picked every week despite bei...

When I think of the Zola tenure, I always go straight to the disastrous diamond midfield four. Zero width. Bailed out largely by the fact Behrami chased around like the duracell bunny. It was dreadful football, and he followed that up with failure everywhere else.  If we were taking a punt on an unt...

Yeah I’m not having that at all, sorry. I would argue if you asked Bowen to fill in at left wing he would do a far better job and still pitch in with some goals and assists. Kudus has had chances at right wing this season and still been absolutely shit. Major attitude problem, but more importantly, ...

Bowen hasn’t had an off season. He has team mates who have completely failed him.  He is slightly below last season’s number of a goal every 2 matches vs 1 every 3 this (or a goal involvement every two) but without that we would be royally fucked. Who else is replacing those goals? Not the hugely ov...

I’ve had a season ticket for 25+ years. I renew almost out of habit, and as said, it’s something I struggle to shake off. That said, I have a one year old and another on the way. I leave for work before my daughter wakes up Mon-Fri, and am home when she’s asleep. With the way this season has panned ...

honky cat" wrote: ↑02 May 2025, 22:53 Why cant we just be normal and have nike or adidas and a sponsor that is suitable for childrens clothing.

I thought it was a great fight to watch. None of this cagey shit. A proper street fight is worth paying a score for.  By four rounds is an absolute scandal. I’d have tolerated a split decision narrow win for Eubank, but I had it Benn or draw at a push.  One suspect life decision aside, I don’t get t...

If he has dropped Fullkrug just for speaking out, he’s completely losing any support he had. If anyone should be dropped, it’s Kudus. The fella has been absolutely shit all season. 

What did Fullkrug say?  Striker Fullkrug, a summer signing from Borussia Dortmund, was left "very angry" by the team's lack of togetherness and the manner in which they lost momentum after taking the lead through Jarrod Bowen."It’s a mindset problem," he said. "Very angry t...

Hell of a rant from Fullkrug. Rate it to be honest. States the retreating and sitting back is not Potter’s instructions and he is clear in what he tells them. This is a mentality issue. He said it was 50/50 of players trying to kick on and sitting back. There are players who have known no other styl...

I’m completely unconvinced by Potter, and said the same on the match thread, but this Fonseca chat is weird for me. He flopped at Milan as badly as Lopetegui here. Sure he’s had some other flops too. 

I’ve been determined to back him until he has a pre season, and it is difficult to motivate players when the season is done, but Southampton managed it today. It’s getting harder and harder to support, especially the slow first halfs.  One positive is Fullkrug. He’s actually pretty good. The huge ne...

I agree with many of the comments about this being a good performance. Scarles had his work cut out and I hope he learns from it rather than dwells on it. And I agree with the comment about Potter frequently setting up poorly but adjusting well and that he is quick to do so and effective when he do...

As well as we played in the second half possession wise we never really looked like scoring.   What are you talking about. Fullkrug hit the bar and Bowen was clean through on goal and should have put it away. They were clear-cut scoring chances.  Not that I necessarily read into stats and the xG ru...

Not sure about this comment I see a lot that Potter has only sorted us defensively by going 5-4-1/3-5-2. Lopetegui tried it a few times and made us worse defensively! Today was fine, especially second half. Even Carragher was saying we deserved to be level, possibly even in front. Two clear fouls fo...

As has been said before name a successful side that placed defending as more important than attacking? I think George Graham's Arsenal was the only side that come up. We still concede one goal a game anyway, now my maths tell me you then need to score two goals to win games. Do we look like scoring...

As I said, it’s about building blocks. Clearly he needs to improve our attacking side of it, and that has to be the next challenge. Is if better to score 2 but concede 5 to Arsenal, or score 1 and concede none? Lopetegui tried the throw everyone forward method. We were a disaster. The way I see it, ...

He clearly saw the first thing to sort was the defence. If you don’t see an improvement there, then I’m not sure what you’re looking at. Under Lopetegui, we looked like conceding every time a team attacked us. We conceded three to Leicester from about the same number of attacks! We looked like an un...

I dont think he will, I dont think the club will make a loss on him and no one will pay what we paid for him so it will be a loan or Potter will be tasked to develop him  The same club that took a £30m-odd hit on Felipe Anderson, £10m on Scamacca and £20m on Haller. I hope you’re right but you’re g...

Every game this season will be what it is. It doesn’t really matter. It’s all building blocks. The first part of the job was the stop looking like we would concede whenever a team attacked us. We’ve done that, so the next step is being better at passing and keeping the ball. We’re doing that in my o...

I was just going to say Soucek isn’t suited to a possession based style and he scores again. A proper enigma!