Ric Flair

FFS I didn't think this would be on, been drinking since 7am.

Well done pal

We'll work something up and I'll post it in here.

Hahahahahaaa that's the ringing endorsement every geezer needs in their life. I feel on top of the world now. You lovely man.

I think there'll be a fair few of us doing a half marathon tomorrow regardless of whether it's on or not.

He is indeed, a good friend of mine used to do it with him. Guy Branston is now teamed up with Lee I believe. I'll see what I can do.

Hahahaa I'll do a lie detector test, I genuinely don't. I'm crap some weeks anyway, just got a niche era I'm unplayable at 😂

First I've heard of Aideed, any good?

No he didn't, he won a major trophy in his 1st full season and got promoted in the one he joined mid way through. He didn't even start that badly but just toiled after about half a dozen games and our fan base got very concerned. Unless my memory has deserted me.

Consequence of being in a Steve Cooper team that's average sub gets less than 10 minutes a game.

We're both sad little men 😂

We need players who can press, Ndidi will likely be deployed in the advanced midfield role but El Khannouss has good pressing stats in Belgium. Ayew should be nowhere near the starting eleven but you know fine well he will be and Southampton won't be exposed as a result.

Thank you both so much

Here you go sir. Thank you

See I could disagree more if I tried. I view managers as having only a short amount of impact and if they aren't doing so then get rid and replace. Almost all of our success in the last decade or so has occurred from managers right from the off. Very few start poorly and still go on to be a success.

If any of you salts of the earth have a few coins spare to donate to raising money for LAMP for our half marathon run this Sunday, that would be hugely appreciated. https://www.justgiving.com/page/ricflair-1726899797911?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fricflair-1726899797911&utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=pfp-whatsapp

Is that a dodgy 80's retro attempt at the 2022/23 shirt ?

Haha was too much to cover, would have been a 3 hour pod. We're going to do one early next week so without a game we can take stock on stiff We haven't covered as much such as Odsonne, Bilal, the academy and Bounanotte who deserves a full hour just him.

Yeah and it'll make it all the more galling this time around as we've absolutely destroyed them 9-1 deploying a team devastating on the counter. That said Abdul didn't come on until we were already 4-1 up away there but his performance at home vs them was arguably the best individual performance from any of our players last season. He was unplayable. I hope Cooper gets asked about that because I'd be fascinated to understand his thinking if he does indeed go all turgid.

Just recorded it. Will be up soon pal

Never seen an attacking player have less shots or create chances since Okazaki. He did extremely well because we had high output machines like Vardy and Mahrez but given Cooper's system attacks with only 4 players going forward, rather than 5 like we did under Enzo and one of them is a master at hiding then it's no surprise we prop up the table on shots and chance creation. He should be nowhere near this starting eleven. Impact player at best. Exactly what I called out in the summer is happening, he was never going to be just a squad player.

99.9% sure we're recording tonight.

He got 1 injury in February after his herculean performance away at Leeds. Other than that he was rested for only one game. Even being subbed he only went off 3-4 times and most with less than 10 mins to go. His body held up well last season and his lack of use this season is a disgrace.

Quite surprised the U18s have dropped off recently. Possibly doesn't help that Evans has moved up pretty much all the while with the U21s and Hutchinson has been injured for over a month now.

Agreed and we've seen this in the two games we've taken the lead in. In both games we were largely impressive until we dropped off and invited the pressure on to us. Bournemouth were far better 1st half than Palace but we were good for the lead and I'd say ought to have had a penalty as well as Vardy's fluffed chance. Bournemouth had a few chances but it was 2nd half where it'll be a mystery to the neutral how they didn't at least equalise let alone get a winner.