Numero Uno

The interesting bit is that judging by the mood on here I was expecting around 11.5k, especially when the anecdotal evidence is “me and my 14 mates who all sit together aren’t renewing”. Shows that this place is a bit more negative than the wider fan base as a whole and that many comments are hot air made for effect in the light of a bad performance or result.

It’s brilliant that, when adjusted for the 5k on here who swore blind they weren’t renewing, we’ve got so many new fans!!!

You worry far too much. I couldn’t give a fuck personally as last night has no bearing on the World Cup whatsoever. How some can overlook the fact that many of those lads have played nigh on SEVENTY games in the last 12 months, lots of them as high pressure as you can get, and should have been resting up nowhere near that stadium last night is staggering. Southgate badly messed up team selection last night that’s all there is to it. Northern Red was 100% right, a very tiny minority of miserable clowns totally over reacting to one poor performance and result.

This is a football forum and can't be that arsed to argue about cricket but entertainment, quality of the fare/players on show and ticket prices are directly linked, particularly when the prices are nothing other than stupid. Cricket is going the right way, certainly in the Test format anyway, in making itself a truly elitist spectator sport at those prices. The players certainly aren't that interested in Test cricket it seems, many games barely last three and a bit days nowadays.

It's human nature to be fair. Take Pickford as one example. Played in the Euro's every game, plus most internationals since and a whole season for Everton where for the last six weeks every single game he has been involved in (bar the last one) has been absolutely massive and carrying huge pressure not to make mistakes that have dire consequences. That requires top level concentration and nobody can tell me, regardless of your bank balance, that doesn't take it out of you mentally. It only has to affect you by 5% and if you replicate that over 7 or 8 players in a team then that team has a lot of sharpness missing, just like England did earlier. Whilst Pickford was obviously not to blame tonight what possible disadvantage would there have been in playing Ramsdale who would clearly want and need the game time? I'm not sure what Southgate was thinking with that team selection...........and tbf it wasn't hindsight either.

Your middle sentence nails it. The point being the Manager could have showed some balls and picked a team of players that wouldn’t have seen this game as their 70th most important in the last 12 months and been happy to play.

It should be at £150 per ticket…….and it’s only brilliant because only three or four players out of 22 can bat.

Not sure he’s inept but certainly way too cautious. Tonight should have been a team of his freshest and second string players and leave the rest for Munich. Instead it was a mish mash team, neither one or the other and we played like it.

Well they are millionaires like it or not and even millionaires can be flogged to the point where performances and motivation suffer. Pound coins don’t affect that.

Nothing to get annoyed about imo. Some of them shouldn’t be out there, they should be on a beach somewhere.

Can’t blame some of them tbh. When you count the Euro’s, 60 odd domestic and international games and then you still can’t have a rest and have to play in the Nations League one or two could be forgiven for wanting to be anywhere but playing football this week.

Yeah, the one we didn’t sign.

Agreed, they’ll be back doing “pre-season” in a month!! I know clubs are a bit more scientific these days but you won’t learn much watching the likes of Kane trotting about when he could be resting up.

About standard for a number of players who have played 60 odd games over the last 9 months and would rather be in Marbella “resting and relaxing” with a few mates tbf….

I think somebody is having a bit of fun here..................

Biarritz isn’t a hovel by any stretch of the imagination but you said it really, a lot more bang for your buck in St John de Luz. Great place I would recommend to anyone visiting France.

Maybe so but if the money stacks up from FFFP perspective I think we might go for it?

I’d go American, 143 consecutive life sentences, that would sort it out quickly……………

I’ve wondered for a while whether Kalas has been told he can bugger off if his agent can find a club to pay the required wedge?

No, Swiss fucked off to Ipswich…….

Agreed, St Jean de Luz pisses all over the more famous Biarritz.

If you read the internet I would suggest there is a lot more stuff from Luton dans incredulous that Naismith could take such a backward step and join us. A Luton fan on Twitter asked yesterday, responding to one of ours pointing out our average attendance and thinking he’d got one over Bristol City, “have you ever taken 40k to Wembley though?”……….”Twice” was the reply, “oh, fair play, didn’t realise that”. It’s not really us doing the Willy waving tbf. One good season and they think they are West Brom or something.

All non-English teams like Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Liverpool to play in their own country’s domestic leagues.

Odds reflect nothing more than betting patterns and the liabilities of the turf accountant on that particular book. If somebody lumped £10k on us to get promoted at William Hill and another £2k bet was received with Sky Bet we wouldn’t be 40/1 with them then and you can guarantee that other bookies would also adjust their odds. If you compare current odds with final league position next season over half of the teams will finish in the “wrong” position particularly in the Championship which we all know is a lottery behind a couple of newly relegated teams benefiting from parachute payments. Luton are just as likely to be scrapping relegation next season as they are having another play off push - just one example. If the betting dictated it there could be a scenario where a team are favourites to win the league and get relegated!!

Wasn’t just the saves though. The thing that all non goalkeepers seem to overlook is that he was dominating when Liverpool got a bit desperate and started loading the box. That’s what sorts out the Goalkeeping men from the boys. Too many see goalkeepers make brilliant saves and say “great keeper” and say he “had no chance” when he’s rooted to his line conceding a four yard header………