Look @saintbletch he caught it this time
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As ever context is everything, @btripz
What you donāt see in the seconds proceeding that picture is that he was standing upright with the ball in his hands, chatting to Dave Watson, before he stumbled. Probably one of those Austrian earthquakes.
I know Iām tough on him, and heās such a lovely bloke who is dedicated and trains hard, that I feel like a cunt when I say he should be replaced between the sticks.
Show me some pre-season clips of him coming out to close down an angle and diving low and fast to just tip a ball round the post that was otherwise bound for the bottom corner, or show me some clips where he is confidently coming for crosses and shouting āmineā in a frighteningly deep voice, andā¦
ā¦Iāll show you some doctored footage.
Still, if heās wearing number 1 at the start of the season then heāll get my full support. Actually, given how we are likely to press as a back 6 under the new bloke, our clean sheet stats will probably look quite good.
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VvD is in the video, at about 20 seconds left
To be honest @saintbletch it looks like he is actually afraid of the ball, his expression is one of pure fearā¦
I remember the last time I took one in the nuts trying to charge down a full-backās clearance and I can tell you fear would have been just one of the expressions racing across my visage. The lasting one was that, not seen since the demise of the āViking Blood Eagleā
Expecting my testicles back sometime in the next ten years. Fraser has every right to look scared.
Extended van Dijk in training video alert
Ummm ā¦ the analists on Steveweb sprouting definitions of matchfit, contact training etc about VVDās non appearance on Sat despite his Tweet, seemed to have a good point about VVD not wearing shin pads ā¦ but todays session definitetely had the potential for contact yet still no shin pads. Admittedly we didnāt see VVD in that part of the training.
I think we all know here on Sotonians that was not VVD in the video but a Lookie-likee. VVD is on strike and refusing to take part in training, be it fitness, contact, cards or shove halfpenny.
Schmucks on fiver-web will obviously be watching this thread closely for up to the minute infoā¦melt-down will follow this exclusive exposĆ©.
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Wouldnāt that be an indirect free kick?