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Thread | Boscombe
at 08:45 24 Sep 2024
Boscombe play a very similar way to Brentford.
They have plenty of pace up front and in attacking midfield positions, and are good at both the high press and pushing up the pitch at pace.
The tippy tappy stuff at the back would end up with a similar result for us to the Brentford game.
Not a game for us to be playing half-paced.
I'm sure our clued-up management will be on to this...... |
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Thread | The only way Saints will win today
at 10:06 21 Sep 2024
Is if we just have 40% possession.
Let Ipswich faff about with the ball and get nowhere.
And we be clinical with the ball when we have it.
Of course, that isn’t our way 🙄
I eagerly look forward to seeing the stats show that we had 80% possession; and had just 2 or 3 shots on target. |
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Thread | Cornet
at 14:18 18 Sep 2024
He strikes me as the sort of player who may score 2 or 3 belters in a season.
But more likely to blast shots out of the ground and into the fanzones at the Northam and Chapel Ends.
Rough with the smooth.
Bit of pace about him though.
Wonder if we might be better off with him playing up top more centrally. |
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Thread | Unity
at 11:43 18 Sep 2024
Still a lot of causes for concern last night, not least the lack of shots on goal relative to the possession we had.
I'm not sure we are ever going to see an improvement on that under this manager while we are in this League.
It did however strike me that the players are all trying their hardest for Russell Martin.
We went a goal behind, and could have caved in, as we have done in the last two League games.
Granted we were playing a weaker opponent last night; but there did at least seem to me to be quite a lot of fight and togetherness in the team.
We will need a lot more of that in the coming weeks. |
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Thread | Fanzones
at 19:14 15 Sep 2024
I am going to boycott these fanzones for as long as possible.
Walked past the Northam Fanzone yesterday after seeing the Saints Brass tribute to Elijah, and it irritated me a lot that Saints fans were a lot noisier in there than they are in the ground.
Please support the pubs in Southampton. It is far more important that they continue to thrive.
Sing in the ground rather than in these gulags. |
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Thread | Lallana
at 15:57 12 Sep 2024
Would anybody have him in the starting line-up?
He has had two little cameos against Cardiff reserves and Brentford when the game was up.
In fairness, he played well in both.
I didn't like us signing him any more than a lot of people on here did.
But he might come in useful.
I wouldn't start with him, but I would have him higher up in the equation than one or two others who have had a few chances to impress and not taken them.
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Thread | Richard Keys views on Russell Martin
at 10:28 4 Sep 2024
Richard Keys is a coont of the highest order.
However, I did find part of his latest blog quite interesting.
Particularly the part where he compares Martin with Vincent Kompany.
I suppose none of us thought Martin was going to be around with us for that long, but I guess there is a grain of truth in Keys alluding to potential "auditioning".....
".....A quick mention for Russell Martin, who reckons his suicidal approach to the game would be ‘questioned less I was foreign’. No it wouldn’t Russell.
Wise up man before it’s too late. Saints remind me of Burnley last season - who were, of course, managed by a foreigner. He too insisted he wanted to play the ‘right way’. He too got spanked most weekends and his team were all but down by Christmas.
I said then Vincent Kompany’s approach was a season long interview for a better job. Burnley fans reared up in his defence. But was I right wasnt I? His mate Guardiola played him into Munich - and Burnley went down. He got what he wanted and he didn’t care a jot about Burnley.
I’m not saying Martin is auditioning, but he’s heading for the exit door if Saints don’t change....."
https://richardajkeys.com/blog/
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Thread | Quotes from Martin after the Brentford game
at 21:38 1 Sep 2024
Have only just seen these…..
“But when you play this way in this league in this country and score brilliant goals no-one wants to talk about it. But when you make a mistake everyone wants to talk about it.
“It is in the context of what is normal and acceptable for British football, I guess, and as a young British manager I really feel that. If I am not English, or apparently Scottish, it gets questioned way less“
This is the sort of tosh that will lose the dressing room; if he hasn’t already. |
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Thread | Mission to Burnley - Season 2
at 08:49 1 Sep 2024
In his commentary yesterday, Garry Birtles kept saying that we are very much like Burnley from last season, and destined for the same fate given the total stupidity of the tippy-tappy stuff around our own penalty area.
This series is now available on SKY, showing behind the scenes stuff from Burnley last season.
I think of watching this as a bit like an anaesthetic before horrible stuff at the dentist’s.
Might see if I can stomach the first episode….
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Thread | Next 3 League games
at 22:16 31 Aug 2024
United home
Ipswich home
Boscombe away
We need 6 points from these 3 games to get us on a 1 point per game average for the season, with some tough games to come after that, particularly away games.
Anybody fancy our chances??? |
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