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Reply | How many goals will the forwards get?
at 15:16 18 Sep 2024
Who knows, maybe Ross Stewart will jump to the top of the chart....
Are we including Cup games in this BTW? Nick normally says they don't count...... |
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Reply | Southampton At Everton The Carabao Cup Verdict
at 15:14 18 Sep 2024
Fernandes and Lallana play completely different roles though.
Fernandes is more the Stuart Armstrong replacement we were after, who will make attacking runs to support the striker.
Lallana reminds me a lot of Modric playing for Croatia; he takes the ball from the CB's and keeps the ball moving. He's a very clever player TBF, but he needs runners around him.
I think Lallana is more of a replacement for Les Ugo or Downes. |
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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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Reply | Says it all…
at 11:34 18 Sep 2024
I don't know who Dave Hendrick is, and how more qualified he is than any of us to offer a critique on Saints.
He just says that Stephens and Fraser aren't good enough for the Prem.
Many may agree with this.
He doesn't however offer much in terms of solutions, and / or state which players are good enough.
There is so much sh1t or bust in the mix here, with a fair few players in our squad who have not played in the Prem before.
And as with 2 years ago, we are reliant on a number of very young players to come good for us pretty quickly (Dibling, Fernandes, Archer, Les Ugo, Harwood-Bellis, possibly Edwards).
And we may yet be reliant on Ross Stewart's fitness.
So many unknowns. |
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Reply | Everton Carabao Cup Game Matchday Thread
at 23:50 17 Sep 2024
Apart from Fraser’s shot from a tight angle and Brereton’s shot from outside the box near the end, I can’t think of any saves the Everton keeper had to make during the 90 mins.
The goal apart, obviously.
Hardly a triumph for a strong Saints team against Everton reserves.
Still, a win is a win.
And we thrashed them 74-26 in possession. So the manager will be pleased. |
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Reply | The Incredible Central Defensive Saga
at 12:41 17 Sep 2024
But was this partly not due to the genius Hassenhutl playing him at left-back, despite this clearly not being his best position?
He had a bit of a habit with doing this with various players….. |
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Reply | Man U - lesson learned?
at 08:51 16 Sep 2024
You know things are bad when it increasingly dawns on you that the only solution may be Bella-Kotchap.... |
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Reply | The "Red Wall"
at 08:49 16 Sep 2024
The problem is that our "fan culture" is increasingly driven by muppets with big followings on Twitter, such as Saint Rob and Football Martin, who just want to be seen in and around the dreaded fanzones.
The new songs which I hear people now singing are beyond painful.
I don't mind things like flags, they are all about improving the atmosphere. But you can only have an atmosphere if you have fans giving it plenty and not just arsing about on phones, and / or counting down the minutes until they can return to the nearest fanzone for a pint at half-time / full-time.
Oh, and it might help if the team tried having a few shots on goal during a game....... |
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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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Reply | FFS
at 19:08 15 Sep 2024
The problem is that we are never going to win games simply because we don’t get bodies in the oppo’s penalty area. It will just be the striker on his own.
Probably pretty pointless sacking Martin as the players have been conditioned to play in this completely pointless way.
Watching United yesterday, they had 3 or 4 players in our box every time they attacked. It’s not rocket science that they therefore had far more shots on goal.
We are destined to finish bottom by some distance unless we change this moronic way of playing. |
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