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Thread | New Director of Football
at 08:27 12 Nov 2024
I am waiting with bated breath for the announcement of a new Director of Football, which it seems may be imminent.
This will be the “we are not losing faith in Russell, we want to give him some back-up” slant.
Which will save £12 million in redundancy. For now.
Though the Director of Football could end up being the new manager….. |
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Thread | MARTIN GONE
at 21:58 10 Nov 2024
Off on one.
I cannot be arsed to watch his inane drivel.
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Thread | Good advert for The Championship
at 07:19 30 Oct 2024
Decent game last night.
Two teams who couldn’t defend, a bit of needle in the second-half to fire up the crowd, and no VAR.
Ref was half-decent as well.
Bring on more of the same next season. |
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Thread | Taxi for ten Hag
at 11:58 28 Oct 2024
Those who bet on Buddha to win the sack race have lost their money. |
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Thread | Played for Saints and Stoke
at 07:51 28 Oct 2024
Shilton
Statham
Crouch
Delap
Fuller
Smallbone
Andrew Davies
I am sure there will be plenty of others. |
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Thread | Anthony Taylor
at 17:06 27 Oct 2024
Disgraceful refereeing performance last Saturday v Leicester.
Rewarded with Arsenal v Liverpool today.
I had forgotten how disgracefully run the Prem is. |
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Thread | Northam Wall - Stoke game
at 15:53 27 Oct 2024
Will we see the Northam Wall suck the ball into the net for the first ever time on Tuesday???
It might have to go to a penalty shoot-out…….. |
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Thread | Played for Saints and Man City
at 10:19 25 Oct 2024
Channon
Scott Hiley
Bradley Shite-Phillips
Dave Watson
Peter Reid
All those shit players that Joe Shields signed
Although Lavia was good
And John Burridge (obviously) |
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Thread | Set-piece coach
at 08:24 22 Oct 2024
Article in The Echo this morning confirms that we have not had a set-piece coach since Georgson left last season.
Have been winging it by the job being shared between Calderwood and Gill.
On Saturday, we again let in a criminally bad goal from a corner to cost us any points.
25 miles up the road, about an hour and a half later, Boscombe scored from a well-worked set-piece against Arsenal. As they did against us a few weeks ago.
It isn't that these teams have better players than us (though a lot of teams do).
It's that we are so amateurishly prepared.
Again, it is the basics which are costing us. Not clever stuff.
This is wholly on the head of Russell Martin. |
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Thread | 10-year project
at 21:08 21 Oct 2024
This cannot be so.
I’ll be 60 by the time we’re rid of him.
Hell fire.
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Thread | Martin would have gone by now if....
at 13:14 21 Oct 2024
1. We lost to Leeds at Wembley
2. We started this season in the Championship dismally
However, having beaten Leeds:-
- He has now become considerably more expensive to sack, with the contract extension etc.
- He will still be perceived by some of the powers that be as having credit in the bank
I fear that if we were going to do the deed, it would already have happened by now. |
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Thread | Top 3 reasons Martin must be sacked now
at 08:46 20 Oct 2024
1. Mental weakness throughout the side.
2. Substitutions
3. Set-pieces.
Difficult to keep it down to 3 reasons, in truth.
I'm still fuming about:-
- the non-international players within the squad being given 4 days off last weekend
- him being out in Winchester on a Saturday afternoon 3 weeks ago when he should have been at Arsenal v Leicester, and watching our next 2 League opponents.
He clearly has been waiting to be sacked for some time. |
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Thread | Our fans are shit
at 19:49 19 Oct 2024
Northam full of people on their phones, not watching the game. Generally not giving a shit.
And this was when we were 2-0 up FFS.
Try and start a song and people look at you as if you’re a weirdo.
Martin has to go. But he can take a lot of our fans with him. |
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Thread | Four days off
at 07:06 12 Oct 2024
A work colleague of mine was on a flight on Thursday night to Newcastle from Southampton.
Runs into Adam Armstrong, who is with wife and kids.
He said Armstrong came across as very passionate about Saints, and gutted about our current predicament.
The interesting thing was that he was flying back up north as Martin has given all the players not involved in internationals 4 days off.
I wonder if Steve Cooper has been quite so generous.
To my mind, you give players a period of time off as a reward when they have achieved something. You shouldn’t reward failure.
But then I’m not in carnal relations with Lucy Pinder….. |
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Thread | Manager gone if we lose to Leicester
at 08:34 10 Oct 2024
Seems to be the word on the street.
It strikes me that it would be somewhat negligent if our esteemed leaders were not already sounding out other managers and in talks with their agents. |
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Thread | Did Saturday's game buy Russell Martin time?
at 12:06 7 Oct 2024
I fear it did.
Massive game against Leicester to come. I would have preferred for us to have a new manager in place, as we absolutely need a change of approach.
Already Steve Cooper has made comments about this game and how massive it is for them. A win for them would put them on 9 points, a pretty reasonable start to the season.
Will Martin adapt our game, as Arteta did on Saturday to address our weaknesses?
I suspect we all know the answer to that one.
However, Leicester's defence is slow and they are definitely beatable.
Last chance saloon, Buddha. |
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