| 2024 - the year for Saints 09:05 - Dec 31 with 866 views | PatfromPoole |
Guess it's fair to describe it as a year of two halves......
Highs:-
West Brom away (League)
Huddersfield home (what a game that was)
Birmingham away
West Brom home (play-offs - proper noise that night and celebrations across the City long into the night)
Leeds at Wembley
Lows:-
Ipswich away last season
Leicester away last season
Stoke home
Moving from the Itchen North (I really loved it in there)
Pretty much every game in the Prem
I guess it's certainly not been dull, and I suspect 2025 won't be either.
Though a big part of me thinks of the Leeds play-off final as a "Sliding Doors" moment, and wonders quite how different the last 5 months would have been if Daniel James hadn't hit the bar at the end of that game.
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:30 - Dec 31 with 804 views | PatfromPoole |
On reflection, I suspect that if we had lost at Wembley, we would now be somewhere around the top 6 of the Championship.
And we would still have Russell Martin.
I wonder whether most people would have preferred that.
My suspicion is probably not, given how big a failure we now know Martin was in the Prem. | |
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:40 - Dec 31 with 790 views | A1079 |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:30 - Dec 31 by PatfromPoole |
On reflection, I suspect that if we had lost at Wembley, we would now be somewhere around the top 6 of the Championship.
And we would still have Russell Martin.
I wonder whether most people would have preferred that.
My suspicion is probably not, given how big a failure we now know Martin was in the Prem. |
I recall during the back end of our season in the Championship that I did not want to go up. I enjoyed most of the championship season, but I also knew we did not have the team or the set up to compete in the PL. I think the majority of Saints fans knew that.
The Wembley day was fantastic, a memorable day and it was a case of wanting to win it but knowing that we were not ready for the next level.
The disappointment is not that we are in the relegation zone - I think most fans expected that we would be or that relegation would be the most likely outcome - I think the disappointment is that I did not think we would be as bad as are or have been this season and often against even the most mediocre of opposition. |  | | |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:59 - Dec 31 with 757 views | PatfromPoole |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:40 - Dec 31 by A1079 |
I recall during the back end of our season in the Championship that I did not want to go up. I enjoyed most of the championship season, but I also knew we did not have the team or the set up to compete in the PL. I think the majority of Saints fans knew that.
The Wembley day was fantastic, a memorable day and it was a case of wanting to win it but knowing that we were not ready for the next level.
The disappointment is not that we are in the relegation zone - I think most fans expected that we would be or that relegation would be the most likely outcome - I think the disappointment is that I did not think we would be as bad as are or have been this season and often against even the most mediocre of opposition. |
Aye.
We made ourselves a team you would love to play against.
You have to at least make the opposition work hard to beat you, and in fairness Leicester and Ipswich have done that, and have given their fans moments to celebrate.
I'm sure last night will live long in the memory of Ipswich fans.
We have had none of that. | |
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 10:05 - Dec 31 with 748 views | felly1 |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:40 - Dec 31 by A1079 |
I recall during the back end of our season in the Championship that I did not want to go up. I enjoyed most of the championship season, but I also knew we did not have the team or the set up to compete in the PL. I think the majority of Saints fans knew that.
The Wembley day was fantastic, a memorable day and it was a case of wanting to win it but knowing that we were not ready for the next level.
The disappointment is not that we are in the relegation zone - I think most fans expected that we would be or that relegation would be the most likely outcome - I think the disappointment is that I did not think we would be as bad as are or have been this season and often against even the most mediocre of opposition. |
Exactly...oh to an Ipswich fan.
They will likely go down with us but with a fight .
We on the other hand are just an embarrassment. | | | |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 11:22 - Dec 31 with 693 views | Jellybaby |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 09:59 - Dec 31 by PatfromPoole |
Aye.
We made ourselves a team you would love to play against.
You have to at least make the opposition work hard to beat you, and in fairness Leicester and Ipswich have done that, and have given their fans moments to celebrate.
I'm sure last night will live long in the memory of Ipswich fans.
We have had none of that. |
Under the new manager, we can at least echo the hard work of Ipswich as seen first half against West Ham, so may get a few good results, obviously too little too late.
But we have to recover from the dreamlike experiment of thinking we were world beaters, when we had the worst players in the league, not the best. The naivety or stubbornness or both of RM have cost us any chance of survival.
It is just about restoring confidence and pride and preparing for a promotion push again next year. | |
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 13:38 - Dec 31 with 567 views | DorsetIan |
Since 1 Jan 2022 - the last three years - we've played 38 Premier League games at St Mary's and won only 7 of them.
5 of these were in 2022
We saw one PL win in 2023 - 1-0 v Leicester - and one PL win in 20204 - 1-0 v Everton.
2025 ? Please don't talk to me about 2025.... | |
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 14:17 - Dec 31 with 527 views | dirk_doone |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 13:38 - Dec 31 by DorsetIan |
Since 1 Jan 2022 - the last three years - we've played 38 Premier League games at St Mary's and won only 7 of them.
5 of these were in 2022
We saw one PL win in 2023 - 1-0 v Leicester - and one PL win in 20204 - 1-0 v Everton.
2025 ? Please don't talk to me about 2025.... |
"one PL win in 2023 - 1-0 v Leicester - and one PL win in 2024 - 1-0 v Everton"
We are 2/3 of the way towards becoming the PL's emergency numbers team:
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 14:49 - Dec 31 with 471 views | grumpy |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 14:17 - Dec 31 by dirk_doone |
"one PL win in 2023 - 1-0 v Leicester - and one PL win in 2024 - 1-0 v Everton"
We are 2/3 of the way towards becoming the PL's emergency numbers team:
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The people I feel sorry for are Season Ticket Holders.
It must be like having a ticket to the same show that was poor from day one. |  | | |
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| 2024 - the year for Saints on 15:27 - Dec 31 with 438 views | Southamptonfan |
Wembley was a brilliant day. People dressed in red and white walking down my street on their way to Wembley. We drove up and to see hundreds and hundreds of Saints fans draped in red and white at the services, singing before and celebrating afterwards, will always be a memory.
And that West Brom game was incredible. I honestly can't remember St Mary's ever being like that, with the flares outside and the noise inside. The city came alive that night with people celebrating into the early hours, horns beeping everwhere. I have never experienced a Sai ts atmosphere quite like that. I suppose the positive is that we might have more of that to come next year!!!
It really is roller coaster ride being a Saints fan. Massive highs and massive lows. In one month it's incredible, 3.months later it's terrible. [Post edited 31 Dec 2024 15:29]
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| 2024 - the for Saints on 16:37 - Dec 31 with 365 views | grumpy |
A rollercoaster ride absolutely.
I do wish we would realize our potential.
Promotion was a fantastic opportunity to move to the next level and build.
Unfortunately the owners gave the Manager a long contract and when we lost game after game left it too long to replace him.
Its not mathematically impossible to stay up but realistically to now looks very unlikely.
I wish the manager well,he seems a very honest guy and I'm sure he will do his best.
Have to say he would not have been my choice but my choice probably would not have wanted to move considering our position. | | | |
| 2024 - the year for Saints on 17:05 - Dec 31 with 350 views | sledger |
and the guy who refused to change his tactics is probably on a beach with lucy while im still paying my hard earned to watch a team relegated early doors by him without a whimper,life just isnt right. | | | |
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