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Thread | 2024 - the year for Saints
at 09:05 31 Dec 2024
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.
Happy New Year to fellow Ugly comrades. |
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Thread | Nucleus of a fairly strong Championship side next season
at 13:30 30 Dec 2024
McCarthy
Bree
Wood
Edwards
Charlie Taylor
Downes
Aribo
Smallbone
Fraser
Archer
Armstrong
That's a starting 11 of players I don't see getting moves to a Prem club in the summer, possible question mark on Downes maybe.
With the likes of Fraser, Amo-Ameyaw and dare I say Stephens also there to add options from the bench.
You could see Archer and Armstrong each getting 20-odd goals in the Championship next season.
A few decent signings to give us more depth, and it should be a decent season. |
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Thread | Who is conducting transfer negotiations in January?
at 13:22 30 Dec 2024
Parsons?
Ankersen?
Bitcon?
Would be concerned with all of these.
Based on our summer business, Ramsdale and Fernandes apart, they have failed us miserably.
Our failure to replace Jason Wilcox has proved very costly. |
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Thread | Set pieces - again
at 11:51 23 Dec 2024
I really feel we have suffered with not having a dedicated set-piece coach.
With us creating so little in open play, we simply have to be more of a threat from set-pieces.
We had a number of corners in the second-half, but never looked like scoring from any of them.
There is very little imagination in our corners. You look at some of the goals Boscombe have scored from set-pieces, and they are clever, you can tell they properly practise them.
Marginal gains and all that nonsense has rarely seemed so apt. |
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Thread | Game off tonight?
at 14:12 18 Dec 2024
Bit of a water issue in the City, by all accounts……. |
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Thread | 10-Year Plan and the 5 Pledges
at 23:08 17 Dec 2024
Where are we at with these?
I think we should demand the publication of the pledges.
I know I can count on the support of FranniesTache on this key initiative. [Post edited 17 Dec 23:41]
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Thread | It’s going to be Lallana, isn’t it?
at 08:10 16 Dec 2024
The moment I saw him suited up at the play-off final was when I feared this day would come.
Not as if he is ever fit enough to play.
Cheap option, no compo to pay.
Ticks a lot of boxes for the brainless board.
Sigh. |
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Thread | Set pieces
at 20:37 5 Dec 2024
Boscombe just scored from another set-piece.
Why can we never do this?
Oh yeah. No set-piece coach.
And yet we concede another terrible goal from a corner last night……
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Thread | Celtic’s own goal in the Champions League last night
at 06:43 28 Nov 2024
Quite the thing of beauty.
I swear Saints are destined to score one just like this at some point this season.
Martin will be getting the players to practise this today in training in time for Brighton.
Trust the process, Saints fans.
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Thread | Risk and Reward
at 18:54 24 Nov 2024
That one worked out well again didn’t it, Russell?
Off you fcuk. |
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Thread | Where is Charlie Taylor?
at 18:38 24 Nov 2024
Surely a better bet at left-back than Fraser.
Quite surprised to see Manning on the bench. TBF he has been quite solid of late. |
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