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Saints Get Pricing Badly Wrong As Set For Lowest FA Cup Attendance in 15 Years
at 11:15 9 Jan 2025

And the FA Cup is our main focus now as we have nothing else to play for, which is why teams often reach cup finals in their relegation seasons, as Wigan, Portsmouth, Brighton, Middlesbrough etc did.
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Saints Get Pricing Badly Wrong As Set For Lowest FA Cup Attendance in 15 Years
at 11:03 9 Jan 2025

We'll all be there for that one. It will be another 30,000+ gate, like all of our league games, because season tickets are sold out.

It's not only us. When Derby had their Premier League record lowest points total in 2007/08, they also had one of the highest average attendances in their history (32,000+), because their season tickets had sold out after the high of winning a play-off final at Wembley.
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VILLA WINGER PHILOGENE SIGNING FOR £21 MILLION!!!!!!
at 10:48 9 Jan 2025

Yes, I don't think our current team would do as well in the Championship as last season's did. We had a team good enough to finish 4th; I'm not sure this team could manage that.
We miss Ché Adams and Stuart Armstrong.
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VILLA WINGER PHILOGENE SIGNING FOR £21 MILLION!!!!!!
at 10:26 9 Jan 2025

Edozie, who is better than Sulemana and Cornet. The last game he played for us was our biggest win of the season: 5-3 at Cardiff. We could do with him against Swansea as he scored the last time we met them at St Mary's and won 5-0.

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£21m
at 10:01 9 Jan 2025

Yes, but our heads of recruitment then are now the directors of football at Newcastle and Forest.

For a club our size, getting the recruitment of players and managers right is all important. We can't afford expensive errors and we have made a lot of them recently.

It's not just about how much you spend. Take a player like Ola Aina at Forest. They got him on a free transfer and he has been brilliant for them this season. They also got one of the best central defenders in the world, Milenković, at the peak of his career, for just £12 mill, and, of course, one of the best managers. That's down to great recruitment, not how big or rich the club was.
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VILLA WINGER PHILOGENE SIGNING FOR £21 MILLION!!!!!!
at 09:52 9 Jan 2025

Ipswich could well stay up. They have been making some very good buys in the transfer market, including goalscorers like Liam Delap.

It seems that nowadays, the heads of recruitment and directors of football, who choose the players and managers, are even more important than the managers. Ipswich, Forest, Bournemouth and Newcastle obviously have good ones.
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Elon Musk
at 10:30 8 Jan 2025

Elon Musk has British ancestry and it seems that while Trump has his eyes set on Greenland, Panama and Mexico (of which he said in his speech, "It's ours" ) for his colonial expansion, Musk is considering this country, and at the very least he wants to be the kingmaker here.

We await the meeting of Trump and Putin's representatives in Moscow, when they decide how they will carve up the world between them, a bit like the German-Soviet Axis Talks in Berlin in 1940. Of course, they will fall out eventually and then, as Trump would say, "All hell will break loose" aka World War 3.
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Who stays and who goes ?
at 00:12 8 Jan 2025

It depends whether or not he starts drinking bottles of vodka. Not all talented young footballers do.
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What has happened to the fans?
at 14:09 7 Jan 2025

You're lucky, I feel like an old man before I even get there.
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What has happened to the fans?
at 12:49 7 Jan 2025

OK, in future we'll just call you Obsessed. Good name, by the way, for a Pompey fan who posts every day on a Southampton messageboard pretending to be a Saints fan.
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What has happened to the fans?
at 10:46 7 Jan 2025

Is that how you and your fellow Portsmouth fans see yourselves, Arthur? Well, that's good to know. Perhaps you should stick to digging up worms and posting pictures of your kitchen.
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Ryan Fraser Wanted At Leeds
at 10:37 7 Jan 2025

Perhaps we could fit them all in a Transit van and leave them somewhere up the M1.
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Is it time for a new slogan?
at 17:55 6 Jan 2025

Don't give up
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Ryan Fraser Wanted At Leeds
at 17:52 6 Jan 2025

With the baby booster seat?
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Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic
at 20:57 5 Jan 2025

I'm not sure what the end product is supposed to be here. No matter how much you hate Sport Republic, they can't just walk away, having invested hundreds of millions in the club, albeit it very unwisely. They could, I suppose, put the Club into administration, but who knows how many years it would take us to recover from that.

Our best hope is either to give them time to find a buyer, which isn't going to happen in the middle of this season of turmoil, or hope they can turn things around. Right now, they are probably working on both of those options.

Kat Liebherr is always there, selling first to Gao and then bringing in Sport Republic. Don't be surprised if she has a big say in the next choice of owner as well. There will be a few chancers but don't expect great owners to be queueing up to buy us now. A lot of care needs to be taken over this decision so trying to rush it through now is unlikely to end well.
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The humiliation of Adam Armstrong by Southampton Football Club
at 14:18 5 Jan 2025

He shouldn't have been asked to do it, but ultimately, he'll laugh it off.

Meanwhile, people are going to make sure Adam Armstrong gets maximum embarrassment for as long as possible by reposting this video as much as possible.
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The humiliation of Adam Armstrong by Southampton Football Club
at 14:10 5 Jan 2025

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The best thing we can do
at 00:50 5 Jan 2025

No better owner is coming in the middle of this season, no better manager is coming here before the end of the season and what better players would want to come here right now?

So, the best thing we can do is be the best supporters we can be under these difficult circumstances. At least we can save some pride that way and show potential new owners, managers and players as well as the current ones that this is a fanbase worth fighting for.

A toxic atmosphere, boycotts etc are just going to have the opposite effect. We got what we asked for when Martin was sacked and we were reasonably happy with his replacement. In fact I can also remember being pleased when Sport Republic took over and there were loads of positive comments when they started bringing the new players here.

It hasn't worked out. I'm sure the owners, managers and players have suffered more than we have over it. Imagine how Juric feels right now and how players like Aaron Ramsdale must feel. This is having a devastating impact on their careers. None of them wanted this to happen.

I've been impressed by our support so far this season. That, along with the emergence of Dibling and the arrival of Ramsdale, has been one of the few good things about this season. So, let's all give it our best shot until the end of the season. That's the time when changes can take place.
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Russell Martin must feel as though he’s won the Euro Lottery
at 20:29 4 Jan 2025

I agree. He got out just in time to save enough of his reputation for another crack at a Championship job. If he'd stayed until the end of the season, it would have been too late. The best he could have hoped for then would have been a lower league job. Right now, he's probably the happiest man connected with Southampton Football Club this season, and very relieved that we didn't leave it any later to sack him.
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Is there anything positive about SFC at the moment?
at 20:18 4 Jan 2025

It was fun while it lasted.
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