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Thread | Tonight's other games
by Southamptonfan at 20:54 30 Dec 2024
Ipswich one nil up. And all the talk about who is as at fault at Saints, Man U losing again but they have another "world class" manager in charge, but they still lose? |
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Thread | Dragan Solak has been legged over…
by davidargyll at 16:21 30 Dec 2024
I have been reading a lot on here about the incompetence of SR.
But are we not really talking about billionaire Dragan Solak being well and truly legged over by Ankersen - and Henrik Kraft as well?
Because all the decisions that have been made over the last couple of years have to be laid at the door of the Director of Football surely, be they about managers, or purchases and sales of players?
And if I was Mr Solak, I would be thinking that he has got himself tied up with a couple of guys who have cost him tens, if not hundreds, of millions of pounds.
Of course he knows full well that he isn’t the first billionaire who has been told a load of porkies by a couple of smooth-talking chancers and is now suffering the consequences.
But isn’t now the time for him to show us, the fans, exactly how much HE cares about the club and either
1. Fire that pair of incompetents? Or
2. Sell the club? Or
3. Conceivably both? |
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Thread | Nucleus of a fairly strong Championship side next season
by PatfromPoole 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 | Worst points total & goals scored.
by GRIM at 08:40 30 Dec 2024
We currently have lowest number of points scored & the lowest number of goals scored in all of the 4 Football leagues.
This has now got very, very embarrassing.
It can't get any worse. |
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Thread | Bednarak had no support
by robcoe5 at 21:58 29 Dec 2024
If you watched Crystal Palace, they put someone in front of tall Paul to stop the ball going into him on his chest, yet their centre forward had just bednarak trying to win the ball from behind the forward committing fouls, surely someone should of called to change this as their target man controlled the game. |
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Thread | Anybody still of the opinion that it was all Russell Martin’s fault ?
by saintmark1976 at 17:26 29 Dec 2024
New manager:- 3 games, 1 point from a possible 9 and only 1 goal scored.
Rather looks to me very similar form to our previous manager’s record.
I’ve said it consistently, the majority of the blame for our current league position lies with our owners and the absolute incompetent doughnuts they employ, who amongst other bizarre decisions thought it a good idea to extend Armstrong’s contract and purchase cast off Championship and Premiership forwards to assist him.
In truth we were effectively relegated before a ball was kicked with or without Martin or the new manager.
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Thread | New Manager Bounce
by Butty101 at 16:57 29 Dec 2024
We rarely seem to get a new manager bounce and win a few. Wolves are having a decent bounce |
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Thread | Brentford
by saint22 at 21:31 27 Dec 2024
I see they are yet to win away this season……… |
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Thread | In praise of Tall Paul
by DorsetIan at 11:34 27 Dec 2024
The guy deserves massive credit for his performance yesterday.
Sure, he didn't score, but for his first attempt he was rugby tackled by the WH defender just as he was heading the ball - a clear pen for me - one header only just missed the far post and a third required a great save from Fabianski.
And he was in the box in the right place to get on the end of those balls, just as he was in the right place in the box in space right at the end when Dibbling should have passed to him.
Add to that that he was getting on the end of most of the goal kicks, not static, waiting to see where the ball was going and then running to meet it, often collecting the ball on his chest before laying it off.
And he was holding up the ball with his feet too.
And he put a massive shift in.
And he was encouraging the crowd.
Yes, some of his passes aren't as accurate as they could be, and yes he can be a bit clumsy. But show me someone who's 6ft 7 who isn't.
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Thread | , K. Walker-Peters
by grumpy at 10:26 27 Dec 2024
Thought he was brilliant yesterday,he was everywhere,taking players on, often with three defenders round him.
The difference yesterday was our best player was an attacking wing back and there's was a scoring Midfielder. |
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Thread | Russell Martin
by SaintNick at 10:17 27 Dec 2024
Yesterday showed that this team can play, that it can defend and it can attack, I stuck up for Martin both last season and the first games of this, he should be revered for getting us up last season, but I find myself now despising him for the way he stuck to his own agenda rather than adapting and utilising the players that he had to hand.
I think I despise him more than virtually any manager that has been at this club, off hand I can only think of Branfoot and Redknapp that I hate more, the rest might have failed, but they did so because either they didn't have a squad to work with or they just weren't up to it.
Russell Martin was up to it, he was just too selfish & arrogant and cared more about his tactics than keeping us up.
he would have preferred to go down with 64% possession that stay up with 34 points |
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Thread | 5 Things About The West Ham Game
by SaintNick at 10:12 27 Dec 2024
1. I though our support was decent at times, but we haven't got that red wall effect where the Northam keeps going throughout the game, dare i say it we need a group of ultras who just keep singing.
2. I though West Ham's support was poor, both in terms of noise and the fact that they sang some silly songs taunting Saints, no need for that we are not their rivals.
3. The Bedford pub didn't open till 3pm and afterwards only had two beers on tap, a lager and Guiness, it's due to close on 4th January, I doubt that it will last that long, it was empty after the game, after going in there since the 1970's it was a sad sight to see.
4. Spirited performance, sadly i think it is going to be too little too late, Russell Martin left us nothing to build on in terms of results & points
5. Why the hell did we not play Big Les under Russell Martin, most teams have big tall powerful players, we had none if Big Les had been used by Martin we might have picked up a point or two extra, that might have given us a chance now |
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Thread | 12 substitutes today
by dirk_doone at 20:26 26 Dec 2024
I think that's the first time I've seen 12 substitutes play in a league game at St Mary's. Has it happened there before?
Theirs were better than ours. They could even bring on a top class sub goalkeeper. |
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