| Huge gap 02:21 - Oct 25 with 2587 views | saint22 |
Between us and Leicester after 13 games
Just goes to show what smart owners with money can do |  | | |  |
| Huge gap on 08:07 - Oct 25 with 2493 views | SalisburySaint |
Leicesters start is amazing, and exceptional, the number of points they have at the moment far exceeds what Burnley had at this stage last season, and they won the league with 101 points, 10 points clear of 2nd, and 21 points clear of 3rd.
Leicester currently on course smash that record, so not sure we should be expecting Saints to match that |  | | |
| Huge gap on 08:20 - Oct 25 with 2478 views | SonicBoom |
Why? They got relegated with us, they changed their manager, they are playing a different style to last season, and they sold their best players. Sound familiar? |  | | |
| Huge gap on 08:55 - Oct 25 with 2444 views | Ron11 |
| Huge gap on 08:20 - Oct 25 by SonicBoom |
Why? They got relegated with us, they changed their manager, they are playing a different style to last season, and they sold their best players. Sound familiar? |
The only thing that isn't familiar is that they brought in a manager who knows what he's doing. | | | |
| Huge gap on 10:24 - Oct 25 with 2378 views | saints__fan__73 |
| Huge gap on 08:55 - Oct 25 by Ron11 |
The only thing that isn't familiar is that they brought in a manager who knows what he's doing. |
And owners who know what they are doing.
They are a club of almost identical size/fanbase as us and yet have won a PL and FA Cup in the past decade while our owners had no ambition of getting higher than 15th. |  |
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| Huge gap on 11:24 - Oct 25 with 2333 views | grumpy |
| Huge gap on 10:24 - Oct 25 by saints__fan__73 |
And owners who know what they are doing.
They are a club of almost identical size/fanbase as us and yet have won a PL and FA Cup in the past decade while our owners had no ambition of getting higher than 15th. |
15th in the Championship? |  | | |
| Huge gap on 12:12 - Oct 25 with 2279 views | saintwizzler |
If you’d of walked into St Mary's for the Leeds game and someone had told you that we would take 10 points from the 4 games to be played, you would have snapped their hands off at that, bbz. x |  |
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| Huge gap on 12:52 - Oct 25 with 2250 views | green |
Another way of looking at this is to say that they should never have been allowed to get into a position to be relegated in the first place. Can’t recall many people praising their smart decision making at the end of last season. |  | | |
| Huge gap on 13:10 - Oct 25 with 2227 views | Ron11 |
| Huge gap on 12:52 - Oct 25 by green |
Another way of looking at this is to say that they should never have been allowed to get into a position to be relegated in the first place. Can’t recall many people praising their smart decision making at the end of last season. |
Dean Smith was a bad choice yes, but they certainly made up for it with Maresca, whereas Saints bring in another clueless moron who thinks the he knows best above all else. | | | |
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| Huge gap on 13:34 - Oct 25 with 2197 views | 1885_SFC |
We have too many players with scar tissue... |  |
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| Huge gap on 13:36 - Oct 25 with 2190 views | saintwizzler |
| Huge gap on 13:10 - Oct 25 by Ron11 |
Dean Smith was a bad choice yes, but they certainly made up for it with Maresca, whereas Saints bring in another clueless moron who thinks the he knows best above all else. |
You’ll have egg on your face tonight when we sit in 3rd place after dispatching The Lilywhites hon x | |
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| Huge gap on 14:14 - Oct 25 with 2159 views | dirk_doone |
Leicester are on course for their 8th 2nd tier Championship to add to their Premier League title, 3 League Cups and an FA Cup. It's funny how some clubs of a similar size to ours win trophies but we don't. We seem to be the nearly men of football and massive underachievers when it comes to winning trophies. One of the Pompey nicknames for us is "The Trophy Dodgers".
One advantage of relegation, I thought,was that we might at last win a Championship trophy. Finishing runners-up to Man City in 1966 didn't seem bad at all, as we'd finally got promotion to the top flight but finishing runners-up again to Spurs in 1978 and Reading FFS in 2012 was frustrating. Then there were all the other times we finished runner-up in leagues and cups: 11 in all, 12 if you include the Charity Shield. You'd think we'd have more than 1 cup to show for our 17 FA Cup & League Cup Semi-final appearances. There surely can't be any other club in Britain that's been in that many semi-finals and only won 1 cup.
I'd happily swap promotion this season for winning the Championship next season. I was at Wembley in '76 but I would like to see us win one more trophy before I die. [Post edited 25 Oct 2023 14:28]
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| Huge gap on 14:26 - Oct 25 with 2135 views | hedgeend61 |
| Huge gap on 12:52 - Oct 25 by green |
Another way of looking at this is to say that they should never have been allowed to get into a position to be relegated in the first place. Can’t recall many people praising their smart decision making at the end of last season. |
Someone talking sense, makes a change.
The quality of Leicester's squad last season should easily have finished around 9-14th last season, the fact they got relegated could/should be attributed to poor managers.
They only really sold Maddison, Barnes, Castagne (we shifted 14, and of those only JWP will get a game every week in the PL) for decent money over the summer, so still now have a fair few still of PL level, whereas we only had a couple up to PL level last season in the PL, hence why we finished bottom without a real whimper.
It's not that difficult, is it? |  | | |
| Huge gap on 14:29 - Oct 25 with 2121 views | Avior |
It never ceases to amaze me how short peoples' memories are. Leicester are indeed a very similar size club to us in terms of fan base and stadium. However their owners are in a totally different financial league to any of our recent ones and more crucially have been prepared to lose to money on a substantial basis. When they won the Premier and the FA cup they had spent heavily on transfer fees and more crucially wages. It wasn't by chance that they signed Maddison and Maguire instead of us. The reason they were relegated was the fact that Covid decimated the owners Duty Free business and they simply had no more money to put in. Big wagers had to go and Rodgers couldnt sign anyone.
Yes they lost 3 key players but they retained the likes of Ndidi and Iheanacho and spent big wages on Winks and Coady. Their manager is undoubtedly better than RM but we tried to get him and not surprisingly he took one look at the respective squads and made the right choice. we are paying the price of years of under-investment when we got what we paid for and then a panic splurge of poor spending which had to be recouped in the summer. Until we have an owner with more money than sense or find a local genius like Brighton and Brentford we will always be "under-achievers.
Quality and depth of their squad will mean they will easily win the division. Ipswich will fade at some point so second place is up for grabs in a low quality league. Lets stop moaning about everything, get behind the team and see what happens. COYR | | | |
| Huge gap on 15:15 - Oct 25 with 2064 views | Ron11 |
| Huge gap on 13:36 - Oct 25 by saintwizzler |
You’ll have egg on your face tonight when we sit in 3rd place after dispatching The Lilywhites hon x |
Well I hope so, but they only scraped a last minute win agains Hull. Let's hope he changes his ways and gets them moving the ball FORWARD. | | | |
| Huge gap on 18:48 - Oct 25 with 1942 views | Butty101 |
| Huge gap on 14:29 - Oct 25 by Avior |
It never ceases to amaze me how short peoples' memories are. Leicester are indeed a very similar size club to us in terms of fan base and stadium. However their owners are in a totally different financial league to any of our recent ones and more crucially have been prepared to lose to money on a substantial basis. When they won the Premier and the FA cup they had spent heavily on transfer fees and more crucially wages. It wasn't by chance that they signed Maddison and Maguire instead of us. The reason they were relegated was the fact that Covid decimated the owners Duty Free business and they simply had no more money to put in. Big wagers had to go and Rodgers couldnt sign anyone.
Yes they lost 3 key players but they retained the likes of Ndidi and Iheanacho and spent big wages on Winks and Coady. Their manager is undoubtedly better than RM but we tried to get him and not surprisingly he took one look at the respective squads and made the right choice. we are paying the price of years of under-investment when we got what we paid for and then a panic splurge of poor spending which had to be recouped in the summer. Until we have an owner with more money than sense or find a local genius like Brighton and Brentford we will always be "under-achievers.
Quality and depth of their squad will mean they will easily win the division. Ipswich will fade at some point so second place is up for grabs in a low quality league. Lets stop moaning about everything, get behind the team and see what happens. COYR |
Leicester Shifted 20 players on over the summer. They had every boy as much upheaval as we did.
We even spent more money in the transfer window . It turns out we spent it badly. |  |
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| Huge gap on 21:47 - Oct 25 with 1819 views | Ron11 |
| Huge gap on 13:36 - Oct 25 by saintwizzler |
You’ll have egg on your face tonight when we sit in 3rd place after dispatching The Lilywhites hon x |
No egg on my face.
It's all on Martin's. | | | |
| Huge gap on 22:30 - Oct 25 with 1757 views | Avior |
| Huge gap on 18:48 - Oct 25 by Butty101 |
Leicester Shifted 20 players on over the summer. They had every boy as much upheaval as we did.
We even spent more money in the transfer window . It turns out we spent it badly. |
Not sure about that. Check the numbers on Transfermarkt. My main point was what they started with was better which is why the manager went there | | | |
| Huge gap on 04:28 - Oct 26 with 1657 views | Ripleys_revenge |
| Huge gap on 14:29 - Oct 25 by Avior |
It never ceases to amaze me how short peoples' memories are. Leicester are indeed a very similar size club to us in terms of fan base and stadium. However their owners are in a totally different financial league to any of our recent ones and more crucially have been prepared to lose to money on a substantial basis. When they won the Premier and the FA cup they had spent heavily on transfer fees and more crucially wages. It wasn't by chance that they signed Maddison and Maguire instead of us. The reason they were relegated was the fact that Covid decimated the owners Duty Free business and they simply had no more money to put in. Big wagers had to go and Rodgers couldnt sign anyone.
Yes they lost 3 key players but they retained the likes of Ndidi and Iheanacho and spent big wages on Winks and Coady. Their manager is undoubtedly better than RM but we tried to get him and not surprisingly he took one look at the respective squads and made the right choice. we are paying the price of years of under-investment when we got what we paid for and then a panic splurge of poor spending which had to be recouped in the summer. Until we have an owner with more money than sense or find a local genius like Brighton and Brentford we will always be "under-achievers.
Quality and depth of their squad will mean they will easily win the division. Ipswich will fade at some point so second place is up for grabs in a low quality league. Lets stop moaning about everything, get behind the team and see what happens. COYR |
This is just about the most sensible and succinct summary of where we are at as a team. More of this kind of thing please!! | | | |
| Huge gap on 04:57 - Oct 26 with 1648 views | saint22 |
| Huge gap on 04:28 - Oct 26 by Ripleys_revenge |
This is just about the most sensible and succinct summary of where we are at as a team. More of this kind of thing please!! |
It is indeed a very accurate post
That said getting behind the team when we have to deal with the same clear errors and mistake and poor selections and tactics over and over from yet another second rate manager makes it very hard to get really excited | | | |
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