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Reply | Hillsborough
at 13:47 1 Mar 2026
Completely agree Southamptonfan. The demise of a once great club and ground.
Personally, I never felt it recovered from the Hillsbrough disaster and that was the start of it's demise and it has been one bad thing after another for them. Not that it was the fault per se of SWFC and certainly not their fans. I have a real soft spot for SWFC and you are right about their supporters. They were friendly, helpful and no arrogance. It was like going back to an age old day of going to football with the turnstiles, ticket checks etc and very basic facilities. |
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Reply | We won and we have been good recently so why......
at 12:45 1 Mar 2026
Very good points Dirk. You are right, the manager is taking a pragmatic approach and we can't be great in every game. It did show to me that when certain players are missing or not on their game it shows but that is the same for any team, even the very best.
I was more disappointed with our local vocal support if I am honest. With 3.7k fans I expected a good noise from us and that may have helped the players.
Anyway, I have probably said enough and in recent weeks we have seen that Eckert is a young manager with great potential and I can see the team spirit that was missing for a long time is showing new growth. |
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Thread | We won and we have been good recently so why......
at 10:41 1 Mar 2026
.....did I come away from yesterday's game feeling disappointed?
I don't know if in my sub-conscious I expected us to completely roll over Sheffield Wednesday (I personally never take any game for granted no matter who the opposition is) and the fact we didn't left me feeling underwhelmed or whether it was because I felt the players just didn't seem to take the game by the scruff of the neck or because for all the size of our support our fans were largely like Church mice and barely made a sound. In the end I left the game thinking a win is a win but it was not fun to watch. It sort of reminded me of a game against Birmingham City many moons ago at home where they were all but relegated from what was then the first division (showing my age here) and we won 3-0 but the game was as dull as dishwater - job done, but not one to remember.
Our attackers seemed largely supine and ironically it was our defenders that saved the day when it came to scoring. We certainly missed Ross Stewart and Flynn Downes. It felt like the team were going through the motions. We got a couple of goals, got lazy and Wednesday got back into the game. A bit like QPR - we don't take teams to the sword when the opportunity to do so is there. Our touch of the ball at times was just not there and things were not falling for us but there seemed to be the lack of drive on the pitch to change it. I have never criticised Archer, but he really is struggling. When he came on everything seemed to go against him. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time - he even ,managed to stop us scoring what looked like a certain goal - obviously he didn't do it deliberately but at the moment he appears fated. I didn't realise how small and slight build he is. He just doesn't really fit in. I think he is trying but almost trying too hard. His confidence - assuming he has any, must be shattered.
It was a win and a win is a win and they say, if you can do it when you are not playing well it is a good sign. The game lacked intensity and that probably did not help. We are one of the few teams that Wednesday have managed to score against.
Onto the support in the stands. We had (I believe) circa 3,700 fans yesterday but for the large part you would not have known it. I don't think I have ever criticised our fans and I have often had a moan when Nick has been quick to put the support down, but yesterday the support off the pitch matched the lack of performance on it. Are we fans that only sing when we are doing well? Clearly things were not going as well as we had hoped on the pitch but we should be the 12th man and be there to get behind and try and lift the players and instead the majority of us fans just stood there in virtual silence save for a few outbreaks of patchy singing. Ironically, I went down to the concourse at half time and there was a brilliant atmosphere with a new song of "Saints away, huh huh, I like it" (to the tune of KC and the band "that's the way, huh, huh, I like it"). The fans were in good voice and enjoying themselves. I was hoping that would be taken to the stand for the 2nd half but for a couple tame attempts it did not materialise.
So, a good win, an important win (not least as those above us keep winning) but not a convincing one and on and off the pitch we will need to do better if we are seriously hoping to challenge the current top 6. I am not unhappy or anything, I am pleased how things have progressed over the last few weeks and overall we are moving in the right direction. I have never thought we would go up this season and I still don't think we will but we need to build for next season as the Championship will be much tougher than this year. We are going in the right direction but there is some way to go.
One side point - what a revelation Bree has been since his return - I never saw that in him before he went out on loan.
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Reply | Today In 2017 The EFL Cup Final
at 14:07 26 Feb 2026
I was there. Great atmosphere by our fans and we played expansive football which was the opposite to what we had played most of the season (dull and boring). A perfectly good goal disallowed. You are probably right Nick that the Van Dijk incident had an impact. But, despite the outcome it was a memorable experience. |
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Reply | What commentator do you dislike the most?
at 13:42 18 Feb 2026
Many of the ones already named I would include, but the one that really grates on me is Clinton Morrison, yet the BBC seem to love him. |
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Thread | Sometimes eating humble pie tastes good!
at 23:07 10 Feb 2026
On 18 January, I wrote a pretty depressing piece about how I felt the club, the owners, the players had lost their way, lost vision, did not identify with the club or the city etc etc.
I am not suddenly going to say that everything is suddenly alright. It probably isn't. We have had many short lived false dawns. But, there is some hope and Pompey away, Stoke away, Watford at home (though it was a hard watch in many ways) and tonight has shown that somewhere, somehow there is some resilience and desire in the team coming through that has been missing for so long. Credit to Tonde if he is instilling this. Credit to the players for showing it. Just imagine what we could do, if we played well for 90 plus minutes. May be that will come.
I am going to enjoy tonight and this result and if it means I have to eat humble pie, then so be it. |
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Reply | 4 ****ing 3 Or Should That Be 3-4
at 22:54 10 Feb 2026
Unbelievable. I have seen us come from behind before, against Huddersfield and I recall being 3-1 down at home to Ipswich when McMenemy and Robson were managers and we won 4-3, but given last season and to some extent this, this is an amazing comeback and result. When we got to 3-3 I did strangely feel we may pull off a win. |
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Reply | Much better tonight
at 16:05 22 Jan 2026
Having written a depressing piece at the beginning of this week, I feel I should rebalance things slightly by saying, I only saw some of the game and missed chunks of it. But, I welcome the win and a win is a win especially when you have had a period of struggling to get any form. It was less than convincing and the opposition appeared to be very poor (which surprised me as I thought Sheff U were on an upturn) but there did appear to be a bit more fight and purpose. It would be nice to think that this may help in the weekend ahead and beyond but time will tell. I am not holding my breath too much.
An important result and 3 points though and at the moment I will take that. |
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Reply | Tonda says he's NOT worried about being sacked.
at 15:38 18 Jan 2026
YES.
To that extent it is not his fault - though I guess he could have said, I do not yet feel ready for the next level. I could understand them placing him as interim until they found someone experienced - they had sufficient time, but they were not even interested in finding someone else. Tonde getting some good results as interim manager made it easy for SR. But, given last season's nightmare and the tried, tested and failed method of employing someone with a lack of experience (e.g: Still) Tonde was not the right choice. But, everyone should be worried about being sacked. The trouble is, in football, sacking usually results in a payout and soon into another job. But this failure and that of Still is on SR as was some other appointments. |
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Thread | When does the bad feeling end?
at 12:14 18 Jan 2026
I used to occasionally write something on here after a game but I can't be bothered any more. I haven't seen the point of it for a long time. I am tired of coming on here and just writing something negative about the team, the club or whatever. But, I really cannot think of anything positive to say about my/our club. It just feels in total disarray in every respect - from the top to the bottom. You all must be tired of reading my negative posts as I am writing them. There were always a time when you had a blip or a bad performance but on the whole the good outweighed the bad. For the life of me I can't think of anything good about SFC at the moment and I haven't for a while - even when we got promoted, as great as that day was at Wembley, in your heart you knew we were not set up to stay up. Maybe something good is there and I am just not seeing it, but purely from a fan/supporter point of view I am not seeing it at all in any respect. Where is the joy of going to a game any more? I am a Saints fan, I have never expected us to win, but you always knew once that we would compete and give some teams a bl**dy nose. We would hold our own, we even made teams fear coming to our home ground.
On another thread there is something about where does the blame lay. From the top downwards. There is a lack of leadership all over the place, there is no sustainable strategy or vision, there is a lack of desire, a sense of doing it on the cheap and expecting miracles, appointing the wrong people time after time, players who just don't care because they know that those above them don't care enough, detachment from the club, the city, the sense that we are being run down slowly and painfully and fans that are split on whether to try and get behind the team or protest and in the end do neither effectively. What is SFC now, what does it mean to the owners, the people steering it? What does it mean to the players? Does it really matter to any of them? At what point do you decide as a fan there is no point?
SFC was more than about football. It was my city, it was my region where I grew up. It represented my town, my county. The players played as if it meant something to them. The club sometimes struggled to punch with the big guys but it gave it a bl**dy good go. We were a blueprint for other provincial clubs - now we are just a sore, a source of ridicule. The pride has gone and the passion has been drained out of us. It is not beyond saving by any means and with the right people in charge and the right appointments made at all levels it can be turned around but right now it is like turning a tanker on a sixpence. It feels like the impossible job. If we were a Liverpool or Newcastle etc it would be big news - no one outside Southampton cares. The trouble is, do those in Southampton care? |
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Reply | Give me an S
at 22:49 14 Jan 2026
I did try to start the Woolston Ferry on Saturday at Doncaster Nick. Say to say, those around me looked at me as if I should be carried away...... which to be fair I probably should. |
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Reply | No more Baz (for now)
at 11:23 14 Jan 2026
Even if the clause was removed would you still be confident that our razor sharp forwards would manage to score past him? - no matter who we play or who is in goal more often than not we hit everything except the back of the net. |
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Reply | Pompey Away Details
at 12:33 13 Jan 2026
I am glad I am not going. I don't understand why it is always such a big issue to play our local rivals. Arsenal/Spurs; Newcastle/Sunderland and many others do not go through this fiasco. I am not saying that they do not take extra measures but everything related to this game appears to be designed to dilute the whole experience, match etc to such a level it almost becomes meaningless say for the result and the bragging rights. I can't believe fans of either club are that enamoured with the way this game is treated. |
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Reply | Antoine Semenyo
at 23:04 9 Jan 2026
A good and valid point Southamptonfan. You may be right. Would it have been as positive had the transfer been refused or delayed? I just sense in this case, both sides - club and player have behaved in a mature and pragmatic way. |
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Thread | Antoine Semenyo
at 15:41 9 Jan 2026
I rarely say it and I think you rarely see it these days, but this footballer has conducted himself very professionally in gaining a move from Bournemouth to Man City. He has continued to play to his full potential right up to the final kick with Bournemouth this week, he has not given any negative statements about his current employers or anything and he has ended up moving with the blessing of his current club and fans. |
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Reply | Millwall Game Matchday Thread
at 17:14 1 Jan 2026
Oh for the life of me, what has become of the club and team that I used to love and admire and be proud of for so long because it had the nouse and passion and desire to mix with the best and give them a bl**dy nose and now for season after season we seem to have and buy players who appear to have so little nouse and desire or passion no matter what level they are playing at.
Please all those who keep saying we have a quality team, top saying it because what exactly are they quality at because I haven't seen it consistently enough for ages now. |
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Reply | Can We Get Nack To Winning Ways Against Millwall
at 12:08 31 Dec 2025
Unless my recollection is incorrect, I don't think when we have played a team in the top 6 at the time of playing them we have not managed to beat any of them. If we want to pick up some points tomorrow and the weekend we are going to have to break that dreadful record.
For a team of our supposed quality (that everyone goes on about) and depth we are woefully under performing. |
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Reply | Is arrogance our problem?
at 12:26 27 Dec 2025
Nothing, absolutely nothing StAnt and that is my somewhat poorly made point. We have nothing to be arrogant about. But, I wonder whether some of the players (not all) and the club do...............even Eckert himself......"I took our best players off because there are bigger games coming up" (or words to that effect).......but you weren't even beating the team you were playing.......stop making assumptions or thinking teams are there for the taking. Win the game and beat the opposition you are playing before thinking about the next game/opposition. The manager, the coaches, the players, everyone........need to go into every game as if it is as important as the last or the next........arrogance breeds contempt and complacency but it also motivates the opposition. |
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