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Liverpool v Southampton Your Report added at 09:33:23
Last night demonstrated the gulf which has opened up between the premiership and the championship and that with squad and RM in charge we'd be patronised by the big clubs for our playing style but with the same self defeating outcome.

I was foolishly hoping that RM would have put out a first team last night but of course the self appointed genius knows best. At least Leeds and Blackburn represented the championship with more fight and goals.

Not sure what message the players will get from last night but let's see what little pep does against Birmingham - a team we squeaked past when they were struggling under Rooney.

COYRs

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Swansea City v Southampton Your Report added at 22:49:18
Well done to the players and management for the record breaking run. We've got a great mix of talent and solid performers in the squad and we're a very good solid championship team.

One note of warning for pep junior - don't mess around with your defense unless it's due to injury - decent managers wouldn't do it so average ones certainly shouldn't.

COYRs.
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Southampton v West Bromwich Albion Your Report added at 01:18:01
Satisfying result and very happy for Adam Armstrong getting the winner - although it was close going into the last 15 minutes.

Hats off to RM for his flexibility over the last 6 weeks which has paid dividends - COYRs
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Southampton v Leeds United Your Report added at 22:29:57
Thank goodness for that. An attacking creative deployment taking pressure off the back 4. Wow. Play your best players, be aggressive and pass the ball forward quickly. It wins games. Who would have thunk it.

Hopefully Rodney Martin has learnt the lesson.

Rodney, don't be a plonker against Rotherham - play the obvious starting 11 and don't underestimate the opposition as Leeds did today. In this division you cannot give an inch

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Southampton v Ipswich Town Your Report added at 00:20:07
Have saints turned a corner? Only 1- 0 against an in form team? Looked better when Bednarek went into defence and Charlie Pushed up to midfield?

Find out on Saturday. Same bat time, same bat channel.
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Southampton v Leicester City Your Report added at 13:31:15
We've got a new verb in our house - to make a Russell of something or to Russell it up.

'I went to the shop to get some bread for sandwiches but I came back home with 4 packets of jelly. Damn I really Russell'd that up.

SR have been a disaster from day one. Bad managerial decisions, scatter gun player recruitment, relegation which was entirely avoidable, which meant selling our better players and replacing them with loans and inadequate staff. Under SR we will keep going in the same trajectory.

We cannot keep making the same basic errors forever but by the time things get sorted out this club will be responsible for ruining yet more half decent players prospects. There was a time not so long ago that we were a respectable and well run club who developed players. Now we're a laughing stock where young players come to have any positivity and creativity knocked out of them.

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Sunderland v Southampton Your Report added at 13:08:40
I didn't go to the match but the same old issues from the past few seasons still haven't been addressed. The concern from reading comments on various websites about a non competitive midfield is a worry considering the issues in defence and up front.

As others have said we need to mix up the way we set up and play as teams know what we're going to do in every match and our happy to let us keep the ball for 70%+ knowing that we need 5 chances to score 1 goal but they only need one shot on target to score.

As nick mentioned on the Perraud article RM is his own man so he's unlikely to change. Not great news for Saints fans as we do not have the players who can succeed in our playing and beating even average teams who are well drilled never mind decent teams.

We've got so much potential in this club but the owners sole interest is making money from developing young players for other clubs. The antithesis of a recipe for success. COYRs

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Southampton v Queens Park Rangers Your Report added at 10:17:12
After the Norwich game I was prepared for a long frustrating season of mediocrity. Still a long way to go but happy my genuine fears have not been realised.

Particularly happy for Adam Armstrong - he's had a tough few years but he's kept plugging away and is coming good again.

Hope Stephens is ok and would love to see him playing in midfield if ousted from defence with the new signings but either way he's a wonderful character and a very good ball player.

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Plymouth Argyle v Southampton Your Report added at 20:06:28
Surprised to win not surprised we conceded from just 2 on target shots. The forwards at the club are good enough for this league but need a decent CB. Still not convinced with the overall ownership or managerial set up but a decent start to a tricky season. COYRS
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Sheffield Wednesday v Southampton Your Report added at 22:27:44
How many points for a win nowadays?
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Southampton v Liverpool Your Report added at 09:20:41
Hard work undone by cretinous defending. I can't imagine sports retarded will learn anything as their USP seems to be owning lower league clubs as a farm for young talent. They've achieved that now let's see what happens next.
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Southampton v AFC Bournemouth Your Report added at 10:05:28
The team selection has been odd for some time but with the limited use of the new January signing and over reliance on players that have been at the club for several seasons contributing to the ever-diminishing returns I'm under the impression that the owners are focused on limiting spending rather than staying up.
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Chelsea v Southampton Your Report added at 19:10:55
Odd set up and as lovely guy as he is by all accounts Ely shouldn't be starting. Great news that stu Armstrong is fit again as well as peters. Who knows what will happen next but after 12 months of wilful incompetence today feels great.
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Brentford v Southampton Your Report added at 17:55:47
Elyounoussi and diallo should not be in the first team. Salisu is not a left back, Walcott - wtf, Jones is not a decent manager and acts like a poor man's Dennis wise.

Nick said judge the manager and team on the performance and result - this was another pathetic display both on and off the pitch.

To use Nick's favourite theoretical word - if. If saints had approached Eddie Howe last season when Ralph was struggling for the umpteenth time and if saints had got rid of Ralph last summer we could have approached dyche - he would do the simple things well, toughened up the defence and played players in their comfortable positions.

The board have got the big calls wrong and we're left with an embarrassment of a team with a Lilliputian football non personality
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Newcastle United v Southampton Your Report added at 09:38:50
Looking at the positives - Jones has managed to reduce the scoreline of our defeats if not the inevitably of them, but has the same obsessions as Ralph of trying to be 'clever' and playing 5 at the back, leaving our brilliant LB on the bench and playing our best available RB at LB. Like Ralph he's managed to run one of best players into the ground and to injury.

Our best tactical manager over the past few years have been circumstances rather than the well-paid managers.

Let's see what the new players add to the team, but I can't share the blind optimism of some around here. COYRs

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Southampton v Newcastle United Your Report added at 22:35:55
Forgot var, football clueless refs - buy a f**king striker.
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Everton v Southampton Your Report added at 20:27:39
A bloody long way to go to get out of this crap situation and we'll need several wins to enjoy the actual football again.

Ralph should have gone in the summer (as much as he was liked and respected by long on the tooth saints fans) but under the circumstances this Jones bloke has done something very strange in the last couple of weeks which has been missing for a long time.

I can understand people's frustration with certain players but not with JWP as he's a club player who could have taken the easy option and bigger pay day over the past 5-6 seasons but he's stayed. Being a captain isn't just about bursting a blood vessel and shouting it's about sacrifice and leading by example - and if you're particularly talented that's a bonus. If I was in the cart I'd want him in it too.

I'll always love my club but I'm also proud today - hopefully the board continue supporting this manager unlike they did Ralph over subsequent seasons and we retain the league status with a cup run attached.

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Southampton v Brighton and Hove Albion Your Report added at 17:12:51
What the hell has happened to our club
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Crystal Palace v Southampton Your Report added at 18:09:50
I see saints ladies won again today. Is that the only team at the club that Ralph doesn't have any input to 😅
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Crystal Palace v Southampton Your Report added at 14:04:44
Ralph's purple patches get shorter each season.
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