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Southampton v Hull City Your Report added at 01:24:13
Martin - Why the fvck did you wait til half time to make the changes ?

It was clear from the off that it wasn't working.
Too proud to change it ?
Too scared to admit your mistakes ?
Awful display from Manager and many of the players
You've been found out again

Hull gave us a lesson in football, but you won't learn from it !!
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Bristol City v Southampton Your Report added at 01:40:48
Awful performance
Wrong starting line up
So slow from the start and even when losing
Dozie was awful, couldn't pass, couldn't beat his man and lost possession
We couldn't pass it in midfield
Dozie somehow hit the bar
Dozie got barfed over - penalty ?

Every time we gave the ball away, they broke away and got into our box or created something
When they gave it away, we took 50 passes to get anywhere near their box

Goals change games
A Arm missed our 2 best chances
Dozie should have put us in front early in 2nd half
They scored a blatant offside goal
Baz flapped for their 2nd
We got a consolation pen, so at least A Arm is up there with the top scorers

When asked by TalkSport what went wrong, RM simply said they took their chances and we didn't.
Honestly it was so much worse than that.

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Southampton v Huddersfield Town Your Report added at 02:42:47
We deserved to win not only for showing fighting spirit, but for combating their bully boy tactics, the ref - who let them get away with all sorts of fouls and their awful time wasting and breaking up play tactics. They must have had the medics on 5 times FFS, numerous cramps and the keeper feigning injury !!

Hopefully they can do us a favour when they play Leeds and any other of our promotion rivals.
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Southampton v Huddersfield Town Your Report added at 02:42:33
We deserved to win not only for showing fighting spirit, but for combating their bully boy tactics, the ref - who let them get away with all sorts of fouls and their awful time wasting and breaking up play tactics. They must have had the medics on 5 times FFS, numerous cramps and the keeper feigning injury !!

Hopefully they can do us a favour when they play Leeds and any other of our promotion rivals.
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Southampton v Huddersfield Town Your Report added at 12:34:59
We deserved to win not only for showing fighting spirit, but for combating their bully boy tactics, the ref - who let them get away with all sorts of fouls and their awful time wasting and breaking up play tactics. They must have had the medics on 5 times FFS, numerous cramps and the keeper feigning injury !!

Hopefully they can do us a favour when they play Leeds and any other of our promotion rivals.
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Southampton v Watford Your Report added at 00:33:56
Great to see the youngsters contribute in a good (2nd half) performance.

Bring on the Scousers !!
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Rotherham United v Southampton Your Report added at 00:39:44
21/23 undefeated. Job done, box ticked, move on to the next.

As soon as we scored, we took control and it was only a matter of how many, or how hungry for goals we were. Totally bossed the 1st half, hit the post, created numerous chances and the only disappointment was not scoring a couple more.

KWP always had a man on him, so for once, didn't get so far forward, but that was fine, as A Arm, Stuey and Frazer created chances.

Che was off the pace a bit, but it could have been different had he timed his run better in the first minute and beaten the offside flag.

Good subs. Downes had a knock so went off. Mara on for Che - like for like in position and end result. Great to see Brooks have a cameo - great skills, forward passing and unlucky not to score with a late curling effort.

Great away day, great result, great that Ipswich lost.

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Southampton v Sheffield Wednesday Your Report added at 01:34:54
Superb, dominating performance and yet again, scored a hatful of goals at home.

Apart from that early error, Baz only had a few saves to make, including a nice one from their 2nd half free kick.

Could and should have scored a couple more, but everyone was happy with 4.

Special mentions to:
Fraser - fit enough to be so much more than an influential sub - he now influences whole games. Well taken goal and overall performance.
A Arm - what can you say, 3 assists and a goal, all whilst playing in an unpreferred wide right role !!
Smallbone - very good game and some excellent forward passing (for a change !!)
KWP - Great as always

Thought some of the subs came a little late (for S Arm), but they all contributed. Mara got another goal (from a yard) and it was great seeing Dibling having the confidence to go on a mazey run and shoot with his first possession.

Now let's convert some of this super home form into big aways wins too !!
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Southampton v Swansea City Your Report added at 02:16:59
Catherine Zeta Jones, Ruth Madoc, Badfinger, Spencer Davis, Bonnie Tyler, Chris Coleman, Dan Biggar, Alun Wyn Jones - your boys took one hell of a beating !!

Great to see us finally starting to take our chances and score plenty and from a variety of sources !! We just need to apply similar methods to our away games now.

Beware: Top 2 - We're Coming For You !!
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Huddersfield Town v Southampton Your Report added at 17:22:42
Disappointing once again.

When we are on top and comfortable, why sit back for the last 15-20 mins and try to keep a narrow lead. We had enough chances to kill the game off.
We also had warnings and near misses from Hudd towards the end, but kept on inviting their pressure, so the inevitable happened. Very Naive. Edozie should have cut out or closed down the cross/shot and Baz should have done better.

Yes we continue our 9 game unbeaten run, but today was very much 2 points dropped and a missed opportunity to move into 3rd place.
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Preston North End v Southampton Your Report added at 14:57:00
Never got going in the 1st half - too many changes or players out of position,
Great goal from KWP to break the deadlock.
Super save from Baz and someone's hand on the line.

Don't know what was said or consumed at HT, but we came out for the 2nd half asleep and defensive confusion saw us almost concede within 10 seconds !! Then the equaliser that was not closed down and was close enough to Baz to have been saved. THEN, poor pass, lightweight defending and tracking back and the keeper stood virtually on his line with his legs open !! 2-1.

Cue the changes - at least we tried to get something, but only Sulemana, S Arm and KWP tried to be creative, but Sulemana needs to learn how to cross the ball FFS.
We played like we were content with trying to get a draw, but I wanted more. More urgency and to be more direct, for us to go for the win, not just the draw.

After creating few clear cut chances, in the last minute of injury time, we could have had a penalty, but with our handball in the 1st half, it was ok that it wasn't given - because from the resulting corning, Baz managed to flick a header on and it deflected in off Evans for a just about deserved equaliser.

Loads of possession (70%), but Preston created the same number chances as us with their 30%. Too much tippy tappy, not enough urgency, even when we were chasing the game.

Birmingham is now a must win game !! :-)
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Southampton v Rotherham United Your Report added at 16:56:10
As it is all so close in the Championship table, it would have been far better to go for more goals - not only to kill the game off and secure the win, but also to increase our already piss poor goal difference, which could well make a difference to our final position.

Scoring so early and dominating gave a false sense of security to the players and manager alike. Everyone else could see it was obvious to go for more goals - especially with our awful defensive record of 1 clean sheet, stretching back more than 20 games !!

So to adopt the boring tippy tappy shit for the 2nd half deserves all the criticism it gets. Sure we had 80% possession and the lion's share of chances but we always gift the opposition chances as well. After scoring so early, we should have been going for 4 or 5 goals, not trying to keep it 1-0.

It reminded me at times, of when we took the lead in Prem games and reverted straight back to defence mode. That didn't work either !!

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Southampton v Crystal Palace Your Report added at 12:22:41
The game's heat map shows the area between our 18 yard box and the half way line as the area that most of the game was played in !!

A few other observations.......

- No point dropping Bazunu now - it is too late
- Why didn't Sulemana change his boots / studs ? Slipped 3 or 4 times in crucial areas
- Who was striker, Alcaraz or Aribo ? Or was that part of the master plan ?
- We played into Palace's hands
- Tall Paul and Aribo could not control a bag of cement
- We were relegated on the day we lost 1-0 at home to Forest in early January
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Manchester United v Southampton Your Report added at 15:38:07
Great team performance and deserved the 3 points really, but our inability to take our chances has cost us again. Only 4 on target from 17 shots tells the story, albeit with 2 off target shots hitting the woodwork.

Some excellent shifts put in by many and on another day we would have won this. If only we could hit the target more often and make the correct decisions in the opposition's box. How many times did we blast high and wide and how many times did we break well, create openings and then ruin it with a poor pass / decision ?

Still it was a point we would all have taken before the game and some even after the red card, so hopefully it will give the team further confidence to get positive results in our next 2 crucial home games.
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Brentford v Southampton Your Report added at 17:43:49
Once again, Walcott came off the bench, but you have failed to include him on your teamsheet. I know he didn't do much, but surely he deserves to be on there.

Same old shite.

Gift them chances
Don't take our own
Can't pass it properly
Concede then switch off
2 new guys looked promising from the bench but yet again, we have to carry 3 or 5 ineffectual players. Jones has had enough games, but still hasn't learnt that many players he selects, simply are not Prem grade, or can have any affect on the game.
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Southampton v Manchester City Your Report added at 13:34:26
Saw the team sheets and feared the worst.
A great attitude and performance from our players - been a long time coming, so let's hope this now continues for the rest of the season.
NJ tactics have finally hit home, or 2 new signings given everyone a kick up the arse ?
What a difference (and novelty) going in front makes. Goals change games and those 2 in that 5 minute first half spell, really set us on our way. We pressed City and hounded after every ball and that really got all the fans on side.
Mara took his goal excellently, although it doesn't really count, as it is not in the league :-)
Djenepo - just WOW !! Superb finish. Where have you been for the last 2 or 3 years ?

It was great seeing City players resort to diving and moaning. No shots on target and TWO foul throws !! :-)

A top night's work. Let's do it again at Everton on Saturday please !! (some tickets still available, although I think they are Restricted View, towards the back of that awful away end).

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Southampton v Nottingham Forest Your Report added at 11:11:05
Pathetic

NO SHOTS ON TARGET !!
ANOTHER DEFENSIVE HOWLER !!

Tippy-Tappy fannying around with the ball when were are losing. No drive, or sense of urgency to score the TWO goals we needed, let alone just one.

At least 5 players that should never be in our starting line up again. We had to carry half the team, so it was no wonder we lost. Bizarre team selection. Dressing room already lost ?

They should all be fined 2 weeks' wages for that sh1t show last night.
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Southampton v Lincoln City Your Report added at 14:21:59
Even though he was a subbed sub, Walcott did make an appearance, so should still be included on the team sheet !!

Awful game, full of misplaced passes, hopeful hoofs up to KWP - the shortest bloke on the pitch and no real flair or creativity until the subs came on.

Where was Lavia ? We need him, as AMN had an absolute shocker of a game in CM.

What have they been doing for the last 6 weeks ? My Vets team would have given them a decent game last night.

Once the subs came on, we were a different team and going ahead certainly gave us more space to exploit. S Arm and Edozie made all the difference and we should have scored a couple more at the end, but that would have been harsh on Lincoln.

Roll on Thursday's draw for the next round.
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Southampton v Sheffield Wednesday Your Report added at 11:44:18
A truly uninspiring performance from a group of players who will mainly be on the fringe of the squad, once we are back to full quota. Nobody seemed interested or bothered, despite this being the perfect opportunity to impress the new manager.
Instead, we were treated to a lackluster display of mostly sideways and backward passing that then resulted in a hoof forward once we ran out of options. Slack marking and running for the Wednesday goal and AMcC got beaten at his near post - AGAIN !!
We were playing a L1 team, but still let them take control and run the game through Bannan - often gifting him the ball with lapse passes (mainly Diallo, who was particularly poor) and no pressure / challenges on their back 4 (static Mara, apart from his pathetic dive !!).
Our only glimpse of hope seemed to be Edozie, but he was either lacking the final ball or taken out by burly defenders - no protection from the ref.
We came back into the game for the last 30 mins, with our subs making a difference, but we still played to the same tactics. Theo should have scored, others could have scored and S Armstrong unluckily hit the bar at the death.
On to pens and we were trying to remember if McCarthy had ever saved a penalty for us - probably not. He should have save the first one after getting a good hand to it, but eventually made amends with the 6th, saving with his feet.
We are through and that is about the only positive. Hoping for a nice easy home draw (Lincoln, MKD, Charlton, Gillingham) and another game at St Marys before Christmas.
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Cambridge United v Southampton Your Report added at 12:30:29
You forgot to include a very important substitute !!

Where is teenage scoring sensation 'score on my debut' Dom Ballard ?


Despite their previous cup giant killings, Cambridge offered little threat and once we were ahead, the result was pretty much a formality.

Che had the ball in the net before his 1st goal, but it was ruled out for an alleged hand ball. A great ball from Payne on the right was bundled in from close range and we didn't look back. Adams could have perhaps had a 1st half hat trick but dragged 1 shot wide and others were saved and blocked.

It was almost like every player was desperate to score and because of this, they perhaps didn't stick to their game plan, shooting when they should have passed and vice versa.

Adams got our 2nd, also from close range, following up a long range shot that was only parried.

Once the subs came on, we lost our shape a little, but we still created lots of chances, especially from the flanks and eventually 1 paid off. After a long clearance from AMcC, Valery pulled the ball back and it fell to Ballard. His first shot was well saved, but he lifted the rebound into the roof of the net from close range and ran off to celebrate in front of a sold out Saints end of 1,500 fans. He certainly got the biggest and longest cheer - a youngster scoring on his debut !! :-)

A good, happy atmosphere with lots of singing. Just a shame they decided to close half the roads on the way home (M25 x multiple areas and A1M Southbound for 1 Jnct).

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