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Comment | Southampton At Leicester The Debacle
at 01:29:34
allsaint54 is spot on: "Tippy tappy sideways backwards football may work against the lesser sides but as soon as we play someone half decent we get stuffed." And we think we warrant being in the conversation about the Premier League ?! Nowhere close. If we want to go up, RM has to go out. |
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Comment | Southampton Side Announced For Leicester Game
at 21:58:12
This side was sufficiently talented to keep things nip-and-tuck at 5-0, and not let it get to 9-0. Perhaps that's progress. (Of course, I said the same thing the last time we were dismantled by Leicester, 1-4, in September.) |
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Comment | Southampton At Cardiff City The Verdict
at 21:08:28
I'm with clubless; we'd be toast in—definitely not the toast of—the Premier League. In the Championship we can afford to enjoy a few chuckles at Adams's and Brooks's bizarrely wayward finishing—Saturday it was as if someone had cast a spell on them that rendered them unable to see where the goal was!—and still finish near the top of the league. I'd go for Championship wins and laughs over Premier League fear and loathing any day. |
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Comment | Southampton At Blackburn Rovers The Verdict
at 15:27:20
The record unbeaten run up the table has got us where we are. But while the players took it in stride, the manager appears to feel it means he has the Midas Touch. He needs to get his head out of mid-season and sack up for season's end, when a very different kind of football is being played. He ultimately couldn't play that kind of football at Swansea (where he enjoyed a similar mid-season purple patch before Swans whimpered into the last few matches of the year) and he can't play it now at Saints. Will he learn to? Time will tell. |
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Comment | Southampton V Sunderland The Verdict
at 09:51:16
This is pretty spot on, Nick. We can score bags of goals, but we'll run ourselves into the ground if we don't shore up central defense and holding midfield. For a while I thought we were unlucky to concede so many long-range goals. But it's happening for a reason—we're not shutting down attacks high enough up the pitch in our defending third, and we're not clearing lines that lead to second-chance shots. It's nice to see that we can score goals. But there won't be enough gas in the tank for the season's final push if we don't learn to manage the game better and stop the ball well ahead of our 20-yard box. |
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Comment | Southampton Praised For Keeping Faith With Russell Martin
at 16:48:32
I'm glad to see the ship stabilized for the time being, and am enjoying the football. Dunno if i'd want us to be good enough to go back up to the Prem, though, because a gulf has opened up between the top 15 and the bottom 5, and i don't ever see us being good enough to bridge that gap. |
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Comment | How Many Points Do Southampton Need For Promotion
at 17:33:48
It sounds counterintuitive to take this stance, but I'm pleased with where we are in the division we're in. The bottom 5 in the EPL are off to historically poor starts, and we'd be among them were we there. I'd rather be playing flowing football in the Championship than worrying about each and every kick in trying to stay up in the Prem. Because, if we do reascend into the EPL, that's exactly what awaits us. |
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Comment | Southampton Midfielder Shocked By Fans Booing At St Mary's
at 15:58:15
I think that it was a matter of everyone just playing out the St. Mary's script these past two years: We play well, we don't convert, we concede late, we boo. Footballers need to sack up; it's part of the job. |
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Comment | Southampton V Leeds United The Verdict
at 19:36:16
Surgical finishing by AA; one wonders what might have been had he put some of those away last year. But, again, there's just more room to maneuver in the Championship; defenders are just nowhere near as tenacious as they are in the Prem (which helps explain why AA and CA knock in goals with ease in the Championship but get shut down in the EPL). |
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Comment | Crucial Day For Russell Martin On Saturday
at 05:42:43
Everything just seems particularly casual at Saints these days. Perhaps everything would fall into place if Martin just showed up to work Saturday in a suit and tie? |
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Comment | Will Russell Martin Be The 7th Manager In A Row Hounded Out Of Southampton
at 18:35:16
I have to say that we might not be having this conversation were it not for Sports Republic pursuing and hiring three straight baffling, anonymous gaffers (Jones, Selles, and now Martin) these past twelve months. In whatever they're doing, they're not seeing something. (Arguably, they're not seeing _anything_.) Of course, candidates (like Marsch) probably also see right through SR—which makes it even tougher for them to get someone of quality.
To make matters worse, in is post-match commentary Martin sounds as if he just can't be bothered. Surely that's translating onto the field—which is perhaps why our performances have been so gutless of late.
Disconnects like these warrant a new manager. Whether SR could and would pursue one is another story. |
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Comment | Brighton Striker Linked With Move To Southampton
at 16:05:28
I wonder if the rumor mill is going full tilt because everyone wants some of the cash we've got from sales. Agreed with other posters that stars in other leagues don't necessarily make it in ours; any gambles we take on such players should be cheap ones (so clubs like Genk aren't laughing all the way to the bank in prying £19 million out of us for the likes of Tall Paul!). |
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Comment | Southampton At Plymouth Argyle The Verdict
at 02:53:20
There are a number of good points in the write-up and responses, and i'm glad for the team cohesion. The only trouble i can see for at least the time being is that without Che Adams's goals we're 0-2-1, not 2-1-0, a difference of five points. With his departure to Everton all but certain, we're set to look and play quite ordinary. |
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Comment | Southampton At Gillingham The Verdict
at 19:00:14
Owls flattered us by—among many other things—giving us acres of space in which to do the tiky-taka thing. Gills showed what happens to that system when it's pressed. I share fellow fans' trepidation about the prospect of having a sieve of a midfield with an unsettled back line (which is one of the many reasons we should be kinder to Perraud, as he's a steady left back who can also provide attacking cover at midfield; without JWP and Lavia we NEED Perraud desperately). As for Martin's post-match rant about the team, let's hope it was designed to get outgoings and incomings finalized so we can get on with the season. I had fancied a League Cup run. But perhaps we're not ready for that sort of thing yet. (Hopefully by Xmas we'll be solidified near the top of the table and will have the luxury of an FA Cup run.) |
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