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Reply | Damion Downs
at 20:36 22 Dec 2025
So he had a few short sub appearances and now Pochettino has seen what he can do, he's dropped him from the squad. That didn't last long. [Post edited 23 Dec 0:15]
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Reply | Damion Downs
at 19:55 22 Dec 2025
"Why does Pochettino rate him so highly?"
How highly does Pochettino rate him? He's never selected him for any starting lineup in any team he's managed that I'm aware of, and he certainly didn't select him for the USA's latest squad. Haji Wright and Folarin Balogun are his first choice strikers. [Post edited 23 Dec 0:15]
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Reply | Our defence
at 09:32 21 Dec 2025
Our players don't anticipate or move when crosses and corners come in. You could see Coventry players running towards the ball before it arrived, while our players stood and watched until the ball arrived (on a Coventry player's head).
Taylor Harwood-Bellis is young and worth persevering with as a potential leader in the Jose Fonte mould, but we need a tall centre half, like Dael Fry, to play alongside him and win everything in the air.
We are still suffering from another poor transfer window when we failed to strengthen the spine of the team - goalkeeper - centre half - centre forward - with better players. George Long, Joshua Quarshie and Damion Downs were not improvements.
One bright note, however, was that Wood showed he is improving.
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Reply | Saints v Coventry
at 20:01 20 Dec 2025
I know but I just feel like venting. Drawing at home against a team reduced to 10 men for the whole of the 2nd half was, to say the least, frustrating, especially when our players ended those 9 minutes added on, passing the ball slowly sideways in our own half. [Post edited 20 Dec 20:05]
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Reply | Saints v Coventry
at 19:56 20 Dec 2025
Their players were stronger and more aggressive than ours, especially Mason-Clark, who's spent years in lower league and non-league football, where a striker has to look after himself.
Also, when crosses and corners came into the box, none of our players moved towards the ball, like theirs did. Ours just remained static and watched. It would have made more sense if we'd put in low crosses and corners instead of feeding high balls to the Coventry players, while Adam Armstrong just looked on. [Post edited 20 Dec 20:00]
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Reply | Saints v Coventry
at 19:33 20 Dec 2025
Lampard is one of the best midfielders England has ever produced and he is proving to be a very fine manager. I'm not sure that chant served any useful purpose, especially after we had been held to a draw by 10 men.
I didn't see the incident because, like most Saints fans there, I headed straight for the exit the moment the final whistle blew. There wasn't much cause to stay and applaud. [Post edited 20 Dec 19:37]
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Reply | Saints v Coventry
at 19:11 20 Dec 2025
Coventry are a very well organised team of decent Championship journeymen, with some big strong players who can outjump and outmuscle the opposition. The Championship is weaker than usual this year because the worst group of teams ever to be relegated from the Premier League joined it.
There is no real Premier League quality in the Coventry squad. Over the last 2 years they just seem to have assembled a very strong Championship team of relative unknowns. They obviously have good scouts. Their best player today and their goalscorer, Ephron Mason-Clark had an unremarkable career at Barnet, Metropolitan Police and Peterborough. Haji Wright, the only Coventry player most people have heard of, came from a small Turkish league club. Their goalkeeper, Rushworth, is on loan from Brighton, where he was third choice, and so on.
Lampard has got them playing the best football of their careers, but there's no way they'll be good enough for the top flight next season. It reminds me of what Kompany did with a limited group of players at Burnley. Even now, Wolves would probably beat them.
We have some quality players, but are weak in the key positions - the spine of the team. In a league where crosses dominate, you can't come out on top without big, strong strikers and central defenders. That's why they're top of the league and we're not. We needed someone like Wood today to be up front for the whole match. Instead we had to resort to bringing on Cameron Archer, who was totally ineffective. [Post edited 20 Dec 19:30]
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Reply | Look, just sign Patrick Bamford
at 18:48 20 Dec 2025
You were right, Pat, and I was wrong, as I often am. Bamford is scoring goals again for Sheffield United, and he was exactly the sort of player we needed today: a big centre forward who can finish.
We needed to buy that type of player in the summer, and it should still be our priority in the January transfer window, if we want to get promoted. [Post edited 20 Dec 18:51]
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Reply | Let's Rock Southampton to sleep
at 14:04 18 Dec 2025
Mind you, with the demographic they're aiming for with that lineup - middle-aged women who motor around the city centre, on mobility scooters, with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths - they might need a bit of extra space. |
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Reply | Empty seats at norwich
at 16:43 17 Dec 2025
They won't use the seats - they'll be left empty - the same as at previous away games.
There's probably a contractual obligation involved. Whoever signed up to it should have had more common sense. [Post edited 17 Dec 16:48]
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Reply | Empty seats at norwich
at 12:04 17 Dec 2025
"I don't know why, but for every away game there is a blocked out number of seats empty."
It will be the same at Fratton Park, even though it's officially sold out. Whatever the ticket office is doing this season is clearly causing a problem. It doesn't seem to be happening at other clubs as you don't see an empty block in the middle of the away fans at St Mary's.
I'm sure there will be photos of the empty block all over the internet after the Pompey game, and, especially if they lose, it will be the major talking point.
Maybe you could write an article about this problem on the homepage and ask the ticket office to release the tickets in that block for the derby game? [Post edited 17 Dec 12:13]
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Reply | Let's Rock Southampton
at 11:37 17 Dec 2025
Who on earth decided that lineup would be a good idea?
They'll need to close 3 sides of the stadium for that one; maybe even all 4. One of the fanzones would be big enough. [Post edited 17 Dec 11:56]
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Reply | Rangers watch
at 19:44 11 Dec 2025
Ferencvaros 2-1 Rangers
"Two minutes of the added four have been eaten up and Rangers are showing no signs of creating an attack, never mind scoring."
I remember when we were being linked with Danny Röhl. We dodged a bullet there. |
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Reply | World Cup
at 19:12 11 Dec 2025
"Surely no one is going to watch this cringefest next year."
Wanna bet on it? |
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Reply | Music fan nerdy stuff
at 17:31 11 Dec 2025
Deleted my contribution as it seemed to kill the thread stone dead.
PS You did ask for nerdy stuff, although you may now wish you hadn't. [Post edited 11 Dec 19:10]
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Reply | West Brom Game Matchday Thread
at 22:34 9 Dec 2025
He knows what he's doing. He's managing the team to a series of wins and his ultimate goal is to get us promoted, wheher we win games 4-3 or 6-0. He subs key players as early as he feels he can get away with it, with the next game in mind. With his style of play, we are far more likely to win 3-2 than 1-0. Yes, it makes fans feel nervous sometimes, but in the end it will be worth it.
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Reply | West Brom Game Matchday Thread
at 22:17 9 Dec 2025
Saints win, Pompey lose again! What fun it will be if we get promoted and they get relegated in the same season. It will certainly be one of the most memorable seasons in South Coast football history. |
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