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Reply | Can Southampton Get Automatic Promotion Even With The Points Deduction
at 14:12 27 Oct 2026
It's also hopeful that Dobbin can get better and better and he could be a real option for goals and creating chances even when Larin is back. The hope too, is that in January, we can bring in another decent striker to help Larin, in the same way that we brought in Larin last January to really push us on. I would guess that we will send Mubama back. Ramsdale might even be sold, releasing some funds and wages. |
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Reply | Can Southampton Get Automatic Promotion Even With The Points Deduction
at 13:03 27 Oct 2026
We can absolutely get automatic promotion. Didn't Coventry win the league by a much clearer margin than 4 points last season? The biggest indicator for me is that we are 8 points better off this season than this point last season and we ended up only 4 points away from top 2. That was the case even after a poor Christmas last season, so.we can afford a few defeats yet, that I don't see coming with this resilient side we have now after Tonda's news.
This season, another metric is that we have beaten a lot of the teams that are up there with us or expected to be contenders: Swansea, Millwall, West Ham, Bristol city, Norwich. The big one will be beating Middlesbrough at home. If we can beat them as well as West Ham, the 4 point deduction has been wiped out.
I also sense a real determination from.the squad to put 2 fingers up at the EFL. James Bree explained after the West Ham game, that Saints want the title. I beleive him. [Post edited 27 Oct 13:04]
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Reply | Phones Down | Sing Up?
at 18:14 26 Oct 2026
My ticket is on my phone. Do you have a plastic season ticket card?
Personally, I rarely look at my phone during the game and don't take pictures. I do occassionally look at the other scores or the live table. [Post edited 26 Oct 18:16]
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Reply | The Eckert Effect?
at 17:29 25 Oct 2026
I think great managers make their own luck and don't allow excuses. Last week, we were very unlucky not to be awarded a penalty against Bolton but you just move on and get on with it, making sure you win the next game. Yesterday we arguably rode our luck but it all evens out. Tonda was "unlucky" when we went down to 10.men against Pompey.when one of his players made a mistake. But Tonda's team battle like they are in a war. That mentality comes down to the manager. So refreshing to have a winner as the manager after years of poor performance and disapppintment. [Post edited 25 Oct 17:29]
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Reply | A great professional performance
at 14:03 25 Oct 2026
Definitely. Peretz is a massive part of us winning games. He makes a few world class saves in games. A good goalkeeper is so important for success. |
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Reply | The Eckert Effect?
at 12:31 25 Oct 2026
It's true that we have had a few excellent other managers in the past, who did well in the Premier League etc. Koeman was a particular favourite of mine.
However, Tonda has transformed the feeling at this club, transformed perfomances, transformed players attitudes, transformed our aspirations more impressively than I have seen before. Tonda is a fanatastic manager. Fans singing his name in the streets, in the toilets, at the tube station, in the stadium. He has united this club again, one man. I have never seen such passionate chanting of a manager's name, even under good managers in the premier league, because never has a manager quickly turned around a sinking ship since he came in, into a real force that win games.
Remember everone moaning about Azaz, Manning, Stephens, Bree and recently Dobbin. No problem, Tonda turns them into super stars. Everyone worried about the team selection at Norwich. No problem, Tonda's here. Worried we had our two best players put yesterday - no.problem. We still win.
The enjoyment is back. We win big games. Beating the skates, beating Arsenal, beating West Ham away. And the spygate situation. Blame the f@cking EFL. A totally disproprotionate punishment for a man standing in a public place with a phone, something anyone one of us could do legally at any time we want. And had Will Still stayed, we wouldn't have even made the playoffs last season. We only got there because the incredible Tonda Eckert won 10 games in a row, with the best win rate ratio a manager has ever had at this club.
And yes, you're right let's see if and when hopefully we get promoted. But I have never been so hopeful that under Tonda, we would stay up and guve the PL a real go.
And ask yourself why Tonda did the spying? He did it because he is so f@cking desperate for our club to win and to be successful. He is insanely intense about ny club being successful. That is good enough for me. [Post edited 25 Oct 12:39]
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Reply | West Ham Game Matchday Thread
at 20:33 24 Oct 2026
Love Jack Stephens. He is Saints through and through. Sat in a London restaurant tonight with a nice bottle of wine after a monumental win in West Ham's own back yard. What a win. What a statement win. Tonda is taking us up isn't he. |
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Reply | West Ham Game Matchday Thread
at 09:31 24 Oct 2026
It's not as big as the Pompey game, that's the biggest game of the season, but it's a very important game today and it will show whether we are serious top 2 contenders or not. I think we need a statement win to be honest. [Post edited 24 Oct 9:31]
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Reply | Bolton Play Boro Tonight
at 23:15 23 Oct 2026
I think we could do with it to be honest if we are serious contenders for top 2. |
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Reply | Bolton Play Boro Tonight
at 22:55 23 Oct 2026
But we were docked 4 points, so if we want to go up to avoid financial issues next season without parachute payments and a 3rd year in the championship, we need to make those points.up. Another draw tomorrow, and it gets harder and harder.to make.up those points. It will be very difficult when our rivals have invested in proven strikers. With Lankshear up front in our team, had we invested, we likely beat Bolton at home, Lincoln away etc. It will make the difference for Boro having invested in an effective goal scorer who will win them games. I suspect we will just come up short because Bowen,.Lankshear, Piroe, Stewart, Vipotnik will give those teams the edge. We could do with a big result and win tomorrow. [Post edited 23 Oct 23:02]
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Reply | Bolton Play Boro Tonight
at 21:12 23 Oct 2026
It is so tough to chase. 8 points behind Boro now, Swansea and obviously West Ham to play tomorrow. We need a victory tomorrow to even get within 5 points. Still time to go in this one but Boro looking comfortable.
They invested in a proper striker and this will probabaly make the difference in.the end. [Post edited 23 Oct 21:30]
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Reply | Who Is Off To West Ham On Saturday
at 13:58 22 Oct 2026
Wet, drenched fans blowing all over the place, umbrellas inside out, tree branches whizzing by us. Hopefully we win or it will be a wet and miserable journey back home.
Are there any places, pubs, restaurants near West Ham to get cover to let crowds die down or will Saints fans not be welcome? [Post edited 22 Oct 13:58]
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Reply | Who Is Off To West Ham On Saturday
at 12:57 22 Oct 2026
Up on the train and tube. Have we all seen the weather forecast?
Heavy rain all afternoon and evening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
A large majority of 60 thousand fans all queuing to get back on trains means waiting in the rain by that shopping centre. We are going to get wet! |
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Reply | France Riots
at 16:50 18 Oct 2026
It does make you wonder doesn't it kingslandstand1. The lies we must be fed in all respects. How can rejoining the EU be the golden ticket, when the.people in a.large number.of EU countries are rioting about the cost of living, terrible education, services collapsing etc. |
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Reply | France Riots
at 12:38 18 Oct 2026
I would be interested to know just how much we and other EU countries spend in foreign lands. What are we giving to Ukraine, to the Israel war, Iran war. What foreign aid are we giving?
The people in the UK, France and many countries in the EU feel that they are suffering themselves, and huge amounts of money are going to others suffering, but what about looking after the people in our own countries first instead of being last in the queue?
Ofcourse there are rich people, and people feel they should give more back, be taxed more, but as you say, they have the money to leave the country. They will just get in their private jet to their private island and leave. Immigration is definitely another issue. People feel that as soon as a boats of people turn up on our shores, luxury coaches are waiting hours before they arrive, whizzing past the homeland homeless on the way. Germany have already voted in a far right party in a large sectio of their country. There are a lot of tensions.
Too much is being spent on non necessary things in the NHS as you make reference to. It should be a place for emergency.medicine. Not changing gender, etc.
The petrol prices, well again it is the actions of individual leaders that have made life unbearable for normal.people. Leaders just want to.look good, flex their muscles but have no thought for the people. [Post edited 18 Oct 13:04]
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Reply | Bolton Wanderers Game Matchday Thread
at 12:04 18 Oct 2026
Just one of those games yesterday. The clearest penalty ever, not given. Frustration shown with sone of our dreadful finishing. But it was otherwise a good performance. Tonda will sort out the finishing. We didn't lose when in the past we might have done.
Looking at the table with fresh eyes this morning, 5 points off the top 2 is okay for now. A Saintsy thing to do would be to make a statement win at West Ham next week to close the gap to 2 points. It's certainly a must not lose game. On to that big game next week. |
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