| Forum Reply | Did we go into the WBA game at 16:18 13 May 2024
In many ways, anyone but Mara is a no brainer; a bit like anyone but Bazunu. The problem is they feel they have to persist with these youngsters to justify all the money that was spent on them. [Post edited 13 May 16:27]
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| Forum Reply | Crowd of less than 25,000 looming for play-off semi home leg at 16:11 13 May 2024
The whingeing and moaning on here were bad enough when they anounced they were going to move the away fans into a corner and create a proper home end. Imagine how bad it's going to be when they announce the stadium expansion plans [Post edited 13 May 16:21]
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| Forum Reply | Did we go into the WBA game at 16:06 13 May 2024
We went there with Sekou Mara up front so a scoreless draw was the best we could do. |
| Forum Reply | WBA and Norwich at 10:53 12 May 2024
Getting promoted from the Championship is what West Brom and Norwich do. WBA have been promoted to the top flight 10 times already and Norwich 9 times. In fact, there can be few teams that have done it more than they have. |
| Forum Reply | Big weekend for Southampton boxers at 23:03 11 May 2024
What a brilliant performance from Ryan Garner. Contender for fight of the year as OWTS rings round York Hall from all the Saints fans there. So all 3 of the Southampton boxers fighting tonight remain undefeated. |
| Forum Reply | Big weekend for Southampton boxers at 21:46 11 May 2024
A routine points win takes Barney-Smith to 10-0 and up to #8 in the UK Super Featherweight rankings. The Ryan Garner fight should be on around 10pm. |
| Forum Reply | Three teams that got promoted are straight back down at 21:06 11 May 2024
Luton fans will be pleased with their team's efforts this season. For a small club with a limited budget, which was a non-league team 10 years ago, they did well. I think Rob Edwards is a good manager. |
| Forum Reply | Three teams that got promoted are straight back down at 20:56 11 May 2024
Nobody said it's easy but Bournemouth have managed to establish themsleves in the top flight. It was a very weak Championship last season, as shown by the fact that the 3 promoted teams came straight back down and the promoted teams this season were from League One and the PL. The teams that go up this season won't all come straight back down again. |
| Forum Reply | Big weekend for Southampton boxers at 19:36 11 May 2024
Royston Barney-Smith's latest fight at York Hall is on tonight on TNT Sports Fight Night Live. [Post edited 11 May 20:08]
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| Forum Reply | Time For The Spirit Of Southampton Football Club at 11:23 2 May 2024
Talking of the spirit of Southampton, it's great to see there are only a few hundred standing places left in Blocks 40-45 of the new Northam Red Wall. Block 46 in the corner looks like being the last to sell out but they should leave a few places for individual matchday sales anyway. Looking forward to seeing the much improved home support next season. |
| Forum Reply | Viva Sports Republic at 09:27 29 Apr 2024
Sports Republic's priority. I remember Ankersen saying that Göztepe were a bigger club than Southampton, and subsequently they have turned them into a top flight club and us into a 2nd tier one, which is where they see us in the general scheme of things. |
| Forum Reply | Desperate Tories - or tactical masterstroke? at 09:15 29 Apr 2024
Part of the hidden agenda of Brexit appears to have been to replace EU workers in areas like the NHS and residential care homes with cheaper workers from Africa and Asia. Hence the current NHS recruitment campaigns in Nigeria and Pakistan. More will be needed to take care of the physically and mentally disabled people we are going to bring in from Rwanda. [Post edited 29 Apr 9:18]
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| Forum Reply | Bmuff 3 Brighton 0 at 09:02 29 Apr 2024
Bournemouth are level on points with Chelsea. They have become an established Premier League team. The secret? They have recruited wisely to build a team rather than buying a bunch of youngsters for their potential resale value. Of course, they have a good spine, spearheaded by Solanke, whose goals have got them into the top 10. The main investment should always be in the spine of the team and that's where Bournemouth have spent their big money, whereas we recruit loads of attacking midfielders, presumably because we think there is more profit to be made out of selling them. [Post edited 29 Apr 9:08]
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| Forum Reply | Martin at 09:17 28 Apr 2024
I don't think he's interested in their all round improvement; just their passing stats. I assume all they do in training is pass the ball around endlessly. |
| Forum Reply | Martin at 09:07 28 Apr 2024
Every team will bully us because we have such a weak midfield. In fact, physically, this is just about the least imposing team we've ever had. Important factors like this have all been overlooked because the only thing that matters is the passing stats. They are what got Martin this job, not results of football matches. The most important thing when building a team is to have a strong spine: a tall, experienced goalkeeper in his 30s, a tall, imposing central defender, a strong tackler in central midfield, who intimidates the opposition, and a goal poacher up front, preferably one who can score with headers. These all seem to have been ignored, with preference given to small players who can make short passes to each other. [Post edited 28 Apr 9:26]
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| Forum Reply | Desperate Tories - or tactical masterstroke? at 13:20 27 Apr 2024
They'll need special accommodation and place an extra strain on the NHS. This farcical Rwandan scheme is going to cost an absolute fortune. To think, the French offered to let the UK have a processing centre for asylum seekers on the French coast and our government turned it down because they thought a 'stop the boats' campaign would win them votes. [Post edited 27 Apr 13:21]
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| Forum Reply | Stoke Game Matchday Thread at 10:17 27 Apr 2024
Saints had the worst goalkeeper in the PL last season in Bazunu and Leeds had the 2nd worst, Meslier. Sticking with them has cost us both automatic promotion. What we both really needed was to replace these youngsters with proven goalkeepers in their 30s. That doesn't include McCarthy, of course, who is just a proven failure. |
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