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Thread | Shankland Or Adams
at 13:16 14 Jun 2024
That is the question amongst Scotland fans & pundits, should it be Lawrence Shankland up front or Che Adams ?
They seem to prefer Shankland which perhaps tells us something about whether we should look to keep Adams or move on and look elsewhere.
Shankland is a soon to be 29 year old striker who up to 2022/23 season had not made much of a mark in Scotland and see sawed between the Scottish Championship & Premiership.
He has played 11 times for Scotland & scored 3 goals compared to Che's 30 caps and 6 goals, given that in his last 17 games for Scotland he has scored just twice you can see why they are going for Shankland
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Reply | How many winning league games next season for SFC ?
at 09:31 14 Jun 2024
In the period of 1970-2023 we managed 42 Premier League seasons, Pompey managed 8 !
Fact of the day no one under the age of 20 can really remember Pompey as a Premier League club, a sobering thought |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 09:22 14 Jun 2024
Ironically as I was reading this thread it was on the news that in one poll, (not this one) the Reform Party had overtaken the Tories.
I would also caution people to remember that 90 years ago we had Oswald Mosly and comparisons could be drawn with Farage. Mosley like Farage flitted between parties and was at one time a Labour MP.
You are right the majority of the British despise extremism to use a phrase, on both sides, hence the country turning its back on Corbyn when really Labour should have smashed the Tories back then.
Whether we like it or not it all comes down to key issues and yes the NHS is a big one, but ultimately as was the case in the last one it is going to come down to immigration .
The real problem to me is that the main parties are just lying to us and I think we have all had enough.
They all have the magic word that means they can suddenly stop the boats when everything else has failed, they all have the answer and it is simple, this morning I saw WEs Streeting telling us that Labour would recruit 8,500 Mental Health workers, where are they going to get this people from, oh yes im always walking into groups of qualified mental health workers standing on street corners with nothing else to do, this was just one thing that tickled me, Labour do not have the monopoly of pie in the sky promises.
Look across Europe and you see the rise of the right wing parties, there are dark days ahead |
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Thread | Eddie Howe
at 12:10 13 Jun 2024
Apparently in line for England job if Southgate goes, not sure that his track record merits that |
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Thread | General Election
at 22:11 12 Jun 2024
I havent got a clue about what each party is going to do if elected, but I know a lot about how bad each one of them is, they are all more concerned with slagging each other off than actually getting the country on track |
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Reply | Noel Gallagher
at 22:01 12 Jun 2024
The truest words he has said since
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a rock 'n' roll band
Who'll throw it all away |
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Thread | Noel Gallagher
at 21:22 12 Jun 2024
Noel Gallagher on PL matches abroad:
“I couldn’t care less if a ManCity ‘customer’ in New Jersey wants to see a game. Get off your f***ing arse and come to Manchester, then. Why are we talking about schlepping out to Abu Dhabi for a League Cup final, FA Cup finals in Bangkok?"
“It [football] will change drastically in the next decade and, 20 years from now, it will be unrecognisable. Once there are 14 American owners in the PL, it’s over. They will vote for no relegation. There will be rule changes and all sorts of mad s***..."
"Honestly, the Americanisation of football is not good for the game. It will be a slow erosion. And we are going to be powerless to stop them..." |
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Reply | Only A Week Left To Go
at 21:39 11 Jun 2024
I hope we get the big clubs out of th way early doors whilst we are still finding our feet and to give us a wake up call, better to lose to manchester City on the opening day than Nottingham Forest |
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Reply | Armando Broja
at 16:10 11 Jun 2024
Mara is not my mate, I just feel some sympathy for him, in that he has tried his best for the club and get slagged off with all the old cliches, whilst Broja showed no sort of fondness for the club in any way shape or form and couldnt be bothered playing in the final game of the season, yet is held up as some sort of Southampton legend.
Yes a successful season at Vitesse, 10 goals but as he approaches 23, he has spent his career chasing money not glory, prefers to stay at Chelsea and earn big money but rarely play and when he goes to us or Fulham does very little
Adam Lallana who gave us 7 good seasons and stayed loyal when we went into League one is berated and sneered at now because he wanted to play for a big club, Ok it wasn't the best way to leave, but no one could not accuse him of not giving us good service.
Yet Broja is some sort of cult hero for scoring just 6 goals, Che Adams got 7 that season no one saw that as a good return
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Reply | Chris Nicholl V Lallana
at 15:01 11 Jun 2024
Very wise words, the problem for some is football is all about emotion and it is hard to look at it without that emotion taking over. |
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Reply | Aribo off?
at 09:13 11 Jun 2024
I thought you might have come up with one to the tuner of Status Quo's song. Down Down
Downes Downes Aribo & Downes |
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Reply | Armando Broja
at 09:12 11 Jun 2024
It could just be the media putting two and two together as Broja has worked with Hassenhuttl or it could just be that Hassenhuttl thinks he has changed and needs to drop down to a league where he won't be playing top defences week in week out |
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Thread | Only A Week Left To Go
at 23:49 10 Jun 2024
Fixtures out Tuesday morning 18th June, whom would you like on the opening day |
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Thread | Armando Broja
at 23:41 10 Jun 2024
Seems he is linked with a reunion with Ralph Hasenhuttl at Wolfsburg, but on high wages at Chelsea and still with 4 years left on his contract its likely to be only a loan.
Interesting to note that as he approaches 23 he still only has 66 Premier League games and 16 goals to his name, 32 of those games were for Saints |
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Reply | Aribo off?
at 22:46 10 Jun 2024
Rangers have been linked over the past few weeks but mainly agent rumours |
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Reply | keeper
at 21:38 10 Jun 2024
I dont think we were ever really serious and he was on loan at Brondby all last season, so this was done and dusted fairly quickly |
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Reply | Another 1976 FA Cup medal at Auction
at 15:31 10 Jun 2024
I was once featured in Colemanballs for a comment I had said somewhere, Ill have to dig it out.
I said back in 2009 as we headed to administration.
"Never has a football club in the size of Saints in recent history really had to stare into the precipice."
I probably meant to say Abyss, but given the definition of precipice is
1 a very steep side of a cliff or a mountain:
2 a dangerous situation that could lead to harm or failure:
I think we could describe our situation back then as both
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Reply | Trabzonspor Demand Southampton Lower Price For Striker
at 15:26 10 Jun 2024
From what I have seen of Onuachu, he is just someone who gets into the box and you bang it forward to him, we don't play that way , he came on against Gillingham in the League cup, didn't make much impression that night against a League two side |
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Reply | Trabzonspor Demand Southampton Lower Price For Striker
at 14:55 10 Jun 2024
Firstly I dont go like to go against popular opinion, I just don't always go with it.
I would say that the Championship is a tougher league that the Turkish Super Lig, over there you have only about 4 teams of note, Galatasaray won it last year with 102 points, Fenerbache on 99 were 2nd and then Trabzonsport were 3rd with 67, after that its down below 61 points and also rans.
Onauchu failed miserably in 2022/23, there we have a comparison , the only direct comparison with both in the same squad and same divison.
Onuachu played 404 minutes and got zero goals and zero assists, Mara played 541 minutes a goal and 2 assists.
I dont particularly think that Mara is the answer, but at least he wanted to stay and play, in fairness to Onuachu he didn't suit the way Russel Marin wanted to play so was always going to be surplus this season, unless Martin leaves before the season starts then no point in keeping him here.
Why would you bet your house on Ballard scoring more than Mara, what are you basing that on, he has only played 24 minutes of Premier league football and didn't score, he did well for Reading before getting injured but that is league 2, Adam Armstrong got 28 goals in the Championship before joining Saints but struggled to score in the Premier League.
Ballard is a kid he only turned 19 a couple of months ago, if he had played in the season just gone and not scored the fans would be on his back and ruin him |
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