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  1. Now we are all paying our respects to this era that in spite of its awful end was undoubtedly a high period of the club's history, I invite us to share our 3 top SFC moments/games/events (plus 2 honourable mentions) since 2012. Here are mine: 1. Saints 3-2 Liverpool, 2016 - I genuinely still love this match, what a comeback with 3 great team goals (we scored a few that season), Mane/Pelle combo destroying the early days of Kloppism, when Liverpool were starting to become fashionable again. Electric SMS at the end. 2. Saints 4-0 Newcastle, 2014 - our blossoming as PL sensations under Pochettino, we played some great football that season. I particularly remember us being very dominant at home during that time - I think we beat them 4-0 again a few months later (in the new season)!. 3. Saints 2-1 Inter, Europa League 2016 - It was a brilliant night under the lights, not the Inter of today but also not the Saints of today, a glamour tie that we took with a dominant performance, packed St Mary's watching its first big Saints win in Europe. Our European run should've carried on, what happened to being back soon?! Honourable mentions: 4. Liverpool 0-1 Saints, League Cup semi-final 2017 - Shane Long limbs 5. Saints 8-0 Sunderland, 2014 - The goals weren't all pretty, but a remarkable game! Loads more which I'm sure you'll write about!
  2. Moneyball can do one, Rasmus and the hipsters can do one
  3. I do fully expect something big out of that announcement, like Semmens walking or even that the club is up for sale again.
  4. Bournemouth's revival is impressive, whichever way you look at it. Easily the 2nd/3rd worse squad of the league on paper. O'Neil will be causing them a dilemma but the new ownership card might be a good excuse to start again as I think his first 4 months are more illustrative of his ability than the last 4 weeks. I thought Dyche would do better at Everton, them and Leeds are looking incredibly panicky and deflated at the moment. If Leicester win tonight, I think it's going to be a Leeds/Forest face off. I'd also put a tenner that we'll be mathematically relegated by Fulham at home.
  5. Given the investment the club have made in him over the years, making him an academy ambassador and role model, the continuity he's been given in the side from various managers, the protection he had from always having other senior/experienced players around him and in the dressing room, and undisputed captaincy for so many years, I think we were all entitled to expect more from him. As it stands, it's hard to detach his own track record from the decline the team and club have suffered.
  6. Next time we go back into St Mary's, it will be for the formal farewell as Fulham come and deliver the relegation maths. Awful season, and we will go down with a whimper.
  7. Disappointing, I'm glad with our attitude, we showed we want to get into every game with a strong mentality. Lavia should've come out, not Alcaraz, who should not have left the pitch to be replaced by Diallo until added on time. Pegging the team back completely with two lines of 5, sitting way too deep with 15 minutes to play, allowing Arsenal and especially Odegaard (ZERO pressure in the build up to both goals) to come at us and pick passes in the final third killed us. You can't lock up with so much time to go. A draw is a good result, but the way in which things have ended means that our confidence boost is muted. In any case, this frustrating outcome at a big game for the PL season will have given us some fire and hope, which I believe will be enough to see us beat Bournemouth. It all feels a little too late, but..
  8. Bournemouth invested in the winter, but their survival being so close now is yet another miracle after the Howe years. Forest cannot score, Leeds defending is finally spiralling out of control - they are the ones coming down for me. I can see Everton grinding out results and Leicester getting just enough of a bounce from Dean Smith.
  9. A clear case of two successful operators, who are completely out of their depth when they need to set as well as execute the direction of travel.
  10. If we think giving a newly promoted coach an extra 2-4 games in the first half of a 46-game season is the same as being bottom of the Premier League with 3 months to go, then we should be surprised that the result is probably not going to be the same.
  11. Leeds might not have a better squad, but they have a better, more experienced and routined starting 11. Not top 10, but they should be at least tracking Palace for performance with a manager that can read and manage the match, and respond effectively rather than just set a team up to play nicely but poorly prepared for when the wind turns. I feel Marsch and Bielsa were the latter. I'm not sure Jesse Marsch "saved" them from relegation - yes, he did get almost as many wins in the last 12 games as Bielsa up to the point of resignation (4 vs. 5), but two of those were against the season's zombie teams Norwich (last minute win) and Watford, plus a final day with survival out of their direct control, without even playing Burnley (and so just purely out of their bad performance) - that was not the case when he joined. He also took 5 games to get a win - we can't afford that right now without things spiralling out of control again.
  12. Because, free-kicks aside, he might be out of his depth as a Premier League footballer? How many poor seasons did he (and more recently we) go through before his free-kick ability became something to acknowledge, while he was on the pitch for every single minute of the ride with the armband?
  13. What a glorious, costly waste of time this choice turned out to be.
  14. I don't get who wanted him back, us or Villa. But I honestly don't understand how he's still in the Premier League.
  15. Did get beat 9-0, has a dire squad to moan about if things don't go his very defensive way... would fit right in
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