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  1. It's like someone moved the goalposts when the keeper wasn't looking!🤫
  2. Yeah, that's the one! I reckon it could look decent given a modern-day update. At least it's stripes with a bit of "innovation" that some on here crave. Still got both home and away kits of that original PONY design but they're looking a bit battle-scarred these days. Fortunately, those 90's designs were generously proportioned so have accommodated a bit of lockdown spread. A modern-day refresh or adding them to the retro shirt range would be welcome. Perhaps such an "iconic" design might inspire some MLT-levels of genius from our current squad (not holding my breath)
  3. Nice kit, an improvement on recent years. I'm probably in the minority but I'd love to see a kit that resembles the classic PONY kit of the early 90's. Hummel could do something along similar lines, but replace the PONY "tick" that was across the chest with the Hummel "chevron".
  4. Bit of a long shot but are we the first top-flight team to occupy every league position from 1st down to 17th in a single season? Feels like that should be some sort of record.
  5. You could also be describing another mercurial Saints talisman with that description, although MLT used to keep his socks pulled up!
  6. This reminds me of my old primary school football team. We were dreadful and got hammered every match. The headmaster used to read out the results to the whole school in assembly the following morning. One time he said "The boys football team lost 6-2 yesterday... but it was 5-0 at half time so at least they won the second half!" 🤣😭
  7. Tim Flowers has just left an ill-fated three month stint in charge of Barnet, rooted second-bottom of the National League ("Conference" as it was known) only by virtue of bottom club Dover having refused to play any league games for months... he's probably near the top of Saints' candidates list.
  8. We really need to beat someone 10-0 to set a new record and then everyone will forget about the 9-0's
  9. Last night was a "perfect storm"... a threadbare squad of fit players (2 keepers on the bench!) playing away at Man United (joint league leaders, in excellent form), a young debutant getting sent off inside 2 minutes and a set of match officials intent on giving pretty much every decision against Saints (not even just the marginal decisions). Which manager would you prefer to have at Saints, a manager who suffered two 9-0 defeats or a manager who took us to the top of the table for the first time in the Premier League era?
  10. Why is it only the 20 current EPL clubs are expected to fund this "gift" when he's been leader for the past 20 years and plenty of ex-EPL clubs have also benefited from his "successful leadership"? How about the likes of Stoke City, West Brom, Aston Villa etc. chip in given that they have presumably profited from years of EPL income (and still collecting parachute payments), compared to the likes of Brighton and Huddersfield who are relative newcomers to the EPL cash machine? Of course, how about they quietly ditch the whole idea and give him a gold watch and a farewell card like the rest of us would get at retirement?
  11. The memory's a bit hazy but for some reason Wimbledon away and Richard Dryden seem to spring to mind (did he score an o.g. but we still managed to get a result?) Of course, I may be barking up completely the wrong tree. An of course there was the classic 5-4 match against Norwich, where we never lead until Ken Monkou scored with virtually the last kick (header!) of the match. I know that wasn't on the final day of the season, but without those 2 extra points we would have been relegated that season. Some great seasons back then, when we were consistently punching above out weight due to the financial constraints of playing at The Dell.
  12. Over the course of the whole season, we didn't spend a great deal of time in the bottom 3, never dropped as low as 20th, and we're effectively safe with 1 game left to play. Contrast that with some of the "classic" escapes of the 90's when we spent most of the season in the bottom 3 or propping up the table, and had to get a result in the final game and hope other results went in our favour - those were true "great escapes". If, however, we somehow capitulate against Man City and Swansea and Huddersfield both pull off freakish results, that could go down as the "greatest escape from Premier League survival"!
  13. Steve Cotterill is available.
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