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I’m going to put it out there. The performance against Liverpool was the best we’ve played in years.

That’s because Danny Wallace started with Keegan, George, Ball, Channon etc, ditto Moran. MLT, Shearer, Franny with Jimmy. Later on, Beattie learning from Hughes, Bridge with Marsden, Telfer, Shaw and JWP with Steven Davis and Fonte. Talented youngsters need both experience and quality around them to reach their potential but Semmens, and then SR, have never understood this fact.

Hopefully this is the start of Newsom and other senior Democrats coordinating and really opposing Trump and MAGA, providing hope, opposition and ultimately a viable alternative.

Spors bows to pressure to get in experience, but being SR, gets in ex-Forest player Chris Woods in. Now 65, Woods still ends up as our top scorer for the season.

Downes is awful. I watched a replay of the game and really concentrated on him. Never got involved at all. Infact at one point he kind of skipped a defender like My Little Pony. Oh, hang on. He does remind me of My Little Pony.

That old cop out… 🤪

Well, it was more an alternate reality he’d concocted to be fair…

Siddeley

Looks like Chris Wood has lost his place at Forest. Make the call Spors! Announce it January 2nd

Can someone explain what is the criteria for a points deduction for a "poor wicket"? I can see if no teams gets above 150, but for the Sussex match they almost made it to 300 in their first innings, and had a player make a century.

He’s 100% reverting to a back five again isn’t he…

My concern is you have to pick people based on merit, who’s trained well, who’s not made errors etc etc. Not because they’re captain, or they’re the latest signing, on they’re on high wages etc

Because he fits in the bracket of young and higher potential returns. Funny right! 🤣

If they'd been monitoring him for some time why the fuck did they buy him?

https://league1minus10.co.uk/2025/09/24/carabao-cup-3rd-round-liverpool-2-southampton-1/ League 1 Minus 10: Liverpool 2 Southampton 1. RPs appreciated. #sainstfc improve but exit the Integrity Cup. Featuring a rigged draw, Saints sitters, Macca brilliance and stupidity, Downs in the dumps, first for the club and big club sycophancy.

Don’t worry he’ll come good, after all…., Group Technical Director Johannes Spors said: “Damion is a player we have been monitoring for some time who possesses excellent physical qualities and the ability to disrupt defences. “Strengthening our attacking options was one of our top priorities this summer, and Damion is a player who will add real quality to the group. Despite his relatively young age he is already a senior international, so we are excited to see him thrive in the environment here at Southampton.”

How can you possibly criticise him for their first goal? - McCarthy decided to pass the ball straight to Cienza. Quarshie had nothing to do with it.

I think this is why a lot of us are having problems!. Watching in the pub I thought the eventual scorer was offside, and was just wondering whether it was a special Anfield rule?

Foreigners eating our royal swans and using the incorrect cutlery! 😡 I'm spitting feathers, I'm going to write a strongly worded letter to my local Sharia Law Station.

What’s more worrying about that quote from Spors, other than the obvious bit about Downs non existent physical attributes, is that he states that striker was one of our top priorities, which indeed it was. So being that he was well aware of that, this bloke , and this bloke alone, was who he was banking on to solve our striker woes, as the main man this season. Let that sink in

Closely followed by “Dixon and Speedie will score more goals than Alan Shearer…” Definitely and ‘cut out and keep’ quote from Mr Spors. Would sell well on a t-shirt in the club shop.

Johannes Spors upon the signing of Downs….. Group Technical Director Johannes Spors said: “Damion is a player we have been monitoring for some time who possesses excellent physical qualities and the ability to disrupt defences. “Strengthening our attacking options was one of our top priorities this summer, and Damion is a player who will add real quality to the group. Despite his relatively young age he is already a senior international, so we are excited to see him thrive in the environment here at Southampton.” im sorry but this is up there with Les Reed saying that Pellegrino was going to bring “high intensity pressing attacking football” to the club

But why would we have more genuinely PL quality players in the squad the season after?

You'd probably be surprised, we'd actually lose a lot on free's. Smallbone, Stewart, McCarthy, Fraser all OOC and Jelert and Long leaving from their loans. We'd have Charles, Armstrong and Manning with just 1 year left and we'd probably have to sell at that point (Charles would certainly have takers). Thankfully, the good news, Stephens and Bazunu would be down to 1 year left on their deals - so that's a positive at least. (we're probably going to offer Bazunu an 8 year contract though, I can see it in my nightmares) But I could see us losing Charles, Downes, THB, Robinson, Edwards etc for fees - but they wouldn't be huge. So factor in those possible sales, with the guys on frees as well....we're basically in a rebuilding situation once again, but with less money.