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  1. I’ve felt the Charlie move was inevitable over the last few weeks, his appearances in the league have been restricted to 5-10 minute cameos and with the Rothwell signing adding more competition you had to wonder which player was likely to move on, with Charlie the most likely. £35m option is good money. Gutted it hasn’t worked out as well as we’d all hoped it would this season, it’s allot easier to swallow than it would have been last Summer, though. Amazing to think if Charlie leaves, the only players remaining and born outside of the UK will be Laros, Sulemana, Mara and Bednarek. I wonder if one of the strategies is to buy players from the home nations!?
  2. I bloody love a last minute goal. I can not understand for the life of me, fans that are complaining about them. It’s the best way to win a game!? Surely there’s no better indication of the teams desire and determination than a last minute goal, trying till the very end. Im old enough to remember the Man Utd of the 90s, you just knew they’d always score late because they never gave up, the famous Chmspions League final commentary sticks in my head “can they score, they always score”they never gave up, “Fergie time” it was called back then. i had that same feeling watching us today, attack after attack in that second half, I just knew we’d score. 87th minute winner vs Sheff Wed 97th minute equaliser vs Norwich 94th minute winner vs Plymouth 95th minute winner vs Hull 96th minute equaliser vs Preston 93rd minute winner vs Millwall Some of the football in the second half was just immense to watch, it really was.
  3. Yep, completely agree. 7 Pts from Leeds at home, Stoke away, Rotherham at home. Bitterly disappointed to not take the 3pts today, but I'd have taken that points return from those 3 fixtures at the beginning of the season every day of the week!
  4. Frustrating result, should have won but 7pts out of 9 from the those last 3 games is a decent return. hope the fan who suffered a medical emergency is recovering, very distressing scenes
  5. Hoping we come out of this game with a positive goal difference. 4-0/5-0 I hope 🤞
  6. I’m absolutely gutted After our first 4 league games I really thought we’d turned a corner and found the right man. Im trying to be as pragmatic as possible, the last two defeats and the last 3 goals have all come about through individual mistakes, ordinarily you’d not blame the manager for glaring mistakes made by players. Excluding the mistakes made by Charles/Holgate/Harwood-Bellis for the last 3 goals we’ve conceded, Downes/Smallbone/Manning/KWP/Charles/Harwood-Bellis/Holgate have all given the ball away on multiple other occasions that could and probably should have led to us conceding more! This isn’t by trying to play difficult/intricate passes, we’re talking the inability to play 4/5 yard passes to a team mate and instead playing straight into the oppositions feet or dwelling on the ball for too long. Why is that?? Burns from Ipswich said after the game “It was easy to read where their passes were going, and you saw a lot of the time that they were kicking balls away, off the field or straight to us, because we’re shutting angles that we know they want to play” Is our intensity so poor in training that those angles are open in training but not in games, lulling the mgmt and players into a false sense of security that we have the personnel to play a specific way? Martin is cultivating an environment where he wants us to be “Brave”, individuals mistakes aren’t being punished by the manager if their in-line with how we’re looking to play, but those mistakes are consistently costing us points, so in that context Martin is as culpable for those individuals mistakes as the players, it’s clear mistake’s are indicative of the way Martin is trying to have us play and the environment he’s created. Team selections and substitutions have been questionable and sometimes it’s easy to point at those to berate the manager but we don’t know the ins and outs of players fitnesses/how they’ve been training/their mentality etc so I don’t want to look too much into that. However there is a point to make about selections when it comes to consistently picking players who are making mistakes and cultivating that environment of “bravery” where individuals mistakes go unpunished by the manager. Players who consistently make mistakes should be dropped, no question! lastly, post match interviews, consistently talking absolute bollocks!!! Against Leicester we were an embarrassment, every Saints fan and media publication write up saw it that way too ”Leicester tear through terrible Southampton” ”Leicester thrash woeful Southampton” Yet the manager says “I am proud of the players” And talks about how it was a close game we just didn’t take our chances. Post match interviews have been the biggest red flag for me, scarily so. It’s shown arrogance not bravery. Bravery would be playing his style, putting in good performances, conceding goals we can do little about and losing games by small margins due to the oppositions quality. Arrogance is playing his style, making mistakes, handing the opponents goals and games, refusing to change the style or the personnel to steady the ship, blaming the issues on the clubs past. My last complaint is about intensity, the complete lack of it. This should be the absolute minimum of expectations! I thought when JWP left our intensity might increase and the side ways passing would end however it hasn’t and if anything, JWP has clearly shown that he can play with intensity since he’s left, so the issue is clearly with our group of players and the way they’re being motivated. I’m not calling for Martins head yet, but I’m watching the angry mob from outside my window considering whether I want to join them. Leeds is simply a must win
  7. I’ve been an advocate for Russell Martin, he’d won me over and felt like the long term appointment we needed but that post match interview is a massive red flag!!! What game was he watching!?! We we’re desperately weak in midfield today, Downes and Smallbone both utterly terrible and both extremely weak. We lacked physicality tonight, they both let players run through and past them consistently. Every single player was guilty of misplacing multiple simple 3 yard passes. Edozie looked good going forward but he leaves us so hugely exposed defensively, 3rd goal he didn’t stay tight, let the man run off him and it resulted in a goal. Charles needs to play in midfield as the holding midfielder.
  8. Man of the match again for me today.
  9. JWP to West Ham Stephens Captain Martin confirmed another player coming in opposite direction on loan as part of the JWP agreement, didnt name names but though to be Flynn Downes Expects more to leave in the next 3 weeks Lavia not featuring tomorrow
  10. JWP & Lavia Out Gustavo Hamer, Matt Grimes, James McAtee in
  11. He looks excellent, the kind of player I’d love to see on a saints shirt. reminds me a bit of Hammand during our promotion years but with a little more quality on the ball
  12. 100% I said to my mates, he really feels like someone you can get behind from the start. The fact Tella celebrated with him after the first goal 10 minutes into the season says allot about how the players view him. 💪
  13. He dislocated his shoulder twice during the season so I am wondering whether he's had to have surgery on it. If he did, then that's a 4-5 months recovery. Odd we havent heard anything about him though
  14. "The 19-year-old is a good reader of the game and is impressive technically but remains somewhat error prone." From this article... https://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/report-zach-awe-to-leave-arsenal-this-summer-in-search-of-first-team-football/ Sounds about right for us
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