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Nordic Saint

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  1. They never had rotation or resting players in Ron Davies's day. Barring 1 or 2 injuries, the same 11 played all 42 top flight league games plus cup games.
  2. A couple of 'More tickets for Saints fans' banners outside the ticket office and on TV for the Spurs match would be effective.
  3. Look at the seating plan at 9am on Friday and you will see that it isn't. There will be plenty of room there.
  4. With Spurs being given the whole of the Northam end, the only way to compete with them will be for all of our regular singers to gather behind the goal at the Chapel end. Otherwise it will end up like it usually does when we play a big club in the FA Cup at St Mary's: an embarrassment, with the only fans to be heard being the away ones.
  5. Wolves went on a 10-match unbeaten run after we beat them 9-3, culminating in an 8-2 victory over Pompey.
  6. We win more games than other teams do whereas before we used to lose more. We've won 5 of our last 6 games; the other one was a draw. Only the top 5 have won more games than we have this season.
  7. Southgate 's played Callum Wilson and he's a few months older than Ings.
  8. Ralph is understandably going to be very cautious in the transfer market. He'll be looking for cover in key positions but not looking for players to immediately replace anyone in our first team now that it is playing so well. We've seen how bringing in expensive flops like Carrillo and Vestergaard can mess the team up.
  9. Vestergaard was dropped. We lost 5 and drew 1 of his last 6 games. Since he was dropped, we've won nearly every game and now there are only 5 teams in the league who've won more games than us. He slowed our game down, confused the rest of our defence and we had to play an extra central defender to cover for him, leaving us short in midfield, which let opposing teams push us back into our own half and take control of the game. Of course that's not the only factor but just look at how much better our central defenders are playing now that he is out of the way. The central defensive partnership of Stephens and Bednarek is the foundation on which our recent success has been built. We now have a very good defence.
  10. I think he has put his team together. They have just beaten Chelsea, Spurs & Leicester and have as many points as Koeman's team did after the same number of games in 2016. All we need now is for them to stay together.
  11. The Isambard Kingdom Brunel? I was in there one Saturday night and there was a bunch of young Saints fans in Guildhall Square singing OWTS. With results like this, that could become a regular occurrence.
  12. What an incredible turnaround we have seen this season. Yet more points won after going behind and another top six side beaten. You come to expect it now.
  13. He's got his mojo back. The great team spirit is lifting the game of every player.
  14. The point is (and the lost points were) we were robbed so many times by unfair decisions from officials and, no, they didn't even out over the pre-VAR seasons. Although it's good that has ended, you can't help wondering what might have been.
  15. Stephens and Ward-Prowse could also get surprise call-ups for the Denmark game.
  16. It keeps on ensuring that results are fair. How many points would we have lost this season through unfair decisions without it?
  17. With Kane injured, Ings will be in the England squad for the Denmark game and get on the pitch at some stage. Let's hope he does what Lambert did when he came on as a sub.
  18. I agree and there are some who make long journeys to do that. For a fan who's chosen to live in the north to think he is more loyal than other fans because he goes to a handful of games which are nearest to his home is delusional.
  19. I remember when we beat Wolves 9-3 at home, we later drew the away game 1-1. With Saints' away form being so good, a draw looks possible.
  20. I sit in line with where a lot of offsides occur. Most assistant referees are 5 to 10 yards behind play when they make offside decisions so they have to make educated guesses. Typically they get about 70% right. The 30% they get wrong largely pass unnoticed, except by those fans sitting in line, as they don't affect goals scored. Sian Massey-Ellis, who moves up and down the line very quickly and never loses concentration, is one of the few who gets about 90% right. I've also noticed assistant referees raise their flag in reaction to shouts from the crowd. External factors, such as a baying crowd and the possibility of getting post-match criticism from a high profile manager of a big club splashed across the media inevitably have an influence. At St Mary's, the away fans behind the goal at the Northam end ensure that more than 50% of close decisions at that end, including free-kicks, penalties, offsides and red cards, go the way of the away team. There is at least one penalty given against us every season at that end which wouldn't have been given if the incident had occurred at the Chapel end. These are all human errors that VAR is helping to eliminate.
  21. The human factors determining the results should be the players not the referees.
  22. Absolutely. If the pre-VAR incorrect decisions had been evenly distributed, then they would have been tolerable but they weren't. They put us at a disadvantage, which has now been removed. It's the same for everyone now.
  23. +1 Best possible draw.
  24. (I'm reposting as the video link didn't work) Yes, he has lightning pace:
  25. Yes, he has lightning pace:
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