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Ipswich are being opened up by Leicester at will. I don't think they are getting automatic promotion

Credit to whoever played in Fraser though

In all seriousness, there won't be too many teams that come to play like Swansea did. We can expect other opponents to park the bus, forcing us into Russ' preferred crab-style football

Ipswich are shipping goals now. 19 in the last 12. The wobble is on (cue victory over Leicester)

Was that the usual commentator on Saints player? Seemed like he'd been at the sherry with his comments on goals one and three. Clockwork mouse wtf

Not sure how long we can keep starting him on the bench

Bit of a sentimental pick that I think

Honestly, Mara has got something if we persist

Cancel his loan and we have a readymade left back

It's baked into the Sport Republic philosophy that players are bought for the future rather than for the present, so hopefully as we get our pipelines in place things will go better

Our 12-game form is now better than Leeds and Ipswich. We've scored nearly as many goals as the others and no one has conceded fewer than us

I think he was lucky to play under Ralph who favoured two strikers. He's best as a second striker and there's not many teams that do that

Makes sense for Che to stay till the summer now. He'll get a good contract somewhere as a free agent. Whether the club will let him is another matter

We supposedly offered £30m+ for Gakpo, so a statement signing isn't totally out of the question. But I'd agree it's highly unlikely

When I remember how Ralph's teams used to run out of gas for long spells of a season, I wonder if we might see a fitness dividend towards the end of this season from our possession game. It's possibly already there given how consistent our team selection has been able to be

It's all ifs and buts, but he could easily reject Premier League interest because he doesn't fancy a relegation scrap and his family wants to come back to Winchester

There's a deal to be done that suits everyone. West Ham gets a portion of his wages off the wage bill We get a great player for a wage we can afford Ings gets to earn the same wage as before and play in an exciting playoff final

Given that we'll need West Ham to subsidise his wages, there will be every incentive for them to drag it out and sweat a bigger % from us

There's never a risk-free appointment but he seems like he's doing a good job at Ipswich and would be a good shout for us. I thought Nathan Jones had a promising track record though

A bit of movement like this would do the trick for us https://x.com/saints_analysis/status/1736361305076904391?s=20

Does he have more zip than Rasiak had at this level? I expect so

He wears his heart on his sleeve. He's passionate, loyal, a top lad

You're just remembering all the times these things haven't worked and not the many more times they have. Because it looks silly when it doesn't come off it sticks in the mind

Once again people complain about our boring, low risk football but don't like it when people try things