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I don't see it that way. They are trying, but we simply just ain't good enough to play when teams press us hard.

it was our midfield that gave the ball away in our own third. Our midfield has been shite in this game. No control at all.

Is that Charles or Edozie or both fucking up?

Is that a pass or a shot from Adams?

It will be Edozie. Like you, RM has lost faith in Sulemana

Team of the year keeper flaps. Are all championship keepers are a bit dodgy?

you want the slower Bree out there?

KWP getting murdered..again. The THB showing his limitations when under pressure. We love our better players, but they are not world beaters by any stretch.

sure, but we have hardly managed to get out of our own half. Leicester deserve the lead no matter how much RM will moan about the possible foul on Adams or decisions like the missed corner.

Saints actually having a fucking clue how to press an opponent seems like ions ago

I don't want to hear any excuses about the ref being shit. We aint been good enough so far.

Leicester showing u all our limitations individually and collectively. Leeds fans may have bene right. Flat track bullies.

Leicester showing don't agree with this. He's not hiding. He's trying hard but just is not good enough.

Adams is really giving his all, but even then he is still struggling to hold it up.

tried to pass it out, under pressure we are not good enough to do it, turned the ball over quickly and it led directly to conceding. My word. In contrast, Leicester beat our pathetic press with ease and we are in massive trouble.

certainly not with these players. When teams press well, to beat that press the players have to be absolute top quality. Ours are just decent at championship level. Leicester causing us a lot of problems. Completely different tyoe of game to we are used to. Can we step up or adapt even?

Leicester pressing and so far, as was the case in the Hull game, we don't seem to be good enough to beat it and play it out from the back. Got to work harder of the ball to create a passing option, be better and dare I say it, a little braver on the ball. The positive is that Leicester have had a lot of ball, which means we are less likely to be caught on the break. Early days though. Bene better the last couple of minutes

try using "Corporate box hire" in the subject line. That seems to grab the eye.

I'd of thought you would have to move from the family stand. Maybe the equivalent priced seas will be available in the remaining seated areas of the Itchen/Northam and/or Kingsland/Northam corners, but I doubt it. Possibly the Chapel stand will be the `lower cost' stand, but more likely the safe standing Northam will be seen as the new lower cost option and everywhere else will be regular prices.

a difference to what?

Anyone actually been to a game with safe standing? What's it like? It obviously doesn't offer the same thrills and experience as the packed terraces, but does it lend itself to more singing, more confidence to start a song, make an anonymous comment...

Perhaps if they didn't spunk £10m a year on interest payments fans wouldn't have to cover their rising `operational costs'. Some already have been. I seem to recall a match day ticket at SMS for Sains Man City was about £52. Laughable. My Fareham Town season ticket is less than that. The standard is shite, but the day out with a couple of friends and a beer or two is pretty good. When you step away from religiously buying a Saints season ticket, it becomes very apparent how much it costs and the value you get back. Hopefully, Saints will go up and then the ST price will seem pretty reasonable (in modern times). If we don't, it's only a couple more seasons until we get the begging sales emails and them telling us how much they value us supporters etc.

Could not agree more. When we score a goal how many Saints fans look at it from a defensive point of view and question the keepers position, speed off their line or ability to get down to save etc. None. We all look at the parts played by our own players in the goal being scored. Watch the other championship keepers closely and most are equally terrible/good.

Understandable that you are considering your ST then. Looks like your current seat might be desirable to the Itchen North fans.

I thought the same (he possibly has a clause entitling him to another contract if he plays a certain number of games too- another reason why he hasn't figured), but wondered then why McCarthy was on the bench for the first half of the season and not Lumley. Very strange that Lumley gets a new contract - suggesting RM rates him - only for him to be dropped to third choice last night. Why offer a keeper a new deal when we are close to promotion if you don't think he's even your second best keeper? I guess McCarty is a dead cert to leave, so RM didn't want to be searching for two keepers this summer. However, Lis will come back, so even if McCarthy and Lumley left he'd of had two keepers. Intriguing situation. We fucked the keeper position up last time we had an opportunity to reset. Are we doing that again?