CB Fry

If we don't go up, you've got a fucking big shock coming next season if you think our bench is weak now. Our bench is not weak, most of them would get games in most other Championship teams. God knows who you think is coming to us just to sit on our bench in the second tier.

We're not going up automatically. But play offs are huge and we will be in them. Just where is the question.

Pretty sure, yeah.

We're not winning this that's for sure.

They show the Pompey derby last season (the Will Still one i think) and they are showing it again next month.

I don't want to ladle on too much pressure but winning this game will be season defining. If we win we will be as good as "top" but for the deduction. Which sends a massive message to the rest of the league. Lose or draw, and we just look a bit adrift in the sludge of mid table.

I said "there are restrictions" and there are. It's not two provincial cities it's London you sap.

400 old bill, major operation in dispersal orders across huge area, controlled entrance/exits round some of the tube stations. Get over it, it's London not two completely separate cities 20 miles apart. You can't do a bubble on the London Underground.

There are restrictions.

The point is that all those clubs can't all win.

If he was meant to be seen why didn't Tonda just say "yes that was us, we did it, he was meant to be seen" as soon as it came up?

I don’t think anyone except Saints fans gives a flying fuck that we beat gigantic Millwall and Swansea in late August/early September. What media coverage were you expecting for that?

The quote in the linked article says this "Seven officers were treated at the scene for injuries, but no-one in attendance was seriously hurt" So well done on trying to be a clever cunt but guess what, you're full of shit.

I'm not talking about fans on social media.

All correct apart from the Middlesbrough bit. They won't say anything like that. They got the punishment they wanted and for them it's over.

Probably zero backlash. The world has moved on. The most likely "backlash" would be from a particularly punitive punishment because the external consensus now will be that we've been punished enough. Like others have said: if it's supposedly bad enough for a year ban why on earth has he been allowed to start the season? He's getting punished but I expect comparable to a player that has lamped someone - six games or something.

Oooooh lovely

BBC Radio Bristol are supposed to be biased. Solent also saying it is not really a 4-1 game.

When Tonda comes back to work next September he will be inheriting a really strong team 👍

Stick that up your combine harvester

Knew that ref was a homer #saintsinhisblood

I don't know how many times people can "not fathom" it. We are trying to get rid of him, we don't want to pay him a penny more than the bare minimum in his contract. It is nothing, nothing to do with how good he is as a goalkeeper.

He's from Chippenham which every SaintsWeb forum contributor should understand is slap bang in the middle of the Southampton FC catchment area. He's a red and white Saint to his fucking bones.

More like: he doesn't want to go to Saudi or Turkey or anywhere. We've tried to get him out but we can't. No one else that he could conceivably go to wanted him. Be interesting to see how we play it when the very last window shuts.

Is this the ominous quote or something else he said? "I dont want to make it about me, it's never about me. It's about the football club and it's an important game. Then we have the derby next and what happens happens, but my only job is to win." Because that quote is pretty generic. He needs to stay circumspect and say as little as possible. He is going to get a punishment, and I think it will be something like 6 games out.