Ted Bates Statue

To be honest I didn't think it was worth bothering to dream about, knowing what we're usually like in the second half.

Had a dream the score was 0-2 before HT. I'm going for a run to try and mitigate this.

The soup isn't good, it is SMOOTH yum yum!? Yeah, that really clarifies everything. Sounds like multiple people in the club's management have been acting like Cortese spending money like water, but with absolutely zero success to show for it. And drunk driving. Lots of people drunk driving. Romain Molina is the same guy who suggested that we have loads of passengers in our own non-playing staff team a few weeks back.

After the derby match at St Mary's last year I realised that Saints are very much still a team best observed via radio. Even in our purple patch under Tonda, I still managed to miss most of our live televised goals due to our infamous second half performances.

still need to make sure we're on course to finish safe of relegation before they can think about next season. One league win in almost two months isn't going to cut it.

Yes

He's talking about the wrong player I think you might be talking about the wrong player

This chap has witnessed the derby 29 times, going back to August 1960 when Saints won 5-1 in a sign of things to come. I imagine there may be a handful of us on here who have similarly extensive derby experience, although might be tricky finding anyone with 30 derbies just yet - that next previous one was held in 1927.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/22/southampton-leo-scienza-championship-interview-brazilian-sweden

I didn't need to see this because I knew it already, but it's sad to have confirmation that since our last win in early December, pound for pound, we are by a long way the worst team in the division.

I read that he left due to homesickness rather than footballing reasons. Anyway he cost £5M and we recovered most of that when we sold him.

Not our club, but Blackburn Rovers. Some might feel there are parallels as in the 2000s post Jack Walker era they enjoyed several top half PL finishes and European campaigns... followed by a takeover in 2010 and 15 years of mostly bad decision, starting with Allardyce's sacking. https://www.brfcs.com/articles/painful-acceptance

I was probably looking forward to doing a mid-season comparison in November, but our form for the last month put paid for that. Points after 26 matches in our previous Championship seasons: 2005-06 31 points (W6 D13 L7) 2006-07 44 points (W12 D8 L6) 2007-08 33 points (W9 D6 L11) 2008-09 23 points (W5 D8 L13) 2012-13 50 points (W15 D5 L6) 2023-24 52 points (W15 D7 L4) 2025-26 33 points (W8 D9 L9) 18 years after the 2007-08 season and once again, we're flying in 15th in the same division on the same points tally, once again having endured a similarly dreadful run of games over the Christmas period. The only difference being last time we did it while beginning to tighten our belts, whereas this time our owners have spent a considerable sum of money to achieve the same feat. I find myself wondering if Nigel Pearson would be interested in returning to management.