Ted Bates Statue

did you know that although he's most famous for a stop smoking course, in his spare time he does comedy

Winner stays on, it's only fair isn't it!

I'm sure there are all sorts of stories in the realm of weird shit that never really got an explanation. Not that recent any more, to be fair, but just in terms of our sponsorship deals, the AAP3 deal had the feeling of it being a desperate fall-back option after someone bungled our original first choice. On an unrelated note, I wonder did anyone ever find Nicola's missing spoon? Slightly more recent in the bizarre stakes was the hiring of Pellegrino and how on earth did we end up signing Carillo... easy to mock this website at times, but there were plenty on here who were proved horribly right on both counts. Appreciate I've gone off on various tangents, but hey it's an international break and it's not like there's anything Saints-related to talk about currently.

I wouldn't be so hasty to dismiss the notion. He has a home in Winchester and I saw him in the area very recently.

I was thinking of saying that Saints were looking by far the more likely to score, but thought against it. No matter, we've just conceded against the run of play.

If we were to appoint Brendon I might even settle for us continuing to be shit, just to marvel at the irony of his downward career trajectory.

Surprised this hasn't been brought up on here. Media seem more than happy to run with this, because his opinions were kept sufficiently vague enough to suit just about anyone's viewpoint.

Some comments from https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6786896/2025/11/07/southampton-will-still-sport-republic-analysis/ Regardless of who we appoint, Sports Republic have a bloody long way to bring back confidence in how our club is being run. Another belter was that we wanted to bring back Danny Ings. For all the misgivings on here about data in scouting and analysis, it's a bit sad that our primary source of identifying talent to join us now seems to consist of browsing our alumni on saintsplayers.co.uk

James Bree

According to @Pilchards Ankerson has always been keen on Carrick, or at least he was a couple of years ago when we were looking to replace Nathan Jones. Wonder if that will put everyone here off Carrick now 🤣

KO at 2pm today.

I think it's a lot easier to fake a muscle injury or the like as opposed to some kind of sickness, so it probably is legit on this occasion. That said, of them certainly should feel sick after yesterday

I told myself I'd hold off a comparison until we passed the quarter-season point. The time has now come but I'm not doing a game-by-game comparison. Instead, here are our performances in comparable EFL Championship seasons after 12 games. 2005-06 17 points (W3 D8 L1) 2007-08 16 points (W5 D1 L6) 2008-09 12 points (W3 D3 L6) 2012-13 26 points (W8 D2 L2) 2023-24 20 points (W6 D2 L4) 2025-26 12 points (W2 D6 L4) Repeating Lowe's Dutch Total Football points tally with a mega budget was not on my bingo list this season. Before the match I was expecting we would be on 13 points, embarrassing either way, but Still is far from the only scapegoat for this fiasco. It's Sport Republic that I'm really losing confidence in. Silver lining, at least Minsk doesn't have to put up with this nonsense any more.

Hate to say it, but I think our unbeaten run is about to come to an end.

Well, he knows that his former assistant is no longer interested...