Ted Bates Statue

You're the one who said Mara was crap the second he was linked with us so, like Hasenhuttl, you obviously don't consider him to be the complete article. It's one thing to not expect signings to hit the ground running (especially the younger ones), but what the hell are your expectations for him then?

Well if it cuts the mustard for Ketchup himself, mayo we all consider this as his official nickname henceforth? If it bothers MLG so much, that just adds an extra layer of spiciness for me.

Not a high quality post but in my defence I do agree with your sentiment - I was being flippant and posted after the first goal. Not expecting Adam Armstrong to score 20, but with think he can be useful for us with more confidence this season. As with last season I will try and reserve judgement until about 5-6 games in.

Yep, some people need to be told what's happening at ear splitting volume, clappers and preferably vuvuzelas in order to understand a goal has been scored. How would we know that something interesting has happened without any screaming in a half deserted studio?

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Nice song, link to youtube... Boyzone, WTF?! Well played.

I watched Spain v Germany and thought Spain were a distinct second best in that match, lots of pretty passing and not just sideways either, but Germany were able to snuff out the attacks so easily to the extent that it was 70% possession in Spain's favour but there was only going to be one winner. My impression at the time was that Spain would not get much further in the tournament, even if they qualified from the group. Refereeing seems to have favoured Spain in both that game and tonight's but at this rate (as England equalise), whoever wins tonight is not going to lift the trophy. England struggling demonstrates that they have been massively overhyped.

No but it is on the official website. Seems to cut out frequently for me, however. https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2022-07-18/live-stream-sk-austria-klagenfurt-southampton-pre-season-friendly-18-july-2022

My first choice would have been Drew Surman, thought he sounded very comfortable on the radio. Didn't Merrington's grandson also do a match? Thought he was good too.

Interesting if he was saying that before Leicester went on their run to win the league. I'm sure Vardy would have been quite instrumental in their promotion campaign, but I don't believe he really did much in the PL until 2015/16.

Prepare for hot weather, but don't you dare bring any sustenance if you didn't buy it inside the stadium at our special inflated prices. I put up with it at Spurs new stadium as a one-off, don't think I could be bothered to go if this is the new norm.

Facebook is full of the sort of lunatic who claims there is no new kit being released this year. I believe the answers are already on this thread.

I would appreciate the signing just for the bizarre news articles which feel the need to re-name him as Caleta-Automobile. ...if we sign him it could be a good indicator of the board's level of drive.

Lallana didn't want to leave either, until he did. All the chat at the time was of him being a one-club man and yet it goes out of the window when Klopp comes calling. Appreciate the sentiment of your post otherwise.

Seems like a universally well-received signing. Let's see how much goodwill is left when both he and Salisu have an afternoon of panic and we ship five or more... I'll give it until the end of September I was particularly grateful for the lack of accompanying gif on this occasion.

I sense that I might just be in a minority on this opinion, but I really don't get the hype for the late 80s shirts. Guessing there's a strong element of 'you had to be there'. If we're going to do halves I would like to see a simple red and white. To me, this just looks pink and red.

Jan Poortvliet too, although he bought himself out of his previous contract as we weren't ever going to stump up. Resigned of his own accord too.

I raise you Burley without Snodin.

Would be an insane bit of business, if true 🙏

The whole episode was mind boggling. Almost as impressive was how there are actual photographs of him doing it on the pitch in his defence. Clearly nobody at the club was prepared to enlighten him, so I can only hope that Putin has provided him with all the latest research materials on the Nazis since then.

When England finally tire of Southgate I reckon they could do no better than to delve into Serie A for their next coach. Good times guaranteed.

We've been relegated before the season started almost every year since returning to the Prem. And yet here we go again. We must get promoted an awful lot, but you never hear about those.

Bingo. Home shirt is a 99-00 homage although as you say, these look like fan-made mock-ups so it would be very surprising if these were indeed the final product. Personally I expect a fair degree of disappointment anyway, if it does turn out to be the reverse Air Florida kit. Just because the white sash on red kit worked, it doesn't mean we would be happy to turn out in the Ajax kit.

I wish we were Norwich.

Audio commentary available here for those without TV licence https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2022-05-21/live-commentary-southampton-wolves-fawnl-play-off-202122