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Back to league action this afternoon at the same time as the men’s team as they take on London Bees who are 7th in the table. The Bees have not won in their last 3. Saints are 2nd in the table, but with a win today they would go back to the top on goal difference with 6 wins out of 6 the same as Ipswich, who are also looking pretty good. Perhaps this was the chance that they could have moved the women’s kick off time so they could have had it before or after the men’s game at St Mary’s to really promote the women’s game? kick off is 2pm in Totten! LONDON BEES

Right I’m here to cheer you up just before kick off, with our history against the teams we are playing. On paper the first part always seems ok, but then the recent history seems terrible. 😬 OVERALL RECORD Saints 28 wins Wolves 24 wins Draws 18 LAST 15 AT HOME Saints 7 wins Wolves 5 wins Draws 3 LAST 6 AT HOME Saints 1 win Wolves 4 wins Draw 1 I’m going for a 2-0 win today as Wolves are very poor, we have improved as a defensive unit, but feel Wolves are not going to keep a clean sheet. Enjoy everyone 🎈

Oh FFS! The wait goes on!

Oh that’s good half term week. Fancy taking the boy to his first cup match, so Preston or Sunderland away please.

I did at one stage think as fans we were lining ourselves up for a huge fall. But in the end it was good. One fan stood on his seat for most the game and was giving it large. Don’t think he watched any of the game. He gave it all to them though!

Fantastic stuff. We gave our all on the pitch and the fans gave it to City for sure. Great day, but boy I’m shattered!

STATS CORNER Stats for the game - Every time I do these it seems to be grim reading, but here goes. Overall record (head to head) Man City won 38 Drawn 25 Saints won 32 Now Recent Away Record - We have picked up 1 point in the last 12 visits to Man City. That is dismal! 😬 The last 12 Man City won - 11 Drawn - 1 (2016/17) Saints won 0 The 12 before this are a completely different story, but they were a completely different Man City team/club. Man City won - 2 Drawn - 4 Saints won - 6 Out of these 6 wins there was a back to back, the very last ever game at Maine Road 0-1 (2002/2003) and the first for Saints at the City of Manchester Stadium 1-3 (2003/2004) I was at both of these 2 games and Saturday will be my first visit since the last win at Man City, but Everton was my first visit since Kevin Davies scored that wonder goal in 1997, so don’t get your hopes up! Also I was thinking 🤔 money 💰 it really does help!

Saints progress in the cup! it was closer than expected though. https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2021-09-12/womens-report-cheltenham-town-vs-southampton-fc-national-league-cup-2021-22

Not another league game until Sunday 26th, when we are home to London Bees. Cup game this weekend and then international week. The cup game is against Cheltenham Town FC who play in the league lower FA Women’s National League South West Division, and have a pretty good set up in women’s football (link below if any are interested). It could be a massive score, but might be a good time to play some fringe platers. But maybe not with international week the week after. Sunday 12th Sept - 2pm DON’T KNOW WHY I AM POSTING THIS AS YOU CANNOT FOLLOW IT ANYWHERE, BUT YOU GET THE FULL TIME SCORE ABOUT HALF HOUR AFTER THE GAME. http://www.ctlfc.com/club/our-club/ CHELTENHAM T SOUTHAMPTON SUN 12 SEP 2PM

Southampton v West - History. Overall - Saints wins - 34 Drawn - 31 West Ham wins - 46 We had a pretty impressive home record between 1995 and 2016, only losing once in 15 games, but then from 2017 we have only won once at home to the hammers in 5 games. So about time to put that right, but I’m going for a draw as there has been a far few of them. 2-2. AT HOME 1995 - 2016 Saints Wins - 8 Draws - 6 West Ham wins - 1 2017 - Present Saints Wins - 1 Draws - 1 West Ham wins - 3

Some would call it cyber bullying at times! But I will leave the old threads alone. I have been a very naughty so and so apparently. 🙄

They are in a league lower and independent because Southampton FC did not have a women’s team linked to the club until 2017. But because the independent club is solely a women’s club the coverage is far better as it is not seen as a “little side product”. Southampton FC need to see the bigger picture and buy into it a little more.

This is what I was saying. The official Southampton FC site gave the final score as 0-8 for an hour! The Twitter feed had nothing during the game and nothing at all even at full time. Even the Facebook page did not put the score up for about 2/3 hours after the game. It is frustrating as the other Southampton team have a Twitter feed that gives up to date action from the game. All in the club could be doing much much more!

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It would be good if the club would have the women’s team play before the men’s team if they have a home game on a Sunday and the women do as well. It would be an amazing experience for team. Or even do it independently for say the home game against the skates, just make it at St.Mary’s and promote it, better than the England game!

I see them as part of Southampton Football Club who are a very forward thinking club and should be championing their woman’s team. We have a very good team that I would expect to be in the top flight within 5 years. I know you can check the scores in the championship on Sky Bet (other betting sites available).

Oh my word. It was the BBC that got the score right, and the official Southampton website have updated their score now from 0-8, to 0-9. Unbelievable.

Oh yeah, it’s all about the ‘big names’ to appeal to the global market. I’m still trying to work out why the winners of the northern and the southern have a playoff to see who get into the championship (according to Wiki) but 2 teams get relegated from the championship? Also what if the teams relegated are 2 southern teams, that just does not add up. I think the whole structure will find its feet over time. It does seem Ipswich will give us a run for our money. Then in a playoff anything can happen. The BBC at first only game us a point, so they were checking Twitter and took the result from the other Southampton team. They now have us on results as winning 0-9 not 0-8. It’s all a little shambolic.

Turns out not a bad day again. I think we may go up again. Always had a good team. https://www.southamptonfc.com/women/results/2021-22

I know a lot of supporters are not or cannot get into it, but now they are part of the club and hopefully heading towards the top flight in the next few years, it is just another part of SFC to get behind and support. We are all Saints after all. The coverage by the club is awful, as the game finished 20 minutes ago, but I can find out what is happening in the game from the Southampton team that are not associated with the club. 🙄

I am following the debut season of Southampton FC Women in the national league southern. I say following, but I am finding very hard to find out anything when the match is going on. Even the Twitter feed on the official site is rubbish. Looks like sky bet only have from championship up. I get the feeling that this is going to be the start of a successful period for the club. Played 4 won 4, with the last game being 9-0, as we look for promotion this season into the Championship and one off the top flight. I am fully aware it is not for everyone but it is part of Southampton FC, so to me it will add to the success of the club. So comment if you are interested. Also if anyone has better ways or anyway of following the team when it comes to matches then please let me know. Going to games is not possible until they have some up north! some links - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/womens-premier-league-south/table - Table https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/womens-premier-league-south/scores-fixtures/2021-08 - results and fixtures https://www.southamptonfc.com/women/matches/2021-22/national-league-southern-premier/hounslow-vs-saints-2021-09-05 - Southampton fc page.

Yeah he ruled himself out of internationals so better not be seen on the training ground 😬

Yep or the game would be a Sunday.

I see a theme. 😬

I do agree with most of this, but I do hear racist comments still and it frustrates me rather than angers me. Sometimes it is plain ignorance and others it has been thrown as abuse. But what I heard in the 80’s and 90’s was much worse and it was mostly (not all) at football unfortunately. All I can do is show my disagreement of such comments and educate my children that is not ok to discriminate against anyone. Then hopefully this will go a small way. Oh and should that not be Anti, Anti racism? “I don’t think anyone is anti racism” said Turkish 😬