Patrick Bateman

I see a good player in Archer. But he is one of MANY players in this squad that aren't trying hard enough and appeared to give up earlier on, going through the motions, seeing out relegation. So along with all of those players, he is welcome to leave the club, in my view. If he wants to crack on, score 18 championship goals again next season then fine but I can't see it happening at Saints right now.

Where is this Gronbaek guy?? Is he injured?

Why? Not sure I know the picture here.

This. My favourite Saints team ever, even more so than Ball's and Strachan's.

Easter Sunday, not Palm Sunday, is the most important date in the Christian calendar as it celebrates the resurrection, eternal life and the victory over sin. So I would expect it to be mentioned then.

All 3 look great and much better than what we'll probably get dished up. And to echo Alehouse, dark navy blue shorts please with the home kit.

I do actually have an issue with this, one of those players was Jamie Vardy and whilst we all can't stand him, he's now a Leicester legend and he's been LOYAL to them when he could've moved. Not his fault he's still picked and probably not the player he once was in the top flight - although he's still managed 7 goals in that dreadful team and that's more than our strikers combined I think? So how do you differentiate that chant between players, you can't.

This is it for me - the club has been completely mismanaged by those responsible for hiring, training, fitness, everything. Whilst I wouldn't have clapped the players personally, I don't think they can really be blamed. Lack of fitness and not being good enough for the Premier League is not really their fault. Juric as I said on another thread I can't really blame either, he had a horrible job to do and yes, he made some weird decisions, but I agree, my anger is direction 100% towards non-playing staff. Hopefully more changes will happen, ESPECIALLY in the player and manager recruitment and fitness areas.

Hardly surprising, but I wish Juric all the best. He took on a very difficult job, with unfit players, the wrong players, players isolated from the team and a hiding to nothing. He was treated to yet another clusterfk of a transfer window in January. Yes some of his decisions have been bizarre, but I think he at least showed some balls. Good luck to him and hopefully now onwards and upwards again for Saints with the right manager being given access to the right players, get them fit and firing.

r u ok hun?

Interesting. I mean yes, he is rude and obnoxious and a complete prick, especially the way he tries to talk down to her, BUT, BBC news people do interrupt, they are irritating. I can't remember the last time I watched a BBC news interview and didn't say "For gods sake, stop interrupting and let them speak"!

I'm still baffled by the thread title. How can anyone appreciate that prat?

Best club in Southampton was The Wall - behind the Walls. Small, underrated.

That's depressing

I would rather we did a "pissed up fans 11" ... if you get turned away at the turnstile for being drunk, you're on the pitch.

Palace are a great example along with Bournemouth and Forest of; 1. Considerably better recruitment, top class (leagues above Saints in terms of recruitment) 2. Better management, well drilled, know what they are doing, loads of energy (leagues above Saints) 3. Fitness! Our players still look slow and unfit, especially compared to these 3 teams. Sad really.

Who?? What the hell is going on with our club when the fanbase (well, maybe just me) doesn't know who the players are????

Brilliant.

Utterly embarrassing. Absolute lunatic, they all are, hideous creatures.

That can't be real, please, surely not? Thick fkn morons. So sad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3378054g1no This made me chuckle, imagine the future King on your football forum ...

Musk is not my cup of tea, but to be fair it's easy to show a graph of a decline if you zoom in. The Metro has conveniently only shown 2025, but if you look at the share price over 1, 2, 3, 5 years, you'll notice the share price, whilst now being the lowest in 2025, is still higher than most of 2024 and a lot of 2023. It's all market manipulation anyway.

Rhino, Flynny and Fraze?

Agreed. I watched Monday Night Football just to see what he had to say. It's interesting and he can definitely pitch a story really well and break down analysis nicely - maybe his role would be great as an assistant to someone rather than being the guy at the top of the day to day tactics / decision making? Anyway, just to say the end summed up why he and we needed to move on; what would he change or tweak, he was asked by an unsure Carragher, who you could tell was under pressure after trashing Martin so much. Martin's answer; "be more aggressive". Sigh. Oh well, we plod on.

Agreed. Never a serious party, especially given the Musk backing then not backing and then his PDA that Rupert Lowe was the best Reform MP ... always going to go one way.