suewhistle

Let's hope we can follow Arsenal's lead in having a poor season and then a lot better one as new, younger and inexperienced players bed in. Staying up is always critical but even more so this season after the money we spent, which is still below the average.

Indeed! At grassroots level where divisions are that size it is because of the difficulty of fulfilling fixtures with dodgy pitches and no opportunity of playing midweek as the players have other commitments. At this level with contract players and non-council pitches that difficulty doesn't apply.

Ignoring the £35 million due to HMRC they didn't get as the result of 2 liquidations by the previous club. (I'm surprised Trousers and Rallyboy have been so slow in posting..)

If you are looking to go by train investigate the coastal route up to Victoria. I came along it last Sunday and the service terminated at Woolston which was a handy walk across the bridge, and no point getting the replacement bus to central, obviously. It might be a better bet than the Waterloo route.

You forgot the super cool pigeon in the Chapel/Itchen corner!

Why doesn't DT just go and "support" another team who make him happy? Anyway, another post wasted expressing my frustration at his sheer, unremitting, repetitive negativity. Trousers will be happy with the two nippers on the bench..

I've only got 3 posts, but it's patently obvious that Adams ran himself into the ground on Sunday and he's being rested. They know more than we do about his physical state, and as the guy who just went past me in 'spoons said "he's being rested"..

At least there are trains from the eastern South coast line for Southampton with a bus service to Central from Woolston. No need to get the bus replacement service as you can just walk across the Itchen bridge.

.. lose, wasn't it? You've been saying we look like a Championship team, so why the surprise? No, we didn't play well and some of your points would be reasonable if you weren't so constantly and lengthily negative. Watching Saints may not be a great joy at the moment but at least I can enjoy the win, before the inevitability of the comments on here which suck out any last remaining satisfaction.

Some random thoughts, now I've been down to ageing parent in my village, checked on them, cheered them up and breathed a few beer fumes over them.. No doubt about MotM in Adams, some superb hold up play and took his goal really well. Some of our play in the first half in our defensive third was just inviting trouble: back, back, back and a little nick forward to JWP who always makes space but is sometimes under a load of pressure. Fortunately we improved as the game went on. Although we were all worried (hand up the liar who wasn't..) we weren't in too much danger from a frankly poor Bournemouth side, and I really don't understand why they are above us. There was plenty of effort put in but a lack of confidence is still evident. MN and Perraud when they came off looked completely *ucked, which is both a good and a bad sign. Towards the end we were in control, and although still worried here that was just the standard default for a Saints fan. Let's hope the 3 points gives us a bit of confidence.

Because they play different bloomin' positions for a start and Ely is a lot more experienced even if his lack of pace frustrates me greatly. If he did play Edozie, Mara, Dibling etc. it would be like lambs to the slaughter and people would be moaning about that. Anyway, it's good to see Adams starting and I'd certainly like to see him on the pitch at the same time as one of our pacy youngsters, and a bit of luck off his bum, nose, shin, knee, toe poke would do me..

I tend to ignore your predictions as you always go for the defeat, with some relish it seems. On Sunday I was thinking there looked a lack of urgency on the closing down, and bang, Rice scores. Looking back on the replay he did a nice one two, but was allowed an appalling amount of space. Tomorrow I'm not sure how to call it. You can see why there was a delay in playing AMN as he looked knacked after the first half and is obviously not premier league fit yet but who do you bring in as an alternative? Stu has the odd flash but is not back to his best, which may also be a fitness/post injury thing, so best off the bench. Che is due a goal and he can't go on working so hard without some reward, so I'm grabbing at that particular straw. It's about time we had a free kick in a dangerous area so maybe start Edozie or Djenepo. Caleta-Carr seems a decent enough replacement for ABK and was rather thrown in the deep end on Sunday so hope that baptism of fire helps his integration. Elyonoussi I find frustrating: there's a player in there but he lacks that yard of pace and doesn't quite make up for it with the anticipation and positional sense that you saw with a slowing down Jimmy Case or Alan Ball. The goal aside there was no lack of battling in the second half on Sunday, but goodness we need a spark or a bit of luck up front in the next game.

Nah, don't be silly. Betamax..

Steady on! 🙂 I wasn't keen on Corbyn and Owen Jones can be a bit right on and annoying, but I'd be tremendously annoyed if I were regarded as the inverse of any of the current crop of, let's be honest, cultish and viciously right wing Tories. The current lot have no regard for anyone but themselves and their paymasters, and all the empathy of a Great White in front of a juicy seal.

How about a quick GoFundMe to the Copenhagen players to Go Kick Him? He's scary!

Plus local women's leagues play Sunday afternoon..

It's not that they're in the 18 but in the starting 11, although you could argue that it's good to have players to come on who make a difference, a positive one. If the crowd is anything like I'm feeling at the moment it could be a nervous one, but an early goal for us would help.

Perhaps the forum should organise a lift board so that people can share costs.

Feeling old? I remember when Stevie Mills looked young!

I expect quite a few of them are looking at their majorities and updating their CVs. Tactical voting here we come...

No. That just confused me..

Better at weekends than impacting people who have to get to work. If strikes or engineering works impact our home games at least I save a fair bit of money on pre-match drinks and with an EV my fuel costs are minimal.

Is it safe to come on here yet? I've given time for the usual depressives to enjoy themselves being negative. But I have to say they have more justification after Friday's game than for some time. Watching down the local pub I normally enjoy a few drinks watching the game but I barely managed the two. One team marginally less awful than the other and that was down to a bit of strength and experience. At one stage there were some substitutions and I nipped out to the loo. When I came back I saw Elyounoussi was still on the pitch: surely we must have a better alternative? I cannot see what he brings to the game and that's someone who in the past has understood what less than brilliant players can contribute. Now there's more of a coaching team I'd love to eavesdrop a conversation between them on the subject, it might be fascinating. JWP was not at his best, but my goodness, from a brief look at this thread some of you are quick enough to jump on somebody having an off day and not having much support alongside him.

I've just seen the latest change. Flaming 'eck. I play football on a Sunday, and although I'm pretty crap am covering in goal at the moment as we've lost our keeper. What's the point of a season ticket? I appreciate some games may be changed for the convenience of TV but three in a row all on a Sunday?! There's sod all thought for the fans who fill the grounds and no chance of getting any money back like you will be able to if you have a one-off ticket for Brentford and can't make the new date.

Just had an email from the FA that football will be back to normal next weekend, subject to security arrangements and Monday fixtures off obvs.