John Boy Saint

Jeez this site should be called Saints f ü č k W I t s This ain’t buying success delivered by tomorrow on Amazon Prime. There was nowt wrong with today’s team until we scored, Ryan told them to concentrate but we went into frightened Turtle mode, Leicester changed gear. Bench did look powder puff, but according to Merrington both Gabbi and Yoshida were going through a vigorous fitness test well before the team came out for the warm up. Mope same stuff every week - at least Hughes is at least trying something different. Lke I said elsewhere let’s see September out before building the gallows.

Mrs thought he was clipped just before he went down theatrically...............but then he ain’t Mo Salah and we ain’t Liverpool. Thought Long should have had something for the hands on shove moments earlier. Then the ‘dive’ wouldn’t have happened. Shane because I thought PEH was doing ok.

Wow!! What have you got on your hook........................that float had been in the water less than 5 minutes!

I see we have Jonathan Moss on the whistle tomorrow. He can blow either way for us. I wonder how many yellows we can manage to rack up this week, after last weekends ticker tape parade.

and 5 assists............... the fact that he took most of the set pieces is irrelevant, as soon as an opposing player touches the ball the assist is from the corner or free kick is negated unless its a ricochet, if a free kick hits the keeper who fails to hold it and someone puts the loose ball in the net its an assist. Not sure where the comparison is supposed to be going? JWP started 31 games that season Redmond 39......... as a left winger the 8 goals were ok, but the 1 assist is pretty shabby especially as Bertrand got 5 assists from a playing position behind Redmond, and that Serbian chap we had playing predominantly on the other wing got 8 assists but alas only 3 goals (but then he could have had more if he didn't fanny about as much as he did in the box).

Exactly If he is still saying that in October with us just struggling to tread water and he has been seen to do anything apart from stand around with his hands in his pockets then it’s time to start researching the hardware catalogue for timber and nails for a gallows. Anyway I don’t think the PC police have issued a ban on subtle motivational mind games, “er yes my starting XI is firmly cemented in my mind” cue pipe and comfy slippers for those starting Saturday thinking their appearance bonus is secured till Christmas, whereas those who don’t play Saturday or make the bench, think ho hum and coast through training losing their edge.

Not if you have reached the peak of your mental capacity............with pace to burn ability to run with the ball but when faced with a strapping defender or 2, stop and decide what to do, playing professional football for nye on 8 years and at the highest level l, cruising past such an obsticle should be a natural default setting that requires the need for not a single brain cell to be cooked. Why do people get excited about Josh Sims, because when the box approaches he doesn’t brake and think, he drives into the box and at defenders, the boy is a mere green nipper. His debut game v Everton, latter stages gets the ball and runs at Ashley Williams an experienced defender, Williams was a rabbit in the headlights, there was no data on this lad running at him. Sims had Williams on toast ball one side of him, player the other and the pair met on the other side of Williams. Redmond time and time again run at the box the oppos player data for defenders says “Redmond.....just stand up and look big, he will stop running at you”, just take the risk Nathan you have the build and pace, worse that can happen is you get clattered and win a free kick or penalty. Anyone on here who can not relate to that last bit must fall asleep when the ref blows for kick off. Hopefully this extra training will pay off and he has a stormer this season.........just don’t play him on the left, causes too much smoke to come out of his ears!

In Master Redmonds case, its not random, when yet another sparkling bit of play fizzles out at his feet yet again, you can hear the groan from all sides of the ground. Away from here bizarrely I hear very little slagging of the CBs when sat in SMS. Always remember being at probably our first home game in SMS v Spurs, think it might have been Boxing day. We went one nil up and were defending like the devil especially the last 10 minutes and held out for the win against that nasty Hoddle chap, hoorah! Driving home Mrs JBS turns to me and says "when that clock turned to 80:00 did you feel it, the whole atmosphere in the stadium got increasingly tense until the final whistle" I said "no.....probably because I was adding to it". I think as a crowd we have gotten so use to being disappointed of late, that the majority enter the ground with hope rather than enthusiasm. As Lawrie Mac always said he told new players especially "Southampton fans are a gentile bunch, you as players have to get them going, but once they are going they can be a raucous as any crowd in the land". The players made some comment over the past couple of seasons that they would like us to make more noise pre match......... so the club just turn up the volume and play allsorts until the ref blows the whistle to start the game.

Someone must have been dropping vodka shots into your pre match pints!!!

I have to say upon reading most of the above, seems a fair few folks have gotten so use to the failings of the club over the last 2 managerial appointments that its almost ingrained in the psyche that as everything goes in 3s the same applies to Southampton managerial appointments Adkins - Pochettino - Koeman.......Oops: Puel - Pelligrino - "ah Hughes is bound to follow". Let the Witch hunt commence!!..........Its like the voice you hear behind you in the stand who moans every week (5-0 up and that same voice is still moaning) its like a default setting. We are a mere 2 games in, first half we were not at the races v Burnley but much improved second half, again Saturday absolute pants first half, better second half with only 2 of the 4 players we bought to improve us able to make a contribution. The number of Hughes threads on here that are ultimately placing him under the microscope, anyone would think that we had just replaced Sir Alex Ferguson with David Moyes!

Good luck with your philosophy degree thesis, might need a bit more padding out though.

Has anyone splashed out the £100 in the Megastore to buy the actual shirt the players wear, not the cheaper material replica?

Reading between the lines after the Coates family decided to wash their dirty linen in public and slag off Hughes. It seems a lot of the issues Hughes was faced with was down to a director of football deciding to buy £50m of players that ended up sat on the bench, if they were lucky, due to them being square pegs and Hughes had round holes to fill. Aside from the Long and Austin blind-spot, for the first time since Koeman we seem to have a manager who does more than just shuffle the deckchairs, and actually tries to do something (by comparison to Puel and MoPe) noticeably different to change the game. Anyway when is the "What do you think Sparky had for Breakfast today" thread being started.

I’ve had a few so who cares. Only a total bellend would have failed to observe that his decent corner lead to our only goal!!!

That Mitrovic goal for Fulham v Spurs has to be a contender for Goal of the Month. Such quick thinking.

What a bonkers game Arsenal looking worse than Dagenham & Redbridge with 9 men, 2-0 down. Then Chelsea suddenly start thinking of their cream cakes at half time 2-2. Just hope half time doesn’t take the fun out of the game for us neutrals

Lemina living on the edge

Well done Alex

Blimey we should be sponsored by Clinton’s - flippin cards everywhere! looks like the whole squad will be getting a game by the time the first amnesty comes up.

Do we just go up there to lose. Oh look someone taller than Cedric wins the header in the box to score

What a save, thought it was straight at the bar from Ings

How is Carragher back on Sky!? ............ he gets right on my thrupenny bits.

Just about sums that turgid game up, what a shoite penalty

West Ham Directors must have a sound proof room they step into, just to laugh their heads off at what a bonkers deal they have https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45208151 Tell me I have read that right; West Ham are willing to pay for the pitch surround, but someone else has ruled that the London Legacy lot who lease the stadium to WHU for £2.5m per year will have to pay for it!!!!!!

He may have made some very questionable decisions against us in games, (his glorious assist at Burnley last season almost affords him cult status from Saints fans), you would hope that it is personal circumstances and not being hounded out. Need a few more of these youngsters on the whistle as they are more likely to keep up with the game.