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That might have been because we weren't doing Russell Martin's poundshop City tribute act.

Like being financed by a middle east prince and cheating on FFP is good for the game? Y'all failed to score against Saints, suck it up.

People doubted this team had what it takes but I think that today shows the naysayers were wrong. Not only did Saints get to safety with 2 whole games remaining but did so against Pep Guardiola's Man City. You have to think that after scoring only 1 goal in 2 league games against Southampton this season that Pep's journey at City will be coming to an end.

Don't worry, we'll coach those last 30 passes out of the team before the end of the season.

Man City only just got over the complacency from playing us under Martin. Pep will be bricking it. Haaland on the other hand will be licking his lips.

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Surely we should be calling these "Saints vs Other Team mismatch thread" these days?

I'm pretty sure the players already abandoned this match.

This delay suits us. We've always been at our best just after the restart.

And as a reward you get to give us money for Jack Stephens, Will Smallbone, Gavin Bazunu and a few others. It's like having a guaranteed high possession Championship promotion bundle. We won't even ask for compensation.

You have to think that Dragan is getting increasingly less willing to throw more cash into the Rasmus money pit without getting anything back. If Dragan selling Saints results in Rasmus no longer making football decisions then it may be no bad thing. Though saying that I wouldn't put it past Sport Republic to fuck that up and make things worse as well.

SR need to choose a manager they can commit to for a period of time (or until Spurs poach them). Future planning is knowing who you're going to look at next but if the list is of the quality of the last 4 appointments we're going to struggle. Russell Martin, for all his faults, was the closest we've got to someone we might stick with. The downside was he simply wasn't ready for the Premier League and had zero intention of adapting or being pragmatic. Since SR came in, it's been a horror show of poor recruitment both at manager and player level. This summer we'll begin to get an idea whether Spors might be the answer to this though next year whatever we do will be somewhat flattered by the league we're playing in.

Oh look, five at the back. Stephens as captain. Stewart ready to tear up the Prem. Hoora-meh

I reckon that we'll be level on points with them by the 9th/10th August.

Potter Out

We've turned the corner this time for sure.

Ross Stewart hattrick to take us past Derby

No end product.

On the plus side, we've only got another 470 minutes of this left this season.

Need to bring on some more defenders and protect this 1-0.

We've lasted 10 minutes without conceding. Today could be the day we catch up with Derby.

By relegation six pointer do you mean it's another chance for team at risk of relegation getting 6 points from us?

It's ok... it was more a comment that I find it impossible to choose between BBD and Fraser and Cornet and Gronbaek for example.

Please change the poll so I can select multiple options.

After last night he's got to be thinking that the Real Madrid job is going to be available soon.