coalman

The lack of news regarding to squad going to Girona is most distressing. How the hell are we supposed to whine about the club hierarchy until we know who is on the plane?

Bearing in mind he's trying to pass across his defence in the picture, who the hell is he trying to pass to? From that angle, even if he didn't get caught by the attacker for being too casual I struggle to see how it's not giving away possession in a dangerous area.

There's also one player who is likely to have a rush of blood and make a poor decision during a high pressure situation. I don't want the player who so casually passed across the box in the friendly the other day, got sent off for hair pulling and abused officials to the extent his ban was extended to be giving team talks. While he's fine as a squad player in the Championship we shouldn't be building a team around his captaincy.

Sam Edozie

Why do people get so triggered about people who get do triggered by people who get so triggered?

Anyone know when it's announced? This is the most exciting bit of pre season so far.

There's no quote from Sir Alex Ferguson in there just boasting about how he's been speaking to him. This is not the first time Martin has boasted about what someone said to him to try and show his approach is the right one. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/24687881.southamptons-martin-reacts-praise-man-citys-guardiola/

Someone must have made a decision about the level of fitness to maintain. Whether that's the manager or fitness coach(es) or the players giving feedback. When we talk about fitness my mind always goes back to Pochettino and how his response to the players asking for fewer double sessions was to give them a triple session. Different managers are going to put a different emphasis on it and work with the fitness coaches to get the players to that level and maintain it. The trouble is - if you come into the season undercooked it's hard to build that level of fitness without compromising matchday performance.

Which is clearly shown by who did the most sprints. We also completed the second lowest number of pressing sequences of any team in the top flight and the lowest percentage of turnovers won by pressing resulting in a shot (21 shots created by pressing compared to the second lowest on 37 and highest being 68). It doesn't help when the manager's view is that his team runs the most out of possession even if the data says the opposite. "A team that's going to give everything. One thing that's always overlooked with our teams is they always run the most out of possession, because they have to if they want to dominate the ball and be aggressive."

Rangers aren't fans of signing Republic of Ireland players otherwise they could snap up Bazunu at the same time.

That's why I questioned whether it was fartlek or intervals. Another data point is having trained with a national squad and being in no way good enough to represent that squad I can also say the prevailing sentiment of the people who were up to it would have been "so what?"

I get where you're coming from. There was some great attacking pay under Martin. But.... he refused to change or adapt despite the evidence to the contrary. When Rusk came in, who wasn't the best, the simple change of "stop fucking about with it" made us look so much better. It would've been better to maintain that than whatever the hell madness Juric brought. We invited teams to score and had zero ambition to get the ball forward. If Martin had learned the lessons of the playoffs and adapted he could have be one of the great Saints managers. Instead his inability to adapt took over. His teams have always conceded lots of goals and he has never made any attempt to learn from it. He wasn't rubbish but he also was stubborn to the point of causing harm. He left an unfit team that was comfortable being shit and boasted about it. He could be better than that - we should aspire to being better than that. We got promoted yet we were so abject as to make it a parody. Pretending that the signs weren't there and we couldn't have done better is the narrative that Martin wants - in his recent press conference he boasted about how he joined in the Championship and left in the Premier League. This kind of shit of why we are where we are. Will Still is making noises that fill me with a lot more hope than a man who seemed to be in it just for himself. Watching some of the attacking play from pre season friendlies is making me excited about next year. Hearing about how we're working harder in training makes me excited. I'm really looking forward to 2025-26.

I dunno.... 10km used to be a tapering run the day before an ultramarathon and I was in no way what you would might describe as a professional athlete.

9km doesn't seem that much for a professional athlete unless you're running intervals or fartlek.

Being vocal?

Unless you're psychic you could perhaps gain credibility by avoiding stating your assumptions of how other people think as fact. Claiming we know other people's inner thoughts and motivations is only marginally less offensive than telling other people how to think.

I want to see more of the Dibling Edozie Stewart axis from the first goal of the second 60 minute game the other day.

It strikes me that conceding 60 goals is a statement of fact. We went on a record unbeaten run and got promoted in spite of this. Our unbeaten run didn't have more wins because of this so we missed automatic promotion. In the premiership we were unable to win or even draw games because of this and were relegated as a result. It seems relevant to the position we find ourselves in so understanding how that happened might help us in future.

Or concede 60+ league goals a season.

Stop. Turn back. Recycle.

They could pick two of Saints record breaking defence in the same way Leicester got Bertrand and Vestergaard.

Given the size of our squad it gives more match time to more players as well as more info to the new manager. Very forward thinking.

If an apology is due it should probably be heading your way.

We'd have to be blind to ignore his potential. Set the transfer date.