Gloucester Saint

Shilts was only just 6ft, his dad used to get him to stretching exercises in the stairs when he was a kid to max his growth. But huge difference with Gavin - one of the most natural goalkeepers you would ever see in your life.

Don’t go falling down the bad step on Scafell Pike now Chris/Tommy and break your leg.

Memories of the 1990s and Fantasy Football League.

On the American Jason Lee. That’s probably harsh on Jason actually.

Not surprised by that, far from just Fraser, you can tell the other players really don’t rate Downs at all.

Never mind Duck. You can still have a good old tug over Sarah Lang https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/reform-uk-wont-speak-to-us-either-says-news-editor/

That’s because of who is putting those up. And it’s not just honest working class people unaware of the far right. No surprise given Andy Saxon’s background including a fatal racist attack https://www.instagram.com/p/DONo_91iLbo/ and https://hopenothate.org.uk/2013/01/28/exclusive-edl-bodyguard-in-racist-death-link/

Reform saving taxpayers money (source Private Eye): Since May 2025, Reform has already 14 councillors - scores on the doors are 8 resignations (eg https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/corby-reform-councillor-resigns-over-serious-racism-allegations-5289085), two expulsions, and four suspensions. With the resulting by-elections triggered, the cost to the public purse already exceeds £200k in less than five months.

Remember, we’ve been told on here that Reform is a working class party with working class voters looking after their interests https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform-donor-in-breach-of-company

Used to be our right back. His second coming on the wing last season was less successful.

Got to love all of the fresh faces in Reform, breaking with the stale political consensus https://www.facebook.com/ReformUKBroadlandFakenham/posts/we-are-pleased-to-announce-lembit-opik-will-be-speaking-at-our-reform-uk-broadla/122192858462564875/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kruger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Pochin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Jenkyns https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wg3zx4r0qo None of those are in any way the absolute nuttiest, headbanging former members of the Conservative Party’s ERG.

Gavin Bazunu has sensationally been dropped and banished from the first team squad ahead of Southampton’s local derby against Sholing by manager Dominic Ballard. The 37 year old veteran Republic of Ireland international has played over 500 games for the Saints, conceding over 1500 goals. This was after three clear errors in the 5-1 defeat at Winchester City. Director of Football Jack Stephens remains under increasing pressure from the 4,000 average attendance at a derelict St Mary’s Stadium with only one stand safe to use, not least since pulling a fan’s hair at the last home match against AFC Totton. Reporter Alfie House (looking like Whitey Grandad’s Einstein avatar after 15 years of watching Saints under SR).

💯 on SR’s failings that it is even being discussed and 0% on the supporters. We all agree that the club needed an injection of English football industry experience to be viable let alone competitive. What did we get instead? Spors and Still. What I’d much prefer to a new manager is new owners. Nothing will ever tangibly improve until SR sell up.

When my grandfather from the docks and his brothers/cousins drank in the Ice House in Shirley Warren during the 1950s and 1960s on 26 December, by all accounts that’s exactly what it was as the beers went down…

New owners who purchase players to build the spine of a team, and not one-off transactions in an attempt to make money based on what AI Co-Pilot spits out, instead of scouting properly and watching players, is the only remedy. Replacing such failures eg Bazunu with more of the same eg Downs though the spine as projects (Alfie House’s words) is leading to the same outcomes season after season when you add in inexperienced managers who won’t tell them to keep their nose out. SR isn’t working. Sheff Utd are also down that road but even their batshit mad board and owners have decided to bring the professionals back in to sort out their mess.

It’s staggering how easy Saints have been to play against for many years. It’s been the case since Ralph’s last few months and deteriorated rapidly as the recruitment has declined further even since Les Reed’s sanatogen specials. In all of that time, they just haven’t done the basics other teams do defensively across the team, such as limiting crosses and forcing them to be delivered from further up the pitch so they are a simple clearance or claim. No pressure on teams taking shots at goal when the owners force the managers into selecting a goalkeeper who couldn’t save a document on Word. Marking is someone that farmers do to livestock. Zonal-based system doesn’t work with thick players. That would be bad enough, but offensively no-one carries the ball between lines and on the rare occasions it happens, everybody is stood on their heels watching. Witness Archer v Skates, who the hell is following in on that? All stood ball-watching and let Cameron down when he created a chance from hard work. Something they all seem averse to. The tempo is dreadful as well, have they never heard of pass and move? Combine that with some of the shittiest players to wear our shirt since the 1960s and at best the late 00s, and cluelessness from the touch line and boardroom, I think you can see why the fanbase has had enough by and large. Only positive is that they got plenty of stick yesterday from the away end and that’s going to get a whole lot worse with piss taking and gallows humour.

Ah so, people in the north in the Red Wall and crap holes like Yarmouth and Boston, they’re workers but those who vote Lib Dem in the South West, SE and Midlands, they aren’t. I’ll tell my friends who are carpenters and run pubs in Devon and Somerset that the, that Reform said they aren’t working for a living. Reality is that those towns you refer to, if you choke off the local ex-polytechnic’s access to overseas students, that will be the last major employer in them gone and drag the rest of the SMEs with all of the ‘workers’ relying on their contracts and business down the drain. Hope they don’t need access to any key public services after Reform’s local authorities destroy them. Still, they’ve got St George painted roundabouts and Union Jacks strung up in retail parks by Reform and Patriotic Alternative (led by Nick Griffin’s deputy) to help them forget about the free at the point of entry healthcare Farage would cut. Oh, and there’s a bit of a problem with what you describe. Firstly, those places are the amongst the most ethically diverse in the UK. Secondly, the Tories might replace Badenoch with a white face in the next couple of years, probably before then.

Is it racist to criticise someone with ginger hair? https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/562395 Because if it isn’t, I’d like to say that Will Still is as about as effective as a football manager as a chocolate fireguard is at doing its job.

I honestly couldn’t give a flying one, same as any match until SR finally sell up.

And they should be equally be reflecting the views of local people who buy their shit rag/online AI GPT output who travel hundreds of miles to watch millionaires not doing the basics of their job.

Harwood-Bellend

Respect your opinion but we’ve also only won three, two of those were against Northampton and Norwich reserves and the other required two injury time goals. Last week Pompey had the better chances and have had just as much squad churn on 10% of his budget. As @CB Fry pointed out, Bristol City, Boro and others are top 6 with new managers and no parachute funding. I don’t see what he’s trying to do and I’d say that’s coming across in the performances that the players don’t either, not that I rate any of them in any way. Not sure any of the current squad are anywhere near good enough to play for Southampton FC tbh. We don’t have likeable players who can get a crowd going with a change of pace, taking a player on, piece of skill or winning a key 50/50. Scienza might be one I hope who is. It’s all a one-paced highly predicable blob otherwise, The usual shite from Jack Stephens post-match winds people up as well. We can see they’re going through the motions and not pressing or closing down which is why there are so many crosses coming in. Going forward, nobody is breaking the lines or carrying the ball forward. 69% of passes went sideways or backwards today. Even by SR’s pitiful standards, I’d say he’s getting onto thin ice. Seven points from the next nine as a minimum, and personally I’d part ways rather than wait for getting tonked by Boro. Today was the type of performance early on like Jones v Forest where it’s not going to work and points/targets set aren’t changing it. A better effort last weekend might have bought him a bit more credit in the bank.

Not surprised on Michael Flynn. Decent bloke and not backed in the transfer market this summer but even so, they’ve been even worse than Saints under Still (staggeringly). Mike Garlick the former Burnley chairman has bought them and after the very unpopular DoF Gary Johnson was sacked last week (their fans sang for him to go for 25 minutes solid at the Accrington game - learning for our fans, it does work) Flynn had to beat Oldham at home, they lost 0-3. On our fans - hard to say why they’ve lost their edge, Semmens and the security bloke from Millwall definitely used Block 1 as an excuse to ban our more vocal element who might have opposed him, Gao and eventually SR. That doesn’t stop protests outside the stadium though. To be frank, it might be a bit more intellect and organisation with other fanbases - those anti-Rudkin vans were ace at Leicester and no-one was banned. Whereas those supporters in the Itchen who made up that brilliant P45 for Nathan Jones at the Wolves game got ejected and banned. Saints aren’t dissimilar to Trump and MAGA in many ways with any whiff of criticism. They were trying to grab the Martin out banners at the Spurs game as well. Stewards are just club lackeys these days, not like my grandfather’s era when he had to deal with firms in the 60s/70s and his fellow dockers and supporters at home games. Best way is to do what Coventry did - starve SISU out with an home boycott - when they actually played in Coventry - but sell out the away sections every week and give SR absolute hell. Be as offensive as you within the law.

More likely to snort them. Although that’s unlikely on second thoughts as cocaine would make them more animated. And this squad makes a sloth seem like a Tamsin Devil.

Whoever the chef was at Spurs’ hotel that time with the lasagne hopefully has found new work in the NW.