Football Special

Decent numbers coming down from Preston (by their standards)

Fair point, needs a Scottish accent as well.

Would this tune work for Leo Scienza ?

Remembered it well , game had been rearranged after the warehouse fire had postponed original fixture, maybe that was a lucky omen? No fires this time though

Any day now it's going to click.....

Cat C prices helped and could get cheap tickets for junior members so that's probably helped, still loads of empty seats, Preston will have over 2000 empty seats in their corner as well

I agree and fed up with him bringing up last season, we're all well aware how shit it was Will, but we expected a bit more this season not more of the same

We noted that, unbelievable work rate off the ball, relentless, made it so hard for our lads, on the ball they moved it around effortlessly even under pressure, looks so simple yet compared to our first XI huge difference, should have made them all attend to watch first hand how to do it

Enjoyable evening, Real Madrid had some top quality players out there, passing and movement high standard, Bazunu made some very good saves, nice to get a late equaliser to give kids something to cheer, 10,907 attendance 👏

I can probably write it for you; Lads feel we've been unlucky Injuries and sickness bug have made things really difficult Got to bounce back and show what we can do on Saturday

Nice to be reacquainted with our underdog status again so soon though, going into games with opposition "expecting " to beat us. I didn't read every post but overall the Preston fans seem a fair bunch, got a lot of time for clubs like that , no glamour just supporting their local side whilst surrounded by many other 'bigger' teams

Some interesting views from the opposition https://pne-online.net/forum/threads/team-v-will-still’s-saints.3442766/page-2 "Southampton are absolutely honking because their dressing room has zero respect for Still. You can see in his body language that he isn't a leader at such a competitive level because he doesn't have the confidence. They've got some decent players but they aren't playing for him. We should win but I'm not sure how much we've got in the tank for Southampton-Swansea-Millwall in a week when we're threadbare. I'd definitely target Southampton as the priority though, Swansea is 50/50 and we'll lose at Millwall."

Players.....and the board for not recruiting a striker in summer transfer window

Yeah I agree, and I terms of match going I kept going in other bad eras , doesn't feel right to stop just because results are bad, eventually players, managers, directors of football, owners come and go , it's us the fans who remain the constant

I'm with you on that , £39+ booking fee for QPR on a Wednesday night FFS. What are we doing????!!! Waste of hard earned

Also need to factor in which players will be ill this week

Sorry mate we have QPR and Sheffield Wednesday as well before international break

Expecting a big crowd for the u21s game v Real Madrid on Wednesday, roughly 7,500 tickets sold , I've been sent this apparently works for 4 free tickets but I'd already purchased, anyway regardless of all the negativity around the club I'd definitely encourage fans to come along and see the youngsters, been playing some great football and it *might* just be a rare enjoyable game of football at St Mary's , scan the QR code

Beat me to it 🤦🏻‍♂️

They did, apparently he took Woking from the conference to the champions league in just six seasons, those sort of things don't go unnoticed Chez

Yeah there's definitely more to it with him than just feeling a bit poorly, since he tried to force a move to Ipswich he's hardly played. Lack of leadership and authority within the club leaves us with high earning players never actually playing, I know Aribo isn't illness but that also requires some explanation, I believe he's still one of our highest paid

What did Blackmore say? Would be interesting to read / listen

Sesay was also in Leicester and actually scored for u21s , could have shared the cab! Aribo still one of our highest paid players None of it makes any sense

No it's not normal "Downes has previously been forced to miss games with illness, and Ross Stewart pulled out of the squad against Northampton during the warm-up back in August. Tom Fellows came on against Bristol City on Tuesday evening, despite feeling rough, while Damion Downs did not travel to Ipswich earlier this season due to illness. Asked why Southampton have suffered with so much illness during this campaign, Still added: "I'd love to give you an answer to that. "I'd love to have a doctor's degree and understand it, but I'll be honest with you, I don't at all. But it is a recurring theme, and it's something that we need to fix"

Both of them were ill apparently