Football Special

Can't wait to see St Mary’s rocking to this again

Any news on if the Hollywood boys will be there in the directors box? We'll need to pull out our own A listers , Rishi Sunak? Is Pinder still a Saints fan after the Martin sacking?

It does sound like this is selling quite slowly, high prices and Sunday midday ko with no trains going into Central will be putting some off as well. They are changing criteria from tomorrow https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/portsmouth-h-ticket-update

Jeez Grandad we're going to keep going round in circles on this one aren't we

Genuinely did you go regularly in the last championship season? Baz was not fine then, if we persist with him it just highlights the complacency within the club

Can someone please ask if we'll continue with huge tifo banner over Northam wall before games and if the same goal celebration music will be played when we score?

Obviously could get some loans and free agents but as things stand they must be likely for a record low points tally? Tiny squad with players who aren't being paid , unless takeover happens soon Feel for their fans, stupidly high ticket prices as well

The games I have seen pre-season we've generally looked slow getting the ball forward and attacking with real purpose so I wouldn't be entirely surprised with a 0-0

Get yourself down the bookies and double it with Stephens Red card , possibly for an altercation with James McClean, let's show them we mean business early on

Would a Dibling sale count as 100% profit for PSR as a *homegrown* player or does his spell at Chelsea change that?

I noticed Watford away sold out to season ticket holders with 6 away games I think, Quite decent to have sell outs already for Wrexham Northampton Ipswich Watford Plenty left still for Stoke at home

Ok let's look at it this way Our 'talented' squad was so far out of its depth last season we broke all sorts of records and celebrated getting to twelve points. We were a laughing stock. That squad is now losing what little actual talent it had in departures, some of the better players in Ramsdale, KWP have already left. I applaud your confidence , it's nice to see, but I can't share it at the moment. I especially think we'll struggle to match the intensity of some lesser championship sides with our current side.

Right back clearly is a position we are weaker now than last championship season, difference is it is a position that can be carried a bit as mistakes won't necessarily be as detrimental as a goalkeeper error. Bree is steady I think , Suga has been a disappointment in his Premier league performances, if they've taught him how to defend let's see if he can improve now and lay off the basketball for a bit

I hate these arrogant statements that imply we're so much better than others , were you all watching last season where the club embarrassed themselves in front of the nation being so utterly devoid of top flight quality and lack of cohesive team unit? And yes we have players who got us promotion previously, but some of those arguably have got worse like Armstrong and Fraser so not equivalent to 23/24 season

Agree, Leicester seem to be alright for a 'crisis' club in financial difficulty? Good convincing win for them vs Fiorentina I saw an interview with Birminghams manager when questioned on promotion chances he says will be hard to compete with the likes of Ipswich and Leicester, didn't mention us!

Fans forum coming up for someone to ask again

Remember the fans forum where someone rightly said Baz is shite and Martin went into a passionate defence of him saying best in division? Comedy gold. Point we made many times on Baz is his positioning is so poor he ends up getting beaten often by shots other keepers would save due to better starting position

I don't think anyone hates Baz? In fact it would be much better for all of us if he did become a brilliant keeper, but remember most of us have sat through two seasons of his keeping and can't face a third of the same, especially having been temporarily spared from it for a season

His positioning often means he is too easy to beat from that angle

Agree, when you think our "first choice" defence probably included KWP, Bednarek and THB having all three sold would have been a bit much I think

Have you seen the Brighton goals? Rolled into the bottom corner without much power, poor defending to allow but also looked a bit too easy for the forward to beat the keeper from there

Fucking hell that has triggered me much more than it should have , need to take a deep breath and go for a walk to calm myself down now

Interesting, I think THB will need to play a couple of couple of u21 type games to get back to match fitness, it was a bad injury and he's been out 3 months

Nah we all know the club have no intention of even trying to win this fixed competition which ensures teams qualified for Europe not only get a bye to 3rd round they also now ensure they don't draw each other due to European fixture schedules, it's a farce and should be treated as such

Bound to be a bit of that, Still also gets a 'free hit' game away at Northampton where no one will really care if we lose so can use that to give more minutes to young players and try out some others. I remember Martin using players who wanted out at Gillingham in an awful performance two years ago