Football Special

You can buy tickets now directly from the club on the exchange assuming you have a booking history

Anyone back late from international duty might miss out, Sugawara had long trips, u19s have 3 matches so Dibling won't start , are Aribo and Tall Paul away with Nigeria? The latter could have used this as a last opportunity to impress Martin on the training pitch

You can buy them from Saints? Despite the game being sold out tickets keep becoming available on the exchange , can see quite a few on there now as people list when cannot go, not sure if link works https://exchange.southamptonfc.com/selection/event/date?productId=10228644234694

We must be due another grey kit 3-1 or a 6-3, come on Russ give us another day like these..

Was a decent game overall I thought, Bristol City started brighter and looked to have the edge in terms of quality. Saints looked good once settled, missing a bit of quality upfront so following mens team in that regard. Hard to know if we were missing any players etc, they announced it was the keepers debut so not sure if an understudy or going to be perm, looked assured no silly mistakes passing out from the back. Nice touch at the end players come over and chat to fans, went down well with the kids. Finished 1-1. Not a big crowd 1622 I think, they must be disappointed with that.

First game of the season tomorrow, home to Bristol City, I've been given some tickets so going to see a ladies game for the first time, sounds like a lot of new signings and a new manager so not sure what to expect, any particular names to look out for?

I don't think so. Tickets sold for half that price would be bought by Villa season ticket holders who would go to the game.

Still is a joke though, sad for Villa fans priced out, especially the youngsters, makes you wonder if its all worth it, I'd rather see my team in JPT and afford to go than Champions league and sit outside the ground. They've made a good point that other clubs like Liverpool manage to keep some prices down with the spread of prices low to high whereas Villa just gone for all top price.

Football is becoming a game for accountants isn't it, whole thing just descends into farce might as well just allow a spending free for all https://x.com/JamesOlley/status/1831344095014388201?t=emkWt4IV2V0TPy6bnGJfzQ&s=19

Yeah so a waste of a transfer fee ? My criticism is more for the people making these signings rather than the players themselves.

I know every transfer is a risk but when you look at our lack of goal threat and then consider the combined transfer fees and wages for Ross Stewart and Tall Paul who contribute absolutely nothing between them it's such a shame, waste of resources

Think we're down regardless but this has pissed me off, Leicester always seem to wriggle out of it.

I agree there are some good players there and we should be able to give several teams in this league a good game, but I still can't see where goals will come from so will still make us easy to beat. We need far too many chances per goal and won't get them.

Getting crazy with these numbers but can see demand dropping now we've had small allocations at Brentford and Bournemouth not such an incentive to up the numbers. Anyone keen to do an away game come to Everton in the Cup will be plenty to go around.

Saints would prefer the 2nd week with blank weekend following but I think we'll be first week (17th or 18th) Liverpool will need to be home week 2 as they play champions league in week 1 and they won't have Liverpool and Everton at home same week.

Will he be the one to be dropped for Cornet?

What's our record? Premier league record? Although doesn't really count when over different seasons with manager and players changes.

Leicester home March 2023 isn't it

Does anyone still think we have a chance of staying up? I look at our team, can't see where the goals will come from Can certainly see how we'll concede. Genuinely think we'll go with record low points. Would love to give this a good go , last hope is these new signings make a difference and having fresh eyes like Ramsdale walking back into the dressing room after defeat and saying what the fuck was that stupid passing giving away goals all about? Martin might start to listen.

There's something about Brentford away that brings out the worst in our managers, seem to remember the fans turning on both Nathan Jones and Hassenhuttl in 3-0 defeats there. Frustrating growing towards Martin today amongst the fans, he really needs to get a positive result to get the fans believing again.

Agree, stubbornly sticking to playing a way that we're not very good at. Can see opposition managers rubbing their hands, let us have the ball, wait for a mistake , score in the knowledge that we've got virtually no goal threat to respond with.