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How many first team players have gone off on holiday and for how long? I know they travelled back from Middlesbrough Sunday evening and plan to travel to Doncaster on Friday, so if the first team squad are away who exactly is preparing for the match? They have had an appalling first half of the season, both fitness and attitude quite rightly called into question, this doesn't seem to be the time for a few days on a Dubai sun lounger Might stick a fiver on Donny to progress based on the attitude the club are approaching this fixture with

You're kidding me I don't follow any players on social media or anything like that but assume he's put something on showing he's there. No way these players should have been given time off for a holiday after such a run of shit performances and tough games to prepare for

At least @Turkish can stop predicting him to score in match build up threads now

Feel sorry for all the fans who got his name on the back of their shirts before the season started 🙁

"The Southampton Way"

End of month for Tonda I reckon if we fail to beat Hull, Sheffield United and Pompey

We should have just got Rohl while we could

Remember them all well and yes we're bloody jinxed !

Our defending was fucking dreadful there, thank God those days are behind us Souness interview at the end is brilliant

Was that the window that was rated 8/10 on here?

Hopefully being FA Cup they make more of an effort to get it on, just dig out the orange ball if needed. Remember Reading away mid 90s being played when pitch was 100% frozen solid

Loch Ness Drogba aka Mr Reliable , we've nothing to worry about

Sounds like we have a counter protest on our hands , could get a bit tasty between the pro and anti SR fans

Didn't we do enough character building last season? Certainly felt like it taking my nippers to defeat after defeat

Poor effort Sir, was expecting to see you down the front at the end with your "Gavin Bazunu can I have your shirt sign." I saw us win 2008 think Andrew Surman might have bagged a couple for us, must be due another win there.

Solak would love Souness' anecdote about how he signed Ali Dia as well, a pivotal moment in our clubs history

Get the sense some of the players are starting to resent the fans and the stick they get, we'll end up with another Nathan Wood telling them to fuck off again soon

Need to stick that on the Tifo for Northam stand to display next home game

Next game is home to Hull isn't it, it's the first game the "half season tickets" start on. Makes me particularly angry, a mate of mine opted out of getting season tickets for him and his lad back in the summer as money was tight, kid is so football mad he decided back in mid-December to get a couple for remainder of the season, poor kid going to have to sit through that, Sports Republic will end up killing off a whole generation of support

We have around 21k season ticket holders, makes more sense for those at the games to actually make any attendees from sport Republic have a very uncomfortable visit, they are not welcome

The Branfoot era in retrospect wasn't that bad, it was tactical disagreement between manager and fans but we actually were never relegated and had some great cup runs, low budget for the league , compared to now where the incompetence is truly mind-blowing, every single person at board level should be deeply ashamed to be this bad at their jobs

Should have lobbed all the free programmes towards the Players at the end

He didn't, there needed to be long term strategy, if you award him with the job after the short run of good results then same standards dictate he loses the job after a short run of poor results

They got a free pie Players have mugged them off Sport Republic OUT , need to give them full get out of our club every game from now on