Football Special

And Steven Davis as his assistant, good appointment I think

The u21s are due to play away to Norwich tomorrow (Friday) afternoon so will get some idea from that who will be involved. Any players WAGS posting pictures from Dubai again?

Have we ever worn yellow in a home game before? I remember the random special white shirt we had at home to Coventry in the Cup a few years ago , and have worn 'away' kits in pre-season friendlies like pink vs Lazio but can't recall a yellow one, certainly in a competitive game. Anyway, YELLOWS YELLOWS YELLOWS

Agree, I'll forgive losing to Norwich as they look like one of the Championships best sides now, but defeats to Blackburn and Oxford were shocking. We should beat the Skates comfortably when you compare players but being a derby does seem to level things up.

I genuinely think that Championship clubs have a disincentive to progress in this competition, just look at the fixture schedules , the Premier League keep a completely clear calendar for rounds 5 and quarter final, if they progress = no fixtures to reschedule. If we progress it opens up a whole headache of fixture backlog March 7th we're due to be home to Norwich, good chance that will need to move if either we progress or Norwich beat West Brom at home. April 4th - Easter weekend, we are due to play Ipswich (H) on friday 3rd, Wrexham (A) Monday 6th. Potentially two fixtures to reschedule. Wrexham play Ipswich in 4th round so one of them is sure to be in round 5. FA Cup dates. Fifth Round Proper: Saturday 7 March 2026 Quarter Final: Saturday 4 April 2026

Yeah good point, he didn't look comfortable at all , treatment lasted for a few minutes but he did manage to play on , hopefully whatever that was can sort itself out without missing a game

I think the recent good run of results has given the morale a boost , would be a shame to lose that momentum buts it's inevitable that most of the starting XI will change, expect Leicester will do similar, I wouldn't be surprised if this goes to penalties, I'll predict 1-1 in normal time. Being Valentines day i expect we'll see a number of fans bringing loved ones, perhaps even a half time proposal on the pitch, haven't had one of those for a while , get to sing you don't know what you're doing for the bantz

They were singing that and "it's happened again, it's happened again, Southampton it's happened again" when they went three up, I feared the worst at that point

Going to be a season defining result that isn't it , I still can't believe it

At 3-0 down Leicester fans were singing we want 9 and 'Southampton, it's happened again ' Just home now, it's a funny old game as Saint and Greavsie would say

No genuinely left , one of life's lessons , was back in pub when. Goals.went in

Left at 3-0 , fucked it right up. Fuck sake Saints

In the 1993/94 PREMIER LEAGUE season i went to Saints v Chelsea on 27th December followed by Manchester City v Saints 28th December, marvellous stuff

Agree it does my head in, they approach playing matches with trepidation, oh no it's a 3 game week, how will we manage. Work on getting the players fitter Saints and it might not be so daunting

Yeah to compensate for that we need others in the squad to start taking their chances, feels like Azaz should score more from chances he gets. Of course we might not need to score as many now we're a team who can keep clean sheets

I wouldn't make any changes at all unless we absolutely have to with injury to Downes, I did think most of our team look absolutely knackered in the last few minutes against Watford, yet we'd had all week to prepare whilst they'd had a game up at Hull. Saints coaches need to address lack of fitness in the squad rather than calculating which players need resting all the time

It really is a three horse race for the title, surprised to see Hull and Millwall so far out, is there a similar odds table for finishing top 6? Would be interesting to see where we are for that

Tonda and the data boys don't want our players to miss minutes through injury, they'd rather they missed minutes preventing injury

50 years ago a team in the 2nd division went to Wembley and shocked the footballing world to win the FA Cup, I know that was then but it could be again....

Think they just included a few questions about it post match after Watford on Saturday , I've got a feeling we'll see a few changes as we're so obsessed with managing the minutes of some players

Cheers @trousers have stuck a tenner on a double 👍

Rochdale we took good numbers as it was rearranged and lots wanted to tick the ground off?, in fact that season was impressive Hartlepool midweek had about 800 up there , Oldham is a good shout midweek in January but again was a ground we hadn't played at for a while. Leicester seems to be perfect storm of short notice/ midweek / poor form / played there loads (every year) , didn't expect it to be popular but thought we'd get at least 1000 up there

Genuinely struggling to think when we last took so few away, possibly Sunderland midweek January 2003

We're 14th in the Championship, we don't need to be brought back down to earth