Football Special

It was comfortably the lowest crowd so far this season, 25,921 including roughly 900 from Leicester, was never going to attract a big crowd midweek in November with Cat A pricing. (Actual crowd definitely lower than that with season ticket holders not attending as well)

Fair point, they've gone mental charging £45 behind the goal , we also have WBA away in the same week Norwich away on open general sale for non-members now as well

We've been treating that National League Cup like that for a while, lost all games in it? Same as last season I think Will be more telling in coming weeks playing other elite Euro u21 sides

I think he has to get it but we have to be careful if we reward 4 wins in a row with a permanent position does that mean he gets sacked if we then lose 4 in a row as well? Building a good coaching team and assistant will be crucial

He risks winning the manager of the month award, although Lampard at Cov must have that sown up as they'll win again on Saturday

Millwall are a physical side, could have done with Downes waiting one more game to be suspended to get Romeu up to speed. Perhaps Aribo will feature. Will follow their game vs Sheffield Wednesday tonight, expect a win for Millwall but hope Wednesday make it hard for them. 3 points would put Millwall up into 4th or 5th so cannot underestimate them.

Both mind-blowingly stupid I did laugh when one bloke started singing "Sports Republic you can stay at our club"

Just 6 points off 2nd place, that's crazy after start we had

Talked to a Leicester fan after the game who couldn't understand why we went easier on them and didn't go for it as they expected to fall apart

Nah I'm not having it, we've been here before many times, recall going to Palace when they had no fit centre backs and losing 1-0, anyway these Leicester absences include players they "don't like to risk in midweek games" , I'm sure they'll have a decent back 4 out on the pitch, certainly as good as our calamity back 5

I think you'll struggle for Coventry being a Saturday away game, due to their promotion expectations they've cut away allocation to 2000 to free up more seats for home fans The holy grail away day this season is Middlesbrough on a sunday in early January, should be triple away loyalty points offered by the club for that one

Yep , I can guarantee 15 aways will be fine for Birmingham away, Monday night game not the easiest to get to Similar allocation that we have at Norwich still plenty left for that on sale to members https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/birmingham-city-vs-southampton-2526

Do we know if he actually wants the job? At the moment fairly low risk for him as interim coming in with low expectations that he has exceeded but pressure will change somewhat once that becomes permanent

Need to get Scienza on the ball and running at Vestergaard, knock the ball past him and go , keep the ball on the floor

This seems likely, but Spors then needs to consider how he fills the various coaching roles currently vacant at the club, Romeu can probably help out with some of it. Trollope was supposed to be Still's experienced assistant , with him gone probably could do with someone who's been in management/ coaching for a while

I think it will depend if they get any upturn from new manager, bad run of results between now and Christmas seems quite likely looking at the fixtures

Yeah it's becoming a joke, there were Saints fans I know in the home end on Saturday looking across at a sold out away end with empty seats visible, very poor from the club , clearly linked to tickets reserved for players/ club officials

When you look at the pace Leicester have and the ability to press / hit us on the break I expect to see the full backs deeper in a 5 again to try to protect against that

This made me laugh

Those Hampshire Senior Cup games tend to be u18s, hopefully they can beat those Baffins skates this week

I NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO GO AND WHEN! please. Am I allowed to take two?

I'm interested, any more details ?

If you are pricing based on demand a Tuesday night end of November game is always going to need a bit more encouragement to get casual fans to attend, especially now every midweek game is shown on the box, £20 cheapest kids ticket ffs

It will certainly be interesting who plays when they deem Romeu to be match fit (from what I understand he'd maintained a very high level of fitness last few months so it shouldn't take much longer training with the team) When is Charles expected to return? It's a shame not available yet but we've got loads of games in next 6 weeks

Looks like it will be a small crowd anyway, Leicester not bringing many down, home sales are low which is not surprising considering it's midweek game live on tv and ticket office decided to make it a Category A ticket price