Football Special

No way was there 2.5k Burnley, more like 900

Yes, and then he only signed permanently because Martin , always a problem if motivation is to work for a particular manager rather than play for a particular club. Having a strop now makes it difficult for him in terms of relationship with the fans.

If I'd had my way back in 2001 we'd have kept The Dell for reserve games and for use in less popular cup ties, would have been ideal for days like today

Attendance today - 15,253 For a Saturday 3pm cup game that is appalling and club should be worried. They certainly didn't help with prices and stand closure but even with that shows a lot of dissatisfied fans

The ABK charade needs to be ended, clearly no intent to play him, I'm not convinced he even wants to play, stop putting him on the bench

Nah come on, today was our last competitive match of the season, he's got plenty more chances for experiments in pointless league games if he wants to do that

Good rehearsal for next season, expect more teams will set up like Burnley, Juric complete clueless how to approach that.

Yeah I look at him stood there and can't picture him leading us to a promotion, hasn't got it in him

Yep Juric Out Sports Republic Out Ticket Office manager Out with the fucking stupid prices and stand closures Whole lot of em out and start again

Cult status surely

They don't but there's a few players that always score against us, Ashley Barnes, Jonjo Shelvey and I'm really hoping this lad will be fit for them

The January when we signed Pellegrino's mate Guido Carillo before shortly after sacking Pellegrino was another odd one. Monaco really did laugh all the way to the bank

Leicester always wriggle out of it. No doubt will adjust their financial year for accounting purposes if needed

It's a compelling argument and both windows reflect badly on the board. Complete lack of strategy and poor decision making. Selling Alan Shearer for a British record fee and replacing him with Dixon and Speedie was a bad one.

Don't forget the win v SWANSEA

Qpr fans rate him highly and hope he can be signed permanently , seems could be a good option next season if we can fit him into side

I agree but you know how this corporate bollocks works, they'll use the low attendance to justify closing the Kingsland again next time as smaller crowd showed there wasn't demand for it

Brilliant win for the u18s in FA Youth Cup tonight at home to Derby, away to Watford or Spurs in the 1/4 final

Just seen they won 1-0 tonight v Oxford, that's 9 goals conceded in 31 league games, incredible, I can't recall a record like it

At non-league level a significant cup run and paying customers can make a real difference to the survival of a club and I completely understand that, however with Saints we're guaranteed £100M+ from tv alone and have an opportunity to use this game to give something back to a fan base sitting through the worst season in our history (points wise) just take a leaf out of Prestons book and fill the ground as much as possible with the next generation , nice touch charging the Grandads and Grandma's a fiver as well

There's actually very few general admission seats in Itchen Centre as sections of blocks 5 - 9 are hospitality , it certainly limits the options. Makes the decision to close the Kingsland even more ridiculous , all for the vanity of trying to make the stadium look busier for the tv cameras. Kingsland won't be opening as no chance other areas will sell out. Plenty of availability in Saints Bar hospitality Itchen centre but who wants to pay those prices 🤷🏻‍♂️

Seems plausible based on Juric comments, if there was a clique close to Russ perhaps they are not enjoying the change of culture. Shame as I liked Downes , but even his move did seem odd where Martin implied he needed a lot of persuasion, needs to get his head down and put some decent performances in.

Listening to the Burnley fan on Total Saints Podcast, expect 11 changes from them with midweek games tonight and next week making the Cup game low priority amongst their promotion push, incredibly they have had TEN 0-0 draws already this season. Ticket sales still look poor, likely attendance about 14k, really should have taken an approach like Preston who have made it a tenner for adults, kids for a quid in their tie against Wycombe , shows it can be done

Was talking to another parent at my kids football training who has been a regular at Saints ladies games, interesting perception that ambitions for the side seem to have been downgraded and club not prepared to spend to keep better players and no realistic aim to reach top flight. This Echo article seems to back that up, although other sides like Durham and London City Lionnesses who aren't affiliated with men's teams (?) are still managing to compete. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/24905162.allen-admits-southampton-fc-cant-compete-top-championship-clubs/?ref=rss Season basically over with no realistic chance of promotion or relegation, we play Pompey at St Mary's on March 22nd , might try and go to that, show them some support.