swedish dave

oh you must be in a younger generation, When did you start going to school ?

you mean apart from missing our two penalty shouts - quite frankly ..NO !

some sort of revenge (after the home fixture in August) where we had 65% possession, 18 shots but still managed to lose 1-2. We looked quite confident from the start and some good play from Fellows gave Azaz the easiest goal he'll ever score, although he'll feel upset - picking up a yellow card for diving - after being denied a stone-cold penalty. Not a good day for the ref. who also missed the blatant shirt-pulling that dragged THB down in the penalty area. A long-awaited goal for Flynn Downes, who scored the weirdest goal I've ever seen. Azaz was outstanding (without the company of Adam Armstrong) and most of the rest DAJFU. Stephens played a good game, as did Bree who showed how a real FB should play. An encouraging showing, but we'll need a few more gritty performances like this, if we are to stand any chance of qualifying for a play-off spot.

what did you dream the score was after 90 mins?

Mmmm? I'm not sure if the Pompey owner would allow us to buy his star attraction... Maybe he'd be better off at Fratton Park, I always said they were a Mickey Mouse outfit.

New striker? Minimum requirements - at least 6'2" ...with experience in a top tier league ...in any Euro land. Has reached double figures - at least once in his career - is able to speak English to some suitable level.. and ...oops.. I'm beginning to feel a tad overconfident already. ..

Why is everyone selling " down" for prices . 16,000,000 is also an eight figure price, and whilst he won't go for anything like that, it's wrong to think of the first (and lowest) amount that some people can think of.

Even if you ignored the cost of all those transfer / loan fees....what about their salaries? we are overloaded with many players (who don't play), and our salary costs so high, we were second only to Leicester - and they are about to be fined and forced to take a points deduction. Good luck their next manager - he'll need it.

... that used to be called "a banana shot", but in his case it maybe its " a boomeranger ". Ryan was another victim of our " overloaded squad ", with yet another manager who didn't appreciate his input to the squad. The average "30-something" manager is looking to bring in some talented kids but then neglects the value of having experienced players who are there to help such youngsters.

Sadly he is nowhere near the quality we needed to replace Prowsey, not least in goal tally. He has a "schoolboys temperament ", makes stupid, unnecessary tackles and then argues with referees (all players ahould surely understand that you can never win that argument). He was suspended after 5 yellows at end of November, and has been booked for 4th time since returning. Another suspension in the offing, and it may be more than just one game suspension next time. If it was me... I'd play Bragg more often than I would Downes.

Hi, thank you Turkish . It's still me. I'm back - but without my 11,000+ history of postings. I had technical problems with mails and registration, and couldn't re-register under my old name. Don't think I missed much. Will Still came and went, but I hold out more hope for Tonda. Squad is vastly overloaded, but we still haven't signed a real striker, hope Ross Stewart stays fit.

The only person who knew how to handle things in that game ....was the referee. He knew what sort of a match it was going to be, and ignored almost every foul, and had seemingly had left his red card in the ref's room. When he finally booked a couple of players late on in the game, it was merely a token gesture after having ignored many that were far worse earlier in the game. Given that there was no VAR to disallow their goal (for handball) we would have got all 3 points but the game might have ended with only 9 a side, as some of the tackles were quite brutal. Late on Jay Robinson went down under a 2 footed tackle from behind and it was ignored. Thank goodness that is all over for the season.

Yes but that meant he was already taller than a lot of those around him who did jump, but the problem in our case was that we had no-one capable of crossjng the ball into the area to him..

Height is no guarantee of success either. (mind you.. Messi is no giant is he?). Onuachu's goal tally was nothing to boast about, (and Carrillo never got off the mark), but then again we didn't play with any real wingers in the whole time they were with us. instead we became obsessed with the concept of "overlapping full backs". A BS idea.

LATEST Ryan Fraser's new side were bottom of the Aussie A league after last weekend. On his debut game (against fellow strugglers Perth Glory) he came on as sub after 60 minutes, and then scored the only goal of the game in the 92nd min. Nice one Ryan !

We might hope, but don't hold your breath .

...many players score at least once a season, so perhaps that was his this time around. A sad thing to relate is that Paul Onuachu (having scored 11 goals - so far) in Turkey, puts his success down to the fact that ..." they are playing in a formation that suits him". ( i.e. wingers.) Having sold him, we then signed TWO wingers, and have played half a season, still lacking a big CF. Hopefully Ross Stewart can maintain fitness, and our wingers will finally have someone to aim at.

Only go for the best, eh?. I recall an interview with the Koeman brothers shortly after they started with Saints. When asked the question.. If you could have any player in the world who would you choose? after a short pause.... they smiled at each other .....and simultaneously said ...Messi.

- even if he didn't get much game time in Germany, he was an understudy to Neuer (who must rate as one of the best keepers in the World), so he must have learned something simply by watching him.

we had defenders in front of him who forgot why they were there. A bit hard to blame a goalie for every goal conceded.

......that means we have to hope that Ross Stewart stays fit.

the answer to that one will be known by Feb 1st, but I read rumours that JWP might re-join Moyes at Everton (who are having their best season in a long time). Prowsey's first season under Moyes at WHam was his best but successive managers ditched him in favour of others, whilst WHam descended down into the drop zone. Everton already have Dibling and Alcarez - can they be the next club to build an ex-Saints squad?.. Liverpool did OK with that formula. At this stage of his career, JWP will want an iron-clad Prem. deal to see him through to an eventual retirement, (which in his case might be quite some time in the future).

More importantly .. can he speak German?

I agree Vectis, but he is still our player - and IMO a better choice than anyone else we've used this season. He DAJFU for us during a sticky period when KWP was out injured that season, and we are unlikely to get any sort of deal with his contract going out in the summer, when he would likely return to play for Nathan Jones (if NJ is till in charge by then ?). Regardless of how we finish this season, he won't be the only one to leave. With no " outstanding players " outside of the squad, we have an enormous salary bill that must be reduced.

Not sure we are talking about the same player(s) (experience-wise) Elias Jelert is 22 , played just 66 games for Copenhagen (admittedly Denmark's best club) but was hardly convincing as he was later sold onto Galatasary (Turkey) where he played 21 games in his first season. (he has made 3 apps. for Denmark, but the last being in 2024). SR then signed him on loan for us last summer. His first showing was (in game 6) Hull (a) ...12 min. sub. app. Two games later he started (v. Swansea) but was replaced in second half through injury. Was then out absent injured for 13 games, returning as a late sub. v. Birmingham (a) on Dec.29. Overall... not totally convincing...so far. James Bree is 28. Has made 280 apps. includes sizeable spells with Barnsley and Luton, and nearly all at Championship level. Played 20 times for Saints when we were (recently) in Premier League, during when he scored 2 goals in League Cup games, and was often a regular replacement when KWP was injured. It's no wonder Nathan Jones was quick to loan him, (think he's scored 2 goals for them this season)? Referring back to my original post ....... I rest my case. P.S. I might also make a similar case for Charlie Taylor (who has similar background to Bree) but was another caste-off (by Will Still).