Saint Garrett

Can see it being a routine Leicester victory. Fingers crossed we can stick a performance together, and take our chances, and get some luck at our own end. Been very impressed with them, especially their 3 midfield players. 1-3 - we always score at home.

Back to a 5 at the back for me...we're not good enough defensively to play 4222 IMO. --------------------McCarthy--------------------- ----------Bednarek-Danso-Yoshida-------------- Cedric--------------Romeu--------------Bertrand ------------JWP--------------Hojbjerg----------- -------------------Redmond-------------------- ---------------------Ings-------------------------

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/extra-time-charlie-austin-interview/id1474544449?i=1000453091078 Extended interview with Stan Collymore here... An interesting listen, but doesn't really feel that Austin was challenged that much by Collymore...

Still absolutely no idea why he went for that with his left foot.

All football tickets should have a £30 cap IMO.

It always happens in positions with no competition, look at Bertrand over the last few years too. Also the tactics we are playing at the moment kill our defence as a unit. We press with 3/4 players, the keeper chips it over those and then its 6 on 6 a lot of the time, with their midfield turning and running at us. We are giving the oppo so much time in the middle of the pitch, and we're relatively weak at the back. It's no surprise we are leaking goals. I think we have to go back to a 5-3-1-1 to stand any chance of keeping a clean sheet. We are nowhere near good enough to play 4 forward players. ----------------McCarthy ---------Danso Bednarek Yoshida Cedric----------Romeu-------------Bertrand ------------Hojbjerg---JWP ---------------Redmond ------------------Ings

Needs to be taken out of the firing line IMO, give McCarthy a go, and make Gunn earn his spot back. He’s a kid, and learning. Only thing I would say is it can’t be the keepers fault all the time, maybe it’s something to do with the dreadful defence he’s playing behind. Chelsea could have had 6 or 7 today.

You say that, but Tadic had no pace, and he was excellent for us.

When you're signing players in the market we buy in as below, you're going to have no guaranteed success. Agree that we have been worse recently, but that's probably because we're trying to sign players for the same price, but the market has moved substantially in the last few years. The players we were buying 4/5 years ago for £8-12m, are now going for upwards of £30m. - highly rated upcoming talent - 21-24 age bracket - £8m - £20m transfer fee - £30K - £60k wages

What is the tune for this? Not sure I've ever heard it?

Meant to be acceptable, some odd ones here Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Given the amount of chat regarding our support over the last week or so, thought I'd start a thread where fans can discuss the songs to sing (home and away!). Sure it will create some discussion, and probably plenty of sarcy responses as per. Probably missed a load, but at least they're all in one place, I'll update as we go. Saints Songs Oh When The Saints... All Southampton Shoot the P*mpey Scum... Give me an S,O etc We love Southampton, we do... Southampton lalala, Southampton lalala... We are Southampton, the pride of the south... Southampton 'til I die We all follow Southampton Wings of a Sparrow Hello Hello, we are Southampton boys On the **** for Matt Le Tiss Red Army Yellows Come on you reds, come on you reds, come on you reds, come on Woolston Ferry Oh what a night, won at fratton on a tuesday night, we scored four because you're f*cking sh*te, I remember, what a night Fratton Park is falling down Tiss RL Southamptions goal machine Marian Pahars, Marian ooo Marian WTFILN One team in hampshire Walking in a Liebherr wonderland My old man said be a Pompey fan Player Songs 22. Angus Gunn - No song 1. Alex McCarthy - No song 2. Cedric - "He's our Cedric, running down the right wing he's electric, he does things we never expected, and he ****s on Clyne" 43. Yan Valery - No song 3. Maya Yoshida - "Woah Maya Yoshida..." 4. Jannik Vestergaard - "Do, do, do-do-do-do, Jannik Vestergaard" 5. Jack Stephens - No song 38. Kevin Danso - No song 35. Jan Bednarek - No song 21. Ryan Bertrand - No song 29. Jake Vokins - No song 14. Oriol Romeu - "Ori, Oriol Ori, Oriol Ori, Oriol Oriol Romeu" / "Oriol Romeu, Oriol Romeu. etc" (Harry Maguire tune) 23. Pierre Hojbjerg - "Ooo Pierre Hojbjerg, the one and only, from Munich, they said his days were numbered if he stayed in Germany, now he's on the south coast and he f*cking hates P*mpey" 16. JWP - "James Ward Prowse, my lord, James Ward Prowse, oooo James Ward Prowse" / "Ooo Prowsey Prowsey, he used to be a skate but he's alright now" 17. Stuart Armstrong - No song 30. Calum Slattery - No song 22. Nathan Redmond - "He's our star man, playing on the right, his name is Nathan Redmond and he's ****ing dynamite" / "Do do do do, Nathan Redmond" / "There's only one Nathan Redmond" 12. Moussa Djenepo - "Moussa Djenepo runs down the wing for me" 19. Sofiane Boufal - "Ole ole ole ole, Boufal...Boufal" 7. Shane Long - "La la la la la la la, la la la la, Shane Long" / "We all dream of a team of Shane Longs" 9. Danny Ings - "Ings can only get better" / "He's one of our own, he's one of our own, Danny Ings, He's one of our own" 10. Che Adams - No song 20. Michael Obafemi - No song

We pretty much always score, especially at home - the last time we didn't score at home was against Newcastle on the 27th October 2018. We've only not scored in one game this season - vs Burnley. Unfortunately we always concede!

1. It's a crap song 2. Seems to be about 4 words with a repetitive tune. 3. It's nothing to do with Southampton People sung it at Fulham and everyone was ignoring them and trying to start other songs, same thing happened at Sheff Utd. I do agree we don't have a huge amount of songs at the moment, but we have enough IMO. We rarely sing many of them, normally just sing OWTS.

For me... -----------Forster Clyne Alderweireld VVD Shaw ------Morgan Wanyama Mane-----Lallana------Tadic -------------Pelle Very tough on Lovren, Bertrand, Davis, J-Rod and Lambert. The team above would have a great chance of finishing top 6 IMO. Probably wouldn't be far off top 4, but as we know they would have never played together, so kind of irrelevant.

Yup, And also would be nice if not every song was about Pompey, it's boring. And if we don't have some fans that just drown out all others with crap songs like Dock of the Bay, like at Sheffield United, that would be nice.

They play decent football, without being a particularly good side. Think they'll pass round our midfield and they'll take their chances. After a very poor performance vs Bournemouth, and one we should have got a result out of this weekend, we need a big performance from them on Sunday. Would be tempted to stick McCarthy in as he's a better keeper. Valery to come in if Ralph/Cedric can't settle their differences. If we could just put this settled team out for a few weeks on the trott with no weird decisions (LB at RB, RB @ LB, CM @ LB, CB @ RB etc etc) Assuming Djenepo is still injured, would have him off the bench for this one anyway, and to be brought on for Boufal probably in one of the more attacking positions.

Left him at home for a rest.

Will Smallbone played a lot in pre season, so Ralph was clearly having a look at him. We also have Slattery who can play there on the odd occasion and Stephens / Danso if desperate. Problem is the massive drop off in quality rom Hojbjerg, Romeu, and JWP to the likes of Slattery/Danso/Stephens/Smallbone. We could probably cope for the odd game, but if Romeu or Hojbjerg got injured for a few months it would be a real concern.

---------------Gunn Cedric Bednarek Yoshida Bertrand --------------Romeu------------- -------JWP-----------Hojbjerg----- ------Boufal--Ings---Redmond

Seemed to be no trouble at all last night apart from this? Good news if true.

Not a brilliant RB, but fair play to him, goal very well taken last night.

We normally go to the london road brew house, it's pretty decent for sports.

Agree - clearly not good enough to play at full back, gets completely lost out there... At CB, who knows...he certainly seems to have the attributes to be a really good CB for us, but for us to be able to judge him, he needs to play 4/5 games in that position. Let be honest, he's bloody good for a 20 year old CB. Will certainly be interesting to see what happens with him this season. We're going to really kill his confidence playing him out of position.

McCarthy Cedric Yoshida Bednarek Bertrand PEH Romeu JWP Boufal Adams Ings First things first - play Bertrand