Saint_clark

Leeds getting stuck in to get the fans going early doors.

What's our record in the spitfire kit?

Anyone got any streams with the game on already?

Sounds like a typical "Saints are 1 up at half time" situation.

I'm going to remain optimistic but I think it's pointless sticking with Bednarek when we know it's only a matter of time before he reverts to type. Hopefully he gives us another error free game this week while our other centrebacks regain fitness.

Unchanged isn't it? DCC back on the bench though.

I'm anticipating a double from Sulemana today.

😂 I like to imagine they got 10 pages in, looked at their watch and said "f*ck this, I'm going home, just give it to Ruben".

We've got coleslaw, polish coleslaw, I just don't think you understand...

Fair enough, I didn't read the articles myself so didn't know that.

Perhaps I didn't explain myself properly. I'm sure he didn't exaggerate the threats I just think a persons internet persona very, very rarely represents what they would actually say or do in real life and the best way to deal with people who post this and other kinds of abuse is to completely ignore it. Internet trolls are like a fire and attention is the fuel, stop adding fuel and it'll eventually go out.

Yeah, someone putting "I hope you die" in a tweet or commented under a Facebook article is scummy, in bad taste, but wouldn't warrant anything further than an eye roll if it were up to me.

If the players were more concerned with getting him the job than avoiding relegation then we were fucked from day one.

Yeah, good point. At least this way we've given him our full backing.

I love the guy. Still wonder if we really needed to rush into this decision. Lose against Leeds and leicester and we're pretty much confirmed down.

Fair enough. Caleta car has more career appearances than Bednarek? AMN admittedly has slightly more than KWP, thanks to 30 appearances on loan to Ipswich in the championship.

Playing genuinely good football whilst doing it too.

Caleta-Car and Walker-Peters are the same ages as Bednarek and Maitland-Niles respectively?

I'm working nights at the moment so maybe I'm just a bit groggy, but there was a question in his post match conference that I'm sure didn't make any sense? "Wins for Bournemouth and Everton today, if you'd lost you'd have been 7 points from safety, as it ended up you're only 2..." That...doesn't add up surely? Someone tell me I'm not losing it. Nevermind the fact we're actually 3 points from safety and if we lost we'd have been 6...

I remember when we got relegated in 05 we had a quality reserve side then, too. Blackstock and Best up top, Crainie and Mills solid at the back, Griffitt a maestro in midfield.

I thought Ankersen insinuated that our under 21 group was crap at the moment?

There is good potential in the team we've put together at the moment and I think we need to be firm with the players even if we do go down that we won't be letting anyone go that we don't want to.

Meanwhile, his inclusion of JWP was just an excuse to talk about Chelsea... "If anyone is going to pull Southampton out of their current situation it's Ward-Prowse. Championship football is out of the question for the likes of him, he is far too good for that level. The Saints showed real grit against Chelsea and Ward-Prowse his quality. So Chelsea have spent over £600m in the transfer window and had to turn to a 20-year-old unknown in David Datro Fofana to provide them with the goals they desperately need. Is this a joke? I said last week I wasn't sure if owner Todd Boehly knew what he was doing. I'm now asking the same question of manager Graham Potter. The apprehension in the air at Stamford Bridge against Southampton was penetrating. We all know it can't go on like this."

Indeed. The guy has more playing time in the month of the World Cup than he does in the month he's been in the Premier League. Ditto the Champions League. He's gone from playing in those two competitions to playing in our reserves...I would imagine he was settling in just fine until that happened.