Wurzel

I'd love to see them drop. Aren't they the only team that has never been relegated (or only ever played in) the top flight? Edit: Answers own question - no that's Arsenal

Let's not forget every time we beat or do well against the big boys according to the media it's always because they have an off day Yesterday was our off day, to be fair were due one and I'm happier it came yesterday than last Wednesday. Draw a line under it, and let's get back to where we left off against Sandcastle this week.

Well we all said prioritise the cup now. But we meant rotate the squad 50%at a time , not play the first choice XI at 50% effort.

2004 Harry and Jim - way too experienced to let us go down. And leaving Pompey for us? We can take the piss out of them for years for that one. 2010 Pardew replaced by Adkins? Who? Well that's a step backwards. 2015 Sadio Mane is just a joke player. Doesn't look like he can even control the ball when he's running with it, only goes past defenders because they have no more idea what he's doing than he does. 2/3/2022. What sort of a fucking line up is that? Should be concentrating on the cup not throwing games. Can't even be arsed to watch now. I can be wrong sometimes, just don't tyell the missus.

Stephens (who seems more and more important as a "club man" with every performance) had his arm around him at the end and was pointing animatedly downwards towards the pitch. Maybe wishful thinking but I interpreted it as "this is where you belong now, you have to stay"

I thought RH said something along the lines of wanting to but these things not always possible to arrange with the opponents. Not really sure what he meant as it won't clash with any of Wham's 3 kits. He did say we'd definitely wear it against Villa though.

Che Adams from the the Midlands But he wears a Scotsman's hat When he joined us we all thought Who the fuck is that? Then he chipped Man City From the halfway line Now he can't stop scoring Che's turned out just fine .... and repeat.

I'm sure he does, reputedly he knows everything, but unfortunaley he's not so forthcoming in passing on his knowledge. So while you await his divine revelation on the subject why not just read the thread, it will be a hell of a lot quicker. Spoiler: As mentioned many times above, no it doesn't.

By the law of averages there has to be one game when we create loads of chances and actually convert them all*. Not saying it's going to be tomorrow but the 8-0 Sunderland game does seem a long long time ago now. *Then again I say that every season

When we finish top 4 in 23/24 he's not going to walk away from a CL campaign

To fair, based on the last half of last season and assuming we still took Broja on loan can't see he'd have played much more for us this season. Probably still ahead of AA but sadly think he is now living on past - relatively short lived - glories. Never the same after his covid, wonder if AV got his medical done on the cheap, concentrated on his knee and overlooked general fitness.

Are you getting confused with when they signed Andy Carroll?

Mysteriously taken ill during the warm up and is now out. Hopefully the stadium cat has pissed in his water bottle or something.

I guess we'll never know if RH surviving the two 9-0s was down to those making the decisions having total faith in him or because the club couldn't afford to replace him, but we can count ourselves grateful he's still here. Stability is everything (remember those days when we had 3 managers in 36 years?), it's taken a while but the last few months has seen the team performing at it's full potential and still improving game by game. We've seen nothing from the new owners yet to suggest any changes have been made by them, but their arrival (or Gao's departure) seem to have given the whole club a new lease of life. Now if we can just persuade RH that 58 is way too young an age to be considering retirement ....

This is the match thread. Swapping Panini stickers should be kept to the Buy&Sell forum

FF🤩👏 Can we call off our search for a new keeper yet?

Speaking of Odds -Southampton Next Manager - Alan Pardew 5/1 favourite 🤣🤣🤣

Last year Fulham went down in 18th with 28pts -26 GD. We are already on 28pts -7GD with another 45pts to play for. I don't think even the the biggest glass half empty Saints fan will be taking those odds

Another class act from our media team

First page on Ceefax. 😀(Younger readers will have to Google it 😂)

Only just seen this @Minsk , but can only reiterate what others have already said. One of the better posters on here, not sure when you joined but you seem to have always be around. Sometimes we forget that online personas are actually real people with real problems and real families. Easy to say from here but keep fighting and keep hoping. 🤞

I've watched from various parts of the ground over the years and if you're in Blocks13-18 of The Chapel the away fans are really loud, because whatever their numbers they are facing straight at you. So ironically if fans want to "bait" the opposition with songs (as opposed to childish gestures) the Block42 etc should move en masse to the Itchen side of The Chapel, where they can sing straight at the away fans. I love being in Block 2, but except for the very rare occasion that that section and The Northam are singing in synch most opposition can drown out the split sections support. Also noticable from other parts of the ground is that except for the first couple of of seats nearest Block 42 away fans en masse aim abuse /piss takes at The Itchen because they can see them. Despite The Northam's "baiting" and because of the way the acoustics work most of the away fans seem unaware they are even there.

And unless Yvette Fielding and her team bring in their special equipment to are study the replays he won't even show up on VAR

That's a definite tactic of ours. I read about it in The Athletic a couple of months back, they mentioned always on 60 minutes, and noticed it every game since. In fact he very next game after I read it was on tv, and I couldn't believe how right it was to the extent I rewound to see it again. In that one Tella literally sat down on 59m 57s (on the on screen timer) whilst we were about to take a goal kick, and waited another 3 seconds before signalling for assistance . It was almost like he could see the stadium clock and waited for the time to change 🤣

Probably contractually obliged to pick at least one ManUre player every week