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Aye... Especially when Hull had originally informed their fans that details would be released yesterday (I believe?)

"If you can't beat them..."

I guess years of being called out on certain 'facts' by Saints fans can take its toll on someone's perception...

Don't we all?

What's George got that Zippy hasn't?

😂

Bungle off Rainbow?

It turns out that University of Derby article was published over a year ago (January 2025) and so it would appear that he returned to Saints after his stint at Villa (given he appears in Tonda's February 2026 manager of the month group photo). That said, it doesn't rule out him leave Saints again between March 2026 and 'now' of course (he didn't appear in the March and April MotM group photos... )

Only about a dozen times... 😁

Yep, the only difference then was that we wore white shorts rather than black, to avoid a clash with Hull's black shorts. One assumes Hull will switch from black to orange shorts if they're the designated away side at Wembley.

Seems a bit odd to me that the EFL require clubs to coordinate pre-ticket sales info. All we publicised was our own ticket sales timetable (which will inevitably be different to Hull's anyway)... Just a bit of admin info really. I can understand why the EFL would want to coordinate the actual sale of tickets, but cannot see any reason to need to align the publication of practical / logistical info in the lead up to that. Probably nothing in it but still a tad bizarre IMO.

If the colours of the 'special' playoff final merch on the OS is anything to go by, we'll be in our home kit... https://store.southamptonfc.com/play-off-final/play-off-final/

Yep, good points. I'd even go as far as suggesting that @SaintlyAnd puts his ex-analyst friend in touch with the club as it sounds like he has some relevant intel that could be used in our defence 👍🏻

Cheers for the insights... Tallies with what some of us are suspecting... i.e. that these junior analysts are, to a certain degree, operating to their own 'rules' and timetables with half an eye on impressing those further up the chain of command.

FFS... I was nailed on to win the sweepstake!

Can I have 19 bites in the sweepstake please? Cracking effort so far to be fair 👍🏻

You're assuming he's not faking the "guess" bit...

When I'm away on business I use my own bank card and claim it back via expenses

I was wondering if this is one of those "I have some inside info but I can't post it as fact, so I'll phrase it as a hypothesis so it doesn't look like I know something" type posts...

The point is, they shouldn't need to be "bothered" about it if all clubs follow the EFL rules...

Most unlike us to be that amateurish, especially when it comes to getting timings right... Bit like training surveillance embargo windows....