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What's happened to the pre-match press conference for this game? Typically on the Thursday for a Saturday game isn't it? We're almost less than 24 hours from kick off given its a lunch time kick off...

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/23818733.southampton-ceo-parsons-explains-keeping-finances-control/

Doesn't Glasgow Saint still have a copyright on that particular posting tactic? #textbook

Any chance you could expect us to lose every week? Thanks 👍🙂

A repeat mention for the ever expanding "Can I get...?" brigade. Cretins.

Is that on both sides of the debate or just one side....?

Rishi Sunak on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning: [Paraphrasing] Presenter: "Our local club Reading FC are being penalised and relegated to League 1 due to poor ownership. You've got plently of money....would you consider buying Reading FC?" Sunak: "I've got enough to worry about with Saints after our relegation and poor start this season so I'll have to pass on that offer I'm afraid" So, reading between the lines, Rishi will be lining up a takeover bid after the general election then....? (2 + 2 = 5)

The only trouble with being too positive all the time is that some twat on here might dig out what you were saying about our prospects around this time last year...

Do we know definitively that he turned us down?

At least Russell Martin has led us to the top of one table...

If this match conforms to 'maximum Saintsy' principles, then we'll sneak a flukey win, thus granting RM a stay of execution, only to then go on to lose to Stoke and Rotherham in our next two games... #mysticmeg #thesouthamptonway

Wrinkle

Does it involve waving handkerchiefs....?

Yep, totally. As I said over the weekend, what's the point of having him on the bench if there's zero intention of playing him, regardless of the reason. (and I agree, if it is genuinely to do with his family situation then taking him all that way to sit on the bench isn't going to help his state of mind one iota)

What makes you think SR's/RM's approach/philosophy wouldn't suck the "drive and determination" out of the younger players too in due course....?

Is your seat not close enough to instigate such activity...?

Fair enough... Shows how much I was paying attention!

Good post FF... Might be an idea to paste it into the Russell Martin thread too as it may get 'lost' in the post-match thread (?)

I much preferred this more positive view of life in the Championship from one of the other Charlie Wayman syndicate members...

Indeed. Surely any astute businessman would seek and embrace direct and unfiltered feedback from their customer base rather than turning a blind eye...? Ah... Just seen the flaw in my question... "astute"... scratch that then....