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Breaking News: we're on the front foot

https://pawastreams.info/southampton-vs-blackburn/66661/

Ipswich drop 2 points... Now watch Saints capitalise...

Agent Gunn keeping Norwich in the game

Good to see Martin taking notice of the Saintsweb intelligentsia... #manningout

Bugger. Season over

It's happening...

Get in Norwich! Another 5 defeats on the trot for Ipswich and I think we could be in with sniff of the automatics here... (MLG subnote: yes, I'm aware they haven't lost this one yet)

I do miss Fanny at Christmas

He played much more regularly the previous two seasons without any significant injuries. I don't see any clear cut evidence that he's been "injury prone" over the last few seasons. Isn't he simply 'out of favour' at West Ham at the moment rather than his lack of game time being injury / fitness related, per se?

Source?

I'm predicting a defeat and a win in our next two games. Some might prefer two draws in order to protect our superb unbeaten run though...

End (Open goal... He shoots... He scores!)

Cheers for sharing what you've heard @James G - appreciated

He's not been out injured for the last 2 and a half seasons according to... https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/danny-ings/leistungsdaten/spieler/134294/plus/0?saison=2023

First world response...

Oh yes it is

We'll have to agree to differ. A foreign concept on this forum, granted.

Hi @James G - is that your hunch / gut-feel or are you 'ITK'...? Cheers FWIW, I would welcome Ings back wholeheartedly. He'll score for fun in this league (yes, despite our turgid approach play!)

The most frustrating thing to me is that Martin *CAN* adjust his tactics to be more direct and incisive BUT he only does this rarely, such as versus Leeds and Cardiff. It might be coincidental but he only seems to throw off the shackles when a bit of fan unrest starts to bubble up. So I wouldn't be surprised if we see a deviation from the default, purer more turgid version of Russ-ball at this weekend's game... I believe the "yeah, but we're unbeaten" mantra/propaganda* is counter-productive. The longer we go unbeaten the more complacent we get (IMO)... The odd defeat here and there often has the effect of re-galvanising a team... I'll probably be called a nutter but I reckon there's every chance we'd have got more points from the last 13 games if there had been one or two defeats in amongst them. In other words, a defeat and 2 wins is more fruitful than 2 draws and a victory... (* take your pick)

Yes, I did listen (thanks for asking ). I was referring to his overall positive assessment of the season so far, not his specific comments on this one game. Apologies for my lack of clarity...it's been a long evening...

Everything's pretty rosey according to Russ...