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Bit of a bizarre report on the OS... https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2020-08-21/u23s-report-southampton-fc-vs-wycombe-wanderers-friendly-20-21 7 ot the starting 11 get a mention (Jones, Sims, O'Connor, Ferry, N'Lundulu, Slattery & Hesketh) but no definitive line-up summary. Couldn't see any mention of Jankewitz though... Make of that what you will...

Could that simply be down to how McKennie has been told to play by his current manager/coach, rather than him being weaker in that aspect per se? Also, Hojbjerg has a relatively poor pass completion score (although not much lower than McKennie to be fair) so does that mean that most of those 'final 3rd passes' went astray...? Having a relatively high final 3rd passing ranking isn't much cop if said passes don't reach their intended destination (unless I'm mis-reading the stats, which is entirely plausible )

Anyone know if Jankewitz is playing in today's game? Might be something to read between the lines, as far as his senior squad aspirations/credentials are concerned, if he's not been picked for an U23s game...

Indeed. Madness

Source?

There's definitely an 'abnormal' vibe about the PR output from the club at the moment. Only publishing 6 (?) photographs from the first week of pre-season, for example, is certainly bizarre territory. And no Salisu photoshoot yet - not even an informal photo of him holding a kit or suchlike - even though he was supposed to be out of quarantine beginning of this week at the latest (I believe ?). I'm sure, if quizzed, they would cite Covid as the main reason for this pre-season being different and, of course, that is no doubt a factor, but it's also an easy cop out....

Source?

Here's hoping we can muster more players than the 7 or 8 the club have managed to photograph in training thus far.... (MLG banter caveat: yes, I know it'll probably be a mixture of first teamers and U23s that we put out at this stage of pre-season anyway.)

Ha. Good idea

If there is to be some kind of announcement today, any ideas/hunch on timing? i.e. Morning? Afternoon? Evening? Cheers

Ah... yes.. looks like I mis-read his post. Sorry @adriansfc!

CCTV screenshot just in....

I may be reading too much into it, but seems slightly contradictory that defensive contribution is "very strong" yet tackling is "weak".... one would have thought that those two attributes go hand in hand....? p.s. would be interesting to see a comparitive set of these gradings for Hojbjerg....

Fair point 👍

Yep, edited my post to make that very point. Think I'll park my poorly contructed conspriacy theories on this one now

Edit: I suppose it could be argued that we weren't in for McKennie at the time of that post but that we have become interested in him since....?

cheers 👍

Just to clarify, do you mean this Friday (i.e. tomorrow) or next Friday? Cheers

Defo looking a bit more balanced than recent previous seasons Top of the table by the first international break...?

Connected with the MSD Holdings cash injection...?

I'm trying to figure out why a respected journo/reporter such as Adam Blackmore would go along with what appears to be an attempt at a smokescreen via the club. One assumes he can't/won't come out afterwards and say he agreed to post misleading info on behalf of the club, so surely he's putting his reputation on the line by going along with such a ruse? Either that or the club didn't tell Adam that what they were telling him was untrue, although why would the club 'dupe' a respected local media figure in that way? I guess the more innocent explanation is that Adam Blackmore simply hadn't heard that we were interested in McKennie and for some reason decided to translate that lack of info into a definitive "club not interested" in his tweet, when really he should have written a less definitive "haven't heard that the club are interested" tweet? Or... the most likely explanation is that I'm over thinking things, just for a change...

Cheers 👍 I'm wondering if Virgin Media will slip seamlessly into main shirt sponsor again given they still sponsor us anyway...?