VectisSaint

Out of interest what draw would not favour Man City. If you are the best team any draw is favourable. I guess Liverpool away might be considered difficult for them, or Saints home or away, but otherwise an unfavourable draw is not very likely.

The only players who 'suffered' were Valery, Stephens, JWP, Long and Diallo. With the exception of JWP who we know is superhuman, none of those would be expected to be starters. Anyone know why Bednarek was not in the squad. With Lyanco doing his hammy might we be street he'd at the back again?

The more informative information is at https://www.sportpositiveleagues.com/pl-2021/. To be honest there is not much substance to this just a load of waffle and projects and policies, but fair play they are doing better than most. Good to know the players and staff will be cycling to training and matches.

Let's just hope they don't play Targett at LB, that would be so unfair.

Win or lose it will be a brilliant achievement for a 3rd tier team to be in the 1/4 finals. West Brom could conceivably beat Coventry.

Finished 3-3, decent result for Ross. Vokins subbed off after 65, but Ramsay played the 90.

Aston "Saints Old Boys" Villa. At least they didn't get JWP.

1 Ipswich Town 16 13 2 1 47 41 2 Oxford United 14 11 1 2 32 34 3 Southampton FC 12 11 0 1 50 33 4 Bridgwater United 13 8 2 3 21 26 5 Gillingham 14 8 2 4 -2 26 6 London Bees 16 8 1 7 5 25 7 Portsmouth 14 7 2 5 20 23 8 Crawley Wasps 13 7 0 6 7 21 9 Keynsham Town 14 5 0 9 -41 15 10 Cardiff City 14 4 1 9 -7 12 * 11 Plymouth Argyle 13 4 0 9 -20 12 12 Milton Keynes Dons 14 2 2 10 -14 8 13 Chichester & Selsey 14 2 1 11 -36 7 14 Hounslow 13 0 0 13 -62 0

Think you are mistaken here, he was brought in to play in the B team, he was never expected to be 1st team this season. It was a mild surprise when he made the squad a couple of times but that surely indicated he was actually doing better than expected. Didn't make the Swansea team but that was due to circumstances with injuries, Covid and suspensions, reasonably sure some of the kids would have played otherwise. The B Team seem to have clicked now and doing well, though chances of promotion now are limited, so not too much to play for so a loan to get some competitive experience for the rest of the season makes a lot of sense. Why Carlisle though, very strange choice, thought somewhere more local would be better for keeping tabs on him or somewhere where we already have a player as seems to be the latest 'philosophy'. Also as others have noted, frees up a place for the Cheltenham lad.

Like me you never played in modern football footwear (I hesitate to call them boots). I wore them a bit when I was coaching kids, the problem is what we used to call studs. The blades they wear these days cause these cuts because they are sharp (blades). Mistimed tackles like Armstrong on Saturday will result I'd deep cuts like these, the tackles are no more reckless than in the old days, but the effects can look far worse. There was not an ounce of malice in Stu's tackle (I would suggest there is no malice in any of his tackles). Imagine Brian O'Neil or John McGrath in a pair of modern football footwear, complete amputations while you play. Laporte is obviously also a complete wooss, thank goodness Stu didn't tackle Pretty Boy.

Apart from Will Smallbone, Yan Valery, Nathan Tella, Harry Lewis and of course Theo Walcott. Of those Jack Stephens has the least claim to be an Academy graduate but technically he did join our Academy at 17 having already played a handful of League One games (5) for Plymouth. Smallbone is a "true" Academy graduate having joined when he was 8 years old, the same as JWP. The others joined at later ages and from other clubs but they are still academy boys. I think some people may be confused by Smallbone because he represents Ireland, but he is a "local" lad (born in Basingstoke).

Had forgotten until yesterday how much of a turd Pretty Boy Girlish is.

I assure you that was not condescending sonny (but that was if it makes you feel better). It was in the Echo and HL as I said.

Maybe having a different GK coach might have a bearing.

Absolutely. The logical conclusion to this is that because the failings were at Southampton Football Club, we should remove all references to the name of the Club at St Mary's and change the name of the club as well to avoid any reminders that this happened at this Club. That would go down well, what do you reckon, AFC Saints, New Forest Rovers, Freemantle City, Soton Town, Antelope Athletic. I'm torn, I don't know what I would prefer.

The problem with removing the statue of Ted, is that because he is the man rightly honoured and remembered for all that he did for the Club the action will make it seem that he is the main culprit in the disgusting activities of the paedophile, and actually associate Ted with those activities. Whereas there are (many) others who are equally, if not more guilty of ignoring these activities at the time who will not be damaged in this way because they are not honoured in the same way. The outsider will look at this and say, look they've removed the statue of Ted Bates, he must be as guilty as the paedo if they have removed the memorial, whereas as far as i understand his only "crime" was to do nothing. I'm not against removing statues of wrong doers, fully support what happened to Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, but this is wokeness gone mad. Ted Bates was a honest and honourable guy, who did so much for the Club and City, his crime is almost certainly that he only saw good in people and would not have thought these horrendous activities could have taken place; he was perhaps a little naive, but then who wasn't back in the 80s when these things were going on.

Social Media, Twitter, FB, etc. See article in the Athletic, Echo, Hampshire Live. If you are not seeing it you must live a very sheltered life.

If there is any truth in this then it cannot be allowed. Ted was one of the most honourable people around and to try to taint his memory with something to do with that disgusting man would be a travesty. I can't imagine the effect it would have on his daughter(s) (who incidentally are my cousins, but I don't actually know them). The world has gone mad and no one should support such an action.

The Premier League is run by an executive committee who make day to day decisions.

Even more disgusting that it hasn't yet been rescheduled. The PL have lost the plot.

Do we really want a player that made the Football365 Worst XI of the weekend? 😉 Along with Bednarek and Tella by the way.

I think they played a significant part of the game with 10 men, women, players (apparently they didn't). Difficult to be sure the twitter feed was useless, at one point showing the score as 0-0 but with the scorer named (the tweet was then deleted). The OS shows the game is in progress. Looks like Ipswich beat Hounslow (bottom of the table) by 9-0.

Would like to see Perraud get a goal, will do wonders for his confidence, he is certainly putting in the effort.

It was brought up weeks ago when Chelsea were bemoaning their lack of strikers and their "fans" were telling Tuchel that he ought to recall Broja. It is nothing new. As far as I understand it they cannot recall a loan without the permission of Saints (and Broja). I am just getting a bit concerned that we may have shown our hand too early this season and affected our chances of getting him long term or for another season without a significant impact on the price.

Did you throw it all over him? I think that's the only way that numbnut would be more bearable.