washsaint

We get most of the games here in the US as, for some reason, Saints are typically chosen by ESPN+ as the live game most weeks (or so it feels).

I don;t - watching the snoozefest that is West ham vs Everton and the quality is non-existent and teams play not to lose rather than to win. This year we have won more games already than we managed all of last season. We have already nearly scored as many goals as we did last season. We go into games knowing that we have a chance of winning in every game. Proper fans and proper stadiums. Yes, we know the money implications of not being in the Prem are significant (as is holding on to the better players) but I do feel the Championship is far more fun and interesting. The Premiership is over-hyped and only a handful of sides can truly be competitive because of the financial advantage they have.

Brilliant! Not sure on any conspiracy theories - just think he's a bit rubbish!

Oh, you mean like we wipes the floor with Leeds the week before. Loads of self entitle numpties on here these days. Totally disrespectful to Rotherham, especially their keeper who had a blinder and likely will never play that well again. We will win some, lose some and draw some. Yes, the style of walking football is baffling at times but the hatred - yes hatred - spewed at certain players and the manager is disgusting. Face it, its a game of soccer, not life and death.

Sh**e club, sh**e players, s***e manager. The whole nonsense of buying and loaning man city players is ***E. Bellingham looks as bad as Holgate. Yet none of our own youngsters can get a look in. Done with this club

Scored twice for Reading tonight + 2 assists. Yet we persist with strikers who could not score in a brothel and are bereft of talent. Yet another shameful decision by the club - why would any youngster stay at Saints when crap like tonight are always played? Mind you, with this clown in charge he'd probably play Dom at CB

Best wishes to you and your family @Whitey Grandad. Puts football into perspective, really not that important

Obviously it is very, very early days and the team needs to bed in before sweeping judgements can be made but some initial observations: 1) Downes looked awful yesterday. Hopefully it was rustiness/being played out of position and he improves 2) Holgate. Nothing to say but appears an utterly dreadful footballer. Everton fans appear to have been right. Just hope it was rustiness/getting used to the team 3) Manning. Not sure if it is the system or him but can't seem to defend particularly well 4) Ryan Fraser. Hailed as the new messiah based on a subs appearance but completely anonymous yesterday (but then so were all Saints players) 5) Russell Martin. No Plan B and strange selections, players out of position, etc. We got away with it in early games but not yesterday. Easy to see how we could become very easy to play against Add to that, the serial failures such as Mara and Stuart Armstrong (why? Why not have given Ballard or Doyle an opportunity instead of loaning Ballard out or at least play Mara as a striker?) On paper, we should have the strongest squad in the division but some early worrying signs. Hopefully over the next month or so everything gels.

Should never have been signed - you only have to listen to Everton fans to know he is not a footballer. but he was far from being alone in being utter s***e today. Every player was

Holgate is utter shite. Mara starting.. why? Not good enough. Could sub all 11, terrible.

Holgate looks utter shite

What a F****** awful signing. Major attitude issue and cobblers since he downed tools at Bournemouth. If he's a replacement for tella who has 2 years left that is a f****** disgrace.

And 2 wins - feels strange winning more games than we lose! Much better feeling than we have had to put up with for several years now. Championship is deffo more fun and first time in over 3 years we have won 2 on the bounce away from home. Now we just need to pick up good from at home and could be a cracking season.

The 2 Armstrong have been awful as has Edozie. Zero attacking threat

Apparently Boscombe have bid 13 million for Che - bite their hand off.

3 youngsters started. the others are seasoned pros and are showing, yet again, they are just not good enough. How McCarthy ever gets a game is beyond me. Embarrassing and the honeymoon period did not last long!

Nope, he said players and staff - I';m sure they have some female staff

To be honest, who really cares? Despite the continuous virtue signaling saying how womens football is more exciting, how it's so popular, etc. - it really isn't and is a sub par product compared to mens football. Same can be true of most sports simply because of the genetic differences. And before I get shouted down, then why are so many womens sports up in arms about transgender individuals being allowed to play womens sports (and destroying the true female field)? I wish that mens and womens sports simply were not compared to each other - they are so different. It's fantastic that womens sport has more coverage now and encourages participation but it cannot be compared. The number of teams in this World Cup is ridiculous and dilutes any real competition.

yeah, canceled here in the US too. I thought Jacob was an excellent writer and wrote some tremendous articles. Bit disappointing as he stated a few weeks back he was 100% staying on covering Saints full time. This was before the New York Times sacked all their sports reporters and are getting the AThletic staff to cover. Forgot to say I was canceling after my last special offer and got auto charged $75 for the year. That's $75 back now despite being offered a year at $24

That Athletic article, as ever, is well written and does not mention any "fire sale" but simply states those likely to stay and those who are likely to leave with possible transfer targets added to the mix.

Listening to Selles the club have been hugely disrespectful to him. If what he says is true and that no-one at the club has told him about Martin then this reflects really badly on the club. But then I think we all know the club has gone downhill big time since SR took over and the connection between fans and the club is now tenuous at best. Deeply unprofessional the way they have treated Selles (he is not the right man to take us forward but has tried his best when no-one wanted to touch us with a ten foot barge pole). Our club is in a really dire position and SR have proven to be an utter disaster to this point.

Sounded like lots of boos from the poor Saints fans who have had to watch this s*** show

Get Ballard and Doyle on for Eli and Aribo who are an absolute f***** disgrace to this club

LOL McCarthy and Lyanco - utter garbage. Why the hell is McCarthy playing if he won't (hopefully) be here next season. We really are pathetically bad

Maybe re. Ballard and Doyle, but we're never going to know if they are not tried. COuld they be any worse than the w****rs Eli or Aribo?