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Oh hello!!!

Edozie and Larin to link up and score a winner.

Why do we continue to just pack the 6-yard box at corners? It's fucking suicidal.

Yep. And it's going to be a really shit goal from a defensive blunder.

He Armstronged it.

Adam and Jo are obviously not enthralled by what's happening on the pitch.

Oh yeah. I was at that game as well 🤦

I'm trying to think when was the last time we scored a header from an open-play cross? Seems like we've just been utterly incapable of that for many years now.

Oh unlucky Stewart. Couldn't control it.

Shame cos he was doing really well. But it's good to have a player as good as Charles to replace him.

Downes is having a great game.

Good jump from Welington to deflect a cross away from the waiting striker. Never seen Manning do that.

Has that changed since yesterday then? https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25833594.southampton-forward-miss-watford-roerslev-sees-specialist/

It goes beyond disingenuous. Anybody who, knowing all this, still repeatedly refers to her as 'he' just to make a point is, frankly, a bit of a cunt.

Constant "How did your Evri courier do?" emails. He rang the doorbell, I opened the door, and he handed me the package. I don't really know what else there is to say.

I'm struggling to remember any notable wins against them. They seem to be a bit of a bogey team for us, in my mind at least. Of course there was the fastest PL goal of all time from Shlong, but we still didn't win that game. Other than that I can only really remember going there on Boxing Day around 2005/6 and them tonking us 3-0, and then that time pre-VAR when Doucoure got a late equaliser by punching the ball into the net.

How are the ticket sales looking for this game? I saw they are offering us cheap tickets so is it likely to sell out before getting to members next week?

Yep. Wild swings of the bat are SR's specialty.

Probably have to go back to the days of Dusan Tadic, before he went off the boil (for us at least).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyr9pgnl20o BBC have got us down as one of the transfer window's losers. The last paragraph is pretty damning... Success, of sorts, did come with Taylor Harwood-Bellis remaining at St Mary's amid significant Premier League interest. Losing the defender and striker Adam Armstrong, who joined Wolverhampton Wanderers, would have been considerably damaging, irrespective of the financial compensation because Southampton still seem to be fixed on a run at the play-offs. But it is hard to square that particular circle when the simple equation is that they have subtracted their top goalscorer, who went into the window requiring support, to replace him with 30-year-old Cyle Larin, who has never played in England and last scored in double figures in the 2020-21 season for Besiktas. Daniel Peretz has addressed issues between the posts, while fees for peripheral figures Ronnie Edwards and Armel Bella-Kotchap were good business decisions and trim a bloated squad to an extent, but does any of it speak of obvious improvement with reference to trying to reach the top six? If Larin is a bona fide hit, these words will prove irrelevant, but for a club that once upon a time wrote the rule book for measured but also progressive recruitment, it is a slightly wild swing of the bat which feels like it could go drastically wrong, more so than it could go right.

Wasn't that Adams? It all stemmed from someone pointing out when we signed him that a lot of the goals in his highlights reel were scuffed.

It goes back longer than that. There was plenty of incompetence and corruption in John Major's government. It's one of the main reasons they lost the 1997 election so heavily.

The Met have now launched a criminal investigation into Mandelson.

Well let's hope he has a Killer instinct in the box.

Initial bid. Doesn't mean we won't go back with an improved offer.