vectraman

Good 1-0 win. Two clean sheets in a row. Very workmanlike, no frills win. 3 points more important than the performance. On to Bolton now, who will provide a stiff challenge.

If seeing this over your front garden fence can’t make you feel happy nothing can! I love the Donks in the Forest 😀

I think it’s tin pot and embarrassing. A brass band at a football match in 2026. No thanks.

Took my lad today, saw his first ever Pompey derby. We won, we outsang the blue mutants all match. I said beforehand as long as we win, I don’t care what the game is like, we did and I don’t. Well deserved Saints, fuck off Pompey

Can’t fault your optimism!!

Warning! **This may be an unpopular view ** If we had done the right thing and sacked Tonda last season, none of this would matter. Gross misconduct in any business is sacking time. But not Saints. I didn’t want him as manager, cheap option. However I changed my mind and was very impressed with his progress, got us to the play offs from a terrible position at Christmas. Great job done. For what he instigated (and has admitted to), the money it potentially cost us not playing the final, and the ongoing saga of 301 pages about ‘spy gate’, it could all have been forgotten if we’d sacked him. New manager appointed pre season, no press interest as Tonda was gone, media pressure off, get on with getting out of this league. Now it could fuck this season up as well, amateur management Saints, amateur.

Bloody hell! Just looked at last nights scores and saw this… As I am not an Israel football expert, I didn’t realise they had another D Peretz play for them!

Royal Mail. What has happened to a once great British institution ? I posted a birthday card to my sister, second class post, on the 6th September for her birthday on the 10th. It arrived on September 19th, after a colossal journey of 10 miles from Landford post office to Ringwood. Useless, incompetent and mis-managed beyond belief.

Smash the skates and this will be long forgotten. One of those games where we should have won, didn’t take our chances, and paid the price. It happens.

Come on Saints - 2-1 win incoming 🤞🤞

There is still another international break from 9th to 17th November, so not sure this is ‘saving’ an international break? I definitely don’t remember having 3 breaks before Christmas. Boring as….

Great result saints 🥅⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ I’ve now missed Swansea and Bristol being smashed, as I’m in St Lucia on holiday. Maybe I should just stay here and guarantee Saints win every game..😁

This is exactly the issue. Mubama is clearly not a big ‘target man’ in the Larin style. He is a forward who wants to run into space onto through balls (as per his goal v Stoke). He has pace, and can finish if he gets a decent chance. Tonda needs to adapt the way the team play to suit his playing style. Azaz and Scienza are more than capable of threading through balls into him through the defence. We shouldn’t be writing the young man off just yet, play to his strengths and you never know, he might just be decent. Punting long balls up the pitch to him with his back to goal is never going to work, so no point in trying it. If we wanted another Stewart/ Larin style player we should have signed one. Clearly Spors didn’t, so signed Mubama. Not what I think we needed but I’m not the sporting director and he is! * as a footnote, I don’t really understand why we loaned Archer out as we have no real back up striker if Larin or Mubama get injured.

Their big lump who came in up front.

It is Tonda’s weird going to 5 at the back by bringing on a 3rd CB that he does thinking it’ll shore the defence up. It doesn’t work, never does work, and he should know by now it doesn’t work. If you want to tighten up bring an extra defensive midfielder on instead. Bragg on instead of Edozie, make it difficult for the opposition to get space. Very poor in game choices by Tonda today.

Surely he’ll be putting the cones away as back up back up, our back up puts them out 😉. God forbid Peretz gets injured and we have to play Long in goal for any length of time 🫣

I think you are being unfair on Ramsdale here. Saints wanted him off the wage bill, so were desperate to move him anywhere. His performances were very decent for us in the top flight - particularly games at home to Brighton and Villa spring to mind as he prevented a mauling rather than a 4-0 and 3-0 defeat. Let’s not re-write history and make out Ramsdale was a bad egg - we all knew he would leave if we went down as we could never afford his wages in the championship. He was a decent keeper for us, certainly doesn’t deserve pelters from fans.

What a performance Saints. Speed of movement, getting forward quickly, off the ball running - night and day better than previous 4 games 👏👏👏

Well done Tom Fellows - finally you’ve got one ⚽️

I’m not sure that was on target without Matsuki’s touch. OG?

Hopefully I’m wrong, but I can see Millwall overpowering us with their physicality and getting a 2-1 win.

Boro score but miles offside. Goal obviously given

He does. He is a legend in his own imagination.

Tonda’s actions brought the club into disrepute, drew negative media coverage across the world onto Southampton FC and cost them potentially ~£120 million in revenue by not contesting the playoff final. Any other big business in the world would have fired him for gross misconduct and moved on. New manager, new start, media pressure goes away, team can get on with the new season. For whatever reason we didn’t fire him, he still may get banned, so we‘d have to replace him anyway, but mid season, where the new manager can’t change personnel. Personally I think it is a seriously flawed decision, and we will struggle to shake off the negative stigma he brings until he does leave. We will never know what really was going on, but my suspicion is we had been ‘spying’ on a lot more teams than the three we owned up to. I believe if we had said yes, we monitored these 17 teams, of which we had won 12 games, the points deduction would have been massive and almost certainly relegated us. My personal opinion based on no facts. We are where we are, Tonda needs to sort the on field problems out (slow plodding football), whilst the recruitment team sort the player recruitment out. Big season, remain very unconvinced Solak made the right call not firing Tonda. We shall see….

Just got back from the game - a nice and unexpected 3 points as the game looked to be ending in a 1-1 draw. Performance wise, pretty poor in all honesty. First 10 minutes up to Cyle’s well taken goal were decent. Rest of the first half and most of the second were quite honestly awful. Really turgid, slow, boring football. Nobody seemed to want to run, awful slow passing out from the back going nowhere, no one could make a decisive pass either. It really was boring sat watching it. For me Matsuki and Fellows were decent, at least looked like they were trying to make things happen. Stephens was okay and solid, Woods looks like a mechanical toy, everything is so slow and methodical with him. Maybe lack of match practice and his thinking and touch will speed up a bit. Scienza was a million miles off the game and seemed a shadow of his self. Last 7 minutes were obviously very good! Mubama looked sharp, quick, and took his chance nicely. Well done him - more of the same please. Dobbin also injected some pace, I believe he will also become important for us this season. Credit to Tonda for the subs, won us the 3 points. Downes was very good again, but he needs a proper DM partner in midfield with him. Hopefully Jander isn’t too far away - we so need him back. Azaz was looking to make through passes (eg for Cyles goal) but so little movement ahead of him. Players all seemed sluggish and lethargic to me. Not sure what happened with their goal, we seemed to have enough bodies back but they appeared unmarked in the middle of the box ( no replay shown at the ground for their goal). So great result, about 17 minutes of excitement and 70 odd minutes of pedestrian, boring crap. Tonda has got to get them moving the ball forward quicker, making runs into space to stretch the opposition. We will need to be much better v Millwall next week, Stoke were pretty limited and came close to nicking a point, which shows how much we need to improve. Anyway, onwards and upwards 🤞🤞