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Downes keeps on making crap fouls when he doesn’t need to. Quarshie constantly poorly positioned. Used all our luck up with the shot off the post back to Bazunu.

Well played Saints. Great cross, lovely header Jay Robinson. 😀

‘Best fans in the world’ turn out not to be so again. Entitled Scouse twats.

Be careful - we had a shot first half that I thought had gone in the goal but hit the back of the net from behind…you don’t want that, or do you…😉😁😁

Wow - what an end to our first match. St Mary’s really was rocking - fab feeling to get a late win when quite honestly I’d have taken a point at 1-0 down in the 90th minute… Said to my lad - “that’s why you should never leave a game early..”. He gets that now! My take on it - We still are terrible at the back. So badly organised - how many free headers did Wrexham get? Why can we not man mark at set pieces? Will Still needs to sort this out urgently. We are also so clumsy - Wrexham could easily have had a second pen when Stephen’s had his hand on their players shoulder and he went down. Baz was excellent - game winning save late on - fair play to him - carried on his pre season form - long may it continue 🤞. Armstrong and Fraser up front was a terrible idea - balls over the top with their dwarfen status was never ever going to work. Absolutely must have a target in the box (Stewart or Downs) if we are getting crosses in. Gives us an option we certainly lacked until changes made later in second half. Young Robinson was energising, always willing to take a run at them and take them on. Good to see, coaches need to work on first time shots with him - seemed to always take an extra touch when a first time shot would have been the better option. Great prospect, exciting to see him start. Clear that fitness has improved! Wrexham were knackered last 10 and we looked energised. Great to see that improvement over last season where we were always looked more unfit than every opponent. Fraser and Armstrong worked hard, on another day Arma could have had a couple of goals - some lucky/inspired defending saved Wrexham a few times. (Coady looked decent for them - the sort of experienced and decent CB who can organise and help younger players). Shea Charles won that game for us!! how - his fab block tackle on Kiefer Moore which saw him go off. We couldn’t deal with him at all - should have just man marked him with Quarshie - who at least could outpace him if he got beaten in the air. Edwards was lost against him - always tugging his shirt and giving away cheap fouls. Obvious to me that it was a mismatch. Thank you Saints for making football great again yesterday!! 😀😀😀

As Everton have signed Dewsbury-hall from Chelsea for ~£24 million that may not now happen I’m guessing?

As he is not signing a new contract, if no ‘big six or euro giants’ are interested, what then? Personally I don’t believe he has shown enough for a big move, and is no way worth £35 million with his performances so far. But it’s not my money, and if Everton or whoever think he is worth that then show us your money. Football has become a disheartening sport, money is all anyone ever talks about now. Never about results/aims/fans. Look at posts on this forum. Posters on about resale value, rarely about making the first team stronger. Any signings we make should be first team starters, not ‘prospects’ we have a squad full of failed ‘ones for the future’, ‘unpolished gems’ and all that nonsense talk. I would like to have thought Sports Republic will have learnt their lessons last season - If a signing isn’t improving the first team, don’t bother signing them. I don’t know when football fans outlooks changed, but in the late ‘80s when I started watching Saints, resale value etc etc was not a thing, it was just is he any good, better than what we had?! I don’t care if a player is young/older - is he any good? Is he better than what we have in the first 11. Sooner we look at quality rather than resale value the better. I want to watch Saints win games, not care about future values/wages/depreciation/XG or the other shit Fans seem to now worry about stuff as though they own the team. Rant over, I must just be getting old and cynical with a sport that now seems to be about ££££ rather than kicking a ⚽️ into a goal.

Bad back from picking the ball out of the net?

You really are his agent or brother to be so one way aligned 😡 He was part of the 2nd worst premier league team ever, conceding 80+ goals. He is one of the reasons our defence is so shite. He is mid championship level ability wise for a reason. Concentration/ability. Prem players consistently put in 7/10 games. Jack is a 5/10 player on average in the top flight. He is one of the reasons we aren’t good enough. Yep he can put in a 7/10 every few games. He has no consistency which is why he will never be good enough for the prem league. Say what you want, wearing saints on his sleeve is admirable, but not enough if you are rank average at best. We should be aiming higher, and I am disappointed that is our apparent ambition level. I ❤️ saints and would give 100% if I played for them. But I’m shit. Jack is mid championship level standard and we have given rank average a 3 year deal. That is noddy thinking. Sorry, you big him up all you like, he’s a champ average standard player, and if our aim is prem this season it is a 100% shit signing. Literally no one else would sign him. Must be a free mason thing…

Yes, and as a player in his last year of contract I was rather hoping that as we are trying to reduce squad size and move the dead wood on, that he would either leave for peanuts to a lower championship side, or play this coming season and we aren’t renewing his contract. Easy. KWP wouldn’t sign a new deal but he has been a fantastic servant and will find himself a new club and tidy signing on fee, because he is going to be wanted. Stephens was/is unlikely to be wanted by anyone, so why the hell give him a 3 year deal. He is absolutely the type of player that we should have let go. IMHO of course.

I genuinely (although foolishly) thought Jack and Will Smallbone are both out of contract in a years time, they’d stay this season, help get us promoted as the championship is their level, and we would say thanks, go find yourself new clubs next summer. But no. We give Jack a 3 year contract. WTAF are they doing? He is not good enough in the top flight. So we are stuck with him for another 3 years. Genuinely you couldn’t make it up. I am at a loss to see how the club management see this as the way forward. 🤡’s.

Mario Lemina hands down the winner. Potentially decent player, total tool as a human being.. Arrogant, easy to not like, infuriating that he had talent, but could not be arsed to bother trying to use it. Total and utter prick.

Wrexham of league 1 last season vs saints probably unchanged pretty much of the Prem and people talk as if it’s Real Madrid we are playing. 😡. We play well and we will beat them, end of. What a bunch of melts some of you are ☹️. We should be good enough to be top 3 no problem.

Apparently the weird pattern is lifted from a Huntley and Palmers biscuit tin - why Reading are the biscuit men, used to make biscuits there!

I don’t know who you are alluding to, but the premier league is an awful lot tougher to score in than the Championship…

In those 28 games many were for a few minutes off of the bench. He played 1045 minutes in the premier league. Equivalent of just under 12 full games. 4 goals in 12 doesn’t seem so bad… As with all statistics, make of them what you want. I personally think he would score a decent amount of goals in the championship, as he has in Turkey. We already own him, so worth keeping?

Saints 4 Arsenal 0. Boxing Day game under Koeman. 28% possession for Saints. Possession is a stat you can shove up your arse when it achieves very little. At no point sat watching this game was it boring, nor did it feel like we never saw the ball. I’m hoping Will Still’s style will be similar 🤞🤞

Get in there Stewart 👌

Nice feet from Robinson 👏

I get your sentiment here - every manager has some kind of philosophy, even if they aren’t preaching it publicly. However, the Pep and Russel Martin possession way of playing may or in RM’s case may not be successful. More to the point, I believe the issue that fans have with it is that it is a very slow and turgid, boring even, method of play. City V Saints and V Palace were so slow and dull. How many times as a City fan would you be saying for Christ sake shoot during a game. But no, another statistic pass will do instead. It’s a boring style of play. This season City and obviously Saints as a City very light tribute team got found out and that style was pretty effectively thwarted by teams. As a style a high press energetic fast break style of play is far more exciting to watch. Of course it can be countered, but that is where the pragmatic manager changes things during a game to help his team overcome tactical obstacles. This is where the RM and even Pep ‘philosophy’ falls down. It’s my way or the highway, it WILL work and we will continue to do exactly the same thing every game. That is what football fans don’t like. We can see it isn’t working, but the manager’s philosophy is etched in stone and he simply will not change it. Hence RM sacked. Championship - just about got away with his philosophy. Premier league with inadequate players up against good players, no chance. Most Saints fans could see this style simply would not work. It is now so ingrained that the players we have can’t seem to run, play fast passes, press, or last 90 minutes. Unfit, at top flight level is unforgivable, but they sure look the least fit team in the league. Whoever the next manager is I hope has a ‘pragmatic’ style and sets up differently for each match based on the opposition we are playing, not some rigid fixed unchangeable system…

Aribo with an attempt at a shot that he completely fucks up. Still no shots today 😡

Nice one Rusk. Play with no striker. No shots in the entire half and 2 down playing the most defensive shit ever. Everton aren’t even playing well. Absolute shit show of a performance. Change it now, coz you can’t make it worse. Abject.

Liverpool fans giving TAA a torid booing. Bunch of entitled twats. Real Madrid are a bigger more successful club. Fact. Can’t blame him for giving it a go. * PS now you know what it feels like when a bigger team poaches your players - shit isn’t it. 😂😂😂😂

Ruben Dias meltdown because we didn’t want to play properly - what an absolute 🤡. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15ppTExzXu/?mibextid=wwXIfr Hope they lose next week to Palace and end the season with nothing. Entitled nob jockeys. Plus a relegation to league 2 for fiddling the books for years.

Why? Why change the left back with minutes to go? Especially one as shit 💩 as Manning..