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If they can hold on then 14th place in the sixth tier knocking out current cup holders and 13th in the top division would be one of the biggest upsets ever surely? Even when Sutton knocked out Coventry I think they were only fifth tier

Has DH Gate got any Saints Go Wilde t-shirts left? They were well rad

The majority of which have been headers. We must be the only club in the world who buys a 6 ft 8 striker and then refuses to cross it to him. Then we replace him at no 9 with someone 5 ft 6 and spend half the season pumping it long to him in the air. You’ve got to love it

Or, apparently, setting a leadership example in the dressing room which is quite clearly a mess. At best he's not helping sort it, and at worst he's an active part of it. The opposite of what a captain should be doing.

Starting to make West Ham look shrewd

* Peretz goes straight into the team against Doncaster * * Has a shocker as hasn't played in 3 years * * Club issues a formal apology for ever doubting Bazunu and restores him to the first team vs. Middlesbrough where he stays until he retires in 2037 *

Called it - out by £500k, close enough Now for the hunky target man

Literally no-one is doing that

I'd argue that, as captain for most of that time, it was very much his responsibility to stop that from happening, which he utterly failed to do. He was meant to be a leader but has shown no proper leadership at all. He's a perfect symbol of the massive decline in standards in all areas of the club under SR, a massive part of the problem, and needs to go along with Manning, Downes, THB and all the other arrogant, entitled, failures who have been stinking the place out for way too long. Sick of the lot of them.

No no no, he cried in front of the cameras two years ago, that's what really matters and shows just how much the club means to him, and we should all just lay off him because he's such a super dooper guy who bleeds red and white you know, he's feeling it just as much as we do and is just so determined to put it right like he would if he was in a trench in WW1 which is exactly the same as getting paid £40k a week to kick a football around

Daniel Peretz: Weaknesses Aerial Defence His biggest vulnerability is in aerial situations; he does not challenge often for aerial balls and appears to lack comfort in this area. 👍 👍 👍

Put Baz up top. When he's gone up for corners he has genuinely offered more threat than Downs ever did. Scored in a friendly I think, and hit the bar in a cup game or something like that? Stuart Pearce used to chuck David James on as CF off the bench for the last 10 minutes when he managed Man City. Problem solved

Plus the open goal he somehow managed to miss in pre-season Some of the reasoning around those really were SaintsWeb at it's finest On a par with some of the mental gymnastics that still goes on to try and refuse to acknowledge that Baz is fucking rubbish as well Glorious stuff

And an exciting 21-year-old prospect as well, exactly what we need to steady the ship

Motor insurance firms all across Southampton breathe a sigh of relief

Oliver Bierhoff at the back, lining up the Aftershocks

He'll be 'replaced' by Stewart, who is nearly fully recovered and will be considered ready to play three games a week again starting in in two weeks time

Yep, he’s shit and has been deservedly punted after 4 months, which shows we can be fairly ruthless. Makes you wonder why Bazunu has been given 4 years and counting though, when he’s basically Downs in keeper form. Those nudes he’s got of Rasmus must be quite something.

He missed a training session but their coach came out and said that it was because a flight that he was meant to be on was cancelled outside of his control and he couldn't get back in time, he hadn't refused to train. Whether that's true or not is another thing, but that's what the Hamburg coach said.

Yeah someone needs to explain to Nick what the word 'cryptic' means. Alfie has gone onto a public platform and literally said 'I think the culture is rotten, too many people have been here for too long', then listed a specific group of players by name and said 'I'd replace everyone else. Complete culture reset' and 'happy to keep [Armstrong] as long as ALL the other lot in that clique go'. Gosh, how cryptic, whatever can he possibly mean with his mysterious, enigmatic words?

If it was 'Nam, he'd wait until his back was turned, whisper to Manning to pass him a grenade, and then frag him

Or the Saints job

West Brom, who are two points below us, sack Mason: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/06/west-brom-sack-ryan-mason-as-head-coach I wonder if Russ might fancy that one now? They spoke to him before he went to Rangers I think, and he might be a little less picky now, although apparently their supporters already hate him because of something to do with when we beat them in the play-off semi. Hasenhuttl and Still also both being talked up as possibilities. A lot of their fans sound like they'd be fairly happy with Still. Rusty, not so much. Randomly taken but fairly representative quote: 'If it's that floppy-haired fuck it's time to pack it in and take up fishing.'