Midfield_General

Off you go then, let’s hear your original composition in E minor

When Edozie and Sulemana are fit again too that’s a ridiculous set of options at this level

Absolute class from Stu

Fuck knows what Mara is

Holgate and Mara having a thrilling personal duel to see who can look the least like a professional footballer

Absolutely all over the place, all over the pitch, from the keeper to the centre forward. Going out with a whimper at this rate.

The keeper left that. That’s insanely poor.

Is Hoedt normally their captain? Can't think of any player less well-suited.

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Not sure tbh… I just remember playing against him when he played for BRSA in the Tyro league and being in awe of how good he was when we were 13!

I'll see your Christer Warren and raise you: https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j99378.html

It was. He managed to make both a catastrophic error and an incredible wonder-save at the same time. Let a simple shot squirm away from him, then somehow dived backwards and clawed it away at a very difficult angle just as it was about to cross the line.

No, nothing new (just for the record)… just an allusion to the (alleged) past!

We've got form for ex-players getting in trouble for smuggling beak: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/colombia-midfielder-viafara-gets-11-years-on-us-drug-charge-colombia-texas-mexico-southampton-acting-b1825851.html Anyone seen Claus recently? (allegedly)

What’s really unfortunate is that his middle name is ‘Rammitup’ Poor lad

Bunch of whinging tarts on here. 71% possession to their 29% 10 shots to their 3 1 on target to their 0 8 corners to their 0 …away to a perfectly respectable mid-table side. Reading the comments on here you’d think we were getting murdered.

I got Kick Off for my Amiga 500 that year and used the kit and player names editor to create my all-conquering Saints team, which I named as that exact team. Chris Nicholl's 4-2-4 balls out insanity. It didn't always work by any means, but when it did - like smashing that Liverpool side with Grobbelaar, Hansen, Barnes, Beardsley and Rush in it, who had done the double a few years earlier - it was incredible. It was an amazing time to be a 14-year old Saints fan.

My first ever Saints game was when we beat QPR 5-1 at The Dell on the opening day of the 1986-87 season. Colin Clarke scored a hat-trick on his debut for us and instantly became my hero. Nick Holmes and Danny Wallace also got one each. They had a young David Seaman in goal. So in honour of that, we're going to win 5-1.

What exactly did he do that was taken as disrespectful to the other manager?

Great team performance. Adam Armstrong the stand-out, not just for the goals but for working his socks off, but special mentions to Charles, Manning and Aribo, three players who have (quite rightly) taken some stick in the past but who all put in a great shift today. Aribo in particular looked a different player to the one who's previously been strolling about. On another day that's five or six nil, against a perfectly respectable side. Best performance of the season so far for me.

I mean that would put anyone off, to be fair

The timing of our second goal absolutely floored them. We were a boxer on the ropes at that point, clinging on under a flurry of punches and then blam, sucker punch out of nowhere, put them on their arse. You could see it just completely deflated them. Love it.

Morph was a genuinely interesting one. Highly active around the takeover times, it felt like he was one of the key figures involved, or if not was being deployed by one to drip feed information on their behalf. Always dropping teasing little morsels, more than the average punter would know but never enough to give himself away. Posted sparingly enough that it didn’t feel like he was just a wind-up merchant or bullshitter (although he could have been for all I know), it always felt very targeted. Always very refined and careful with his posts too, until that time he got wasted and went on a rant about Andrew Cowan, of all people. Disappeared once we got bought, I think? All IMHO of course.

Grinding out a result away with a 93rd minute winner - so satisfying, whatever moans there might be about the performance.

You're so right! I think someone who's being paid to co-commentate and give their opinions throughout the game should just sit in silence for 90 minutes. Commentators commentating, I mean who do they think they are?