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I’m not really surprised at these measures. The police will need to protect the skates and the best way would be to get the thousands of scummers inside the ground so the skates can walk around their own city safely. Don’t blame the club as my sources tell me that Pompeys firm leaders contacted the police anonymously asking for them to give the travelling saints fans the most stringent travel measures possible so they could be protected to avoid any further humiliation yet also gob off about what they would have done had they been got the chance. It’s a tough on saints fans but I guess keep them safe in their own city is of the upmost importance.

We lost away at Bournemouth as well in that run and we were terrible

He’s very good listened to his podcast quite a bit

It was ahead of its time really. No one had heard of futsal and I remember when he was here he was dismissed as a school teacher with a big ego. You’re right in what you say they should have stuck with it just being in the academy and not interfering with the first team. he’s a great guy Simon and you can’t argue with his methods. You can tell the kids in our area who have done his Brazilian Soccer school which is now run by his mate, if they stick with it they become very good technically.

Ben and Tondas Little Kingdom is coming on really well i hear.

It wasn't that bad a run, we lost 5 out 6, inc a 6-1 home loss v Liverpool in the league cup in a weird game where they seemed to score with every shot they had. There were rumblings though but never really serious ones, then we beat Arsenal 4-0 but then lost the three after before we went on an unreal run winning 12 of our last 18 games the rest of the season.

Clapping seals and the guy who asked the question nailed it, spine of the team is weak, it still is.

sounds like every transfer window. We've signed strikers the last 3 summers but none of them done the business for different reasons.

Interesting podcast with him here, worth 45mins if you're interested. talks about his time at Saints 20-25 minutes

Probably was back then. The decline started after Koeman left, Puel took a lot of the wrath for it but he got dealt a bad hand and did a very good job in the circumstances, i know some dont agree and will cite boring football etc but they also dont factor in he lost the two highest goalscorers from the previous season, Wanyama who was a key player and the second half of the season lost fonte and Van Dijk, i would question who else could have done a better job losing probably his 5 best players which were the spine of the team It's was death by a thousand cuts since then with a few periods of hope, when we went top under Ralph was great but always a false dawn. SR came in and this new dawn has been more of a disaster than any of us could have imagined. What baffles me about the club since 2016 is that despite it being clear that its has been failing for 10 years now, there is an arrogance about it that we do things differently and better than others.

And we signed a 5m 18 year old defender from our French 3rd tier cousins! The multi-club benefits just keep coming.

He’s fine for the championship

Joe Shields just like Wilcox has fallen up, also he looks scarily like the Oppenheim Bothers from Selling Sunsets, who are also both a pair of bellends

But we made a profit over all so as a player trading company it was a huge success

Great shout. Don Logan is a brilliant character superbly acted.