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talking of nicknames hows Wankersen these days?

To be fair we were shambolic in that 4 game run, after all the #scartissue from previous seasons you cant blame people for knee jerk reactions. If i remember rightly if we hadn't beaten Leeds we'd have made a worse start than the season under Portlvelt when we went down and were skint, not having more resources than most other teams in the league. Martin has proved everyone wrong, he's turned it round and we look a really good side. Lets see if we keep it up

funny you should say that the low block + the matador + the double pivot + the inverted full back has seen a direct attack drop by 0.79 to 3.13 this season, with a reduced speed to 1.41, i'm a huge fan of the matador but i'm not sure that with a double pivot is great for attacking football, but how was to be excited by that when there is so much else to analyse.

I think set up asymmetrically they'll go for a high block and try to get more turnovers in the red zone. They might utilise a number 10 in the offensive press then revert to inverted full backs with a low block when we have the ball in their half. This would be counter weight to when our full backs overlap. I expect them to try overloads where possible using a double pivot although i noticed when analysing Plymouths last few games they've gone for the matador approach in midfield which has created nice third man combinations. Whatever happens it's going to be one hell of a tactical battle.

last time i vouched for something Franniestache said i was accused of "arrogantly giving him my stamp of approval" so i'll chose my words carefully. FranniesTache is known and trusted to the CoT personally with good connections in the football world. If he says something is happening it usually does as has come from a very well placed source. He broke the news of the SR take over before it was even in the media for example. He is in the elite group of posters where we have a 100% hit rate on this forum with ITK news. We have a great chance now to create the mythical Kop end. Now watch all the Northam lot move to the chapel so they can be alongside the away fans again.

depends how you look at it. We’d have stayed up that season whoever was manager. I think we were 15th when he was sacked and finished 15th. Pochetino then only did one full season before fucking off for a better offer. In his only full season We finished 8th but got knocked out early in the cups. We might not have finished higher in the league and Poch is obviously a better manager but Adkins wouldn’t have fucked off to spurs and he also wouldn’t have told senior players to leave because the chairman was and he knew he was. Pochetino is obviously a better manager but what he achieved with other clubs is pretty irrelevant to what he did with us. there is a clear argument that Adkins was replaced by a better manager, you can’t argue that, but what’s arguable is long term did it really make that much difference to Southampton FC? Possibly only a few league positions. Also let’s not forget it was well known that Cortese tried to replace Adkins that summer with Di Matteo who has an a pretty unremarkable record despite winning the champions league being Lampard and Terrys and cos puppet at Chelsea. Again I was pretty well connected with Chelsea at the time and it’s fact they did well despite Di Matteo not because of him

I reported on here exactly what was going on behind the scenes at the time of course I got sneered at but it all turned out to be true. Adkins was a dead man walking soon as we lost at home to Reading in the championship. He knew, everyone at the club did too. He didn’t need to make silly quotes to show he was vulnerable, he I was probably the most popular manager we’ve had in 40 years, all except for one person who ultimately made decisions ruled by his ego

I agree. Just Martins comments about him and Fraser fighting if he doesn’t start soon made me think he’s planning it.

Looks like Fraser will start, same back 4, maybe Alcarez in for Armstrong; Fraser for edozie

When you say interesting……

Behave, I loved Adkins as much as anyone but that man in glass nonsense was cringeworthy

No, that was weird

quite an appetite you've got there chap.

i expect he cares about as much as any senior employee at a business anywhere in the world where they have zero connection too. He might like the owners, the colleagues and his staff, the ethos of the club and desperately want to do well. However he'll be here until gets a better offer from a better employee or wants a different challenge, or he gets sacked. He loved it at Swansea too but left when he got a better offer, that's how it all works. It doesn't make him a bad guy or disloyal, but people shouldn't really expect anything different to that.

dont luk sick on insta bruv

are you sure? Lots of potential for damaged knee ligaments if landing incorrectly.

time to expand?

i suspect this will come home to roost towards the end of the season when he doesn't have the energy and strength to stand on the touchline encouraging the players for 90 minutes. Right at the business end of the season he'll be too fucked due to the lack of protein in his diet to see us over the line.

Yep, this is true. In a recent interview he gave he said about how fractured the club was both with the players and behind the scenes. I like the way he speaks, a calmness with authority and confidence.

U.S. Women bring 'fun' and 'brave' perspective in 12-0 elimination loss to Wrexham in The Soccer Tournament - CBSSports.com At least they were brave and fun i guess.

I've not seen much criticism of his hair, beard, veganism or dress sense either recently, has he improved these things too?

He didn’t have much to do though. He is improving but he’s also playing behind a decent, organised defence. Harwood-Bellis is a superb player. He’s going to have a big future

Do you want to win the league or not!

Fully deserved. Nothing to fear from either of those teams. Going to be very difficult to catch Leicester anyway. Friday Leicester away to Cardiff, Ipswich home to QPR Leeds away at WBA so a decent chance to open a gap to Leeds, Cardiff away is never easy. you’d expect Ipswich to win. If we do the business again and results go our way we could be in a very good position Friday evening

We are better than both of these