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Yes we were, think it was Koeman actually. He was on our secret list of managers we’ve tracked for ages honestly we have. The fact he was unemployed at the time had nothing to do with it

Great to see saints fans taking photos of Chelsea players celebrating in front of them 🙄

I prayed everyday for vaccine and my prayers were answered. Thank you lord.

Spot on. take each game in isolation the only poor result was wolves. Two good results against the Manchester clubs, expected losses at Everton and Chelsea. We’ve played 5 of the top 7 in our first 7 games so in reality 4 points isn’t a bad return. However it does put pressure in these games now to get a few points on the board the longer we go without a win the more of a monkey on our back it becomes. We should be looking at 10 points or more from the next 5 games.

God bless you mate that’s horrendous. So sorry to hear this. Let’s hope the 2nd opinions bring some more positive news 🤞

Also if Chelsea do buy him back it’ll only cost them £38m due to a sell on clause of any profit

Singer from Southampton band the delays passed away this afternoon after a long battle with cancer. Such a young age too, leaving behind 2 young kids. I knew Greg at school and was a top lad. RIP Greg.

No I said in the last 5 years we’ve been good for about 6 months. The rest of the time it’s not exactly been the watching fast free flowing football you’re claiming it is

I rest my case. It isn’t sport when it because all about money

We did, but there is also a bit of rose tinted glasses going on here. I remember lots of moaning about Pochetino having no plan B, not being able to beat a team when they score first. Funnily enough despite the much lauded pressing game we played under him i dont remember the players being knackered by half time so we were crap in the second half, something that is put down as the reason for our second half peformances. We also played so good stuff under Koeman, the last ten games or so in our 6th placed finish were some of the best of seen. But there were also times when we were awful, a 10 games poor run and some fans were calling for his head. Since then aside for a period last year we've been pretty crap. So basically what your saying is that in the last 5 years we've had about 6 months of fast attacking football.

when was this? Guess you've also forgotten about some of the football we played in league one and the championship, we were a joy to watch at times.

Really?!!! The championship and league one were three of the most enjoyable seasons in 38 years of following Saints. I guess not everyone goes just to watch Saints

Why is it a privilege?

Is it sport when you start every season where the only aim is to scramble enough points together to stay in a competition you have no chance of winning? Where all the odds are stacked hugely in the favour of the clubs with the most money and where most of the owners of clubs are only interested in how much profit they can make? You have your reasons for watching football and to be fair these days going to a match for me is either going to my local league two club as my son is in their academy or going to watch saints to catch up with some old friends with a day out on the beers. For most people i know quite often the football, despite being what brought us together, was often the worst part of the day, as for a club like Saints we have little chance of being competitive in this so called sport.

There haven't been any new variants for a while which is a surprise given the amount people have been travelling of late. Although i guess with the fuel scaremongering and energy bills skyrocketing there is enough bad news for the media to revel in for now.

Just being part of a league isn’t something that is a wonderful achievement. Well it is if all you care about is being part of the brand. I think it’s boring as fuck and not what sport should be, certainly it wasn’t why anyone of my age group fell in love with game. I’m sure there will be people telling me how it’s not the 80s anymore and must move with the times that the premier league is the place to be and not being in it will damage our finances but if you think that then you're a football consumer not a saints fan.

A stadium 3/4 full with people paying top whack just to enjoy being part of the premier league is what they want and it's what they've got.

Is that the aim then? Survival is sucess?

Not sure it's a positive message, it's an anti negative message. A positive message would have been "Welcome in Southampton LGBT+" "Southampton embraces our LGBT+ Friends" Whilst well intentioned it sends out more of a negative spin in that it's saying what people shouldn't do, not what they should do. In truth it's entry level marketing, not punchy enough and doesn't really resonate with it's intended audience.

A service based diversity business is an absolute money spinner. Much like the health and safety paranoia that sets in with every company after a disaster means they’ll spend a fortune on these sort of things to appear to be doing the right thing. When I set up my diversity consultantancy business not only will be take full advantage of this gap in the market we would name and shame every company who we approach who refused to deal with us, claiming they are not interested in diversity. I reckon the sun or mail would be pay a fortune for a list of companies and individuals who declined to work with a company specialising in diversity and promotion of equal rights and pay for all groups.

Just in case anyone had forgotten we now have a permanent reminder 👏👏👏👏

Don’t apologise pal. My services aren’t required on this thread as you’re showing yourself up nicely without me

Such a shame you can’t post anything without being patronising. Clearly rattled

What about in a 4-4-2 with diamond shape midfield? You have what is called a number 10 then. Am I a genius who has just invented a way of playing a 4-4-2 with a number 10 or is it b, it has been around for decades.

Okay mate you carry on believing that every new variation of a formation or tactic is some groundbreaking new discovery taking football to a level Never seem before. LOL