Tommy Mulgrew

But, in our team, Bazunu has almost as many touches as Bednarek, who is consistently among the most frequent touchers of the ball we have. No jokes please.

So boring, frustrating and unsatisfactory. Slow, ponderous build-up play that almost guarantees 10 Coventry players behind the ball waiting for us to recycle the ball back into our half again and again. Possession for the sake of it and no goal threat whatsoever, except at the wrong end, where Manning leaves acres of space for the opposition to run into. When are we ever going to run at the opposition and make swift incisive passes to forwards running into spaces? If we continue playing like this we shall not get promoted in a million years.

Where’s Alexy - you know, Lawy innit - with his pressy summary? He’s never here when you want him to be and always is when you don’t.

Last sentence: why do you (and some others) continually have to be so aggressively antagonistic against many of our players? They play for the team we allegedly support.

1:1 after extra time and we lost on penalties. Good competitive game. We played Russball and did it well.

I wonder what our equivalent stats are and whether the conclusions that could reasonably be inferred from them match our empirical observations/collective wisdom.

England women showing how to get the ball in the net: four goals before half-time.

Baldwin of Notts County should be our top priority in January!

CA and AA to knock them in like Lambert and Guly in our Championship season, CA to carve them open like Lallana and SC to control the midfield with pace, grace and elegance like Schneiderlin. Now that would be satisfying.

What about the game v Liverpool last year? His save v Salah was world-class.

At present, I think that I am the one being ground down.

I see that Reading and Tranmere won. But Ballard was injured early in the first half for Reading and went off. I hope it is not a serious injury. Just seen the DB thread; suspected ACL … ouch. Hope he fully recovers from it.

I’m with Charlie. Maya is an excellent man by all accounts, with a genuinely laudable character and personality. He has over 100 caps for Japan, more than 90 while a Saint. He was in the team of the tournament at one of the World Cups in which he has competed while a Saint. (He could even be described as the Bobby Moore or Bobby Charlton of Japan: he was the Japan captain for many years and captained them to their best World Cup performance.) He had well over 100 EPL appearances here. He is a consummate professional and I believe he was one of the fittest and fastest players of his time at St Mary’s. A thoroughly admirable role model for any young player, surely. And one of my favourite Saints players of recent years.

Entrup was one of three subs, (as was Danso), who came on in the 89th and 90th minutes and played 7 minutes of extra time. Sakaria remained on the bench. We must have learned a lot! What a waste of time and money. None of the players had a double-barrelled surname so it truly was a wasted journey. One was called Posch and another Tah, though. Why do we wait until a year after RH has gone before we are interested in Austrian players?

“Scouts will be at Austria v Germany tomorrow.” why?

And he thinks GB is MOTM, too.

Smallbone’s knock and Che’s groin; hmmm. Are they by any chance related?

In injury time, Christ scores his first goal for the Millers to give Rotherham a point and take two potential points away from Ipswich. Tiehi must be a Saint. The chase is on.

Time for Sully to step up and recreate Boufal’s strike against WBA from a few seasons ago. Now, that would be really satisfying. We’ll probably need more than one goal, though, so Charlie and Fraser to score, too. 3:1 to Saints. 🤞

Great to win again in injury time. But, and I am sorry to say this, yet again I am underwhelmed by our performance and, as in the other late-win games, I have no feeling of satisfaction in our win - because of the manner of it (tiring the opposition out so that they are out on their feet) before scoring after about four minutes of injury time. More, a feeling of sheer relief in winning three points. And I cannot understand how AA was not given offside; unless he was off the field of play when, I think, CA passed to him and came back onto the pitch after the pass to him was made and then slid the ball back to RF, whose first-time strike was exceptionally good. Millwall won nearly all the physical battles and we played too much tippy-tippy passing without any real intent to draw them out of position, even fannying about in our own half after several minutes of extra time. Still, you cannot knock the three points. I note our goal difference is at least 10 worse than our main rivals’ so we need to win our future games by more than one goal to make inroads into that deficit. The next game, against WBA will not be easy. But here’s hoping for the best. Incidentally, my first years of attending games were at the (old) Den, which was well to the north of the New Den, in the 1950s. My dad and I used to walk to the ground from our house via the Rotherhithe tunnel. It took what seemed to be an age to get there. I seem to remember that the pies were good. I was obviously too young to know what the beer was like; we used to take a flask of tea. My first game was Millwall v Accrington Stanley. The Lions have been my second team since I moved to Southampton in the late ‘50s.I am sorry to see them so near the relegation places but, hey, that is the price of our Saints’ promotion push. Ever the optimist! The Saints way.

Totally agree on both counts. Fernandez is by far the most dislikeable player that I can recall ever seeing play for any team. No surprise that ManU is a team of miserable f*****s with him as captain.

Bart is bound to play a blinder. Let’s hope Bazza does, too!

Ballard scores for Reading again!

Should AA be in there? No. Just KWP.

If we get promoted this year, we might just get thumped every week next year One might say the same about the men’s team. Why would you not want to get promoted this year? The same problem would arise next year.