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I CBA mate. It's irrelevant. He played a short, back from injury, full back at CB and quell surprise we got smashed by a league 2 team. We had Stephens available and Charles. It was a shocker.

I repeat, that wouldn't have been my team.

Simeu didn't get near the squad for a reason. The kid could barely get off the bench on his loan spell last season.

That wouldn't have been my team. It was ridiculous. From that line up though, if Bree was at CB, I'd have expected Meghoma or Perraud at RB.

Bree has played there for our B team. When I saw the line up I expected him to play there. Perraud was a mental decision. If Selles or Jones had put that side out, people would have got their pitchforks out.

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Hopefully Mara hasn't got much of a future here after Martin's comments last night. Sounds like a few others have pissed him off too: "I think it's a big lesson for Sekou and a few of the guys, you need to be all-in in being a professional. All-in, the way you train, the way you play. Don't train one way to play another, train the way we train, we work the way we work so we can go out on the pitch and deliver a certain level of performance. "And tonight we had too many people that didn't really. Too many that just weren't brave enough to play or didn't want to play the way we really want them to play the first 20 minutes and we paid for that conceding a really poor goal. "We had nine players who played in the Premier League on the pitch, who I presume would deem themselves Premier League players. You have to be better than that. We showed fight in the last half an hour and it was too late by that point."

So plan B is lump it to big Paul?

I agree, and it was actually 8 starters who'd played premier league football. That line up should not have struggled against a division 4 team.

We're not playing a championship team tonight... keep ball is losing us the game. You're not wrong though. It was 3 wins for the possession heavy team in league 2, 4 in league 1, more in the championship. Based on last weekend, it seems to be the better the standard, the more relevance there is to possession.

It's the reality check for the people who are keen to point out our high possession stats. Some highlight it as if it gives us a genuine match winning advantage? On Friday it counted for something - that last 10 mins or so of keep ball was impressive. Tonight it's counting for nothing so far.

Yep. Possession doesn't win games. Geeky stat - across all 23 of last weekends league 1 and 2 games, only 7 teams who had more possession won their games.

They looked shit in their local derby with Shaftesbury as well.

To be fair, Luton didn't really play football, we do (now). Easy for someone like Bree to look half decent winning it and pinging it forward. Much harder when he's expected to play football.

You sure? Has to Bree or Perraud with Lyanco surely.

Strange team. Gotta be one or two out of position. I'm guessing Bree at CB with Lyanco, Meghoma at RB, and Charles in midfield.

Good post. In addition to the reasons you state why we supported him through his recovery, there's the small reason of preserving our asset. I'm not sure the bench at Newcastle is the best place for the lad, but good luck to him.

Ha!! His post about that CoT nonsense was ridiculous, then he's had a pop at someone else. There's no mob, just a bloke firing off left/right/centre and getting fired at from left/right/centre.

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He's responded to when he hurls labels at people calling them racist, narcissistic, etc, etc. That doesn't make him a victim of mocking. Seems to me that he reaps what he sows.

It does, and it'll be telling which players we do and don't cup tie. I'm expecting to see KWP play, I I don't think he'll go.

Not in tonight's squad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/66435099?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=64d21a2bb569ec25b6b94628%26Lavia not in Southampton squad%262023-08-08T10%3A35%3A17.576Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:cf99d434-cba7-474d-b855-6d2bf0c91275&pinned_post_asset_id=64d21a2bb569ec25b6b94628&pinned_post_type=share

It's a similar message Del... accept shit you can't control and focus on your life, your day and being happy. The vitriol and SoG's post up there are a wee bit tragic.

Rock

There's a Marx quote for all seasons. This one feels apt: "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it".