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As others have said, other teams adapt to us, but Ralph seems unable to do anything about it.

Find from where?!?! We've got what we've got. And it's shit.

Shocking football all round by us there. Djenepo shouldn't have had to track the man and didn't have much choice but to bring him down. McCarthy should have had that.

Relaid I think and appears not to have settled. It's a shocker.

Minamino passing is poor again. There's a great player in there, but he gives it away too much.

Jeez, we're awful. Those passes from Salisu and Minamino were shite.

Harsh on Tella. Our best player first half.

BBC site take on it: "The incident was really bizarre. Andre Mariner was looking at James Ward-Prowse standing on the free-kick. Mariner turned away then put his whistle to his lips and seemed to blow just as Ward-Prowse played the ball through to Che Adams. Leeds were static, were not ready for the kick to be taken but for some reason Mariner decided that he had actually NOT blown the whistle and asks Southampton to retake it".

Yep. And it's no surprise. Old Boys club.

Tella makes some decent runs. He's better than I appreciated.

Yep. Never a pen. We'd be screaming if that was given against us.

His profile has gone, he's not showing in the u18 staff list, and his LinkedIn shows him as being at Pompey. I'd guess he's gone.

Beach

Back to the Leeds game. I fancy us to win this. No idea of the score, but a scrappy win.

Yep, pretty much as I saw it. For the first 20 mins or so I had no idea where Djenepo was playing, and I don't think he was too sure either. He didn't play as one of our normal 10's would play, but he wasn't a wing back either. Once we settled, Bednarek mostly covered the RB position, but stayed back and went central when needed. He got help at RB from Djenepo who carried the ball forward from that side and tried to be an outlet for balls out from the back. Whatever it was, or it worked.

With a fit KWP I reckon that's the way we may go. McCarthy Bednarek Vestergaard Salisu KWP JWP Diallo Bertrand Armstrong Redmond Ings It gets the wing backs high up the pitch, keeps the usual 2 in the middle and 2 number 10' who can get closer to Ings as the wing backs give more width.

Well that's the Dukes of Hazard fucked now then.

Quite a few where we stayed but they kept themselves to themselves. Out and about we didn't see many. It was a nice place, we'd go back.

Tart

We enjoyed Agadir. Nice place, although we didn't venture out of town. Hadn't thought of it as a spring option but it's a good shout 👍

Alcohol is crazy expensive, and eating out can be as expensive or reasonable as you want - afternoon tea £20 at somewhere reasonable, but north of £100 I think at the Palm. Transport was cheap. Excursions not so. On the whole we found it more reasonably priced than we expected. We did Reykjavik a couple of years before and found that to be more expensive on the whole. Now that is a place I do recommend.

Tin

Money doesn't buy class. There a plenty of chavs with money out there.

That was certainly my experience. It's glitzy as hell, very futuristic, all super slick, but when you see the people on the plane, the people at "ladies nights", the number of people chucking as much booze down them as possible at a "brunch", the sports bars in the hotels, etc, its clear that its not a classy place. The only thing vaguely close to culture were the souks and the little boat in the old quarter but the rest of it you could experience anywhere else. The cars parading around the beach at Jumeirah were a bit of a sight though.

Yep. I had the misfortune of going there with my wife a couple of years ago. High rises, malls, sunshine, chavs, flash cars. Not much else. Sure, it's shiny and lovely, but you get as much culture in Benidorm.