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Commentator is not very biased in Donny’s favour then. 🙄🤣

Missed their goal. Typical FA Cup.

Robinson - dunno - not doing it for me.

And it’s back…and gone again!

Is it half time? No idea if I’ve lost the stream or ???

Matsuki and Fellows score a great goal. 0-3 …and my stream goes…

Matsuki gets booked for talking to the ref.

Great save from our new no.1. That goes past Baz.

Great cross from Wely to Matsuki’s head. And now the streams caught up, ref refuses us a FK but gives a soft one to them

Not much to do so far, but I’m getting a sense that Peretz’s positioning is a bit suspect. We’ll see.

Robinson still taking one touch too many before releasing the ball to a teammate.

We’re pressing well and thanks to more in midfield we’re picking up the loose balls.

I want a trouncing - nothing else will do.

Watching on Faraway now - just in time to see Braggs goal!

I do. My friend can’t get it on his streaming service.

Well a no mark FA Cup game suddenly got a little bit more interesting. Fair play. COYS!

I was a bit confused early on whether it was Wood or Edward’s who was the better CB. Wood is not all that, but he’s a step above from Edward’s. Having said that, I fully expect Edward’s to turn into a very decent defender at QPR.

Have it on good authority that SR have pulled off a massive, massive coup with this transfer. Rasmus Ankerson commented when pressed: “We’ve brought Danny into the squad to allow Baz to get up front and utilise his aerial ability as a true centre forward following his previous success in the role. This is the Southampton way”. How can you argue with THAT! Disclaimer - ‘good authority’ means the wife’s hairdressers aunties cat.

Nige Adkins would be the ideal man for the job.

To be fair I’d suck on that all day long. 😘

Ben G is an inspired choice by Rasmus as our next Head Coach after Tonda gets the chop. Yep, clearly SFC is not broken anywhere near enough.

Unfortunately Downs made a bad job of looking like a footballer, let alone a lone CF. I mean he managed to get dressed in a kit, but that’s the extent of his contribution. However, his lone deal is absolutely pointless if SR manage to either not sign a proper CF or sign another dud. I suggest you do not hold your breath!

You may well be right about Stephens - he is after all just one of the products of SR’s inept management of the footballing side of the business. He can’t help the fact that he’s been thrust into the spotlight of Captaining collectively a group of individuals that are not capable of operating as a team at the level expected given the cost of the squad. Like the successive Managers he’s worked for, he can’t be held responsible for the strategic and tactical mismanagement we've witnessed. He’s just an employee way out of his depth. So, it’s no good telling supporters they’re wrong blaming Stephens (or any other player) - they don’t pay to witness SFC management get decisions wrong time and time again - they pay to watch a decent football side…to see a cohesive team on the pitch. So when that doesn’t happen it’s the players on the pitch who will get blamed - that’s part and parcel of football. Stephens accepted the CB job - accepted the Captaincy - and must accept that the current state of affairs at SFC is completely unacceptable and he is partly culpable. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I don’t believe there’s one single neat reason things are so bad, but the reasons are co-dependent. 1. Successive failure to sustain squad quality over many seasons, while…. 2. Mandating successive Managers to adopt a specific method of play (possession football), while… 3. Recruiting and selecting players that are sub-standard in terms of the mandated method(s) of play, while… 4. Attempting to coach players who fail to deliver sustained performance levels because they’re simply not good enough, which in turn leads to player discontent and mutiny against the Manager of the moment. Thats my take on the shambles. Every single one of those issues needs to be addressed to get us out of the rut we’re in and the evidence strongly suggests SR/Spors/SFC Management have no ability to sort things out. With all of those issues outstanding, the only reason for replacing Tonda in my view is if he cannot get a song out of a team that has shed the likes of Stephens, Wood, Bazunu, Manning, Downes, Stewart and Archer.

Of course it is - nothing was changed until the 85th minute. Even then he brought on two strikers who have had the square root of fuck all match minutes this season and have scored how many goals between them? The midfield was still being overrun anyway so it was all a pretty pointless exercise.