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I was on the back row as well and could see most of the pitch including the goals. However couldn’t quite see the near side corner area to my left and only just not the far touch line, it was comical seeing us fans ducking down to get a better view for throw ins.

There are currently no mid week championship games for us for the 2 weeks after the fa cup match. So the Wrexham match could be rescheduled from the Monday to the Tuesday or Wednesday, depending when our cup match is, and the Ipswich match the following mid week.

Maybe the football authorities should be banned from having mid week league games before and after cup rounds, there would be a better chance of full strength teams being fielded then. And on another subject maybe only the Premier League should have International breaks to avoid the amount of mid week matches in the Championship, I know that many teams would lose players, like we would, but so be it.

At the pre Charlton press conference Tonda said that Welington will be out for at least a couple of weeks.

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It’s only because we were losing the other 26 matches last season before 90+ minutes

I seem to remember he picked Quarsie for the last Leicester game in November for his speed against quick Leicester counter attacks, maybe the same again but the HB Stephen’s partnership has developed nicely in recent matches when playing 4 at the back.

Has there been an Eckert Press Conference for this? Link? I’ve looked on Saints YouTube channel and website.

Cyle will need to earn a starting place in the team. From the information I’ve seen/heard so far he’s come here expecting to get many minutes on the pitch I.e. starting not a last 25 minute sub. No doubt there will be some rotation during busy game periods but if he settles ok does Eckert plan to normally start him and have injury prone Stewart as the sub replacement mid 2nd half? Other reports I’ve read have stated that he has thrown a strop at times if things aren’t going his way, which would cause problems if he doesn’t get the minutes to make his chances of making the Canada WC squad. As I previously stated though his performances will need to justify starting. My 800 post, it’s only taken me 17 years to get there 🎉🥳

According to SSPN Wrexham are after 2 strikers, one from Barnsley who has scored 16 goals this season and one from Sheff Wednesday. They seem to have made some good decisions on recruitment during their journey up the leagues, whether these are or not remains to be seen if they do go through.

Watford (H) win Leicester (A) lose Charlton (H) win QPR (H) draw Sheff Weds (A) win 10 points from 15. Could interchange the Charlton and QPR results but draw one and win one and I don’t remember us doing well at Leicester. 10 points won’t be enough though to get us much nearer the playoff places.

Typical post subs Saints lull and other team improving

Cue the Stoke comeback. Get your bets on now.

Finally got it after voice message instruction

I can’t find a a Sky link for our match. Sky+ multi is just wsl and Sky sports app just shows links to football short items ugh…..

From website LiveFootballOnTV https://www.live-footballontv.com/southampton-on-tv.html

And in November of 2022 we appointed Nathan Jones as manager and Aston Villa got Emery. The clubs have gone in dramatically different directions since then.

Hurling abuse at our players is really going to help them to perform better isn’t it 😂 I’m not saying that people should clap a poorly performing player but just be neutral and certainly not verbally attack players who are part of our beloved club.

I know that some on here like to slag off all of our players for one reason or another, every goal conceded someone is to blame, every goal chance missed someone is crap, every misplaced pass someone’s not fit to wear the shirt etc. However my view may not be popular. I believe that our squad are plenty good enough to walk this league but for whatever reason the team spirit, morale, getting the best out of the individuals as a team collective, being better or at least as good as the sum of the parts isn’t there. Often players who come here having played well at their previous club don’t play as well for us, I can’t think of many (any) recently who play better when they have come to us. Something is wrong behind the scenes and I can only think that it is poor organisation, tactics, coaching and fitness training making us worse than we should be. I find it very frustrating that other teams are doing well with less resources than we have but get the maximum out of them. I thought that we had ‘turned a corner’ a month ago but we have regressed again. Yes we got through to R4 but not convincingly.

From the bbc: Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert told BBC Radio Solent: "The FA Cup is a very special tournament, and never an easy one, because you have nothing to lose when you go down, so I'm very pleased we're in the next round. "In the end, there were some patterns we have seen all season. We need to make sure we improve our resilience on set plays. "It was a very good first-half. The second-half could have been better, but we're in the next round. "We have a good squad but we have seen that flow in a game before, even at 3-0 up at half-time, we have conceded off a corner and [start] suffering. On Daniel Peretz: "It's not so easy when you come in after a couple of training sessions with new colleagues and have to learn their names and ways of defending but he had an excellent game, a very promising start."

I live close to Crewe after moving up from Southampton in the mid 1980s and have followed their ups and downs. I went to the rearranged fa cup game mid week in 1996, I travelled on a Crewe supporters coach and stood with them for the match (they knew that I was a Saints fan).

I know, these 3 days between matches seem to go so fast. I can’t not watch our matches on the tv but I would rather not, I’m back to dreading watching rather than a month ago looking forward to it.

I think I’ll wait to see if he is asked why Leo is on the bench and what his explanation is.

We were definitely below par today. unfortunately Norwich we’re in our faces with high energy, I thought that they would drop off in the last quarter of the match but credit to them that their fitness level allowed them to keep it up for 90+ minutes. Things that have been going our way lately weren’t today, 50/50 balls, passing accuracy, shots (in first half) off not on target, missed penalty, opposition getting the rub of the green with handball goal. Every team gets games like this but it was concerning how Norwich managed to control the game and hurry us out of possession time and time again.

Better to rest Fellows for another week and hopefully fully recover missing only one match, than risk aggravating his injury and potentially being out for several matches over Christmas and New Year.