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I don’t know what happened after the Norwich home win with a strong starting 11 and the West Ham cup match with about 6 changes including Valery and Stephens at cb, Smallbone in midfield and Long up front with A Armstrong. (Broja coming on improved our chances)A few days later we lost 4 0 to Aston Villa and we’ve lost so many since then in a poor way.

Last February 7 of 11 yesterday started the matches to win at Spurs and draw at Man U. Those not out there yesterday were Forster, Bednarek, Romeu and Brojo. The first 2 can be replaced by McCarthy ( I know! but they are much the same level) and Bella-Kotchup (better than Bednarek imo), that leaves the loss of an effective dm and striker and that is where our priority should be in the January window. In the position we are in I’m not sure it is in the clubs interest to splash the cash but 2 loans of out of favour but proven themselves previously players maybe, I don’t know who that could be mind you! I don’t think that our other players are in the main as bad as some make out on here but nearly all of them are lacking confidence, energy, organisation and commitment, that will need to improve quickly if we are to haul ourselves up the table and without that any signings won’t work. A team like Southampton has to get 100% out of their players and the team playing better together than the sum of the parts, we have been operating like that in spells in past 2 seasons and currently Fulham, Brighton and Brentford are.

The only train after the match west bound is direct to Bournemouth at 22.45 and like you say no Waterloo direction trains.

At least being Saints fans we will be ready for disappointment after some optimism.

He’s going on the Spain training camp this week.

Unless I misread it showed a ball speed of only 47kmh which is only about 30mph.

Ballard 2 1 Saints another for Ballard. Half way through extra time. 3 2 Ballard hat trick. Saints down to 10 men Full time

Other news Bellis first half hat trick for Saints u21s at st Mary’s tonight in their cup match. Saints 4 Colchester 1 at half time. 5 1 just after half time Pearce 6 1 7 1!!

4 1 to saints at half-time having conceding first. Bellis hat trick.

A bit different than the Stoke fans!! Mad Nate favourite for Southampton job | Oatcake Fanzine (proboards.com)

My son has gone todays match v Aston Villa. Currently 2 0 (Doyle and Pearce) up but down to 10 men for last man foul. Ballard is on the bench and the new youngster from Spurs Sam Amo-Ameyaw “looks very very good”.

Ralph reaction to the transfer window, the new recruits and some thoughts on the Wolves match. Every word Ralph Hasenhuttl said on Romeo Lavia, Southampton transfers, Wolves and team news - HampshireLive

SSN were saying yesterday that Liverpool were looking to sign him in the January 2021 transfer window when they had an injury crisis (I don't remember that). Also that several other 'big' EPL clubs had considered him but he was not the finished article and needed to prove himself at a club like Saints in the EPL before committing themselves. Seems a bit strange when he would be a fairly low cost risk at the 'big' clubs, probably SSN spin on the situation.

They don't seem to like the draw!!!! 😂 SWFC are ball number 23 tonight - Page 4 - Sheffield Wednesday Matchday - Owlstalk | Sheffield Wednesday News for SWFC fans

I didn't realise that there was voting functionality on this 'new' format, I'm surprised that we haven't had more on varying subjects.

Typical Sky it's a League Cup night and they go on about last night Man U match even though they have talked about it for the last 21 hours.

Adams only played for 35 mins on Saturday and he'll probably be subbed at around 60 mins tonight for Mara I would have thought to keep him fresh for the Man U and Chelsea games coming up in quick succession, depending upon how things are going tonight. Are 5 subs allowed tonight?

2 0 to Charlton. My son is at the match and said the same about the pitch condition.

Concerning to hear Ralph putting in the long term injury category. Every word Ralph Hasenhuttl said on Leicester, injury news, Jamie Vardy, Theo Walcott and more - HampshireLive

Glad that we got a least a point. Hopefully will improve team morale and Ralph has learnt our best formation and players in that last 30 mins.

I'm irresponsibly optimistic about tomorrows match and maybe in the current climate of doom and gloom Saints can pull out of the bag a decent performance and win. Or maybe not !!

I think that a key time to make a decision about Ralph will be after 8 matches when the International Break happens mid September. By then we will have played likely Top 4 or 6 teams, likely mid table and lower table sides. We also need to be competing more effectively in games and not shipping goals in the quantity that we have been (any hammerings before then and that decision point could be brought forward). If we are as abject by then that we have been at the back end of last season I think that SP will look to replace him.

In the press conference today Ralph said that Theo is still not back in training due to injury, have they ever said what the problem is? Seems to be a long time out for a non declared reason, unless I've missed some info.

Did he have a buy back clause?

On one of the Burnley forums they were speculating that Pope is valued by the club at £40m, Burnley will be trying to cash in on some of their player assets in the transfer window.