Lighthouse

Luck doesn’t come into it. We’ve consistently been buying the cheapest players in the league for several seasons now and to top it off our four best players have medium-long term injures. People are talking as if a one goal defeat is just the bog standard result you get for not even trying and that if you just say, “Have a go FFS!!” We might outperform squads which cost twice as much and win a thrilling 4-3 encounter. Sure, I’d love for us to be doing a lot better. If anyone can arrange for us to win the quadruple five years in a row, then declare Southampton to be an independent sovereign nation and win the World Cup too, I’ll gladly take that. Sadly, where we are right now is the reality of what we’ve spent, no matter what anyone on here wants.

Come the end of the season, as a rule of thumb, we need 40 points to stay up. Whether that’s against Leeds, Forrest, Villa, Bournemouth or whoever I don’t particularly care, that’s pretty much always been the case. Watching Saints is a miserable, joyless affair most of the time, without slitting our wrists over every point, every team in the bottom half scores, as well. Let’s just enjoy Liverpool being sh*t and losing at Anfield, God help us if we can’t even do that.

Full time, priceless. 😂

Like we did against Liverpool last year and ended up 4-0 down at half time? You speak as if a draw is somehow a default setting and that even a one goal defeat constitutes a lack of effort. This is the Premier League, you have to work your backsides off just to not get spanked. If nothing else we’re keeping it tight at the back and we’re in with a chance in every game.

I think it’s a bit much to be talking about a player ‘regressing’ under Ralph on the back of 20 decent minutes as a late sub against Leeds. This is a player who scored six goals in France last season. Clearly the scouts saw something about him to sign him but it’s quite a stretch to be blaming Ralph for Mara not being the answer.

When you're walking past someone stood still, eg. in a bar or supermarket, they set off into your personal space and you're in each others way. Just wait two seconds for me to walk past you, how hard is it?

So to sum up, he's worse than George Michael but not as bad as Ian Watkins.

I’m not laying into her son, the whole point is SHE is the one who exploits him. He’s quite obviously a target for trolls because of his weight, disabilities and being mixed race, so she makes sure he’s in the public eye as much as possible so that she can cash in on the abuse. All I’ve done is point out what she is doing, it’s horrendous. She taught him to say, "hello you c**ts!" On national TV for crying out loud. As for being an alcoholic, well she smashed her car up whilst off her face on drink and Charlie last year. If you’re drinking is putting lives at risk, I’d say that’s a pretty big problem.

A recluse in an underground bunker, he really is playing all the Nazi greatest hits. When he marries a woman and shoots his dog, we’ll know there’s only about 24 hours left.

Katie Price has got to be the tw*ttiest tw*t going. Never done a day’s proper work in her life, spent her early ‘career’ whipping her plastic baps out for white van drivers in the Sun, sleeping with any celebrity she could get her claws into and selling the story to any journalist who’d listen. Now she’s too old for that, she makes a living waving her obese, disabled, mixed-race son in front of the internet trolls, knowing that he’ll be abused, so that she can play the victim of that and sell the stories to the press once again. Also an alcoholic and habitual drink driver, she sells yet more ‘exclusives’ to the media, where she acts the victim of her mental health problems. Vile woman.

Likewise, he frequently appears at the top of my feed because so many people I follow follow him. It seems to be mostly just textbook stuff about the WEF, climate change and the vaccine injured, who he is determined to stick up for because they’ve been silenced by the media and definitely not because there’s f**k all of them with any credible evidence of anything.

We came up with a new song in The Lounge, if anyone wants to give it a try: He stands just over five foot three, Rishi, Rishi, He took us to 10 Downing Street, Rishi, Rishi, An ex-chemist, he takes the p*ss, With health advice from Matt Le Tiss, Rishi Sunak, Southampton’s new PM

"Please select all squares which show mediocrity." I fail these tests with alarming regularity, I'm starting to question my own self awareness, it feels like the opening set up of a sci-fi thriller.

The word ‘win’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Reminds me a bit of this guy.

He stands just over six foot three, Rishi, Rishi, He took us to 10 Downing Street, Rishi, Rishi, An ex-chemist, he takes the p*ss, With health advice from Matt Le Tiss, Rishi Sunak, Southampton’s next PM

Health minister, surely?

Whilst I wouldn’t argue that AA is good enough, or even a better option than Edozie, there is something to be said for the timing of when we use them. Today Arteta made two changes on 70 minutes. We immediately responded by bringing on Walcott and Adams, followed by Sam, five minutes later. Regardless of who’s better, it worked. Those subs at those times nullified Arsenal trying to change the direction of the game and we basically kept the momentum throughout the second half and five minutes of injury time. At no point after we equalised did it ever look like we were backs to the wall.

I texted a Spurs supporting mate at FT saying, "you’re welcome, now don’t f**k it up."

A brilliant point all things considered, that’s only the second game Arsenal have failed to win in all comps this season. They started out fast, as they always do this season but from about 30 mins onwards we looked as good if not better. Great build up from several players for the goal, defended well throughout, can’t fault the keeper or defenders for anything. Their only goal came from midfielders not tracking back. We’re defending well this season. We started off wrong against Spurs and Leeds but we’ve corrected it. Since then we’ve conceded 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 0, 1, the 4 being against City. We may not have the clean sheets but if only conceding one or fewer was a stat we’d be one of the better teams in the league. We are nowhere near as bad as some of the teams being spanked off the park this season The end of last season we scored 4 in 12. The start of this season we have 12 from 12, despite injuries to key players and we have the capability to do better. We’ve been in every game, except City. We haven’t been on the end of a 4-0 from a mediocre team like everyone around us, we’ve got a chance of points in every game.

I voted Perraud but could have given it to any of the back four/five. Baz put in some excellent saves, Lyanco and DCC gave a lesson in sh*thousery (I’ll bet 75% of other fans watching on Sky are saying, "we’re too nice, why can’t we play like Saints against the big boys instead of rolling over." Etc). Salisu did nothing wrong either.

Just to put it into perspective, with several key players injured.

It’s nice to have some genuine sh*t housing in the team. DCC and Lyanco haven’t let them have it their way.

Ref spot on with dives in this game.

Just looking at the weather radar, we’re getting a thunderstorm fairly soon.