Lighthouse

People have no problem with him leaving because of his contract situation, the need to sell to balance the books and the fact that we have three other decent midfielders in Downes, Jander and Bragg. FD and CB is clearly one of the weaker combinations and everone acknowledges the need to replace Charles with someone, so I don't know what you're complaining about. Today was about making do with who's fit, nobody was 'happy' about it. We tried Matsuki at Colchester to little effect, this was our only other option.

We had a 4-3 win their under Puel, within a couple of weeks of the Cup final IIRC, with Gabbiadini scoring twice. I'm pretty sure Lambert got a hattrick there too on the way up in 2012. I remember that NYD game (at SMS) being one of the most incompetent managerial displays I've ever seen. Vignal was a decent Championship LB, or failing that Skacel did a more than adequate job... nope; Jermaine Wright! Burley sat there like a clueless lemon, 3-0 for most of the second half, then sent on Adam Hammill in the 89th minute. That was the day he completely lost the fan base, he ended up in Scotland a few weeks after.

I'd wager that keeping three clean sheets in league games he started last season probably had something to do with it.

There’s like half of football teams worldwide who play in some variation of blue shirts, in one of their three kits. Why this masochistic insistence that we’re wearing Pompey shirts and not Everton, Grasshopper Zürich or Dynamo Minsk I can’t fathom. I noticed our player were drinking water during a stop in play, just like Jimmy Saville used to, FFS!

-7 it is. We paid the price for a garbage first half. I just hope Tonda isn’t some wet paper tiger whose entire edge was built on cheating last season.

Still think it could be curtains for his Saints career.

Larin pressing X on his controller, instead of O or triangle.

It’s still possible. I’d say Azaz and Fellows on at HT are a must. Matsuki can come off and Dobbin or Leo depending on the latter’s injury.

Stephens showing everyone he can be a top quality defender. Unfortunately it was whilst attacking one of our free kicks.

Garbage all round. Happy new season everyone.

Because he’s sh*t.

I think all four yellows were deserved, Bree deliberately blocked their player off. Compared to all the spineless refs we’ve seen not give anything for tackles like the two on Leo, I’d much prefer this bloke.

He’s booked two of them, what else do you want? Actually three now, Larin being an absolute melon.

WTF was that from Stephens?!

The rest of football doesn't hate Boro. People are going to have to let this go at some point.

Bullied by large, physical strikers too, just like Moore (who's first name I forget) in the opening game against Wrexham.

Last season he was dreadful for Newcastle and he was basically the highest earner in our squad, even in the PL. His market is teams down the bottom, who won’t want to commit to his wages long term. It’ll probably end up being a loan late in the window.

At least if he’s sh*t we can tell him to eunt domus.

Supposedly this is the woman who assassinated a Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia. I’ll be honest, I’d probably fall for whatever it was she did to him too.

It's not just thick racists. You can also be a greedy, self serving, arse kissing narcissist who claims any kind of public welfare system is communism, to manipulate thick racists into voting against any kind of tax or environmental policy.

Have they actually said that? He's got absolutely nothing to prove in the Championship.

I think you need to show a bit more respect to a person who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Monaco Grand Prix and Eurovision.

You mean a bit like this? https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/mens-retained-list-published-for-2026 "We would like to express our thanks to each of those players and wish them well for the future."

I’d be massively surprised if there was another striker signed, I think it’s just the way FR worded that tweet. I think we’re most likely to see two departures up front from here on.

Seems like a decent addition for relatively little financial outlay. If we can get double figures out of him that’ll be a very shrewd signing for the season.