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Well Monaco have had enough. Basically shattered or stopped playing. Saints look good though. A lot of confidence in the players. Aribo can control the ball! Djenpo and Valery having a good night. Lyanco as well has been solid. Good come back as well.

We've gone full pep, no strikers on the pitch and romeu playing behind the front 2? 🤣 Which bizarrely seems okay.

We seem a lot more physical, and the strikers seem more comfortable pressing, winning lose balls, holding up, and laying off passes to runners. This will work until other teams ffogure us out in the league 😅🤣

Okay, we're drawing in a pre season friendly. You need to calm down 😂

Good play again by AA then.

I mean, that was good play from him. Picked up the loose ball, dropped the shoulder to turn the defender, looked up for a good pass, and then grabbed the rebound.

Great play redmond and Armstrong! I actually really hope we stick with AA, think he could do it for us if we can get him firing.

Okay, shocking kick out of play by macca there.

Anyone else think redmond has a bit of a gut on him?

Not sure you can realistically blame him that much for that. Defenders miscontrolled it, it bounces once, and then it's volleyed into the corner from 10yards before anyone can react.

Or - this is all part of the long troll, of which Ralph is in fact a master.

More unpopular oppinion, I agree with deano - Adams and Armstrong could develop into a decent strike partnership 😅 (particulary if we sort out the supply / support).

The guy who should be on BBC solent imo.

Look alright here so far. How good are Monaco? Armstrong doing okay, as are Valery, diallo, romeu, and perraud.

FFS - What a bunch of numbskulls. I thought seeing Bednarek described as literal deadweight was bad earlier 😅

Is the stream working? I just have an intro screen on both the club website and the facebook?

Agree with this. We've survived with no funding and a cripplingly bad financial position - in itself, that is a good job to all those involved and who got us the takeover and the opportunity to be in the position we are now in. SR have come in, have a clear plan, and i think have made the right decisions to put a solid foundation for growth into place - signing young players with potential as squad players and to supplement the first team, revamping the coaching setup, and targeting quality recruitment and a clear strategy. But now the actions they've taken will require patience and hard work to develop - and a big part of that is on the fans and a need to back and support what is a very young squad lacking confidence and perhaps that final bit of quality to be really effective on the attack. Fortunately, as fans, we always do well backing young players - but we also need to not get on the teams back with what is a tough set of early fixtures.

I actually think he is as well 🤣

Agreed, solid post! Although I would say that Gao wasn't to blame for the recruitment, only the funding side of things. We signed Tino, KWP, Broja, Adams etc under Gao and they're all fairly solid. Big change for us was the shake up starting with R&K going - which tbf to Gao he did implement.

The hyperbole over the Sweden win / england ladies is just getting silly. The BBC were reporting that backheel goal as "one of the best goals you'll ever see". Its not. The keeper got nutmegged by a slow shot at her near post. In general the keeper had an absolute howler and if it had been Macca i dread to think what would have been written about it in the match thread. For equal comparison, the BBC described Lingard's back heel/flick vs burnley a few years ago as, "clever" and its a far superior goal that actually beat the keeper rather than the keeper having a mare. I'm pleased their doing well, and its good for the women's game in this country etc. But the coverage is just cringe at this point. As is any comparison between the men's and women's games.

Southgate can't do brave, he's too worried about who it will offend. Nice enough guy but he's so poor tactically and i highly doubt we'll win anything under him.

Thanks for sharing MLG

Saints extra plummeting in the credibility stakes with this one. No chance surely.

I don't know much about either of their politics. But he's a Southampton boy and comes from a solid family background that valued education, hard work, and sacrifice as tools to get ahead in life. That's enough for me. Agree though, the Southampton way is to come runner up 🤣

Not necessarily true? The quotes say we are looking at getting in another "attacker"? To me that could mean a striker, a No.10, or perhaps a winger (if we somehow magically change to a conventional 4-2-3-1 / 4-3-3).