Daft Kerplunk

That was indeed the possible 🤣

Oooh, just think of the academy graduate chat the marketing team can talk about with this one. So much mileage of a player ‘coming home’ even if he’s way past his best and we couldn’t afford the two (possibly three) really decent ones.

UA would never have been able to fulfil this because they probably aren’t quick enough at turning kit manufacture around but their decision to agree to a third party making them is perhaps a way out of a contract they over paid for. Plus they seem less interested in football, or can’t afford to be in it anymore. Glad ‘the club’ is letting people keep the shirts although they would’ve gone in the bin anyway 🤣

If true, I look forward to enjoying his contribution for a few years

Excellent news if Gao is to go and be replaced by a proper owner. Glad Martin Semmens is now fixing this mistake by the then leadership team of Kruger, Liebherr and Semmens 👍🏼

Makes perfect sense if it also helps get rid of u23 players who will never make it to our first team, some barely end up as professional players yet have several years as a ‘pro’ on fantastic money.

That’s whole chunk of change for some directors and senior management staff!

Pompey at home...we owe them a proper battering, no foots off the pedal

When all is bad there is always hope

The big difference was that the players were moving and you could see that there was a purpose to the play, sometimes this season at SMS it’s been a fearful pass backwards and a forward pass has been available. I believe most fans know the difference and wouldn’t have been critical. At home fans rightly expect their team to be on the front foot, hopefully the players are regaining the confidence they need to play that way at home.

Hate me now instrumental is 100% what the players come out to. The music when the players shake hands is the Premier League anthem.

F**k me we were s**t but a win is a win

Great move of true. There was surprise when Les got the job over Crocker in the first place. From some people in the game I know, he will be much more demanding than Les was in the right areas so I’d imagine some of the academy staff from senior to lower will be made to answer some questions about why the standards have slipped and so many good people have been replaced by average ones.

Phone the accounts team and ask them to deny it

Let’s do away with some myths. She lent the club money for which she was paid back as well as using club accounts to pay for her and her son’s lifestyle, and then sold the club to the first person who came along. She, as well as others, is very much responsible for where we are...which is a relegation favourite just a few years after being a team that could’ve been a permanent top half/pushing for Europe. She deserves nothing from fans. Her Dad, yes. Her, none.

Someone ITK might confirm but I was told Radhi hasn’t been coaching the team very much this season and has been largely sidelined. Maybe another Bathampton coach has come in to do it, or someone with a West Country connection?

Just saw this on our website. Does anyone have kids that play in these tournaments? https://www.southamptonfc.com/global-football-development/southampton-cup/southampton-cup-series-usa

I will be happy with this a)when I see it actually happen and b)when the players are decent and not ‘one for the future’

No, they had a falling out apparently. Has left Ralph with some bang average (at best) support on the coaching side but the power he was given and had in the club allowed him to get rid of someone who was more important than anyone probably realised because Ralph had been given hero status. Last season he and Rohl were a two-man show on the sideline, this year he has nothing.

There’s no money to invest. You have hit the nail on the head when it comes to character. They are a weak bunch. Not great players and certainly not the mid table team some think we are because even that takes players with a good mentality as well as technique.

What a massive lie that was

The back room staff for the first team are terrible and you can see he has nobody to turn to. Since the club let Koeman leave because Les didn’t like his high profile it has gone from bad to worse. I know a couple of people who work at the club and they say the leadership is as bad as it gets and Gao is not going to invest a penny than Kat ripped him off for and never will. Make no mistake, we are in big trouble and if 0-9 doesn’t wake people up from their complacent slumber then it won’t be a slow match to relegation. We march on my arse!

Matt Crocker, was at Saints when the academy was actually good, left for the FA but is apparently available if the top job becomes available. He’d get rid of a lot of the crap and get decent people in who came in and replaced the good ones

Was non first-team, largely u23s and younger so stand down

Which one do we sing a version of? Hello, Hello We are the Billy Boys (Southampton boys) Hello, Hello You'll know us by our noise (we our Southampton boys) We're up to our knees in Fenian blood (and if you are a Pompey fan) Surrender or you'll die For we are (we all follow Southampton) The Brigton Derry Boys And for what it’s worth, it’s a **** song anyway. If some fans think it doesn’t exist, that’s good for me. I look forward to hearing this other one we sing.