marc_saint Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Good article...... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leagueone/southampton/7926884/Ambitious-Southampton-are-clear-favourites-to-win-League-One.html? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Shearer Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Yep read that too. Honestly think we'll smash a few teams this year and for some crazy reason think we'll put seven past one team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 That water looks very blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 What a perfect location for a new waterfront leisure complex..... And a monkey chicken petting zoo too of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 I see even skate boy Claridge thinks we're going to win league one on the BBC. Being favorites doesn't sit well with me we're saints it's our job to be plucky underdogs/ league wipping boys/or big scalp for smaller clubs, being excpected to win just doesn't seem right somehow. Hopefully winning will become the norm and I can get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Good article...... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leagueone/southampton/7926884/Ambitious-Southampton-are-clear-favourites-to-win-League-One.html? Ambitious Southampton are clear favourites to win League One For a vivid illustration of just how far Southampton have travelled over the past year, it is simply necessary to admire the home kit that will be worn for the first time on Saturday. Southampton have recovered to the extent that they have become known by their rivals as 'Junior Manchester City'. "Bang on certainties to be promoted," is the assessment of Southampton from Swindon manager Danny Wilson – and the bookmakers certainly agree. At 9/4 on for League One, no team in English football are such clear favourites to win their division. Anyone else starting to feel a heady mix of anticipation and intrepidation....?! I'm not sure I like this "clear favourites" malarkey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 45.1% of Guardian readers think we'll end up champions in an on-line poll today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 45.1% of Guardian readers think we'll end up champions in an on-line poll today I don't remember us rigging that one.....can't be right! What did the other 54.9% think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints foreva Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Hope the lads can deal with the pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 At 9/4 on for League One, no team in English football are such clear favourites to win their division. This can't be right, surely we're not 4/9? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 At 9/4 on for League One, no team in English football are such clear favourites to win their division. This can't be right, surely we're not 4/9? If we had better cover in CM we would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 I don't remember us rigging that one.....can't be right! What did the other 54.9% think? You have to vote to see the results. Can you bear to read a Guardian page, Trousers? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2010/aug/04/who-will-win-league-one-poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 I don't care how big of a 'favourite' we are. I'm still nervous and won't believe it till I see us play this saturday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Just checked on Skybet and we're 15/8 to win the league and 2/3 to go up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggface Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 It's nice to be favorites for once, however can't help but think the prices are wayyyy too short. No pressure then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 You have to vote to see the results. Can you bear to read a Guardian page, Trousers? http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2010/aug/04/who-will-win-league-one-poll Aaarrghhh.....in my haste to get off that site as quickly as I could I ended up voting for Dagenham! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2010/aug/04/who-will-win-league-one-poll Like this reader's quote on there: My moneys on the Saints. I consider this the safest bet I've made since putting money on Van Bommel to get booked in the world cup final. I can't even be bothered to vote here, that's how confident I am. Shame about the spelling and grammar though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Benji Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Didn't Jeremy Wilson used to write for the Echo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Being favourites really is something we're not used to and it sets the mind working on all the angles from which we could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I'd really prefer us just to be quietly confident of promotion being sewn up by Easter. Then we could concentrate on finishing top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Didn't Jeremy Wilson used to write for the Echo? Also a nice interview with him in the Saints Fanzine, issue 1 was on sale at the Reading game and will be available, pre-match, this coming Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Didn't Jeremy Wilson used to write for the Echo? yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junction 9 Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 I don't remember us rigging that one.....can't be right! What did the other 54.9% think? That we won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Uh oh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 That water looks very blue. lol. I thought that. Had trouble believing the rest of the article after seeing the flagrant misrepresentation of the Itchen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 Just checked on Skybet and we're 15/8 to win the league and 2/3 to go up. 15/8 for a nailed on certainty is a very fair quote indeed. We are what is known in the turf accounting trade as "past the post" Don't get all this jittery stuff really, we will win the League with at least 100 points.....nailed on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawillwill Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 'Junior Manchester City' is probably the least catchy nickname ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 If we had better cover in CM we would be. we have Pulis,what more do you want, lad might surprise us yet, I'm told that he was competent enough against Eastleigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawillwill Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 we have Pulis,what more do you want, lad might surprise us yet, I'm told that he was competent enough against Eastleigh. I'm going to put a tenner on him scoring a hat-trick v Plymouth. Anyone know the odds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 4 August, 2010 Share Posted 4 August, 2010 It's nice to be favorites for once, however can't help but think the prices are wayyyy too short. No pressure then! Oh we've been favouites many times before. To be relegated, that is. This is a nice change. Note the author of the article and this..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Luke Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Brighton are top of the poll now - 43.6% and we only have 23%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Brighton are top of the poll now - 43.6% and we only have 23%. Cheats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Mullet Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Like this bit: "The catalyst for the transformation was the takeover last year by Markus Liebherr, a German-born Swiss billionaire who, in city circles, is estimated to be the third richest club owner across all of English football." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint in winchester Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 I DON'T want us to be favourites. Everyone will come and park the bus in front of the goal and thinking going home with a point is a moral victory!!! Quick everyone, vote for Sheff Wed and make them favourites!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 45.1% of Guardian readers think we'll end up champions in an on-line poll today Brighton are top of the poll now - 43.6% and we only have 23%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Aaarrghhh.....in my haste to get off that site as quickly as I could I ended up voting for Dagenham! ;-) Trousers, Just done you a favour. I'm working in Fords at the moment in...............Dagenham, so I just grabbed the Motor chef from his van, whose a Dagenham fan, and got him to vote for Saints. I had to buy a large Chilli Concarnie and a cheese and pickle roll, plus a crazy milk drink that I think they stopped manufacturing in the eighties, but anything for another Saints fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Link: Who Can Stop Southampton..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Anyone else starting to feel a heady mix of anticipation and intrepidation....?! I'm not sure I like this "clear favourites" malarkey! Amen to that! Scares the bejesus out of me. Since when have we been clear favourites for anything? Losing doesn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 Trousers, Just done you a favour. I'm working in Fords at the moment in...............Dagenham, so I just grabbed the Motor chef from his van, whose a Dagenham fan, and got him to vote for Saints. I had to buy a large Chilli Concarnie and a cheese and pickle roll, plus a crazy milk drink that I think they stopped manufacturing in the eighties, but anything for another Saints fan. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 5 August, 2010 Share Posted 5 August, 2010 bbc blog Shortly after the end of last season, it was widely reported that Alan Pardew was facing the sack as manager of Southampton. His team had started the campaign on minus 10 points but eventually finished in seventh place, just missing out on the play-offs. It was a noble effort by Saints, whose challenge was undermined by their inability to reproduce their dominant home form away from St Mary's. For example, they scored five goals in consecutive home games in late February but lost at struggling Tranmere in their next away fixture. But was it enough for chairman Nicola Cortese, who had sanctioned a multi-million pound spend in January? When he demanded a meeting with Pardew after the season was over, it was widely assumed the manager was on his way. But Pardew survived. That said, I would be extremely surprised if Cortese settled for anything less than automatic promotion this season. I met the former banker last year and found him to be considered, intelligent and calm. But it's fair to say he's also unaccustomed to failure. Southampton certainly have the personnel to win League One. In Rickie Lambert, they have a striker who scored 37 goals last season, while David Connolly and Lee Barnard supplement the attacking options. The spine of the side is solid, with Kelvin Davis in goal, Jose Fonte in the centre of defence and the ever-improving Morgan Schneiderlin in midfield. Saints have kept hold of Adam Lallana, while the likes of Ryan Dickson, Danny Butterfield and Frazer Richardson have bolstered an already impressive squad. Saints took four points off last season's champions Norwich, including a 2-0 win at Carrow Road - and Canaries defender Russell Martin believes Pardew's team are equipped to emulate his team's achievement. "If you look at it on paper, they have the strongest squad by quite some distance," Martin told me. "I think they have a group of players who can handle the pressure of expectation and their manager definitely can. I would expect them to be up there with the likes of Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday, while Plymouth have kept quite a strong squad and Peterborough have made a lot of changes." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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