Aaron Ramsdale

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Alongside Batistuta?

You know exactly what I was saying - he wasn’t a 20 goal superstar but Che did what his team and their team needed. How many honest pros have SR signed who actually did their basic job? Anyway, anyone who thought Russell Martin was doing a fine job at PL level shouldn’t be giving stick out to other posters frankly.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Really, sorry I haven't seen those quotes. Would be good to see them.

You are wetting the bed at things that haven't happened yet. I would suggest you just wait until the end of the transfer window before calling the Wambulance.

There were loads of them, about PSR and how this summer would be better because Rasmus’s Jan 2023 splurge was still on the cycle. 

Still a month to go but it’s hardly promising nor the change that was promised. 

[Farmer Saint]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

You know exactly what I was saying - he wasn’t a 20 goal superstar but Che did what his team and their team needed. How many honest pros have SR signed who actually did their basic job? Anyway, anyone who thought Russell Martin was doing a fine job at PL level shouldn’t be giving stick out to other posters frankly.

I genuinely have no idea what you are saying? Batistuta was a bonafide superstar. He scored 168 goals in 269 games for Fiorentina and 56 in 78 for Argentina. In 1994 he scored 26 goals in the league, and over 20 goals the next 3 seasons.

I will ask you again, what in fucks name are you talking about?

[Farmer Saint]

4 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

There were loads of them, about PSR and how this summer would be better because Rasmus’s Jan 2023 splurge was still on the cycle. 

Still a month to go but it’s hardly promising nor the change that was promised. 

I'm talking about Still's quotes you silly fucker.

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

I'm talking about Still's quotes you silly fucker.

Tone down the abuse. If you can’t debate in a civilised and intelligent way without going the personal route, don’t debate at all. Go and give your head a good wobble. Goodnight.

And yes, Still would like to change the wide and forward areas up, but he can’t because we are stuck with the likes of BBD, who is far worse than Che Adams. 

Edited Monday at 22:31 by Gloucester Saint

[Farmer Saint]

8 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Tone down the abuse. If you can’t debate in a civilised and intelligent way without going the personal route, don’t debate at all. Go and give your head a good wobble. Goodnight.

And yes, Still would like to change the wide and forward areas up, but he can’t because we are stuck with the likes of BBD, who is far worse than Che Adams. 

Ah, but is he worse than Batistuta?

I said "silly" as a term of endearment, but look forward to seeing Still's quotes on getting rid of Wood, Edwards, Downes, BBD and Archer.

I also look forward to tomorrow's installment of player comparisons. Will it be "Smallbone: Just like Zidane", or maybe "Ryan Manning, the Irish Roberto Carlos"? "James Bree, more comparable to Thuram or Cafu?"

Edited Monday at 22:37 by Farmer Saint

[Galway saint]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

Che is, and was, wank. Let's not begin this revisionist history on Che being the second coming of Alan Shearer.

Apart from that, and KWP, we have Fernandes and Dibling, a much better Shea Charles. I really can't see how you think it's worse. And we got promoted - we were nowhere near mid table that season.

When you talk about AA's frame of mind, was he in a good frame in mind after his goalscoring exploits in the 22/23 season then?

He wasn’t ‘wank’ in the championship. He was a very good link man at that level. He missed some sitters along the way but as a player he has never really been an out and out goal scorer, but he was a solid performer for us.

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Chez said:

I'm cooling the Pop Fizz in readiness. 

Is it not false economics? We save on his wages, but have to pay Baz's and or someone else's instead. We gain £5m, but won't his value probably go down by a similar amount? If we have a suitor, is now not the time to exploit them?

I'm usually the first on here to say we have to be realistic and balance the books, and if this is the best deal available and we accept it, we obviously needed to, but I certainly won't be happy and describe it as a "good deal". Allowing your best player to leave on loan sucks. What other club does that?

 

Obviously I’d rather keep him but if we get a decent loan fee for a year and we go up then he’s still our player and we keep him or don’t need to sell so can ask for a bigger fee, if we don’t go up then he’ll have played a year of premier league football he’ll have two years left on his contact so his value certainly won’t have decreased that’s for sure, even go up if he makes the World Cup squad 

[Turkish]

50 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

It seemed like every challenging shot crisp packet wrists faced that season ended up in a goal to the opposition.

Fed up with us insisting on wasting time with these average players instead of just relying on decent solid if unspectacular signings. Think Radhi Jaidi, Dean Hammond and Chaplow back in the day.

If we line up against Wrexham with fucking Baz, Stephens and Smallbone starting I’ll slit my wrists.

Yep particularly low shots, get a shot hard and low and it seemed to end up in the net it didn’t even need to be on target. He seems to go down very slowly for such a young keeper and even when he did get his hand to them most of the time he’d not be able to keep them out. In his time here I dont remember him ever making a save that’s won us a point or two and his command of the area and crosses is really poor 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Anyone who thinks getting rid of our best players (e.g. Rambo and Fernandes) rather than losing the worst players (e.g. Stephens, Manning etc) is a delusional fool with half a brain. There, I said it and I fucking stand by it. #drunk

[Chez]

7 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Anyone who thinks getting rid of our best players (e.g. Rambo and Fernandes) rather than losing the worst players (e.g. Stephens, Manning etc) is a delusional fool with half a brain. There, I said it and I fucking stand by it. #drunk

Not sure you did.

[John B]

7 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Anyone who thinks getting rid of our best players (e.g. Rambo and Fernandes) rather than losing the worst players (e.g. Stephens, Manning etc) is a delusional fool with half a brain. There, I said it and I fucking stand by it. #drunk

Unfortunately players like KWP Adams Ramsdale and probably Fernandes and Dibling do not want to play for Southampton whereas Stephens and Manning do

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, John B said:

Unfortunately players like KWP Adams Ramsdale and probably Fernandes and Dibling do not want to play for Southampton whereas Stephens and Manning do

Given how poorly the club’s been run since Ronald left, accelerated by SR, I can’t really blame them tbh from a professional perspective. Ralph hid the decline but even he ran out of steam. Good luck to Still, he will need it. 

[Midfield_General]

Anyone mentioned a seaside B&B yet?

Man alive. It’s July. 

Edited yesterday at 07:02 by Midfield_General

[danjosaint]

51 minutes ago, John B said:

Unfortunately players like KWP Adams Ramsdale and probably Fernandes and Dibling do not want to play for Southampton whereas Stephens and Manning do

Thees a reason for that, they are both shit and should've been moved on but funny enough nobody wants/wanted them 

[Miltonaggro]

9 hours ago, bpsaint said:

It seemed like every challenging shot crisp packet wrists faced that season ended up in a goal to the opposition.

Fed up with us insisting on wasting time with these average players instead of just relying on decent solid if unspectacular signings. Think Radhi Jaidi, Dean Hammond and Chaplow back in the day.

If we line up against Wrexham with fucking Baz, Stephens and Smallbone starting I’ll slit my wrists.

Thing about the three you mention is that they have mistakes in them every single game, all whilst playing in crucial positions down the spine of the team.  In the Russell Martin Championship season there was an element of you score three we'll score four against poor opposition, but it's still a complete liability in the literal sense.  If those three start in the first few games the majority fanbase will be anticipating and expecting the Bazunu trademark flap and freeze, the Stephens slip and grab, or Smallbone brushed off or absent.  Will Still has already mentioned a desire for 'fortress St Marys' but if he picks that trio and we ship points it will be an avoidable self-inflicted injury when you desperately need a good start.  I hope that he's got more nous than that. 

[coalman]

6 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Thing about the three you mention is that they have mistakes in them every single game, all whilst playing in crucial positions down the spine of the team.  In the Russell Martin Championship season there was an element of you score three we'll score four against poor opposition, but it's still a complete liability in the literal sense.  If those three start in the first few games the majority fanbase will be anticipating and expecting the Bazunu trademark flap and freeze, the Stephens slip and grab, or Smallbone brushed off or absent.  Will Still has already mentioned a desire for 'fortress St Marys' but if he picks that trio and we ship points it will be an avoidable self-inflicted injury when you desperately need a good start.  I hope that he's got more nous than that. 

I'd be astonished if Smallbone starts against Wrexham. I wouldn't be astonished with Baz and Stephens starting. I wouldn't be happy, mind you.

[saintant]

2 hours ago, John B said:

Unfortunately players like KWP Adams Ramsdale and probably Fernandes and Dibling do not want to play for Southampton whereas Stephens and Manning do

I couldn't give a monkeys whether Stephens and Manning plus others want to play for Southampton FC - our new manager and DoF should not want them playing for us. Lessons must be learned rather than old mistakes repeated over and over again.

[beatlesaint]

I see Sky Sports understanding is Howe wants a keeper to compete with Pope, NOT replace him. 

[kitch]

4 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

I see Sky Sports understanding is Howe wants a keeper to compete with Pope, NOT replace him. 

Christ, imagine being a team that were comfortably being beaten by Southampton not 10 years ago, now buying one of their prized assets simply as a squad player.

Not sure if it reflects well on Newcastle, or badly on us. Probably both.

[AlexLaw76]

6 minutes ago, kitch said:

Christ, imagine being a team that were comfortably being beaten by Southampton not 10 years ago, now buying one of their prized assets simply as a squad player.

Not sure if it reflects well on Newcastle, or badly on us. Probably both.

we beat Inter Milan a few years ago, now we fight it out with Wrexham....

[DrSuess1979]

11 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

we beat Inter Milan a few years ago, now we fight it out with Wrexham....

Ouch 

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, coalman said:

I'd be astonished if Smallbone starts against Wrexham. I wouldn't be astonished with Baz and Stephens starting. I wouldn't be happy, mind you.

Prepare to be unhappy

[Miltonaggro]

26 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Prepare to be unhappy

If this is done under the ready made excuse that WS is still 'assessing' his squad options in the first few games it's a huge avoidable fuck up.  We can put the Stephens contract down to a trigger happy Spors but not the team selection for competitive matches - that's squarely on the manager.

[Bakovnetski]

Suggestion appeared on t'internet that we could go for Dubravka in return deal

[kitch]

Just now, Bakovnetski said:

Suggestion appeared on t'internet that we could go for Dubravka in return deal

I'd take that, as long as we were sufficiently financially compensated.

[Chez]

36 minutes ago, Bakovnetski said:

Suggestion appeared on t'internet that we could go for Dubravka in return deal

He performed really well for them. Getting on a bit.

My guess is we'd try to retain a spread of ages in the group of keepers we have, although perhaps that's not the most important thing on the check list.

[Fabrice29]

1 hour ago, Bakovnetski said:

Suggestion appeared on t'internet that we could go for Dubravka in return deal

Pretty sure Dubravka has been pretty desperate to get to Saudi for a couple of years now and keeps being told no at the last minute by Newcastle because they couldn't get anyone else in. The man wants a payday not a Championship slog.

[S-Clarke]

11 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Anyone mentioned a seaside B&B yet?

Man alive. It’s July. 

I do miss Alpine - wonder what happened to him?

Can't imagine what he'd be thinking right now, or the past season!

[Verbal]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I do miss Alpine - wonder what happened to him?

Can't imagine what he'd be thinking right now, or the past season!

In spirit he was on the pitch for all of last season

[Gloucester Saint]

35 minutes ago, Verbal said:

In spirit he was on the pitch for all of last season

Couldn’t have done any worse if he physically been either,

[Midfield_General]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

I do miss Alpine - wonder what happened to him?

Can't imagine what he'd be thinking right now, or the past season!

Wasn’t there a fairly convincing case put forward that Alpine was one of Glasgow’s many alter-egos? 

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Wasn’t there a fairly convincing case put forward that Alpine was one of Glasgow’s many alter-egos? 

I doubt it, Alpine was actually pictured on here with other forum members at a pre-season game in either Austria or Switzerland. Long time ago but I think it was possibly under Poch, or Ronald at a push. Was a very prolific poster and then just vanished.

[Saint Scott]

 

[CSA96]

£4m loan fee and 100% salary picked up, apparently 

[Dusic]

Not sure why we would be interested in Dubravka particularly. The last time he played a decent chunk of games for Newcastle their fans thought he was awful and in the end they rushed Pope back to get him out the team.

Be interesting to know the terms of the option, e.g does it potentially not apply if we go up, or does it give them sole control of whether they keep him or not?

If the latter then we might have been better off selling him.

Unpopular opinion but I think we will go with Baz at 1st choice with AMc as 2nd choice and then sign a 3rd choice, essentially the same as last time in the Champ.

If we are to get a first choice then it would have to be a loan and someone clearly superior to what we have plus getting rid of either Baz or AMc otherwise wages would be ridiculous with 3 keepers who all think they should be #1 

Edited 22 hours ago by Dusic

[Verbal]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I doubt it, Alpine was actually pictured on here with other forum members at a pre-season game in either Austria or Switzerland. Long time ago but I think it was possibly under Poch, or Ronald at a push. Was a very prolific poster and then just vanished.

Austria, because that's where he lived apparently. God only knows why I remember that. His paranoid android impersonation must have left scar tissue on my hippocampus. 

[die Mannyschaft]

11 hours ago, Miltonaggro said:

If this is done under the ready made excuse that WS is still 'assessing' his squad options in the first few games it's a huge avoidable fuck up.  We can put the Stephens contract down to a trigger happy Spors but not the team selection for competitive matches - that's squarely on the manager.

I get impression the manager deal was done on the basis of 'see what you can do with the team thats here and expect lots of sales. It's likely the style of play will be the same if the bulk of the 11 plus bench are same as.

[leeham_69]

On 29/07/2025 at 08:55, Turkish said:

Yep particularly low shots, get a shot hard and low and it seemed to end up in the net it didn’t even need to be on target. He seems to go down very slowly for such a young keeper and even when he did get his hand to them most of the time he’d not be able to keep them out. In his time here I dont remember him ever making a save that’s won us a point or two and his command of the area and crosses is really poor 

Edit: whoopsie disregard i made an error

Edited 20 hours ago by leeham_69
Edit: whoopsie disregard i made an error

[SaintTex]

5 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

I do miss Alpine - wonder what happened to him?

Can't imagine what he'd be thinking right now, or the past season!

he probably would be predicting a 17th place finish

or am i misremembering his schtick?

Edited 19 hours ago by SaintTex

[Turkish]

5 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I doubt it, Alpine was actually pictured on here with other forum members at a pre-season game in either Austria or Switzerland. Long time ago but I think it was possibly under Poch, or Ronald at a push. Was a very prolific poster and then just vanished.

The funniest time from him of which there were many was when he posted a load of bollocks which was disproved within minutes and tried to make it his young son had logged on here as him whilst he was away from his computer and it was him that had said it not alpine 

[austsaint]

4 hours ago, SaintTex said:

he probably would be predicting a 17th place finish

or am i misremembering his schtick?

Wasn’t that Dalek?    Alpines forecasts were a lot gloomier than that.

[CB Fry]

3 hours ago, Turkish said:

The funniest time from him of which there were many was when he posted a load of bollocks which was disproved within minutes and tried to make it his young son had logged on here as him whilst he was away from his computer and it was him that had said it not alpine 

"It was my son" was based on an England tournament campaign where he spent the entire thing saying his usual hate-the-overpaid-lazy etc etc England team, didn't want them to win a game, typical let's lose every gane and start again bollocks only to suddenly post a clutch of weirdly joyous, super excited celebratory posts when they won a match. But his son done it not him.......

Also he wrote off an entire Ashes based on the day one morning session (of course we went on to win that Ashes)

Was the only poster on here who hated the Koeman years because we didn't make the Champions League so we failed and didn't build on etc etc etc. Moaned like fuck pretty much every week of our best seasons in living memory

Also was partial to a Snickers or six.

 

 

 

Forever in our hearts x x x

[AlexLaw76]

So, no premier league club wants Ramsdale….

 

Apart from a champions league club, signing him way before their season starts

 

[Saint_clark]

9 hours ago, Saint Scott said:

 

Romano reckons we want him back if we go up again. I wouldn't. He'd rather go and sit on the bench for them than play for us in the Championship after being part of the team that dropped us down there? Fuck him and his inflated ego.

[CB Fry]

1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

Romano reckons we want him back if we go up again. I wouldn't. He'd rather go and sit on the bench for them than play for us in the Championship after being part of the team that dropped us down there? Fuck him and his inflated ego.

Ridiculous.

If I was facing a 50% pay cut I'd be going too. He doesn't owe you anything.

And he obviously isn't going to "sit on the bench", he will be their first choice keeper.

 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

"It was my son" was based on an England tournament campaign where he spent the entire thing saying his usual hate-the-overpaid-lazy etc etc England team, didn't want them to win a game, typical let's lose every gane and start again bollocks only to suddenly post a clutch of weirdly joyous, super excited celebratory posts when they won a match. But his son done it not him.......

Also he wrote off an entire Ashes based on the day one morning session (of course we went on to win that Ashes)

Was the only poster on here who hated the Koeman years because we didn't make the Champions League so we failed and didn't build on etc etc etc. Moaned like fuck pretty much every week of our best seasons in living memory

Also was partial to a Snickers or six.

 

 

 

Forever in our hearts x x x

What a guy!

[Gloucester Saint]

9 hours ago, Dusic said:

Not sure why we would be interested in Dubravka particularly. The last time he played a decent chunk of games for Newcastle their fans thought he was awful and in the end they rushed Pope back to get him out the team.

Unpopular opinion but I think we will go with Baz at 1st choice with AMc as 2nd choice and then sign a 3rd choice, essentially the same as last time in the Champ.

Agree with the top part…

But nah, not the second, Mat Ryan is on a free, just played well for Will Still at Lens and heaps of good experience for Brighton in the Prem. If he wants to join, #1 is sorted next season and #2 sorted if we go up. Simples. No need to gamble on Baz or Alex.

[gio1saints]

9 hours ago, Dusic said:

Not sure why we would be interested in Dubravka particularly. The last time he played a decent chunk of games for Newcastle their fans thought he was awful and in the end they rushed Pope back to get him out the team.

Be interesting to know the terms of the option, e.g does it potentially not apply if we go up, or does it give them sole control of whether they keep him or not?

If the latter then we might have been better off selling him.

Unpopular opinion but I think we will go with Baz at 1st choice with AMc as 2nd choice and then sign a 3rd choice, essentially the same as last time in the Champ.

If we are to get a first choice then it would have to be a loan and someone clearly superior to what we have plus getting rid of either Baz or AMc otherwise wages would be ridiculous with 3 keepers who all think they should be #1 

Agree that we will start with Gav and Alex. I think that’s it for Aaron at Saints. Good guy and good goalie, he will do well at Newcastle. 

The prospect of Dubravka in return does not worry me but it’s v unlikely given his wages. We had Willy Cabellero do a similar “ older, experienced gk” job for us and I’m still expecting that type of goalie to be brought in even if Alex may consider that his domain even now. The timing of the Moody contract suggests we have hopes for him so it is rather interesting. 
 

The type of goalie Saints pick up will give us further clues about their general strategy for the season. Picking up a no mark kid prospect, hiring an old  done it all pro, raiding stoke for their goalie or trying to get Sunderland’s etc etc. 

[Fabrice29]

52 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Ridiculous.

If I was facing a 50% pay cut I'd be going too. He doesn't owe you anything.

And he obviously isn't going to "sit on the bench", he will be their first choice keeper.

 

Obviously first choice you think? Let’s revisit this because I think if Pope stays fit he’ll be the one playing the big games by the end of the season if there is any.