Saints vs Arsenal - Thank F**k it’s All Over Thread

[Lighthouse]

Sunday, 4pm, COYR etc.

[Weston Super Saint]

Do we have to?

[macca155]

Great title, sums up the season.

One last hurrah boys

[beatlesaint]

I’m seriously hoping the fan base let these twats have it with both barrels.

Having to watch this shite for the last 9 months has been the worst experience in 50 years of supporting the club.

Worse than League One starting on minus 10, worse than Branfoot, worse than Jones, worse than Hughes……

[sockeye]

THIS is the beginning of the greatest era in our history.

9-0 Saints. Ramsdale, Smallbone and Sulemana amongst the goal scorers. Arteta will blame the ball being too round.

[Saint Billy]

Thank fuck for that, I can actually enjoy Saturdays for a few weeks.

[Appy]

Arsenal are exactly the sort of team that will rock up, last day of the season, pressure all off them and hand out an absolute slapping. 
 

0-5

[Saint Mikey]

Anyone know if technically Charles, Edwards or Armstrong have been available to us since the end of their season?

Not suggesting it's a good idea, as the group we have is already too big with the likes of Fraser, Gronbaek, ABK and Taylor not getting into the matchday squad.

Just wondered if they are back training, or we just said - enjoy your holiday lads and come back next year...

[AlexLaw76]

Last game thank fuck

Last game of Rusk-ball also

[CSA96]

[die Mannyschaft]

At Everton someone the fans behind me in top tier in 1st half were complaining the pillar was blocking thier view. Can we get the builders in to install some pillars in Northam before Sunday. Or getthat big flag out. 'Will' the new manager be announced before KO!

[Whitey Grandad]

Last game in our season ticket seats. Should we be glad or sad that it has all come to an end?

[Turkish]

30 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Last game in our season ticket seats. Should we be glad or sad that it has all come to an end?

dont be glad it's over be sad it happened.

[Oldandtired]

Let’s get it over and done with. Then the usual optimism with new manager, players till the reality check kicks in.

Been there, done that.

[CSA96]

Saints hoping to have Will Still in the stands for this game, according to Echo

[Pamplemousse]

I genuinely don't care. The only thing irritating thing is having to travel down from London (and back) with Arsenal fans who are as annoying in real life as they are online.

Edited Monday at 15:49 by Pamplemousse

[Saint Fan CaM]

I’ll probably watch the game, despite the inevitable disappointment. I don’t mind Arsenal…they’re not a team I hold any bad feelings about really, but will do if they utterly spank us (which is highly likely). For once I’m looking forward more to the summer close season than the actual season to see what transpires with a new Manager, the anticipated squad clear out and hopefully getting to watch a transformed playing style in the pre-season friendlies (i.e. the exorcism of ‘Russball’).

[Badger]

25 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

Saints hoping to have Will Still in the stands for this game, according to Echo

Is it too early to have a flag, or perhaps a flypast, telling him to fuck off ?

[Convict Colony]

Thread title is perfect 👍 

[saint michael]

1 hour ago, die Mannyschaft said:

At Everton someone the fans behind me in top tier in 1st half were complaining the pillar was blocking thier view. Can we get the builders in to install some pillars in Northam before Sunday. Or getthat big flag out. 'Will' the new manager be announced before KO!

Big flag of Pride of the South should do it 

[Appy]

29 minutes ago, Badger said:

Is it too early to have a flag, or perhaps a flypast, telling him to fuck off ?

He’ll probably leave anyway if he sits through a game watching us. 

[Turkish]

I wonder if the new manager will be welcomed with a chant from the Chapel Kop of "you dont know what youre doing" 

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, beatlesaint said:

I’m seriously hoping the fan base let these twats have it with both barrels.

Having to watch this shite for the last 9 months has been the worst experience in 50 years of supporting the club.

Worse than League One starting on minus 10, worse than Branfoot, worse than Jones, worse than Hughes……

Even worse than Pellegrino which I didn’t think was possible.

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, CSA96 said:

Saints hoping to have Will Still in the stands for this game, according to Echo

Trying to fill empty seats left vacant by season ticket holders who just can't face anymore? 

[Football Special]

Arsenal at home 

Last game of the season 

Surely this last happened 24 years ago (on this day) 

Hopefully a similar result 

 

[skintsaint]

2 hours ago, CSA96 said:

Saints hoping to have Will Still in the stands for this game, according to Echo

Hope they have the contract signed by that point ....

[trousers]

If Rusk goes ultra safe again I fear for the safety of my cat... Just go for it FFS... 

[dsrdorset]

Looking for 1 spare, if anyone can't face it!!! Cheers

[tdmickey3]

We need someone to write summary of the season, any suggestions or volunteers?

to include all the highs  and lows

[Appy]

17 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

We need someone to write summary of the season, any suggestions or volunteers?

to include all the highs  and lows

“It was shite”

[bugenhagen]

33 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

We need someone to write summary of the season, any suggestions or volunteers?

to include all the highs  and lows

I wish they still did those end of season DVD's...

[AlexLaw76]

46 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

We need someone to write summary of the season, any suggestions or volunteers?

to include all the highs  and lows

It was shite, but fans clapped it 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Love the title 😂

Anything under three conceded is phenomenal.

Under five is annoying.

Under seven is a shame. 

But I think it’ll be 3-1 to Arsenal. Ross Stewart tap in.

[coalman]

 

 

[madge]

4 hours ago, CSA96 said:

Saints hoping to have Will Still in the stands for this game, according to Echo

I really hope not… be unfair to subject any new manager to this complete dogshit. Season ends then fresh start. I truly hope sports republic get some abuse, they’ve been absolutely shite. Reckon there will be less than 10k left in the stadium for the round of applause. 

[Mboto Gorge]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

Arsenal at home 

Last game of the season 

Surely this last happened 24 years ago (on this day) 

Hopefully a similar result 

 

The difference between that team then, and this team now, is on par with the difference in sex appeal between Rachel Riley and Susan Boyle. 
 

spoiler - 2025 saints aren’t Rachel Riley

[imadirtyurchin]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

Arsenal at home 

Last game of the season 

Surely this last happened 24 years ago (on this day) 

Hopefully a similar result 

 

24 years?! 
 

I was in the Milton road end when that went in. Absolute limbs. Good memories. That saints team would smash this one. 
 

blimey le tiss looks unfit though 🤣

[SaintsBarry74]

Currently our gd is -60, if we lose 0-9 we tie with Derby for the worst gd ever.

It's not like us to lose a game 0-9 or is it?

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, Mboto Gorge said:

The difference between that team then, and this team now, is on par with the difference in sex appeal between Rachel Riley and Susan Boyle. 
 

spoiler - 2025 saints aren’t Rachel Riley

Don't knock sexy Susan pal 

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Currently our gd is -60, if we lose 0-9 we tie with Derby for the worst gd ever.

It's not like us to lose a game 0-9 or is it?

I think Sheff Utd did that last year conceded over 100 goals as well, they were as bad as us really 

[Sarnia Cherie]

4 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

We need someone to write summary of the season, any suggestions or volunteers?

to include all the highs  and lows

S Clarke always writes a good review. 

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Currently our gd is -60, if we lose 0-9 we tie with Derby for the worst gd ever.

It's not like us to lose a game 0-9 or is it?

1-10 would do it.

[Galway saint]

Its been abysmal.

Have we ever been so uncompetitive during an entire season in our history ? 

Still beggars belief that the club thought a forward line of BBD, Archer, Stewart and TP would be enough to keep us up. Speaks volumes about the footballing acumen of the people running the club. 

[SouSaint]

37 minutes ago, Galway saint said:

Its been abysmal.

Have we ever been so uncompetitive during an entire season in our history ? 

Still beggars belief that the club thought a forward line of BBD, Archer, Stewart and TP would be enough to keep us up. Speaks volumes about the footballing acumen of the people running the club. 

As well as having Bednarek and Stephens as two of our main CBs despite us fucking both of them off at the beginning of our last PL campaign. 

The decision makers have been given such a free ride by a very placid fanbase this season, it would be good to hear some toxicity pointed towards Sport Republic for this game but no doubt people will stay and applaud at the FT whistle. 

[Andy Hill]

Well - hopefully this will be the last time that we see most of them ambling around in a Saints shirt pretending to be a footballer.

[Saint Fan CaM]

1 hour ago, Galway saint said:

Its been abysmal.

Have we ever been so uncompetitive during an entire season in our history ? 

Still beggars belief that the club thought a forward line of BBD, Archer, Stewart and TP would be enough to keep us up. Speaks volumes about the footballing acumen of the people running the club. 

Not only that, but to consistently play a style of football that almost completely nullifies the minimal strengths of those players is sheer madness - strikers hugging the wings, few crosses into the box aiming at one of the tallest strikers in the league…etc. Crass stupidity would not be too harsh a description of what we’ve witnessed.

[OldNick]

1 hour ago, SouSaint said:

As well as having Bednarek and Stephens as two of our main CBs despite us fucking both of them off at the beginning of our last PL campaign. 

The decision makers have been given such a free ride by a very placid fanbase this season, it would be good to hear some toxicity pointed towards Sport Republic for this game but no doubt people will stay and applaud at the FT whistle. 

I feel that the way the fans have taken the season the way we have is that we knew that the squad wasnt up to it and so accepted our fate. Abusing the owners is all well and good, but where does that get us. Ive seen many a fan shout abuse on the terraces, but when they come face face they almost get on their knees in reverence. Most fans are all talk

[Saint Paul C]

The 2024/25 Season Review (Comedy of Errors Edition)

 

Well, if you were looking for a footballing masterclass this season, Southampton FC politely offered the opposite – a 38-game-long tragicomedy that had fans laughing through the tears.

 

Finishing rock bottom of the Premier League, Saints managed to defy expectations… by being even worse than anyone thought possible. They flirted with a record-low points tally and only narrowly avoided it thanks to a late-season draw that no one actually watched because they’d emotionally checked out in November.

 

The managerial carousel spun so fast it could’ve powered the stadium floodlights. Southampton had more managers than wins, which is quite the feat. At one point, it wasn’t clear who was in charge – a bloke from the car park was spotted holding the tactical board during one match, and honestly, it didn’t make things worse.

 

On the pitch, the players displayed all the urgency and cohesion of a group project where nobody wanted to be there. Their defending was more “open door policy” than tactical discipline, and their attacking play looked like they’d just met five minutes before kickoff. Body language ranged from “mildly bored” to “is that my Uber?”

 

All in all, it was a season that will live long in infamy – a Shakespearean tragedy set to the soundtrack of groans from the St Mary’s faithful. But hey, at least relegation means they can finally try to win a few games again… right?

 

Hope springs eternal – even in the Championship.

[kjurwi]

Just start with a forward. 

 

[Barton Saint]

Just go out and play for fun with a striker or 2 and maybe score a goal in May