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29 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Leeds showing how to make a good fist of it on their return to the PL. Totally dominating Everton so far. OK Everton have been every bit as shite as expected but Leeds are properly going for it and looking dangerous.

Leeds 11 shots Everton 0 !

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34 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Leeds showing how to make a good fist of it on their return to the PL. Totally dominating Everton so far. OK Everton have been every bit as shite as expected but Leeds are properly going for it and looking dangerous.

 

4 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Leeds 11 shots Everton 0 !

Anyone know of a decent creative attacking midfielder they could buy for £50m...?

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On 16/08/2025 at 18:19, Badger said:

Must have been well worth it, to get shafted at Bournemouth, and especially 5-0 down at HT home to Spurs. 

Yeah funny that Russel. Might there be a common factor in causing the pain?

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46 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Are you suggesting philosophy managers with possession based football getting championship players to play like Peps Barcelona is now a thing of the past and high tempo football with wingers and crosses is now cool? Next you’ll be suggesting a big man up top to get on the end of them 

Sesko, Gyokeres, Haaland, Isak, Ekiteke, João Pedro...the big centre forward has already make a come back. 

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6 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Grealish on now , £100M player they say ! 

Grealish was class when he joined City a brilliant player. He was never suited to Guardiola team, even though he’s won all there is he never became the player he could have unfortunately 

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Posted (edited)
Just now, Matty's Caddy said:

Another shit VAR decision 

Thought it was a penalty. He leaned right into it, and it would have been on target had it not hit his arm...

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2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Grealish was class when he joined City a brilliant player. He was never suited to Guardiola team, even though he’s won all there is he never became the player he could have unfortunately 

Had it coached out of him I feel , can he dePep himself though?

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3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Thought it was a penalty. He leaned right into it, and it would have been on target had it not hit his arm...

His arm is tucked behind his back by the time it makes contact. What is he meant to do cut his arm off before he tries to block it with his body? 

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Just now, RedArmy said:

His arm is tucked behind his back by the time it makes contact. What is he meant to do cut his arm off before he tries to block it with his body? 

it hit him by his side, not behind his back. 

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Shameful seeing how much fight Sunderland and Leeds put up in their first game compared with our limp dicked attempt at being a Premier League team. 

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Personally dont think its a penalty, but it is a perfect opportunity to let the ref have a look at it on the monitor. It happens so quickly theres no way him or the lino could be 100% sure its a handball

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1 minute ago, bpsaint said:

Shameful seeing how much fight Sunderland and Leeds put up in their first game compared with our limp dicked attempt at being a Premier League team. 

We played better our first game at Newcastle. Think many getting carried away already about Sunderland and Leeds. Suited both having pumped up home crowd and playing two clubs who aren’t in a great place morale wise 

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That playoff final feels a bit of a sliding doors moment, it shouldn't have been for us in any way, but we mismanaged it so badly that it was a pointless promotion and we're now light years away from the team we beat 2 years ago.

Leeds stayed down, became stronger, and have now come back into the PL with a stronger base to compete than we ever had.

What a mess we made of planning for that PL season. Honestly, we couldn't have done it any worse if we tried.

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Can see why it was given, and I didn't think VAR would find a good enough reason to overturn it. It's because he leaned into it and was never going to make contact with anything other than his arm. 

Fair result overall. As much as I dislike Leeds, I'm always happy to see Everton lose.

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1 minute ago, whelk said:

We played better our first game at Newcastle. Think many getting carried away already about Sunderland and Leeds. Suited both having pumped up home crowd and playing two clubs who aren’t in a great place morale wise 

I think Leeds will do ok, I don’t know much about Sunderland but I think they’ll struggle 

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Just now, Toussaint said:

Sunderland and Leeds have both achieved 25% of Saints seasons total points in one game 😂 

Tbf any promoted side who is organised defensively and works hard, will easily reach our total by Christmas

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I think none of the promoted teams last season got a win until October, and now two in the first bloody game.

Maybe the three of us were in a different dimension of shitness.

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3 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

That playoff final feels a bit of a sliding doors moment, it shouldn't have been for us in any way, but we mismanaged it so badly that it was a pointless promotion and we're now light years away from the team we beat 2 years ago.

Leeds stayed down, became stronger, and have now come back into the PL with a stronger base to compete than we ever had.

What a mess we made of planning for that PL season. Honestly, we couldn't have done it any worse if we tried.

If we'd stayed down and got promoted last season instead, Russell Martin would still be manager and we'd be about to experience Martin-ball in the PL which, however well we planned or bought, I am 100% sure would end in complete disaster as it did.

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4 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

That playoff final feels a bit of a sliding doors moment, it shouldn't have been for us in any way, but we mismanaged it so badly that it was a pointless promotion and we're now light years away from the team we beat 2 years ago.

Leeds stayed down, became stronger, and have now come back into the PL with a stronger base to compete than we ever had.

What a mess we made of planning for that PL season. Honestly, we couldn't have done it any worse if we tried.

We're light years away from Leeds.....😂

Very good chance we'll be passing each other again come May

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Just now, SWLondon Saint said:

If we'd stayed down and got promoted last season instead, Russell Martin would still be manager and we'd be about to experience Martin-ball in the PL which, however well we planned or bought, I am 100% sure would end in complete disaster as it did.

If I'm honest, if we'd stayed down I don't believe Martin would have stayed in charge. We'd have dumped him.

I think it would have entirely changed our course.

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1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

I think none of the promoted teams last season got a win until October, and now two in the first bloody game.

Maybe the three of us were in a different dimension of shitness.

I watched the 2nd half. Leeds brought us Longstaff, whilst Sunderland had Xhaka in their team.

Huge difference compared to the weak-as-piss crap we signed

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6 minutes ago, whelk said:

We played better our first game at Newcastle. Think many getting carried away already about Sunderland and Leeds. Suited both having pumped up home crowd and playing two clubs who aren’t in a great place morale wise 

True Newcastle was ok, I still recall going into the Forest home match with a bit of hope, and it was utter shite from there on out 

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Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

I watched the 2nd half. Leeds brought us Longstaff, whilst Sunderland had Xhaka in their team.

Huge difference compared to the weak-as-piss crap we signed

We had Aribo at CB though, don't forget that magic moment.

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Just now, Mixedkebab said:

True Newcastle was ok, I still recall going into the Forest home match with a bit of hope, and it was utter shite from there on out 

was then when Martin played our 2 strikers on each touchline?

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1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

I think none of the promoted teams last season got a win until October, and now two in the first bloody game.

Maybe the three of us were in a different dimension of shitness.

Ipswich battered Liverpool on opening day although lost 2-0 in the end. If they were up against equivalent West Ham or Everton they could well of won. We were different level shit of course

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Just now, S-Clarke said:

If I'm honest, if we'd stayed down I don't believe Martin would have stayed in charge. We'd have dumped him.

I think it would have entirely changed our course.

I think there's a high chance he'd have got another season just like Farke did if we'd lost closely in the playoff final, and Rasmus would probably still be in charge unless we failed to get promoted again - which to be fair would have been quite likely, so now we'd be out of parachute payments and up shit creek.

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8 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

I think there's a high chance he'd have got another season just like Farke did if we'd lost closely in the playoff final, and Rasmus would probably still be in charge unless we failed to get promoted again - which to be fair would have been quite likely, so now we'd be out of parachute payments and up shit creek.


Yep, I agree.. if we hadn’t been promoted, we’d have had another poor window and be in an even worse position imo. 

Everything boils down to recruitment. SR have a couple more weeks to prove that they have learned some lessons….

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That's because Regis le bris and Farke and the rest of the planet knew you needed to be physical, Athletic, well set up and have a strong spine with leaders, The smarmy prick thought he knew best. Look where we are now, a shambles of a squad with players nobody wants 

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8 minutes ago, danjosaint said:

That's because Regis le bris and Farke and the rest of the planet knew you needed to be physical, Athletic, well set up and have a strong spine with leaders, The smarmy prick thought he knew best. Look where we are now, a shambles of a squad with players nobody wants 

The fact that he came out after and said ''Yeah, if we had to go again we'd target more physical players'' - yeah whatever.

We started the season with Will Smallbone, Joe Aribo and Flynn Downes as the midfield 3. He got rid of Charly and loaned out Charles and he felt that was acceptable.

Absolute bonkers bloke.

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I think overall, our unrivalled level of shitness last season has duped most of the country into thinking the premier league is now impossible for newly promoted teams to survive. Throw in a very poor Leicester aswell and everyone has just assumed the gulf is too much to bridge: it isn’t. Yes it’s very tough, but with the right tactics and game plan, a togetherness in the squad and some physical presence, You can survive.

I also think our “efforts” last season have also been used as a reminder and benchmark about how NOT to run a club when you’ve been promoted. Teams will cast an eye over what we did and do the exact opposite. Let’s not underestimate just how horrifically run and prepared for last season we were. A total disgrace to be honest, with a manager more interested in his own image than the good of the club. This was a saints thing, not a premier league thing. It was vintage sport republic

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3 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

If I'm honest, if we'd stayed down I don't believe Martin would have stayed in charge. We'd have dumped him.

I think it would have entirely changed our course.

Nah don't believe that at all, all the talk at the time was about a five year plan with us being in the Prem at the end of it. It's why I was worried they would keep Martin if we went down because we would have still had two years left till the end of that time frame. In fact, given what was said at the fans forum I'm even more certain they would have kept him if it wasn't for how much abuse he was getting from the fans.

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4 hours ago, Saint_clark said:

. In fact, given what was said at the fans forum I'm even more certain they would have kept him if it wasn't for how much abuse he was getting from the fans.

I thought that comment was just a bit of window dressing from Parsons who wanted to appear ‘compassionate’ and not one of ‘the nasty guys’ who’d ruthlessly sack a manager.

I don’t recall Martin getting much abuse at games. Just some sarcastic jeering of the play when the GK kicked long. Saints fans were too tolerant of his style of play in the ground. Parsons should have seen the flak others received (Nicoll, Branfoot etc), he’d have shit himself. 

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10 hours ago, RedArmy said:

His arm is tucked behind his back by the time it makes contact. What is he meant to do cut his arm off before he tries to block it with his body? 

I think it was the way that he leaned into the ball that cost him. True, the shot was deflected, but even before VAR and all the rule changes recently I think that would have been given. 

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10 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:


Yep, I agree.. if we hadn’t been promoted, we’d have had another poor window and be in an even worse position imo. 

Everything boils down to recruitment. SR have a couple more weeks to prove that they have learned some lessons….

The way it's shaping up so far I'll not be holding my breath on that one. Two weeks to go so plenty of time left but this is feeling like previous windows where it's a case of make do and mend. Prove me wrong Spors by signing some exciting players who will add to the squad not clog it up with more mediocrity. 

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11 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

was then when Martin played our 2 strikers on each touchline?

I remember going to Bournemouth, played with wide players, no one up top in the centre and having five strikers on the bench. 🤣

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