Saints vs Hull - Saturday 3pm

[LGTL]

1 hour ago, Barton Saint said:

We desperately need to win these 2 home games to get on a roll for the 25th

True. Although we won’t. 

I still remember the last home game before going to Fratton in the league. We were flying high and still managed to only draw with lowly Blackpool, losing our 21 winning match home run!

[Football Special]

15 minutes ago, LGTL said:

True. Although we won’t. 

I still remember the last home game before going to Fratton in the league. We were flying high and still managed to only draw with lowly Blackpool, losing our 21 winning match home run!

Bart letting one through his legs wasn't it? Those were the days, home games had a feelgood factor 

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

Bart letting one through his legs wasn't it? Those were the days, home games had a feelgood factor 

Yes. Injury time equaliser as I recall. 

[SW11_Saint]

On 11/01/2026 at 12:54, Turkish said:

**Well we can’t play any worse than we did earlier in the season up there, truly abysmal.** Given our current form though be lucky to get a draw 

Challenge accepted (by SFC)

[Maggie May]

We’ve been abysmal but we need to get behind the players and Ekhert. 

[StrangelyBrown]

28 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

We’ve been abysmal but we need to get behind the players and Ekhert. 

Why?

We're not going up this season and we're unlikely to go down. What do they need our support for? The players attitude hasn't been good enough - why should we cheer them on? Ekhert isn't good enough why does he deserve support?

I've supported this club through everything for a very long time, but I've never felt so detached from the team, manager and owners as I do now.

Edited yesterday at 07:12 by StrangelyBrown

[Football Special]

https://not606.com/threads/southampton-v-hull-city.421852/post-18887767

"If we’re going up we need to win these sort of games. They have some good players but they’re a **** team. As long as we turn up and actually put a performance in we should have too much for them." 

A fair post by a Hull fan but really emphasises SR's failings in building a competitive "team" 

[Mr X]

50 minutes ago, StrangelyBrown said:

Why?

We're not going up this season and we're unlikely to go down. What do they need our support for? The players attitude hasn't been good enough - why should we cheer them on? Ekhert isn't good enough why does he deserve support?

I've supported this club through everything for a very long time, but I've never felt so detached from the team, manager and owners as I do now.

Sport Republic should be no where near running any football club that's for sure... They just limp from one disaterous decision to another! Seems the people making major decisions at the club have zero insight or experience in the football world! and Unfortunately we are stuck with them so the cycle will continue.

We can't remove them but we can and should be making it more difficult for them! 

[Challenger]

3 hours ago, Maggie May said:

We’ve been abysmal but we need to get behind the players and Ekhert. 

There's no space to get behind our players as they're so damn slow getting forward.

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, Football Special said:

https://not606.com/threads/southampton-v-hull-city.421852/post-18887767

"If we’re going up we need to win these sort of games. They have some good players but they’re a **** team. As long as we turn up and actually put a performance in we should have too much for them." 

A fair post by a Hull fan but really emphasises SR's failings in building a competitive "team" 

Pretty much bang on really.

[S-Clarke]

5 hours ago, Football Special said:

https://not606.com/threads/southampton-v-hull-city.421852/post-18887767

"If we’re going up we need to win these sort of games. They have some good players but they’re a **** team. As long as we turn up and actually put a performance in we should have too much for them." 

A fair post by a Hull fan but really emphasises SR's failings in building a competitive "team" 

He isn't wrong, and for Hull to think they can come here and have too much for us in 2026 is a damming sum up of the entire SR reign.

[Sheaf Saint]

22 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

He isn't wrong, and for Hull to think they can come here and have too much for us in 2026 is a damming sum up of the entire SR reign.

They will have too much for us. Now that the Tonda interim bubble has well and truly burst, we're playing just as badly as we were when they bullied us up at theirs earlier in the season. 

[Gloucester Saint]

27 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

He isn't wrong, and for Hull to know they will come here and have too much for us in 2026 is a damming sum up of the entire SR reign.

Slightly corrected for factuality.

[Jack]

They mentioned it on TSP and it’s how I’ve felt about this game - feels just like the Preston game. A decent but unspectacular side are coming to SMS with some belief, a team that on paper we should be dealing with but we just don’t do that these days. It’s going to have to go fairly well from the start or this ever increasing noise of discontent is going to take off again and it’ll be a vile atmosphere, and likely defeat. Can easily see us picking up just 1 point before the Pompey game and we know how that’ll go. 
 

Spors massively jumped the gun coming out and telling everyone how clever he was after Tonda’s temporary uptick in form, he’s back in his box now and I hope he’s working round the clock to sort this mess out that SR have caused. 

[Wade Garrett]

I would think Eckert will go back to his tried and tested 3 centre-backs and lots of sideways and backward passes between them.

When I say tried and tested I mean tried and tested to get fucking dicked again.

Football fucking genius.

[Appy]

Looking forward to the “dirty skate bastards we’re coming” for you chant as we limp to defeat. 

[die Mannyschaft]

3 hours ago, Jack said:

They mentioned it on TSP and it’s how I’ve felt about this game - feels just like the Preston game. A decent but unspectacular side are coming to SMS with some belief, a team that on paper we should be dealing with but we just don’t do that these days. It’s going to have to go fairly well from the start or this ever increasing noise of discontent is going to take off again and it’ll be a vile atmosphere, and likely defeat. Can easily see us picking up just 1 point before the Pompey game and we know how that’ll go. 
 

Spors massively jumped the gun coming out and telling everyone how clever he was after Tonda’s temporary uptick in form, he’s back in his box now and I hope he’s working round the clock to sort this mess out that SR have caused. 

We paid well over the odds for one game wonders. Relying on 2 decent players for only half the game then complete rubbish football. Most fans have given up on ' on paper ' we can make top 6. Its the worst (Wurst) football I've ever seen in 50 years, utter crap from £100m players. The coaching is now non existent and manager has disappeared, is he in garden leave and its a hologram in dug out. Mays just as well give up in 2nd half, no wonder most fans have.

Edited 22 hours ago by die Mannyschaft

[die Mannyschaft]

9 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

He isn't wrong, and for Hull to think they can come here and have too much for us in 2026 is a damming sum up of the entire SR reign.

Hull are a much better team, as a unit the will out pace and muscle us off the ball. We cant complete over 90 mins and we will get caught on break or corner. 

[Andy Hill]

It will be men versus boys - and we all know who the boys will be. Onwards and downwards. 

[Gloucester Saint]

9 hours ago, die Mannyschaft said:

We paid well over the odds for one game wonders. Relying on 2 decent players for only half the game then complete rubbish football. Most fans have given up on ' on paper ' we can make top 6. Its the worst (Wurst) football I've ever seen in 50 years, utter crap from £100m players. The coaching is now non existent and manager has disappeared, is he in garden leave and its a hologram in dug out. Mays just as well give up in 2nd half, no wonder most fans have.

At least their hologram in goal has temporarily relocated to Staffordshire but yes, mini Rasmus will be in the dug out awaiting instructions as normal. 

[Fabrice29]

33 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

At least their hologram in goal has temporarily relocated to Staffordshire but yes, mini Rasmus will be in the dug out awaiting instructions as normal. 

Wasn’t it widely considered that Rasmus was the advisor advising Solak not to appoint TE? 

[Paul_B]

On 11/01/2026 at 14:13, Andy Hill said:

Unless we manage to find some pace and urgency from somewhere then the decline into mediocrity will continue.

Haha, we're well within the mediocrity phase already. Next stop is oblivion.

[trousers]

Yay... Another weakened side which we'll ruthlessly take advantage of...

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

Yay... Another weakened side which we'll ruthlessly take advantage of...

I've seen a correlation recently, the more players the opposition are "missing" the more likely it is for them to win, Millwall were down to their bare bones with the team kit man and coach driver on the bench etc 

Edited 8 hours ago by Football Special

[Midfield_General]

3 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

Wasn’t it widely considered that Rasmus was the advisor advising Solak not to appoint TE? 

Could you share your source for that please? 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

Wasn’t it widely considered that Rasmus was the advisor advising Solak not to appoint TE? 

Didn’t see that - possible - doesn’t reflect well on Spors if so. Nothing against the lad but awful to watch someone that far out of their depth. 

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

I've seen a correlation recently, the more players the opposition are "missing" the more likely it is for them to win, Millwall were down to their bare bones with the team kit man and coach driver on the bench etc 

We all know how this ends….Ron the coach driver in his 60s coming on and bullying Stephens/THB for McBurnie to prod a late winner. Ron saying in the post match interviews that 40 years of Benson & Hedges didn’t do him any harm. 

[Fabrice29]

27 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Could you share your source for that please? 

Tbh, I can’t find it. There’s this podcast when House states someone is advising Dragan to go for more experience but doesn’t say who. I’m sure he or Blackmore have said Rasmus is their footballer advisor so maybe I’ve over assumed.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Fabrice29

[Gloucester Saint]

Either way, the latest experiment needs bringing to an end. Experienced manager please, Mowbray to end of season if they want to go longer-term in the summer, but let them and Spors get on with their jobs. 

[BotleySaint]

As bad as we've been lately, at least we won't have a crisp packet in goal *

 

* assuming Peretz is ok!

[Fabrice29]

9 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Either way, the latest experiment needs bringing to an end. Experienced manager please, Mowbray to end of season if they want to go longer-term in the summer, but let them and Spors get on with their jobs. 

If we’re writing off this season. (I’m not saying we should) then is giving Eckert the rest of the season to build up his experience not a worthwhile plan? 

If we’re not writing off this season then is bringing in a manger who last season couldn’t get much out of our best striker really a great plan?. (And I like Mowbray btw) 

Edited 7 hours ago by Fabrice29

[Challenger]

More aim for the bare minimum again no doubt.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

4 hours ago, trousers said:

Yay... Another weakened side which we'll ruthlessly take advantage of...

Oh FFS, we all know what this means. 

[die Mannyschaft]

2 hours ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Oh FFS, we all know what this means. 

It means Saints 1-4 Hull. 

Its almost impossible for a full 1st team squard including 5 subs to lose against a team with 9 1st team players out. If we lose this game we really are the worst tam jn championship. Just imagine if we had 9 players out, would be 0-14 at HT.

[Lighthouse]

If you'd told me in July that we'd be 15th on new year's day, I'd have been pretty cheesed off. If you'd said we'd be here despite a really quite astonishing string of good luck regarding our opponents injuries, I'd have thrown the whole f**king smorgasbord at you.

[AlexLaw76]

Pompey have a huge injury crisis also.

we seem to play teams with huge injury issues, and still look largely shit

Go Tonda!!!!

[Maggie May]

On 13/01/2026 at 06:55, StrangelyBrown said:

Why?

We're not going up this season and we're unlikely to go down. What do they need our support for? The players attitude hasn't been good enough - why should we cheer them on? Ekhert isn't good enough why does he deserve support?

I've supported this club through everything for a very long time, but I've never felt so detached from the team, manager and owners as I do now.

Surely nothing is as bad as the Poortvilet/Wotte relegation season?  They were proper grim times. 

[stfrancisofbenali]

10 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Pompey have a huge injury crisis also.

we seem to play teams with huge injury issues, and still look largely shit

Go Tonda!!!!

Millwall, Norwich, Oxford. Zero points. Doesn't matter which players teams put on the pitch. If they have a go at us, we fold like a pack of cards.

[StrangelyBrown]

29 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

Surely nothing is as bad as the Poortvilet/Wotte relegation season?  They were proper grim times. 

True, but somehow this seems bleaker. I could accept we were financially screwed in those days. With SR they've spent money making us this depressingly bad and boring with literally no regard to the fans.

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, die Mannyschaft said:

It means Saints 1-4 Hull. 

Its almost impossible for a full 1st team squard including 5 subs to lose against a team with 9 1st team players out. If we lose this game we really are the worst tam jn championship. Just imagine if we had 9 players out, would be 0-14 at HT.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, Maggie May said:

Surely nothing is as bad as the Poortvilet/Wotte relegation season?  They were proper grim times. 

Different expectations that season. Was grim but light at the end of tunnel in the prospect of breaking the Lowe/Askham stranglehold.

[Saint NL]

11 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

At least their hologram in goal has temporarily relocated to Staffordshire but yes, mini Rasmus will be in the dug out awaiting instructions as normal. 

That's a bit harsh, Saints have been playing a revolutionary "False #1" formation for the last couple of years

[Challenger]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Pompey have a huge injury crisis also.

we seem to play teams with huge injury issues, and still look largely shit

Go Tonda!!!!

The same as not beating opponents reduced to ten men, when it happens to us it's a cricket score.