Leicester vs Saints - Tuesday 7:45pm

[sockeye]

Next up: 9 nil at home.

[Turkish]

From 9-0 to our dumping ground. Hopefully Rusty will take over soon and take Gav “if I was looking for a keeper it’d be him” Bazunu off our hands to complete the set. 
 

Hopefully our new, immovable defence can repel any attacks they have and our goal machine new striker can continue his record of a goal every 24 minutes to give us a comfortable victory 

[Football Special]

Strange game, playing them twice in the space of a few days. 

Obviously Leicester are without a permanent manager currently and on a poor run of results, but when I look at their starting XI it really isn't that bad. 

They've had a man sent off in both of their last two games so results a bit distorted playing with 10 men. 

I fear Tonda tries to counter Leicesters pace and makes changes at the back. 

Some thoughts from the opposition :

 

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/138764-southampton-h-tuesday-745pm/#comments

Edited 13 hours ago by Football Special

[Football Special]

We've only sold a few hundred tickets for this, looks set to be comfortably our smallest away following for the last few seasons 

[Turkish]

I see they signed Lascelles should be a good signing for them 

[Sheaf Saint]

20 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Some thoughts from the opposition :

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/138764-southampton-h-tuesday-745pm/#comments

Makes this place look like Care Bear Land 🤣

They are in terrible form - 1 point from their last 5. And the fans seemingly aren't seeing any signs of anything positive. We need to get at them early and get the fans on their backs immediately. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Just found this posted on their thread about signing Joe Aribo 🤣🤣

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

I see they signed Lascelles should be a good signing for them 

Hopefully he's lacking match fitness as hasn't played much for last couple of seasons, but did think was a decent bit of business for them 

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Football Special said:

Hopefully he's lacking match fitness as hasn't played much for last couple of seasons, but did think was a decent bit of business for them 

Broadly agree although had a lot of serious injuries. But if helps them stay up it’s a very worthwhile signing. 

[Hodgey]

One thing for sure - we are going to need to keep Fatawu quiet. I’m just hoping that Tonda doesn’t think we need to rotate and go back to ‘no manning land’ against the best winger in this division.

[sledger]

i hope not its because we now have 2 dependable full backs that the defence has looked a lot tighter

[Saint Fan CaM]

Think we can take ‘em. 0-9…[cough] 1-2.

[die Mannyschaft]

3 hours ago, Football Special said:

We've only sold a few hundred tickets for this, looks set to be comfortably our smallest away following for the last few seasons 

Has M1 not been released yet or have we sold that bit?

Otherwise its just the gey dots in M2 and M3 about 340!!

 

[die Mannyschaft]

1 minute ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Has M1 not been released yet or have we sold that bit?

Otherwise its just the gey dots in M2 and M3 about 340!!

 

Coach 1 and 2 still available and coach 3 not even available.  Normally I book the coach when only coach 3 and about 10 seats left. 

Good for the drinkers as won't be a queue not for a piss HT. 

Do I need to bring some books for the Saints library!

[Willo of Whiteley]

Can see a flukey Leicester win to bring us back down to earth.

But then I think we’ll beat them on the cup down here.

[benjii]

Defence unchanged.

Maybe bring Charles in for Jander (assuming Downes fit) just to keep people on their toes.

Hopefully Larin pushes for a starting spot in time, but he's probably still getting up to speed.

[Football Special]

5 hours ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Has M1 not been released yet or have we sold that bit?

Otherwise its just the gey dots in M2 and M3 about 340!!

 

M1 never on sale and  half the grey dots in m3 were already showing when went on sale must be player comps etc. Which we know are sometimes left empty anyway,  tiny away support 

[AlexLaw76]

Larin and Charles to start. 
 

[SNSUN]

They think their full backs are awful - Thomas and Ricardo Pereira. If they play, we need Leo and Tom to rip them apart. Apparently Lascelles had a decent debut but he's no spring chicken. Aribo in midfield speaks for itself. They won't have Decordova-Reid as he was sent off who is one of their better players. Their strikers are also shite. Basically if we can keep Mavididi and Fatawu quiet (Bree and Welington need to be as good as they were yesterday) then we should be able to get a result. Reading their forum they think they should be building their team around their younger players, Monga, the recently loaned Mukasa, Kristiansen and Aluko. It will be interesting to see how many of them play on Tuesday.

 

As for us, I'd start with an unchanged team again providing Downes is fit (Charles if not). That means Stewart starts again with Cyle to come off the bench later on. A point isn't enough against them if we want to get to that play-off spot really - they are in disarray so this is one of the remaining fixtures we should be looking to get three points from. BUT we have to play better offensively than yesterday.

[LiberalCommunist]

Beat them on Tuesday, and I'd gladly give them the cup game. 

 

[benjii]

1 hour ago, LiberalCommunist said:

Beat them on Tuesday, and I'd gladly give them the cup game. 

 

Why?

[The Wyvern]

Will Saints show the game live on Saints Player for £10?