Pre Season Friendlies 2026/27

[Zorba]

30 minutes ago, Give it to Ron said:

Does that need anything running as doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone safari

download firefox from app store then copy and paste that link

[CSA96]

Second half XI:

Long

Bree
Wood
Quarshie
Manning

Charles
Matsuki

Fellows
Archer
Akachukwu

Oyekunle

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

5 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

believe me Double D's are a hell of an upgrade on AA's

Phwooar check out the voltage on these 

[CSA96]

 

[PerthshireSaint]

Oooo

[CSA96]

Should be 2-0. Fellows good down the right again, cuts it back for Archer but a Braunschweig defender gets a toe on it

[obelisk]

Presumably the plan was to spend some time practising fannying around with the ball in our own defensive areas.

[obelisk]

Fellows shoots ... over the bar. Consistency is to be valued.

[saintant]

6 minutes ago, obelisk said:

Presumably the plan was to spend some time practising fannying around with the ball in our own defensive areas.

Eventually we always revert to Russball.

[CSA96]

FT: Eintracht Braunschweig 0-1 Southampton

[Harry_SFC]

Archer looks pretty sharp so far in pre season.

Might be in the minority but I'd keep him.

[Give it to Ron]

I thought it was a good competitive game and good pace for pre season.

Bit wasteful in final third and we do need Larin mk2. Young lads did ok but that final ball lets them down.

We moved ball about nicely at times but hard to judge how good opposition was. 
Good test at this time of pre season.

[ItchenRob]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

http://www.fawanews.sc/Braunschweig vs Southampton.html

 

Thanks for posting this. Worked v well for me (on an Android).

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Toadhall Saint said:

 Very well taken and seems to be bulking up.

I’m shocked by that clip!

[John Boy Saint]

2 hours ago, CSA96 said:

“Round the keeper - phew” “breath” “don’t fuck it up SaintWeb will butcher me if I do” “ hold - hold- kick it” 

……..”Yay I scored - when’s the World Cup?!”.

 

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, John Boy Saint said:

“Round the keeper - phew” “breath” “don’t fuck it up SaintWeb will butcher me if I do” “ hold - hold- kick it” 

……..”Yay I scored - when’s the World Cup?!”.

 

World class finish 

[CB Fry]

Damion Downs didn't score in the first pre-season match but he did score in his second.

If he keeps this up...

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Took me a couple of views to realise we were playing in white

[Harry_SFC]

Lol he beats the keeper with a touch that was supposed to go in the opposite direction, then beats the defender with an inadvertent touch onto himself. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Harry_SFC

[CSA96]

I missed it myself, but apparently Adam Blackmore mentioned on commentary that there's a training ground game against Paderborn (newly-promoted to the Bundesliga) in the middle of the week, before the camp ends with the game against Preußen Münster

[CSA96]

3 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

Lol he beats the keeper with a touch that was supposed to go in the opposite direction, then beats the defender with an inadvertent touch onto himself. 

I find the need for some of the fanbase to routinely pick on/mock Downs, even when he's done nothing to warrant it, quite tedious. Even before the goal there were various fans online performatively moaning about him when his performance and effort levels were fine and no different to the majority of the team

On the goal specifically, watch it back. He feints in that direction and very deliberately takes it round the outside of the keeper because he has a covering defender on the inside. It wasn't 'a touch that was supposed to go in the opposite direction' at all. He then beats the defender but as the defender slides past the ball does knock against his other leg and keep the ball in his stride, doing him a favour. But fair enough, that's hardly some sort of circus act that would only happen to Downs

He's got a lot to prove but it is so tiresome that even when he isn't being shit people have to try and rip the bloke

Edited 1 hour ago by CSA96