Watford vs Saints - Sunday 1330

[BARCELONASAINT]

Our league season kicks off in a few hours and i'm suddenly nervous as hell. Being on -4 points to start is probably what is already making me feel nervous and the fact that we always seem to start the season slowly, which now more than ever is something we cannot afford to do.

100%agree with Hypo, a win today and we won't worry too much on other things.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Scrappy 2-1 win.

Performance largely prevent at this stage, all about getting early points on the board.

[AlexLaw76]

Be nice to start a season like a steam train and get right up there early....Bit like the Adkins promotion season please

 

[rallyboy]

Three points please.

[BranfootsLoveChild]

On 13/08/2026 at 08:51, Toadhall Saint said:

Spygate gets a mention within 5 mins of the start of the broadcast.

And a co commentator who thinks we should have been deducted more points and kicked out of the league 😅

[Football Special]

18 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

 

 

 

Portuguese league has obviously decided the Championship is a good place to go shopping with this deal and Benfica bidding for THB, definite shift in the market there,  previously we used to have to worry about players being poached by the call of the Premier League not so much foreign leagues 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

10 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Portuguese league has obviously decided the Championship is a good place to go shopping with this deal and Benfica bidding for THB, definite shift in the market there,  previously we used to have to worry about players being poached by the call of the Premier League not so much foreign leagues 

Article on BBC football page with the sporting director at Espanyol, previously with Villa. He stated that he thinks a lot of Spanish clubs will look at the Championship more for up and coming players. 

[Convict Colony]

2-0 saints

[saintant]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

Our league season kicks off in a few hours and i'm suddenly nervous as hell. Being on -4 points to start is probably what is already making me feel nervous and the fact that we always seem to start the season slowly, which now more than ever is something we cannot afford to do.

100%agree with Hypo, a win today and we won't worry too much on other things.

Look at it this way - how many points did Will Still cost us until Tonda took over? Few gave him a chance of getting us anywhere near the top 2 (me included) but he very nearly did it from a starting position worse than a 4 point deduction.

If we keep the key players and add a replacement for Shea we'll be ready to have another right good go.

[Willo of Whiteley]

I think teams will be more prepared to play us this season after the way we finished the last.

All that said I think we’re the underdogs in comparison to the teams that came down, Middlesbrough, Wrexham (because of the media love in); we have an opportunity to have a right go and stay under the radar which probably suits us just fine.

[benjii]

Peretz

Bree THB Stevo Manning

Downes Matsuki

Fellows  Dobbin Scienza

Larin

 

Ramsdale, Mads, Weli, Wood, Bragg, Azaz, Akochukwu, Divin, Archer

[Lee On Solent Saint]

29 minutes ago, benjii said:

Peretz

Bree THB Stevo Manning

Downes Matsuki

Fellows  Dobbin Scienza

Larin

 

Ramsdale, Mads, Weli, Wood, Bragg, Azaz, Akochukwu, Divin, Archer

Not Matsuki in the centre for me. Would rather Bragg. I know Watford will be physical and Matsuki will put it around, but he looked lost in that role last week.

[Disco Stu]

2 hours ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Article on BBC football page with the sporting director at Espanyol, previously with Villa. He stated that he thinks a lot of Spanish clubs will look at the Championship more for up and coming players. 

The Germans have been at it for a few years with Bellingham Mk.1, Bellingham Mk.2 and Tella.

Edited 12 minutes ago by Disco Stu

[Saint_clark]

Cant seem to get fawanews to load except an archived page, has it been taken down over the summer?