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Report | Southampton v Manchester United Your Report added at 19:21:44
Truth is, we never stood a chance in this game, as we've many new players who've yet to cohere as a team, and it was right after the September international break (which, as far as I'm concerned—mind you, I'm not a fan of international football—should never be allowed to occur; it's too early into the club season, it rarely produces good football, and it's an empty distraction for players and fans). A loss in this match was automatic as soon as the FIFA calendar was written. In the meantime, as other comments have observed, there were a few bright spots: the football was more direct (with the 4-4-2); Ramsdale is as advertised (he'll be very busy this season); Dibling appears to be the real deal; Stephens is—finally!—out of the side. |
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Report | Southampton v Manchester United Your Report added at 19:09:03
Truth is, we never stood a chance in this game, as we've many new players who've yet to cohere as a team, and it was right after the September international break (which, as far as I'm concerned—mind you, I'm not a fan of international football—should never be allowed to occur; it's too early into the club season, it rarely produces good football, and it's an empty distraction for players and fans). A loss in this match was automatic as soon as the FIFA calendar was written. In the meantime, as other comments have observed, there were a few bright spots: the football was more direct (with the 4-4-2); Ramsdale is as advertised (he'll be very busy this season); Dibling appears to be the real deal; Stephens is—finally!—out of the side. |
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Report | Southampton v Nottingham Forest Your Report added at 19:05:10
I wonder if this is an instance where semantics comes into play. I wouldn't call the match from our perspective a sh*t show; I'd probably say instead that the show was sh*t. There is a slight difference. |
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Report | Ipswich Town v Southampton Your Report added at 21:32:29
Promotion would be a nice culmination of this year's work. But we're too frail to survive in the Premier League. We need people who have more bottle and guile (starting with the manager). |
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Report | Ipswich Town v Southampton Your Report added at 21:19:03
Promotion would be a nice culmination of this year's work. But we're too frail to survive in the Premier League. We need people who have more bottle and guile (starting with the manager). |
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Report | Ipswich Town v Southampton Your Report added at 21:06:15
Promotion would be a nice culmination of this year's work. But we're too frail to survive in the Premier League. We need people who have more bottle and guile (starting with the manager). |
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Report | Southampton v Millwall Your Report added at 04:45:41
Part of what's been fun about the big second-tier holding tank that is the Championship is that they let you play football—until they don't (which apparently occurs around the 30-match mark). Our problem presently is we still think we can get by just by playing football. We're going to have to get stuck in a whole lot more. |
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Report | Southampton v Millwall Your Report added at 04:45:40
Part of what's been fun about the big second-tier holding tank that is the Championship is that they let you play football—until they don't (which apparently occurs around the 30-match mark). Our problem presently is we still think we can get by just by playing football. We're going to have to get stuck in a whole lot more. |
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Report | Bristol City v Southampton Your Report added at 05:16:59
We've seen this match before—last year in the Premier League, when we could string together passes everywhere but the attacking third, and then got hit on the break by teams that wisely waited us out. I guess, though, there's something to be said for such a match NOT having occurred over the course of the past 4+ months. |
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Report | Southampton v Ipswich Town Your Report added at 23:04:54
Points are there for the taking in the Championship, partly because the marking is so slack compared to the Prem. We should be seizing on that to take us back: Attack the opposition's goal with gusto and defend like our lives depend on it (because they do)! |
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Report | Southampton v Ipswich Town Your Report added at 22:32:14
Points are there for the taking in the Championship, partly because the marking is so slack compared to the Prem. We should be seizing on that to take us back: Attack the opposition's goal with gusto and defend like our lives depend on it (because they do)! |
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Report | Southampton v Fulham Your Report added at 20:34:42
IanSouthstander, the A's have gone from Moneyball to Slash-and-Burn-Ball, with no investment at all in the team or the fanbase. The owner was holding out for a sweetheart deal with Oakland, and when it wasn't forthcoming he's decided to take the team to Vegas. Saints, by contrast, are headed down a division. But they're not in danger of leaving Southampton, which I guess is something. |
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Report | Southampton v Fulham Your Report added at 19:12:52
The conspiracy theorist in me kicks in finally: Despite the damage done by the Nathan Jones appointment, the season was still salvageable. But the board threw the season away once and for all in appointing Selles for its remainder. One wonders, given the amount of debt Solak has accrued, whether after the £50 million January outlay the board realized they were well and truly skint. Surely they'll use player sales to scratch some of that back. We might as well strike up the refrain we're singing for my other hapless team, baseball's Oakland Athletics: Sell the club! (What a sucky sports year I'm having, btw!) |
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Report | Nottingham Forest v Southampton Your Report added at 22:56:10
It's not a team that understands each other—which, sadly, is unsurprising, because the board and the coaching staff are flailing about, in their respective vacuums, just as futilely. It's a whole season lost; it needn't have been. |
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