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Reply | What.our best player benched.
at 19:39 29 Dec 2025
Here we go yet again:-
Team selection that nobody other than the manager can understand.
Best player dropped.
Bazunu keeps his place.
Playing three centre backs once more.
I hope I’m proven wrong but it’s beginning to look like the ghost of Will Still lives on. |
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Reply | Birmingham Matchday Thread
at 18:16 29 Dec 2025
Let’s all hope you are wrong 18885 because if your predictions come to fruition the season will be effectively over by the first week of January.
To get back on track for the slightest chance of a second half of the season playoff push we need two wins from the next three games absolute minimum.
To all those who have travelled this evening, well done and for once I hope the players give you something to make the return journey easier. |
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Reply | On This Day In 1974
at 14:12 29 Dec 2025
So was I grumps.
Fulham came out with all their supposed Super Stars and we turned them over royally.
If it weren’t for a very patient referee they could have ended up with nine men.
Happy days at a wonderful football ground where none of the opposition liked to play. It was almost as though as a spectator you were on the pitch yourself.
I can’t help but wonder whether we would have been better off staying at The Dell.
Small crowd capacity hasn’t exactly held Bournemouth and Brentford back has it ? |
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Reply | Southampton V Oxford The Verdict
at 18:40 28 Dec 2025
Well put together opinion Southamptonfan, which no sensible Saints fan could possibly argue with.
The penultimate paragraph in particular, which identifies what we need management and intent wise.
I’ve posted in Nick’s revue of the Oxford debacle that we also need a proper centre forward, a proper centre half and a proper goal keeper and have done so for season after season.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe we will get any of what you and I want with our current Owners and their employees at Sports Republic remaining in control of our club.
It’s my belief that the wishes of the majority of the fans and the Owners and Sports Republic are now simply incompatible and fractured beyond repair.
We want a competitive football team. It increasingly appears to me that they only want ( and have achieved ) a Player Trading Business and Fun Fair.
Unless ownership of our club changes very soon I’m truly beginning to wonder whether the love affair with the Saints for the likes of you and I has nearly reached the end game. |
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Reply | Oxford Game Matchday Thread
at 23:26 26 Dec 2025
Bazunu was doing what he’s an absolute expert at, being beaten by a diagonal ball across him low to the ground. It matters not whether it’s from his left or his right, he goes down every time as if he is wearing old fashioned lead deep sea diving boots.
He’s a half decent reaction keeper ( then again at professional level they all are ) who can play with his feet. Given time to think about anything and he is just exceptionally poor.
Every man and his dog ( except Nick apparently ) can see we need a new keeper but no, this is Sports Republic who won’t replace him, or for that matter buy a decent striker, preferring to hope that sick note Stewart will come good when all the evidence of the last two and a half years proves he won’t. [Post edited 26 Dec 23:28]
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Reply | Did we appoint Tonda too early?
at 17:37 26 Dec 2025
Southamptonfan, you and I were the only ones who said it from day one about Still.
I didn’t comment about Tonda, wishing at least to give the fella a chance but it grieves me to say it the doughnuts who own and run the club appear to have made the same mistake again.
The only other feasible explanation is that the experienced players at the club are running the club from the dressing room up rather than the other way around.Player power did for Still and I won’t be at all surprised that it will do it for Tonda.
As I pointed out when Still was appointed, experienced players ask a new manager when things are going wrong, “ where are your medals ?”. If you have none to show them they quickly revert to their previous easy street comfort zones with losing games being an acceptable result. [Post edited 26 Dec 17:48]
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Thread | Oxford 2-1 Southampton.Pathetic,utterly and completely pathetic.
at 17:16 26 Dec 2025
That’s three away games on the bounce that we’ve thrown points away.
Millwall, just about acceptable given their league position.
Norwich, you could make a case that all teams miss penalties.
But today it was Oxford for pity sake, a team of players nobody has ever heard of and a ground with only three sides.
We spent the whole game playing side to side and backwards football and had 70% possession in areas where Oxford just couldn’t have given a damn.
When we do manage to get forward, playing stuff from the Russell Martin playbook our forwards confirm (not that any confirmation was necessary) that they simply can’t hit a barn door with a banjo.
The new manager clearly hasn’t any clue about tactics or substitutions, once again taking off players who were at least trying and replacing them with no hopers like Archer.
To add insult to injury Bazunu gets beaten from a mile out yet again.
Commiserations to the fans who made the trip, at least you didn’t have far to travel.
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Reply | Oxford Sack Coach
at 13:15 23 Dec 2025
Yes Pat,I believe she’s one of the same. |
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Reply | Oxford Sack Coach
at 12:19 23 Dec 2025
The world gets ever more difficult to understand.
Oxford sack their coach two days before Christmas which must be absolutely wonderful (not) for him and his family at the same time as Bet365 latest annual accounts are released, showing one person ( the owner ) was paid over £200 million in salary and dividends.
To Sports Republic credit we are now at least sponsored by a cruise company rather than any hideous gambling organisation. [Post edited 23 Dec 12:20]
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Reply | Tonda is doing a great job
at 12:40 21 Dec 2025
Absolutely Heisenberg.
It’s unfortunate for him that he’s also inherited a situation where realistically, due to no fault of his own, automatic promotion is almost certainly now out of the question.
What was noticeable to me yesterday was how much stronger the Coventry players were both physically and mentally than us. Effectively a man short at half time they gave it everything to hang on to a result.
Contrast that with our last two away performances where we folded in both second halves and ended up with nothing.
A new manager can dictate tactics and substitutions but at the end of the day his players must “ want it”.
That’s why Coventry are walking the league and we are,despite spending £50 million in the last window, merely playoff hopefuls. [Post edited 21 Dec 12:41]
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Reply | Coventry ticket sales
at 20:55 18 Dec 2025
Because they can avoid any travel problems, don’t have to sit in the cold and can watch it on TV ? |
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Reply | Why Is There So Much Hate On Saints Social Media
at 06:07 16 Dec 2025
Nick, I can’t comment about other internet sites because I don’t read or contribute to any of them.
I restrict my interest to your site and do so because one of the attractions is that although contributors sometimes have widely differing views on The Saints and a variety of other subjects, there is very little bad mouthing.
In reference to football in particular. All that the various sites have achieved is to allow people to do is express their opinions in public where as pre internet the same opinions were being expressed in pubs and clubs.Probably with liberal use of the bad language to which you suggest.
Should your site ever become infested with genuine hate as you put it, I suspect that I won’t be alone in disconnecting my interest.
Much like the majority of absolutely mind numbing rubbish on T V, power still remains with the user.
If you don’t like it turn it off. |
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Reply | Norwich v Saints
at 11:14 14 Dec 2025
Spot on Grumpy and Grim.
Utterly ridiculous expecting Fraser to be involved in any sort of defensive duties.
There’s a very good reason he is known as “ the wee man “. |
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Reply | Skates away ticket details announced
at 05:29 11 Dec 2025
Point taken about the food.
I was more concentrating on your mild moan up about the early start.
Unfortunately it is what it is now, and the only way round it is to watch on TV I suppose ?
It’s a pity that the rivalry between us can’t be more like Liverpool and Everton’s.
Who knows, one day in the distant future it may well be. |
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Reply | Skates away ticket details announced
at 21:45 10 Dec 2025
It is possibly over the top Southampton fan.
However, on the other hand it’s only one match and if it stops you or anybody else ending up in A and E because some loony Portsmouth fan wants to pick you out for a kicking is it not the sensible way to go ?
Equally, it greatly reduces the chances of some over zealous Hampshire Plod arresting fans for no reason in particular, ending in them having a completely unnecessary criminal record with all the problems that go with it.
As for getting up early. I don’t go to away matches anymore ( to old ) but last time we played Leeds away didn’t the coaches leave at 04.30 for a 12.00 kick off ? |
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Reply | West Brom Supporters Coach attacked
at 18:27 10 Dec 2025
What on earth is a matter with anyone who thinks it a good idea to throw a brick at a coach ?
Particularly after a good match where W B A contributed on the pitch and with their fans being as far as I could tell, good natured in defeat.
Utterly moronic behaviour from a pathetic knuckle dragging village idiot. |
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