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Comment | Southampton At Oxford United The Preview
at 11:19:52
If Archer plays someone will need to constantly remind him where the Oxford goal is because from what I’ve seen of him, he thinks that professional football is just a question of running around aimlessly and avoiding injury.
underweststand is spot on with his comment. With or without Tonda, if our expensively assembled squad can’t motivate themselves to get a decisive win today then there’s something seriously amiss at Southampton Football Club.
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Comment | Southampton V Coventry City The Verdict
at 09:29:21
Probably a little off subject I appreciate.
But having seen the way Lampard had his players organised and the way they defended after the sending off, I couldn’t help but wonder how on earth with Ralph in charge, we managed to lose not one but two games 9-0 under similar circumstances. Totally mystifying.
Eckert appears to have got our home form stabilised.What needs to happen now is that we take a leaf out of Coventry’s book away from home. When you have a positive result on the horizon don’t throw it away as we did at Millwall and Norwich please.
Best seasonal wishes to you Nick and all long suffering Saints fans wherever you are in the World.
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Comment | Another Ex Southampton Hero Linked For Return To St Mary's
at 19:32:19
It’s been suggested that his wages at West Ham are £114,000 a week.
So a 50/50 loan deal would mean Sports Republic shelling out not only a loan fee but £57000 a week for his services.
I can’t see Sports Republic being remotely interested.
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Comment | Southampton Linked With Another Goalkeeper
at 07:39:34
saintpete01 correctly identifies Bazunu’s basic problems.
Whilst being an acceptable reaction keeper who can play with his feet, he is extremely poor if he has time to think about anything, such as to wether go for a cross or to get down quickly to save a shot from distance.
Last season Ramsdale was purchased because of the weaknesses of Bazunu (and McCarthy) not the other way around.
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Comment | Southampton At Norwich City The Verdict
at 17:55:03
Farlow, why didn’t Bazunu come out for the ball ?
Because he is a very poor keeper if he has time to think about anything and that is also the reason why he is repeatedly beaten by the opposing teams shots from miles away from his goal line.
Good reaction shot stopper and can play with his feet but those are the limits of his abilities in my opinion. |
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Comment | Southampton At Norwich City The Verdict
at 14:25:06
Good objective report Nick apart from your comments concerning the penalty.
Armstrong hit the ball into the area that if the keeper guesses direction correctly, he’s in with a chance of saving it when if it’s hit two to three feet off the ground, which on Saturday it was.
Along the ground or high into the net,no chance of making a save whichever way he dives. |
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Comment | Tonda Eckert Set To Get More Time But Are Saints Biding Their Time For Their Man To Be Available
at 10:21:26
If, and it’s a very big if Frank is sacked, will he want to give up what will undoubtedly be a massive contract termination package to come and manage a mid table Championship team such as we currently are ?
Sounds rather unlikely to me and in the meantime if we were to suffer another couple of defeats Eckert’s position will become increasingly untenable as the players will no doubt say “ he is only here on an interim basis so why put in any extra effort”.
In the circumstances as they stand, surely it’s best to give Eckert the job, settle the speculation and try and recover from our very poor start to this season caused by Sports Republic’s ineptitude in appointing Will Still in the first place ? |
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Comment | Southampton At Queens Park Rangers The Preview
at 13:04:42
Brilliant A1079 absolutely brilliant.
Thanks for articulating what I and I have no doubt countless others have been feeling, not for weeks or even months but for years now.
I want my football Club back.Not a Sports Republic controlled Player Trading Company and Fun Fair employing players with over inflated opinions of their own abilities, that admit they don’t give 100% every time they put on. |
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Comment | The Opening Favourites To Replace Will Still Have Been Revealed
at 11:25:36
Spot on GRIM reference Martin.
I know that you contribute to the Forum section of Nick’s site.
For those advocating his return who don’t view the Forum, there are many who post there saying if he returns, they will simply walk away from S F C once and for all.
He really is that toxic. |
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Comment | If Saints Fans Protest Then Make It Positive And Make It Peaceful
at 10:08:54
Off subject I appreciate, but the last photo made me really wonder if we wouldn’t now be better off had we stayed at The Dell.
Bournemouth going great guns with a ground capacity 4000 less than The Dell and Brentford also with a capacity just 2000 more.
The Dell was a proper football ground where none of the opposition liked to play mainly due to the close proximity of the fans who in those days were quite intimidating.
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Comment | Is Silence From St Mary's A Good Or Bad Sign For Will Still
at 16:04:49
I’m with Centurion and of the opinion that whatever the result on Saturday our owners and their employees will stick with Still.
Why, you may well ask ? Simply because we now have no realistic chance of promotion, either automatically or through the playoffs.
From here on in to season end they will just set a target for Still that given the quality of our squad and Sheffield Wednesday’s points deduction, even he will be able to achieve.
The target being avoiding relegation.
Fewer seats will now be filled for the remainder of the season but that revenue loss is a drop in a bucket compared to the cost of sacking and replacing Still.
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Comment | Southampton At Blackburn Rovers The Verdict
at 10:34:39
Firstly, a very fair report Nick and pleased to see that you’ve stayed true to your principles and have not been influenced by the response of the Happy Clappers to your Bristol City Verdict.
Secondly, commiserations to our fans who made the long journey and spent their hard earned. It was painful enough listening to Solent, what it must have been like watching the shambles in person I can’t imagine.
Finally, as I posted yesterday on the forum section of your site, I beginning to wonder if the aspirations of Sports Republic and us long suffering fans are now simply incompatible and beyond repair.
In my opinion Sports Republic appear to want to primarily run a Player Trading ( buy short/sell long) Business first, and a Lesiure ( events, club shop, hospitality, fans zones, the Dell Pub and level one ) Business second. Their interest in our football team appears to me to be purely now restricted to getting fans to attend to fund these two business objectives whereas we want to be able to watch a competitive football team.
Clearly Sports Republic show no signs of departure and It occurs to me that the only way of removing them is to perhaps stop funding their business objectives ? |
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Comment | Southampton At Bristol City The Verdict
at 12:03:51
Well done Nick for sticking to your guns and calling it for what it was with this report after the mauling your Swansea Verdict received from the happy clappers at the weekend.
I fully understand and share your frustration as to what our great club has become.
We were truly shambolic yesterday in every position.
Poorly Managed, Poor in goal, very poor in defence and abjectly poor in front of goal apart from Adam Armstrong. All this after spending £50 million in the last window.
Perhaps even more concerning was that as soon as City scored their second goal we basically gave up and from that moment on there was never any doubt as to the result.
Worth pointing out that last time around Luton were relegated with 49 points. We currently have 12 points from 11 games which in anybody’s language is near identical form, which if maintained for the rest of the season could well provide the same outcome.
Over to you happy clappers.
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Comment | Southampton V Swansea City The Verdict
at 13:02:55
I’m not going to add to Nicks conclusion other than to say that his eternally optimistic outlook appears to be fraying at the edges. If so, who can blame him for being frustrated, after all we have won only four league games in the last forty eight attempts.Two more non winning outings and the win ratio will be just 8%. I believe a figure unheard of in my time of watching the Saints over 60 odd years.
At the end of the day as many before me have said “ Football is a result driven business” and what cannot be argued with is that currently, for whatever reasons we are not getting the results befitting a club that spent £50 million in the last window playing in the second tier of English football with the quality of players that the manager has to choose from.
That’s why this coming week is so important. If we beat Bristol City and Blackburn then we are back in the hunt with an outside chance of automatic promotion and a good opportunity of getting in to the playoff positions.Anything less and we can look forward to seven months of mid table mediocrity with the season effectively over before the clocks have gone back.
Over to you Mr Still and your players….
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Comment | Will Still Appears To Have Decided Loanee Has No Future At St Mary's
at 09:59:49
“ Will Still is a good coach”.
17th in The Championship with nearly 25% of the season completed after a spend of £50 million in the last window would perhaps suggest exactly the opposite .
“ he is learning his trade at management”
Then why did we employ him in the first place when more experienced opposition were available.
Common denominator ?
Sports Republic at their finest. |
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