Southampton Banter

02 May 2024 07:39:22
{Ed's Note - Dillinger has posted a new article entitled, POTENTIAL EPL SIGNINGS FOR LEEDS UNITED

30 Apr 2024 10:43:20
It's going to be a tense and exciting last round of games on Saturday, let's hope for a performance worthy of loyal Saints fans at Leeds. Playing Norwich in the playoffs will be 2 very tough games. Norwich have hit form at the right time and have several players performing at the top of their game. If RM persists in his favoured playing system I really cannot see Saints beating Norwich on aggregate. Hope I am wrong but this end of the season is all about result based momentum.

30 Apr 2024 21:41:07
Hi 2408 …
Surely the game again Leicester, compounded by the awful stoke hame, will mean that’s RMs possession obsession has to end.
But like you, I don’t think he will.

I think more worryingly, he thought we deserved something from the Leicester game, that we matched them; and that had stephens been playing, the result would be different.

Unleash the team RM.

01 May 2024 11:21:56
His comments about the last 3 games have been dilutional! On another tact, AA and Adams at the top of the charts for missed scoring chances, what a surprise! I do feel that if Stewart had been fit all season we would have been automatically promoted even allowing for RM slow slow slow tactics. Stewart rarely misses chances on the ground and even less on the air. I hope that we have a real go at Norwich and try to get their crowd anxious, if we play tippy tappy football we will lose.

28 Apr 2024 11:45:07
I'm going to apologise to the people here. I'm genuinely sorry for actually hoping we could win the championship and secure autos. I completely forgot that a deluded manager who thinks a 5-0 loss is 'unlucky'or let alone have a team have 0 shots on target and say we played well is managing a team that is slowly dying.

I cannot fathom RM's stupidity at this point. He needs to manage the team not sit and watch from the sidelines. Ik he has a lot on his plate with Swansea suing him because he broke some contract or something. But he needs to perform. We aren't a championship team. We should be prem level. We need a rebuild start getting players that can consistently perform we don't have players that really have consistency.

At this point I think Millertime are any one of you should be the manager as you would do something not just sit around and downplay how bad we are doing.

Personally, I given up this season. Leeds will be going up unless they bottle it because we suck under pressure. An example being the Cardiff game that was a crucial game to get autos and we lost.

29 Apr 2024 08:31:00
Apologies for what mate? It is our job to have some belief and push the team on, as well as give a reality check too. It makes it more fun when there is something to play for.

Automatic was a long shot but if we kept up our good form, won the big games and got some luck there was a 10% chance. Unfortunately we got worse and the top 3 turned it around.

I am hoping the recent slump is a blip. They are young men and have seen two close friends get serious injuries, are tired after a long season, frustrated at missing out on automatic promotion and know they will be saying goodbye to some team mates.

The slump could continue or like earlier in the season, we could beat Leeds and then go on a run. Let's hope for the latter. COYR!

27 Apr 2024 20:18:35
I've finally got it. All season long I've been trying to work out who Right Moron reminds me of and finally the penny dropped.

After a demoralising home defeat today, I tuned in to Only Fools and Horses to lift my spirits.

And there he was, slick, greased back hair with crooked grin - yes, Trigger.

Not just the uncanny physical resemblance, but they're on the same mental wavelength.

Hello Dave - this time next year.

27 Apr 2024 22:48:09
Millertime … love that post!
In my whole entire life, And it’s been a rather long one, There have been so few people that I just want to slap round the face when they talk…

RM Has been added to that list.

I know Nathan Jones was deluded, I know Nathan Jones came out with some of the most bizarre quotes we’ve ever heard, But he was a likeable character, He was a genuine guy who believed in himself.
He was deluded when it came to his potential in football, But it was never big headed or cocky.

RM It’s quite simply obnoxious, Cannot stand listening to his drivel, His bigging himself up …

He lives by the motto .
my way is right . more worryingly, we lose 0-5 to Leicester and me deluded thinks we were unlucky, we gave them a good go, we could had scored loads .

My preferable speech would have been .
We were absolutely shi*te and my game plan is cr*p

28 Apr 2024 08:15:53
Hey Millertime enjoyed your lateral. Comparison but until now I. had always seen a likeness of RM to Popeye’s adversary BLUTO!

27 Apr 2024 14:07:28
Anyone still harbouring hope of automatic need not, as playoffs are almost a mathematical certainty.

Even if Leeds/Ipswich lose all thier remaining games they would need to loose ALL of them heavily, whilst we would need to go on a insane scoring rout. Most we can hope for is 90 points and with the good at roughly 20 or more its impossible.forgone conclusion.

8pm tonight Ipswich can put us out of our misery by winning and we can saddle up our playoff boots.

27 Apr 2024 20:15:51
I'll be the first to admit I was deluded. VERY deluded to say Southampton could've done a miracle a hail Mary you could say and come to win the championship. Well look how that went. Loosing streak. I genuinely thought we had a huge opportunity. Maybe the team lost it maybe I'm just dumb.


Looking forward, I'm not even going to hope we'll get out the championship through playoffs because we probably won't if we play pointless possession.

24 Apr 2024 10:06:07
Haven't posted in a good while but having heard martin in his post match I feel compelled to vent. To come out and say we played well and he doesn't know how it ended up 5 zip shows Nathan Jones levels of delusion. We were a shambles from min 1 to 90 and his total lack of any ability to change team or tactics is staggering. I understand you have a philosophy and want to stick to it, but so does arteta and he changed team and tactics to get a solid point away to city. The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results.Martins picture should be framed next to that definition. You try to stay positive as a saints fan (it's pre requisite from birth lol) but Jesus they make it hard sometimes!

24 Apr 2024 11:51:07
It was obvious to me, and many! That the team was set up wrong from the start. RM as usual changes nothing . Leicester were actually a pleasure to watch. I enjoy good football and Leicester were worthy of their win

23 Apr 2024 22:54:02
I think that I am right in thinking that against the top 3 teams this season we have gained exactly nil points couple this with cup defeats to firstly div 2 side Gillingham and then FA cup defeat to Liverpool reserves and it leads me to one conclusion , new management needed NOW

26 Apr 2024 10:31:31
What kind of manager is available and will join a championship team.

I mean Tuchel could turn us around as he is definitely a premier league manager not a championship one but why would he join us lol.

Any other managers?

23 Apr 2024 19:58:52
Tonight's game will show not wether we have the minerals. A win tonight doesn't give us automatic win in the slightest but a win tonight and against Leeds (both top away games) show we can do it when it matters.

Where it matters for us now is playoffs as that is where we're need to show that ruthlessness by if we can't do it tonight and against Leeds then we won't be able to do it in the pressure environment that is the playoffs.

All season that is been my main criticism of who we are at the moment. Not being able to kill games off. We let in nearly all shots on target at our goal and rely heavily on outscoring the opposition or hoping they forget to know how to shoot.

Ruthlessness and solidness is what we need tonight and against Leeds and then maybe (because let's be honest automatic is gone) we can carry that form into the playoffs.

23 Apr 2024 20:44:28
We are showing exactly why we are not EPL material .
Leicester attacking in numbers . attacking at speed .

Every single sniff of an attack, players flow up the pitch, players make themselves available .

Meanwhile saints. two meaningful attacks,
No support, slow, predictable . both worked back to our defence .
43 minutes and we have 74% possession . how and why and how?

23 Apr 2024 20:45:07
Ruthless . as ruthless as a 6 week old kitten!

23 Apr 2024 22:01:01
They were the opposite of everything you said they needed to be Lesleee.

Outclassed and outfought in every position on the pitch.

Unforgivable and completley embarrassing.

Play offs? Forget it.

They don’t deserve anything for that disgraceful performance.

They’ve let our club down and do not deserve our support.

23 Apr 2024 22:24:33
I've never seen a Southampton game where we had 0 shots on target. I swear even in the 9-0 games we at least had a few shots at the goal but this. Come on,

I guess I was too hopeful for Southampton to win the championship doing the miracle comeback but I think loads of people wanted it to happen. That put pressure on the team and a recurring event is a big game led to an abysmal performance by us.

So like millertime said, play-offs forget it, we probably should because those will be intense games, and if we are bottling now we will 100% bottle it in a knockout scenario. Watch us lose to Norwich.

The board has to sign players now, We are just losing everything in the team, Wilxcox is gone, our best players are gone, we need to find a striker that we can 100% rely on a new Ings you could say and we need a keeper that can consistently save. Baz is young I get that but he has made mistakes and we can't afford to make mistakes when we are trying to fight for promotion.

23 Apr 2024 22:29:38
Yea Miller time . Believe it or not that was me trying to be positive lol.

Even winning against Leeds Leicester we wouldn't have gained automatic as we've left it too late. My post was more about trying to find form to take into the envitable playoffs.

However the performance tonight is the true team we've been all season, somehow masked by luck, other teams performance ect. By that I mean games where it really matters, when its about playing actual football and getting the job done we can't. That's why in honesty we aren't going up this year. Too much pressure and too much of performing when it matters is where it will go wrong for us. Keeping the ball/possession has what has kept us out of danger most matches and to be fair you could argue that's a decent enough tactic (when the other team hasn't got the ball they can't score) .but we're too weak when teams do go at us and we're too timid at times to do what's needed when we do .too much tippy tappy .were not peps Barcelona Russell lol 😭😭

The teams we go against in the playoffs will go for our throats and we're just not able or ready for that.

23 Apr 2024 22:30:12
Ironicly, leslee we were the team that forgot how to shoot.

We can't work under pressure clearly
Play-Offs will have a lot of Pressure

So Imo we probably ain't going up.

And this probably will continue unless we have a mentality change or we sign some decent players that can score

The fact that we out of 3 teams have the worst conceding goals tally in the championship this season shows a lot

23 Apr 2024 22:35:18
Millertime .
it was obvious from the first 10 minutes that the formation/selection was wrong .
Did we tweek anything . no!

66% possession ZERO shots on target!
RM your days are numbered

23 Apr 2024 22:53:59
I've been saying for a long time Bazuna needed replacing. I don't like having a go at him because he is young and there is potential there but he needs time away from being No1 to work on ACTUALLY saving the ball.

We could easily have had an extra 10 points on the board if it wasn't for goals that went in, in games where we could have won or drawn of they hadn't .if Bazuna had actually saved it. I've watched games where the opposition shots on target/to goal ratios has pretty much been 100%. It's showing that we're keeping the ball forever but the actual things that matter like scoring or more importantly saving .we aren't doing.

23 Apr 2024 23:19:00
RM will never change his core method of playing. He’s tweaked some minor details twice or three times this season but has always eventually been found out. We’ll beat West Brom but not Ipswich or Norwich/ Hull. Our forward line was very poor tonight, kept going backwards!

23 Apr 2024 23:19:41
Oddly enough, I would swap Neil Warnock for RM having listened to his post match summing up.

“Martin needs to tell his players that the fans have spent their hard earned money going to watch that rubbish. So do the right thing and make it up to them by getting promotion. Put it to bed and take the players out for a Chinese tomorrow night for team bonding”.

That’s the sort of man management that’s needed. Not the blind excuses that RM still spews out - we were aggressive, pressing well, matching Leicester in the first half etc.

He is deluded. No tweaks as you say South Hants Rich - totally clueless.

Question - How many of our team would get into Leicester’s side?
Answer - tonight a nice round number. On a good day, possibly two.