Southampton banter 2

22 Sep 2025 07:39:11
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21 Sep 2025 07:39:05
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22 Sep 2025 03:36:30
HERE WE GO! .As I have commented previously crucial valuable time is lost by not continually selecting and bedding in promising young centre backs Ronnie Edwards, Nathan Wood and Joshua Quarstie.They all have great potential and have. experienced minimum corruption regards style of play from previous Management plus most successful attacks are started from a competent defence.In my humble opinion we also miss Yukon and Charlie Taylor who were a step up from the existing and whose release was a mistake. It now requires a sharp finisher (where from you may well ask)? alongside a fit Ross Stewart to get the goal tally moving with surrounding new signings plus Matsuki, Charles and Robinson to complete the jig-saw!

20 Sep 2025 17:57:10
Well, it's mid table ar best. Heard we need 9 from 12 from today, if not trouble will be head on. As I said last October Rafa wants back into English football and I'm sure Theo will show him the keys. Do you yo want someone to who uses Player Manager 25/26 or true professionals

20 Sep 2025 16:36:47
Roll on nest season!

Diabolical - Leslee - good to have you back (I think lol!) but we're not even mid table.

I said before a ball was kicked that we were more likely to go down than up.

And a 32 year old novice was never the right choice as manager - nice guy that he is

20 Sep 2025 16:43:44
Did you notice Leslee I didn’t ask you how you felt RM was doing at Rangers!

20 Sep 2025 17:09:50
Hahaha I’m sure Leslee once said he would guarantee promotion. He is currently managing to be 10th in a 2 team league. Is he better than Juric and Still? Probably

20 Sep 2025 18:20:01
I just don’t know what the current game plan is. We’ve failed to beat Watford, Hull, Stoke or Portsmouth and our one winner was in the 96th minute. Worrying times, but under Martin I’m sure we’d currently be bottom.

20 Sep 2025 22:27:15
I am usually one of the optimistic ones (even if conscious self delusion to make it interesting) but this run is depressing. 1 higher good than Oxford Utd!

I thought it would take time to adapt and gel but rarely even seeing flashes of good play to feel we are moving in the right direction.

Let's see the table after 10 games.

20 Sep 2025 15:57:05
Oh dear Bazuna - not again

20 Sep 2025 12:22:42
Thought I'd wait this time round until we were a reasonable few games in and past the transfer deadline to assess where we're at. Think my last few posts had me saying mid table championship was the future for us and it's not looking too far off of it.

There was some misplaced optimism that assumed Will Still was going to hit the ground running but there was never going to be instant success with the team he inherited.

I like the guy and as a coach, and possibly our best manager since Ralph, but that's not saying much. You can tell he grew up playing championship/football manager . He brings on a whole new squad of substitutes and not scared to roll the dice if things need to change during the game.

I'm not sure if we're get promoted this year, but then I'm not sure if that's a bad thing. The issue we have is that if he brings immediate success and West ham have a bad season they might look to take him and the opposite of we don't get promoted a certain percentage of our fans will be calling for his head, and then we're back at square one.

I like that transfers have been coming from further afield and he's been using his knowledge of other leagues, wether that knowledge is any decent, time will tell.

I was at the Pompey game and liked the look of Casper Jander when he came on, Sciena seems to have brought along with the flair for dramatics with diving, hopefully he cuts that stuff out.

His style of play seems to fit Ross Stewart for me, in that we need a strong figure up front to hold things together. Honestly think this could be Ross Stewart season if he stays fit and gets regular game time.

All in all, it all seems like a work in progress which is exactly where we should be after the disaster we had last year. The main thing I'm hoping for is that as fans we are able to adjust our place in the football standings. Too many think we're a mid table premier league team and that's where we should always be, we're more a championship team these days and we have to prepare that any success we have will mean that bigger teams will buy that success from us and we're be back to where we were. So for me like I've always said it comes from the top, the board.

When we've got a board in charge determined to keep hold of key players and build something that's when we can start having an identity again, until then it's always going to be ups and downs. Here's hoping Will brings in some Ups for as long as possible though.

20 Sep 2025 10:33:08
Can anyone see anything other than a draw today?

Need all 3 points to stay in touch with the early pacemakers.

They've got to find a way of playing as if their lives depended on it even if it means running with the ball now and again and maybe even going past defenders.

20 Sep 2025 21:08:53
No clear tactic, no clear shape, no choice of team based on opponent…. No clue.
Worst I’ve seen since Portveliet!
Miller time, I bow to your preseason predictions.

21 Sep 2025 19:01:52
Hi 2408 - I just wish I was wrong, but to be honest, right now we’re in free fall - getting worse by the week.

Won’t be long before we look to recruit a manger with relevant experience and allow Still to move on to develop his career elsewhere

19 Sep 2025 07:39:05
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