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Reply | Right-back signs!!!!!!!
at 16:52 15 Aug 2025
I'm surprised that this is in any way a priority. In this league Suga is good enough with Bree as back up. Beyond that we're told that Quarshie and Edwards can play there if needed.
I'll suspend judgement until the end of the window but I'm beginning to fear that Spors might be as useless as Ankersen was. |
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Reply | Jack Rudoni
at 21:16 14 Aug 2025
Maybe they are waiting to see a deal done for Fernandes or Dibling. Not sure they'd spend £15m without seeing some cash coming in. |
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Reply | Rare positivity
at 16:52 14 Aug 2025
"we don't really have anyone who can open up the sides parking the bus."
The way to beat a team that parks the bus is the same as it's always been - get the ball wide, where the space is and get lots of crosses into the box. That's how we won the game on Saturday too. We SHOULD be better at beating packed defences than in the RM era because doing it the RM way you really do need some special skill to pass your way through a packed defence. Now with WS, who believes in crosses, we should be better equipped to handle this.
But that assumes you have players who can win headers and get on the end of things, or at least be a physical presence that upsets defenders and causes chaos. That's the problem as I see it, we're really missing a centre forward. We have to hope that Stewart or Downs steps up to the job because if they don't that will nullify one of WS's main tactics. |
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Reply | Saints allegedly put Smallbone on sale for £8m
at 10:45 14 Aug 2025
Just seen your post which I said much the same as. Will Still hasn't has much success with the high intensity game yet, but if that's the direction we're moving in then it's not really Smallbone's thing. |
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Reply | Saints allegedly put Smallbone on sale for £8m
at 10:40 14 Aug 2025
He's never worth £8m even at the best of times. What this probably means, if true, is that the club are ready to let him go for £4m.
It's true that he contributed to the last Championship season but he's one of those players who are very much more the RM type than the Will Still type. A slow game suits him better. Still says he wants more intensity, faster passing and running than the players have been used to, which isn't really Smallbone's game. Maybe he can adapt and learn but I wouldn't be surprised if Will Still saw him as a fringe player at best. |
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Reply | Northampton Game Matchday Thread
at 19:36 12 Aug 2025
Stewart out now - but due to illness not injury
BBD replaces him
No sign of the lesser spotted Dibling [Post edited 12 Aug 19:39]
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Reply | So, why didn't Ross Stewart start?
at 15:08 11 Aug 2025
Agreed. The problem with most of these players is that they're utility forwards who supposedly can fill in anywhere in the front line. But what that really means is that they're jack of all trades and master of none.
Centre Forward is a specialist position just as much as goalkeeper is. You wouldn't buy a goalkeeper because he could play a bit at right back too. He'd just be sh1t at both. It's the same with centre forwards, you need a specialist. |
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Reply | Sentiment ends
at 14:36 11 Aug 2025
His best form was on the right of a 3, with Che Adams playing centre forward. He could also play as a nominal "centre forward" under RM because RM's style was more about passing the ball into the net, rather than getting on the end of crosses. His finishing can be good when he's confident, but If you play him as a CF for too long he will lose confidence because that's not his game.
His strengths are running into space and chasing down opponents. He has pace, skill and a good engine, but he's no good at holding the ball up or winning headers, so that's a bit of a problem if he's playing CF. If he plays he should be wide right in a front 3, or a second striker in a front 2. |
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Reply | Liverpool fans
at 11:30 11 Aug 2025
Perhaps I'd agree if the tribute was for someone I respect, say Steven Gerrard, who gave his all for England. But I have no respect for Jota either, so I wouldn't feel inclined to pay any respect. He killed himself and his brother by driving dangerously. He could easily have killed others too. I know someone who is disabled because someone else chose to drive dangerously, so I have my own views on this. Let the family and friends have a private funeral and I will leave them in peace, but don't force a public service like this on me because he doesn't deserve it.
Even so, I would remain silent if I didn't want to upset others, like other fans in the stadium. But with this bunch of cvnts I wouldn't mind. |
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Reply | Liverpool fans
at 10:48 11 Aug 2025
The anthem was booed first. As reported by Sky:
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Sky Sports' Peter Smith at Wembley reported: "Unsavoury moments there, as a few Crystal Palace fans called out 'Eagles' during the minute's silence for Diogo Jota, which drew boos from the Liverpool end.
"It followed Liverpool fans booing the national anthem, which drew an angry response from some in the Palace end."
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It wouldn't even matter to me what the sequence was though. It's well known that Liverpool fans disrespect the country that they all benefit from and are going to boo the anthem. So, personally I have no respect for these Liverpool fans. Fvck them and their minute's silence. Well done to Palace and their fans. |
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Reply | Liverpool fans
at 20:47 10 Aug 2025
I see the scousers (and VVD) are upset that Palace fans didn't follow the minute's silence for Jota. You can't have it both ways sh1theads. Klopp used to defend their booing of the anthem by saying it was freedom of speech. Well, Palace fans have freedom of speech too. Generally in life, if you disrespect other people then don't expect any respect in return. |
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Reply | “Saints need a new striker”
at 14:42 10 Aug 2025
I don't think we need just another "striker". We've got half a dozen of those already. AA, Archer etc. are adequate strikers if played in the correct position. What we need is specifically a centre forward. As you say, someone like Moore (or Tall Paul!).
Maybe Stewart or Downs can do the job but WS seems to doubt them. |
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Reply | Will Still got away with that yesterday
at 12:20 10 Aug 2025
In a tight game you always need a bit of luck because it's fine margins, but to me WS deserved the win, not least because of the ways he adapted during the game and because our improvements in fitness really showed.
Three CBs can be an attacking formation if you have wing backs (not full backs) getting forward and play 1 defensive midfielder instead of 2.
Armstrong is either a wide striker in a 4-3-3 or a second striker in a 4-4-2. He's not a centre forward. The problem is that unless either Stewart or Downs step up to the role then we don't have a centre forward, which would be a big problem. We shouldn't have sold Tall Paul without a good replacement. We could have got rid of AA, Archer or Diaz because they're basically interchangeable, but none of them can do what Tall Paul did. If we go into the season without a proper CF who's up to the job then we'll need a helluva lot more luck. |
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Reply | Fernandes
at 10:23 10 Aug 2025
To be fair to Downs, having watched the highlights he was pushed off the ball when Jack scored (he should have made sure to go down like Moore did), but yeah he did nothing noteworthy. We're still missing a centre forward. |
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Reply | Signings
at 09:04 10 Aug 2025
Having seen yesterday, we still need a proper centre forward. Lots of great things yesterday, but the fact that we played AA as centre forward is worrying. I had thought we would be playing Stewart or Downs as CF this season, but perhaps WS doesn't rate them (yet). Whatever the reason, if one of those 2 isn't the CF then we'll struggle.
AA, Archer and Diaz are not proper CFs. Tall Paul was and we're missing him already. With WS's style of play we need someone to hold the ball up and get on the end of crosses. The likes of AA can do neither of those things. If we don't get someone who can then we'll struggle. |
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Reply | Rangers watch...
at 08:56 10 Aug 2025
In his post match interview yesterday, Will Still was asked what went wrong in the first half. He said "too many short passes" and "too static". I wonder how we developed those habits?It will take a while yet to be totally free from RM's influence on our club, but we're getting there. Hard luck Gers fans. |
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Reply | Fans' Forum tonight
at 16:20 7 Aug 2025
I don't know if Colin from Lordshill will be going but I guarantee you that Blackmore will spend most of time waffling and nothing worthwhile will be said. I wonder if fans forums at other clubs are quite so pointless? |
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Reply | Hardest done by...
at 11:56 6 Aug 2025
You've got to laugh or...
I'm not sure about 1 of their categories though. They think that 0-0 draws mean fans are suffering. But as a Saints fan I can think of lots of games where 0-0 would have been wonderful.
I would take out that category and replace it with the number of 9-0 defeats. |
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Reply | Southampton Weighing Up Signing Keeper Is The Target Already Identified !
at 10:06 5 Aug 2025
WS: "He's done well today (Saturday). He's good, and I think as long as he's been as good as he is, he'll play."
In all honesty, that's not much of an endorsement. He's not exactly saying "Gavin's our number one". He's saying "he's been good so far, but he has to keep it up". It sounds like WS isn't really convinced by Baz, but then, not many of us are. |
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