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Reply | Season Ticket Sales Up
at 10:58 22 Jun 2025
Already the most season tickets the club has ever sold for a Championship season or any other second tier season in its history. |
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Reply | If We Could Keep One Player This Summer ?
at 11:13 19 Jun 2025
We could sign Ayoub El Kaabi, who is a much better striker than Onuachu.
One of the reasons it would be great to keep Ramsdale, apart from the fact he is a very good goalkeeper, is that it would mean keeping the dreaded alternatives of Bazunu and McCarthy away from the team. There could be few sights more depressing than seeing one of those two lining up in goal for our opening league game. |
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Reply | Season Ticket Renewals Have Been High
at 22:22 11 Jun 2025
The population of the area has increased so much since the stadium was built that high demand for tickets is almost inevitable. |
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Reply | Lawrence Shankland
at 12:52 10 Jun 2025
There are very few players in the Championship who are good enough for the Premier League nowadays. Even from the squads of the 3 teams that went up and came straight back down again this year, only a handful of players will be picked up by Premier League clubs and even they may not be good enough to be first team regulars.
This is probably the strongest Premier League and weakest Championship there has ever been, because any half-decent players are already in the inflated squads of Premier League teams. Hence the massive gap. Of course, this also means that the gap between League One and the Championship has narrowed so much that promoted teams from League One may go straight up to the Premier League the following season.
It tells you just how weak the Championship is that a team that finished bottom of the Premier League with a record number of defeats are the bookies' favourites to win it. [Post edited 10 Jun 12:53]
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Reply | Adam Lallana Likely To Be Offered Coaching Role At Southampton
at 12:41 10 Jun 2025
It doesn't seem a good idea to retain any of the failed coaching staff from last year, including Lallana. He should be released. If we really need an ex-player as a coach, Fonte would be a far better prospect. [Post edited 10 Jun 12:49]
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Reply | Lawrence Shankland
at 21:56 9 Jun 2025
I would get rid of as many as possible of our current strikers and bring in Ayoub El Kaabi. Because of his age, he wouldn't be expensive, but he'd score a lot more goals than anybody we currently have in our squad. |
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Reply | Southampton Publish Retained List
at 19:18 9 Jun 2025
Players may come and players may go, but Alex McCarthy is here forever. Obviously, no other club would take him, but he should have been the first name on the released list.
The core of useless players, like McCarthy and Smallbone, who have been here for years, hold the club back. They have a negative influence on new arrivals. [Post edited 9 Jun 20:37]
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Reply | St Mary’s pitch
at 20:32 8 Jun 2025
A former poster on here, Boris, must. He organises them.He used to get big crowds for them too. Teenagers are very keen on them. |
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Reply | 5 Things About The Arsenal Game
at 18:17 26 May 2025
3. Even in the pre-season games Charlie Taylor stood out. He was our best defender against Arsenal. Of course, he has been Leeds' Player of the Year, won the Championship with Burnley and was part of the mean defence that kept them in the Premier League for many years. He's probably the most reliable Premier League defender we've got so it was ridiculous that he was left out of the team for most of the season. Hopefully, Will Still's team selection will be an improvement on what we've had to put up with this season, Taylor will be a regular starter and we'll never see Smallbone play for Saints again.. [Post edited 26 May 18:20]
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Reply | Keep Robinson and Sulemana
at 21:50 25 May 2025
Let's hope we can keep Charlie Taylor. He looks like he's our best defender. |
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Reply | Smallbone on
at 21:48 25 May 2025
Nobody would buy him. He can't even sprint. Just release him so he can't cost us any more points. |
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Reply | Can we avoid another unwanted record
at 21:42 25 May 2025
When we were drawing late in the game, there was obviously some concern that we weren't going to break the record so Smallbone was sent on just to make sure we did. |
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Reply | If it ain't broke!
at 21:35 25 May 2025
Yes, as usual, our subs gifted the 3 points to the opposition. Smallbone is a real Jonah. Send him on and the opposition will almost inevitably score.
Fernandes and Charlie Taylor were both very good and didn't look out of place against Arsenal. Taylor should have been playing all season. He is an experienced Premier League defender, who helped keep Burnley up for years, was Leeds' player of the year and a Championship winner with Burnley. [Post edited 25 May 21:36]
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Reply | Thoughts on a summer of change?
at 13:29 24 May 2025
Your retained list is shocking. We'll soon find out the real one and hopefully it will be better than this.
"Retain:
Bazuma
McCarthy
Wellington
Larios
Bree
Wood
Edwards
Stephens
Lawrence
Sanda
Charles
Smallbone
Downes ?
Fraser
Matsuri
Juan
Armstrong
Stewart
Edozie
Takaoka" [Post edited 24 May 16:35]
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Reply | Will Still bringing his two brothers with him.
at 13:06 22 May 2025
I've always thought that Fonte would be much better managerial material than Lallana. He's currently a player-coach in Portugal, but as he's in his forties, this should be his last season as a player and I'm sure he'd jump at the chance to be assistant manager here. [Post edited 22 May 13:07]
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Reply | Will Still bringing his two brothers with him.
at 12:49 22 May 2025
I'd prefer Vasco Matos with Fonte as his assistant. They are realistic targets.
But, if Sport Republic choose the Still brothers, they'll have my support and I hope they are successful here.
Whoever we get, we'll still need a proper centre forward to score 20+ goals next season. Ayoub El Kaabi would be ideal and he'd be well within our price range. [Post edited 22 May 12:53]
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