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Reply | Southampton At Hull City The Verdict
at 08:50 22 Sep 2025
But as Nick says in his report... "one hit the nail on the head when talking about Finn Azaz to his mate, he said last year for Middlesbrough he tore Hull apart, that he was the best player he saw in the Championship by a country mile, but he was a shadow of his former self."
So what indeed has happened to that version of Azaz? Why is he all of a sudden crap? it is us. We are destroying players somehow. |
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Reply | Southampton At Hull City The Verdict
at 08:45 22 Sep 2025
I think I may have said this before, but I cannot help but think something is very wrong behind the scenes at SFC. As Nick says in his report, the same old issues crop up. But those same old issues have been here for many years and through two owners and countless managers.
We have a clear habit of making good players worse and hardly any I can think of, if at all, have improved since coming here. I think someone needs to go in there as a top football expert and have a look at everything from diet, to training, tactics, coaching, the backroom staff, everything behind the scenes and find out what this cancer is. For sure this cannot just be about wrong mangers, players, coaching....there has to be a very negative cloud hanging somewhere behind the scenes for things to be this bad so consistently. |
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Reply | Disrespectful I know...
at 08:40 22 Sep 2025
I have a good friend who supports West Ham and I have watched them this season with him on TV. They are crap. The tactics are a mess, a bit like Still. Shame we did not keep NJ huh, he is doing well with Charlton compared to us.
All joking aside, we need a manager who knows the English game and even better if he knows this league. But nothing will change in that regard until SR sell up, which I hope this season they do. It is rumoured that the club is still up for sale, so we can live in hope. |
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Reply | Long chat with Hull fan
at 11:51 21 Sep 2025
Normally I would agree about giving a new man at least 10 games, but sorry to say in this case I just cannot see where his tactics/game plan are. Our set up, shape, formation, call it what you will, are just meaningless. I am sorry to say I cannot see him turning it around. |
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Reply | Slight bright side
at 10:34 21 Sep 2025
Next season could be a very tough season to get out of this league if the likes of Wolves and West Ham come down. It is pretty clear that we are not going up this season, so next season we think we have a better chance with West ham and Wolves coming down? Think again. |
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Reply | Long chat with Hull fan
at 10:29 21 Sep 2025
As you say here, it is pretty nailed on it being a case of when, not if he is sacked. So best to do it now surely? |
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Thread | Predict todays Games
at 09:01 20 Sep 2025
9 Championship matches today. let's see if we can predict outcomes and see where we might be at the end of them all.
Birmingham City 1 Swansea City 0
Leicester City 1 Coventry City 1
Queens Park Rangers 1 Stoke City 2
Blackburn Rovers 1 Ipswich Town 1
Derby County 1 Preston North End 2
Hull City 1 Southampton 2 (have to say this)
Norwich City 2 Wrexham 0
Portsmouth 2 Sheffield Wednesday 2
Sheffield United 1 Charlton Athletic 1
Probably miles off as ever. Had to Saints will win so the table looks better but I think we will actually draw again today. If the win is correct, we will go up to 10th. A draw or defeat is unthinkable really. [Post edited 20 Sep 9:07]
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Reply | The Next 5 Games
at 10:46 18 Sep 2025
Indeed, with I think a better quad than we have now to be honest. An even though I hated his tactics, we also had a manager who understood the championship. Still is learning as he goes. |
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Reply | One for the future , or not
at 10:24 18 Sep 2025
That's a bit odd. Either he hated it here and was homesick or he is shite. Not a good one for our recruitment team that's for sure. |
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Thread | The Next 5 Games
at 10:20 18 Sep 2025
Another 5 games and we will be 10 games in. Most promotion chasing teams will expect to have at least 2 points per game by then. So around 20 points or more. That means we need 14 points from our next 5 (not possible of course). But can we get say 13 from this lot?
Hull v Saints
Saints v Boro
Sheffield UTD v Saints
Derby v Saints
Southampton Swansea
13 + 6 = 19 of course, which should have in good contention with the leaders. It seems no one is running away with it as yet, so it may be by the that the leaders only have say 22 points, leaving us just 3 behind.
There are 3 games there we should win. Typical that we have to play Sheffield UTD after Selles has gone and they were so beatable. Impossible to predict Saints of course, but i can see us only getting like 10 or 11 points from that lot with the way things are and a slight improvement.
What y'all think?
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Reply | Work in Progress
at 09:39 18 Sep 2025
Indeed. I just hope we can start to play moves like that more often, start converting them and start better in the first half. Something is wrong there. No idea why we seem to start so badly. |
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Reply | RIP Robert Redford...
at 08:34 17 Sep 2025
Fantastic movie. Why, you crazy — the fall'll probably kill ya! |
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Reply | Work in Progress
at 14:09 15 Sep 2025
Was I alone in thinking some of our second hand movements were actually quite good and perhaps some of the best attacking and moving we have done so far this season? |
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Reply | Work in Progress
at 07:36 15 Sep 2025
To some degree Grumps, I agree. That said, what worries me are the tactics. Will Still does not seem to as yet have a clear plan or style. Again, that said it must be hard for all of those under RM to shake off the tika taka stuff that was drilled into them for so long. I wont be calling for his head just yet. but of course the risk there is, if we give him say 20 games, it will probably be too late by then to mount a promotion charge. That is to say, if he has us 15th after 20 games, it will be highly unlikely the new man will get us promoted. I guess we just have to accept that we may not go up this season and have to be patient like Leeds were. |
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Reply | Quarshie
at 11:16 14 Sep 2025
Thought he had a knock? Hope to hell Stephens can have a half decent game with THB. Will they be OK playing back 4 for the first time in ages? |
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Reply | Russell Martin and his p45
at 11:15 14 Sep 2025
Surely it is a job for Jose M? No way he can go West Ham, he is not good enough for that level anymore. He would be OK at Rangers. |
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Reply | Portsmouth Game Matchday Thread
at 09:03 14 Sep 2025
Being overseas I am of course consigned to watching it on the box. I have one of those IPTV things so can get every channel. very nervous right now. Have not felt this way about a game in many years. |
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Thread | Yesterdays Games
at 08:03 14 Sep 2025
Some good results for Saints yesterday. This has to be viewed as a great chance to stay close to the top 6. With a win we will be at least 8th, maybe 7th if we can win by two goals. WBA losing at home to derby I think shows again they will be the same as ever, there abouts the top 6 but not consistent enough to be contenders. I really believe this league is wide open this year and we need to start winning things. I want to see us win this bloody league! |
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Reply | Saints V Pompey Eve Of The Matchday Thread
at 07:50 14 Sep 2025
Right now Saints are hard to predict as the best of times. But a Derby game is even more so. Portsmouth are settled and have a set way f playing. they will be organised. combative and I suspect battle for every ball. We have to match that and use our superior players to our advantage. Do that and we can and should win. But I think this game has come perhaps a month to soon for us. I wish we could play Sheffield United now and pompey later. just our fixture luck that is.
I still have a feeling it will be 2-2 or maybe even 3-3. |
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