The Official Southampton FC Thread

[Legacywr]

Do we think Leicester will get raped by the big clubs during the summer, like we do?

[Black can man]

Legacywr said:

Do we think Leicester will get raped by the big clubs during the summer, like we do?

Highly unlikely i'd say, mainly because non of these players currently in the Leicester i bet would never have thought that one day they would be playing Champions league football.

Will make a welcome change to see other English teams in the CL & I'm sure Leicester City & their great team & fans will do England proud.


& bloody good luck to them.

[uk66fastback]

130R said:

I hope we appeal the red card for Wanyama because that was never a sending off (no surprise it was Clattenburg that gave it either!). Byram's tackle on Bertrand was actually much worse.

It wasn't a pretty looking tackle, very quick and a flurry of legs. But did he hurt the guy? Not at all ... He just launched himself in the air and looked like he'd been shot ... Two mins later he was fine.

No chance it'll be rescinded though imo, it just 'looked' bad ...

[The jiffle king]

3 more points and another clean sheet!! Thats the 40 points negotiated, now to push on for a Europa place?

[130R]

6 clean sheets in a row is brilliant

[SS2.]

Are we safe yet ?

[tobinen]

40 points in the bag and up to sixth.

Ref was very inconsistent today. Romeu was hard done by and put in a great shift from what I saw on the telly. Good header by Long and thanks to the Swansea defence he was unmarked!

Two week break and Chelsea next.

[Shnozz]

Not a great game and some sitters missed but a satisfying result when a draw was looking likely for the most part.

I was watching the match on one screen with the big screen behind playing the France/Ireland match and there was more of us in the bar cheering at the Saints goal than the rugby.

[tobinen]

Bah! Forster had a bit of a 'mare for the first Chelsea goal, otherwise I thought a draw was about right. Defence caught napping for the second. Pity because Long's goal was great.

Nevermind. Hopefully three points can be won on Tuesday night

[tobinen]

Double bah! Very poor showing all round.

[tobinen]

Wasn't expecting a win at Stoke so happy days! Hopefully Mané's red card will be overturned - ref did not have a great match.

Back up to 7th, though other teams have a game in hand.

[uk66fastback]

Tadic, WHAT was he doing?

Okay, Long passes it, quick touch, low and hard, bang, 0-3. He brings it back on his right foot, fine. Sidefoot it in the goal, 0-3.. no, he takes ANOTHER touch, boom, tackled ... Change gone!

[tobinen]

Indeed, you'd expect better from him. Left-footed or not, at this level he has to score

[SS2.]

He needs to learn to pull the trigger - time and again he gets himself into good positions, only to take a touch, then another, then get tackled.

Good to see both Pelle & Long tearing into him as they walked off at half time - quite right, too.

Also good to see Long back to his trouble-making best - we really miss him when he's out injured.

VvD man of the match for me - another near faultless performance from the big man..

[The jiffle king]

We seem to get nervous when we have a lead at the minute and need to snap out of that. At 1-2, we dropped deeper and whilst Stoke played well, we should have been able to hold onto that sort of lead

Agree with the Tadic comments, it's the difference between good and great.

[130R]

What a comeback that was!

[tobinen]

Great result! At 0-2 down it didn't look rosy but they kept on trying. Super 3 points

[RottenIcons]

A stunning game.

Real commitment won that match along with a great management decision to change the play at half-time.

[SaintsPaul]

What a game

Could of easily been 4 or 5 nil at half time but really got stuck in 2nd half.
Inspired substitutions from RoKo. Pure class.
Difficult to shift the massive smile from my face at the moment

[Adam B]

Well done Saints - your manager made some good changes, ours made some shockers

That said we should have been out of sight in the first half and the offside goal was suspect to say the least

Reckon you will finish above us now, we are shockingly inconsistent