The Official Southampton FC Thread

[SaintsPaul]

Very comfortable last night. We do need to start putting gilt edge chances away though. Agree with the Redmond sentiments . Trouble is Ralph likes him !!

[DocJock]

At least he's better than Djenepo!

[Paul_B]

Utterly horrible to watch.

Gutless performances on the pitch. ste tactics/substitutions by the manager. Corrupt officiating.

Not really sure why I keep doing it to myself.

I just really hope we can scrape enough points for 17th. How this season has turned!

Edit to add that we've gone and broken another record too!

Edited by Paul_B on Sunday 14th February 14:22

[Shnozz]

DocJock said:

At least he's better than Djenepo!

How any professional footballer can commit a foul throw is beyond me.

[tobinen]

It's not good, is it?

In the first half Ings was clear on goal and Redmond managed to pass it too far behind him which would have been goal two (one would hope).

However I did win a few quid which softened the disappointment

[DocJock]

Confidence isn't great atm, but JWP needs to step up. At the moment he's playing far too many sideways/backwards passes instead of taking responsibility. We shouldn't be relying on the back four for creative forward passes.

[sb-1]

Was a very good 1st half performance.2nd half not good,we were undone by a crap ref for the penalty.

[Leicester Loyal]

Paul_B said:

Utterly horrible to watch.

Gutless performances on the pitch. ste tactics/substitutions by the manager. Corrupt officiating.

Not really sure why I keep doing it to myself.

I just really hope we can scrape enough points for 17th. How this season has turned!

Edit to add that we've gone and broken another record too!

Edited by Paul_B on Sunday 14th February 14:22

The bottom 3 are gonna struggle to get 30 points, so realistically you only need one win to stay up, make it a win and a draw just to be sure!

[tobinen]

A point!

[TyrannosauRoss Lex]

Indeed. Quite surprised! When it went 1-1 I thought "oh, here we go again!"

[Paul_B]

Weirdly I had a dream last night that we drew 1-1.

I'm not sure what I celebrated more; Minamino's very cool finish, or the fact Redmond completed a successful forward pass.

A poor performance really from an attacking point of view, but good defensively. Salisu looking good! And i think Djenepo deserves a mention for his tenacity and a few glimpses of the skill we know he has! He was my motm.

Let's hope we can build on it.....

Edited by Paul_B on Saturday 20th February 17:02

[tobinen]

Paul_B said:

or the fact Redmond completed a successful forward pass.

[joshleb]

Not been a good few weeks has it, and with the following games coming up, Everton, Sheffield United and Manchester City, they could be make or break really. Fulham are having a bit of a surge and we're only going one way...

4 points from those 3 games would be a good result, need the W against Shef as it's been long for a league win.

I've still got faith in Hass, just need our luck to turn around a bit.

[jimmytheone]

Its a good job we got all those points at the start of the season

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Speaking as a Leeds fan, you're pretty much the only team this season to do what we do and press from the first minute. Worked for 45 minutes too. Romeu was a big loss - never really taken notice of him before but saw him in a match a few weeks back (first game back from a ban/injury?) and he was incredible. Sort of hardman, no nonsense midfielder we lack when Kalvin Phillips is injured. In a similar vein, the Djeppo (?) lad who came on for him - is he even a footballer? That said, thought the same about Ndidi at Leicester the first few times I watched him and he turned out ok!

I like Ralph - seems a lot of people like him but starting Nathan Redmond was a mistake given Minamino and Ings were on the bench. He's awful!

[jimmytheone]

Romeu out for the rest of the season

bbc

[Truckosaurus]

The only piece of good news on the horizon seems to be the run of games against teams below use it the league, hopefully a couple of wins will see us safe.... Looking forward to next season and being allowed back to games....

[tobinen]

jimmytheone said:

Romeu out for the rest of the season

bbc

Balls. He's been my favourite player for a while but this season I thought he was even better than last. He'll be missed IMO.

'Only' 10 more points required from 13 matches.

[SaintsPaul]

jimmytheone said:

Romeu out for the rest of the season

bbc

All thanks to that sh!t Leeds pitch !!

[jimmytheone]

tobinen said:

jimmytheone said:

Romeu out for the rest of the season

bbc

Balls. He's been my favourite player for a while but this season I thought he was even better than last. He'll be missed IMO.

'Only' 10 more points required from 13 matches.

The "40" points thing always irked me, like when we got relegated with 42(?) or how other teams have survived on 30-something.
It really is a question of "are there 3 teams more st than us", this season i think the answer is yes.