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Wood can defend well but I noticed today how quickly he tries to get rid of the ball when it's passed to him. He's not terrible in possession but it's clear he's not as comfortable with it as THB or Jack.

He wilts under pressure imo 🤷

Thanks for the insight, confirms my suspicions. The time to have kicked off over cheating in football was with the scourge of diving, but that particular cat got out of the bag decades ago and there has been no real appetite to tackle that problem. This is just due diligence on steroids, and we'll need to do this sort of thing to keep up with the others if we get promoted.

Harsh on Wood, I thought he did ok. I'd prefer Stephens but Woods has his strengths too.

If you examine our statement it is pretty anodyne. No admission of guilt.

Only watched the first half, but even though they were all over us I didn't feel particularly panicky - the players seemed very calm about the situation, maybe a bit too calm and passive tbh. Thought Larin, Fellows, Azaz were all poor, the few times we had it they all seemed out of sync and gave it away too easily. At the back Wood was awful, I think their plan was to let him have it then press him hard when he stepped forward and he duly coughed up the ball a number of times. Couldn't watch the 2nd half but sounds better. I do feel Azaz seems a bit out of sorts the last couple of games, could play one of Bragg / Charles there or Matsuki even...?

Fry was very good very strong and like you say Larin had no Close enough to him to lay it off to. Our front 4, aside from a couple of decent crosses weren’t at it today but Tuesday will be different with Azaz and a Scienza will Have more impact and of Stewart starts I think he’ll get goal

They’ve got so wound up they forget about the tie altogether. They need to regroup quickly. All that said we were far from perfect.

At least if the game goes to penalties, we have a trusty penalty taker... Peretz scored two League penalties early in his career. 2 mins 14

Absolutely. The weird little freaks have lost their mind so much they don’t know which way to turn.

I think Middlesbrough have absolutely shit the bed today. They riled the fans up, the team were seen to be going 100 miles an hour for the first half and didn’t capitalise. Second half they were pretty ordinary by the sounds of it, and nearly lost it. The manager sounds dejected and is now throwing the “it’s unacceptable for Southampton” even more than he previously was. Pre-game he played it down massively. Their fans sound dejected and angry and they sound nervous ahead of Tuesday night. Rattled northerners are the funniest.

Yeah Larin suffered from a few things I think today; 1. He does hold up play brilliantly, but a lot of the time he relies on being able to knock the ball 1, 2 or 3 metres at most to a nearby Saints player. We were defending more, so no one close enough to sweep up the little taps from his hold up, hence 'Boro picked them up 2. Their centre back, Fry, was actually very good at not letting Larin get away with pushing him around so much - I liked him 3. Larin went down a fair amount to start with, the ref was not having any of it, rightly so

Jordan Sibley those days bullying dry cleaners with Cortese demands starting to pay off 👏👏👏👏

Fuck me Ukraine is so far down the woke league right now we need to raise our game. Get those badges pinned on and Facebook filters added, don’t forget the things we need to care about just because they’re not currently fashionable. The summer is coming and oil will soon be back shooting up the woke league

They kept singing "there's only one Stevie Gibson" today along with the cheating bastards song. Proper odd behaviour.

Who, Al-sex Ji-minorz? I think that story will go on much longer than Spygate

Do you really believe this pony. Nobody gives a shite, outside of Southampton or Middlesbrough. At least I hope not, I’m off to sexually harass a couple of nine pinters, safe in the knowledge nobody will notice as they’re too busy worry about Spy gate. Has The Donald commented on it yet, I hope it doesn’t make him take his eye off the Iran situation

As I’ve said the plan was clear sir deep, block The middle hit them on the break like we did v Arsenal and city. the problem we had was that Larin had his worst game since he’s been here getting dominated by their defence so we had no outlet the midfield werent getting forward quick enough so the ball kept coming back. second half we played a bit higher up and had a bit more control of the game. We did get a bit lucky but you see games like that all the time. Home team starts at 100000mph then away team takes control as they blow themselves out. Tuesday will be different again we’ll control The game but they’ll be a threat on the break main thing is they’ve not got A lead to protect so won’t be able Spend 90 minutes with 11 men behind the ball. Overall a 0-0 draw is a much better result for us than them so say what you like about luck not getting it right we got the result most of us would have taken at 12pm today

I hate what has come out and as a true sports fan i am utterly appalled that my team have potentially broken the rules regarding spying. I got talking to my son last night who is the head coach for an American team and brought this matter up for his view on it. To say i was quite shocked was an understatement but now i've had time to think on what he said i think i'm just appalled football has come to this. These are the comments he made to me and bear in mind he has connections all around the UK, South America and America. Decisions that cost 100s of millions are going to leverage every source of information possible The mistake was getting caught There are now scouting services made up of former secret service staff from various countries who offer to spy on players who can geolocate players This was taught on a webinar I was on last week By a sporting director of a top division European club basically he implied every club out there is breaking the rules one way or another to get an edge!

You’re right they’re s good side. Tony Pulis has been saying all season they’re good enough to go up and Coventry aside, are the best side in the league. I know people will say, he’s a dinosaur etc, but he’s been around football a long time and his opinion is as valid as anyone’s. There’s no doubt in my mind that us and them are head and shoulders above the other 2, on our days. And that’s the point, the winner of this tie should go up, but if we don’t produce our best on Tuesday, it won’t be us.

It won't be happening. Saints could take legal action against the EFL (and possibly Boro, if we deny the allegations) to the tune of the Premier League TV money.

Oi! Fuck off ! I am aware of the Ron Davies story. Davies being a Welsh Labour MP rather than our great CF. And just to add this has no bearing on my username

I don’t see the Wrexham argument as the incident occurred after the season and league positions were decided. I wouldn’t be so confident that expelling us from playoffs won’t happen due to difficulties arising. Don’t forget Swindon’s demotion after winning the playoffs some years ago.

I also agree with the OPs comments.

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