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Club laying off its bread and butter. SR and Godin acting more and more like Dumb & Dumber... Open menu June 17 Thank you David, thank you Yann VAFC wishes to thank David Jacqmin, U19 coach, and Yann Lecocq, U17 coach, whose contracts at the training centre are coming to an end at the end of this season. Present at the club from 2002 to 2017 and then from 2024 to 2026, David Jacqmin mentored numerous young players across the various youth academy teams he managed during his time at Valenciennes. A true club enthusiast, he leaves behind a wonderful legacy and many fond memories for all who knew him, particularly the U19 National team this season, with whom he reached the quarterfinals of the championship. Having arrived last season, Yann Lecocq contributed to the daily work and development of the U17 National group who finished fourth in their championship. VAFC wishes to acknowledge the investment and professionalism of everyone under the "red and white" colours, and wishes them the best for the future of their personal and professional journeys.

Can't disagree. James Allcott on youtube is an example of someone with excellent tactical analysis who points out things I haven't noticed. Well worth a listen.

Also put £50 in my collection tin when I was outside Saint Marys collecting for charity. Bloke is alright in my book.

It's why (apart from Saints not being in the Premier League), I don't watch MoTD anymore. People who don't enunciate properly, drawing bloody triangles and arrows on a screen talking about stuff that is plainly obvious. On iPlayer though you can get MoTD highlights without the "analysis", so that's a win. Cut out the drivel and watch the highlights, perfect. I've started preferring podcast type things as background noise whilst eating or whatever. The Lineker one on Netflix is interesting.

Exactly this. The problem is you can’t criticise that dogs dinner she delivered without being accused of Misogyny. They set her up as some sort of tactical genius, when in fact she was spouting pony. She was totally wrong anyway, as was pointed out by TT’s assistant at half time. What she was praising, he was saying they were unhappy with. They got into the players at HT to do less of what she was impressed with, lo and behold the performance second half was impressive. Anyone could see that the first quarter of the game was a bit of a mess tactically, probably the whole first half. There wasn’t really a pattern before the drinks break. However, she had to say something, so waffled a load of old bollocks. I’ve heard loads of experienced blokes saying “tactically, I don’t know what they’re doing”, “whatever they’re trying isn’t working”, “the game hasn’t settled down yet” and similar. The problem with birds is they try to hard to prove themselves, they seem to think they need to be come out with gems every time they open their mouths. They basically suffer from imposter syndrome, because deep down they know they’re not in the studio on merit. She was hung out to dry by ITV, if they wanted her analysis, put her on the panel. And if the tactical shape of the game hadn’t developed by that stage (which it hadn’t), talk about something else. Maybe Neville could have discussed the players mindset in the first game, or Wrighty could have discussed the pressure of a retaken penalty. She was given a rough gig, but made a complete and utter horlicks of it.

Have some respect. Leon Crouch personally funded the replacement Ted Bates statue and kept the club afloat.

Yeah I tend to prefer journalists on podcasts to the tv guys. Although tactics generally bore me “he’s a number 6 not an 8” etc. I reckon the Emma woman could have delivered the most insight into tactics ever (she didn’t) and still have been slaughtered due to the stupid format. Didn’t Ron Atkinson say you can play with your silly little machines all you want back in the 90s and now we back to chalk and blackboards

God bless the senile old prick. Has to pay them loads of dollar for the privilege of bombing them as part of his "historical" deal

i dont expect them to excite us but maybe some intelligence on the game that you might not notice yourself. Half time in the Portugal game they highlighted Ronaldos attack postitioning when he didnt have the ball which i found quite interesting. Most of the time they just quote the bleeding obvious or talk in cliches.

I have a wife and two kids, that I love more than anything in the world, but I also love Southampton football club, almost as much and as such tens of hundreds of hours of my life is spent on watching and following Saints either in person or at home. All of that time invested last season travelling home and away in the hopes of seeing this side challenge for something, which they did, was then cruelly taken away from us by a handful of selfish people and our club became a national disgrace and joke as a result. Now said club want to increase the ticket prices for those loyal fans, because they know they’ll pay it, despite their incredible support and yet to you, anyone who criticises that decision is a “lazy victim” to do so. what an utter bellend response.

Gone back to Thailand

If it’s such an insignificant increase Nick why bother with an increase at all. Of course I want us to be competitive, but a net gain of £500k from ticket increases to a club that spent £12 million on Gavin Bazunu is pretty negligible. Could have froze prices this season and doubled the increase next year and nobody would have batted an eyelid.

I can’t stand Rupert Lowe but I’m fairly sure it was Wilde and Crouch that turbocharged our descent to league 1 and administration.

Ladies cricket doesn't interest a whole lot of people. Forcing it down people's throats won't change that. In my view there's far too much of it now. Now County Cricket..well there's not enough of it, haven't had a CC or T20 match for seems like ages.

Oh I dunno, Duck got so excited he posted a double pony. They’re a collectors item you know. A bit like Paul Dacre’s infamous ‘double cuntings’ during editorial meetings at the Daily Mail.

There is a limit to how any punditry can excite. Think I have probably heard everything that can ever be said by a pundit about a football team although get occasional gems like Keane calling Robertson a big baby.

Ah, it’s that Dutch striker again. Van Wanker isn’t it?

My thoughts: i) that England performance was rubbish. Absolutely zero chance of winning the World Cup playing like that. ii) the bird says more sensible things than most of the other pundits and doesn’t seem to have the learning difficulties that some female pundits had in the past iii) just be grateful there isn't one on commentary (although that would be better than Matterface)

I think Starmer is absolutely woeful and absolutely unsuited to being Prime Minister but fuck me, when thick cunts start spouting off with images from social media about something they know bugger all about and in support of that ruddy faced charlatan, Starmer becomes slightly less unpopular in my mind.

Just bought mine. A very quick process for parting with ~£600!

Thought the window is open? Where are the signings? Come on chop chop 🤣

Oh. Well that's what ChatGPT told me. Should have known better than to trust that though. I suppose when it said we could meet in the quarters if we both win our groups that was wrong as well then?

Certainly you’ll see some links at the US Open starting later today at Shinnecock Hills.

Logical approach now is for Middlesbrough to take legal action

Another good result in the 50 over ladies game yesterday - won by 10 wickets with 11 overs to spare with a record partnership t boot