Nordic Saint

Out of the 34 games played by the bottom 6 teams so far, Wolves are the only team to have won one. Hopefully, we can win one against them tomorrow.

Vestergaard having his usual nightmare game for Leicester. He's so bad the commentators are saying they should take him off at half-time. And Leicester fans have had enough of him already. They don't want to see him in their team any more: Vestergaard signs - Page 17 - Leicester City Forum - FoxesTalk

There was a TV interview regarding Brentord's policy and they said it was a waste of time and money having an academy in London as the big clubs hoovered up all the talent. Even if our own academy currently appears to be a waste of money, we are doing well taking players like Livramento, Broja and Small from other clubs' academies. Maybe that is the way forward. Chelsea's academy for example is always going to have much more talent than ours.

He's the same at Leicester.

Dave Merrington must now be rivalling Eve for the most times anyone has said the word Adam. He says it at the end of every sentence. It has become such a habit that his wife has probably had to get used to being called Adam too. He'd never be able to go back into management as the players would get confused by all being called Adam.

He certainly wasn't fine in Serie A so why should he be fine here? It's not any easier here.

Hopefully, we can find a club to loan him to before he does too much damage here.

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Saints are the current joint record holders for the most consecutive draws in a Premier League season: 7 in 1994-95. Saints are also the current joint holders of the record for the most consecutive draws in Football League history, which is 8. Saints did it in the 2005-06 Championship season. Saints are also the joint record holders for the most draws ever in a Premier League season: 18 in 1994-95. We hold most of the draw records but there is still one we are currently on course for - the most consecutive 0-0 draws, which is currently held jointly by Arsenal, who've done it twice, Spurs and most recently Wolves (2015-16) with 4. Both Spurs and Arsenal did it with the manager who was the master of scoreless draw football, George Graham.

He scored in 7 of the 8 games he played against us at the 60s. I was at most of them including the first two at White Hart Lane when we lost 5-3 and 6-1. The 5-3 defeat in 1966 was the first time he ever played against us, and he scored a penalty. Ron Davies got 2 that day. I still enjoyed the game as I was one of the 10,000 Saints' fans who took the Park Lane End. The following year, we only took about 5,000 up there and so only took over half of the Park Lane End. Greaves scored 2, including his usual penalty. We still outsang the Spurs' fans though. They were a very quiet, sedate lot in those days - in fact they were the last club to have a singing section- and the loudest song of the day was when Ron Davies scored, as he nearly always did against Spurs, right at the end to make it 6-1, and we sang, "We're only warming up." I also saw Greaves play for West Ham and, of course, for Saints against Vancouver Whitecaps. I remember when Greaves scored, a few fans said, "He could do a job for us." But, you could see he was never going to be fit enough again to play 90 minutes. He was, after all, 40 years old at the time. Alan Ball scored Vancouver's only goal from a penalty. Saints 3-1 Vancouver Whitecaps Boyer, Greaves, Baker; Ball attendance: 13,000 Match report from the Vancouver Sun: 1980-03-11 Whitecaps-Southampton x.jpg (1192×564) (nasljerseys.com) Greaves was one of the greatest English goalscorers ever and brilliant at rounding goalkeepers. When he was through, 1 on 1, he never missed. R.I.P.

The only way to beat them is to go carbon heavy. We should chuck lumps of coal at them when we play them.

Over the course of a season Vestergaard's awful defending is worth at least minus six league positions to his team. If they keep playing him, Leicester are going to concede hatfuls of goals and finish below us in the league.

Why do McCarthy's kicks never go to a Southampton player? You'd think by the law of averages some of them would.

We've dominated the opening 15 minutes but we usually do in games. City are pacing themselves.

FoxesTalk:"Our defence without Evans is fvcking garbage.""Defensive horror show.""Defending this season has been atrocious. Look shaky every time the ball comes near our box.""Centre defence was pretty weak""Soyuncu and Vestegaard scare me. The latter has to be the weakest player I've ever seen going shoulder to shoulder with a player.""Problem with playing Evans and Vestergaard together is lack of pace - they got caught out lots of times in the first half.""Vestergaard was very poor tonight, awful for their first goal and nowhere near their most dangerous player Osimhen for his headed goal, surely he should have been marking him ffs.""I miss Fofana""Vestergaard looks weak and limp defensively.""Vestegaard just literally gave up and let the Napoli striker just breeze past him. Shocking defending.""Vestergaard is 8 foot 12 but hasn't got any shoulders."

If he keeps playing like he did on Saturday, it will be impossible as he will be way out of our price range. We just have to make the most of the time he is here: a bit like when Chelsea loaned Lukaku to West Brom. Eventually, a bigger club, Everton paid a club record fee for him and then more than doubled their money when they sold him to Man United. I can see Broja following a similar path or becoming a first team regular at Chelsea. We need to play Broja as much as possible in the time he is here. As the OP says, he must start v Man City.

I think you could be right, especially as the average age of the fans who usually attend St Mary's must be among the oldest at any Premier League stadium. I noticed at the pre-season friendlies v Levante and Athletic Bilbao that there were very few old fans present and even at the Man United and West Ham games, there seemed to be fewer than usual. That begs the question, why don't we have as high a percentage of younger fans as other clubs? I think a lot of it is to do with our pricing structure. Less is done to encourage teenagers and fans in their early 20s to come with their mates than at many other clubs, where there are often generous discounts. Also, ironically, because of the stadium's limited capacity, which has meant the ground has nearly always been more than 90% full for PL games, the Club has never felt any real need to encourage new fans. Perhaps they will now.

I think Ward-Prowse offers much more. I understand that Diallo is a defensive midfielder but for any midfield player to fail to score a single goal and to only have one assist (none in England) in his entire career is not what you want to see in a team that already offers few goalscoring options. With Ward-Prowse, you know you are going to get goals and assists every year.

On the evidence so far this season, yes. I know Vestergaard improved a lot and his passing was good but I always felt that he was far too slow and a defensive liability. There is not a lot to choose between Stephens and Bednarek but Jack dominates the opposition's dangermen more. He is our enforcer and gives the team a bit of steel.

He was superb today. He kept us in the game in the first half with a series of outstanding tackles and interceptions. Antonio has never been better contained by Saints' central defence than he was today by Stephens and Salisu. Ralph's faith in that pairing is beginning to pay off.

He's been named in Saints' official Premier League squad squad for this season. Watch out for him, he's one for the future. Southampton's Premier League squad confirmed after summer window with two notable inclusions - HampshireLive

I can remember when fans of teams that were losing heavily sometimes used pitch invasions to try to get games abandoned. The prospect of forcing teams to abandon games when their team is losing heavily would probably encourage some fans to make racist chants. England did the right thing last night although I was concerned that Southgate might take his team off the pitch. The Hungarians would have stayed out there and possibly even been awarded the game. My guess is that if Hungary had been winning 4-0, there wouldn't have been any displays of racism or any objects thrown on the pitch. I was at Wembley the last time we played Hungary, in 2010. That was a much closer game and their fans were very well behaved although most of them were residents here. I'll be there again the next time too and I expect their fans will, once again, mostly be British residents. I like watching the current England team and thought my ticket was reasonably priced at £40 for a World Cup qualifier when compared to ticket prices for Premier League games in London. Anyway, I thought it was an excellent performance by England. I'd hoped we might get seven to equal what Hungary did to us in 1954. That was England's all-time record defeat but what gets rarely mentioned is the fact we also beat them 7-0 and 8-2 in Hungary.

The TV commentator said that Mike Dean had said it was an attempt to play the ball. It sounds like he was trying to influence the ref not to award a penalty. It's the first time I've heard a commentator repeat what the VAR official had said. I didn't know that TV commentators could hear communications between officials.

The bottom four teams have played a total of 10 games and haven't got a single point between them. From the fixtures we've had so far, 2 points is a decent return.

You could say the same about us in the league this season. That was our first clean sheet for 5 months.