Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan

I understand what you mean about the possibility of using an outright positive message, but the club does that with its support of Pride and the Rainbow shirts (inclusivity based marketing). This seems to be aimed more at addressing the issue of homophobia, so needs to be anti-negative. It is seeking to directly confront the homophobia that does exist in football and society by addressing it directly. Perhaps the club should take your advice and put a second mural in place, elsewhere in the city, where it is positively reinforces the inclusivity of the club and city. Shall I write to the club on our behalf and let them know? As to whether the mural "resonates with the intended audience", I am glad to hear you've checked with the designer as to their intended audience, and then also polled those individuals to see how much it resonates with them. Perhaps you could enlighten us all as to how you've reached this conclusion. Having seen your discussions with other forum members on other posts you have asked for sources and factual basis for their opinions, so surely you have some here?

That bridge has needed a new coat of paint for a long time, glad to see it has been done, and with such a positive message and design! Good job Saints

Felt like everything was either hitting the first man, or clearing the entire box, the middle ground where it would actually be dangerous seems to have vanished from his repertoire!

This is the sort of game we should win- against a similar level of team at home. My team would be: ------------McCarthy Livramento Bednarek Salisu KWP Ely JWP Romeu Tella Armstrong Adams Get pressing early with the front four high up the pitch

Good thing that is Chelsea's record not ours then 😉 Not the best draw, but one of those games where if they put out a weak team, we could manage to get a result! Looking through the fixtures for the next round not very many exciting matches.

The promotion of women's sport is positive in my opinion, makes it far more accessible for those who are interested compared to a few years ago and still is nowhere near the coverage of men's sport, even at a much lower level. If the accounts are joint that just means people who don't care can skip over the content that doesn't interest them. For those of you who find this confusing or annoying, it only takes a second or two to realise and move on, as I do for quite a bit of what Saints tweet (I'm not particularly bothered by ex-players birthdays for example!). The tweet causing issue above is from the SkySportsWSL account- which is dedicated to the Women's Super League. Also, Spurs haven't had a player called Williams since 1905, so if you had a basic knowledge of their squad from the recent years it seems pretty obvious it isn't a flashback style video of a men's game. Not sure how much clearer that could be while still giving the key details that Williams had scored for Spurs against Man City, in the Women's Super Leauge. Just because you (plural, some of the above commenters) specifically aren't interested in women's sports, doesn't mean it should be excluded from social media and mainstream sports apps and news outlets.

This is essentially a free hit, we can't expect to really get anything from the game but we have surprised them before! If it were my choice team would be: McCarthy KWP Stephens Salisu Perraud Moi JWP Romeu Diallo Djenepo A Armstrong Thinking being, Ralph has used Diallo as a "10" before in parts of games, and he offers solidity. Tino and Broja are obviously talents, but we need experienced heads this week, and the thought of them coming on after 65/70 minutes against tired legs is very exciting compared to the option of Long and Valery! If we revert back to 2 up top, would rather see Adams back in, than others, as he holds the ball up very well, which we will need as we'll have to work bloody hard to have it in the first place.

The anger in Jos's face, and all those around him practically forming an angry mob, because we only finished second that season is clear to see... Adkins was a quality manager for us, got us to where we wanted to be (the promised land of TV money), and was replaced by Poch because he was seen as being the next manager to take us to where we wanted to be next.

Excited to see if the youthful pairing of Leandre Griffit and Yoann Folly can step up Hopefully we come out fast and get pressing early. Still happy for Adams that he is able to play international football, but looking at it now it would've been nice for him and A Armstrong to have 2 weeks with Ralph working on pressing triggers and automatisms.

The thought of KWP at right CB gives me flashbacks to the years of Clyne and then Cedric being beaten by a header at the back post!

Turned my Saints 2021 Calendar to September, and of course it features Danny Ings' knee slide against Portsmouth. Such good memories of that game, but having to look at his mug every day for this month is not appealing. Have we ever had a calendar where we've actually still had the players in the later months at the club by the time we've got there...

Had a row of 5 behind us in the Itchen, they didn’t think they had much to celebrate, kept talking about how useless all their players are! Really enjoyed turning round to them with a big grin, all sat down when Adams scored

Can't see any reason why this would be a negative. It raises the conversation of inclusivity of LGBTQ+ in football, which the statistics on aren't the most comfortable reading (an increase of 95% in the last year) and replaces the usual warm up shirt which I don't think I could describe anyway. Hopefully the auction raises some funds for the Saints foundation too Overall I'm pretty impressed with Hummel since they've come back

For the sake of some novelty, Fabrice Fernandes and Rory Delap. Tactic being Fabrice will dry and dribble past the full back, fail, but win a throw in. Delap then launches the throw in, onto Vestegaard's head, and we win every game 1-0. Sensible answer is Niemi and Fonte- need to shore up the defence really

Although odd to see the away kit at St Mary’s, it does look really good, can’t really fault the 3 kits as a combination this year