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Adam Armstrong did do well to set that up

Great goal

Sheff Wed are leaving lots of spaces for us in the break.

Whoever said 2-0 Adams and Adam A. Take a bow.

Sheffield Weds are a lot like watching us play during the Ralph days. Nice pressure at the start. Ball nearly breaking forwards then increasingly sitting back inviting pressure and playing so narrow that pressure it invited out wide.

Fraser and KWP are getting loads of space out wide

Lovely ball from THB

Make it 3-1

Coventry 2-1 up

I'm still annoyed about that challenge

Referee's having a mare in the Coventry v Leicester game. That was never a penalty and he's throwing yellow cards about like confetti at the Coventry players while turning a blind eye to a series of professional fouls from Leicester.

Oh man. Commercial Road <shudder>

Hopefully on the outskirts rather than in rat central.

I'm not one to judge here I went to Portsmouth. Still haven't managed to fully wash the stench out 30 years later.

Why would they do that, he's just trying to sauce some information.

Wait, are we saying that if we play Gomes now he has a 60% chance of turning into a decent player? Why aren't we playing more kids? 😉

At a certain point we should accept that Carvalho doesn't want to play for Saints. He chose the Liverpool bench over us and now he wants to live in Hull. If that's not saying "I hate Southampton and never want to live there" without saying "I hate Southampton and never want to live there" then I don't know what is.

If Martin gives him minutes I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is the first time he's been playing in a Saints side that is creating chances. Judging him based on the limp.ending to Ralph's time or the successive shit shows of Jones and Selles seems unfair. Same as with Bazunu who only recently started playing behind a defence that is denying the opposition chances. And looks better for it. Stewart is out for a while. Adams is playing our time until his free transfer and us, well, Adams. Adam A is better from the flanks. I don't see us solving our striker issues this window because, well, Saints. Plus, this season there's a physical presence about the lad that wasn't there before. So I'd like him given a serious run this season. He's not going to do worse than Che.

Beating a side comfortably we should beat comfortably with lots of changes and giving our kids some minutes? That's very unSaintsy but I love it. None of the kids looked unable to play in the system. We looked able to cut them apart at will which is a wonderful change from our glorious tradition of scraping cup wins against lower league opposition.

Off to Fulham on loan apparently.

I'd take the entertaining 6-5 win that one of their posters was advocating.

His wife is loaded. Sunak's personal fortune is nowhere near football club ownership levels.

If Sunak said that about Martin I would be equally disinterested. It's ok for people to have differing opinions and be honest about them. I might wonder why Martin's politics were in any way relevant to his ability to manage the football club as I imagine the reason he'd be getting sacked would be more to do with footballing things. But that would be questioning his reasoning in this hypothetical rather than this professionalism. I would be questioning Martin's professionalism if he let Sunak turn a football match into more of a political photo opportunity for Sunak and his cameraman.

Both of them are a long way off at the moment. Both as playing well for us and improving. It's an open question whether they can get there but they're doing a great job for Saints right now.

You do know what Winchester College students call the rest of the population of Winchester? "The Stupids" You're right we should judge people on what they do, not what their school motto was.