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Ahhh the Nathan Jones Memorial Tophy!! Made sense for us to appoint him, but absolutely no idea why you guys even considered him? Lets wait until we are both back in the Prem before playing for this trophy so that we can give suitable acknowledgement to the very dark days of our past under mad Nath. I am sure he would be happy to attend and present it to the winners.

Fair point mate, fair point! I noticed on Rightmove alot of properties went up for sale in Stoke upon Trent overnight for some reason though.

Stoke fan in peace here. Great day out at your place yesterday, not only for the obvious, just a good footballing day out. A beer or 3 beforehand in town, no idiots ruining it for everyone, and the Staff at SFC were nothing short of superb. Just how it should be irrespective of the result. Spoke to a few Saints fans before and after, all good lads so i genuinely wish you the best of luck over the next few weeks. Based on the performance I can only think you are saving yourselves for the play-offs as I am sure this wasn't a typical SFC performance? After the Leicester result I was expecting a 'backlash' performance from you putting our mediocre team to the sword! Anyway, there is a thread on our forum which caught my eye, especially being a lefty myself. Can anyone explain it, is it a local thing? Should I be worried :0) https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/313010/southampton-fans PS i came on here a while ago raving about Will Smallbone when he was at ours. Thought he looked tidy yesterday without doing anything spectacular. Is he a Prem player or just a good championship player? Cheers

I think you dodged a bullet there to be honest. However we were not playing well whilst he was here, although he did get a number of chances to score which he messed up. Still a young prospect at 19 I guess. Can't say I can see him making the grade at Premiership level anytime soon. After his Dad Rory ( long throw guy ) was sacked here he was shipped off to Preston and I don't think he has scored there yet. Only on the bench last week. £20M saved me thinks.

That is indeed the hope. Win win for everyone !!

That was indeed a classic. We were down to 10 men but just wouldn't give up and snatched a draw very late on. Love him or loath him but Tony Pulis build his sides on a never say die attitude and this helped us to survive for a good few years against the odds. I think Lambert was on fire that day for you and on the balance of play the points should have been yours. Sometimes a draw feels like a loss and that must have been your feelings on the day. Good memories though and it is for games like that, that we keep on going week after week.

Hello Saints. Firstly let me apologise sincerely for you having to endure the 'Mad One' for what was thankfully only a few weeks wasn't it? What were your board thinking? Good to see a few results coming your way since then at least. Sorry also for Mark Hughes before! We have not done you many favours have we of late? Anyway I am massively hoping you get yourself out of the mire this season. It is tight down there and a few good results on the bounce will easily elevate you out of trouble. However I do have a bit of a selfish hidden agenda on the back of this goodwill message. I have absolutely no issues with Southampton Football club whatsoever please be aware, why would I have, but if you get relegated then I am sure you will be wanting to have Mr Smallboner ( immature I know but it has to be done! ) back from us and to be honest he is really running the show at Stoke currently. A shakey start for us but the quality is really showing through now and I would love us to sign him if we can. I don't know if he is good enough for the Prem but he is certainly a top Championship player so if you do come down then, well I would have you as favourites to go back up again with players like that in your team. He is probably going to get Player of the Season here. So sincerely sorry for the two duff managers who ended up at yours, via ours, but please do stay up!! Randomly and for no apparent reason I looked up Laurie McMenemy yesterday. Good to see he is still around at 86 years of age. Is he still loved down your way? All the best