CSA96

20 games in as Saints boss now and he’s won 11 of them, drawing four and losing five. That’s a 55% win ratio, for those who like those things.

Ross Stewart and Kamaldeen Sulemana both out for the rest of 2023. Both with hamstring injuries. Fuck sake.

Well, it’s an opportunity missed but we’ve got away with one this weekend. 1pt closer to Ipswich, and no ground lost to Leeds

Two points from Rotherham and Huddersfield is very disappointing, at least we played well for the vast majority of the Rotherham game - can't say the same today. Awful second half. At least Leeds didn't fare any better against Rotherham, but now we're hoping that West Brom can get something off Ipswich in the evening game.

Edozie is an infuriating player to watch

Time for another late winner, then

First half passes Huddersfield : 74 (75% completed) Southampton: 467 (94% completed)

Adam Armstrong now on 10 goals in 17 games in the Championship

Lovely goal, great finish from Arma

Taking it to them now!

Very calm and sensible defending from Saints there... can't quite believe I am saying that

Amen. Transfer windows have overtaken the actual games for a sizeable chunk of modern football fans.

Mark Hughes in 2018: Oriol Romeu asking to play U21 football and JWP so out of the picture that he could've ended up signing for Watford

https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1721088986054021378?s=46&t=f0hgNyKSvvOD5qjGLJhsXQ

I don't think we have a match thread yet... ...let's kick it off with this

To be fair, a lot of people at the time found Nigel Adkins pretty condescending, patronising and very much all sunshine and rainbows - and I say that as someone who did, and does, really like Adkins.

https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/12975102/stoke-city-0-1-southampton-stuart-armstrong-free-kick-seals-win-for-saints

Yeah, yeah… I know we won 3-1, are unbeaten in six, have taken 14 of the last 18 points available and are up to 4th in the table (without our key summer signing kicking a ball yet) But did you see that prick Martin celebrating with the fans at FT? Get him out

Well, he was definitely proven to be prolific in those 13 games, by virtue of scoring 10 goals It was more an overall reference to his record of 40 in 81 for Sunderland, but I take your point.

Yes, I have a season ticket and have been away this season too. Our football is fine, there are not many teams who I am looking at in this division and thinking 'wow, I wish we played like them' to be honest. Yes, it's not got enough cutting edge at times (a lot of times) but then I expected no different without a striker with physical presence and goalscoring reliability. It's why I wasn't too worried about the Ché Adams chat when the window was open. Fingers crossed Ross Stewart can fill that void, because we really miss that type of forward. We are playing decent-to-good Championship football, in the Championship, against Championship/L1 level oppo. We hired a decent-to-good Championship manager - TBC just how far along that scale he is. It's exactly what I expected at this stage. We are in the mix but are not playing our best stuff yet, except for a couple of patches. We are trying to reverse four years of losing more than we win and the club being left to drift as an organisation and I think we have made a pretty decent start (if not overly impressive to-date). We are now winning more than we lose - which I am enjoying - and it does feel like we are turning a corner, albeit perhaps too slowly for some. Totally agree re: clean sheets though. One clean sheet at the end of October is nowhere near good enough, especially with ambitions of promotion.

You and me both. The negativity of the past four seasons or so has turned large parts of this place into incredibly bitter and negative enclaves. Think it's a fair point on there being more 'screw him' energy than 'we're in a decent-to-good league position but haven't moved through the gears frequently enough yet' for some reason. If we're so intolerably shit, yet are still 5th, unbeaten in five and still don't have our main summer signing (who happens to be a proven, prolific goalscorer) fit yet, then I can suck that up. And I feel like there has been improvement... but clearly plenty do not.

Did Russell Martin pork your missus or something? You've properly got it in for him Last week you were after him because he celebrated a 96th minute away win by going to the fans, this week it's because he wants the team to stop falling behind in games, rather than trying to routinely dig themselves out of holes. If he didn't give that comment and instead said he wants to focus on having a plan for going behind, your response would presumably be something like 'How about you have a plan that means we don't go behind in the first place?" Incredibly boring.

We really do have some miserable cunts on here. I don't even think he does any hand waving, that was Ralph? Martin just walks over, punches the air and claps the fans, then leaves. Imagine being so fucking glum that you whinge about your own manager acknowledging and celebrating the away support after a win up the other end of the country with all the travel bollocks we had to go through today