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The problem with the narrative that police are lying is that this was in Southampton, it's been regular as clockwork every Friday, and several hundreds of people, myself included, saw it with our own eyes, chatted with the police and passers by, seen eg the homophobic ticker tape messages, seen and heard the behaviour. So the idea that ceno are pure and divine and that the police are lying doesn't go very far. Their business is damaged by decisions and stances they took, they chose a side and got dealt the consequences. Their name has been mud around Highfield and portswood ever since they started welcoming the flag shaggers. They'll do fine in Pompey if that's where they end up.

Too adventurous again. It gets lots of chances for us, I get that, but 3 at the back leaves us too exposed, time and time again. Would rather we go 451 and control midfield, it's basics, protect the back first, especially now that we have a complete nutcase in goal.

I did think that after posting, but really, only just. Scienza has had some exhilarating first half displays, probably enough to account for more than 2.5 games. Other than him though, were not exactly abundant with players who actually perform in games.

Just a note to the posters above who think baz should have signed a new contract because noone will want him and making comments about sholing etc. and he'll never do better than us: he's moved to a club higher than us in the league, a jump of 7 places in the league in fact. It's hardly a downward move for him.

Balotelli is available, and so is Diego Costa. With Romeu in midfield, we'd just need fonte back for CB and maybe see if we can get niemi back in goal - put youth on the wings. We might not get promoted but we'd have a lot of character in the team...

Probably makes him our best player of the last 2 years. Can you name a current saints player who has done as well as that?

There is a benefit of the doubt rule, it benefited Livarpool last week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg173ldgnmo As for haaland, assuming he has regular feet, more like 10cm than 0.5mm.

Unusually, the view from behind the goal was the best angle to see it - haaland clearly offside, clearly interfering. It's exactly this sort of goal that VAR is best for and they got to the right decision eventually.

Thank f for that. Always said he was shite, never liked the guy. (Think he will be good at stoke though)

Actually, his stats also show that he has the most difficult GK job in the league, saints are inthe 98th percentile for PSxG / SoT. That basically means post shot expected goals Vs shots on target. Basically the quality of shots on the keeper. Its a measure of the kinds of chances we give away to our opponents.

Bazunu gets ripped for being slow to get down, but at least he does get down. Maybe he'd get an easier time if he just watched it go in like peretz yesterday. Seemed a bit flappy in general, even his two "good" saves at the end were put back into danger areas. Think he'll struggle at championship level, which will probably reinforce that the issue is the chances we give away, not the guy trying to save them

This is as depressing as our previous games in many ways, we still look awful and pedestrian, very lucky to be playing such awful opponents today. It seems that unless scienza is on the pitch, we just seem so ponderous.

He is? He just scored.

We've had a ton of bigger embarrassments in the last year alone, the whole club has been an embarrassment, losing to Doncaster in a cup noone cares about anymore would be a tiny footnote in the continued utter shit mess we've become.

he is easily best of the 3 keepers we have in the squad, so there's 2 worse straight away. He's not niemi class but he is as good as most of our former keepers, probably about as good as beasant was, or pj. The flak he gets is unbelievable - every single goal is put down as his fault even though our style of play creates easy chances for our opponents. I can't remember the last goal that was his fault, even the fumble the other week was caused by an offside player.