Charlie Wayman

Is the club streaming the match to night or just broadcasting (radio)?

In principle 'yes' but with so many newcomers to the squad will RH really know what his likely starting XI is likely to be? Bazunu carries the hopes and expectations of a large number of fans but in fairness we have not seen Lis in action for 90 mins; he could be at least as good as the youngster.

Likely we'll see Mateusz Lis play in goal tonight and Willy Caballero at the weekend? Only fair to give all four of them a game. Results don't matter so much as game time.

Which is why I will never step inside St Mary's again until a new CEO arrives with a more progressive and positive attitude towards being competitive in every competition we enter including the Premier League! It's all too comfy up there for Semmens, setting easy goals that can be achieved with little effort and zero accountability to fans and clinging to a manager bereft of ideas and stealing a living by blaming others for his own failures.

Lifelong Saints fan and regular at St Mary's. His Mum was ran a Chemist's and his Dad a GP in Southampton. Grew up here, went to Uni here, what's not to like. OK, schooled at Winchester but good on his parents for scrimping to give him the chance.

Perhaps others have compared and contrasted the fast, open, free flowing style of football of the French Women on Saturday with the slow, narrow and aimless display by Saints playing against Watford earlier in the day. Whereas the French were very well drilled in an objective system of play where every player knew their role and their team mates runs and positions, automatism at it's very best. Saints played their usual hesitant, slow, backwards & sideways game that became so wearisomely familiar last season with each player seemingly not knowing where his next pass was supposed to go, so more or less having to make it up as they went along. It seems a very long time ago when we played as slickly as the French women. What has happened to Ralph's fabled automatism that used to thrill us occasionally and the French demonstrated to such great effect?

He was you know, pretty dire. Never understood what we saw in him to justify the £4m fee. He won't come here just because his Dad played for us either. He has a manager and agents who are probably ignorant of that kind of old school sentimentality.

I did and many of us groaned every time his name was announced in the team line up. He wasn't very good, just that long throw thingy gave him a bit of publicity.

Where have we heard this claptrap before? At best this would be a speculative punt As for the alleged £30m bid.... why on earth are the wise old heads on here swallowing this rubbish without question? Use your common sense lads.

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I can't believe some people on here are so bloody mean that they would rather search all day for a pirated stream when all they need to do is sign up and pay a fiver on the Watford website. If that option did not exist then OK but it does and those fivers will help Watford get their house in order and hopefully back to the PL.

That's encouraging, they've sussed out what we already knew that changing all the players and all the coaching staff will not reverse our atrocious form at the end of last season

Yes and No! I think it may be important for SFC to have at least one local Academy lad in and around the first team, partly for credibility reasons but also to give fans a feeling of connection which none of the new acquisitions will be able do no matter how good they are. Smallbone seems to be the one chosen to take over from an ageing JWP and should be ready to carry the mantle when our skipper finally hangs up his slippers. He certainly has something about him. Nathan Tella is ex-Academy but not really 'one of our own'.

How can he replace a player that we don't own and who has been linked only speculatively 🤨

He's going to Newcastle.

Who had heard of Ralph Hasenhüttl until he arrived and look what a super star he has turned out to be.

Goals are created in the midfield so having a strong and flexible midfield is important. We seem to have strengthened the team in that regard. Even the best strikers in the world cannot succeed on no service.

Rob, he flattered to deceive. I agree with you that he made some dazzling little runs and that his footwork amazes at times but mostly his forays petered out trying to beat one man too many or he could not find a decent final pass to capitalise on his movement. He didn't have a bad game but not really good either, probably 5.5/10 performance. It could also be argued that he was no worse than anybody else but we need more from him than he appears to be able to offer.

Despite changing a few players and changing a few coaches we are still stuck with the same style of play that Ralph insists upon yet which patently does not work very well as witnessed last season. I had hoped that with new coaches we would have a more dynamic, direct and incisive style of play but it seem not, or at least not so far. Ralph's system has never produced many goals so if he is stubbornly refusing to change it and the new coaches don't have the bottle to challenge him and exert their own style of play, we will struggle once again. Last night's display looked exactly like most of last year's with very little evidence of a significant move away from the slow sideways, backwards and narrow style that opposition teams find so easy to play against and neutralise. People should be a little concerned at our inability to beat a relatively middle-of-the road Austrian side. Although we had most of the play in the second half we created very little and were easily held by the Klagenfurt defence. An easy night for them, an uneasy night for anybody who cares about Saints next season. There were one or two pigeons hovering over the stadium last night

Lyanco & Diallo played well in the first half along with Smallbone in the first quarter. Small was poor and Adams looked shot.

Sorry I thought you had written.........

He is you know.

Anyone new would impress in our team. The standard otherwise is low.

it's an opinion not a set of facts that can be right or wrong

????????????????? Where have you been these last twenty years old chap? That's always been our business model. Some of us had rather hoped that things might be different from now on under the new ownership. In any case all these speculative reports are just that, pure bullshit and nothing will come of them. Do you really think that the Alpine Flopp will let his best or second best player go when all he has to work with as the next season begins is a bunch of raw kids with the square root of sod all PL experience between them and the same old past-it fannies who nearly dropped us last year. Without KWP, JWP & OR he'd be up the creek paddle-less. Trust me KWP will be a Saint for at least two more seasons. Money will be sorted but not in public!