Charlie Wayman

Doubt we'll start without Romeu.

Brilliant, thanked for posting. I emailed the Club yesterday ask them to stream the whole of today's match rather than the highlights after the game has finished (EFL restrictions on live broadcasting). If you get the opportunity would you be good enough to post the whole Villa Real match on here tomorrow. Thanks in advance.

The Club used to do these videos on the OS a few years ago during the successful years but somehow they disappeared along the way. I can't be the only one who loved watching those off-pitch moments preparing for, during and after games and the different moods and responses of players and staff depending upon results. Now they are back and one hopes for good. Well done SFC for resurrecting these priceless insights into all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. A chance to create some special moments to play alongside match highlights. Keep them coming!

It will help in some circumstances particularly when injuries force changes that might otherwise have wrecked a manager's overall game plan. I can see also that if the subs are fully integrated into the style of play that tired legs or under perming players can be replaced more often . The better the quality of the subs the more likely their introduction into the team on the field will be harmonious and seamless. On the negative side 'though we see quite often that bringing on subs can throw a spanner in the works and cause a breakdown in automatism so that team performance suffers.

I like the cut of his jib, full of self belief and full of life and fun. Larger than life characters like Lyanco are few and far between in the modern game. Saints need him about the place and he's a half decent footballer too as we saw last night. He musty surely be a contender for a starting place next week.

It was surprising how quickly Monaco tired last evening bearing in mind how far forward they are in their preparations for the new season and with a Champions League qualifier coming up next week. They were fine in the first half and it was pretty even Stevens, indeed they shaded it in quality and deserved their 1-0 lead. If ever there was game of two halves this was it. As the second half progressed Saints began to take control and especially after 65 mins when KWP, JWP and Armstrong were introduced the extra quality and energy seemed to finish off the visitors and the game became progressively one-sided. Although well taken S Armstrong's goal was a bit of a comedy routine as Monaco allowed him to think what was happening when the ball landed at his feet, to turn 180 and bang the ball in the net. Don't let's kid ourselves, in the PL the CB's would have gone right through SA and taken the ball long before he had a chance to sort himself out. The skipper's goal was sublime. Quite a satisfying evening overall when most of our players acquitted themselves very well and there was little to complain about. First half Valery, Lyanco, Diallo & Elyonoussi - often the butts of derision and ire of the intelligentsia of this forum - forced themselves into the reckoning for a first team start. With Monaco flagging in the second half it was harder to pick out individual stand-out performances simply because pretty much everyone played well especially in the last 20 minutes when we dominated. Great to have a win at last, it's been a while, let's hope it is the first of many.

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