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According to Sky's match report Fabrice Fernandes came close to scoring. https://www.skysports.com/football/southampton-vs-ipswich/report/505854

Why?

Not actually been to the Wellington, but it looks good, might pop in on Friday. Sheffield's blessed with lots of very good pubs. The Fat Cat, and Kelham Island Tavern nearby are also good. Foodwise, depends on how much time and money you have. Pina (Tacos), Domo (Italian), Native (Seafood), VorV (Vegetables), all around Kelham Island and are decent, VorV's a little pricier, pricer still is Joro if you're really looking to treat yourself. You'd probably be advised to book for all of those. Noodle Doodle (Malaysian), Beteseb, or CANA (Ethiopian) cheaper hole in the wall type places nearer the city centre. Or somewhere like Heist Brew Co in Kelham Island will so you decent burgers and chips.

Save yourself the journey and go to the Peak District instead. Recommended pubs (not sure about matchday rules), roughly from the station towards Hillsborough, these are some of the bigger pubs that come to mind that might be able to serve and seat a few fans: Sheffield Tap (in the Station) Shakespears Gardeners Rest All old boozers rather than sports pubs, so depends what you're after, they certainly won't be able to accommodate 3,000 away fans. The last couple are all around Kelham Island, about 30 mins walk to Hillsborough, lots of other places to drink and eat round there as well. The area's ex industrial, now gentrified - and is a mix of old boozers, the odd bit bit of industry, flats and breweries, tap rooms, etc. https://cutleryworks.co.uk/ foodhall handy for a quick(ish) dinner. Just got a refund on the tickets we'd got in the home end and got some in the away end. Super quick refund from their ticket office.

I’m accepting of the ‘star’ players like JWP, Lavia, Kameldene, ABK, KWP all leaving. I’d be a bit disappointed but not in the least surprised. Would be very disappointed if the likes of Tella and Livramento were sold. In my mind they’re exactly sort of players who will get us out of this division and push on in the PL. I see Tella, Livramento and even Endozie as being well within our grasps to keep. They don’t really have a case to force a move. And the fees of £15m for them wouldn’t get us anything better. A £15m player won’t want to come to us, it would either be a a collection of tin pot players or gambles on some youngsters. Tella and Livramento have should some real promise but are yet to realise it over a whole season for us.

According to match stats they had 9 shots, 4 on target, to our 19 shots, 5 on target. 4 shots on target, 4 goals.

Don't know how Fernandes has avoided being booked, he's right up screaming in the ref's face constantly. And Anthony I think telling the ref to book Perraud.

Have only seen the highlights but unfortunately it viewed like a howlers reel of Bednarek mistakes.

Seeing the old forum sure makes me feel old http://web.archive.org/web/20040326094755/http://www.saintsforever.com/

Did we make 6 subs (according to BBC we did)? I thought the limit was 5? Am I missing something?

Would Michael Laudrup be a contender at all? Did a decent job with Swansea for a while. He's Danish. He plays decent attacking football.

Saints weren't great but besides from the freekick Villa didn't really create many clear cut chances. VAR could easily have decide that Watkin's knee was beyond Lyanco's head and that he was offside. And could easily have decided that Elyanoussi's arm brushed the back of their defender rather than shoved him over and allowed our goal to stand. Ultimately VAR decided Villa were to win. A draw maybe, but Villa to have won that based on those two goal decisions is astounding. I'm not a fan of the new style offside rule, but it gets used one week and not the next, whoever draws these lines seems to have a great deal of poetic license. It's marginal and could have gone either way. But not when you're going to be pedantic enough to rule out our perfectly good goal.

Much as I'm uninspired by NJ's appointment and the display against Brighton. He's had two PL games against two very good teams who are on form. It's taken Brighton a few years of building to get to this point, they remind me of Saints when we had Pochetino/Koeman and Lallana, Schiderlin, Lambert, Fonte etc. A group of players who've grown and improved as a group with a decent manager. I thought the commentator said this new manager Brighton have got took 5 games before getting his first win. Maybe allow the same courtesy for Nathan Jones.

Not sure, there was Nick Powell from Crew but think there were L1. Diaz isn't the sort of signing I'd expect them to make, but they do have a very sporadic transfer policy.

Looks like we've appointed an 'U18 Individual Development Coach', Pete Haynes from Cheltenham: https://www.ctfc.com/news/2022/september2/pete-haynes-departs-for-southampton/

Have you mocked up Gary Lineker in blackface as your avatar?

How many more signings do we think we can expect? I'd expect striker, but would also like another attacking midfielder or winger, full back (on loan), and centre back (Colwill?). Especially if Walcott and Bednarek move on. Would be nice to shift Djenepo on too, maybe Redmond as well.

For an outfield player maybe. Isn't Beech is a goalkeeper though? It's fairly unusual for a goalkeeper to get any topflight experience at that sort of age unless they're really exceptional. It seems a low compensation fee in the current climate, which is disappointing, and I'd assume any youngster that Chelsea are signing would be highly thought of but maybe they've signed him to make up numbers which can be the case for goalkeepers? Although would assume he's not shite and can't remember us ever bringing a decent goalkeeper though your youth set up so seems a shame to have lost him if he has potential.

BBC lists him.

Are we going to get stuck in a loop whereby other PL clubs sign our promising youngsters for peanuts only for us to then buy them 3 years on for £10m+. Chelsea have already signed Eddie Beach off of us this summer, so he's presumably very good. And with our goalkeeping situation could have been not too far off the first team. It feels like current trend is heading the way of us spending big money on Man City and Chelsea youngsters at 18-20yrs and then Chelsea Newcastle etc signing our youth players at 16-18yrs for not very much.

I thought work permit issues prevented us from signing Polish keeper Drągowski from Fiorentina, and he's actually played for Poland? I wonder why a work permit would be any more likely for Liz who's not got international credentials? A few options for English goalies on frees this summer (John Ruddy and Sam Johnston spring to mind). Assuming its balancing act of wages and ambitions in regards to goalies but Cabellero seems a pointless contract extension to me but maybe his wages are reasonable and he's happy to be third choice when others would want to be first choice and have wages that reflect that?

It's a big fee for a relatively unknown keeper. Didn't Man City buy him for 400k? That's the point we ideally should have signed him at. Do we still have scouts? In recent years we seem to have given up on signing young prospects from obscure clubs. Anyway, hopefully he's worth it but absolutely great business by Man City. Huge profit now plus if he's any good they can buy him back on the cheap or he can go elsewhere and they get a decent cut.

At the time and in the highlights I'm amazing that that can be considered a penalty shout. I was sure Jesus would be booked for diving. All the response in the media seems to be that it was a risky challenge, which it might have been had he actually got a chance to make a challenge. If that's the benchmark for a penalty then can we expect to win one or two each match rather than one or two over the course of a season? Incredible bias at play there, had they been in opposite colours neither the ref or VAR would ever have given it.

Have you ever been to Newcastle? I get the impression it's a pretty cosmopolitan city with a lot going for it. When I've been through on the train I've thought it looks an excellent place. Don't understand the reference to there not being much industry and there being open country around it - are those things that put off modern footballers? Having stunning coast and countryside, and less industry makes the place more appealing still, no?

We've been linked with Henderson, wonder what sort of deal we're looking at as his wages are supposed to be £100k. Would have thought he'd be just the ticket goalie wise. https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-southampton-make-move-to-sign-henderson-as-man-united-u-turn-on-the-cards/