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I think you will find it is the players that will be the ones playing the football and who's match fitness matters not whoever their manager is!

I know a lot of people are already writing of leicester because of a possible points deduction plus losing players etc, however they kicked off their preseason today, 1 week ahead of us! The result matters not, apparently thet won 3-1 but no idea who they played. They are obviously trying to get in the best shape as possible for another go at getting promoted first time of asking.

Dibling is a rare talent and has to be managed correctly. He is a shy individual who doesn't gravitate towards the bright lights. He was absolutely miserable during his time at Chelsea. If we look after this lad properly Saints will benefit massively and anyone that doesn't see this needs a reality check. I really hope we do not sell him and to be honest he will only go if the price is right and more importantly he wants to leave, and i don't believe he wants to go anywhere.

I was going to say "there's no mincing about theses days"

Wrexham will be really up for this riding the crest of a wave. We need to be sooooo different from last season otherwise it could be an embarrassing start to the season.

Tadic is not coming back to England, he could not wait to leave. He was sick and tired of the physical side of English football. Does anyone seriously think he would fair any better in the Championship. I've posted before about someone i know who knew Tadic very well during his stint at Saints and who Tadic personally told his reason for leaving Saints and the UK was the physicality of the league. That person on the day Tadic left the UK drove him to the airport in Tadics car and was given the keys and the car to keep!

I absolutely get what you are saying but i kinda love the love the fuck we are not rolling over and getting our bellies tickled. Lets see where this one goes!

If fans were being honest with themselves i would not be surprised if 99% of Saints fans thought we were favourites to be relegated before a ball was kicked last season. I said it myself right at the start we were going down with such a weak team and a manager that had no game B plan. Every team buys players that are not at the quality they need immediately but hope they become those players within a season of buying them, we are no different. I said it the season we won promotion under Martin, i honestly don't think the club planned for automatic promotion that first season and thought season 2 would be more realistic. It didn't work out that way and we had too many Championship players on long contracts that we couldn't shift. Also add into the mix and this is the biggest mistake of the lot, we had a management team that was completely inept at running a tea fund let alone a professional football club! I really hope major lessons have been learnt. Unless players have something in their contracts that allow them to walk away for below market value (eg. Aaron Ramsdale) then we stay firm and either don't sell or hold out for big money. We don't have to sell either Dibling or Fernandez and our team should be built around these two. The bar has been set by the sale off the Bellingham brother who has NO Premiership experience and is nowhere near the qaulity of either Fernandez or Dibling. I accept Dibling fell away second half of the season but anyone can see this lad is absolute quality and could go on to be a brilliant player if managed correctly. I live in hope the new management team will not make the same awful mistakes their predecessors did!

As far as i'm concerned nothing has changed since i posted this in January. I would be very surprised if he left!

This is a good start, now we need to ship out the dross, keep hold of talented players and bring in more athletic and physical players. I want to see us have a side that bullies other teams for once!

Onuachu is off back to Turkey and it is just a matter of Saints squeezing out as much as they can for him. Anyone that thinks he would fit STILL's high press, high energy type of game is deluded.

Smallbone summed up our season....weak pathetic effort!

I've been told no Ramsdale or Dibling?

got pulled because Man City have breached the rules. Game should have been at the Etihad but the ground is not available due to current works

I have a horrible feeling we will give the tabloid press all the headlines they crave for Evertons last game at their horrible ground in an absolutely equally horrible area!