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I think we'll beat Germany and then Sweden or The Ukraine pose about as much of a threat as Croatia and the Czech Republic did. It's a bit of a joke really. How can you be the best side in Europe when all of the best teams are on the opposite side of the draw and you can't face them until the final? If we were on the other side of the draw and facing the likes, of Italy, Portugal, France, Spain or Belgium it would be a very different story. The fact is, we stand a good chance of making the semi-final or the final without playing a really decent team.

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I see we're being linked with Armstrong from Blackburn. Probably just speculation and he's being linked with every PL club? If Ings is going then he could be an option.

Still like to see us try red and while halves like Feyenoord, or even red and white hoops. Not complaining though. Looks quite smart.

Nicest shirt we've had for years. Shame about the relegation arrows being so prominent within the white stripes. 😉

So he conceded 3 or more in a third of the games he played. That's a piss poor record and should be enough for the manager to want to change things.

I think it was inevitable that he wouldn't have as good a season as he did a in 19/20 and that he'd get injured at some point. I think we were incredibly lucky to get a full season out of him. Will he stay? I don't think so. Having not made the Euro squad I think he'll want to move to a bigger club where he gets better service and can hopefully get himself back in the frame for the World Cup. Let's be honest, he's probably not going to make the next Euro sqaud in 3 years simply because whoever is manager will have a load more younger options available. I think the club will take the money as it's the only way Ralph is going to be able to bring other players in. Shambolic really. Just at Leicester. Gao could learn a thing or two from their chairman. When the players were celebrating their FA Cup final win at Wembley, he was at the other end of the pitch handing out the new home shirt to fans.

So it's full of all the shit stats that we seem to be the masters of obtaining? ;-D

It felt like every time McCarthy played last season we leaked at least 3 goals a game.

Sums up our season. Shite. Ralph has held talks about signing Minamino. Why would you waste money on him when we so desperately need to strengthen in other areas?

Isn't that what we've already got?

No so much a record, but there was a strange statistic where we won, lost and drew the same number of games in a season. Goals scored were the same as goals conceded and we finished smack bang in the middle of the table.

Get rid. We've got Tella, who looks a far better player.

Obafemi. And if Ings stays, Obafemi will go.

Switch on TV at 8.15. 1-0 down after 2 mins. TV off by 8.18. We are so fucking shite. https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/474164209623281

Remember when Walcott used to know where the back of the net was?

He has been in a lot of the games he's played. Looked ok when we first signed him on loan. Slowly got worse, then injured and now just looks awful. I thought he'd bag a few goals for us. How wrong could I have been?

I thought they wore it at Luton and possibly QPR too, but I could be mistaken. There's only a couple of the original shirts still in existence. The majority were donated to a Sunday league team when Saints had finished with them. They stuck their own club badge and sponsorship over the Saints and Draper badges.

People laughing about us getting Howe in. What have we got to lose? He's a good choice to get us back up when we get relegated next season. If we keep Ralph then there's no way he's going to stay when we go down, so get Howe in now. I watched the FA Cup semi at the weekend and throughout the second half the commentators pointed out that Southampton didn't seem to know how to change things. They were absolutely spot on. It's been the story of our season and you can't blame that on the players. We've got some good players and Ralph simply isn't getting the best out of them.

I'd have got Howe in a month ago. I've just got a feeling that Ralph won't stick around at the end of the season. He'll certainly not stick around if we get relegated... Hopefully that's unlikely. Howe would have given the team a much needed boost for the last 1/4 of the season. In the event that we did get relegated at least we'd have a manager who would stick around and have a go at getting us back up.

Ralph should have gone a month ago. Should have got a new manager in to give them a bloody good kick up the arse for the final quarter of the season. Something that Ralph seems incapable of doing. I honestly thought they might have turned a corner after the comeback against Burnley. It was great to see the team pretty much back at full strength. Stupidly, I got my hopes up. Should have known it would be business as usual a week later. I wouldn't be surprised if they go into the last game of the season needing a win to stay up. The only good thing about Saints is those new Hummel retro shirts that the club has just launched.

That was absolutely superb. 6 weeks ago at 2-0 down inside the first 30 mins we'd have just given up and gone on to concede 2 or 3 more. I can't remember the last time we went 2 down and came back to win. It's a great feeling to have watched them recover from those early setbacks. Good to see the squad pretty much back to full strength too.

Whoever we go for needs to be prepared to manage us in the Championship.

Macca in goal? Given how many he's let in recently it has to be Forster in goal. 5 at the back? I don't think so. Evans???