Tommy Mulgrew

I wonder what our equivalent stats are and whether the conclusions that could reasonably be inferred from them match our empirical observations/collective wisdom.

England women showing how to get the ball in the net: four goals before half-time.

Baldwin of Notts County should be our top priority in January!

CA and AA to knock them in like Lambert and Guly in our Championship season, CA to carve them open like Lallana and SC to control the midfield with pace, grace and elegance like Schneiderlin. Now that would be satisfying.

What about the game v Liverpool last year? His save v Salah was world-class.

At present, I think that I am the one being ground down.

I see that Reading and Tranmere won. But Ballard was injured early in the first half for Reading and went off. I hope it is not a serious injury. Just seen the DB thread; suspected ACL … ouch. Hope he fully recovers from it.

I’m with Charlie. Maya is an excellent man by all accounts, with a genuinely laudable character and personality. He has over 100 caps for Japan, more than 90 while a Saint. He was in the team of the tournament at one of the World Cups in which he has competed while a Saint. (He could even be described as the Bobby Moore or Bobby Charlton of Japan: he was the Japan captain for many years and captained them to their best World Cup performance.) He had well over 100 EPL appearances here. He is a consummate professional and I believe he was one of the fittest and fastest players of his time at St Mary’s. A thoroughly admirable role model for any young player, surely. And one of my favourite Saints players of recent years.

Entrup was one of three subs, (as was Danso), who came on in the 89th and 90th minutes and played 7 minutes of extra time. Sakaria remained on the bench. We must have learned a lot! What a waste of time and money. None of the players had a double-barrelled surname so it truly was a wasted journey. One was called Posch and another Tah, though. Why do we wait until a year after RH has gone before we are interested in Austrian players?

“Scouts will be at Austria v Germany tomorrow.” why?

And he thinks GB is MOTM, too.

Smallbone’s knock and Che’s groin; hmmm. Are they by any chance related?

In injury time, Christ scores his first goal for the Millers to give Rotherham a point and take two potential points away from Ipswich. Tiehi must be a Saint. The chase is on.

Time for Sully to step up and recreate Boufal’s strike against WBA from a few seasons ago. Now, that would be really satisfying. We’ll probably need more than one goal, though, so Charlie and Fraser to score, too. 3:1 to Saints. 🤞

Great to win again in injury time. But, and I am sorry to say this, yet again I am underwhelmed by our performance and, as in the other late-win games, I have no feeling of satisfaction in our win - because of the manner of it (tiring the opposition out so that they are out on their feet) before scoring after about four minutes of injury time. More, a feeling of sheer relief in winning three points. And I cannot understand how AA was not given offside; unless he was off the field of play when, I think, CA passed to him and came back onto the pitch after the pass to him was made and then slid the ball back to RF, whose first-time strike was exceptionally good. Millwall won nearly all the physical battles and we played too much tippy-tippy passing without any real intent to draw them out of position, even fannying about in our own half after several minutes of extra time. Still, you cannot knock the three points. I note our goal difference is at least 10 worse than our main rivals’ so we need to win our future games by more than one goal to make inroads into that deficit. The next game, against WBA will not be easy. But here’s hoping for the best. Incidentally, my first years of attending games were at the (old) Den, which was well to the north of the New Den, in the 1950s. My dad and I used to walk to the ground from our house via the Rotherhithe tunnel. It took what seemed to be an age to get there. I seem to remember that the pies were good. I was obviously too young to know what the beer was like; we used to take a flask of tea. My first game was Millwall v Accrington Stanley. The Lions have been my second team since I moved to Southampton in the late ‘50s.I am sorry to see them so near the relegation places but, hey, that is the price of our Saints’ promotion push. Ever the optimist! The Saints way.

Totally agree on both counts. Fernandez is by far the most dislikeable player that I can recall ever seeing play for any team. No surprise that ManU is a team of miserable f*****s with him as captain.

Bart is bound to play a blinder. Let’s hope Bazza does, too!

Ballard scores for Reading again!

Should AA be in there? No. Just KWP.

If we get promoted this year, we might just get thumped every week next year One might say the same about the men’s team. Why would you not want to get promoted this year? The same problem would arise next year.

I was at secondary school with Martin Chivers. He was as thick as two planks (or so we thought at the time) and stayed on at school essentially just to play footie. He used to be out on the hockey field while the rest of us were at lessons and he used to practice shooting from the halfway line into the (small) hockey goals; impressive stuff. We had an excellent 1st football team. He was in it at CF, as you might expect, but when playing 6-a-side competitions he was in the second six, not the first. Others were better than him at the time, especially a young lad called Weaver - I think his first name was Brian. But Martin went on to train with SFC whereas others did not. Certainly the best Old Tauntonian if not the best Sotonian. Chivers was a typical big lump of a CF, not afraid to rough up opposition defenders, and was lethal with head and feet. Weaver was a skilled IF (no. 10) and created lots of chances for others as well as himself; most of his goals were well placed in the corners of the goal. He was small and stocky with a low centre of gravity and difficult to get off the ball. I have no idea what BW did after he left school. I was gutted when Chivers left us for Spuds but we did pretty well for CFs both before him and after him. TWTDs

Interested in Zeka, apparently. Free agent. 28 and compared to Romeu. WBA and Palace also interested. Yet another midfielder. I wonder if he has played as a goalkeeper! The Real EFL and Charlie Smith on Football Fancast.

Interested in Zeka, apparently. Free agent. 28 and compared to Romeu. WBA and Palace also interested. Yet another midfielder. I wonder if he has played as a goalkeeper!

I have not seen this mentioned on here yet but I might be wrong: Oriel finally got two yellow cards in the same match last season for Girona and was sent off. Shame, an excellent record broken.

Unlikely to return: option to buy any time in season for <€10m.