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Yeah fantastic news. Not sure why they are saying multi year contracts rather than confirming actual length though? Hopefully Turner in particular is tied for a good few years

Good candidate for "things I never thought I'd see on a football pitch" here

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/24915845/southampton-kyle-walker-peters-championship/ Interview with kwp

Obviously we've decided to be shit in the 1st half from now on, and saving our good play for the 2nd. Good thinking by Martin

This is surely textbook "grass is always greener"... We're above West Brom, have a better squad, and are top of the form table, including beating WBA at home. I doubt there are many WBA fans who think they're in a better position to go up than we are

Just checking the fixtures to see why we're not playing today and our next game is 3 weeks away on the 17th Dec! Then we have a further 5 weeks off before recommencing properly in January. Certainly illustrates there's space in the football calendar for expanding the leagues

He would have been allowed in the dressing room at HT, it's only during the game he's confined to the stands.

Wtf is Martin saying to our players at HT?? Every game we go in looking like untouchables and come out looking scared sh*tless.

Tbf it started low down 😂 Sounds like we held our own which will be a great confidence booster, and I'm sure gained a lot more fans. How strong was the Arse line up?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231122125206/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/11/21/ali-orr-sussex-hampshire-transfer-county-cricket-rob-andrew/ More info here, including that we paid Sussex compensation. I guess it must happen when players are under contract but I've rarely, if ever, heard it spoken about.

Fcuk me... Just seen Surrey have signed Dan Lawrence now! How do they afford all these players!!

Link to story for those interested Hope not. Vince is best opening, and is our best T20 player imo

Worth a read

Most unbelievable part of that story is that she's only the 13th worst modern Tory! Blatent sexism and/or racism putting her that low down the pecking order, although no denying it is a strong field of candidates...

He's withdrawn from the Ghana squad. Hopefully precautionary rather than a more serious injury

Sounds promising - he scored 1000 runs in div 2 last season. Can't see him being WK over Brown though so wonder how key that would be to him

Watchable on the website again as well

Nice thought but if he was available I'm sure PL clubs would be in for him. Due back from injury the end of this month I think

C'mon mate... Baz is doing well but saying he would be in the first team over two of our finest ever GKs just because he is better at distribution is ludicrous. As an recent example look at Man Utd. They released De Gea allegedly because his distribution wasn't good enough and bought in a replacement. Compare their defensive and overall record to last season and tell me that was a good move

Guess you missed the mini meltdown on here in the summer when we didn't sign him??

We're one of a number of clubs linked in the below article with a move for Brereton Diaz, who has done nothing at Villarreal https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/23911999.southampton-reportedly-among-clubs-keen-championship-ace-loan/ I've never watched him play but he had a great record at Blackburn so knows how to perform in this league

Whiteley departs! A cracking player on his day but he was pretty awful last season. Hopefully frees up some budget to improve the red ball squad https://www.ageasbowl.com/cricket/news/ross-whiteley-leaves-hampshire-to-rejoin-derbyshire/

This is a critical point for me. In recent years, with the notable exception of Watkins, the only strikers coming from the championship and scoring regularly in the PL are ones that come up with a team and play in a style they are already familiar with. Think Lambert for us or Toney for Brentford. If we have a striker who can do this for us it will be a huge piece of the quality we'd need to survive sorted. Of course we need to get promoted first !

2-1 winners today, but Sunderland won as well so still 3 points off top. Looks like our winner was a fluke too 😁

Hate to say it but don't think Baz would have saved that shot from sulemana