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Come on lads! Fingers crossed for all three points 🤞

Be intrigued to see if he could get a tune out of this squad in this league. It's a fucking tough job.

Agreed.

About to finish 2-0 Saints.

I wish we were Ipswich.

It's baffling how many people can't see this. The quality of our squad is relegation-from-PL level. That is par.

We absolutely aren't allowed nice things. We're little old Southampton. As a former CEO said, we're lucky to be in the PL at all, being a club of our size. We should be grateful that we have a chance to play on this stage!

Finished 3-0 pal.

I doubt they were remarkable achievements if you were to look at their squad/first team in comparison to the rest of the lower half of the PL they joined at the time. Compare our attack to that of Bournemouth, Forest, Wolves, Brentford, Leicester. We are handicapped as a result.

It's all relative, pal. Our squad is shite, particularly up top. Have a look, don't reckon you'll find much worse in the PL currently. That's what makes it different to our previous times in the league. When we last were promoted to this league, we had a brilliant, talismanic striker. This time round we have Cameron Archer. Tries hard, but is it the same as having a Rickie-esque legend? Nah.

I think most people realise we're likely to be relegated. Let's be realistic. We were relegated as a fucking god-awful team with a whole host of limited players. We finished 4th last year and were beaten by teams like Stoke, Bristol City, Millwall, to name but a few. We conceded a ridiculous amount of goals. We were never going to excel this season. It'll be really grim this season.

Agreed. We had too much to do over the summer to our first team (and squad) to stock it full of players of enough quality to stay up.

Unlucky there. Reminded me of the late David Norris Portsmouth equaliser in the 2-2. Gutting.

I mean, Archer's chance is as close as you can get to on target!

I disagree. Pretty decent. Not great, not poor. We need to take a few more risks up front: Fraser in particular. I'd sub him off if I'm honest.

A 3-0 loss would really fuck my weekend over. We can't be that shite again, can we?

Rather unlikely, then. Will there be three teams worse than us?

I had a very weird dream that we won 2-0. Ridiculous by all accounts but there we go!

Lovely headed goal for VAFC in the fourth minute! 1-0

Fast forward to 2024 where he is being left out of a shite team rooted in the PL relegation zone with zero points and one goal to their name.

Is he picking the team by throwing darts whilst blindfolded?

Will we live up to our new nickname? Southampton nil? I don't reckon so. 2-1 to Saints.

Get a few cheap beers down the lot of them and I'm sure they'll be able to 'manufacture' an atmosphere.

Obviously.

If they have an ounce of realism in terms of the players they have spent wages on - BBD and Archer, for example - then they would be wise to look upon themselves rather than RM.