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Away at QPR when we lost 1-0 (I think Quashie missed a penalty). He was anonymous in that game, marked out of it and made little to no impact. He really should have stayed with us for longer, I think it would have benefited his footballing career but obviously not his bank balance.

From the Times today, another couple of records: By winning on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday in 1977 Southampton gained as many points over four days (assuming three points for a win) as over this entire season so far. Four years ago Sheffield United became the first to go through a top-flight season without ever staying unbeaten over two successive games - if they won or drew then they always lost their next match.Now Southampton could beat that: every win or draw of theirs this season has been followed by at least two defeats.

Why did he stay so far off his man for the second Wolves goal? Surely if he gets tight then he can’t get the shot away.

Yes, I thought that, it reminded me of that game against Spurs during lockdown. Pathetic defending when we just don’t seem to learn. That’s one of the most frustrating things about Juric because he must be able to see what we can and surely he could try something to combat that.

We were shocking in the first half against Brighton in the game at their place, much better in the second half and still feel aggrieved about the VAR decision against Archer's goal but I seem to recall their fans thinking Downes should have been sent off for a series of fouls. Just have to hope that Juric has learnt from the previous games and he sets us up properly from the start and when he makes substitutions then they are not going to cause us harm. Why haven't we played like we did in the first half against West Ham in any other games since?

We didn't have a bubble for the league cup game and as far as I'm aware there weren't any incidents so don't see why they would bring it back. As others have said, my main concern is finding players with a backbone who want to play for us and put some effort in.

There have been some passages of play which have represented a much better press but not seen consistently. Is that a case of not having the players, the players not having the fitness and/or ability? As mentioned before when Pochettino took over we could clearly see his style of play in his first game against Everton. Juric set us up differently in the West Ham game but overall we don’t appear to be much better defensively.

We had four clean sheets against Liverpool that season. The 0-0 against Man Utd was particularly dull and the 1-0 defeat against Stoke on the last day of the season.

Rusk made us more solid in the Fulham game.

Birmingham. Looks more like a rugby player.

With a former Saints youth Klarer in the team.

I wonder where we would be now if we hadn’t been relegated that season.

Shame, thought he looked decent in his albeit limited run outs.

That Liverpool game was also my best memory of Prutton. We were very good that day. Just checked and that was 20 years ago! Can’t remember much of Draper at Saints at all but due to his career before he got to us, then he’s clearly a better player. Prutton was better at Saints though.

We beat Chelsea 2-1 at home in the last relegation season, 1-0 away.

Doncaster was the low for me as well. It was a no police game, we were awful, losing and fights between Saints fans. Looking at the table for the 2008/09 season we managed to win ten and draw fifteen to get to 45 points albeit in a 46 game season. Relatively and in terms of non competitiveness this will surely be our worst season ever.

Rohl wasn’t in charge of Sheff Wed for the first game of the season. He was in the home game in January though.

FlashScore has him down as the central striker, be interesting to see how he gets on.

We’ve had some cracking games against them. In my first season (88/89) of watching Saints we beat them 1-0, a Neil Ruddock penalty which brought an end to a horrendous winless run. They were relegated that year and when they were promoted we had a run of Le Tissier scoring worldies as in that run of games in the article. He didn’t score in one of my favourite Dell night games, 1 goal down and we score 3 late goals to win 3-1 in 1995. The night they told the Archers Road end to sit down over the tannoy seemed to rouse the crowd to an unlikely victory. That FA Cup game they mention in the article, I remember one of the best performances by an away player at St Mary’s, Kieron Dyer was superb that day. Our terrible run against them starts pretty much from our decline in fortunes after the end of the Koeman team in 2016, with the exception of our Covid win to put us top. I wish I could be more optimistic about a result tomorrow.

Did Le Tissier ever score a normal goal against Newcastle?

Appreciate this, I enjoyed the previous thread and found it interesting. What made you decide to use a decimal point for the scores though, rather than 1-0 etc?

We were so good in this match.

Things must be bad if people are starting to romanticise the Ruben Selles era.

In January 2023 we beat them in the league cup, unbelievable to think we managed that, look at the teams: https://www.11v11.com/matches/southampton-v-manchester-city-11-january-2023-378129/ only KWP and Adam Armstrong (starting) and Aribo (bench) are the only players from that squad that are available to play tomorrow. Our last PL point against them came in January 2022 in a 1-1 draw https://www.11v11.com/matches/southampton-v-manchester-city-22-january-2022-373450/ only KWP and Bednarek remain from the starting line up and Stephens and Armstrong from the bench. I remember thinking we were good value for the point that day. We seem to have fallen a long way from that in a relatively short period of time.

Southampton 4 - 1 Liverpool https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRya0_9kCg&pp=ygUZU291dGhhbXB0b24gbGl2ZXJwb29sIDQtMQ%3D%3D