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MotM vs Hull City (Home 2013/14)  

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  1. 1. MotM vs Hull City (Home 2013/14)

    • Boruc
      0
    • Clyne
      4
    • Shaw
      0
    • Fonte
      0
    • Lovren
      0
    • Wanyama
      3
    • Schneiderlin
      7
    • Lallana
      382
    • Ward-Prowse
      5
    • Rodriguez
      0
    • Lambert
      4
    • Davis
      1
    • Osvaldo
      1
    • Cork
      1


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Just back from the game. Another cracking first half from Saints. Slightly nervy in first 20 minutes of second half but never any doubt.

 

Still sticking with my 4th place prediction :)

 

Favourite chant of the day: "We are Southampton, we're off to Brazil"

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Predicted 4-0. Too many bedwetters on this site. "Banana skin all over it", "Wheels might come off", "Can see us losing this one". All comments posted on this site. C'mon, we're good. Time for the bedwetters to get on board with that or **** off. i wonder which one of Barry Sanchez, Dalek or some othersmart ***** will come out with "18 point to safety" first ?

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Predicted 4-0. Too many bedwetters on this site. "Banana skin all over it", "Wheels might come off", "Can see us losing this one". All comments posted on this site. C'mon, we're good. Time for the bedwetters to get on board with that or **** off. i wonder which one of Barry Sanchez, Dalek or some othersmart ***** will come out with "18 point to safety" first ?

 

Same every warm up thread to be fair. Every team we play become the new Barcelona.

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Called it right in the build-up thread. I said 3 nil but I just felt we would be too good today. I also have to admit my legs went a bit when they scored but that's an old Southampton fan trait I have been having therapy for over 35 years.

 

Thought we lost our way a tiny bit after they scored and put us under pressure and although they had nothing to lose by that stage it was a commendable second half by the Tigers. Great use of the bench by MP and great to see Cork back in action. Maybe he will resurrect his partnership with our French wizard and have a similar galvanizing impact on our season as he did last. Imagine that... Cork coming in and pushing us on to the next, next level.

 

#OurDreamIsReal

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Predicted 4-0. Too many bedwetters on this site. "Banana skin all over it", "Wheels might come off", "Can see us losing this one". All comments posted on this site. C'mon, we're good. Time for the bedwetters to get on board with that or **** off. i wonder which one of Barry Sanchez, Dalek or some othersmart ***** will come out with "18 point to safety" first ?

 

It was a guy called Minty. He got there 2 posts before yours! TBF he included a cheeky winky at the end.

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Quite possibly the best first half performance this season, shading even the Fulham one in my opinion. Great that Hodgson was there and he must have felt vindicated in choosing Lambert, Rodriguez and Lallana for the England squad, as all put in good performances, particularly Lallana, who probably played as good a gamae as I've ever seen from him, so man of the match by some distance. But Clyne, Shaw and Ward-Prowse must also have caught his eye too.

 

The only below par performance came from Wanyama, who was guilty of some sloppy play to lose the ball which led to Hull's goal, as well as a few poor passes and getting bullied off the ball by Huddlestone on more than one occasion. Tactically Pochettino got it spot on substituting him after their goal, as for a short spell it seemed that the lift it gave them might have led to further goals unless we tightened up the midfield. Davis and Cork are just the sort of experienced players to do this and once they were in their stride, we contained them well and looked capable of scoring more goals. Oswaldo showed some very neat play in his short cameo and even without Lallana and Lambert, we were capable of fashioning several opportunities to threaten Hull's goal. The really neat interplay that resulted in Davis' goal shows how good we have become up front and it was also encouraging that the four goals were each scored by different players.

 

It is great to go into the International break so full of confidence before we begin a run of more difficult matches against the other top teams. On the early season form so far, I really don't think that we fear playing anybody, especially as we have beaten Liverpool and drawn at Old Trafford and for the first time in many years, even if we are not feared by the likes of Chelsea, City and Arsenal, at the very least we have earned their respect. We are capable of beating them all on our day and once we have played them, we will be able to make a more accurate assessment of quite how far we have come.

 

It will be lovely watching Match of the Day and no doubt there will be a debate on Hodgson's selection of our players and whether he will be vindicated. Also, a warm pat on the back for Lawrenson for getting the result right, if not the score.

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His goal was excellent, but where has Lallana's pace come from?

 

You're right to ask about the pace. He has never looked very fast in the past and suddenly he looks lightning quick. Hope it's just the double training sessions ;) Seriously though, he's been absolutely superb this year and is getting better by the game.

 

I don't think he's become that much faster, although the extra training has obviously helped.

 

To me it's the difference between tentative and talented and really confident and talented. Before he was trying things hoping that they'd work; now he looks like he knows exactly what he wants to do and is confident that he can pull it off.

 

As Whitey said, "an England call-up helps."

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Tigers used to be the most fearsome beasts in the jungle, check Shere Khan in the Jungle Book or the arsonist tigers of William Blake. Somehow over time they've become tame, bungling and laughably incompetent. Sugar frosted cereal salesman, Tony, seems a likable chap but he's no more intimidating that Steve Bruce's nan*. Ditto Pooh's lisping bounce-buddy Tigger. More recently a fully grown Bengal tiger spent 90 minutes chasing a small Indian street urchin round a boat and still disembarked hungry. It's sad really. The hyenas must be pissing themselves.

 

Never in doubt. Saints 4 - Tigers 1

 

* Steve Bruce's nan coincidentally is the spitting image of Steve Bruce. It gets very confusing at family parties.

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* Steve Bruce's nan coincidentally is the spitting image of Steve Bruce. It gets very confusing at family parties.

 

Not confusing at all. You just **** everyone with the Bruce surname until you have nailed a hotty. That's the same way I handle family re-unions.

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pompey fans starting to bite (obviously, they dont care)

And now after a what seemed an eternity of shysters trying to run the club we are where we want to be. A community club owned by the fans.

“Yeah but Div 4” they say. Kin bring it on sister, you’ll never get it.

 

They sing “who the fukc is laughing now”. They think they are but they’re not and they will never laugh as much as we have for the last 10 years. Never. Ever.

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I can't believe the posts on this thread so far! How easily placated you lot are, FFS!!

 

Who gives a toss about beig 3rd in the league? We all know there is no chance in Hell that we will finish in the top 6 come the end of the season.

 

We should have played this team, and given this performance on Wednesday night. Those goals should have knocked Blunderland out of the cup. We would then be only a victory over Chelsea, followed by two more against two of Man Utd, Man City and Spurs, away from lifting the League Cup - a nailed on certainty had we gone for it - as we are much better than all of them, except in the league, nor are we as good as another 4, as yet unknown teams, in the league either.... but....anyway...... what a waste of an opportunity.... we should have gone for the cup and forfeited today's performance, and points.... at least, that's what many on here have been saying for the past few days....................

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I don't think he's become that much faster, although the extra training has obviously helped.

 

To me it's the difference between tentative and talented and really confident and talented. Before he was trying things hoping that they'd work; now he looks like he knows exactly what he wants to do and is confident that he can pull it off.

 

As Whitey said, "an England call-up helps."

 

Fair enough Canadasaint. I respect your opinion and agree that increased confidence levels are a major factor, but I still think he looked faster today (raw pace wise) than I've ever seen him.

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Fair enough Canadasaint. I respect your opinion and agree that increased confidence levels are a major factor, but I still think he looked faster today (raw pace wise) than I've ever seen him.

 

He agreed that he was faster in the first sentence, his post was spot on in it's entirety. ;)

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He agreed that he was faster in the first sentence, his post was spot on in it's entirety. ;)

 

Off topic slightly - do you really live in Ohio? I have always wondered. I also find your avatar slightly scary and some of your posts slightly odd, and could well imagine they are the product of a life spent in isolation in a shack somewhere in America. No offence intended, just interested.

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Off topic slightly - do you really live in Ohio? I have always wondered. I also find your avatar slightly scary and some of your posts slightly odd, and could well imagine they are the product of a life spent in isolation in a shack somewhere in America. No offence intended, just interested.

 

Strange but I quite enjoy ohios posts - must be a sense of humour thing.

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Lots of positives but perhaps the biggest one for me is the arrival of a goal-scoring midfield, which we've lacked. It's been our only real weakness thus far.

 

Aaron Ramsey's goals have taken Arsenal to a new level, and if that happens consistently with our team, look out!

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Very, very pleased with that. A slightly - but only slightly - shaky ten minutes after they scored, but we were truly superb.

 

Good to see us score more than 2 in the league for 1st time this season.

 

Shame about the sloppy goal - otherwise we would have broken our all time record for minutes played without conceding a goal at home in the league.

 

Lallana was from a different planet today - surely his best ever Saints appearance?

 

On the side topic of England, (a) surely he will play a good chunk of the friendlies (b) his prospects of being selected for Brazil must be edging towards 50-50?

 

Happy, happy days!

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Very, very pleased with that. A slightly - but only slightly - shaky ten minutes after they scored, but we were truly superb.

 

Good to see us score more than 2 in the league for 1st time this season.

 

Shame about the sloppy goal - otherwise we would have broken our all time record for minutes played without conceding a goal at home in the league.

 

Lallana was from a different planet today - surely his best ever Saints appearance?

 

On the side topic of England, (a) surely he will play a good chunk of the friendlies (b) his prospects of being selected for Brazil must be edging towards 50-50?

 

Happy, happy days!

 

Cleverly or AL?

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Off topic slightly - do you really live in Ohio? I have always wondered. I also find your avatar slightly scary and some of your posts slightly odd, and could well imagine they are the product of a life spent in isolation in a shack somewhere in America. No offence intended, just interested.

 

I do indeed live in Ohio. I moved here because I liked it's over-abundance of vowels. It's a shame I took my website down. I had quite a few factually dishonest, yet occasionally slightly true autobiographies on it that explained exactly who I am not/am/was. Had you read them, you could have had insight into who I was for different brief periods in time. :)

 

Oh yes, and the scarey avatar is actually a VERY modified self portraitish. Even more scarey, huh? ;)

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I do indeed live in Ohio. I moved here because I liked it's over-abundance of vowels. It's a shame I took my website down. I had quite a few factually dishonest, yet occasionally slightly true autobiographies on it that explained exactly who I am not/am/was. Had you read them, you could have had insight into who I was for different brief periods in time. :)

 

Oh yes, and the scarey avatar is actually a VERY modified self portraitish. Even more scarey, huh? ;)

 

I thought Adam Lallanna looked quite pacey today.

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For us poor bastards that had to work today, how did JRod play? Lambert scored and got two assists, Lallana scored a worldie and got MOTM but I haven't heard much about JRod, especially playing in front of Woy...

 

thought rodriguez was good. always a threat when running at players always tracked back

just the ball got away from him a few times. his back heel for clyne to set up the 4th was meant for himself, i reckon

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Predicted 4-0. Too many bedwetters on this site. "Banana skin all over it", "Wheels might come off", "Can see us losing this one". All comments posted on this site. C'mon, we're good. Time for the bedwetters to get on board with that or **** off. i wonder which one of Barry Sanchez, Dalek or some othersmart ***** will come out with "18 point to safety" first ?

 

Some people are more cautious and if you look at things historically there is every reason to be. That is no reason for people to come across as being so smug.

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Some people are more cautious and if you look at things historically there is every reason to be. That is no reason for people to come across as being so smug.

 

Agreed....It goes both ways. Some posters on here (We all know who they are) want to pigeonhole everyone as either bedwetters or happy clappers.

 

MOST OF US ARE NEITHER!!!

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thought rodriguez was good. always a threat when running at players always tracked back

just the ball got away from him a few times. his back heel for clyne to set up the 4th was meant for himself, i reckon

 

It sounds like the England players really stepped up their performance levels today with Woy watching, and I include Clyne in that! :-D We should get Woy watching all our games...

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It sounds like the England players really stepped up their performance levels today with Woy watching, and I include Clyne in that! :-D We should get Woy watching all our games...

 

clyne was superb.

Roy could not stop grinning when lallana came off

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Fabulous we just get better and better, so glad we won today as I work with a Hull supporter. Told him it would be a regulation home win for us, he was most pi**ed off. He will be even more pi**ed of tonight? I feel I have to pinch myself to believe how well we are playing this season. Long may it continue.

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