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John Boy Saint

John Boy Saint

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dangerous game

Certainly has Banana Skin written all over it, if we come out of the traps on fire like we know we can then it should be smooth running once one goal has hit the back of the net. But the seeing how they dug in V WBA and no doubt wounded by last weeks mauling at home we might find out if they have any character left in the tank.

Dibbs1988

Dibbs1988

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Really looking forward to this game. Slightly concerned with the injury to jay rod and how that's going to effect our pace going forward and wing play. That being said I'm confident enuf with gaston coming in and would play him in his best and favoured position and we should be ok

 

Cardiff have IMO not actually played that badly this year. But they have just let too many goals in. If we can get a early one I can see a easy 3-1

 

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Lambert (free kick) :)

SaintAndyB

SaintAndyB

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This is the sort of game I can really see us losing. Cardiff need a win for survival while we miss our best goalscorer.

 

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trousers

trousers

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No Boruc :(

 

MP said at the press conference that Boruc and Ramirez "will need to be assessed ahead of tomorrow's game" so not totally ruled out....?

Saint Charlie

Saint Charlie

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MP said at the press conference that Boruc and Ramirez "will need to be assessed ahead of tomorrow's game" so not totally ruled out....?

 

When they need to be assessed they usually are out. But not always.

 

Ramirez always seems to pick up knocks at the times when he would be most useful.

trousers

trousers

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26969505

 

This is a tough game for Cardiff, who are one of those teams to have changed their manager and gone for somebody with no Premier League experience.

Southampton have had an excellent season and they will be looking to finish strongly, particularly at home.

Jay Rodriguez's injury is a blow, but Saints have a lot of quality in their squad and I see them winning this game quite easily.

Cardiff will battle on until they are actually down but I think they are almost gone.

Their performances have not actually been that bad but they cannot get the wins they need, and the amount of goals they let in clearly doesn't help. Only Fulham have conceded more in the top flight.

Lawro's prediction: 2-0

Bloo71

Bloo71

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Wow. Don't take that as the view of all saints fans.

 

Tan owns the business but a football club is a little more than that. He certainly doesn't OWN the fans nor do they owe him - he certainly has not run the club for their benefit, it's been a vanity project from day one.

 

There's an assumption the Cardiff fan 'loved it' but, unless you know him personally, not sure you could really know that. He could have been sat at home wishing Cardiff were run by a bunch of fans and scraping to build something over a long period of time.

 

That's right....I was against the re-brand from day one. People need to remember that as a club we were in a financial mess. It wasn't as simple as Tan saying 'go along with what I want to do and I'll get you Premiership football'. There has always been that emotional blackmail along the lines of 'Go along with what I want or I'll pull the plug and then you'll be facing financial ruin.' The hardcore support never wanted the Red kit, they despise it and always have. I think even the most 'mild mannered' of fans have now woken up to the mess that we have become. (as I wrote earlier on, the rot really set in after the sacking of Ian Moody, who is now doing superb at Crystal Palace) If we could get back to playing in blue and being financially secure, at least not facing financial ruin, then I for one, would be happy playing in league 2 and I think most would go along with that. The way we are playing now that might happen anyway! A lot of us think that we could well struggle in the Championship.

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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Pretty sure there is also a sighting of Guillermo Ruiz-Ramirez in the gallery which is interesting. At least there is someone I haven't seen before who looks Mexican.

 

 

All I can see that might be different is one player without a number with his back to the camera. Must have missed any Mexican looking blokes.

BlakeySFC

BlakeySFC

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If Kenwyne plays I'd bet £500,000,000 that he'll score their first goal.

 

I actually think we'll win this though, just hope Kenwyne's injured, 4-1 Saints.

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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If Kenwyne plays I'd bet £500,000,000 that he'll score their first goal.

 

I actually think we'll win this though, just hope Kenwyne's injured, 4-1 Saints.

 

 

do you actually have 500 million £ ? If so lend us a tenner .

DuncanRG

DuncanRG

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Certainly has Banana Skin written all over it

 

Am I right in saying that a banana skin is just a game against a bad team?

 

I expect they will play Jones against Gazzaniga. Someone with a big presence to put him off.

Bloo71

Bloo71

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Jones is expected to be out (peeing blood after last weeks game)..No one at this stage knows the team and what frightens Cardiff fans is that Ole probably doesn't even know yet either :rolleyes: (perhaps Ian Moody from Palace knows)

Goatboy

Goatboy

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That's right....I was against the re-brand from day one. People need to remember that as a club we were in a financial mess. It wasn't as simple as Tan saying 'go along with what I want to do and I'll get you Premiership football'. There has always been that emotional blackmail along the lines of 'Go along with what I want or I'll pull the plug and then you'll be facing financial ruin.' The hardcore support never wanted the Red kit, they despise it and always have. I think even the most 'mild mannered' of fans have now woken up to the mess that we have become. (as I wrote earlier on, the rot really set in after the sacking of Ian Moody, who is now doing superb at Crystal Palace) If we could get back to playing in blue and being financially secure, at least not facing financial ruin, then I for one, would be happy playing in league 2 and I think most would go along with that. The way we are playing now that might happen anyway! A lot of us think that we could well struggle in the Championship.

 

Hi Bloo,

I would just like to reiterate Upwey's words. There were a few Cardiff lads working at SMS in the Summer and they were good blokes.

They did say they would have six points off of us this year but that's not working out so well.;)

I honestly thought that you had a good start and would have been fine, if you would have stuck with Malky.

The red shirts thing?

Get rid of Tan.

He doesn't care about the club or the fans IMHO.

Which ever league you are in next season, I wish you well, and thanks for posting.

ottery st mary

ottery st mary

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Hi Bloo,

I would just like to reiterate Upwey's words. There were a few Cardiff lads working at SMS in the Summer and they were good blokes.

They did say they would have six points off of us this year but that's not working out so well.;)

I honestly thought that you had a good start and would have been fine, if you would have stuck with Malky.

The red shirts thing?

Get rid of Tan.

He doesn't care about the club or the fans IMHO.

Which ever league you are in next season, I wish you well, and thanks for posting.

 

Changed my mind:rolleyes:

 

You really are a sweet kind young poster with a heart of gold:D

dannysfc

dannysfc

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I'm not going to lie but I've had a pretty Crap week this week

apart from today which has been OK as a member of my family

passed away who was really special to me so would be Nice to

win it for him which I think we will 3-0/3-1 but we'l see what happens!

Thanks!

COYR! :D

Saint Garrett

Saint Garrett

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I'm not going to lie but I've had a pretty Crap week this week

apart from today which has been OK as a member of my family

passed away who was really special to me so would be Nice to

win it for him which I think we will 3-0/3-1 but we'l see what happens!

Thanks!

COYR! :D

 

Sad to hear that pal, let's hope the mighty Saints can do it for him.

James

James

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Lots of statuses about Gazza on the Saints FB page, he must be playing which means this game will be harder than we think because if they have a shot on goal then we'll concede....a truly terrible keeper.

pingwing

pingwing

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Lots of statuses about Gazza on the Saints FB page, he must be playing which means this game will be harder than we think because if they have a shot on goal then we'll concede....a truly terrible keeper.

 

I dunno this is one of the few teams he's kept a clean sheet against...

Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Disastrous we have the clown in goal again. Downgrading to draw

 

We beat Cardiff 3-0 on Boxing Day with Gazzaniga in goal and no Lovren in defence. Gazzaniga didn't have much to do which should be the case again today. Saints should dominate possession, cut off supply to Cardiff's lone forward and leave Gazzaniga with hopefully little to do. Plus Lovren will be playing this time, when he wasn't on Boxing Day against Cardiff.

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Saint Charlie

Saint Charlie

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We beat Cardiff 3-0 on Boxing Day with Gazzaniga in goal and no Lovren in defence. Gazzaniga didn't have much to do which should be the case again today. Saints should dominate possession, cut off supply to Cardiff's lone forward and leave Gazzaniga with hopefully little to do. Plus Lovren will be playing this time, when he wasn't on Boxing Day against Cardiff.

 

If only it worked like that.

sydneysaint17

sydneysaint17

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We beat Cardiff 3-0 on Boxing Day with Gazzaniga in goal and no Lovren in defence. Gazzaniga didn't have much to do which should be the case again today. Saints should dominate possession, cut off supply to Cardiff's lone forward and leave Gazzaniga with hopefully little to do. Plus Lovren will be playing this time, when he wasn't on Boxing Day against Cardiff.

 

Rodriguez also scored twice...

Saint Charlie

Saint Charlie

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Gazza made some good shot stops against city.

 

A couple. But his saves to shots ratio over a decent number of matches shows he isn't good enough at the moment.

 

He doesn't dive with any conviction and makes poor decisions.

 

He might be a good keeper in a few years but needs to play every week and learn his game.

Tokyo-Saint

Tokyo-Saint

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We beat Cardiff 3-0 on Boxing Day with Gazzaniga in goal and no Lovren in defence. Gazzaniga didn't have much to do which should be the case again today. Saints should dominate possession, cut off supply to Cardiff's lone forward and leave Gazzaniga with hopefully little to do. Plus Lovren will be playing this time, when he wasn't on Boxing Day against Cardiff.

 

So if we lose, it's lovren's fault? To MLG you MLG, we are not playing Cardiff on boxing day, we are playing them today.

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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So if we lose, it's lovren's fault? To MLG you MLG, we are not playing Cardiff on boxing day, we are playing them today.

 

 

With all their new additions...not that they've made a great deal of difference so far.

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