Southampton 3-1 Leeds - Match Thread

[Dman]

Could be our biggest spanking of the season yet. Look like the best team in the leauge at the minute. 

Piroe to show why he's absolutely nothing like Adam Armstrong. 

Same team as today I guess - not sure it really matters at this point. 

0-4 and St Marys to turn really, really toxic. 

[AlexLaw76]

god knows what team

2-4 

Crowd will turn on the team/manager (but oddly, not the owners)

Edited 23 September, 2023 by AlexLaw76

[Turkish]

1-3 Piroe to score at least one

 

[Saint NL]

We're going to win this one.

Leeds will do everything but score, and we'll get a dodgy penalty with 6 seconds left.

Martin will take the credit and we're stuck with him for another month at least.

 

So we'll get get three points but still "lose".

[trousers]

[SNSUN]

If Martin is still here and he's still not picking Alcaraz then the team I would want to see is: 

Bazunu (am I really saying that? Well I don't know what Lumley is like and I know what McC is like. I'm not far off wanting change soon though.)

KWP

THB

Bednarek

Manning 

Charles

Downes

Stu

Sulemana

Edozie

AA

 

Harsh on Adams and Fraser perhaps but there we are. Still, it doesn't matter what team we put out - Leeds will eat us alive.

Edited 23 September, 2023 by SNSUN

[trousers]

1 minute ago, SNSUN said:

If Martin is still here and he's still not picking Alcaraz then the team I would want to see is: 

Bazunu (am I really saying that? Well I don't know what Lumley is like and I know what McC is like. I'm not far off wanting change soon though.)

KWP

THB

Bednarek

Manning 

Charles

Downes

Stu

Sulemana

Edozie

AA

 

Harsh on AA and Fraser perhaps but there we are. Still, it doesn't matter what team we put out - Leeds will eat us alive.

Harsh on AA including him in the team...?

[SNSUN]

2 minutes ago, trousers said:

Harsh on AA including him in the team...?

Damn you beat the edit! Well I was tossing up between Adams and AA and I think against Leeds I'd want the pest.

[S-Clarke]

We came down with Leicester and Leeds as level-pegging, but it's pretty obvious that they're now both levels above us whilst we've regressed to Championship fodder in record time.

Well done to all involved in that. Must be a trophy to win there.

[JRM]

 

What's the best odds available on Leeds to win , Piroe to score anytime? 

[JRM]

Also odds on Manning to make silly mistake right in front of the Leeds fans 

 

Edited 23 September, 2023 by JRM

[Convict Colony]

1 hour ago, Dman said:

Could be our biggest spanking of the season yet. Look like the best team in the leauge at the minute. 

Piroe to show why he's absolutely nothing like Adam Armstrong. 

Same team as today I guess - not sure it really matters at this point. 

0-4 and St Marys to turn really, really toxic. 

You sick bastard

We've just lost 4 on the spin and your making us think about losing 5 🤣

[LGTL]

What’s the point? 0-4

[Toadhall Saint]

1 minute ago, LGTL said:

What’s the point? 0-4

With RM in charge? None.

[Lighthouse]

28 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

We came down with Leicester and Leeds as level-pegging, but it's pretty obvious that they're now both levels above us whilst we've regressed to Championship fodder in record time.

Well done to all involved in that. Must be a trophy to win there.

We didn't though. They came down having been narrowly relegated, scrapping away but ultimately not being quite good enough to stay in the PL. We came down having been utterly useless, incapable of doing anything other than get thumped in every game. Basically, they already had the bones of being a decent Championship team, whilst we were completely pathetic and in absolute freefall.

 

I'm not defending what's happened since relegation but we were always going to have to brake much harder to get around this hairpin.

[FarehamSaintJames]

Getting it in early, 3-0 defeat.

[Block41 Saint]

3-1 Leeds. 

[bpsaint]

Get the Vaseline ready, this one’s gonna hurt.

[Pamplemousse]

We'll huff and puff and have a spell of 15 minutes where we put some mild pressure on their goal but that is about as good as it is going to get.

[benjii]

Bazza

Bree - THB - Bednarek - KWP

----Charles - - Smallbone--

Stu--------Adams-----Edozie

-----------Armstrong-------

P.s.

And when we want to sub a winger, put Amo Ameyaw on, who deserves not to be shunted below dossers like Sulemana and Aribo. 

Edited 24 September, 2023 by benjii

[rudi-skacel]

I reckon Leeds will do a job on us next week... 

[Miltonaggro]

Getting bullied here chaps, will be men v boys, a-fucking-gain. 

[Toussaint]

10 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

We didn't though. They came down having been narrowly relegated, scrapping away but ultimately not being quite good enough to stay in the PL. We came down having been utterly useless, incapable of doing anything other than get thumped in every game. Basically, they already had the bones of being a decent Championship team, whilst we were completely pathetic and in absolute freefall.

 

I'm not defending what's happened since relegation but we were always going to have to brake much harder to get around this hairpin.

Ah, I see, the “scar tissue” theory.

[Harry_SFC]

Bazunu; KWP, THB, Bednarek, Larios; Charles, Downes, Alcaraz; Edozie, Arma, Adams.

Edited 24 September, 2023 by Harry_SFC

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Bazunu; KWP, THB, Bednarek, Larios; Charles, Downes, Alcaraz; Edozie, Arma, Adams.

Larios would get eaten alive

Utterly pointless signing

[JRM]

10 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

We didn't though. They came down having been narrowly relegated, scrapping away but ultimately not being quite good enough to stay in the PL. We came down having been utterly useless, incapable of doing anything other than get thumped in every game. Basically, they already had the bones of being a decent Championship team, whilst we were completely pathetic and in absolute freefall.

 

I'm not defending what's happened since relegation but we were always going to have to brake much harder to get around this hairpin.

I'm not buying that. We all lost lots of players, changed managers, clearly there is a lot of negativity and a confidence crisis within the club but stop trying to blame last season for that.

[Harry_SFC]

6 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Larios would get eaten alive

Utterly pointless signing

Manning and Holgate have been gash so running out of options. Either this or KWP on the left and Bree on the right.

[AlexLaw76]

2 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Manning and Holgate have been gash so running out of options. Either this or KWP on the left and Bree on the right.

aye, that is where is should be at

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

This is going to be a walk-in-the-park for Leeds both on the pitch and in the stands. Everyone loves coming to St Mary’s, great day out for the visitors dominate the atmosphere and great opportunity for points on the road.

SFC 0 v Piroe 3

Ain’t football fun these days….

[Baird of the land]

Bazanu

KWP Bednarek THB Manning

Sulemana Armstrong Charles Edozie

Armstrong Mara

[saintant]

They'll have watched the videos of us, seen how we play, seen how others have beaten us without breaking sweat and come here with a game plan. We'll set up and play the same so, right into their waiting hands. Candy from a baby springs to mind for this game.

[Doctoroncall]

11 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

We didn't though. They came down having been narrowly relegated, scrapping away but ultimately not being quite good enough to stay in the PL. We came down having been utterly useless, incapable of doing anything other than get thumped in every game. Basically, they already had the bones of being a decent Championship team, whilst we were completely pathetic and in absolute freefall.

 

I'm not defending what's happened since relegation but we were always going to have to brake much harder to get around this hairpin.

That is why it was essential to get an experienced manager in to help develop the players into a team.  Currently they are all strangers out on the pitch. Nothing that a decent manager could fix.

[Black Sea Saint]

44 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Manning and Holgate have been gash so running out of options. Either this or KWP on the left and Bree on the right.

Holgate actually did well yesterday apart from getting caught in possession. Much better defensively with him at RB and KWP at LB. 'Boro were all over us at the start of the second half with Manning no where to be seen. We could have conceded 2 or 3 times in the first 10 minutes after the break, mainly due to Manning's ineffectiveness against their number 11.

[fanimal]

We going to win 4-3….

Still haven’t got over that game I don’t think the club has ever recovered from it or St Mary’s at least 

[tisspahars]

The usual reminder when the forum is this certain of a spanking.......Leeds will I imagine be about 6/4 to beat us, which, as the consensus seems to be somewhere between 3 and 5-0 would appear to represent astonishing value.

What will actually happen of course is that this will get a chorus of "couldn't possibly bet against my team (I can call them useless, frauds, spineless, pathetic etc but I couldn't possibly bet against them 😄)", and we'll hear no more about it unless Leeds win in which case they'll all appear again afterwards with "easy mpney" posts.

As ever, just saying......

[AlexLaw76]

My team....

Bazunu, Bree, THB, Bednarek, KwP, Charles, Downes, S.Armstrong, Sully, Adams, Edozie

 

[Wade Garrett]

13 hours ago, JRM said:

 

What's the best odds available on Leeds to win , Piroe to score anytime? 

Probably get a quid back if you bet a hundred.

[Wade Garrett]

Farke could have done his team talk for this game last week.  Fuck all will change with the idiot still in charge.  

[whelk]

Leeds 7/5 to win which is an absolute gift. Bookies think we much better than we are.

[trousers]

56 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

My team....

Bazunu, Bree, THB, Bednarek, KwP, Charles, Downes, S.Armstrong, Sully, Adams, Edozie

 

Yep, that would probably be my team too. Although, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I would contemplate starting with Holgate at RB again. We actually looked balanced in defence (at long last) with him playing there and, before his brain fart, I thought he looked very comfortable in that position. 

All we need to do is tell the other players to shout "man on" loudly at Holgate when he has one of his trademark dilly-dally moments and we should be ok... 

Edited 24 September, 2023 by trousers

[Saint Fan CaM]

It’s going to be ugly. Leeds to win easily and to be honest the score is an irrelevance. Just hope it’s not a total humiliation - yes, that might help along a decision to get RM out, but to be honest I don’t want our club to sink to those depths.

It will however signal the final realisation that we will be facing a relegation scrap this season with the current regime. The problem will be how they will find a way out of the mire, because the only course of action will be to go entirely against the project philosophy and system and frankly, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Not to disrespect Leeds, but I just can't see it being anything other than 3 points for us. 🙂

 

[saintant]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

My team....

Bazunu, Bree, THB, Bednarek, KwP, Charles, Downes, S.Armstrong, Sully, Adams, Edozie

 

Funny, I picked this same team for the Middlesborough game and someone flagged it with a smiley face. 

[die Mannyschaft]

Leeds are not what they used to be but Saints don't tackle so dirty Leeds will just clatter us off the pitch and walk through defence. If we were in an exhibition match then no problem but real football no chance.

Saints 0-4 that's on the basis the best team won't be selected. Alcaraz will go in Jan window 🪟 

[Turkish]

15 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

We came down with Leicester and Leeds as level-pegging, but it's pretty obvious that they're now both levels above us whilst we've regressed to Championship fodder in record time.

Well done to all involved in that. Must be a trophy to win there.

Relegation regression trophy, you’ll never sing that 

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, fanimal said:

We going to win 4-3….

Still haven’t got over that game I don’t think the club has ever recovered from it or St Mary’s at least 

Apart from when we went on a 23 game unbeaten Holme run you mean?

[Derek Reeves]

I think we'll do it against Leeds. Four defeats in a row will have focused the minds. RM knows 2 more losses and he's out of a job. I fancy we'll win 2-0!

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

What he means is that he wouldn’t have been most peoples first choice, which is accurate, in fact he wasn’t even the clubs first choice. That’s quite different to “turning on the manager” though 

I think you give him more leeway than he perhaps deserves - he meant what he said in my opinion.

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, saintant said:

I think you give him more leeway than he perhaps deserves - he meant what he said in my opinion.

Didn’t explain it very well, he meant what he said but what he means is what I said, I’d that makes sense 

[Mr X]

1 hour ago, Derek Reeves said:

I think we'll do it against Leeds. Four defeats in a row will have focused the minds. RM knows 2 more losses and he's out of a job. I fancy we'll win 2-0!

And you have this info how?