EssEffCee Posted 4 December, 2023 Share Posted 4 December, 2023 11 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said: It isn't impossible of course but you'll need a few upsets and the big boys to face each other. And then, as above, it's likely one of the mid-table teams would win it. When the 2008 winners won the FA Cup, the other semi-finalists were three Championship teams! As well as cheating, they got lucky in that aspect. And that's the only time that it's not been won by one of the 'top 6' clubs since the turn of the century. Last second tier winner was 1980 and only four have reached the final since. None in 15 years. The notion that a championship side could win the FA Cup this year is for the birds when you consider the above and how much bigger the gap is these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 4 December, 2023 Share Posted 4 December, 2023 Remember, he didn't mean Saints, that would be preposterous, calm down everyone. He meant the team one place and one point above them in the table. They might win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefizzy14 Posted 4 December, 2023 Share Posted 4 December, 2023 Very good draw for us and a home tie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 5 December, 2023 Share Posted 5 December, 2023 8 hours ago, CB Fry said: Remember, he didn't mean Saints, that would be preposterous, calm down everyone. He meant the team one place and one point above them in the table. They might win it. I do think we are one of the better championship sides that with a favourable run could go far, my point was that I wasn't saying what I said because I'm getting giddy with excitement about Saints winning the cup. Just that the Prem is weaker, the draw looks good for 6 of the Prem sides being out before the 4th round, and the top championship sides are stronger than they've been in years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 5 December, 2023 Share Posted 5 December, 2023 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Saint_clark said: I do think we are one of the better championship sides that with a favourable run could go far, my point was that I wasn't saying what I said because I'm getting giddy with excitement about Saints winning the cup. Just that the Prem is weaker, the draw looks good for 6 of the Prem sides being out before the 4th round, and the top championship sides are stronger than they've been in years. I wrote a long reply but honestly what's the point. What you're saying is just nonsense. The Premier League is not "weaker", the FA Cup draw is normal, the Championship is not much different to other seasons, fair play to the strng start made by the top two but Burnley got 101 points and are now contributing to a "weaker" Prem so your point doesn't make sense. Lastly there is pretty much no correlation between "better Championship teams" and FA Cup performance. The last two finalists were Cardiff and Millwall. Dross Championship clubs who lucked out. So a Championship team can go I to the competition but at the same level of liklihood of the last 20 years. Not that likely. Edited 5 December, 2023 by CB Fry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 5 December, 2023 Share Posted 5 December, 2023 4 hours ago, CB Fry said: I wrote a long reply but honestly what's the point. What you're saying is just nonsense. The Premier League is not "weaker", the FA Cup draw is normal, the Championship is not much different to other seasons, fair play to the strng start made by the top two but Burnley got 101 points and are now contributing to a "weaker" Prem so your point doesn't make sense. Lastly there is pretty much no correlation between "better Championship teams" and FA Cup performance. The last two finalists were Cardiff and Millwall. Dross Championship clubs who lucked out. So a Championship team can go I to the competition but at the same level of liklihood of the last 20 years. Not that likely. Thank god you shortened your reply. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 5 December, 2023 Share Posted 5 December, 2023 Match ended 0-0 so a replay back at Walsall, which is a shame as makes it unlikely we'll face Alfreton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSA96 Posted 6 December, 2023 Share Posted 6 December, 2023 On 03/12/2023 at 13:32, AlexLaw76 said: #ScarTissue https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/64737746 Lyanco... Caleta-Car... Orsic... Djenepo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan Posted 7 December, 2023 Share Posted 7 December, 2023 Doesn’t seem we’ve been picked for TV so I’d expect this to be 3pm on the Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonaggro Posted 7 December, 2023 Share Posted 7 December, 2023 On 05/12/2023 at 06:47, CB Fry said: I wrote a long reply but honestly what's the point. What you're saying is just nonsense. The Premier League is not "weaker", the FA Cup draw is normal, the Championship is not much different to other seasons, fair play to the strng start made by the top two but Burnley got 101 points and are now contributing to a "weaker" Prem so your point doesn't make sense. Lastly there is pretty much no correlation between "better Championship teams" and FA Cup performance. The last two finalists were Cardiff and Millwall. Dross Championship clubs who lucked out. So a Championship team can go I to the competition but at the same level of liklihood of the last 20 years. Not that likely. Very pessimistic and a short memory, you have to remember that Nathan Jones was on for the treble just prior to being forcibly removed - many of these scar-tissue healed players have played beyond the fourth round. Plus, this year we canned the League Cup early so Russ can focus on the semi-skimmed double #keepthefaith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry_SFC Posted 7 December, 2023 Share Posted 7 December, 2023 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan said: Doesn’t seem we’ve been picked for TV so I’d expect this to be 3pm on the Saturday The TV picks are a joke. Can't wait to watch Spurs Vs Burnley, Palace Vs Everton and Boro Vs Villa. Edited 7 December, 2023 by Harry_SFC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 7 December, 2023 Share Posted 7 December, 2023 1 hour ago, Harry_SFC said: The TV picks are a joke. Can't wait to watch Spurs Vs Burnley, Palace Vs Everton and Boro Vs Villa. I haven’t seen any of those for a while. Almost a week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 8 December, 2023 Author Share Posted 8 December, 2023 17 hours ago, Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan said: Doesn’t seem we’ve been picked for TV so I’d expect this to be 3pm on the Saturday Not necessarily. International broadcasters can move games, so the full schedule will be announced next week. Last season, our game at Crystal Palace was moved to 12.30pm for international TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 11 December, 2023 Author Share Posted 11 December, 2023 Is confirmed for 3pm now. The replay is tomorrow so we'll finally find out our opponents. Hope it is Alfreton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 12 December, 2023 Share Posted 12 December, 2023 Walsall it is then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 12 December, 2023 Share Posted 12 December, 2023 17 minutes ago, trousers said: Walsall it is then Our recent record against league Two teams surely makes Walsall the favourites, at least they don't bring blow up fish to wave at us 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 12 December, 2023 Share Posted 12 December, 2023 9 minutes ago, JRM said: Our recent record against league Two teams surely makes Walsall the favourites, at least they don't bring blow up fish to wave at us Plus we have a brotherhood with Walsall on the day we were promoted to the championship they stayed in league one. we had that wonderful moment as we celebrated on the pitch and turned towards the Walsall fans singing “you are staying up”. Walsall are our friends 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 12 December, 2023 Share Posted 12 December, 2023 4 minutes ago, Turkish said: Plus we have a brotherhood with Walsall on the day we were promoted to the championship they stayed in league one. we had that wonderful moment as we celebrated on the pitch and turned towards the Walsall fans singing “you are staying up”. Walsall are our friends The Chris Nichol derby 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 Tickets are on sale already and judging by the queue down the ground you'll need to be quick https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/southampton-vs-walsall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 16 hours ago, Turkish said: Plus we have a brotherhood with Walsall on the day we were promoted to the championship they stayed in league one. we had that wonderful moment as we celebrated on the pitch and turned towards the Walsall fans singing “you are staying up”. Walsall are our friends Apart from the game up at theirs midweek when their keeper or one of theirs players got away with a naughty tackle on Schneiderlin that saw him side lined for a few games. Might not have been the keeper, that view might have been skewed by his performance to keep a clean sheet that seemed to down to the fact that being 1-0 up if he let one in he would never see his family again, just like their defence (featuring Ollie Lancashire!) played like they had been told "you concede one, you'll be facing a firing squad up against the gym wall out the back" - We battered them and they held firm. All that aside I thought the whole club was nicely set up as a family friendly local club, the stuff to do and up coming stuff on the calendar in the match programme was impressive, they appeared to be doing all they could to get folk through the turnstiles despite being up against local bigger boys, Villa, Birmingham, WBA, Wolves. That certainly was a nice moment @Turkish even in the game - we were putting them to the sword and their fans were bouncing about because they were getting news from the game that had their fate in its hand, I seem to recall "we are going up" being alternated with "you are staying up" whilst the game was still on. Final whistle their players just collapsed on the pitch with relief and were instantly engulfed by 1000's of us loons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 1 hour ago, JRM said: Tickets are on sale already and judging by the queue down the ground you'll need to be quick https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/southampton-vs-walsall I just had a steward come along the line, counting folk ahead of me, then said to me "you might not get a ticket!". 😁 Anyone remember those days at the Dell just for a normal game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 17 hours ago, trousers said: Walsall it is then Shame as it would have been interesting playing a 6th tier team but hey, even if we play the likes of Edozie, SAA, Mara up top we should have enough to beat Walsall. I mean, if Mara can't score against Walsall then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee On Solent Saint Posted 13 December, 2023 Share Posted 13 December, 2023 7 hours ago, SNSUN said: I mean, if Mara can't score against Walsall then... He didn't manage to score against Grimsby last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now