My loins are firmly girded today...have to keep repeating to myself that there are plenty of games to come.
Burnley will still want to attack us and get the win at home and get the points so we will have Oppurtunities and punish them on the counter. Im hoping for a 2-1 win... if we score early and keep It tight we could get a few.
A win today would be great considering Burnley's recent form. I guess it will benchmark how much both sides have improved in recent weeks. Come on Saints please surprise us and get three points !
Ings and Austin's old stomping ground! I feel like Maybe Charlie could be part of the team after staying this window.
My problem is that all hope has been sapped over last couple of seasons...am unable to envisage not losing for a run of games. Feel like we are owed a defeat...like pundits always seem to feel...so a win would put me on cloud 9.
Stat from the BBC: "Southampton's only victory in nine top-flight visits to Turf Moor came in March 1971, when Mick Channon scored the only goal (D2, L6)." Therefore by law of averages it is about time we won !
Yep. In isolation a draw today would feel a little hollow for me. We've got these run of fixtures against Palace, Burnley, Cardiff and Fulham (I know Arsenal away is thrown in there too) that, if we take advantage of them, we can almost mathematically put relegation to bed (we'd be on at least 30 points - maybe 31 or 32 - with 10 games still left). So to start off with two draws would begin to feel like a missed opportunity, which could cause serious issues later on (for instance look at this time last season, where we wasted matches against the likes of Palace, Stoke and Brighton, and would have been punished for it had it not been for Swansea). But that feeling of missed opportunity completely goes if we then follow it with a win against Cardiff (and then Fulham).
Just watched the Ralph Hassenhuttl interview on Football Focus. Came over well as you'd expect. Asked about his playing career, he said he'd rather talk about his coaching...adding, 'Let's say I wouldn't play me in my team.' Knows how much the club means to the fans and promises everyone will do their best for the club. Apparently in the summer he biked between Borussia Monchengladbach and Borussia Dortmund and watched their training through binoculars.
Bloody hope not, it'd be oh so predictable. Looked it up and he's one of 9 on players on 6 different clubs so fancy him to hold that record by the end of the year.
I hope we win via a dodgy pen or freekick. While I think Dyche has done a great job, this season he has moaned about something every game. It’s getting very tedious.
