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The Championship 23/24 Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Shandy_top_89, Apr 2, 2023.

  1. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Yeh, I understand and agree CGTs basic premise, just that without the manager, filling gaps and creating a team we still have a disfunctional team even though we're competing at a lower level

    I'm not being negative or pessimistic, just avoiding complacency :emoticon-0142-happy
     
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  2. Shepherd's Clearing

    Shepherd's Clearing Well-Known Member

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    There was an interesting point made about Armstrong earlier - how many of our players are 'broken' - losing gets to be a habit and how many of them haven't forgotten how to win, how to dig in when it's needed, to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Sounds really trite and cliche but it is true, like winning, teams that 'know how to win' often score in the very last minute or come back from 2-0 down with 15 minutes to go - it is entirely feasible it will be a long time before this current bunch do this, even with a great manager.

    That is going to be a big challenge for the coaching staff and the players that remain, even the supporters seem to have resigned themselves to losing and abject displays. Poor performance irrigates a club with 'losing-ness' and sometimes can be hard to shift.
     
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  3. Osvaldorama

    Osvaldorama Well-Known Member

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    All well and good, but the problem is we still have the same scouts and recruitment team.

    I wouldn’t trust them to pick me a £3 tesco meal deal, let alone pick players that can get us promoted.
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    Agreed, though I think we'll see more backroom staff come in to fill some gaps over the summer as well, and the margin for error in Championship level recruitment is that much larger.

    I'd still like Rasmus to piss off, mind you.
     
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  5. Brinkworth Saint

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    It will be less difficult than you think If we get a strong minded leader of a manager in. My hunch is there's going to be a flood of P45's issued in about 4-6 weeks time once that crucial decision is made as to who is our new manager.
     
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  6. jonny 'hasen' shuttle

    jonny 'hasen' shuttle Well-Known Member

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    In Star Trek Picard season 3 it all looks over when it transpires that the Borg have been secretly assimilating the entire starship fleet and troops under a certain age via the transportation system.
    However Picard and trusty lutenant Warf and Number 1 Will found away to win by using the original enterprise ship that was off radar and destroying the mother ship.

    I'm just thinking saints could do something similar by playing a totally different style of football for 4 games ?

    As bad as it is now a win against only marginally less ****e opposition in Forest could start something...
     
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  7. Che’s Godlike Thighs

    Che’s Godlike Thighs Well-Known Member

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    Was really enjoying this post until you started talking about Saints.
     
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  8. Toss saints

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    Cherie Lunghi was pretty good (hot!) in the manageress drama in the early nineties
     
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  9. Toss saints

    Toss saints Well-Known Member

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    and they got a manager who knows what he is doing and has some gravitas
     
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  10. Toss saints

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    I fear you make a very valid point here. There seems to be quite an assumption on here that our players will rip it up in the championship, maybe they will, but you are correct, they need to very quickly get rid of the losers mentality and that could be a very big ask
     
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  11. Toss saints

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    Who was our scouting team in 2014 (not teh black box) - can we get them back, they were awesome.
     
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  12. Che’s Godlike Thighs

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    Paul Mitchell.
     
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  13. Che’s Godlike Thighs

    Che’s Godlike Thighs Well-Known Member

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    In Starship Troopers, things are looking bad for Lt. Rico and his special forces unit, the 'Roughnecks', after they are ambushed by loads of alien-spider thingys, and suffer a large number of casualties, including the bird that Rico was shagging. But undeterred, the Roughnecks get some bigger guns and then go back to the bug planet and kill f*cking millions of the spider-thingys and even a fat grub type thing that sucks people's brains out.

    So I'm thinking Saints should probably go with a 4-4-2 against Forest.
     
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  14. SaintsFan86

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    What I hope our team lines up like day one of next years championship based on personal now, and certainly likely departures but those I hope we could persuade to stay for at least one season;
    Bazunu;
    Livromento, Stephens, ABK, Perraud;
    New DM, Smallbone;
    Tella, Alcaraz, Sulemana;
    Adams.

    Vs which I imagine is probably more likely to happen...

    Bazunu;
    Livromento, Lyanco, New DF, New LB;
    New DM, New CM;
    Aribo, Smallbone, Edozie;
    Arma/Mara
     
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  15. Lemons and Oranges

    Lemons and Oranges Well-Known Member

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    There you go again, bring Saints into all of your posts.....
     
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    ......loading...... 25 undefeated

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    You can’t get a meal deal in Tesco’s for £3 any more :emoticon-0106-cryin
     
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  17. Lemons and Oranges

    Lemons and Oranges Well-Known Member

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    TBF, you probably can pick up a bargain in Tescos, if you choose items beyond their sell-by date, that others wouldn't touch with a barge pole. Strikingly similar to Saints scouting and recruitment...
     
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  18. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    We’ll probably lose at home to them first game of the season then <ok>
     
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  19. Le Tissier's Laces

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    I admire your confidence, but I’d feel slightly better if that first team had eleven players…
     
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  20. SaintsFan86

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    Aha, thanks.
     
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