Match Day Thread Gillingham v Southampton, EFL Cup 1st Round, 8th August, 19:45

Honestly, if any of this starting XI (bar SAA) play for us in the championship, we are ****ed. And that's incredibly worrying.

 

I know, but minor teams who have yo,yoed so no different to a top Champ club

 

I don’t know why we bother with Djenepo, he’s never going to compete for a starting place in the first team, so why waste a space in the cup? Give it to an academy player who might one day be a first teamer.

RE McCarthy, I have no idea why they sacked off Forster and kept him.

 

Because this game will have very little impact on the rest of our season, which will be rightly focused on the bigger fish we have to fry. The reason Shane’s goal ranked so highly, was because it was far later in the competition, to take us to a final, at a time and in a league where we had bugger all to keep us excited.

 

A like mind at last

 

Only remembered this match was on at halftime. So apparently did the team. Just glad it wasn’t on tellybox, like the Grimsby fiasco. Watch out for incoming abuse from a town near Southampton.

 

3-1

 

I want to win the league and not get promoted, personally.

 

Hopefully the first of many this season for Charlie.

 

Charly to the rescue

 

Losing play off finalists for me. Been promising nipper a trip to Wembley.

 

Where do they get off charging £5 for something that should be on the radio?

 

Hell no. That would be horrific.

 

Miserable to lose at Wembley though. Been there!

 

It won't now, but it could have done..

The last sentence I think re=inforces my point. As Southamptoon we only ever play for promotion/survival or a cup run. So we have given up 33% of that excitement in game 2. Not happy as a fan

 

It's very Saints.

 

Used to be free with Blackmore and Dave didn’t it?

 

Well maybe try winning a cup too.....

 

And it's still more enjoyable than VAR!

 

Thank goodness their manager wasn't taking this game seriously...