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The pre-season thread - 2024/25

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by - Doing The Lambert Walk, Jun 27, 2024.

  1. OddRiverOakWizards

    OddRiverOakWizards Well-Known Member

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    The Lake Chad Drogba?
     
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  2. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Saw article recently that says you do have robe patient as clubs indulge in brinkmanship to try and get more money so if you don’t want to pay over the odds you have to indulge in brinkmanship yourselves

    We did it last year with JWP
     
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  3. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Think we need to change the name …
    Unfriendlies?
     
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  4. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Wot, like Ali Dia? <laugh>
     
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  5. Lemons and Oranges

    Lemons and Oranges Well-Known Member

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    Brings a whole new meaning to Dark Horse :emoticon-0140-rofl:
     
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  6. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    I’d be happy to get a one trick pony, if the one trick he had was scoring goals
     
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  7. West Kent Saint

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    We literally haven’t got a striker, and as much as I think Diaz will score he’s no target man! Stewart appears to be an injured hologram.
     
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  8. OddRiverOakWizards

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    But the cost could be survival which I imagine is worth more. We start badly and recovery will be harder.
     
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  9. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

    Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc) Well-Known Member

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    Didnt manage to see any of this. How was Onuachu when he came on?
     
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  10. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Tall
     
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  11. Osvaldorama

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    Was actually decent. I like the look of him in the brief glimpses we see
     
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  12. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Chat GPT’s prediction of the end of season table, and I for one am now all for our robot overlords.

    IMG_3420.jpeg
     
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  13. Paddy Podped

    Paddy Podped Well-Known Member

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    How many of those below us are there due to points deductions ?
     
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  14. StJabbo1

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    Who gives a flyer as long as they're below us.
    Apparently Haaaaarlaand is a raw dogger. Who'd a 'thought that.
     
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  15. Saints_Alive

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    This season is all about gaining a foothold in the PL and 16th would be a fine achievement. I do think that a lot of our own fans are underestimating us a bit and we could spring a surprise or two.
    We really shouldn't feel inferior to clubs like Brighton, Fulham, Brentford and the Mini-Skates and there's no reason why we can't emulate them in a couple of years.
    The percieved lack of quality in our squad is masking the fact that there is a great togetherness at the club and Martin and his coaching team should take great credit for that. We are definitely greater than the sum of our parts but the addition of a quality GK and a CF would greatly improve the chances of survival this season.
     
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  16. Lemons and Oranges

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    As a wise man probably said: "Hard work beats talent, if talent doesn't work hard"
     
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  17. thereisonlyoneno7

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    I agree 100% with all of that. With the caveat that we stop pissing about with the ball at the back
     
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  18. Le Tissier's Laces

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    And that we are quite a bit inferior to Brighton at the moment. Pretty much everyone in their first 11 walks into ours.
     
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  19. Saints_Alive

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    What I meant was that football is cyclical below the elite clubs, 8 years ago we were that club that all the mid-sized clubs wanted to be.
     
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  20. Saintmagic

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    8 years is a lifetime in football. Could we be that team again? Sure but we’d have to be making some good decisions to get to that point like we did previously and Brighton have been doing the last few years, and to me we aren’t making those decisions
     
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