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Match Day Thread Middlesbrough v Southampton, Saturday, 09th May 2026, 12:30 KO - Live on Sky TV
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Turn the sound off, listen to Radio Solent, then when Adam Blackmore gets excited, you can prepare yourself for something to happen on the pitch
On the spygate stuff, I know there's plenty of other cheating that goes on in football. I just don't want Saints involved in it, regardless of how minor the cheating may be. I'd rather us lose honestly then win having cheated to gain some kind of advantage. We don't have much going for us in the grand scheme of things, we don't win anything, we are often the whipping boys, produce a good player and they are out the door within a year, but you can still be proud of the club when they act professionally and give their all on the pitch. This kind of thing takes away from that feeling for me. Fully agree that in the grand scheme of things that go on, this isn't that outrageous and the advantages you gain are relatively small, but that's not really the point as far as I'm concerned. I want Saints to do things the right way even if nobody else is. Maybe that's a delusional attitude to take, but that's how I feel about it.
Trying to put all that **** to one side and thinking about the football now.
Bad news that Stephens still isn't even able to be on the bench. But good that Matsuki is back to being an option. Greatly improves our attacking options off the bench that looked a bit threadbare otherwise. Happy with the team overall, just hope Downes isn't too rusty. It's going to be a hostile atmosphere for them, but they'll know that. Just got to try and shut that out and play the game. Glad Hackney isn't on their bench for them, think we have a much stronger bench but their starting lineup looks pretty strong, no Hackney aside.
Trying to put all that **** to one side and thinking about the football now.
Bad news that Stephens still isn't even able to be on the bench. But good that Matsuki is back to being an option. Greatly improves our attacking options off the bench that looked a bit threadbare otherwise. Happy with the team overall, just hope Downes isn't too rusty. It's going to be a hostile atmosphere for them, but they'll know that. Just got to try and shut that out and play the game. Glad Hackney isn't on their bench for them, think we have a much stronger bench but their starting lineup looks pretty strong, no Hackney aside.
Jobi Macanuff on Sky; slagging off Saints (fair enough) but also went on to say “what we love about the game is its integrity!) WTF!!
Tonda didn’t blink in his interview. We’ll be fine.
He did yeah. Seems like to only one being pragmatic.
Not really. Obvs didn’t comment on the incident, just saying that we are aiming to win the game just like any other game really. Sky have chosen to air footage of Saints fans with binoculars though. It almost as if they’re trying to wind people up (not Sky surely??)
Sorry but that's on the Saints fans being twats, not Sky.
Tonda with Sky pre-game
on the charges against the club and his response...
I believe the club has made a statement yesterday and that's all I can say at the moment.
on what his opinions are on the practice of observing an opponent's training sessions and how he would feel if it happened to Saints...
I believe that when you come to this stage of the season, it's not coaches winning the games, it's the players. It's going to be exactly the same today.
on what effect he thinks it might have on the games...
We are focused on ourselves. We have been all week. We know that we are facing a good team today and they have been very good for all of the season. It's going to be a big challenge.
on being the form team going into the playoffs and his approach to the game today...
It's two things that we've been consistent with: confidence on one side and on the other side, humility. Humility to know that we are facing a very good team and those are the two things that we need to put together again.
on what would be an acceptable outcome from the first leg...
We always play to win. That hasn't changed over the last weeks and months. We will try to do the same today and then we'll see where we stand.
on the charges against the club and his response...
I believe the club has made a statement yesterday and that's all I can say at the moment.
on what his opinions are on the practice of observing an opponent's training sessions and how he would feel if it happened to Saints...
I believe that when you come to this stage of the season, it's not coaches winning the games, it's the players. It's going to be exactly the same today.
on what effect he thinks it might have on the games...
We are focused on ourselves. We have been all week. We know that we are facing a good team today and they have been very good for all of the season. It's going to be a big challenge.
on being the form team going into the playoffs and his approach to the game today...
It's two things that we've been consistent with: confidence on one side and on the other side, humility. Humility to know that we are facing a very good team and those are the two things that we need to put together again.
on what would be an acceptable outcome from the first leg...
We always play to win. That hasn't changed over the last weeks and months. We will try to do the same today and then we'll see where we stand.
A few maybe, they are just trying to put some humour in to a serious situation.
By making binocular gestures with their hands and laughing about it. Just seems completely unnecessary to me.