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Match Day Thread Hull City v Southampton Sunday Nov. 6 14:15

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by saintkitch, Nov 4, 2016.

  1. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    I weight 8 stone ish....the same as I did in my twenties....it's just that the ish is considerably bigger these days.<laugh>
     
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  2. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    Oh Fran ......really........wouldn't of thought it...........<whistle>
     
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  3. VVD

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    Someone said earlier in the thread, and I am agreeing with them, Snodgrass is a really good player although he probably won't ever play for a top 8 team. Mid-table is what suits him I think.
     
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  4. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Let's just say that I wouldn't be the first to die of starvation on a desert island.:rolleyes:
     
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  5. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

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    What a good simile!!!! Keep up the figurative language FLT, or should it be your figure!!
     
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  6. SAINTDON13

    SAINTDON13 Well-Known Member

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    I just have sympathy for our supporters, they have been to Hull and back with no reward.
     
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  7. saintrichie123

    saintrichie123 Well-Known Member

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    I am 12 stone 20 pounds :emoticon-0138-think
     
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  8. CBK

    CBK Well-Known Member

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    Played 11, Won 3, Drawn 4, Lost 4. Scored 12, Conceded 12.

    Yep, that's about right. Still more average than good as a team.

    We are royally screwed if Austin gets injured.
     
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  9. Saints Fan4Life

    Saints Fan4Life Well-Known Member

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    Love how people ignore the cups to get this sort of stat. It's not all about the League, as Claude keeps stressing. We're fighting on THREE fronts.

    So, let's try that again.

    Played 17 Won 7 Drawn 5 Lost 5. Scored 20, Conceded 14.

    Looks a little better, doesnt it.
     
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  10. davecg69

    davecg69 Well-Known Member

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    Ok - I was away at the weekend, so, apart from a brief moment yesterday when I looked at my phone, saw we were 1-0 up and said to my daughter "I hope Snodgrass isn't playing", I knew nothing about the final score till I reconnected this morning.
    I haven't watched the game - I'll see MOTD2 later today - but as soon as I saw the final score I knew what would be going on here (and, even worse, the Saints fan page on FB). "The team aren't good enough", "it's all Maya's fault", "Sack the board", "Bring in the Chinese mega-million"........ FFS people - as some on here are trying to say, it's football, it's Saints and we just played a very tough game in Europe. We'll do very well to get points from the next 2 games and get something at Arsenal, but I have faith in Claude and the team.
    It looks to me as if Hull were more up for it than we were, we took our foot of the gas a bit and got punished. That happens, but Claude will have learnt a lot from this and, hopefully, we can move on and put this behind us.
    Why should we sell Virgil? He's on a long contract, he's worth double what Citeh paid for Stones and we can hang on to him. We DO need to expand the squad, but we cannot get players like Aguero here without bankrupting the club. As someone said - "what do you want? Success in Europe or in the EPL?" I never expected Saints to finish higher than mid table this year - so I'm relaxed. We'll have bumps along the way, but we're SAINTS and we'll march on. Stop moaning and get behind the club - or go and support Manure, Coventry or that lot East of us ......
     
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  11. Lovelocum

    Lovelocum Well-Known Member

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    Yes it does. But the league is a barometer for how we are performing. The same teams as last year, are we keeping up?
     
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  12. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

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    Last I looked Barcelona was to the South!!
     
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  13. I Sorry I Ruined The Party

    I Sorry I Ruined The Party Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, because the Cups right now are a biased sample. We have played Sparta Prague, but not Roma or Man U.
     
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    But all those things aren't going on here? There is a smattering of comments about needing a new striker, and some complaint that we were complacent after we scored. Both are accepted by the majority of fans who watched the game. People are complaining because we should have won if we had attacked with any intensity rather than attempting to sideways pass them to death we would have scored more. When we went behind we showed we could do it. Why was our play so pedestrian when Hull let us have so much ball first half? So the complaint was never that the "team isn't good enough" but rather that the team is better than that performance and let's discuss why that happened.
     
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  15. CBK

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    The "sort of stat" which shows the club's league form? When I'm looking to show a stat showing our league form, I tend to use a stat that shows our league form. It's the best way to show our league form, as a stat.

    Yes, it is all about the League. That's the competition the manager only plays his strongest team in.
     
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  16. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

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    There might be an exception later in the season. If we are in upper mid table towards the end of the season and there is the small matter of a EL semi-final then I think the manager would want to play his strongest team in that particular series of matches.
     
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  17. CBK

    CBK Well-Known Member

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    Well, maybe... but the point is about league form and the priority right now. We will all be enslaved by the Trump Overlord by later in the season, anyway.
     
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  18. Lemons and Oranges

    Lemons and Oranges Well-Known Member

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    Trump Overlord? Johnny Fartypants? (Old Viz reference, but I don't get out much)
     
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  19. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    I'd have him as a squad player, any day.
     
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  20. ----HistoryRepeating----

    ----HistoryRepeating---- Well-Known Member

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    Had Keane not got injured, we'd have won that game at waking pace. Very annoying.
     
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