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Match Day Thread Southampton v Middlesbrough, Sunday 11 December, KO 14:15

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Saints Fan4Life, Dec 9, 2016.

  1. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    Not all the Northam...
     
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  2. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    Hope Shaqiri is suspended for his elbow.
     
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  3. tomw24

    tomw24 Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    To be fair, recent performances and lack of goals have left a lot of fans uninspired by the team. You can't blame people for not making a huge amount of noise.
     
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  4. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Kept away from internet until we next won. I wasn't necessarily expecting that to be today. We really, really needed that win. It's a sad thing that last season I would hope to win every game, whereas I had no great hopes of beating Boro at SMS. Onwards and upwards. :)
     
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  5. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    The introduction of Redmond certainly helped to up our tempo, but another major reason for us looking better, as an attacking unit in the second half, was JWP pushing further forward.
    First half he barely crossed the half way line, except for the missed headed chance.
    Second half he was spending more time in the Boro half and making runs into their box, which helped to unsettle their defence. He needs to do/be given the opportunity to do this for 90 minutes, not just 45, as should any other midfielder (other than Romeu or whoever is playing the deep role). Unfortunately I think they play to instruction.
     
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  6. saintsfcfan

    saintsfcfan Well-Known Member

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    Considering how up and down this season has been, for a win at stoke to take us possibly a point behind united isn't too bad.
     
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  7. SAINTDON13

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    First half we were doing less sideways, backwards passing and were sending passes forward for JRod and Sophie to latch on to, but it kept leading to a loss of possession, so second half we went back to the "safer" passing movements, although even then we lost possession in midfield too often, we were allowing them the space between the half way line and penalty area, but rarely let anything get beyond there, helped by their lack of a striker.
     
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  8. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    ...is it safe to come back on full time to the forum now?
     
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  9. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    I'm not letting go of my comfort blanket yet.
     
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  10. SAINTDON13

    SAINTDON13 Well-Known Member

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    Our fans booing was fairly tame compared with the Manure reception for Failaini today!
     
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  11. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Never see the point of booing. My limit is pursed lips.
     
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  12. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    how do you manage not to sneak a look at the " the whole teams crap, the system is crap, the manager is crap and the owners are crap" posts after every loss?
     
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  13. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    just
     
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  14. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Absolutely no excuse for booing. Worried I'm going to get punched soon, because every time it happens I find myself unable to keep quiet about it.
     
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  15. steve79

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    Booing pisses me off.i know people spend alot of money to watch the saints and i understand people being frustrated,but supporting the team through tough times would be more helpful to the players than booing.thought we had better supporters than that tbh
     
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  16. Mikey

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    Was expecting as people at the game filtered home someone would mention it but still nothing. Maybe I'm just crazy...

    <laugh> That's maybe more notable for everyone else! It's probably the second biggest source of criticism so far this season after strikers/goalscoring - and oft mentioned by yourself.

    Being quite the cryptic twat now, but was genuinely expecting for there to be a huge deal made of it.
     
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  17. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    I recovered from my disappointment far faster than if I'd gone into a spiral of other people's misery. I didn't need to read it to know what was being said. Can watch MOTD safely now.
     
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  18. Qwerty

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    Martina being quite good? I'm out of ideas.
     
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  19. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Or a Paddington hard stare :)

    Edit - wrong quote :)

    Fran: "Never see the point of booing. My limit is pursed lips."
     
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  20. steve79

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    Cuco was good today.put in some very good crosses aswell. Come on mikey,enlighten us
     
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