Match Day Thread Southampton v Shrewsbury Tuesday 19/1/2021 8pm BT Sport 2

If we get a bye I hope we have the decency to compensate Shrewsbury for lost earnings. Third round tie on TV worth a fair bit for a club like that.

 

We should give them the whole lot.

 

Agreed. Prize money as well as what they'd have got for TV.

 

45 years on another cup win would be lovely.

And why not, playing well and would be just reward for this group of players.

Hope we give it a good bash.

COYR

 

Could have loaned them Harry Lewis if they are short of a Goalkeeper, he was born in Shrewsbury!

 

We originally bought him from Shrewsbury, if I remember.

However, think hes needed here right now!!

 

tu es mauvais

 

I presume there's no scope for postponement? Either it gets played, or we get a bye.

If they're not able to play at the weekend, I can't see next midweek would be any different. The following midweek we're already in action, and the weekend after that is the 4th round.

 

Give them the bye... it’s only the cup!

 

Not sure that would happen, but there's a big part of me that says you're right. We're doing well and I really do think that the PL clubs need to find ways of helping the EFL clubs out at present.

 

I want us to go for the cup really, but it is an option.

 

Giving Shrews the bye is not option - would make no sense at all. Surely you're both joking?

 

I hope we can play
Looking forward to seeing some youth players Diallo and Fraser starting and Danny might appreciate the game to get back to 100%. Rests rarely do us any good for some reason. We always look sluggish and lose when we come back

If it is a bye then I agree we should give them the prize money but compensate them for loss of TV money? Sorry I don’t get that

 

I doubt very much that Southampton will compensate Shrewsbury in any way if the match is not played and we get a bye. Might be different if we cancelled....we don't live in fairyland.

 

Presuming we either win this game or get a bye, we will have to play the 4th round game on weekend of 23rd Jan.

If you add that to our PL schedule, we will have 7 games in 22 days up to and including Newcastle away (unless they shift that date for TV).

We could really do with this break given our injury troubles. It will give the fit players some much needed rest and hopefully one or two can return for the Leicester game.

 

Shrews CEO on TalkSPORT just now. Effectively saying health must come first but they can't yet say whether it will or will not go ahead.

So it's still all a bit up in the air.

 

Since when is it our job to compensate anyone?

 

Ralph talking to the press at 14:00, hopefully get an update then.

 

My tongue was firmly in my cheek

 

It could be between them, a good trick if you can get round to it.