Match Day Thread Saints v Diiiiiiiiiiiiiirttttttttty Leeds Saturday 13th August 3pm

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Osvaldorama said:
There was talk of the first team playing the B Team this week.. just seen this quote on Twitter:

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I wonder if they haven’t mentioned it because the first team lost <laugh>
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It was mentioned at the start of the forum last night. Didn’t happen.
 
Osvaldorama said:
There was talk of the first team playing the B Team this week.. just seen this quote on Twitter:

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I wonder if they haven’t mentioned it because the first team lost <laugh>
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Interesting as Ralph stated at the meeting Wednesday that no match took place on with the B Team that day...
 
If Ralph wants to keep his job he needs to go for this one big time and that means getting rid of the problem players whoever they are. With the mentality of our core players his new bloods are the only thing that will save him. I would expect to see certain veteran and fringe players nowhere near the team and I really hope he has the self awareness to sit down with the new coaching team and discuss what can be done. You can't eat principles as they say.

Bazunu

KWP ABK Sali Perraud
Lavia Romeu
JWP Stu
AdArma Aribo

we may even see 4231 if the new players have experience playing that way and Armstrong/Aribo coming in as a 10 behind the striker. This would suit Adarma and Sekou Mara I would expect.

I expect we are going to lose this comfortably. I expect Ralph will stick to his principles and Leeds will come in flush with confidence and belief, the opposite of what we have shown for months now. Really hope I'm wrong not least because there are plenty of Leeds fans in my family not least my 14 yr old. Bloody Amazon documentaries.
 
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I want to see Aribo on the wing in his proper position. He and KWP could form a brilliant partnership, and he looked class there cutting inside in preseason.
 
mowgli said:
There may be a few players in the squad that are further away from the first team this season and the main reason is that we have raised the bar with the new signings. I appreciate it’s easy to mock McCarthy and Walcott for their form in recent times but McCarthy was there when we needed him as Forster suffered a confidence crisis. He performed so well he eventually debuted in the England team (with a clean sheet). As for Walcott, he is a very good example of the Southampton way, making his debut at just 16. He was for me one of the most exciting youngsters to break into the first team and I was gutted that He left for Arsenal. I think his return to the club was a sentimental one* (on all sides!) similar to SRL to Liverpool and shows his love for the club. Difficult for me to deny him that pleasure.

* - in hindsight. I was all for the signing at the time.
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He actually did well when he was on loan, it all went tits up when we signed him
 
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StJabbo1 said:
Not wishing to be thought a cynical old git but I'm sure he got well paid for the ad.
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That may be so but there will still be some people who wouldn’t record something lampooning themselves even if they were paid well. Either down to ego or lack of sense of humour or the like
 
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Gregm1988 said:
That may be so but there will still be some people who wouldn’t record something lampooning themselves even if they were paid well. Either down to ego or lack of sense of humour or the like
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I appreciate that, my remark was somewhat tongue in cheek.
 
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