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Match Day Thread Southampton v Everton, Sun 25th Oct, 2pm Sky Sports Main Event

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Onionman, Oct 19, 2020.

  1. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    If Armstrong isn’t ready yet, Ralph could put Diallo alongside Romeu and move Prowsey forward.
     
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  2. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

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    You drop Romeu because the team needs more "bite"?!?!
     
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  3. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    In the sense that our midfield needs to stop teams overrunning us. Romeu and JWP can only do so much, and in theory Diallo is an improvement.
     
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  4. fatletiss

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    Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out to be a little shop of horrors
     
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  5. Dark Lord SFC

    Dark Lord SFC Well-Known Member

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    With only two proper central midfielders, they will get over run esp if a team plays 3-5-2 as they have an additional central midfielder to deal with. That’s where our two wide no 10’s need to be so aware and work damn hard
     
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  6. OddRiverOakWizards

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    You are completely right. In Project restart we totally dominated the first half by over running the Everton midfield and pressing high. Ancelotti changed their system in the second half adding a third central midfielder and we struggled to penetrate following.
     
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  7. Osvaldorama

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    This will be a bloody good/tough game!

    Agree the two man midfield can be exploited, although it worked against Chelsea with all their talent in the second half!
    I wonder if Ralph will ever mix it up and play all 3 at once. I'm worried villa with their 3 man midfield could prove too much as well
     
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  8. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Yo soy un hombre sincero
    De donde crece la palma

    Y antes de morir, yo quiero
    Echar mis versos del alma

    I am a truthful man from the land of the palm trees
    And before I die, I should like to share my verses with you

    Sounds right to me

    (Is he from the land of the palm trees?) :bandit:
     
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  9. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Well, Jack Stephens is from Cornwall, does that help?
     
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  10. Saints_Alive

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    There are palm trees in Torquay!...:grin:
     
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  11. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Lol I have 5 x 15ft plus palms here in sunny Poole!

    #PooleTheRealEnglishRiveira
     
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  12. Saints_Alive

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  13. StJabbo1

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    With global warming we can expect large swathes of southern England to be swallowed up by palm oil plantations.
     
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  14. thereisonlyoneno7

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    E5E0A274-E5BE-48F0-93AE-85CF9334F3BD.jpeg

    Just one of the Palms at the front. The rest are in the back garden. In fairness this was about 3ft 12 years ago, but the tropical Poole sunshine has done this to it<laugh>
     
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  15. milton archer

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    Sorry.....I know it's a sign of being old, one tends to have far more dislikes than likes but this is another of my pet hates (along with cushions, people called Norman etc etc)...palm trees in English gardens don't look right especially when it's wet and windy!
     
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  16. ChilcoSaint

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    Poole is in Dorset and therefore never wet and windy, by definition.


    Signed
    Norman

    From my cushion.
     
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  17. West Kent Saint

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    That will palm him off.
     
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  18. thereisonlyoneno7

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  19. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    A number of observations ...
    Dorset is often wet and windy ... Poole gets all our sun

    Ever seen palm trees in a tropical storm? Very wet and windy

    I like Norman Castles

    There are definitely more cushions than there need to be in this country, but I do like a 3 goal cushion
     
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  20. thereisonlyoneno7

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    Haha...the way you came back on topic there was genius.
     
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