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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Beef, Aug 9, 2017.

  1. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

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    The Manchester United v Milan tie is finely balances, same with Slavia Prague and Rangers. I watched Dynamo Kyiv v Villareal, who just happen to be coached by an expert in this competitions, Unai Emery. Not a really dynamic team, but they have the nous and experience to go even further after their win tonight.
     
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  2. fatletiss

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    Did it come off the corner of his block?
     
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  3. tomw24

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    I've just spent 20 minutes wondering what you were on about until the penny dropped. <laugh> And no he shinned it onto the post.
     
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  4. San Tejón

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    Just had my first look at Erling Haaland.
    Found this on YouTube, where he scores just the 9 goals in one game, has another disallowed, hits the woodwork and came close on a couple of other occasions. Big, strong and mobile. I can see why people have been saying good things about him.

     
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  5. tomw24

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    He's a freak of nature. He just scores for fun. He also has a release clause of 75mill which becomes active after next season. Dortmund could start a bidding war this season and get double that. Haaland can literally hand pick his next club. If I was Pep I would be going all out to get him to join City.
     
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  6. Saintmagic

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    His cousin has something like 70 goals in 30 games this season as well

    64 in 37 for Molde
     
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  7. San Tejón

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    £75 million is cheap, especially when I have read that the West Ham board value Declan Rice at £100 million and Moyes thinks it should be more.
     
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  8. SaintInKuwait

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    In news that will surprise absolutely nobody, QPR and Forest are looking for new shirt sponsors after Football Index announced they are going into administration. The thing reeked of a scam when they first opened but so many ate it up. It’s gambling but you have to encourage other people to buy in and by the way we have total control of the way everything is paid out? Great. Cool cool cool. That’s Bernie Madoff ****.
     
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  9. AberdeenSaint

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    Jordan Turnbull playing for Salford today against our fishy chums ! Once a Saint and all that.....
     
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  10. Schad

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    Schalke -- who nearly set a record for consecutive matches without a win a couple months back -- has been outscored 22-2 in their last eight matches, taking their goal differential to -50.

    Because they're heavily dependent on loans, 35 different players have gotten on the pitch for them in the league alone. That feels like it has to be heading for some sort of record.

    But that's not the weird bit. Rather, it's that Schalke's been so bad that they're combining with Armenia Bielefeld for what feels like an impossibility: the two teams getting automatically relegated may do so while neither has lost a single match that they led. That's mostly because they rarely lead matches, but between them they've successfully avoided defeat 11 of 11 times they've gone ahead, and are the only two clubs in the Bundesliga that can make that claim.
     
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  11. st_brendy

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    That's a shame, Pompey.
     
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  12. San Tejón

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    I watched quite a bit of the first 90 minutes and League 2 Salford were the better team.
    Chuffed for them.
     
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    FA Cup final could have 20,000 fans in attendance.
     
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  15. One of yer Norvern Saints

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    Agreed. And let's face it, Pompey can get back there again next year, and the year after that and the year ......It's why they shy away from promotion to the Championship
     
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  16. saintrichie123

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    @tomw24
    Should he seen red for this?
     
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  17. tomw24

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    Yes.
     
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  18. saintrichie123

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    He didn’t though, do they use Var in Italy?
    and now he has scored a pen.
     
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  19. Ian Thumwood

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    I think that the style of football did for Jackett. They are in as good a position in the league as they should expect with their squad and decent opposition to play against. I am not sure that the expectations are too high at Fratton Park but no one seems to be happy with the style of football KJ was churning out. It was a sacking that always seemed on the cards unless he got Portsmouth promotion. This season has pitched them in a league where there is a great number of superior teams and I think that they blew the opportunity to go up in the previous play offs when the league was a little bit easier.

    To Southampton fans, there is always something Tragi-comic about what goes on in Fratton Park. The road to Championship football is proving far harder than most Pompey fans had envisaged after promotion for League 2. Not sure who they will get in in the short term but you could envisage Eddie Howe wanting a crack and perhaps establishing them in the Championship. At the moment, that is the best that can be hoped for at Fratton Park.
     
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