Southampton Banter Archive December 20 2015

 

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20 Dec 2015 22:54:15
Chelsea and saints similar form. Jose gets the sack. RoKo possibly not far off. Jose said not looking to take sabbatical. Could it be? Has it been les and karens plan all along? Maybe just maybe.

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22 Dec 2015 09:59:45
There is more chance of me becoming Father Christmas than Mourinho coming to Southampton and the ludicrous assertion that they would get rid of RoKo is just ridiculous . If we are in a relegation battle come Easter I think the best person to get us out of it is Koeman, too many panic buttons being pressed at the moment . We are in a dark place at present but let's not act as though the end of the world is coming, things could easily change with a couple of decent results and everybody's attitude to our current problem will be forgotten.

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22 Dec 2015 14:38:18
Agree chrisdownj but where are these results going to come from, I don't see us getting anything out of the Arsenal or west ham games - not being pessimistic just a realist
Things need to change, personnel and also tactics, we are too easy to beat and don't offer enough of a threat up front.
Talk is about progress so let's hope this happens.

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22 Dec 2015 15:25:02
I know what you mean but Bournemouth were being written off a couple of weeks ago with games against Chelsea and United next on their list after a poor run of results and look what happened . I agree that we need to get our act together pretty quickly but we could do it . Keep the faith, luckily we have 21 points on the board and have a little time to sort this out . 6 wins and a couple of draws from our 21 games left should be achievable and that would probably be enough . I do think we need to sign somebody up front in January and to me the prime candidate should be Austin, he might well cost a bit but the money we would lose with the TV rights is immense and would easily outweigh the outlay .

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22 Dec 2015 19:20:48
To all the koeman haters who else better than koeman are saints going to get in as manager? Get real.

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22 Dec 2015 21:55:32
Sure we could find someone in the black box.

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22 Dec 2015 22:09:09
Just so that everyone knows, my original post was done tongue in cheek and not meant as a koeman hating rant as some seem to be suggesting. Merry Christmas!

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20 Dec 2015 11:05:03
{Ed's Note - We have posted a new article entitled, 10 Things In The News

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20 Dec 2015 03:25:02
Why is everyone neglecting to talk tactics?

our attack and especially our transitions to attack are poorly structured. of our front 3, tadic was coming deep to help defend so he was always out of the picture in transitions, pelle came deep into midfield to collect the ball and mane was up with literally no one else near him other than at least three spurs defenders. This was not only happening at the start of the match but even moreso when we went behind. it doesn't make any sense to me.

Yes we should buy more players but our current first eleven is capable of scoring goals.

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20 Dec 2015 15:57:50
Where our defensive unit is weak so our attacking players don't have the faith that our boys at the back will be able to stop attacks so are sitting deeper to stop the overlapping wing play and mane was up on his own to try counter attack on his own at pace
Mane shoulda scored 2 before Kane scored but this shows wot keoman is saying we're not finishing opportunity and we are poor at defending wanyama, fonte, van dijk, cedric, and Bertrand where off there game 100 percent .
And I read a artical somewhere that keoman only did well last year due to pochentino leave a good squad
Wot squad lambert, lallana, shaw, chambers, lovern left when the board refused to back cortese followed again by our two stand out players being sold again schniederlin and Clyne. then les tryin to get Toby for peanuts made us lose out on him to and Elia wasn't worth 3mil apparently . osvaldo contract terminated and Ramirez didn't never have a chance to settle with all teammates that left and three managers, then forren sent back where he come from and gardos is not up to this level neither is cuco and the list does not.
So in truth if keoman was not here we would be in a bigger mess because pelle. tadic and mane would not be hear . keoman has had to start from sratch while poch had a good young squad that has played through hard time to get where they where and not to meation the hard work Adkins put in to make them a team and family and bring them to two back to back promotions
Only for kath to take control and sell our team and replace with strangers and keoman done a excellent job getting them to mould so quickly (saved us)
And to get to the start of the season still needing a good cb till van dijk finally turned up and why in two seasons has a striker not been brought
Because les and kath will not spend the money required to bring in the level of striker needed so a champions league spot when't begging and just look at Leicester they didn't sell there team and are flying as a reward and massive resect to there owners
That is something southampton fc had in Marcus and cortese
Something that made most football pundits envious of cortese and they got rid and our sell out supporters turns there back on cortese for makeing us have a state of the art training facilty buy saying he got us in debt lol
There ain't a team in prem that isn't in debt
Nor a country that is running that don't have debt
So why do our fans believe this rubbish les and kath come out sayin just look a the cedric deal we're running a debt on him because we never payed up all cash for him and will be paying for next few years a million this year then next, same clasie so when they say we invested all money from transfers back into the team how we sell for good money but pay cheap fees and cheap wages in return
This is wot keoman was saying in the echo not more than a week ago "we are the only team to have made a profit in the transfer window (again) and we need more when u look at the teams around us growing and getting stronger year in year out. and our last two seasons have been sell sell sell but we got a good price and we bought him for this at a bargin . problem is squad is a bit thin now so we can't sell to rip a profit again .
TV and sponsor deals have made a big impact to all in the prem apart from southampton fc because our fan base and stadium are so much smaller then every premier league club we still can't afford top players or even Austin .

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23 Dec 2015 23:01:06
All 3 have always come deep, even last season.

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23 Dec 2015 23:52:08
Times last season and this we were practically playing 4-2-4.

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