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Reply | Birmingham Game Matchday Thread
at 18:04 7 Dec 2025
You always felt with our last few managers that they were just trying to grind out a 1-0 win, but with Eckert we play a much more open, attacking style of football and so a 3-1 scoreline is more likely than a 1-0 one.
Incredibly, after our problems early in the season, there are now only 2 teams in the Championship (Coventry and Ipswich) who've scored more goals than us. [Post edited 7 Dec 18:10]
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Reply | Ashes
at 15:05 7 Dec 2025
Yes, it's is, We haven't won a single test in Australia for 15 years. We did also win that 2010/11 series.
Ignore the keyboard warrior. These Saints victories are really hurting him.
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Reply | Birmingham Game Matchday Thread
at 20:04 6 Dec 2025
Great prediction, and a 3-1 win against a Birmingham team that had back-to-back 4-0 victories over Millwall and Pompey is a great result.
Watching Saints is enjoyable again. The pace and skill with which our players cut through their defence was really exciting stuff.
Tonda Eckert is proving to be the best manager we've had for a very long time. [Post edited 6 Dec 20:20]
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Reply | Birmingham Game Matchday Thread
at 19:49 6 Dec 2025
Bazunu made some great saves today. Birmingham had 22 shots at our goal.
We win most of our games when Bazunu plays in goal for us in the Championship, and when McCarthy plays, we usually don't, and that's a fact. Obviously, the change of manager is a major reason why we are winning, but the change of goalkeeper from McCarthy to Bazunu has certainly helped. |
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Reply | Ashes
at 19:39 6 Dec 2025
15 years now without a single win in Australia. |
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Reply | Birmingham Game Matchday Thread
at 11:55 6 Dec 2025
It would be a great result if we did that. Birmingham are no mugs. They won League One with 111 points, 19 more than 2nd placed Wrexham. They've got JamesBeadle, a very good goalkeeper on loan from Brighton, Christoph Klarer, arguably the best centre back produced by Saints academy, Paik Seung-ho who scored a worldie against Brazil in the last World Cup finals, a Premier League winner in Demarai Gray (admittedly from mainly sub appearances), and a £20 mill striker in Jay Stansfield. |
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Reply | Ashes
at 11:38 6 Dec 2025
They hardly looked like world beaters. They stepped off the plane from New Zealand, where they were thrashed 3-0 in a 1- day series. The result would have been the same if it had been a test series. It was pretty obvious they weren't going to do any better in Australia.
The England cricket team is like a football team that draws its home games and loses away. [Post edited 6 Dec 11:41]
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Reply | Ashes
at 11:18 6 Dec 2025
To keep going there and getting thrashed 5-0 is ridiculous. Isn't there any way, we could just stop going there (and India)? Maybe there should be a 2-tier test system with promotion and relegation.
When the Ryder Cup became too one-sided, they changed it to Europe v America, which is more competitive. I guess there is no team in the cricket world we could join forces with. The other European nations aren't very good at cricket.
It could at least be reduced to a 3 match series. Do the Aussies really need to see the Poms humiliated in 5 different cities? I guess the answer to that from them would be, yes. [Post edited 6 Dec 11:27]
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Reply | Tonda confirmed as Head Coach.
at 10:58 6 Dec 2025
"Derby County had been rooted in the Second Division for a decade before Clough's arrival, and had been outside the top flight for a further five years, their only major trophy being the FA Cup in 1946.
In Clough's first season, the club finished one place lower than in the previous season, but he had started to lay the foundations for his future success by signing several new players, among them Roy McFarland, John O'Hare, John McGovern, Alan Hinton and Les Green. Of the inherited squad, 11 players departed and only four were retained: Kevin Hector, Alan Durban, Ron Webster and Colin Boulton. Clough also sacked the club secretary, the groundsman and the chief scout, along with two tea ladies he caught laughing after a Derby defeat. With the additional signings of Dave Mackay and Willie Carlin in 1968–69, Clough and Taylor's management led Derby to become champions of the Second Division, establishing the club record of 22 matches without defeat on the way and the team was promoted to the First Division for the 1969–70 season."
I don't think he'd have made it past that first season here. Of course, a big difference nowadays, is the lack of control managers have over transfers.
As for sacking the tea ladies for laughing, the only person we've ever had here who was that ruthless was Cortese.
I'm hoping that Eckert is our Clough and early signs are good. [Post edited 6 Dec 20:54]
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Reply | Just watched the World Cup Draw. How embarrassing
at 19:15 5 Dec 2025
I agree. What a shambolic cringefest it was.
Who had the bright idea of standing Kevin Hart next to Heidi Klum, and getting Rio "Mr Charisma" Ferdinand to host it? Most of the people invited on the stage didn't seem to have a clue what they were doing there. Half of them had never even watched a football match before.
The most exciting moment was Rio Ferdinand losing his temper when he was invited to join in an interview with a footballer who only spoke Spanish, and snapping back, "Let's stick to the script guys", but It didn't look as though there was one.
As for the draw, Groups I and L look to be the strongest - not bloody Croatia again, while the USA's group is about as weak as they could make it. With the supposed seeding of the draw, you wouldn't have thought it possible to have one group with 2 of FIFA's top 10 ranked teams in it and another with none.
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Reply | Cockney Rejects
at 11:21 5 Dec 2025
For obscure past concerts in December, the best I can come up with is Ten Years After, Blodwyn Pig and Stone the Crows at Southampton Guildhall in 1969.
Last night I was at one of the oldest concert venues - probably the oldest - in the south. Paganini played there in 1832 - It may surprise you to hear that I wasn't there for that one.
Talking of older musicians ( I saw him play with The Faces and the Stones):
"On This Day in 2009, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was cautioned for attacking his Russian girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova,who was 21 at the time. Wood was 62.
Members of the public called police after a heated argument between the two spilled into the public High Street in Claygate, Surrey. Witnesses reported hearing a woman screaming and seeing Wood pinning his girlfriend to the ground and she was making choking sounds. Wood was held overnight and released on bail the next day....Ivanova said that Wood was an "evil goblin king".
It's amazing what musicians from that era could get away with, just as long as they were considered cool.
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Reply | Double Programme
at 10:25 5 Dec 2025
It's been done for pre-season friendlies at St Mary's, but not for league games. We're moving towards a paperless society. Tickets and programmes will soon be things of the past.
Most countries in the world never had programmes anyway, which I always found disappointing, as they made good souvenirs, but, as one of my children pointed out, who needs written records when you can record all your memories on your phone?
The same applies to matchday info and team lineups. Improving the wi-fi at St Mary's has hastened the demise of the football programme. At half-time, which was about the only time most articles in football progammes were ever read by anyone, people look at their phones now. [Post edited 5 Dec 10:46]
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