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Reply | Is there anything positive about SFC at the moment?
at 12:46 2 Jan 2025
"The season we were last relegated there were three promoted teams in the PL. Fulham, Bournemouth and Forest. Not only did they all manage to survive above us that season, but they now sit 3rd , 7th and 8th in the PL."
I'd take that as a positive. The Premier League is more competitive now than it's ever been. So, we can compete in it just as well as those 3 clubs are doing, when we get back into it. In terms of size of fanbase, we are very similar in size to Forest (we are 20th in the all-time attendance table and they are just below us, 22nd) and much bigger than Bournemouth and Fulham. |
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Reply | Is there anything positive about SFC at the moment?
at 12:04 2 Jan 2025
The other teams that did this badly or slightly better are not in the Premier League now.
Derby 2007/08 11 points
Sunderland 2005/06 15 points
Huddersfield 2018/19 16 points
Sheffield United 2023/24 16 points
Derby, Sheffield United and Sunderland are in the Championship. Huddersfield are in League One
I guess that is a positive for those on here who say they don't like the Premier League.
PS
You could add to your list of negatives that for a club of our size (20th on the all-time attendance table), we are, in terms of trophies won, the most underachieving team in the country. Most clubs of our size have won 4 or 5 major trophies and a couple of Championship trophies as well.
The positive of this is that it also makes us the most loyal fans in the country. We keep turning up.
https://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/stats/totalavegate.html [Post edited 2 Jan 12:34]
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Reply | That was 2024 - what comes in 2025
at 11:41 2 Jan 2025
I was curious so I looked up your previous posts:
"I'm about to take an extended leave from work and from this forum.
So I thought I'd share some observations and predictions.
First I predict that when I'm back in the UK, we will have the same manager, making the same post defeat statements and continuing to think that the tree which does not bend in the wind is stronger than those that do."
Your other predictions look pretty accurate:
"Second, I predict that by January we will six points."
"Third. we will fail to secure a decent striker in the January transfer window."
"Calls fro RM's resignation are pointless as are calls for his sacking. We're stuck with him and look on course to set a new PL record.
I just wish their was an eject button because I'd rather we did not have to suffer what promises to be more dreadful results."
Well, we found the eject button, but...
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Welcome back. [Post edited 2 Jan 12:32]
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Reply | 2024 - the year for Saints
at 14:17 31 Dec 2024
"one PL win in 2023 - 1-0 v Leicester - and one PL win in 2024 - 1-0 v Everton"
We are 2/3 of the way towards becoming the PL's emergency numbers team:
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Reply | Who is conducting transfer negotiations in January?
at 10:30 31 Dec 2024
A big clear out in January would make sense They'll be easier to get rid of/ worth a little bit more as Premier League players and it's not as if we're going to lose any more points without them here.
It's time for them to go. They've done enough damage here already:
McCarthy
Stephens
Bednarek
Sulemana
The strikers are more of an enigma. We know a couple of them can score goals at Championship level, but we really should sell at least one of them now.
I don't suppose West Ham would let us cut Cornet's loan short? [Post edited 31 Dec 2024 10:36]
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Reply | Golac on Solak & SR - Ivan tells it as it is!
at 10:09 31 Dec 2024
By then, he'll have made an entire decade worse for Saints and we've paid him milllions to do it.
Until he arrived here in August 2016, we were doing brilliantly and had just finished our best season this century (3 points above Liverpool). It's been downhill ever since. [Post edited 31 Dec 2024 10:54]
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Reply | Golac on Solak & SR - Ivan tells it as it is!
at 08:39 31 Dec 2024
We've spent years accumulating more rubbish and yet the dregs still remain. Every year, we thought we'd finally get rid of McCarthy, but it never happens. If a player is so bad that no other team wants him, we keep paying him and playing him here, costing us more money and points. It would be better if we just released them. A clear out is needed, but what happens is we sell the players that other clubs want (not many nowadays) and keep the ones they don't, resulting in an ever worsening squad. |
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Reply | Tonight's other games
at 22:03 30 Dec 2024
Forest and Newcastle competing for the European places; Man United struggling to stay above the relegation zone. It's like the 1970s again, which also, of course, means Liverpool winning the league. Although, with Paul Mitchell as their new DOF, I wouldn't be surprised to see Newcastle challenging them next year (and the last time they won the league was 1927). [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 22:18]
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Reply | Tonight's other games
at 21:04 30 Dec 2024
2-0 now. Weren't we once linked with Liam Delap? He's worth more than all of our so-called strikers put together. He's from Winchester too. |
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Reply | Nucleus of a fairly strong Championship side next season
at 13:39 30 Dec 2024
Will it be stronger than Leicester and Ipswich's next season (or, God forbid, Man City's, Everton's or Wolves')? We were 9 points behind last time. Have we really strengthened our squad that much more than they have?
Even the first name on your list is enough to give any sane Saints fan the heebie jeebies. [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 13:47]
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Reply | Will Ross Stewart Ever Play For Saints Again?
at 13:30 30 Dec 2024
After his luxury spa treatment here, Agustin Delgado went on to continue his successful goalscoring career in Latin America for both club and country. In fact, even when he was our player, he used to go away and score goals for fun for his country during the international breaks. He was scoring against top teams too, like Brazil and Argentina. [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 13:31]
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Reply | Worst points total & goals scored.
at 13:18 30 Dec 2024
Ulimately, the head of recruitment is as important as the manager (and, of course, he also helps select the managers). The last time we had a good one - Paul Mitchell - we saw the results on the pitch. This will be his first transfer window in charge at Newcastle. Perhaps we should monitor who they are bing linked with. |
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Reply | Without KWP we offer nothing
at 12:16 30 Dec 2024
"Besides we seem to have a number of full-backs coming in imminently."
We're getting a reserve left back from a Brazilian club. The chances of him being anywhere near as good as Charlie Taylor, let alone Walker-Peters, are slim to none.
But, it is odd how many wing-backs we collect and then don't play. |
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