Now The Southampton Players Are At It!

[rcf0712]

quote from new Southampton signing Danny Fox (another player I'd never heard of) - "Southampton are a Premier League club in the Championship. The chairman's ambitions match mine, and I want to be part of something special here."
Who do they think they are?
That said, all 3 of their goals against Leeds looked class, bit so did ours last Saturday!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Not much wrong with that.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Think they will be pushing for playoffs especially as they can physically hold their own in the Championship

 

[papajaff]

Agree, what exactly is wrong with a player saying that?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Southampton are a cocky club...so are their fans. Thats down to years of top flight football. They look down their noses at us and Pompey. They expected to cakewalk Div.1 last season and they expect to do well this season.
They have got the right manager in Adkins..cocky, full of himself, full of soundbites and orange.
Nothing wrong in self-confidence..its when it borders on arrogance that it rubs people up the wrong way.

 

[The Large One]

It's an attitude they've long held, which is all fine and good, but it's this hubris which has been their undoing.

 

[bhaexpress]

Southampton are a cocky club...so are their fans. Thats down to years of top flight football. They look down their noses at us and Pompey. They expected to cakewalk Div.1 last season and they expect to do well this season.
They have got the right manager in Adkins..cocky, full of himself, full of soundbites and orange.
Nothing wrong in self-confidence..its when it borders on arrogance that it rubs people up the wrong way.

To be fair they have a very good squad, they have plenty of cash thanks in part to the good bit of business with Oxo, I think they have every right to be optimistic. Cocky they might be but they are better placed than us and quite a few of our fans are hardly modest.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

To be fair they have a very good squad, they have plenty of cash thanks in part to the good bit of business with Oxo, I think they have every right to be optimistic. Cocky they might be but they are better placed than us and quite a few of our fans are hardly modest.

Totally agree with this!

 

[stss30]

I can really see Southampton making a tilt for the top 6 especially if the capture Maynard as they have a good set up down there... I also think a lot of people have underrated Ipswich's chances. As for the thread, what is he supposed to say "we're aiming to avoid relagation"?

 

[Skaville]

Well I'm on at fourteen to one. I can't see them finishing outside the top six

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

There's a LOT to be said for positive thinking and confidence. It's often the difference between competing and winning.

 

[WhingForPresident]

I think they'll be contenders for automatic promotion.

 

[Bwian]

Didn't CMS say similar when he signed for us?

 

[chucky1973]

as much as it grates me to say it, apart from last year when we deservedly had the bragging rights over them, SCC are a much bigger club than us CURRENTLY and in my opinion will be challenging for an automatic spot this season, they have a decent squad already and have money to spend to improve further and i think will be one of our toughest away days this season. The things that gets on my tits is the supporters constantly telling us how big a club they are yet for the opening game they had 25800 in, which included 3500 Leeds Fans meaning there was just over 22000 home supporters. Bus Wankers

 

[stss30]

as much as it grates me to say it, apart from last year when we deservedly had the bragging rights over them, SCC are a much bigger club than us CURRENTLY and in my opinion will be challenging for an automatic spot this season, they have a decent squad already and have money to spend to improve further and i think will be one of our toughest away days this season. The things that gets on my tits is the supporters constantly telling us how big a club they are yet for the opening game they had 25800 in, which included 3500 Leeds Fans meaning there was just over 22000 home supporters. Bus Wankers

Why does it grate you to say it? We're not rivals with them, admittedly Adkins annoyed us a bit last season but other than that I have nothing against them whatsoever.

 

[magoo]

Today i have learned cakewalk and hubris

 

[Albion Dan]

I was really enjoying the lack of southampton reference round here. They were a promotion rival last season, this season they mean nothing to me. The will also go up or very close imo.

 

[Simster]

Not much wrong with that.

Exactly. Until last season, there was no rivalry of any kind with Southampton. We were given the honour of being the last team to play them at the Dell, and if anything there was a "my enemy's enemy is my friend" surrounding our relationship with them.

Hopefully it'll go back to that, even as I suspect we are both challenging towards the top of the table this season.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

There's a LOT to be said for positive thinking and confidence. It's often the difference between competing and winning.

This. After one (well two if you count the cup) if they were saying well we are here to make up the numbers and not go down, hardly fills you with confidence.

Plus, lets face it, the do have the infrastructure for another spell in the Prem at some point.

 

[chucky1973]

Why does it grate you to say it? We're not rivals with them, admittedly Adkins annoyed us a bit last season but other than that I have nothing against them whatsoever.

No your right, I dont either really, the grating part basically stems from last year and Adkins and some of there fans giving it large, but were not really rivals in fact apart from the ground being in a total shit hole of an area, its a good day out