Southampton VERY impressive

[JJB]

Not injury prone at all, this season he had his first injury. He also loves the club and wants to be as influential on the club and city as Le tiss was. He is southampton though and through and he showed his loyalty signing a 5 and a half year deal back in Jan. If we go up, he'll be with us next year.

 

[JJB]

Also - remember we have had two separate celebrations - I am sure the players have been out on the piss more than earlier in the season, and deservably so. And we had little to play for - so to keep calling on reserves of energy is complicated.

(not wanting to take anything away from your win like).

They're footballers, they all go on the piss! It wouldn't suprise me if Hammond and Harding joined in the celebrations! It was a good win for us, just hope you step it up for next week!

 

[stss30]

Also I believe the difference between yesturdays game and the game back in Novemeber was our fitness. You can berate Adkins all you like, but he is intelligent. He knows how to look after players and since he's been in charge we've got fitter and fitter. We ran out of puff back in Nov and you got stronger as teh game went on due to your style of play, but this time round I believe we were just too fit for you and never gave you the chance to exert your style of play on us. He also knows how to manage a football team and since he came in has picked up a lot of points, I think he came in after around 10 games so missed the first 30 points of the season. I also remember Redknapp touting him as a potential England manager one day! doubt that will happen, but he is a very good manager.

Another good point. I have to be honest I thought Poyet got the tactics first half spot on- i.e try and keep the ball so you had to pressurise and get worn out and then catch you on the break. However, you were running around for the whole 90 mins- reminded me of our game vs leeds at the withdean last season...

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

They're footballers, they all go on the piss! It wouldn't suprise me if Hammond and Harding joined in the celebrations! It was a good win for us, just hope you step it up for next week!

I suspect having got promotion and the championship you might let yourself go a little more than usual ................

Funnily I think we certainly will up our game again. Watch out Colchester and Huddersfield

 

[stss30]

Not injury prone at all, this season he had his first injury. He also loves the club and wants to be as influential on the club and city as Le tiss was. He is southampton though and through and he showed his loyalty signing a 5 and a half year deal back in Jan. If we go up, he'll be with us next year.

Fair play, at 23 years old he looks a quality player- I just wonder how long it will take before he gets snapped up with an offer you can't refuse a la Walcott etc

 

[Thimble Keegan]

The game was pretty clear, when we had the ball we played the much better football but overall they wanted it more than we did, which considering the circumstances of both teams is hardly surprising. I thought only Dicker & Bridcutt really put a shift in yesterday...Well and at a push, Calderon.

I forgot at how big and physical their team was and Chaplow seemed to be on a mission to break the record for the most amount of times you can leave your foot in after a tackle. As for Jaidi, every time I see him he is hilarious and it is little wonder that Fonte is hardly regarded as he has to cover for this lump.

Anyway, the unbeaten run had to come to an end at somepoint and we got well done yesterday...

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA

 

[trueblue]

Just wish their second had come with half an hour to go - then it would have been interesting to see the response.

 

[klaaturberada]

Fair play, at 23 years old he looks a quality player- I just wonder how long it will take before he gets snapped up with an offer you can't refuse a la Walcott etc

I think the difference these days is that we can refuse - if the Chamberlain nonsense was anything to go by.

 

[JJB]

The game was pretty clear, when we had the ball we played the much better football but overall they wanted it more than we did, which considering the circumstances of both teams is hardly surprising. I thought only Dicker & Bridcutt really put a shift in yesterday...Well and at a push, Calderon.

I forgot at how big and physical their team was and Chaplow seemed to be on a mission to break the record for the most amount of times you can leave your foot in after a tackle. As for Jaidi, every time I see him he is hilarious and it is little wonder that Fonte is hardly regarded as he has to cover for this lump.

Anyway, the unbeaten run had to come to an end at somepoint and we got well done yesterday...

Believe it or not, Jaidi has been phenomenal the past 6 weeks. He hadn't put a foot wrong until the 46th minute yesturday! The thing he gives us is that presence at teh back which is needed in this league and the Championship. He wins 99% of the ball in the air which is a massive defensive weapon.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Believe it or not, Jaidi has been phenomenal the past 6 weeks. He hadn't put a foot wrong until the 46th minute yesturday! The thing he gives us is that presence at teh back which is needed in this league and the Championship. He wins 99% of the ball in the air which is a massive defensive weapon.

Well, I have to say I am a bit surprised by that but at the end of the day you watch him more than I do...It is just from what I have seen I would imagine he will probably not make the grade in the Championship and you would look to find another partner for Fonte, who is very good...

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

f***ing Boooooooooo.........

that is all

 

[trueblue]

Believe it or not, Jaidi has been phenomenal the past 6 weeks. He hadn't put a foot wrong until the 46th minute yesturday! The thing he gives us is that presence at teh back which is needed in this league and the Championship. He wins 99% of the ball in the air which is a massive defensive weapon.

For the money he's on, six good weeks is a pretty terrible return.

 

[drew]

I think Gus possibly got the subs wrong today, Wood for Murray aside. Going down to one up front was never going to work. I don't know why he took Barnes off; despite what others might say, sides are not comfortable against him, and he and Murray have worked the best together of any pair. Was he worried Barnes was going to get in trouble? I don't know. One thing is for sure - Sandaza could not hold up a ball smothered in superglue and he it was who gave the ball away for SCC's second goal. Kish or Navarro should have come on for Sparrow, as SCC were walking through our midfield. Much as I can't stand the man, I have to admit Hammond bossed the midfield today. Having said that, if the officials had done their job properly, and awarded a penalty and sent off Davies (that was an assault, not a foul), the result could have been very different.

Barnes was subbed because he was knackered and the minutes before that he had given the ball away numerous times. However, Kish should have come on to shore up the midfield. As for Davies incident, it was never, in a million years a penalty.

That's funny.

Because whenever you listen to national radio or TV shows they all sing Gus' prasies. Sure, people like you won't like him because he is clearly a million times better than what you have.

What you have is a physio who struck lucky with his home club, and then for some unknown reason Southampton appointed him manager. He was a one club, one trick pony, and with the squad you have, a retarded monkey could have had you promoted by now, yet under Adkins you are probably going to go into the last game of the season needing a win to be sure.

Theres no hatred towards Southampton. I just think you need to realise your not a big club anymore.

Your best players will probably move on over the summer, and if you keep Adkins, he'll probably take you back down, because as a man he has no class, and as a manager he has no clue, because if he did, you'd have been champions long before we were.

Theres no hatred from me towards Southampton, just pity about your future with probably one of the weakest managers in the football league.

Southampton have never been a big club. Apart from a couple of seasons where they did well the vast majority of their 27 years in the top flite were spent fending off relegation and if Matt Le Tissier had done what most players in his position would have done, ie actually move to a bigger club, earn more and, more importantly, win medals, they probably would have got relegated far sooner.

Some of our fans need to learn how to WIN gracefully.

Adkins is a talented manager. He has managed to get a Southampton team that Alan Pardew (current PREMIERSHIP manager) struggled to get the best out of on the verges of promotion. Not sure what you mean there. I'm not one for singing Pardew's praises but he took a relegated outfit with a 10pt penalty to the brink of the play-offs. He only lost one league game this season before his sacking. As others have aluded to, a monkey would have got the Soton squad promoted so Adkins hasn't really achieved much.Southampton are a good outfit with some very good players.

I'm not sure this pic shows that he got the ball

Are you trying to make a serious point with a still photo? It was never a penalty.

First half they were decent, but after 20 mins were nothing special. Once they took out murray, we had no outlet, any time we cleared the ball it came right back at us. I think any decent team would look good if they were allowed to constantly attack for 40 minutes, with little comeback. We defended too deep, so couldn't get out. Whether our defence flattered Southampton, or if Southampton forced us into it, I don't know, but I think even if we were pressured there were times we shot ourselves in the foot. We gave them too much space for their first goal, our weakness with crosses cost us the second. I recall mentioning something about how easy it is to score against us if you just make sure you have a player at the far post for crosses since Ankergren often leaves ones that are so comfortably his the defenders leave it for him, and he leaves it to go across the goal, Southampton seemed to be aware of this as at least one effort came that way, though fortunately for us it hit the post. They didn't convert enough of their chances for me to call them great, but they were definitely dominant.



Not really that simple, is it? If their midfield are good enough, their back four aren't called on often enough to determine how solid they are. I thought Davies seemed like he could have been a weakness, a few errant kicks under pressure, I think if we were better up front we'd've got something more.



I don't know if he got the ball first or not, but it's irrelevant. The only way he was going to get ball with the challenge he made was by taking murray out in a way that give him no chance to avoid the collision, either first or on the follow through, showing at best disregard for the safety of his opponent, at worst harmful intent. That's a foul. If it's harmful intent it's a red, if not (and I believe it was just disregard) the ref could have got away with a yellow (from what I recall Murray was heading away from goal, or maybe towards the byline) so not denying a clear goal scoring opportunity (I know, murray and an open goal, but some refs like to avoid reds and use the direction of the run as an excuse).

Absolute rubbish as everyone that watches football knows that if the keeper comes out and gets the ball first it is never a penalty.


At the end of the day, we lost because they wanted it more than us and probably hadn't had the week that we have just had. As for absent players, we were without KLL and probably more importantly, Greer. How stupid is he feeling now! The turning point was definitely Murray's injury but I also think bringing on Sandaza, as wholehearted as he is, was a tactical mistake.

 

[SouthamptonGuy]

Brighton fielded their strongest available 11 yesterday and were fairly beaten by a team who played better on the day. That isn't to take anything away from your achievements this year. Deserved champions.

Many of you dislike Nigel Adkins but I think he took all the abuse and banners etc in good spirit and even praised the Brighton fans in his post match interview saying how 'banter' like that is what football is all about.

Gus Poyet, in my opinion, did seem like a sore loser in his post match comments, but he is entitled to his opinion just like everybody else.

I hope Southampton can now get promoted and hopefully I'll be able to get to tickets to your home game against us next season in your new stadium (which is looking great by the way).

 

[BensGrandad]

Barnes was subbed because he was knackered and the minutes before that he had given the ball away numerous times. However, Kish should have come on to shore up the midfield.

The turning point was definitely Murray's injury but I also think bringing on Sandaza, as wholehearted as he is, was a tactical mistake.

Disagree about Kish as we didnt need or have to shore up the midfield the problem was the balls coming from their back four pumped up at us and without Murray we had nobody to contain them. Noone was brougfht on to stop Butterfield getting forward and that worked. I think that if anything he should have brought on Dunk for Barnes and mounted a rear guard action with his ability in the air to combat Fatty Lambert. The basic reason for the defeat was that we didnt have that little bit of edge that is required and tended to just drift through the game hoping for the time to pass quickly. I as a fan was not enthused about the game so how did we expect the players to be having successfully done their work for the season.

 

[the wanderbus]

not complaining about the result but things would have been very different had that bald cvnt chaplow got half of the bookings his wreckless challenges deserved. Definitely not impressed with Southampton ,continually lobbing the ball at Lambert will not get them into the premiership.

 

[Reading Posh]

The ultimate f***-ups in this League have to be Peterboro shirley. 97 league oals scored, and only one team in the entire division has conceded more. Don't care what division they are in next season, they are nailed-on certainties for relegation. Cos they won't be able to retain or replace their goalscorers and they won't be able to GIVE away their alleged defenders.

Gary 'Fuckwit' Johnson P21 W10 D3 L8 F43 A40 Pts33
Darren Ferguson P22 W12 D5 L5 F52 A24 Pts41
So the 'ultimate f***-up', as you put it, came with the appointment of Agent Johnson who, incidentally, is now taking the Cobblers into the Conference.

Oh they'll do just fine, they get first pick on Man Us other players, I could probably get them promoted with those possibilities.

Utter garbage. Ferguson had two emergency loan players from Man Utd in his first stint with Posh and none this time. He's trying to manage without people saying his success was down to his father.

Posh will definitely lose CMS in the summer, but we've already got promising strikers in Tomlin and Ball.

The league table never lies; Brighton and Southampton are the best teams in this division.

 

[Mellotron]

They were very, effective, direct and physical, a lot like Stoke earlier in the season, and I mean that as a compliment.

On a separate note though Jaidi continues to confirm his place as the worst technical footballer I have err seen. He is hilarious on the ball. Woeful.

 

[Mellotron]

The game was pretty clear, when we had the ball we played the much better football but overall they wanted it more than we did, which considering the circumstances of both teams is hardly surprising. I thought only Dicker & Bridcutt really put a shift in yesterday...Well and at a push, Calderon.

I forgot at how big and physical their team was and Chaplow seemed to be on a mission to break the record for the most amount of times you can leave your foot in after a tackle. As for Jaidi, every time I see him he is hilarious and it is little wonder that Fonte is hardly regarded as he has to cover for this lump.

Anyway, the unbeaten run had to come to an end at somepoint and we got well done yesterday...

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA

All absolutely spot on. Exactly as I saw it. With wood and Sandaza upfront we were so toothless though, Noone was our only chance to get a 2nd and he didn't get enough time on the ball.

 

[jezzer]

We lost today because we were unlucky in losing Murray when we had made a bright start to the 2nd half, we were missing Greer terribly which is entirely his fault and also we do not have as strong a squad when those two players are out, compared to southampton.

That and the fact that elphick isnt good enough (watch their first goal as he rushes to back away from the player about to shoot?!?) we played too deep in the last 15 minutes and we didnt need to win unlike southampton, done for us.

Its rubbish to suggest fitness played a part, I couldnt believe how fit we were compared to southampton, who had at least 3 players in agony at various junctures in the last 20 minutes because of cramp, when we had none.

Southampton are a good team, probably the best weve seen at withers this season, but lets face it, we were still winning with less than 10mins to go with a depleted side and up until then their finishing was abysmal!