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Post by crazydanny on Feb 24, 2017 18:30:45 GMT
What is he talking about? The pressure is on us. For ManU the efl cup is just a minor price. If we lose on Sunday this season will go down as a failure. Nothing special in the league. Embarrassing performance in the Europa league and we sacrificed the Fa cup. It's make or brake for Southampton on Sunday.
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Post by crazydanny on Feb 24, 2017 19:03:09 GMT
What is Southampton's track record on Penalty shoot outs? P1 W0 L1 Penalties would be nice tbh.
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Post by thewarlock on Feb 25, 2017 7:48:10 GMT
What is he talking about? The pressure is on us. For ManU the efl cup is just a minor price. If we lose on Sunday this season will go down as a failure. Nothing special in the league. Embarrassing performance in the Europa league and we sacrificed the Fa cup. It's make or brake for Southampton on Sunday. Not really, I think you have unrealistic expectations because you started following the club during our recent glory years. For most of us just having been in Europe and in a major cup final is a pretty special season. The current carnival atmosphere on here is testimony to this. In saying that, if we do lose it can only mean The Guillotine for Claude and Les.
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Post by arfurdent on Feb 25, 2017 7:51:35 GMT
What is he talking about? The pressure is on us. For ManU the efl cup is just a minor price. If we lose on Sunday this season will go down as a failure. Nothing special in the league. Embarrassing performance in the Europa league and we sacrificed the Fa cup. It's make or brake for Southampton on Sunday. Not really, I think you have unrealistic expectations because you started following the club during our recent glory years. For most of us just having been in Europe and in a major cup final is a pretty special season. The current carnival atmosphere on here is testimony to this. In saying that, if we do lose it can only mean The Guillotine for Claude and Les. surely Hung, Drawn and Quartering is the English way
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Post by Mandochris on Feb 25, 2017 7:57:11 GMT
Not really, I think you have unrealistic expectations because you started following the club during our recent glory years. For most of us just having been in Europe and in a major cup final is a pretty special season. The current carnival atmosphere on here is testimony to this. In saying that, if we do lose it can only mean The Guillotine for Claude and Les. surely Hung, Drawn and Quartering is the English way Too good for them
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Post by thestartledsaint on Feb 25, 2017 10:26:47 GMT
Have we done this yet. They should post this up on the dressing room wall. Job done.
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Post by nairnsaint on Feb 25, 2017 10:30:09 GMT
Have we done this yet. They should post this up on the dressing room wall. Job done. Augustus Gloop needs to pipe down!
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Post by Batts on Feb 25, 2017 10:35:27 GMT
What is he talking about? The pressure is on us. For ManU the efl cup is just a minor price. If we lose on Sunday this season will go down as a failure. Nothing special in the league. Embarrassing performance in the Europa league and we sacrificed the Fa cup. It's make or brake for Southampton on Sunday. In the record books, a defeat will go down as a failure. But in my mind, whatever happens, tomorrow will be pretty amazing. In my living memory, this is only our second cup final. I'm in my 40s. The whole cup run, not just tomorrow, will be remembered fondly forever. And BTW... that embarrassing Europa League performance included beating Inter Milan. Another memory that will stay with me forever. I've experienced more 'embarrassing' seasons, I won't lie.
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Post by Mandochris on Feb 25, 2017 11:31:50 GMT
Have we done this yet. They should post this up on the dressing room wall. Job done. Augustus Gloom needs to pipe down! To be fair, he couldn't really say anything else. Although I suppose he could have had a friendly word for his ex players and staff. Actually, yes, he could have said something else. c*n*.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Feb 25, 2017 11:57:48 GMT
What is he talking about? The pressure is on us. For ManU the efl cup is just a minor price. If we lose on Sunday this season will go down as a failure. Nothing special in the league. Embarrassing performance in the Europa league and we sacrificed the Fa cup. It's make or brake for Southampton on Sunday. In the record books, a defeat will go down as a failure. But in my mind, whatever happens, tomorrow will be pretty amazing. In my living memory, this is only our second cup final. I'm in my 40s. The whole cup run, not just tomorrow, will be remembered fondly forever. And BTW... that embarrassing Europa League performance included beating Inter Milan. Another memory that will stay with me forever. I've experienced more 'embarrassing' seasons, I won't lie. Indeed.. tomorrow, the Arse away game and the wins v Inter and Sparta definitely make this a memorable season. The reality is, the injuries we had to contend with combined with the Eufa schedule, we were never going to match last year, so this is one helluva consolation.
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Post by crazydanny on Feb 25, 2017 12:45:05 GMT
What is he talking about? The pressure is on us. For ManU the efl cup is just a minor price. If we lose on Sunday this season will go down as a failure. Nothing special in the league. Embarrassing performance in the Europa league and we sacrificed the Fa cup. It's make or brake for Southampton on Sunday. Not really, I think you have unrealistic expectations because you started following the club during our recent glory years. For most of us just having been in Europe and in a major cup final is a pretty special season. The current carnival atmosphere on here is testimony to this. In saying that, if we do lose it can only mean The Guillotine for Claude and Les. I don't think that I have unrealistic expectations. We have the 9th highest budget in the premier league. Based on that I expect to be somewhere around the 9th place. We're currently 2 points behind that which is ok. In a group with Hapoel beer sheva(who?), Sparta prague and Inter Milan I expect Southampton to fight for that first spot with Inter. It is unacceptable if you then manage to finish behind both hapoel and Sparta. Especially, because you don't often get the chance to play in Europe. I don't expect Southampton to beat Manchester in the final, but I'm not satisfied with a second place beforehand. If you put up a good fight and Manchester comes out on top as the better team then I can live with that. I would be disappointed if we roll over and get hammered. Atm the moment I sense among the Saints fans that they are happy that they reached the final, but that they have no confidence at all that they can win it. See for example the "celebrations" this week, because some players of ManU got injured. That means that you have way too much respect for your opponent.
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Post by Mandochris on Feb 25, 2017 13:50:48 GMT
Not really, I think you have unrealistic expectations because you started following the club during our recent glory years. For most of us just having been in Europe and in a major cup final is a pretty special season. The current carnival atmosphere on here is testimony to this. In saying that, if we do lose it can only mean The Guillotine for Claude and Les. I don't think that I have unrealistic expectations. We have the 9th highest budget in the premier league. Based on that I expect to be somewhere around the 9th place. We're currently 2 points behind that which is ok. In a group with Hapoel beer sheva(who?), Sparta prague and Inter Milan I expect Southampton to fight for that first spot with Inter. It is unacceptable if you then manage to finish behind both hapoel and Sparta. Especially, because you don't often get the chance to play in Europe. I don't expect Southampton to beat Manchester in the final, but I'm not satisfied with a second place beforehand. If you put up a good fight and Manchester comes out on top as the better team then I can live with that. I would be disappointed if we roll over and get hammered. Atm the moment I sense among the Saints fans that they are happy that they reached the final, but that they have no confidence at all that they can win it. See for example the "celebrations" this week, because some players of ManU got injured. That means that you have way too much respect for your opponent. I was pleased (though not celebrating) when they got an injury. They have a far deeper squad and we are without our starting central defence from the beginning of the season. Just levelling up the playing field. On paper Man U should beat us every time. They don't and I am going to Wembley thinking we can win this but not expecting to win. I imagine United fans are expecting to win and their disappointment will be all the greater when they don't. Except, for them this is a Mickey Mouse trophy and not the BIG ONE they really want. For us it's a TROPHY. ANY trophy is good to win - see the enthusiasm when we took 44,000 to the JPT final (expecting to win).
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Feb 25, 2017 14:02:58 GMT
Not really, I think you have unrealistic expectations because you started following the club during our recent glory years. For most of us just having been in Europe and in a major cup final is a pretty special season. The current carnival atmosphere on here is testimony to this. In saying that, if we do lose it can only mean The Guillotine for Claude and Les. I don't think that I have unrealistic expectations. We have the 9th highest budget in the premier league. Based on that I expect to be somewhere around the 9th place. We're currently 2 points behind that which is ok. In a group with Hapoel beer sheva(who?), Sparta prague and Inter Milan I expect Southampton to fight for that first spot with Inter. It is unacceptable if you then manage to finish behind both hapoel and Sparta. Especially, because you don't often get the chance to play in Europe. I don't expect Southampton to beat Manchester in the final, but I'm not satisfied with a second place beforehand. If you put up a good fight and Manchester comes out on top as the better team then I can live with that. I would be disappointed if we roll over and get hammered. Atm the moment I sense among the Saints fans that they are happy that they reached the final, but that they have no confidence at all that they can win it. See for example the "celebrations" this week, because some players of ManU got injured. That means that you have way too much respect for your opponent. You're correct about Europe, we should have got out of that group.. but we didn't so this does make tomorrow bigger. If we don't win that means we're out of Europe for next year so it's definitely a step backwards for the first time in 7 years.. However, with Virgil (and Jose) gone, our chances of beating Utd have substantially diminished.. since the wins over Arse and Inter, we've been in mostly poor form, whereas Utd have only lost one game for that same period... the same period that said player has been as influential for them as Virgil has for us. I think we can be forgiven for being pleased the playing field has been levelled slightly.
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Post by crazydanny on Feb 26, 2017 11:47:41 GMT
Wtf, how do you explain this to your wife?
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Post by meatball on Feb 26, 2017 13:39:28 GMT
Wtf, how do you explain this to your wife? The assumption here would be that the subject matter does not have a wife.
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