Southampton (H) Pre-match Thread - Sunday 22nd May 4PM

[lcfcsnow]

Four goals to finish on 100 for the season 🤞

[BenTheFox]

Imagine if we actually finish 8th after the season we've had. Honestly, I can't get my head around us being in this position, we've been woeful for most of the season. 

[HybridFox]

22 minutes ago, hejammy said:

We usually play in the following seasons new kit don't we for the last game of the season? I reckon I'm more excited about that than the game (I've not bought a top for myself for around 5 seasons) 

Was a complete shock to the system when we pulled out the FBS one against Spurs 

[Gamble92]

Rodgers is speaking as if us beating Southampton and Liverpool beating Wolves is a done deal. Already boasting that only west ham and the top 6 will have finished above us. 

 

Itd be nice to finish strongly and I'm very much behind Rodgers next season but I do wish he'd tone down the bullshit PR for himself all the time. Don't tell us we've finished 8th and had a European semi and spin it like that. Learn from your mistakes (of which there's been a lot this season) and get it right next year. Papering over the cracks and making out this to be some kind of successful season will only end badly.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Must win.

[theessexfox]

Youri guaranteed to get a farewell goal

[sacreblueits442]

2 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

Imagine if we actually finish 8th after the season we've had. Honestly, I can't get my head around us being in this position, we've been woeful for most of the season. 

...we still are, it is just everyone around us has fallen away!!!

Their decline must be so bad for us to be anywhere near them. Pretty much 4 top teams and also rans making up the numbers.

[Dan]

They're terrible. We'll win.

[Dan]

3 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

Imagine if we actually finish 8th after the season we've had. Honestly, I can't get my head around us being in this position, we've been woeful for most of the season. 

It's a piss poor league this year. Brilliance at the top but beyond that, yikes.

[Supergray22]

6 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

It's a piss poor league this year. Brilliance at the top but beyond that, yikes.

I’m not sure piss poor but like us a lot of the teams have been inconsistent. Apart from the top two and bottom two, form has been very elusive. It has been a strange season mind you and you can’t help thinking what could have been. 

Edited 20 May 2022 by Supergray22

[fazzyfox]

I've arranged a reception committee for the Southampton board.....the guys off of Watchdog with a receipt for the fees and salaries of Vestergaard and Bertrand (otherwise known as "Vest & Pants"), a clear breach of the "Fit For Purpose" law. I'll get that little bulldog faced guy Dom Littlewood in there too and Matt Allright disguised as Filbert, they cannot get away with the biggest scam in sporting history . 

[An Away Move]

8th would be remarkable considering how far below potential we’ve been. With new recruits and an upturn in form I’m backing us to compete for top 5 next season. Little old Leicester. 

[Jabfox]

10 hours ago, Nannypig7 said:

Will Alves will score on his Premier League debut remember this

Imagine the state of this forum, It'd be absolute scenes 😂

[An Away Move]

9 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Rodgers is speaking as if us beating Southampton and Liverpool beating Wolves is a done deal. Already boasting that only west ham and the top 6 will have finished above us. 

 

Itd be nice to finish strongly and I'm very much behind Rodgers next season but I do wish he'd tone down the bullshit PR for himself all the time. Don't tell us we've finished 8th and had a European semi and spin it like that. Learn from your mistakes (of which there's been a lot this season) and get it right next year. Papering over the cracks and making out this to be some kind of successful season will only end badly.

I appear to have gone full on rabid anti-Rodgers, which is remarkable considering we might finish 8th. It’s his ego and self-regard that trigger me I think. Not to mention his tactical stupidity at times like putting Pereira on Abraham at corners, etc.,

[An Away Move]

3 minutes ago, Jabfox said:

Imagine the state of this forum, It'd be absolute scenes 😂

It’s my mate’s lad. It’s stupid how excited I get when he even gets on the ball! Takes supporting Leicester to a new dimension. It’s beyond ‘one of our own’ seeing a mate’s lad being a potential top player for your club. No pressure Will!

[Jabfox]

2 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

It’s my mate’s lad. It’s stupid how excited I get when he even gets on the ball! Takes supporting Leicester to a new dimension. It’s beyond ‘one of our own’ seeing a mate’s lad being a potential top player for your club. No pressure Will!

The lads different gravy from the u23 games I've been too and from what I've heard. I don't think I have ever wanted a youth prospect to achieve his full potential as much as him. . 

 

If he can reach those heights I genuinely think he is a Foden level talent. like you say must be pretty special to know him and his family first hand and then most likely watch him make his Prem debut soon enough. 

[Foxes96]

6 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

I appear to have gone full on rabid anti-Rodgers, which is remarkable considering we might finish 8th. It’s his ego and self-regard that trigger me I think. Not to mention his tactical stupidity at times like putting Pereira on Abraham at corners, etc.,

Don’t want to drag up the UECL loss again… but out of interest who would you have put on Abraham? 
 

We had: Fofana and Evans as decent headers of the ball, then followed by Justin and then Ricardo…. 

 

Whereas they had 3 tall CB’s to our 2 and Abraham. So if one of our CB’s had marked Abraham we would have left one of their CB’s free. We were always going to be out numbered at set pieces by their bigger players

[phoneticerror]

Ideal scenario for me personally would be for us to end 8th, West Ham to win and Man U to lose so they don’t even get Europa League 😂

[Ric Flair]

14 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

It’s my mate’s lad. It’s stupid how excited I get when he even gets on the ball! Takes supporting Leicester to a new dimension. It’s beyond ‘one of our own’ seeing a mate’s lad being a potential top player for your club. No pressure Will!

Any inkling he might be involved? It appeared he travelled with the squad to the game yesterday, as did Braybrooke.

[AKCJ]

Kasper

Castagne Fofana Soyuncu JJ

Mendy

Lookman KDH Maddison Barnes

Vardy

 

Pace, pace and pace.

[fazzyfox]

The focus has been on it possibly / probably being Tielemans last game. His recent performances seem to have been either a case of self preservation or mind elsewhere scenario and this has tarnished the kind of farewell it could / should have been. My question is, do any of you have any sentimentality for some of the others who we may not see again, including contributors to our one and only F.A.Cup Final win. Soyuncu defended bravely that day, Perez, somehow, was involved in the winning goal, Mendy had a decent spell last season involved in some great results and performances. There has been more column inches on Tielemans future than Soyuncu but has Soyuncu's mind been elsewhere this season or was Rodgers post-Forest blast a watershed in Soyuncu's relationship with Rodgers and the club? What I'm getting at is do you reserve a different attitude towards those parting because their time has come, tryers but not good enough, and those who have perhaps manufactured their departure by downing tools or at least becoming a diluted version of what we know they can be, which were players good enough to be a part of a positive future for us? And then maybe some we aren't certain will be here (but I'd want to be) such as Ricardo, Castagne, Kasper even . As for Vestergaard and Bertrand a lap of (dis)honour would involve a degree of effort and fitness so we can rule that out.

 

In the case of Tielemans I do think there's a couple of other factors, when he returned in December he looked rusty, it looked like it was a little too soon and he's never quite shaken off that rust since. Secondly, since the emergence of K D-H and following some shocking team performances it seems Tielemans is playing deeper in a double Pivot with Mendy rather than his usual role midway between Ndidi and Madison. I do get angry though at the amount of times he shakes his head and points "No, don't pass to me, pass to him". For your wages you should want the ball all the time or work your *** off to be in a better space, just seems wasted as a water carrier, I get the feeling he'll cite this after he leaves as a frustration.

[Spudulike]

I think I just heard a sports bulletin that said this will be Jon Moss' last match as he's hanging up his whistle. What better stage to do that than where he achieved his finest moment. 

[Shane]

Schmeichel

Castagne, Fofana, Evans, Justin

Braybrooke, Mendy, KDH

Maddison, Vardy, Barnes

 

[An Away Move]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Any inkling he might be involved? It appeared he travelled with the squad to the game yesterday, as did Braybrooke.

I have no idea. All I know is that he was sitting near a famous wrestler, who I had to Google, which is how I realised your Ric Flair is a homage to another!

I'd love it if Will was in the squad next year. Why not? Giggs ripped up the opposition at 17 if memory serves me right. A big call for any manager to make though.

[Ric Flair]

2 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

I think I just heard a sports bulletin that said this will be Jon Moss' last match as he's hanging up his whistle. What better stage to do that than where he achieved his finest moment. 

He'll send Vardy off for a laugh in the last minute for stopping to tie his shoe laces up and be accused of time wasting when we're 5-0 up.

 

Vardy will grab hold of his chin and won't let go until it leaves a horrid purple ring around it like we used to do at school on ourselves (no idea why) and then Vardy will announce his retirement after being hit with a years ban so he can bugger off to America early. We'll all cry and egg Jon Moss whenever he's seen in public, he'll go vegan as a result.