LCFC 2-0 Southampton, post-match thread

[Corbee]

They were AWFUL. They made us look good. 

 

Fair play to their fans singing non stop for the 100 odd mins. 

 

I think we will pick up a point ( maybe 3) against Ipswich but anyone thinking Leicester played well is deluded. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

41 minutes ago, Corbee said:

They were AWFUL. They made us look good. 

 

Fair play to their fans singing non stop for the 100 odd mins. 

 

I think we will pick up a point ( maybe 3) against Ipswich but anyone thinking Leicester played well is deluded. 

I think we played well. 

 

I also think the earth is flat, Tony Blair's an alien and RVFN has an IQ higher than a box of cornflakes. 

Edited 4 May 2025 by CrazyKopCorner

[hejammy]

46 minutes ago, Corbee said:

They were AWFUL. They made us look good. 

 

Fair play to their fans singing non stop for the 100 odd mins. 

 

I think we will pick up a point ( maybe 3) against Ipswich but anyone thinking Leicester played well is deluded. 

I agree to a certain extent, however if you look at their form compared to ours, you would say that they are the better, more in form team. I think we played better than we have done, in parts, especially after we score the first. Yes it was two terrible teams with lots of mistakes going at it, but I thought that there is an argument for the fact that actually we were the better team and we deserved that victory. Second half was both teams just trying to play out the game to be honest. 

Edited 4 May 2025 by hejammy

[Gamble92]

13 hours ago, Tielemans63 said:

I have to admit, I was unaware of just how truly heinous Southampton are. They really are the pits.

Did the 11 points not give you some kind of idea?

[Tielemans63]

2 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Did the 11 points not give you some kind of idea?

I'm surprised they've managed to get anywhere near 11, put it that way.

[Pita]

Two very poor teams both will struggle next season unless there are major changes at the club. 

[Happy Fox]

4 minutes ago, Pita said:

Two very poor teams both will struggle next season unless there are major changes at the club. 

 

There is some right dross in the championship, at worst if we don't sign any players we will finish 7th - 12th but certainly nowhere near the bottom end of the league.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 minute ago, Happy Fox said:

 

There is some right dross in the championship, at worst if we don't sign any players we will finish 7th - 12th but certainly nowhere near the bottom end of the league.

HattersTalk, May 2024.

[Happy Fox]

1 minute ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

HattersTalk, May 2024.

 

We aren't doing a Luton, we have comfortably far better players than them.

[Corky]

No wonder their fans were annoyed. We had players missing plus a terrible attitude, if they tested us we would go. Why wasn't Dibling starting?

 

I hope they get the point but cannot see it now.

[fox_favourite]

One thing I liked about that s game was seeing so many academy players on the pitch. It's great to show potential talent that there is a route to the first team and we need to keep that up to attract the right talent.  

 

Ayew though deary me. Lazy lump of old age 

[luthersfarm]

2 minutes ago, Corky said:

No wonder their fans were annoyed. We had players missing plus a terrible attitude, if they tested us we would go. Why wasn't Dibling starting?

 

I hope they get the point but cannot see it now.

To be fair Dibling played the second half and barely got on the ball. Wonder if he's just waiting now for his big move.

[Noahfence]

wasn’t able to watch the game how did Monga do? 

 

[Bert]

52 minutes ago, luthersfarm said:

To be fair Dibling played the second half and barely got on the ball. Wonder if he's just waiting now for his big move.

I think apart from Fernandes not one of their players looked arsed. 

[Bert]

2 minutes ago, Noahfence said:

wasn’t able to watch the game how did Monga do? 

 

Perhaps his best showing to date. Had a bit more time. Took up good positions, went at his man. Calm and composed on the ball. 

[fazzyfox]

MOTD showing the attendance as 31,240 . 

[Vacamion]

 

Watched the MOTD highlights.

 

After Ayew scored, he still didn't really smile 

 

 

 

 

[funkyrobot]

On 03/05/2025 at 22:40, Bellend Sebastian said:

It is so! Might get a membership if I can be arsed

The ravens can never leave the Tower of London. Same rules should apply to bellend and the KP. This could be end of days. Oh the humanity! 

[funkyrobot]

21 hours ago, fazzyfox said:

MOTD showing the attendance as 31,240 . 

Just shows how many of those empty seats are season ticket holders as they get automatically included. That’s should worry Top and Rudders (but it probably won’t.) Season ticket holders are guaranteed income both in ticket sales and spend at the ground and won’t be adequately replaced by occasional visitors at Championship level, particularly against the less glamorous teams (e.g. Leyton Orient might get promoted via L1 playoffs.) 

[OnlyOneCity]

Should also show the actual attendance at all matches. There were loads of empty seats, particularly in the upper level of the Emirates, but still stated 60,000 +.

[SouthamptonGoMad]

As a Southampton season ticket holder just chiming in and chiming out as a guest. I come in peace.

 

As I said to one of your fans walking back to the car we're both in deep shit but for wholly different reasons.

LCFC it seems got blindsided by two wholly terrible seasons which no one expected (moreso your accountants). Obviously don't know the details like you guys but it's baffled everyone as to how you got it so wrong.

 

SFC have been swirling around the drain for years (it's part of our DNA lol.). We are a feeder club and we like it that way when it works, despite what other fans think. It always allowed us into the Prem for decades despite being a pissy little City on the South Coast. Our problem is that model has been abused by owners coming in thinking they can be clever outsmart everyone else and pump it for profit, losing sight of the identity of Southampton Football Club using its youth and academy to punch above it's weight and sell on for £££ (and all go to the beach). Now one after the another have come in like parasites and bled it dry, ignored the youngsters so we've got nothing coming through other than the odd rough diamond like Tyler Dibling. He needs to go to big club so they can coach him properly, but at Southampton we needed him ("at 18 you're a man so put your boots on" kind of thing). All hands to the pump etc. I think another season with us though and we would ruin the kid's future by dragging him down to our level.

Our owner Sport Republic has screwed up big time and they know it. Ankerson thinks he knows it all but he knows f**k all, and where it started going tits up for us properly this season was when our DoF Jason Wilcox got poached by Man U and the twonk thought he could do it alone. The downstream effect of that is we end up with a disjointed freak show rather than a squad who can actually compete in the EPL. We've got some individuals like Fernades, Rambo, Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis etc but they just spend their whole time on the pitch trying to patch up the f**k ups from the bang average championship squad assembled around them.

Throw in as well as shed load of Managers all with different playing styles (the Russell Martin effect is still kicking in with certain players even now, as they were so brainwashed with it). So you've got a load of players who aren't exactly the sharpest tools in box, tactically confused, not fit enough, scarred by two relegations and a load of Saints fans getting on their backs all the time, and with attributes that fundamentally conflict with each other.

There's a lot more and I can write a book on it, but I don't think it would sell well. 

The whole lot's just a mess and needs to be restarted.

Some of us wish Adam Armstrong never scored that goal at Wembley in the playoff final. It's been a curse not a blessing.

Good luck to you lot though. Part of me thinks you need it more than us.

 

As for the 3 coming up, they're already relegated they just don't know it yet.

 

I'll tell you something though I felt a bit sad seeing the King Power like that on Saturday . Didn't think I would but I did.

Not because we lost as that was going to happen anyway (standard lol), but because it feels like the end of an era for football in general.

It just feels like the days of clubs like ours ever slapping down the big boys are over. The Premier League just see us as cannon fodder, someone to make up the numbers. Anyone who says there's no Ref / VAR bias against smaller clubs is either blind or a liar.

We were crap this season and deserve everything we get. But I was sort of hoping you or Ipswich could make a fist of it.

Smashing the big boys like in the old days and laughing your way back to the car. Happy days.

 

All the best guys see you next season.

 

UTS

 

Edited 5 May 2025 by SouthamptonGoMad
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[Guest worth_the_wait]

1 hour ago, OnlyOneCity said:

Should also show the actual attendance at all matches. There were loads of empty seats, particularly in the upper level of the Emirates, but still stated 60,000 +.

Arsenal regularly use to have loads of empty seats.    I saw the City there some years ago for a night match.  There were definitely about 10,000 empty seats, but they still quoted the attendance as just under 60,000.

[Nalis]

Does this bode well for next season, we might actually look good when the opposition is dire.

[JimJams]

2 hours ago, SouthamptonGoMad said:

...it feels like the end of an era. With JV going probably compounds it.

No need to be sad. You can take him on a free.  I think we'd all love that.

 

 

 

Jannik yeah?

[SouthamptonGoMad]

34 minutes ago, JimJams said:

No need to be sad. You can take him on a free.  I think we'd all love that.

 

 

 

Jannik yeah?

Yeah actually I take that back. He's ruined my life for the last 8 years.

 

Edited 5 May 2025 by SouthamptonGoMad