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Top strikers in League1
at 13:19 24 Dec 2025

I rather suspect the German 2nd division is a more likely source for targets.

Current top scorer with 12 goals is Younes Ebnoutalib, a 22 year-old German playing for SV Elversberg.
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Being a Saints supporter
at 10:59 24 Dec 2025

There are loads from Bournemouth / Poole and the surrounding areas.

Always have been, and that will never change, regardless of how Boscombe have been doing.
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David Beckham
at 08:54 24 Dec 2025

Beckham was always a lot smarter than people gave him credit for.

An England great.
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Xmas Jokes
at 08:53 24 Dec 2025

Damion Downs to Hamburg.
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Favourite Boxing Day Games
at 08:52 24 Dec 2025

Not a big fan of Boxing Day games.

No trains and the atmosphere is usually rubbish due to hangovers etc.

Would have preferred to play on Saturday as the Prem are doing.
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Top 3 Championship predictions for 2026
at 06:23 24 Dec 2025

1. Saints to finish in the play-offs. Or second if we can sign a decent striker in January. Personally I would offer Wrexham £10 million for Kieffer Moore and see if they budge.

2. Ipswich to win the division. Coventry to choke, and finish third if Saints sign Kieffer Moore, or they will limp into second if we don’t.

3. Leicester to be in a relegation battle.

Happy Christmas to all Uglies.
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Oxford Sack Coach
at 12:29 23 Dec 2025

Isn’t she in charge at Stoke?

Interesting that she and her family don’t seem to throw money at the team…..
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Bazunu propping up the table 2nd Championship season running
at 11:53 23 Dec 2025

I don't hate Gavin Bazunu.

He is committed to the club, and if he plays at Fratton in a few weeks, he will get absolute pelters from their fans.

However, Nick you are I believe a fan of the odd stat or two.

I take on board your point re his first season in the Prem, as he was playing behind a defence which simply was not good enough.

However, I seem to recall his shots saved v shots faced ratio was one of the poorest in the Championship two seasons ago, when we had a defence which was playing against much less potent attacks.

His stats just never seem to be very good sadly.

Coventry's keeper looked very good on Saturday, and you can tell it reflects in the confidence his team play with.
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Oxford Sack Coach
at 11:47 23 Dec 2025

I am surprised they have sacked Rowett.

He has a decent pedigree in this League, often with clubs on very low budgets.

I have a feeling he was brought into Birmingham too late to save them two seasons ago.
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The financial reality of the Championship
at 11:45 23 Dec 2025

Definitely.

The margin between being near the top and near the bottom is thin in this League.

The signing of a decent striker in the next couple of weeks could make all the difference.
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Oxford Sack Coach
at 11:42 23 Dec 2025

Yes.

He was also on that BBC documentary a few months ago about players in the 90's getting scammed out of most of their earnings by a couple of dodgy agents who promised riches from film investment schemes and overseas property developments.

Along with the likes of Danny Murphy, Rod Wallace, Brian Deane, Tommy Johnson and others.

They lost untold millions between them.
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Played for Saints and Oxford
at 08:46 23 Dec 2025

Have we had your top 3 biscuits, sir?
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The financial reality of the Championship
at 08:28 23 Dec 2025

Given our budget, we really should be in the top 2 this season.

I don't think any other club in the League could afford Scienza.

The only club with a bigger wage bill than us is Leicester, who now cannot afford to pay their staff.....
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The financial reality of the Championship
at 08:25 23 Dec 2025

Some scary posts from Kieran Maguire's Twitter account this morning about losses recently reported by Championship clubs.

Once the parachute monies dry up, very deep pockets indeed are required.



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Played for Saints and Oxford
at 08:18 23 Dec 2025

Mark Wright
Keith Cassells
Jim Magilton
Paul Moody
Trevor Hebberd (I think...)

Struggling a bit.
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RIP Chris Rea
at 08:15 23 Dec 2025

My Mum and Dad saw him live a few times.

The Road to Hell was a brilliant tune.

He seemed utterly unbothered about the trappings of fame and all the nonsense that went with it.
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Damion Downs
at 08:12 23 Dec 2025

The thought of a player who cannot control a ball actually playing at the World Cup is beyond surreal to my mind.

He'll probably win the Golden Boot....
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Saints v Coventry
at 21:05 20 Dec 2025

We don’t have a proper striker.

Against better teams with half-decent defences, we have to keep passing it sideways as we just don’t have a striker with good enough movement. Azaz is like a statue.

A draw was all we were ever going to get today.

We would have lost by 2 or 3 if they had kept 11 men on the pitch.
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Coventry ticket sales
at 17:18 18 Dec 2025

Early kick-off, Christmas stuff etc etc

Contrary to wild defamatory rumours, I am unlikely to see the Strictly final and am intending to be at a hostelry with an SO postcode just after 10.00am.
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Coventry ticket sales
at 15:32 18 Dec 2025

I know a few ST holders who are giving it a miss, so there will still be quite a few empty seats.
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