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Reply | Is that it ?
at 22:07 2 Feb 2026
And so the decline continues with our club under the control of the current owners and their employees at Sports Republic.
Another window passes since Ings left and still we haven’t got a proven goal scorer. In fact exactly the opposite assuming that Armstrong has in fact been transferred to Wolves this evening.
Any realistic chance of a top six finish passed months ago so at best it’s mid table mediocrity from here on in.
Given that it’s evident that a large number of season ticket holders can’t be bothered to occupy the seats they have already paid for this season, it’s going to be interesting come the summer when it’s renewal time.
If the current owners remain in place we are destined to become the new Preston North End or Stoke City, just another under achieving, under supported, club that most people don’t even realise or care exists. |
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Reply | New striker - Cyle Larin
at 16:22 1 Feb 2026
So, if the rumours are correct we are selling a guy who is currently joint third in the league of Championship scorers to Wolves ( who we will be playing next season when they are relegated) for £7 million and replacing him with a 30 year old no hoper who nobody has ever heard of ?
Unless this is a ploy to boost the Balance Sheet before selling our club what on earth are the Loons doing it for ?
Putting a positive spin on this one for Sports Republic may well be beyond even Nick’s undoubted abilities 😇
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Reply | Big Thanks To Everyone On Here
at 12:03 1 Feb 2026
Well done Nick, you deserve all the hits and like yourself I can’t believe that it’s 38 years since I purchased my first copy outside The Dell.
It’s a credit to you and 99.9% of the contributors to the site that it hasn’t ever descended into any personal rancour even when discussing politics and current affairs.
Personally, I think that on occasions you talk absolute rubbish and I’m certain that you think the same of me but that’s just part of the fun.
Long may you continue Sir. |
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Reply | Sports Republic French club in financial trouble
at 12:45 31 Jan 2026
If it helps Southamptonfan, I’ve no idea either as to why it appears that Nick feels the way he does about Sports Republic.
It’s almost as if he has become one of the Yorkshire Men in the famous Monty Python sketch, You were lucky etc etc.
Then again, it’s his site and he’s entitled to his opinions just like the rest of us . |
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Reply | Brereton Diaz scores again for Derby.
at 22:25 30 Jan 2026
Preaching to the converted I appreciate Southamptonfan but it’s not strange.
We both know the answer but for those who still doubt :-
We were an established team in The Premier League and had been for a good number of seasons before Sports Republic arrived.
Since then, two relegations in three seasons, seven managers in two years and currently 15th in The Championship.
Incidentally, with Derby winning this evening, should we lose at Stoke tomorrow we will be a minimum of eight points adrift of the sixth placed team. Probably more depending on other team’s results.
And to think that before a ball was kicked we were 5/2 second favourites to win the league this season. |
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Reply | Southampton At Portsmouth 1984
at 21:44 28 Jan 2026
I didn’t go to that game but imagine I must now be one of the few contributors to the ugly who witnessed the last time we won there in the league, fifty years ago in 1976.
If memory serves, it was a mid week game shortly before either the F A Cup Semi or Final and Lawrie sidelined some of our better players who had been naughty. What they had done wrong I can’t remember.
Anyhow, we played a weakened team and it was a dreadful game. Micky Channon scored a very late winner and I didn’t even see it,having decided to walk back to the station early to avoid any problem.
The skates weren’t happy and decided to throw whatever they could find at the train as it left.
Half a century later and now it’s bubble time. [Post edited 28 Jan 21:46]
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Reply | Incomings
at 11:55 28 Jan 2026
If you think our current squad is now capable of promotion even with a few additions, I respectfully suggest that you get down to Bet Fred.
We are now 12/1 against being promoted having been 5/2 to win the league outright at the start of the season.
As for Aribo and Edozie. What would you do if your not selected to play but allegedly in the case of Aribo are paid £70,000 a week. Demand a transfer ? I think not. |
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Reply | Southampton At Bristol Rovers 1978
at 11:46 28 Jan 2026
Possibly, but neither were winning goals against a team that a couple of seasons previously had won the F A Cup when winning it really mattered. |
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Reply | Southampton At Bristol Rovers 1978
at 11:24 28 Jan 2026
I was one of the twelve thousand.
If anybody thinks we have had some bad away days lately they should have been with us.
As I recall:-
The weather was atrocious, cold and rainy with an away end with no roof.
We put out a full strength team on a pitch which was like a ploughed field which negated any skill advantage.
The two goals scored by Randall were the highlight of his career and he quickly faded into obscurity.
To say the least the police weren’t pleased to see us.
A throughly depressing F A Cup exit only surpassed by Adrian Heath’s last gasp goal when we played Everton at Highbury. |
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Reply | We have more chance of going up now than next seas
at 18:38 27 Jan 2026
Exactly my point.
Sports Republic spent money and through sheer incompetence lost their investment by failing to keep us in the gravy train top flight,not once but twice in three years.
It’s not surprising then is it that from their point of view any desire to repeat the experience has completely vanished ?
That’s why in my opinion they have become what I eluded to previously, a risk adverse Player Trading Business and Entertainment Business based at St Mary’s.
If all goes well for them they will recover some of their previous outlay. Should it not, then I venture to suggest they won’t lose anymore.
Until they depart we will stay where we are, a mediocre team in the back waters of English football, a la Preston North End to name but one. |
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Reply | We have more chance of going up now than next season
at 13:50 27 Jan 2026
Purely from a footballing perspective you are undoubtedly correct Pat.
However, as GRIM points out,football success is not what matters to our current owners and their employees at Sports Republic.
Us fans want a competitive team who whatever league they play in will at least “ give it a go “.
They want ( and reluctantly to their credit have achieved ) a Player Trading Business and Entertainment Business based at St Mary’s, that at best makes them money and at worst doesn’t lose any.
In my opinion our and their objectives are currently incompatible.
Thus until Sports Republic depart, we have many years of mid table mediocrity to look forward to with us becoming very similar to Preston North End, a team with a considerable amount of history that nobody outside of Preston ever considers or thinks about. |
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Reply | 2 Poor teams at Fratton Park
at 11:59 26 Jan 2026
My after match thoughts exactly.
The only difference of course being that Sports Republic’s laughingly called recruitment team spent £50 odd million in the summer and as far as I’m aware Portsmouth next to nothing.
Don’t be concerned about being pessimistic, I for one feel the same and just like last season can’t wait for it to finish.Unfortunately, it’s what our club being in the control of Sports Republic does to you.
Players to keep assuming relegation is avoided ? If Sports Republic went I would keep all of them other than those whose contracts had naturally expired. There’s a decent team in there somewhere that with a few sensible additions are capable of promotion, just not with the current owners. [Post edited 26 Jan 12:03]
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Reply | 44 minutes
at 14:06 25 Jan 2026
Very unlikely given that we are now four points better off than we were this time last week.
Sports Republic ( Mr Parsons ) told us that we can’t compete in The Premier League and Mr Eckert and the players are simply following instructions to make certain that we don’t need to try. [Post edited 25 Jan 14:07]
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Reply | Same sort of Record in 1977
at 23:08 23 Jan 2026
Thanks for confirming that my memory isn’t as bad as it sometimes appears to be on other occasions lately ! |
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