Got a ticket in the safe standing Northam area for Wednesday night if anyone wants it. Block 42, it’s £40 FV but would take £30 or closest offer.

Would be transferring via the app, and I’m more than happy for you to do PayPal goods & services so you have the buyer protection if necessary.

Chapel Stand, Block 20, Row C, Seat 550-551

Right at the front, Will be sent through the Saints App

Itchen stand block 1+2 Row LL Seat 29.

Just reply here or DM me, will transfer tickets on the Saints App digitally. On the Isle of Wight and just had something come up on the day thar I must attend to.

SOLD

Does any one know if on match days they sell programmes and scarves still

So I got Brentford tickets but I'm getting them shipped to me, just asking when they normally get sent/would arrive

I paid for Hospitality tickets for the Dec 4 Chelsea match but won't be able to attend. The club has been very unhelpful with reimbursing because I'm not a Season ticket holder, which is annoying. Any suggestions on 3rd-party platforms to use?

Thanks in advance! :)

Dibling is only 18 and will become a very special player! At some point he will be worth £100m. I hope SR and the board don't make the same mistake that Saints made with Bale and sell him for peanuts in the next year or 2. A new contract should be number 1 priority!

I’ve been Russel in until the past month. I haven’t managed to watch the last few games properly (wife as always 🤣) just wondering are we actually getting better or are the results against Brighton and Liverpool lucky?

What id say to fans wanting rid of Martin. I’d rather have Martin for the next 5 years where his system could be fully implemented rather than a new manager every year. This system is boring but if it works well with pressing it can become very exciting. Hope the fans unite and back what we have at the moment!

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#FT: Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Southampton

Venue: American Express Stadium

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Brighton & Hove Albion

Bart Verbruggen, Igor Julio, Jan Paul van Hecke, Pervis Estupiñán, Tariq Lamptey (Lewis Dunk), Yasin Ayari, Matt O'Riley (Mats Wieffer), Kaoru Mitoma, Georginio Rutter (Yankuba Minteh), João Pedro (Simon Adingra), Danny Welbeck (Evan Ferguson).

Subs: Julio Enciso, Jacob Slater, Jason Steele, Ruairi Mcconville.

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Southampton

Joe Lumley, Jack Stephens, Kyle Walker-Peters, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Ryan Manning, Yukinari Sugawara (Ryan Fraser), Mateus Fernandes, Flynn Downes (Joe Aribo), Adam Armstrong (Ben Brereton Díaz), Tyler Dibling, Cameron Archer (Kamaldeen Sulemana).

Subs: Alex McCarthy, Ronnie Edwards, James Bree, Nathan Wood, Samuel Amo-Ameyaw.

MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN

12' Flynn Downes (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

16' Matt O'Riley (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

29' Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Southampton 0. Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Tariq Lamptey with a cross.

31' Kyle Walker-Peters (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

55' Taylor Harwood-Bellis (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

59' Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Southampton 1. Flynn Downes (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.

66' Substitution, Southampton. Joe Aribo replaces Flynn Downes.

66' Substitution, Southampton. Ryan Fraser replaces Yukinari Sugawara.

72' Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Lewis Dunk replaces Tariq Lamptey.

72' Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Mats Wieffer replaces Matt O'Riley.

72' Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Simon Adingra replaces João Pedro.

79' Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Evan Ferguson replaces Danny Welbeck.

88' Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Yankuba Minteh replaces Georginio Rutter.

88' Substitution, Southampton. Kamaldeen Sulemana replaces Cameron Archer.

90'+2' Substitution, Southampton. Ben Brereton replaces Adam Armstrong.

90'+7' Mats Wieffer (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

90'+12' Tyler Dibling (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

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Got rota’d on to work on the day even though im sure I booked it off, so selling a ticket. Willing to sell for below FV(46.50). Itchen Stand LL Seat 29. Dm if interested, can transfer on the app

Yes it's back!

Talk about anything and everything.

Does anyone know if there are tickets for Brighton being resold?

https://saintsmarching.com/fringe-striker-wants-leave-southampton-8-5m-january-transfer

Tall Paul was one of the outstanding players to see against Liverpool, and I really feel we need to start playing him regularly to see what he can do for us - it's not like we've got much else in the way of strikers to keep him out of the squad.

Thought I’d do a post on what Russell Martin has said about how he wants his teams to play. This is mostly from the talk he did at SMS last October, with some additional stuff from Coaches’ Voice, which is here: https://youtu.be/a-_FCNPyMwk?si=o9TLblQQX3xdIV4I

I did sneakily record the talk at SMS so if someone can explain to me how to upload it here, I’m happy to do so. I don’t think there’s anything in there that other teams with their armies of analysts couldn’t work out for themselves.

In possession:

Play close together

Really intense with and without the ball

Take territory- Run with the ball aggressively.

Control the game and play it on our terms

Defend with the ball- sometimes the rhythm of the game needs to change, especially when players get tired or when the opposition get on top, so we do just keep it because it’s not possible to press like maniacs for 90-100 minutes.

Spend as much time in the opposition final third as possible. Get there as often as possible and stay there for as long as possible.

Create overloads/numerical advantage in one area of the pitch to then go and exploit space in another.

Intensity to play, move and run back really quickly

Dominate the ball and find the spare man. If there isn’t one, we create one by hooking an opponent, so antagonising someone with the ball. Dribble, wait on the ball etc. When someone jumps that leaves a man spare. If that ends up being on the top line, hit him (we saw this loads last season). When we go back to the goalkeeper it’s usually because he’s the spare man.

When passing lanes are blocked, someone else needs to come over to create a 3v2, 4v3 or whatever (this is why our full backs sometimes invert and sometimes overlap- their job in possession is to create overloads).

Minimise the gap between where the ball is and where we want it to be, because when the ball travels long distances it tends to travel slowly and the opposition have a chance to shuffle across, whereas when it travels short distances quickly it disorganises the opposition.

Pinch passes- pass to a player who, when moves to receive, he pinches the opposition in and creates space for someone else. You see us play in central areas a lot because we’re looking to suck opponents into that area of the pitch then only play wide towards the end of the attacking phase as it makes it more difficult for opponents to stop the cross/pull-back/shot when it does finally go wide. This is Russ’s version of the old Man City ‘overload to isolate’ goal where they’d flood a half space on one side with players before eventually switching it quickly to the other side for an easy finish (usually for Sterling bitd). We scored a lot of goals last season through the eights driving through the middle with the ball, trying to draw defenders in, then at almost the last possible moment playing wide for one of the wide players to either shoot or pull it back to the other wide player arriving on the edge of the box (think how many times Wee Man scored like this).

Attack the gaps- if you see space in the final third, run into it with as much intensity as you can.

Create 1v1s by committing bodies forward so we can isolate oppo FBs against our attackers (this has been much less effective in the Prem because we only have one 1v1 specialist (Tyler) fit and firing- Kamaldeen has barely played, Edozie looked overawed against Forest then left on loan, Cornet has struggled and the likes of Arma and BBD are not 1v1 specialists.

Receive with shoulders open to get turned and engage the nearest opponent.

Try to get from our box to the other team’s box at speed but with control, distances close together so when we get there we can stay there.

Invite them into our box to press us so we can suck them up the pitch then play through them and take them out of the game (with Rambo and Gav injured more teams are going to press us player-for-player because they know McCarthy can’t hurt them with the ball, whereas when Gav or Rambo play they can pings some nice passes to players making top line runs or high-difficulty, through balls into midfield)

Sometimes we’ll build up with a back two, sometimes a three, sometimes a flat four depending on what the opposition press.

Players on the top line need to pin back their back line. Eg if Arma is making loads of runs in behind, even if he only gets the ball once in 45 minutes doing that, it forces defenders to worry about him, which can then affect the opposition press. But if we never hit him or he gives up on making those runs because he never gets the ball, it becomes too easy. This is where we miss Che- he would show to feet a lot but could also run in behind. With Tall Paul in that role the opponent knows he’s not going to run in behind so. Thierry Henry talks about going to Barca having been the main man at Arsenal and having to get used to making the same run 10-15 times and maybe getting picked out once, but if you don’t do it the team becomes too easy to play against.

Play one touch where possible once we’re in the attacking phase. Move the ball with speed.

Opposite side winger needs to hit the box as Arma did to score v Everton.

OOP/in transition:

OOP:

Crush the space, don’t be lazy, get connected to your team, play close together, hold the shape, smooth the game out when the ball gets turned over.

Forwards and eights press aggressively, block passing lanes into the middle, force outside then trap using touchline as extra defender. Put pressure on the ball to either try and win it or to try and stop it being passed with quality. If FBs get beaten, get beaten on the outside to make it predictable. Don’t let them cut inside. Quarter the pitch off- everyone bar opposite FB/winger in the quarter where the ball is.

When pressing high, wing backs/full backs jump from defensive unit to second line of press. Back line as high as possible so the players further forward can press.

Get them to play outside of us or go direct, nothing through us. Spare man to help CBs (usually Downes, but more recently he’s used KWP or Manning in this role), then everyone dropping back in to give us numbers to build up with when we win the ball back.

Never have big distances between front and back or players waiting upfield for a counter.

Take the sting out of the game by controlling it rather than clearing it.  

These are mostly principles of play as opposed to tactics. What I think is interesting about it all is that he’s not as stubborn or idealistic as he makes himself out to be. He tweaked things to win the playoffs and has made many tweaks this season based on opponents and/or who’s available.

Finally, the above should demonstrate that whatever you think of it, it’s not just about playing keep-ball and playing lots of 5 yard passes in our own box!

Now I’m not a fan of Martin right now, but…

Saints 2 Liverpool 3 Liverpool 2 R Madrid 0

Saints > R Madrid

Do you think the Saints board gave Russell Martin a new contract because they thought a bigger club would come in for him?

Maresca got the Chelsea job and Man Utd were linked with McKenna during the summer. Did the board hedge their bets and offer Martin a new contract so that they could get a big payout if Martin was poached?