Mills goal gives Saints friendly win at Barnet (From Daily Echo)

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do u think we will carter funny that all the rumours we have and all the people we sign are completly different good result tonight boys come on you saints

Any one please report how Carter went. Is he good enough?

Any other reporting and comments from the game please.

sorry I know it is only the warm up to the season but so far I am not impressed with what I am hearing!! we are link to big names then you hear of these other players that cannot get into any other team like carter?? our we another Leeds?? we need good players in our side if we are to push for the top spot?? so come AP get the right people intpo our side.
I still think we have no depth to our team but I will be there all season hoping for the best?

i believe that these lower divisionn teams will give it their all against us in friendlies whereas we'll be goin at half pace so these results dont bother me. Its good to see the youngsters get a run out tho now is the time for them to be tested

Southampton boy wrote:
sorry I know it is only the warm up to the season but so far I am not impressed with what I am hearing!! we are link to big names then you hear of these other players that cannot get into any other team like carter?? our we another Leeds?? we need good players in our side if we are to push for the top spot?? so come AP get the right people intpo our side. I still think we have no depth to our team but I will be there all season hoping for the best?

Think you talking out of ur rear end personally.We should walk this league with the current squad
No depth let me educate you!
Goalkeepers: Davis,Bialkowski,for
ecast
r/backs:Butterfield,
Richardson(harding if needed)
C/Halfs:Jaidi,Fonte,
Seabourne,Martin
Left backs:Dickson ,Harding,Mills
Left mid:Lallana,Holmes,(
Dickson,Mills if needed)
C/Mid:Scneiderlin,Ha
mmond,Wotton,(butter
field if needed)
R/Mid:Puncheon,Oxlad
e-Chamberlain,
Forwards:Lambert,Bar
nard,Connolly(lallan
a if needed)

Short,right mid and 1 forward,ap will address that.
If you can name a team in League One with a squad better than in terms of quality and depth then go ahead!I wait in anticipation!!

perry taine wrote:

Southampton boy wrote: sorry I know it is only the warm up to the season but so far I am not impressed with what I am hearing!! we are link to big names then you hear of these other players that cannot get into any other team like carter?? our we another Leeds?? we need good players in our side if we are to push for the top spot?? so come AP get the right people intpo our side. I still think we have no depth to our team but I will be there all season hoping for the best?

Think you talking out of ur rear end personally.We should walk this league with the current squad No depth let me educate you! Goalkeepers: Davis,Bialkowski,for ecast r/backs:Butterfield, Richardson(harding if needed) C/Halfs:Jaidi,Fonte, Seabourne,Martin Left backs:Dickson ,Harding,Mills Left mid:Lallana,Holmes,( Dickson,Mills if needed) C/Mid:Scneiderlin,Ha mmond,Wotton,(butter field if needed) R/Mid:Puncheon,Oxlad e-Chamberlain, Forwards:Lambert,Bar nard,Connolly(lallan a if needed) Short,right mid and 1 forward,ap will address that. If you can name a team in League One with a squad better than in terms of quality and depth then go ahead!I wait in anticipation!!

that's off the top of my head,you could probably add a few youngsters to that!

ali dia wrote:
i believe that these lower divisionn teams will give it their all against us in friendlies whereas we'll be goin at half pace so these results dont bother me. Its good to see the youngsters get a run out tho now is the time for them to be tested

Ali, we need you back, a proven Premier player with 20 minutes of experience. Come on Ali, get your boot back on.

Perry Taine, what name were you using before. Your posts seem very familar. Sounds like old Rotty to me.

perry taine wrote:

perry taine wrote:

Southampton boy wrote: sorry I know it is only the warm up to the season but so far I am not impressed with what I am hearing!! we are link to big names then you hear of these other players that cannot get into any other team like carter?? our we another Leeds?? we need good players in our side if we are to push for the top spot?? so come AP get the right people intpo our side. I still think we have no depth to our team but I will be there all season hoping for the best?

Think you talking out of ur rear end personally.We should walk this league with the current squad No depth let me educate you! Goalkeepers: Davis,Bialkowski,for ecast r/backs:Butterfield, Richardson(harding if needed) C/Halfs:Jaidi,Fonte, Seabourne,Martin Left backs:Dickson ,Harding,Mills Left mid:Lallana,Holmes,( Dickson,Mills if needed) C/Mid:Scneiderlin,Ha mmond,Wotton,(butter field if needed) R/Mid:Puncheon,Oxlad e-Chamberlain, Forwards:Lambert,Bar nard,Connolly(lallan a if needed) Short,right mid and 1 forward,ap will address that. If you can name a team in League One with a squad better than in terms of quality and depth then go ahead!I wait in anticipation!!

that's off the top of my head,you could probably add a few youngsters to that!

Perry it's not about quality on paper it's about quality on the field! I agree with the boy totally!! Ok we had -10 last term but even if we didn't we wouldn't have made the play-offs anyway and that's our squad today without papa and ants! We have a good first 11 but not a very good squad. Take all of the successful teams for e.g, their whole squad is ready and capable of filling in at anytime. You can't say that about saints yet but this is what we need to achieve if we're going to be a successful team. Surely AP and NC don't need me to tell them this! Maybe they just like frustrating us! We could see the squad needed adding to with more quality last season so ytf hasn't it been sorted! We've got only 2 games left before the real business starts! 2 games! and we think we're gonna be ready for plymouth...

The whole squad hasn't performed well this pre-season as usual! but i can't understand why it hasn't changed under the new regime!

We have quality on the field.Get real ,we can all have our say when the real games start,chill out and stop whingeing.No quality added-Richardson best right back in the league,Dickson best left -back!!You don't know wot ur talking about.The season hasnt started yet-who's to say we wont sign anyone before next week.
Not perforned well pre-season?
FC Thun played Champions League last year,we played them 1 week b4 their season started.
Sochaux-French side littered with quality players(we r in league one).
We havent fielded a full strength side yet because of injuries.
Think your deluded!!go and support that lot down the road!

ali dia wrote:
i believe that these lower divisionn teams will give it their all against us in friendlies whereas we'll be goin at half pace so these results dont bother me. Its good to see the youngsters get a run out tho now is the time for them to be tested

A professional will always want to win no matter what game it is so your theory on lower league teams giving it more is wrong because our players should be better, if they are not which it looks like then someone's not doing their job properly! I had so much confidence and excitement for our team before the last couple of games but now i'm bricking it!

I hope NC knows what he's doing, another season in this league would be disastrous! I hope we don't do a Leeds!

gosportsaint wrote:
Perry Taine, what name were you using before. Your posts seem very familar. Sounds like old Rotty to me.

? lost me!

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

ali dia wrote: i believe that these lower divisionn teams will give it their all against us in friendlies whereas we'll be goin at half pace so these results dont bother me. Its good to see the youngsters get a run out tho now is the time for them to be tested

A professional will always want to win no matter what game it is so your theory on lower league teams giving it more is wrong because our players should be better, if they are not which it looks like then someone's not doing their job properly! I had so much confidence and excitement for our team before the last couple of games but now i'm bricking it! I hope NC knows what he's doing, another season in this league would be disastrous! I hope we don't do a Leeds!

Violins anyone!!

perry taine wrote:
We have quality on the field.Get real ,we can all have our say when the real games start,chill out and stop whingeing.No quality added-Richardson best right back in the league,Dickson best left -back!!You don't know wot ur talking about.The season hasnt started yet-who's to say we wont sign anyone before next week.
Not perforned well pre-season?
FC Thun played Champions League last year,we played them 1 week b4 their season started.
Sochaux-French side littered with quality players(we r in league one).
We havent fielded a full strength side yet because of injuries.
Think your deluded!!go and support that lot down the road!

You're the deluded one!!! How can you not see that it's not going to plan!!!! Thick head!!!! I'll forgive saints for not winning the first 2 games but what can u say about the performances against sutton and tonight??! We only had 2 players missing from the 1st 11, punch and lallana the others are fit! ( apart from frazor!) Take ur head out ur own arse and start opening ur eyes!

PLUS we need someone who can create and pass the ball well to breack down tight teams! NOT A 3RD LEFT BACK!

Anyone else see Pompey are allowed to sign Sonko on loan? It's a joke! They have a transfer embargo - Bournemouth weren't allowed to sign anyone even a loanee when they had 12/13 players let alone the 18 Pompey have! Rules for some and NONE for others!

Decent result - would have liked more goals but a win is a win and also a habit.

Disappointed that we seemed to play a 4-5-1 formation (can someone confirm this?). This is not the formation we need to win the league, as proven by Poortvliet, and we will struggle to break down teams playing like this. We should be using these friendlies so the players learn how AP wants them to play, and get to know how their teammates play, but not too confident that this is happening. Reckon we should have signed a striker earlier so they get used to how our current strikeforce play ane gel with the team

perry taine wrote:

gosportsaint wrote: Perry Taine, what name were you using before. Your posts seem very familar. Sounds like old Rotty to me.

? lost me!

I'll leave that one alone. Your last post tends to put you in the pro A.P sector. Last season we had one person on here that went under about 10 different names.
Agree about the quality, we have only lost Ants and Papa, and gained a few very good backs, and team of the season players at that. A dominant midfielder like Danns and a quality forward like Vassell or dare we say it Benjani and we are there.

Perry Taine - "I think we've got the best squad in league 1 on paper." and we can't even destroy lower league teams! haha you joker Perry!!

Plymouths Pre-season
July 10 - 3pm - Truro City - 2-0 win
July 13 - 7.45pm - Torquay 3-1 loss
July 17 - 2.30pm - NAC Breda 1-0 win
July 21 - 7pm - AZ Alkmaar - 1-0 loss
July 22 - 7pm - SC Cambuur - 3-3 draw
They are having hereford and saltash before Saints..
I don't think their approach is dissimilar to Saints except that loss to Plucky Torquay..
COYR No doubt new players inbound and everything will come together.
Eagerly waiting the new players and anticipation of the new teams numbers!!
(notice the profiles are numberless in alphabetical order on the os)

Hit a nerve did I !!
Your lack of footy no-how catching up with you is it!!
Create and pass a ball,mmm!!let me think- Puncheon,lallana,scn
eiderlin
As explained they didnt play tonite!
Lambert,rested!!
3rd left back-Mills i presume-yep he scored,lol
I tell u what ,part-time fan i imagine(have you been to st mary's)
you best phone the samaritans to cheer you up,It will all look better in the morning!!

Sack im-he's useless that pardew,and as for cortese,well,useless
,and dont get me started on Markus!!blooody cowboy .lol!!!

How can you say we don't have the strongest team, its clear for everyone to see, every position is covered with quality (although 1/2 more signings is required). Destroy lower league teams have you seen the team we have put out in the games. I agree we should beat them but look at Newcastle last year they got destroyed by lower league opposition and then stormed the league. Its pathetic that Saints supporters are arguing over pre-season, move on and wait for the season to begin.

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

perry taine wrote: We have quality on the field.Get real ,we can all have our say when the real games start,chill out and stop whingeing.No quality added-Richardson best right back in the league,Dickson best left -back!!You don't know wot ur talking about.The season hasnt started yet-who's to say we wont sign anyone before next week. Not perforned well pre-season? FC Thun played Champions League last year,we played them 1 week b4 their season started. Sochaux-French side littered with quality players(we r in league one). We havent fielded a full strength side yet because of injuries. Think your deluded!!go and support that lot down the road!

You're the deluded one!!! How can you not see that it's not going to plan!!!! Thick head!!!! I'll forgive saints for not winning the first 2 games but what can u say about the performances against sutton and tonight??! We only had 2 players missing from the 1st 11, punch and lallana the others are fit! ( apart from frazor!) Take ur head out ur own arse and start opening ur eyes! PLUS we need someone who can create and pass the ball well to breack down tight teams! NOT A 3RD LEFT BACK!

I'm surprised by your post, you are normally spot on.
Pre-season is going well really, players look very fit, unlike last season, and as yet we havent played our starting 11.

gosportsaint wrote:

perry taine wrote:

gosportsaint wrote: Perry Taine, what name were you using before. Your posts seem very familar. Sounds like old Rotty to me.

? lost me!

I'll leave that one alone. Your last post tends to put you in the pro A.P sector. Last season we had one person on here that went under about 10 different names. Agree about the quality, we have only lost Ants and Papa, and gained a few very good backs, and team of the season players at that. A dominant midfielder like Danns and a quality forward like Vassell or dare we say it Benjani and we are there.

i agree mate,we do need to improve in certain areas,just fed up with people that know nothing,preaching doom and gloom on here after watching pre-season games!!am i alone in this view?

perry taine wrote:

gosportsaint wrote:

perry taine wrote:

gosportsaint wrote: Perry Taine, what name were you using before. Your posts seem very familar. Sounds like old Rotty to me.

? lost me!

I'll leave that one alone. Your last post tends to put you in the pro A.P sector. Last season we had one person on here that went under about 10 different names. Agree about the quality, we have only lost Ants and Papa, and gained a few very good backs, and team of the season players at that. A dominant midfielder like Danns and a quality forward like Vassell or dare we say it Benjani and we are there.

i agree mate,we do need to improve in certain areas,just fed up with people that know nothing,preaching doom and gloom on here after watching pre-season games!!am i alone in this view?

I must admit I go to pre-season to geta decent pie and pint. And it supports our non league friends

I dont really do the friendly games,you don't really tend to learn a lot,really about fitness-training games really.Sat mite be different with a decent crowd,but Plymouth is the important game.Cant understand why people getting so het up!!

Anyone here amongst the 859 that went to the game? like to comment on the game for the away fans please.
Wet night but 859 total attendance seems a very very poor turn out.
The report is up on os. Tweet fans said some of the young fellas did well and Carter would be a good addition to the squad.. very tidy.

gosportsaint wrote:

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

perry taine wrote: We have quality on the field.Get real ,we can all have our say when the real games start,chill out and stop whingeing.No quality added-Richardson best right back in the league,Dickson best left -back!!You don't know wot ur talking about.The season hasnt started yet-who's to say we wont sign anyone before next week. Not perforned well pre-season? FC Thun played Champions League last year,we played them 1 week b4 their season started. Sochaux-French side littered with quality players(we r in league one). We havent fielded a full strength side yet because of injuries. Think your deluded!!go and support that lot down the road!

You're the deluded one!!! How can you not see that it's not going to plan!!!! Thick head!!!! I'll forgive saints for not winning the first 2 games but what can u say about the performances against sutton and tonight??! We only had 2 players missing from the 1st 11, punch and lallana the others are fit! ( apart from frazor!) Take ur head out ur own arse and start opening ur eyes! PLUS we need someone who can create and pass the ball well to breack down tight teams! NOT A 3RD LEFT BACK!

I'm surprised by your post, you are normally spot on.
Pre-season is going well really, players look very fit, unlike last season, and as yet we havent played our starting 11.

Ok, if we don't sign more quality and we're sitting mid table... i'll be here to say I told you so! :) Of course i hope i'm wrong, but 2 games left isn't enough time to gel the newbies in let's be honest! Unless they're premier league class.........

if we are mid table after 5 games there will be wholesale slagging for sure but I do expect a slow start... better not be as slow as last season though. Christmas top two for saints but leading all the way with a good cushion would be fantastic and I see no reason we can't do that... best squad in L1 and all the will in the world...lol spare a penny for the lot down the road.... haha .. no!

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

gosportsaint wrote:

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

perry taine wrote: We have quality on the field.Get real ,we can all have our say when the real games start,chill out and stop whingeing.No quality added-Richardson best right back in the league,Dickson best left -back!!You don't know wot ur talking about.The season hasnt started yet-who's to say we wont sign anyone before next week. Not perforned well pre-season? FC Thun played Champions League last year,we played them 1 week b4 their season started. Sochaux-French side littered with quality players(we r in league one). We havent fielded a full strength side yet because of injuries. Think your deluded!!go and support that lot down the road!

You're the deluded one!!! How can you not see that it's not going to plan!!!! Thick head!!!! I'll forgive saints for not winning the first 2 games but what can u say about the performances against sutton and tonight??! We only had 2 players missing from the 1st 11, punch and lallana the others are fit! ( apart from frazor!) Take ur head out ur own arse and start opening ur eyes! PLUS we need someone who can create and pass the ball well to breack down tight teams! NOT A 3RD LEFT BACK!

I'm surprised by your post, you are normally spot on.
Pre-season is going well really, players look very fit, unlike last season, and as yet we havent played our starting 11.

Ok, if we don't sign more quality and we're sitting mid table... i'll be here to say I told you so! :) Of course i hope i'm wrong, but 2 games left isn't enough time to gel the newbies in let's be honest! Unless they're premier league class.........

What more quality do you need? From last season team of the year, righ back, left back, left mid and forward. Also believe fonte would have been in it given all season. Would be nice to have a few games for any new signings to practice together, but lambert, fonte, puncheon all slotted straight in. Anyone whose played football knows you don't go 100 percent in friendlies. Why over stretch or go for a dangerous 50/50, that's not what friendlies are about. With the lack of pre season lamberts had, I think it's fair to say AP is trying different ways to cope if he is unable to play, the right thing to do, test tactics and players, that's what I want to see in pre season, not see saints strongest team beat Sutton 5.0, what would anyone gain from that. Saints to storm league one this year

Devoniansaint, it's the day after tomorrow! Who and where is our new signing?

One thing that AP is not going to do is show all his cards to the opposition before the season starts, as he has said it is a matter of building fitness first, then it will be tactics using the best eleven. Who do rate as the starting eleven against the Green Army?

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
One thing that AP is not going to do is show all his cards to the opposition before the season starts, as he has said it is a matter of building fitness first, then it will be tactics using the best eleven. Who do rate as the starting eleven against the Green Army?

Trouble is, who is fit and who is not.

We have a good squad, and I expect us to beat both Reading and Plymouth, and then see a couple of new boys in.
Lets hope sms gives Antonio a good welcome

Carter looked excellent (although he needs to get stuck in a bit more and faded a little in the second half) and would be great with Hammond in the middle - he's much better than anyone else we have,hope we sign him. Impressed with Racine and Martin centre backs - very solid.Martin looks as if hel'll be very good once he has a bit more experience. These two could easily cover for Fonte and Jaidi (which is nice).Ben Reeves came on and looked very skilful and assured - he's definitely going to be a good player ( you know class when you see it). Dickson played well - coming on nicely.No Lambert meant no goal scorer (and no killer passes) - Pardew's right we need someone up to Lambert's standard (no easy task that's true).Barnard tried very hard but didn't have much support but without anybody else he must start with Lambo. We didn't supply enough crosses - this is also a worry.I can't understand why Pardew doesn't pursue this more adamantly. I suppose like a good centre forward the players need to be a notch up on general standards.

gosportsaint wrote:
Perry Taine, what name were you using before. Your posts seem very familar. Sounds like old Rotty to me.

I've got my eye on someone else! They will reveal themselves soon, no doubt.The unwelcome return of rotty pube germ boy!

Don't understand the negativity over this result.
We started with a 16, 17 , 18, 19 & 20 year old on the park. Add to this we had a trialist plus 2 new full backs.
Only 3 starters could be considered regulars from last season (Davis, Barnard & Hammond) yet we won.
What is the problem with that?
Whoever said we only had 2 first teamers missing last night has revealed himself to be a complete tool.
AP has said, on the OS, that he wants to bring in 2 more players, maybe 3, so be patient.
If the comments on some Poopey sites are accurate (I don't know!!), there are new rules in the PL restricting squad size to 25 players this season. If that is the case there could be some decent young players being made available on loan in the next few weeks, that will be worth waiting for.

SW 'best-late' than never?

ummm.
Not agreeing with the doubters on here.
We finished 7th with -10 point start last season but I would disagree that it was this squad that wholly did that.
Mostly the squad was put together during the season in August and January.
This is now a settled squad and agreed we need 1 or 2 to strengthen but this is a fantastic squad for league 1. Also we seem to have kept our best players.
Our second half of the season form was fantastic so have a bit of faith people.
End of September I will start to draw an opinion on whether it is working.

Tirau Dan wrote:
Any one please report how Carter went. Is he good enough? Any other reporting and comments from the game please.

I Would certainly think so , they report he played very good , also he did play at top level for a while , so i hope we sign him up

, also my sister works in the ticket office at st Marys , and she told me she heard that the nathan tyson deal was almost complete , for around £575,000 , with a £475,000 paid up front , £50k when the season finishes , and 50k when he scores 10 goals. :/ id rather not sign him , if it were up to me id want to sign ,, benjani on a free.