Sheff Weds v Saints

[RVclaret]

Season opener… Saints to win 3-1.

[jedi_master]

0-3

[agreenwood]

Expecting a big Saints win. Sheff Wed have barely strengthened their squad.

[claretburns]

Sheff Wed 0-5 Saints

[agreenwood]

The only thing that nags away at me is my gut feeling that Martin isn’t as good as Saints hope he is. He wasn’t universally popular at Swansea from what I read, but didn’t have the resources to be fair.

[claretburns]

Superb goal from Tella, 1-0 Saints

[agreenwood]

Brilliant strike.

[jrgbfc]

Looks like Southampton have taken a good following up there. Probably similar to us last season, desperate for a bit of excitement and some different away days.

[Lowbankclaret]

Interesting how he hugged the manager.

[TPClaret]

Made in Burnley. He was nothing until he came to us and our coaches got stuck into him.

[Newcastleclaret93]

This saints team is already showing they are far too good for this league

[agreenwood]

That’ll be credited to Armstrong. Possibly takes it beyond the GK.

[Casper2]

Is it Bannan or Barry Bannan?

[CoolClaret]

This saints team is already showing they are far too good for this league

Ok relax a moment

Sheff Wed are pure turd - they have next to no real quality in their entire squad

[Whitgord]

Just looks like a recent league 1 team vs a recent prem team.

[RVclaret]

Ok relax a moment

Sheff Wed are pure turd - they have next to no real quality in their entire squad

Garbage aren’t they. Relegation contenders for sure.

[Newcastleclaret93]

Ok relax a moment

Sheff Wed are pure turd - they have next to no real quality in their entire squad

They don’t look much different to the dross we played last season.

I see it as a straight shootout between Leicester and Southampton for the title

[TPClaret]

Southampton should be paying us £15 million for what we did to Tella. Transformed his career

[CoolClaret]

They don’t look much different to the dross we played last season.

I see it as a straight shootout between Leicester and Southampton for the title

They barely got over the line against 10 man Barnsley in the playoff final.

They look terrible - definitely a relegation contender

[jedi_master]

The amount of yellows and reds this new level of discipline on kicking the ball away will provide is going to be fun.

[CoolClaret]

Garbage aren’t they. Relegation contenders for sure.

Completely garbage.

Their best player is Barry Bannan who was hardly tearing it up in the champ 8 - 4 years ago in his prime, he’s now 33 as well.

[Conroysleftfoot]

They barely got over the line against 10 man Barnsley in the playoff final.

They look terrible - definitely a relegation contender

They look completely clueless.

[Vegas Claret]

Saints left winger is rapid

[kentonclaret]

This saints team is already showing they are far too good for this league

I suspect that may well be the case with Leeds and Leicester also.

[Aclaret]

Tough looking league is the Championship this season...we'd probably only win it this time by a few points.

[RVclaret]

Saints left winger is rapid

Edozie, bought him from City last summer, real talent

[mdd2]

Why the black arm bands tonight

[Vegas Claret]

Edozie, bought him from City last summer, real talent

reminds me of Leroy Sane

[Vegas Claret]

Why the black arm bands tonight

in memory of Trevor Francis and Chris Bart-Williams

[Quickenthetempo]

6 minutes injury time for the first half is bonkers

[Woodleyclaret]

Its interesting how the commenter compared Saints to us .We were exceptional with a great coach and very talented players.Saints still are not the finished article and the jury is still out on Russell Martin.

[ClaretTony]

This is hardly a contest - one team looks as though it might finish in a high position in the table, the other looks certain to be struggling at the bottom.

A bit like last year I suppose when we went to Huddersfield but I don't expect Southampton to do as well as we did.

[Vegas Claret]

This is hardly a contest - one team looks as though it might finish in a high position in the table, the other looks certain to be struggling at the bottom.

A bit like last year I suppose when we went to Huddersfield but I don't expect Southampton to do as well as we did.

depends how many players they keep imho. No guarantee they lose any of this starting 11 and they have good options off the bench. Agree it's very hard to judge them tonight though as Sheff Weds look exactly what they were last season - bang average league one side

[ClaretTony]

depends how many players they keep imho. No guarantee they lose any of this starting 11 and they have good options off the bench. Agree it's very hard to judge them tonight though as Sheff Weds look exactly what they were last season - bang average league one side

After Huddersfield we signed key players such as Benson, Tella, Zaroury & Beyer. All our departures had already gone but they'll lose players yet this window.

[agreenwood]

After Huddersfield we signed key players such as Benson, Tella, Zaroury & Beyer. All our departures had already gone but they'll lose players yet this window.

It’s interesting that for all the talk of needing to get players in early to get them bedded in during preseason, four of our most important players last year signed after the season had started.

[Tricky Trevor]

Spotted Stuart Armstrong, Che Adams and Livia on the bench. The latter two have been heavily linked with leaving but it shows what quality they have.

[4midable]

Running away with it

Not

[Tricky Trevor]

Oh dear. They said first half Martin sides leak goals

[DCWat]

depends how many players they keep imho. No guarantee they lose any of this starting 11 and they have good options off the bench. Agree it's very hard to judge them tonight though as Sheff Weds look exactly what they were last season - bang average league one side

I think that’s a tad harsh - a bang average league 1 side doesn’t accrue as many points as they did last season.

[CoolClaret]

Oh dear. They said first half Martin sides leak goals

Loads of talent but a poor manager imo, that’s why they’re not a cert for me.

[RVclaret]

Saints need a new centre back or two. Not a patch on the ones we had.

[Conroysleftfoot]

Soton are playing just like Swansea did last season with all the possession but very little end product which, of course, is no surprise.

[claretburns]

Its interesting how the commenter compared Saints to us .We were exceptional with a great coach and very talented players.Saints still are not the finished article and the jury is still out on Russell Martin.

In fairness this time last season when we played Huddersfield we certainly weren't the finished article and could argue the jury was out on Kompany, obviously we then had a wonderful season but Southampton aren't to dissimilar to where we were at the start of last season.

[DAVETHEVICAR]

Sheffield Wednesday have enough to stay up and still plenty of time to recruit players.
They don’t drop too many points at home

[Swizzlestick]

Never underestimate the Championship.

[kentonclaret]

I think that’s a tad harsh - a bang average league 1 side doesn’t accrue as many points as they did last season.

Agreed. But there is a lot of dross in League 1 with the top 3 last season all amassing more than 90 points. This season’s League 1 looks even weaker and Stockport, Notts County and Wrexham would be challenging at the top end

[ClaretsPadiham]

The Hillsborough atmosphere will win them some points this season, loud when they are at it.

[jedi_master]

It’s a great stadium Hillsborough. The fans there dragged them into the PO Final in that second leg.

[Commy]

We went up a couple of gears in the second half but Southampton haven't done that, yet. They haven't given Tella anything to run on to either so he is being a bit stifled. I noticed that he was outside of the box at corners in the first half. Wasn't he in the middle for our corners?

[kentonclaret]

Ward Prowse?

How much??