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Saints want a ‘supporter panel’ to liaise with the club
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SAINTS have announced they intend to put together a “supporters’ panel” to “encourage and maintain a positive dialogue between the club and its fans”.
The club want up to 12 fans to form a panel, which will meet with “key staff” three-to-four times a year to “discuss a wide range of off-pitch subjects”.
“It is hoped this will allow the club to deepen its understanding of issues affecting fans, as well as being able to explain the thinking and processes behind important decisions that have been, or are being, made,” the club said in a statement.
"Additionally, it is intended that the panel will provide a forum for supporters to share and discuss new ideas of their own for how to improve any aspect of their experience.
"The club would like to assemble as diverse a panel as possible, to ensure the broadest representation of its fanbase, and is encouraging applications from anyone who would like to be involved.
"All those who are chosen will be encouraged to liaise regularly with their fellow fans, to ensure their best interests are served at the meetings.
“With this in mind, each person on the panel will have their photograph and contact details displayed on a dedicated page on the club’s website, to encourage supporters to engage with them.”
Saints’ managing director Toby Steele believes the panel, which is to be called Saints Voice, will prove to be highly valuable.
He said: “Our supporters are the lifeblood of the club, and we hope Saints Voice will provide them with a valuable route through which to raise issues and discuss ideas, while also allowing us to keep them informed on key matters.”
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READER LETTER: I’ve had a Saints season ticket for 30 years but this is too much
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FOR over 30 uninterrupted years I have held a Saints season ticket. I have been through those terrible dark, depressing days as we slipped down the various divisions almost into oblivion. I cannot do it again! Especially when it may not be too late for it all be avoided.
Since game five, there has been absolutely no variation – we have been winning points at the painful rate of three every four games. Under Mauricio Pellegrino there has been no “learning curve”, no gradual improvement as he understood the English game, no sign that the squad of good players we have are melding into a force to be reckoned with. If nothing changes, we will end up 8-10 points adrift from safety. Not even close.
There are now 13 games left. If we take out Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City (the last, and potentially most nail-biting game of the season), that leaves eight games we should have a chance with. So we need get at least 15 points from those 24 possible. But for the last 20 games we have achieved only ¾ point per game, so we will probably end up only winning six points instead of the 15 we need to survive.
So now is absolutely the last moment to have a managerial change if we are going to have a chance of avoiding the great dream of Markus Liebherr turning into a nightmare.
Let me finish of with a direct statement to Mauricio Pellegrino. I have no idea why the management of Saints have not yet sacked you. We have always known the club works hard for a long term success, not the short term. But this is ridiculous. If you are half the nice guy I have heard and seen make endless sad statements at the end of so many games, then you have the power to save our great club.
Mauricio, do the honest, honourable thing now and resign before you drag everybody down with you. I do not doubt for one minute you have done your best, but it has simply not been good enough. Take one last brave step to return the faith shown in you and, before it is too late, resign. Maybe that will be enough to save Saints.
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Saints on course to set unwanted Premier League home record
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SAINTS are barrelling headlong into what could be their worst-ever season at home in the Premier League.
With just four home matches remaining, Saints have collected just 15 points from 15 games.
Mauricio Pellegrino’s strugglers need to tally NINE more points from their remaining matches against Stoke, Bournemouth, Chelsea and Manchester City if they are to even match their lowest Premier League home total.
As it stands, the 2004/05 relegation campaign, when Saints finished bottom of the top-flight, is their joint-poorest season in the elite, having tallied 24 points at home that term.
That fateful season is joined by last season’s 8th-place finish in the worst home record stakes, with Claude Puel’s men also reaching 24 points in front of their own supporters in 2016/17.
There have been worse campaigns than these, though.
In the Championship season of 2008/09, when the club were battling financial crisis, Saints managed to collect just 22 points in 23 home matches and were eventually relegated to League One.
Now, Saints find themselves on course for another disastrous campaign in front of their own fans and, if they can’t improve at St Mary’s, they’ll likely be relegated.
Having watched Puel’s Saints team struggle at St Mary’s, supporters, with the promise of attacking football ringing their ears, would have been hopeful of improved performances this term.
However, familiar problems have blighted the team and they now face the daunting task of salvaging their rotten home season in four massive games.
Certainly, considering the run-in, this will be no easy task and they can ill-afford to follow the example of last season, when they failed to win nor score in their last five games at home.
At this point Saints have played more than any other Premier League side at home (15).
That is because the West Ham away game was switched from August to March due to the Athletics World Championships at the Hammers’ London Stadium.
It now means Saints have seven away games in their final 11 Premier League fixtures. Which may be no bad thing, considering their home form.
Despite playing more home games than anyone else, only bottom side West Bromwich Albion have a poorer home record. The Baggies have 13 points from 13 matches at The Hawthorns.
In the final run-in, games against Stoke and Bournemouth are nothing other than must-win games at this stage.
Saints have lost back-to-back games at home to the Potters, who visit St Mary’s on March 3, including a miserable 1-0 defeat in the final game of last term.
More positively, Saints have not lost to Cherries at home in the Premier League (W1, D1).
Victories against their rivals for survival will not be enough to avoid recording their worst-ever home campaign in the Premier League, though.
Saints will need to do what they have failed to do in ten league games and nearly two years – that’s beat one of the big guns – to surpass the 24-point mark and therefore avoid their lowest tally.
Not since Ronald Koeman’s men defeated Manchester City 4-2 in May 2016 have Saints won against one of the Premier League leading sides in a league fixture.
But that’s what they must do if they are to avoid recording their worst-ever home season in all of their 19 Premier League campaigns.
At this point, though, just ending their seven-game winless run at home will offer some solace.
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Five of the best from the fifth round
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With Southampton set to travel to West Brom in the Emirates FA Cup on Saturday, we took a trip down memory lane to revisit some famous fifth-round ties from days gone by…
1963
Southampton 1-0 Sheffield United
A first fifth-round appearance for ten years saw Second Division Southampton play host to Sheffield United of the top flight. Saints had already booked their place in the last 16 before the Blades had even played their third-round tie, due to winter postponements, but it was worth the wait. George Kirby’s first-half header from a Terry Paine cross secured Saints’ place in the quarter-finals, after Tony Knapp’s heroic goal-line clearance prevented them from falling behind. Derek Pace headed against the crossbar late on, but Saints prevailed and The Dell rejoiced.
Road to Wembley?
Victory over Nottingham Forest after two replays, including a 3-3 draw in which Saints recovered from 3-0 down, secured a first semi-final since 1927. The dream would end there, however, as Denis Law struck the only goal of the game for Manchester United at Villa Park.
1976
Southampton 4-0 West Brom (Replay)
After two failed assaults on the fifth round in the early ‘70s, Lawrie McMenemy led Saints to The Hawthorns to face fellow Second Division opponents. Some 10,000 travelling fans made the journey from the south coast, only to see their team fall behind. The yellow-shirted Saints hit back through Bobby Stokes, but it was back at The Dell where they made their superiority count. Late arrivals were still flooding in to a packed house by the time Mike Channon opened the scoring, before Paul Gilchrist brilliantly volleyed home to double the lead. Channon effectively put the tie to bed with his second before the interval, completing his hat-trick in the 74th minute.
Road to Wembley?
You bet. Jim McCalliog’s winner at Bradford set up a semi-final meeting with Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge. Attacking the Shed End in the second half, Saints made the breakthrough when Gilchrist’s low shot found the bottom corner, before David Peach’s penalty made the game safe. With seven minutes to go at Wembley, Bobby Stokes latched on to McCalliog’s ball over the top to score the most famous goal in Saints history and avenge the semi-final defeat of ’63.
1984
Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Southampton
The Saints vintage of 1983/84 is among those most fondly remembered by fans of a certain age, and McMenemy’s side booked their place in the fifth round by virtue of an iconic goal from Steve Moran in the dying seconds at Fratton Park. With Liverpool surprisingly beaten by Brighton, Saints were favourites to win the FA Cup, but faced a tricky tie at Second Division Blackburn, themselves unbeaten in 16 games. Saints needed a fine save from Peter Shilton and a goal-line clearance from Mick Mills to keep their clean sheet intact, but by the time David Armstrong nipped in at the near post to convert Moran’s cross, were worthy winners.
Road to Wembley?
For the first time in the club’s history, Saints were drawn away from home in the first four rounds, with another trip to Second Division opponents, Sheffield Wednesday, in the quarter-finals. A goalless draw at Hillsborough paved the way for a five-star display at The Dell in the replay. A 5-1 rout set up a Highbury semi-final and Saints fancied their chances, but Neville Southall proved unbeatable in the Everton goal before Adrian Heath headed a cruel winner three minutes from the end of extra time.
1992
Southampton 3-2 Bolton Wanderers (Replay)
Victory on penalties at Old Trafford meant a trip to Third Division Bolton, where Saints were backed by 4,000 fans, who were buoyant at half time after Richard Hall headed home a pair of Matt Le Tissier corners. With 13 minutes left, Bolton mounted an unlikely comeback, as Andy Walker pulled one back before Scott Green headed a dramatic equaliser. Surely home advantage would work in Saints favour? The replay was even less comfortable. Bolton quickly cancelled out Alan Shearer’s opener, and then snatched what looked a certain winner in the 90th minute. Enter Barry Horne, whose spectacular 35-yard shot sent the tie into extra time, before the Welshman won the game via a deflection.
Road to Wembley?
For the third successive round, Saints were taken to extra time in the quarter-finals. This time, however, their luck was out. After a goalless draw with Norwich at The Dell, Saints allowed a one-goal lead to slip in East Anglia when Le Tissier saw red for kicking out at Robert Fleck. The ten men held on until the last five minutes, before Norwich drew level. Saints then lost Horne to another sending-off, leaving them with nine, and Chris Sutton inflicted the knockout punch with an instinctive header.
2003
Southampton 2-0 Norwich City
Matt Oakley’s extra-time winner set up another cup meeting with the Canaries 11 years later. This time, Saints kept their full complement on the pitch and reaped the rewards against a Norwich side by now in the second tier. The underdogs were inches away from making the breakthrough midway through the second half when Paul McVeigh’s curler beat Antti Niemi and struck the far post. Seconds later, Brett Ormerod nodded down Chris Marsden’s cross to Anders Svensson, who swept home the opener. Substitute Jo Tessem made the game safe, lashing in the rebound after Robert Green failed to hold a rasping drive from Marsden.
Road to Wembley?
Yes. Well, Cardiff, as Saints reached their first FA Cup final since 1976 without facing a top-flight rival after the third round. The quarter-final draw set up a home tie with Wolves, who were dispatched with the help of an overhead kick from Marsden and a Paul Butler own goal, before Ormerod headed home in the semi-final against Watford, for whom Paul Robinson also put through his own net. Back in yellow for the final, just as in ’76, this time the only goal of the game was scored at Saints’ expense, as Robert Pires struck the winner shortly before half time.
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