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Ian
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#saintsfc season ticket holder. Work in tech, love reading esp. sci-fi. Infrequent poster.
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One to watch for all #saintsfc fans. Great stuff as usual from the TSP team.
TSP 339

🚨 Breaking: Southampton have sacked Will Still.
❌ Rubén Martinez, Clément Lemaitre & Carl Martin also leave.
⚽️ Preston 2–0 Saints – boos, protests & players clashing with fans.
🔎 Reaction + what happens next for #SaintsFC

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Total Saints Podcast: Episode 339 - Total Saints Podcast
Southampton have sacked Will Still.The club confirmed on Sunday evening that the Men’s First-Team Manager, along with Rubén Martinez, Clément Lemaitre and Carl Martin, has left the club, with U...
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Long, fascinating, and uplifting thread. I'm really glad I saw this 🙂
Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).
Too late, the cats have already won.
First impressions will be made, scripts written. Lets hope they are the right ones.
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I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness.

The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate.

So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net
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Trump? Yeah, terrible.
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Championship Match 1 – Southampton 2 Wrexham 1

Ryan Manning Wheels Away After Scoring The week since the final friendly of preseason has been and gone and now we await the visit of Wrexham for the opening game of the Championship season for Saints in 2025/26. Of course we are the 12:30 kick-off…
Championship Match 1 – Southampton 2 Wrexham 1
Ryan Manning Wheels Away After Scoring The week since the final friendly of preseason has been and gone and now we await the visit of Wrexham for the opening game of the Championship season for Saints in 2025/26. Of course we are the 12:30 kick-off because we can’t have a Wrexham game without it being on the TV now, can we?
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One for #saintsfc parents.
Soccer pals - my brother, @soccerbedtimestory.bsky.social book is now available in paperback! If you've got some soccer-loving kids in your life, this is a great read for them, and an awesome way to support an educator and fellow sicko:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ2P13R...
So true, control in football is an illusion if you can't combine it with productive offense.
Something slightly different tonight. I have reason to believe this Barcelona team are alright.
Probably not with the clocks changed, so at least there is that 😮‍💨
😂
Don’t, it’s awesome, far fewer arseholes for one thing.
I, for example, find myself completely unbothered that I am going to miss the home game against palace.
We are so bad I have become numb to it.
What brings you back to this place?
Certainly.
Although the #saintsfc TL is understandably quiet at the moment.
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We should sell them some of ours.
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New

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/917c...
Agree that timing demonstrates complete lack of cohesive plan (again). If this was the plan B then it should have been done when there was more time (and games) such as before one of the international breaks.
IMO this style could work in the champ if it is a hybrid with more ball retention, but 🤷
He’s had a week fellas, and the squad hasn’t got any better, what were your expectations?
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Hi, FYI I got this error when trying to use your list combining tool today:

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