Tonight's match Wednesday v Saints

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

Like the new stricter rules for yellows, particularly for the really annoying knocking the ball away tactic that never got punished before. Hopefully there will be consistency across the league...and PL?

[Ken Hairy 3,774]

Even with the new rules,  how have they come to 6 minutes injury time??

[Google Bot 3,296]

4 minutes ago, Ken Hairy said:

Even with the new rules,  how have they come to 6 minutes injury time??

Looks like there could be many games this season where we don't kick off second half till 4:10pm.

[Conrad 171]

Southampton remind me a lot of Norwich under Farke, the earlier period anyway. Small, quick players and intricate passing. 

[Corbs1 90]

An extra frisson this season, Russ Martin, Daniel, and our friends down South. Nevertheless the first game feeling will be the same as ever. As the team runs out ones hopes and expectations mingle with a sense of timelessness 

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,823]

Have they really given that goal to Armstrong? Really?

[BroadstairsR 2,185]

Could we have poached Russell Martin instead of Smith?

We could hardly have done worse.

Edited August 4, 2023 by BroadstairsR

[ged in the onion bag 856]

Impressive how quickly Soton defenders cover ground in possession, noticed even the keeper doing it.   Real purpose about them.   Setting a high bar so far.

 

[Terminally Yellow 2,471]

Have only just realised that Akin Famewo playing left back for Wednesday. Forgot we sold him to them. 

[Canary dwarf 221]

Russell martin trying to look like Daniel farke , maybe he's hoping if he looks like him he might perform like him in championship ps I think Leeds will **** this league.

[Terminally Yellow 2,471]

If you don't take your chances, you get punished. 

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,823]

14 minutes ago, BroadstairsR said:

Could we have poached Russell Martin instead of Smith?

We could hardly have done worse.

Some people (ahem) had him as first choice when Smith left. 

[cambridgeshire canary 6,754]

Welcome to the Championship Southampton.. You can hold the ball all match and pass it around all you like but all it takes is just one little error

Edited August 4, 2023 by cambridgeshire canary

[Ken Hairy 3,774]

Saints are going to struggle defending like this

[Terminally Yellow 2,471]

That absolute prat with his top off, celebrating with the Wednesday fans. Now going to get banned for the rest of the season having watched season after season of L1 dross - for celebrating equalising. Couldn't make it up. 

[cambridgeshire canary 6,754]

2 minutes ago, Ken Hairy said:

Saints are going to struggle defending like this

I said similar earlier. They have some very good quality players but their defending is a little suspect. In fact it does rather remind me of us🤣

Edited August 4, 2023 by cambridgeshire canary

[The Real Buh 3,446]

Martin out

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

Why aren't we Southampton

[Terminally Yellow 2,471]

Feel a bit for Wednesday, they've had a pretty good second half. 

[Michael Starr 519]

Looks like Southampton are gonna get the momentum they need

[cambridgeshire canary 6,754]

9 added minutes? Really?

[Ray 111]

Thems the new rules

[CANARYKING 641]

Just now, cambridgeshire canary said:

9 added minutes? Really?

That’s ridiculous 

[Captain Holt 522]

Southampton are *superb*.

Appointing Russell Martin in January was the open goal that Stuart Webber miss-kicked over the bar.

[Ken Hairy 3,774]

40 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

I said similar earlier. They have some very good quality players but their defending is a little suspect. In fact it does rather remind me of us🤣

Agree, they've played some nice stuff but don't see them troubling the top 2, they'll lose 4 or 5 before the end of the month,  also Wednesday have been awful.

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

3 minutes ago, CANARYKING said:

That’s ridiculous 

Not ridiculous if you want fair play. The amount in virtually every game up to now was simply not reflective of the amount of time football wasn't being played.

Why shouldn't the time it takes for a goal to be celebrated be added on for the team that conceded to have a fair chance to equalise? Etc etc.

The nonsense token 2 or 3 minutes added on, with often no real justification was ridiculous.

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

Martins even doing the Farke celebration 😁

[Captain Holt 522]

1 minute ago, Fiery Zac said:

Not ridiculous if you want fair play. The amount in virtually every game up to now was simply not reflective of the amount of time football wasn't being played.

Why shouldn't the time it takes for a goal to be celebrated be added on for the team that conceded to have a fair chance to equalise? Etc etc.

The nonsense token 2 or 3 minutes added on, with often no real justification was ridiculous.

This will be a part of it, but I suspect a bigger part of it will be tv deals wanting their moneys worth and sponsors wanting maximum exposure.

 

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

1 minute ago, Captain Holt said:

This will be a part of it, but I suspect a bigger part of it will be tv deals wanting their moneys worth and sponsors wanting maximum exposure.

 

Won't do any harm for them either true. It'll be interesting to see if it's sustainable as the world cup attempted it and soon realised it was adding around 10 to 20 minutes each match. Klopp and Pep won't be happy if the PL follow the same rules - they don't like playing 3 games in a week!

[GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 1,789]

This ridiculous amount of injury time does display the importance of having a strong bench with players who can affect a game/maintain the quality.....this I fear is where we will fall as ours is very weak.

As for Southampton, made hard work of beating a poor Sheff Weds , judge them when theyve had sterner tests. Maybe next week??!!!???