POST-MATCH THREAD: Southampton v Charlton Athletic: Saturday 21st February 2026: KO 15:00

oohaahmortimer said:

Would have lost another house backing Soton to win but the transformation in performance was as contrastingly good as the Pompey home game was bad from the previous match.
Fairplay to our boys for turning it around .
Really enjoyed today’s trip (not enough to want to go to WBA, the mrs has won the short straw for that to take petrol head ) good away day , plenty of old faces there, no not you Fanny you’re a youngster !!
Also bumped in to @Mosscat who I hadn’t seen since that crazy trip to protest in Belgium , what year was that we couldn’t work it out?
Great atmosphere from the away fans and the support was there even when losing .
Shit traffic getting away from there but the buzz of a point made the journey a lot easier but the high light was Fanny’s chocolate fingers , thank you and how on earth could you remember petrol heads real name when I even struggle , amazing memory ! 

Weegie Addick said:

Such a great thread to read! Only followed on the stream but almost feel like I was there from all the collective away day experiences - the joys of a sweet or chocolate finger from @Fanny Fanackapan to the lows of the shite that @Sword65pf had to endure. 

We were so resilient today, with our BFK at the heart of it. I love him already. Lloydy was his usual brilliant self - though he did get beaten for the header for the goal. Difficult one mind you. Bell and Ramsay unsung heroes. Kaminski didn’t flap too much either and showed the confidence of experience which is probably why he keeps his place. 

Docherty did what Doc does. Coady is kind of anonymous in a really important way 🤔

Basically a great team performance. I’d even say let’s not be too harsh on Kelman- it was backs to the wall and he dropped deep too. 

And well done NJ for some good wind ups. Boy does he like to hold a grudge. 

On to Tuesday.

It didn’t spoil the day, didn’t endure it for long, soon nipped it in the bud👍

oohaahmortimer said:

Would have lost another house backing Soton to win but the transformation in performance was as contrastingly good as the Pompey home game was bad from the previous match.
Fairplay to our boys for turning it around .
Really enjoyed today’s trip (not enough to want to go to WBA, the mrs has won the short straw for that to take petrol head ) good away day , plenty of old faces there, no not you Fanny you’re a youngster !!
Also bumped in to @Mosscat who I hadn’t seen since that crazy trip to protest in Belgium , what year was that we couldn’t work it out?
Great atmosphere from the away fans and the support was there even when losing .
Shit traffic getting away from there but the buzz of a point made the journey a lot easier but the highlight was Fanny’s chocolate fingers , thank you and how on earth could you remember petrol heads real name when I even struggle , amazing memory ! 

Away support praise from oohaah?! I have waited long for this day

MuttleyCAFC said:

He is an emotional man and doesn't mind giving it back. In terms of the abuse he gets, it is clearly over the top and he refers to the treatment of his family. I say good on him. We are no saints Iexcuse the pun), I'm sure we would be just as bad if Appleton came to the Valley. It is one thing I dislike about some football fans. Their total lack of standards.  

We agree then but I would like to add that foul and abusive behaviour in society is punishable by law. If his family have really been abused then I sympathise with him but he should go the police.

Ranting at opposition fans and making snidey comments in interviews doesn’t help his cause. If in your example Appleton came to The Valley, fans have a right to boo, but really we could argue that if there’s collective singing of ’Appleton’s a w****r then, using CCTV, those fans should be punished.  It’s done now, quite rightly, for racist chants so why not for other vocal abuse. I was frankly amazed 5-10 years ago that Wimbledon fans were allowed a banner reading ’Robinson is a c***'. It would have been easy to find the perpetrators.

A clear debate is needed into how to define ’abuse’ and whether the line should be drawn differently inside, as opposed to outside a stadium. I also think that players and managers are responsible. I would like players celebrating goals in front of opposition fans to consider why they are doing it - do that not think it’s unnecessary at least, and arguably disrespectful to the paying public? Maybe NJ should be opening up this debate in his interviews.  Unlike us, he has the platform to do so. I would have respect for him if he did. The likeliness is that he knows that the truth is that he has nothing to really complain about, and so I conclude that he’s just acting (like I said before to lots of unreasoned lols) like a petulant child. 

What is pathetic is fans who dish out the abuse then get a fraction back and become all precious about it. Right thinking Stoke fans called this out recently when some of their fans were saying Jones should be charged.

Great result. To get something from this game was so important. Nathan Jones pulls it out of the hat again! I couldn’t see that coming after we went 1-0 down but we ground it out and we could have won it near the end. It’s surprising that after a Charlton good result the weekend feels so much better. Haha! 

Watched Sky’s 15 mins highlights package, I don’t think we had the ball till the 9th minute! 

golfaddick said:

PWR.

At the game.

Now, I don't want to sound like a Debbie Downer but I now remember why I don't go to away games anymore.

Yes the lads did great & scrapped bloody well for a point......but fuck me that ain't football as I know it. Spent most of the game camped in our half & only looked like scoring for 10 mins after we equalised. Then we retreated back in our shells & looked to take a point.

I will post more later but I just hope we don't take that mindset into the West Brom match. They are fragile & we need to be on the front foot from the off. Give their fans something to be fearful of.....not something to cheer.

2 years and you’ve just noticed.

Sword65pf said:

eastterrace6168 said:

All in all, we put in a bloody good defensive performance in a game we set out ideally not to lose, and still created chances to get a goal as well, as shown by that Carey equaliser, so plan A worked out just right, and but for that disallowed Dykes goal, we may have travelled home with all three instead of one point...

Speaking to a couple of saints fans after they thought we were really good in defence, Dykes looked handball to me, didn’t even cheer to be honest knew the ref would blow up.

Same here, it looked a clear handball to me as well, it was right in front of the away section.

jose said:

The Southampton goal was a lovely header. I suppose people might say Jones failed in that moment, personally I don’t agree, however imagine what might have been the score if Lloyd hadn’t brilliantly saved us from going behind in the third minute or so.
Jones is head and shoulders player of the season for me…sorry Collins.

Jones is so clearly our player of the year its not even worth going to a vote. He should be given a new contract to recognise how important a player he is to us. Its a joke that Kaminski, who should be dropped, is  probably on double his wage. 

The sound system at st Mary’s really pissed all over ours though, we badly need to sort it. Thunderstruck sounded great, we had a spell of playing it back in the day.Just an observation 😂

Jones.

peterreeves said:

Can anyone tell me who made that brilliant goal line clearance in the first few minutes of the Sky highlights..

Lloyd Jones