Duncan Barkes
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No one's nose got broken.
No one got a black eye even.
It was what John Massino himself describes as handbags.
There were about eight or ten players involved.
Nicholas Schmidt came over and grabbed hold of a Southampton player and sort of pulled him away a little bit.
They always pull away somebody from the opposition if they've got the testosterone.
If they're seeking peace, they'll pull their own player away.
But Schmidt went straight up to a Southampton player who was just sort of jostling away and
pulled him off he's a big lad smith you don't realize that it doesn't look big in isolation but he's 6'5 and you wouldn't argue and so the melee was it raised it raised the experience in our memories as we look back already after the game it's a memory now but of course we're building up to our goal we're one nil down and there's whatever it was 10 12 minutes to go we're one nil down and
We're 1-0 down at home and we're anchored in the bottom three.
We've got a couple of games in hand, but you've got to get something from those games.
We want something from this game, not just because we need the point, because it's that lot.
And we don't want them to go home on their coaches, 45 of them, singing.
We don't want them to go home happy.
We want them to go home down in the dumps to refresh.
A slightly old-fashioned way of putting it.