SuperSAINT Posted 28 December, 2016 Share Posted 28 December, 2016 Going to be tough. Very organised, very well drilled, good at set pieces & well rested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 28 December, 2016 Share Posted 28 December, 2016 At least no redmond They are bullies themselves and will get quite rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 28 December, 2016 Author Share Posted 28 December, 2016 At least no redmond They are bullies themselves and will get quite rough. Their wingers double-back to help the full-backs. Something Boufal could learn from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 28 December, 2016 Share Posted 28 December, 2016 I'm guessing there'll be a fair amount of rotation for this game, so perhaps a line-up something along these lines...? Forster Martina Yoshida VvD McQueen Romeu Hojbjerg Davis Sims Tadic Long Subs: Taylor, Bertrand, Fonte, Reed, JWP, Boufal, JRod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted 28 December, 2016 Share Posted 28 December, 2016 I'm guessing there'll be a fair amount of rotation for this game, so perhaps a line-up something along these lines...? Forster Martina Yoshida VvD McQueen Romeu Hojbjerg Davis Sims Tadic Long Subs: Taylor, Bertrand, Fonte, Reed, JWP, Boufal, JRod We will be lucky to get anything if that is the line up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteCampbell Posted 28 December, 2016 Share Posted 28 December, 2016 Boufal's last game before he is off to Africa, I think Puel will play him. I would rather Clasie play over Hojbjerg if he is fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints foreva Posted 28 December, 2016 Share Posted 28 December, 2016 Expect a lot of rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersonic Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 I'm guessing there'll be a fair amount of rotation for this game, so perhaps a line-up something along these lines...? Forster Martina Yoshida VvD McQueen Romeu Hojbjerg Davis Sims Tadic Long Subs: Taylor, Bertrand, Fonte, Reed, JWP, Boufal, JRod makes me realise how weak of a squad we actually have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Pulis will park the bus. I think we'll win this 1-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnery Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Reaction please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Pulis will park the bus. I think we'll win this 1-0. I'm sure you said in another thread that we will win easily as WBA play a very different game to spurs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Reaction please. We are already getting a standard reaction on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydie Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 God this game is going to be dreadful to watch if you're a neutral. Or a Saints fan. Or a West Brom fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 God this game is going to be dreadful to watch if you're a neutral. Or a Saints fan. Or a West Brom fan. Guess you will give it a miss then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydie Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Guess you will give it a miss then? Nope, i'll be watching but I'm a fan and entitled to my opinion, we play sh1te football. You going to be wearing your hat and face paint again then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Nope, i'll be watching but I'm a fan and entitled to my opinion, we play sh1te football. You going to be wearing your hat and face paint again then? Hat and face paint.... lol I suppose you will be moaning before the team is announced, after the team is anounced and continually at every mistake until we win and then shut up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomer Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Pulis will park the bus. I think we'll win this 1-0. The bus is already parked up in the north car park ready to be driven in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Trouble is, our bus is the narrowest ever to come off a production line, with no conductor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Enough of this diamond crap please. Forster Cedric, Virgil, Fonte, Bertrand Romeu, Clasie Davis, Boufal, Tadic/Long Rodriguez/Long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Enough of this diamond crap please. Forster Cedric, Virgil, Fonte, Bertrand Romeu, Clasie Davis, Boufal, Tadic/Long Rodriguez/Long No Hojberg then, thought he was supposed to be the bee's bolleaux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 No Hojberg then, thought he was supposed to be the bee's bolleaux. I think the others are in front of him at the moment. He definitely isn't a defensive midfielder, so Clasie and Romeu in front of him. I think Davis in a more forward position is in front of him at the moment, but Pierre's time will come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 If Clasie isn't fit, replace him with Reed. The only other proper defensive midfielder we have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKD Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 (edited) Enough of this diamond crap please. Forster Cedric, Virgil, Fonte, Bertrand Romeu, Clasie Davis, Boufal, Tadic/Long Rodriguez/Long Is this the 'diamond crap' that we haven't played since the first 2 or 3 games of the season Edited 29 December, 2016 by SKD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 29 December, 2016 Author Share Posted 29 December, 2016 If Clasie isn't fit, replace him with Reed. The only other proper defensive midfielder we have. Our midfielder's really are tiny. I mentioned before the game that I worried we'd get bullied last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Enough of this diamond crap please. Forster Cedric, Virgil, Fonte, Bertrand Romeu, Clasie Davis, Boufal, Tadic/Long Rodriguez/Long What on earth are you talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydie Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Hat and face paint.... lol I suppose you will be moaning before the team is announced, after the team is anounced and continually at every mistake until we win and then shut up.. Nope again, will be cheering them on and hope that we win - I never even moan when a team is selected, unless we went totally left field and stuck Kelvin or someone in goal for a laugh(actually based on frasers form that's not a terrible idea). But i'm not going to bury my head in the sand and say nothing if we are playing a dross style of football otherwise nothing will change. I'd rather us lose but look like we really wanted the game, 1 shot on target against Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool is terrible football to play regardless of the opposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefoggy Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Lets pray Puel rotates the keeper, anyone would be better than Forster right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Ash Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Is Marshall fit? He's a decent keeper and can't be worse than Forster was last night. I would drop Boufal for tadic and bring in long for Redmond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydie Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Is Marshall fit? He's a decent keeper and can't be worse than Forster was last night. I would drop Boufal for tadic and bring in long for Redmond. Marshall? The one playing for Hull? We have McCarthy and Taylor, but McCarthy is injured atm, we've even stuck Harry Lewis from the u23's on the bench for a few games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammysaint Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 This is a must win if we want to finish top 8, WBA are very solid and going to compete with us West Ham Everton and LCFC for 7th and 8th, so we can not lose this. The top 6 teams are way too good now and we must win home games to stay in the mix for Europa league spots if we dont win a cup, if we lose again it will only cause this board to melt down and have more VVD off in Jan in the papers. Team will be rotated and thank god Redmond will be banned, the guy is poor at times but Puels love for him is costing us at times. Forster Bertrand Yoshida VVD Martina Romeu Clasie Reed Tadic Long Boufal Jay Rod and Davis to come off the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 (edited) Our midfielder's really are tiny. I mentioned before the game that I worried we'd get bullied last night. Which is exactly as I said it would be. The day of 4ft 6 squirts like Ball and Scholes in DM is long gone. What they lacked in stature was made up with aggressivity which would today ensure they'd see red after 10 or 15 minutes. Edited 29 December, 2016 by Window Cleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Hat and face paint.... lol I suppose you will be moaning before the team is announced, after the team is anounced and continually at every mistake until we win and then shut up.. Was that you riding the bike up Shirley High Street last night.....bowler hat, face paint, Saints onesie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Was that you riding the bike up Shirley High Street last night.....bowler hat, face paint, Saints onesie? No Chance.... and never shirley high street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 0-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 29 December, 2016 Author Share Posted 29 December, 2016 A worry for me is low on confidence / out of form Long & Tadic appear. Really need a big performance & confidence boost from them. Let's forget about Bournemouth for a minute and we are still lacking cutting edge & didn't really work the keeper last night. WBA really are going to be a tough but to crack, and in Rondon & Chadli, they now have quality to hurt us at the other end. We might need another Boufal produced rabbit-out-of-the-hat again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintTex Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 With Redmond's suspension and Tadic seemingly fit again, I hope we are going to finally see Tadic and Boufal together in the Starting XI on Saturday. (and then Boufal is off to Africa! Just great.) Defensively, we need to be tight, because I fear if we give up a first half goal, 3 points won't be possible. I am a bit down about the team today and I have been maybe a bit spoiled from past seasons. I miss the offensive creativity and fluidity we used to exhibited (we have potential, see JRod's first goal against Bournemouth [Davis/Boufal], but it has been far a few between). There used to be such joy and teamwork amongst the players, something is missing. Tadic really misses Pelle, I imagine. When those two clicked it was a thing of beauty. We don't have that same dynamism at all this year. Don't see that changing much for the rest of the season; every game is going to be a slog and I reckon our overall goal differential will hover around zero for the rest of the season. However, A top 10 finish is still very do-able. This summer is going to be a very crucial summer in my opinion. We still have a good team with good players, but we have had a blip; gone backward slightly. The question is: does that trend continue next season or do we get ambitious this summer and correct it? lineup for the game: Forster Martina Yoshida VvD McQueen Clasie Romeu Højbjerg Boufal Long Tadic not normally what I would prefer at the back four, but would rather have, Cedric, Fonte, and Bertrand available for Everton away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 God this game is going to be dreadful to watch if you're a neutral. Or a Saints fan. Or a West Brom fan. It will almost certainly be the last game on Match of the Day! WBA have only sold about 1000 tickets so despite the cheap cost it is a game that doesn't seem to appeal to them, tickets sold well in the home end with block 43 already sold to Saints fans plus block 44 now on sale. 0-0 my prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 It will almost certainly be the last game on Match of the Day! WBA have only sold about 1000 tickets so despite the cheap cost it is a game that doesn't seem to appeal to them, tickets sold well in the home end with block 43 already sold to Saints fans plus block 44 now on sale. 0-0 my prediction. New Years Eve getting back to Birmingham at 9:30 I would expect a bit of family pressure creeping in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IFHP Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 It will almost certainly be the last game on Match of the Day! WBA have only sold about 1000 tickets so despite the cheap cost it is a game that doesn't seem to appeal to them, tickets sold well in the home end with block 43 already sold to Saints fans plus block 44 now on sale. 0-0 my prediction. To be fair, i'm not sure we would take that much more to West Brom for a 3pm Ko on new years eve. Still could be worse i see Norwich are at Brentford for a 5:30 pm ko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 To be fair to Forster I don't think he could have saved any of those goals last night but he does need to be braver off his line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graffito Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 I heard a rumour these ***** are threatening to play a bit of football these days. Is it too much to hope they have a go on Saturday? I think their poor away turnout answers that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Do WBA take numbers anywhere?! It's hardly far and they've sold 1000? There support is pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USA SaintsFan Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 Do WBA take numbers anywhere?! It's hardly far and they've sold 1000? There support is pathetic. We didn't take too many up to stoke which is hardly that much further, although it being a weekday certainly didn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 29 December, 2016 Share Posted 29 December, 2016 It would be nice if we could come out attacking (like we did against Spurs) but actually maintain it for the whole game. It's so frustrating when we appear to take our foot off of the gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgey Posted 30 December, 2016 Share Posted 30 December, 2016 This will be a very tough game - player for player we are very evenly matched so this will come down to tactics and home advantage. Both teams very strong defensively and both have players who on their day are match winners (rondon/chadli/Phillips jrod/Boufal/tadic). Ironically I think this may come down to set pieces with both sets of centre halves perhaps the biggest threat. Heart says 1-0 but head 1-1. Confident we will get something (and we need to as I can't see us getting anything at Everton). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 30 December, 2016 Share Posted 30 December, 2016 Draw the most likely result. 0-0 I reckon. Thriller too. Might be a couple of corners. We will have lots of possession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 30 December, 2016 Share Posted 30 December, 2016 To be fair to Forster I don't think he could have saved any of those goals last night but he does need to be braver off his line A better keeper saves the last 2 in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasoneuelllfanclub Posted 30 December, 2016 Share Posted 30 December, 2016 I would imagine yoshida, Martina, mcqueen, PEH and tadic will come in. Claise will if fit also. Strange mcqueen and sims not been in match day squad of late. Mcqueen isn't injured not sure on sims though. Sent from my SM-A300FU using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 30 December, 2016 Share Posted 30 December, 2016 What on earth are you talking about? Is this the 'diamond crap' that we haven't played since the first 2 or 3 games of the season Ok, fair enough, ignore the diamond comment, but the team I fancy would still be a change from our current tactics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErwinK1961 Posted 30 December, 2016 Share Posted 30 December, 2016 To be fair to Forster I don't think he could have saved any of those goals last night but he does need to be braver off his line Actually coming off his line at some point would be a start. Never seen such a big goalkeeper be so afraid of venturing out of his six yard box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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