Chez

Good composure from Forster with the ball at his feet. He made one fuck up earlier, but overall he's been tidy.

jesus, he looked sharp there though.

JWP and Armstrong have done very well

change of shape?

not a fan, so Djenepo for me.

it was a clear yellow.

kiss of death as he gives it away very badly.

KWP having a decent game. Not sure if he could have done more for the goal, but he's been very good on the ball. Back to where he was at teh start of the season.

if we are talking about Redmond, he's had a decent game. Made a lot of good decisions and has given the ball away much. He's pushing into the space...he just knows he doesnt have the pace to beat the fullback.

fair enough. Let's hope we can create a bit more second half.

competing, not throwing men forward, but working hard to prevent then getting between the lines and breaking. Normally, as our players get tired, spaces open and that extra covering player is not there and then the class tells.

SWF mafia right there: "my opinion is fact".

wasn't easy at all.

to be fair the keeper completely smothered the chance.

We're we fucking pretty shite before he came? We have basically gone to the heights and back down again.

it is, but I put the end of 19/20 season down to the fact we acted very professionally during the shut down and when games recommenced we were right on it, whilst the rest were on the beach. Far play to Ralf for getting our minds right. I think also we coped well with the empty hollow stadiums really well, whilst our opponents seemed to switch off. We crack under the pressure, but are good on the training ground perhaps. The games in empty stadiums have the same feel. Into 20/21 season and we carried that confidence we had gained through. When we lost players due to injury the wheels came off and we have not been able to get them back on despite players now being fit. That's all I've got. Why do you think we did well and now its gone pear shaped?

as well as we played in the first half. To me it looked like Spurs were lost without Kane and we felt much more confident. When Ings went off the inverse occurred. The second was woeful. So many panicky clearances and jack shit on the break. Walcott, Tella, Adams etc. have to hurt them much more when we get a break chance. We just don't scare teams like they do to us. In the second half we suddenly looked like a side full of under 18s. kicking it away anywhere or nowhere. I've said this so many times. We give the ball away cheaply in their third far too often, we then consume so much energy recovering, covering gaps (which the midfield does quite well,) and protecting the back four. But the longer the game goes on those midfielders get tired, the gaps widen, their is less protection, less bodies and players like Son take advantage. We hide our deficiencies, but for only so long. That also affects our attack. We get tired and the quality goes, which means the final parts of the game we create next to nothing. We are almost never pressing near the end of games for equalisers. we have faded a long time ago. Its not a lack of fitness. Certainly not a lack of effort. Its too much wasted effort because players don't keep the ball and use the ball well. The only remedy is better players.

you are right, but if they do, will we be as interested in what is left? I struggle to get my head round winning the English top flight that doesn't have the big 6 clubs in it. Will it feel like winning the Championship now, Great, but not the same as winning the Prem? Not sure. I think we will find out though, assuming Saints win at some day of course.

everything you say might be true, but the reality is "because they can, and they will". Winning the European cup so many times may have made Madrid what it is, but they don't care and no longer need `everyone else', regarding themselves as bigger than UEFA and the CL. It's sad, unfair and selfish, but that is the capitalist world we live in. Dog eat dog, rich getting richer etc. For me its been inevitable that the big clubs would form a closed European super league sooner rather than later. These owners don't want a pyramid, shared wealth and competition, they want every last dollar they can get, every year, without the fear of it not being there next season.

I am in no way a fan of this proposal, but just for context, out of a total of €3250million of commercial revenue, the big twelve received about €633m last year. UEFA pockets €295m to administer the tournament. They give the domestic leagues €227.5m and use another €560m to fund the Europa league. In the eyes of the big clubs, there is a hell of a lot of money that their brands earn that never reaches them. They will argue that the vast majority of that £3.25b comes in because Madrid, Barcelona etc. feature, so why do they only see 20% of it? The big 12 owners will also say, "who made UEFA god?" and "why do we let them tell us what to do and how much of our money we can have?" Administrators should work for us, not the other way round - as was the case when the Prem was formed. The clubs will argue that UEFA gets rich on the back of the clubs. Likewise FIFA gets rich on the back of the players they pay ($4.6billion in revenue in 2018).

a shit load of money?

Could be right. Jankevitz ought be getting ten minutes at the end of games, where possible. CMs do the most running and must get tired and this is where gaps open. I don't expect him to start any games this season, our CMs by and large have done enough to retain their places, but with a year left on his contract, lets see if he is worth fighting for this summer.

you don't get that they are tired or the reason for our drop of form?

when Bertrand is sent up for corners, i think that tells you everything about our arial prowess. Maybe a target man might be an idea...

good point. Our tactics and general shape is terrible. We give teams everything they want - space and lots of it in or final third.