Behind Enemy Lines

The Dell to St Mary’s. Although for pure nostalgia, many wouldn’t agree I’m sure.

Lighthouse, how’s your brother, pingpong, getting on with his recovery?

What a shitpinger!!!!! Their keeper had no chance. Only our very own pingpong would have saved that!

Baz, I can understand now why you’re such a shit ‘keeper. You’re blind as a bat!

We’d be at least 3 down now if we had pingpong in goal.

Why would the Premier League be pissed off about an FA Cup game? If anything, it shows that the Premier League is higher thought of than the cup, if that’s what we did.

We would have lost today with pingpong in goal.

I wish we were Norwich.

Fixed for you Baz. You’re welcome.

You’re just being silly now Gav. You know you’d drop the key down a drain when it’s handed to you.

I’m not saying this to be argumentative here, but these stats need to be taken as they are. That is, for the squad we have, compared to the rest of this league, we should be winning the majority of our games, drawing a few and very rarely losing. Comparing stats in this league this year, to those of Poch, Koeman, Strachan etc, where we often had a much weaker squad compared to the rest of the league, isn’t really a true comparison.

Good to hear Gao again.

Looking at their lineup, they’ll be cooking.

They’re now copying our tactics.

We go around in circles on here, reacting to each defeat like it’s the end of the world and each win like we’re suddenly prime Brazil. Stats again being used to prove arguments about this that and the other. I still believe we should never have appointed Still and Tonda and a few before them. With the money invested, the squad we have, a proven, decent manager would have us top two in my opinion. Easily. Our bad run was game after game of bad formations (yes they do matter) with players playing out of position and playing players like Bazunu, Manning etc, pre thinking the subs before the match starts and always changing like for like when it wasn’t working. His win record should be good, as on paper we have one of, if not the strongest squad in the league. Compare that to managers that in our history have kept us mid table and higher in the top division, going on decent cup runs and even lifting the FA Cup once. There’s as much chance last night that the players did their own thing second half despite what the manager said. Indeed, they came out early so probably decided between them what to do as they should have been ashamed of their first half performance. That showed good character from the players which should be great going forward if they keep it up. It shows our squad is one of the strongest so should be challenging higher up. Not because of some tactical and inspiring half time talk from Tonda.