Holmes_and_Watson

Marxism

People where I am have staged weekly parades, with placards mocking Southampton like "9-0" front and "9-0 Again" on the back; "Fail to Succeed With Rasmus" and "Romeu Out" in a Saints shield front and "Romeu In" in a Barca shield on the back. The chanting along with finger pointing and laughing also isn't great. That might not be Saints related though 🙂 Of folk that are interested in football, there's a mix of :- - Sympathy as they believe we've got such a good recruitment policy. - Banter as we put together such shocking performances, and in such long runs too. - Disinterest beyond knowing the score, as they are plastic Premier League fans. - Their own clubs have plenty of issues, and they are as caught up in those, as we are in ours.

I can understand a 'keeper not saving all of these. Baz saves none of them. As soon as it was going towards that part of the goal, I thought it was in. Baz's distribution was a plus a game or two back. We seem to be doing a lot less of that since.

Martin was part of an abject Norwich defence. They also thought it was the bestest thing ever to play out from the back. They had success with it too, in the Championsip, because 1) they had 2 very useful attacking fulbacks 2) they had at least some cover when they gave it away 3) They had a plan of attack for getting rid of it when it left the full backs. 4) the other teams hadn't learned to counter it yet. 5) The fullbacks tried to attack with it. They didn;t run 5 yards, stop and be proud that they had started what they hoped was a 70 pass move. 6) They full backs did take up full back positions, rather than moving inside to no benefit whatsover. In the Premier League, they got hammered relentlessly doing the same thing. By the time they came back down the second time, other teams had moved on and could counter it easily. When at Norwich, Martin was part of some particularly cringeworthy interviews that had absolutely no bearing on the match he'd just been involved in. I don;t recall him mentioning "scar tissue" though, so he's learned that much. 🙂

Be brave guys and hopefully all our new scars can be hidden.

Baz out sharpish for that one. Nearly another one as they pass effortlessy through us.

He's done as well as anyone told that all the good things about hsi game can be jettisoned and he now has to play a new poistion that involves not getting involved in attacks and being nowhere near full back when he has to race back.

'Boro one up.. Carrock urging his players forward. The previous 90 mins... Martin urging his players side and back and now hands up in desperation.

Stu with a poor pass. But we've no one back and it's another race back. Martin lookign frustrated, but he's tellign tehm to set up like this. No one else. He knows what will happen when we give it away.

Nice from Edozie. Not scared of getting a shot in.

Normally , teams chasing a game are vulnerable on the break. We're vunerable to a break at any time during a game. But when we are chasing the game, it's somehow even worse. Could have been another easily there.

Sulemana did well. It gets to Aribo. He's in a good position. SO points for that. But he lazily puts it into a space. He's not confident to take the risk of a shot. He's not aware enough to pick anyone out. He just as little as possible with it. An that's us as an outfit right now.

Arobo for Smallbone... because...

'Boro have been better But 'boo should have had 2 reds here. One of them at least. If only to hear Martin trot out "well, it's harder against 10 men" to seal his fate. 🙂

oh for heaven's sake. We can;t even pass it across midfield without giving it away. As always, we've everyone up. We had a warning about that a minute ago. This time, we're caught and ther'es noone. Baz blocks the shot. We break and they have 4 back. Jones is back. surely another booking!

Great. We'll see Manning a bit earlier next time. That will help. 🙂

I heard on the radio Steve Bruce is looking to get back in. 'Boro able to pick passes from deep, while still maintaining their shape. So many things we see from any of our opponents this season, that you wonder why seem incable of doing any of them. 😞

Never mind statistically. The worst defence in the league, as seen from orbit, it's that clear to everyone apart from Martin. 🙂

Edozie coming on. Hard on him not to be starting. But Martin clearly wanted a mroe experienced side for this particular defeat. Maybe Stu too. Again, getting a player to pin them back directly, when they are already going to not be bothered dropping back. Still, they might be able to unpick their defence, in a way that our disjointed passing effort failed to. Adams off, so I guess AA up front now.

Martin making the change he needed to make before we went behind. SO our pace merchant is on yet again against a defence who will be looking to soak up pressure from deeper. Well done.

Martin picks up a yellow. Some may think a red from his board is in order. All the mistakes from previous games are still here.

Howson was part of the abject Norwich midfield that Martin defended behind. Embarrassing to be second best with our resources. They have earned it.

sod

stupid foul. I don;t think he was going to get near it.

oh heck... a penalty!