Galway saint

time will tell how AM does but I can’t see we are losing much in goalkeeping terms as Baz was performing well below standard and it might mean we are now more direct from the back

Hopefully this means we are more direct with our play out from the back - certainly looked so last night

He was nothing short of sensational tonight

some half of football

come on !

decent team and looks the most balanced - maybe swap fraser for brooks

We are trying to implement the city model with on the whole championship players

preston away was a decent save. apart from that and WBA can’t recall others but could be wrong. he started out as an outfield player and that what he still looks like to me. he’s part of the ‘possession’ based football philosophy that we have invented at saints where being good at distribution is more important than keeping the ball out of the net

agreed to some degree and you can’t have it your own way all the time but it’s a pattern that repeats itself so it’s worth considering why if we want to improve as a team

What I don’t get it’s how we can go so quickly go from being in control of a game to it being panic stations and backs to the walls. Even in a game at 2-0 we are a ten minute spell away from all the good work being undone. Not sure if that’s the players or RM. I think a lot of it is to do with the midfield set up and formation and it’s been a problem for some time. We struggle to control games and we should be able to do better with the players we have. Even against sides like Birmingham and Huddersfield it was seat of the pants stuff. All the subs post 60 mins don’t help team cohesion either.

watched the second a few times and it’s not one of his worst ( from the angles i’ve seen) but yet another to file in the ‘ could have done better’ category. i can’t remember the last time he made a decent save - WBA away perhaps. seems the club and management are happy with a keeper who doesn’t make saves and lets in a lot of goals he should keep out. i like blackmore but on solent today he said that baz was good with his feet and a good shotstopper but was not confident coming off his line. where on earth has he seen evidence of good shot stopping. we are now nearly two years into this folly and hopefully we won’t make it a third but I’m far from convinced. we just need to cut our losses as a decent replacement would be an easy way to cut the number of goals we concede.

that’s a great post - sums it’s up. last time we properly controlled a game was WBA but as you say we won and we are back in it if we beat preston on tuesday

incredible stuff

win next two and we are back in it

leeds 1-0 down

the smothering save from vardy was good and he was confident and commanded his box. seemed to know where his goals were. Baz in goal and they would not have won that. first ten minutes I thought leicester would win easily but they were quite profligate up front and seemed to run out of ideas

why does JB have to force his way back in ? didn’t do anything wrong and was part of a very successful and settled back four

Yes I think the goal movements is about all there is. In the Ipswich game the commentary team said 10 of our goals had started from Bazanu. No idea how that compares to other keepers - guess that’s another statistic!

in this particular case what is it that the stats don’t show us that is interesting ?

he’s a crap keeper for this level that’s about it really

You can be a good keeper in a shit team You can be a bad keeper in a good team Baz is the latter The lad at rotherham is the former We all want saints to be a better team so let’s get a new and better keeper

might be a few interested but you would have thought £5million would do it

I read he would be an available for £5-6Million but could be bollocks - seems about right though for a championship keeper

or we just get a decent keeper - that wouldn’t solve it but it would make a big difference

difficult to assess without a replay but thought baz should have come for that