Galway saint

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

Constant chopping and changing with no method to it He seems to have no idea of his best team whereas to most it’s pretty obvious Baz ( least shit) KWP JB THB Bree Downes Aribo Stu Frazer Adams AArmstrong

he’s an average coach

why can’t we afford to sack him ?

I’d play stephens in goal if he has to play

RM can either produce a seat of the pants game ( huddersfield, birmingham, ipswich) or a dull turgid game ( huddersfield away, blackburn away). he seems incapable of consistently delivering a team that controls and wins games. the last time we achieved that was WBA.

Think he will say we needed to be braver on the ball

despite losing to Ipswich twice i feel we could win that not sure we could beat leeds or leicester

No one to hold the ball up and good to see Baz still there