lambtiss

I wish we had a decent manager like Nathan Jones

Is he MLG in disguise 🥸

Can't help thinking that the Scots saw through his chicanery and blag a lot sooner than we did or perhaps they are just more vocal and active?

I think the majority knew nothing about Downs and considered him a gamble. The main sentiment I recall is concern that we were gambling on an uknknown youngster, with hardly any games behind him with no experience in this country or league as a backup to a permanently injured Stewart. So, yes, because it was.a gamble on a vital role, it was a terrible call. in your recent posts, you have labelled the majority of Saints fans “feeble minded idiots” and suggested that someone has a grudge against you because they live in a PO postcode. Your comments suggest that a village somewhere is missing an idiot.

I assume you are on a windup here. If not, then you must be the "feeble minded idiot" that you brand a huge number of Saints fans as. Addressing, your first point, Downs is clearly not ready for the competitive and physical nature of the championship. His touch is poor, his positional sense is woeful. Any decent scout should have seen that he is not ready for this league, even as backup. Point 2, we didn't need a CF who scores lots of goals. What we needed was a strong, physical target man who can hold the ball up, link the play and create space for goalscorers such as Armstrong and Archer. This is what Che Adams did so well for us. Anyone can see Downs is not that player. Point 3, there are plenty of players that could have filled that role. Three teams that we have already played have shown this, Derby have bought Carlton Morris, Wrexham have bought Kieffer Moore, Hull have bought McBurnie. These are all players that SR would never buy because they only buy players with a view to resale value, not who might just do a job for a season and get us promotion. Point 4, it didn't require visionary skills to predict that someone| who has had a series of recurring injuries for two years, including hamstring, would breakdown again. Especially when, after not having many minutes this season we played him 3 times in 8 days. I don't normally respond to other posters in this way, but your post riled me with it's idiocy. Congratulations, if that was your aim. Although, it does feel too easy taking aim at your points, rather like attacking a dead sheep

Struggling to understand a manager that thinks the team will be better by taking off Scienza and replacing him with Downs.

He looks as if he is waiting for an invitation to touch the ball.

Puzzled by that substitution

RM did not drop Bazunu. He got injured.

We've scored then stopped playing again

Good free Kick

So, we need to wrap Ross Stewart in cotton wool and transfer Quarshie to Portsmouth

There's a cream for that

That's Fellows off then

Positives. Nathan Wood has been excellent. Tom Fellows has been our best attacking threat. Ross Stewart has had his best 45 minutes for Saints. Not much else

I'd bite your arm off for mid table, right now.

Nathan Wood has been good

I think I'd take survival now

I agree. He has had two seasons of recurring injuries. It will take several full games to recover any degree of fitness and sharpness. Only then will we see the real Ross Stewart and be able to really judge him.

That was something to build upon. Defence looked better without Baz, THB and Captain Shoehorn. Armstrong looking good again and Stewart is an improvement on Downs and can only improve with game time. Although, he must be the only Scot alive who needs to put some weight on. We need to improve further, especially sharpness around the penalty area.

We have committed a massive gaffe by going into this season without an experienced and fit central striker. Which three proven strikers are you referring to?

If you ignore junior football, he scored 13 goals in 42 matches for FC Koln, less than 1 in 3.

As would Keifer Moore or Richard Kone

Absolutely, his body language stinks as though he doesn’t want to be here. All strikers have periods of bad form and their confidence suffers, but they still need to go through the motions. That’s the way you play yourself back into form. You are never going to resolve the issues by just strolling around the pitch. The classic example of this was Shane Long, not the tallest and not the most talented, but compensated for his weaknesses by chasing and competing for everything and making defenders lives a nightmare, until something clicked, which it often did.

To be fair it wouldn't be difficult to be marginally better than he is currently showing.