eurosaint

With a heavy heart and against my better judgement, I voted OUT ! Normally I would opt for stability BUT from the very beginning I have never been able to understand what Claude is on about and I'd be surprised if the players do either (I realise that his English is limited but I don't that is the main issue) ! He reminds me of a former French colleague who also talked gibberish and although unintentional it caused serious disharmony within the working group! I've no idea whether he has lost the dressing room but if he has then I'd cut and run !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38491151 This has been said before but clearly many do not believe it, it is not 'fitness' per se that is the problem but rather intensity and concentration ! Note that we have started well in each of the last 3 games but finished badly, penalties and red cards have come more readily than before (intensity and concentration) ! Wenger is whinging about recovery time, Allardyce has called for the 'fixtures guy' to be sacked, Klopp and Guardiola both refused to discuss performance because of player fatigue. All of their teams have had more recovery time than Saints (see attached table) so do we choose to ignore the experienced experts and blame only our manager and players ? Whilst I personally do not consider this to be the only factor, I don't think that we should discount it completely !

Wrong forum mate, the idea here is that you slag off every team selection that the manager makes (without any knowledge of fitness etc..) and then in the (unlikely today, I confess) event that we get a result you just say that "i'm happy to be proved wrong" and move on, simples !

From the Alpine snow to the Heisen berg, from Bournemouth to Glasgow and all the other weird and wonderful places in which you may abide, I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and festive greetings from me on the IoW and my family in Surrey, Belgium and Cape Town ! We truly are an international group of (sometimes) like-minded people ! Enjoy

I know that he is improving but this might just be too much for him

Venting frustrations is one thing but if we go behind after 6 minutes of a match and a ('so called' supporter) posts - LOL PUEL That to me is pretty much the same as an away fan in the home end jumping up and baiting those around him ! Sadly, many (including me) rise to the bait are are then pronounced to be 'happy clappers' whichI do not consider to be the case ! It is plain for all to see that the usual suspects are more than just voicing frustration but are deliberately seeking attention ! All IMHO of course !

LOL Heisenberg

Thread summary to date : They have a far superior manger to us - FACT They have a far superior attitude than us - FACT Really strange that they sit below us in the league, eh ???

Was just thinking the same thing, yes he is a negative prat but the personal insults about weight etc.. are totally uneccessary IMHO !

Need Tadic to create something a bit different and break them down !

As you asked, I'm happy to name names ! The SWF c^nt of the year awards are as follows : 1. Heisenberg 2. Alpine_Saint 3. Batman Apologies to likes of St Robbie who just missed out on the medal positions but please realise that being a WUM takes a lot of imagination and application, so the winners are fully deserving IMHO ! I trust that this post is in keeping with the spirit of the thread and I will earnestly endeavour to keep my responses to the incessant negative drivel on this one rather than individual threads ! HTH, Euro

If Berahino is the answer, I think that we are asking the wrong question:mcinnes:

That's exactly what he is doing and he is being clever, no point in talking down the guys who you have to rely upon ! I'm sure that we will pull one out of the bag, probably from the French league and we may well be impressed by the 'thinking out of the box' ! Ps. Alpine's post = typical carbage !

Another way of putting it : Les Reed is widely recognised by the football media as a master in the transfer business ! He has signed players like Mane, Tadic, Fonte, Bertrand, Pelle, Wanyama, Lovren, Van Dyck, Forster, Cedric, Lambert and Alderweireld. He has expanded and improved the infrastructure of one the finest footballing academies in the country and is well respected by his peers ! I'm struggling to think of a director of football with a better track record in recent years !

Nice, you try to think out of the box and you are classed as 'moronic' ! I could have just have slagged off the manager and most of the players (see the match thread!) but I preferred to offer a constructive alternative! By all means disagree but remember that common courtesy costs nothing !

Given that Charlie is likely to be out for a while and that the others couldn't score in a brothel. Would it not be worth a try to have Fonte and Yoshida at the back and Virgil up front ? We are runners by out of options, at least until January so could do a lot worse ! Not holding my breath mind

So have the Liebherr family and Les Reed but you seem to spend most of your time slagging them off !

TBF that article relates only to the 6 wealthiest clubs in the country (who always have the biggest/strongest squads) ! My point included, Fulham, Everton, Swansea, Newcastle, Wigan and Birmingham who are in a different category and all suffered ! Anyway, all about opinions and at least we have had a proper football discussion rather plumbing the depths of personal abuse which seems to have become the norm !!

Are you suggesting a '3 piece' forward line ??? :)

I beg to differ, many clubs have suffered by playing in Europe - Birmingham and Wigan actually went down when they were involved and since the inception of the league format only 4 teams from 12 have maintained their PL positions and they were the biggest clubs with the biggest squads ! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2522055/The-Europa-League-bad-health-Premier-League-clubs-improve-it.html Pull has stated a couple of times that fitness per se is not the problem but that intensity and concentration is. I tend to agree with him !

Credit to Puel for such a clever team selection, he is brave, innovative and a great believer in giving youth a chance ! Only downside this evening was reading total crap from some of our thick posters on the pre match thread ! COYS

Good line up, win tonight and there should be a few embarrassed posters on this thread ! Bring it on...... COYS

Gone from sublime to ridiculous ! Until a few weeks ago we heard only muffled sounds but yesterday the level was like a Status Quo concert in the 70's ! TBF, I could just about live with the Beatles and the Who but the other stuff was in excruciating ! Cannot be beyond the wit of man to strike the right balance so please take note Saints PR department !

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I'm sure that no Skate will get upset by this post as they will not understand a word of it ! "Wot wif all them big words 'n that, innit !"