Saint_clark

The veil has lifted. Martin has defended him to the hilt for much worse mistakes than he's made today. Lose such a critical game though and he tries to deflect blame away from his poor management by throwing Bazunu under the bus. I really don't like Martin, his management style or him as a person.

Bazunu again diving too early. Plant your foot, lean, then dive and you'll extend your reach you f*cking moron.

The whole point of a keeper is to bail out the rest of the team when it goes wrong. The last line of our defence is made of victoria sponge.

Did he dive for it yet?

This is some of the best football we've played all season I think.

Fraser should have buried that.

How many times this season have we needed to take advantage of dominance and regretted not doing it later on.

Downes 😂

Yep exactly what I meant. Not that i'm tired of Saints teams laying down and accepting piss taking from refs and other teams.

Gutted. Not sure who that was that booted the ball there when the ref told them to stop, our players are getting right pissed off out there. Like to see it.

What a fucking goal

lol

Stephens must be man marking someone?

Whatever the reason, THB should not be shoved out to RB to make way for Stephens. Stephens should be stepping in at RB instead of disrupting the decent partnership we had going.

Unless we get lucky and Spurs or someone want to sign Bazunu already this won't be happening. Bazunu is the golden child of the management.

Maybe 2-3 games from the end of the season.

Would like to see Mara given 4-5 games in a row starting up top before we write off his contribution.

I see what you're saying. We could however overtake them before the game against them, given their implosion is even more impressive than ours.

Still not getting what you're saying tbf. As it stands right now, we have two games in hand over Leicester including todays game V Ipswich. If we win both of those we'll be 3 points behind them as it stands (2 if they lose), level on games with them and would have 7 games left.

Eh? We have 9 games left.

I agree. If we had City or Newcastles millions to buy the best young ball playing players all over the park then sure, but we were regularly outspent by Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham etc even when we'd been in the Prem longer than them. It's a recipe for suicide.

Players must be gutted he's going.

Ah, the old Cortese approach. I like it. Unfortunately I don't agree. I think they see this style of football under Martin as the one that will have us "successful" in the Prem, by whatever metric they measure success.

We weren't robbed of it though, we threw it away. The crazy thing is if we win today and our game in hand there's still only 3 points in it, 4 points to the top. It's being dangled tantalisingly close in front of us but always just quite out of reach.

Good point. Let's hope we finish this season strong and get back to back promotions.