Saint_clark

Twice already he's given the ball away cheaply. What does Martin see?

😂 I love these intermittent posts about Mara even though he's not doing anything wrong.

Armstrong should have got that on target at least. Great play by Downes and Aribo.

Fucking amazing play between Manning and Stephens there from that throw in. Jesus Christ.

Great play out from McCarthy in the build up too...

Fucking Stephens. Why is he so desperate to get him in the team.

Shit delivery from Manning, behind the run of every single saints player.

Is he playing midfield then?

Fuck me. There hasn't even been a single pass to him to hold up yet.

How the fuck is he getting blamed for this 😂 it's up to the midfield and defence to keep and hold the ball first.

This is poor but not sure why people are overreacting. They can't sustain this pressure and will burn out. We just need to ride it out.

We could have just passed it around from kick off and let their fans calm down, instead we gave it straight to them to ramp up the pressure from the off.

For a team that loves possession seems strange we'd boot it to their defence from kick off to allow them to dominate possession right away.

Armstrong on his own through the middle is worse than playing Mara as we lose his effective play down the wings as well.

All he has to do is go back in time and spend his entire career playing as a striker instead of a winger.

Mara to score a hat trick and shut everyone up.

When I look at how sensitive younger generations are now it does make me wonder how football is going to look after the next 5-10 years when all the players are petrified of the smallest bit of criticism from the crowd.

Bodes well doesn't it.

Nothing wrong with the stripes. Don't care if other clubs wear it. Wouldn't be against moving to the sash permanently.

Maybe not, but Koeman also enjoyed tinkering with 3 at the back on occasion. That could have been what he had planned. Or maybe it was the club planning for Fonte leaving as one year later he was being frozen out - another travesty. No idea why they thought we were too good for him, the guys actually played more games since leaving us than he did for us and before joining.

Agree to disagree. Van Dijk was a long term target and Koeman was very keen to bring him in regardless of Toby.

The Aldeweireld saga still makes me angry. To think we could have had a CB pairing of him and Van Dijk.

Excellent, if Spurs come in for him we can say "no problem, and the good news is we don't have to waste any times with negotiations because we already agreed a fee!". Worth a go.

Have to agree. It's not like the Premier League is some mythical promised land for us that we haven't experienced since the 70s - it's understandable for fans that have properly suffered in the lower leagues for a long, long time.

I agree but the club still made a mistake not signing two midfielders instead of one when we'd suffered the previous couple seasons whenever Romeu was out.