VectisSaint

I see we were fined £22500 for the handbags after the Coventry game, Coventry fined £30k and Lamps criticised as the 'catalyst'. Lamps deserves "respect". https://share.google/a0Eqx4YSph0XZMvxn

That was a hard watch. We fully deserved to win, but it was so lacking in energy, and Sheff Utd were simply abysmal. On top of that the Sky commentator whoever he was simply the worst I have ever heard, had no idea what was going on and was so laid back and unenthused about anything, his sidekick, whoever "she" was wasn't much better. Very little playing it around at the back, encouraging to see Peretz actually launching the ball, sometimes effectively (sometimes not). Peretz still looks a bit shaky at times but so much better than Baz. No Manning meant there were very few back passes, to Stephens' relief. Even Downes seemed to get the idea of playing forward tonight, wonders will never cease. We should have had more than 1 thats for sure, but a wins a win and the 3 points are very welcome.

Can we play birthday boy Dave Peach instead of Ryan f***ing Manning tonight. Even at 75 I'm sure Peachy would be a better bet, and if we were fortunate enough to get a penalty it would be nailed on. Peter Rodrigues and Danny Wallace today as well. Quite a day for Saints legends.

Can't see Bree really being fired up to play for us. Was having a good loan spell, playing regularly well thought of (there), out of contract in the Summer. If I were him I'd be a bit miffed at being recalled, not even being guaranteed a start.

Not Downes. Charles supposed to be involved Wednesday, Jander if he's not ready to start.

Manning was probably in the wrong place to be fair.

He isn't, he is 5'10", it even says this in the bit that you quoted. TransferMarket actually has him at 1.82m, which is actually 5'11". According to TM, Bree is 4cm taller than Jelert, but other sources say both are the same. I find it hard to imagine that Bree will come back enthused to play for us again, having had a very successful time at Charlton and being out of contract in the Summer.

Stats I see show 2 on target, 2 saved.

Horror back pass from Manning. What a total fucking surprise.

Jelert 5'10", Bree 5'10". Don't understand why anyone wants Bree over Jelert.

So you missed the stuff about player injuries/recovery etc. Perhaps if you had a longer attention span you might have learned something.

Not sticking up for him, but his loan was terminated due to a knee injury. He may have been crap as well, conceded 15 in 8, but that wasn't the reason, from what I can see he played every game that he was available for (6 league games).

Peretz is a loan isn't he?

I heard Tadanari Lee had been invited, but may be a bit too quick thinking for some of the others involved.

Back to where it all began for him, local club. Good luck to him, would have preferred to see him back at SMS in preference to Lallana or Oriol.

Downes = 'experienced'. Give me youth any day. And when Charles is back even more youth.

Yeah but to go from an incapacitated Johansson to Bazunu, oh wait yep still a downgrade 🙂

Hopefully, two of Charles, Jander and Bragg and we can get shot of Downes.

Observation here is that we had quite a different team out yesterday first half and into second. Thought the complacents would be Stephens, Manning, Downes, Armstrong, bit only a couple of these were involved. This implies you think Archer, Matsuki, Robinson, Bragg, Fellows, Jelert, Welington, Quarshie are all also complacent, along with Downes (who is) and THB. I'm sure it is more to do with getting them fired up at half-time, which seems to be an issue. We need to come out after half-time and completely boss the midfield for the first few minutes.

He hasn't played since 20 September. Don't think he has even been in the match day squad since. Nuno dropped him as soon as he came in, guess something went on between them when they were at Forest last season.

No, I think we played 4 at the back and went 3-0 up before half time, had a nice chat at half time, conceded 2 and then went 5 at the back and by some miracle held on.

I've watched it twice and fucked if I can see Bazunu, McCarthy is there. Also didn't spot Manning (yay), perhaps he is flying direct from Dubai.

I keep reading on here how we have far too many CBs (not you), but as far as I can see we now only have 4, which I would have thought was the minimum for a 4 at the back squad. Have I missed someone? I said (jokingly) a couple of days ago that Ross is our new striker, think some took me a bit seriously, but really wouldn't be surprised if this is the thinking.

He's taller than Baz (6-3), but not Forster. 6-3 is perfectly fine for a keeper these days. Apparently average in PL is 6-2, Donnarumma though is 6-5, and Neuer is 6-4. It's not really Baz's height that is a problem, but what he does with it (i.e. can't jump).

Cor blimey Mary Poppins