The Kraken

I definitely think the Fa cup game would’ve been used to rotate. I’ll keep my powder dry on what Selles has got planned long term. Against Chelsea he only had what, a day or two to prepare in training? So he went with a formation some of the players know. After the win I’m not going to blame him for going with the same today. If we line up like that against Leicester then, yeah, it’s not great. I’d like to think he’s a bit more progressive than that, he is new enough at SFC to not be wedded to the 4-2-2-2. We shall see, I certainly think it’s not our best shape and we need a solid midfield 3.

He will, check out the bbc interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/64731017 He says there will definitely be some rotation, he even hints that he could rotate all eleven. But it seems pretty certain there will be a high number of changes.

Some of you lot have short memories. Under Rupey we had a world class catering setup and our own radio station.

To be fair, that team earned the right to start after their performance and result against Chelsea. They’ve since lost that right, they were all below par today, to a man. The FA cup game will see lots of rotation, Selles even mentioned that there’s a possibility all eleven could potentially change. After that it’s a clean slate.

Bednarek just being the invisible man. Bazunu should still have saved it but his CB did him no favours at all.

https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-highlights/video/36504/12819907/leeds-1-0-southampton-premier-league-highlights Video here. If you can’t watch it all the goal move starts just after two minutes. Just pretty shoddy all round.

Against Chelsea our lot just looked so up for it, especially first half. It was classic saints at their best when under Ralph, high energy and working for each other. Today we just looked second best to everything, it was a performance exactly of the likes that got Ralph sacked.

It probably is. Tge problem is, if our lot put in that sort of performance again, it won’t matter a jot what formation we play. None of our lot were on it today, sub-par performances from pretty much everyone. As Selles said in his post match interview; lazy in pressure situations and lazy going forward, we lost our identity. Formation and team selection is of course important but so is player application, and just about all of them failed in that today.

Selles interview up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/64731017 Not much to argue with from what he said, though it was obvious to everyone. We didn’t give ourselves a chance to win the game, I take responsibility, we looked lazy in pressure moments and buildup moments, we lost our identity, disappointing goal to concede, too much long ball, we didn’t break the lines enough, FA Cup game will see rotation in personnel.

His giveaway pass in the first half today was just utterly abject. We were on the attack in their half, he had plenty of time and space and he just side footed it straight to a Leeds defender, nowhere near our player. Proper head in hands moment. He’s such a nothing player and he just shits the bed whenever he is put into any sort of attacking situation. Same at Chelsea last week, we had a great breakaway and he just shit himself and gave it away. After today I’m not overly sure what our best shape/team is right now, I just know that Elyounoussi isn’t in it.

I can’t think of one player on the saints side who I’d give more than 4 out of 10 today. All of them were just woefully below par, we were second best from start to finish. Even JWP had a bit of a stinker by his standards. Bazunu fluffed the in,y thing he had to do, Bednarek did a Bednarek, but we were never going to score if we’d have played for another 90 minutes. Absolutely abject performance, got hustled and bullied out of everything.

I’m opening some. Got a Rioja, Malbec and a Cotes du Rhône to choose from, it’ll be the most interesting thing I’ve done since 3pm.

Horrendous horrendous goalkeeper.

Ruben has got his work cut out with his half time talk. This has been dreadful.

It’s all a bit scrappy and nervous at the moment. Some nice patches but not enough, mostly we’re a bit skittish.

Our midfield is non existent at the moment. Poor start.

We’ve not won at Elland Road in the Prem since 1998. Seems like a good time to break that duck.

Selles mentioned them as out injured in his press conference. He said Salisu was back and had a chance to play.

Predictably the same line up to Chelsea. Come on Saints, same type of first half performance please, same result would be amazing.

Interesting presser. Sounds like we maybe won’t be far off having the same starting line up as we did for Chelsea, Salisu back but IMo will only make the bench. I think he may even keep AMN in there as he had some very kind words about him specifically after the Chelsea game, although I hope KWP gets the nod.

It wasn’t. I posted a link on here from the Stoke forum and they were scathing about him.the post below suggests he has improved through the season. https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/307772/smallpiece-mom

I’m not buying it. MLG lacks the nuance to pretend to post as anything but himself. His Twitter account is the same as here, just an unnecessarily argumentative man child. TWar I reckon definitely posts as someone else on here these days, but not as Bad Wolf Imo. TWar was incessant in here then suddenly just stopped posting, so I’m going with a theory that he always had another account or he started a new one. Don’t think he’d have just walked away, even though he got called out for being nowhere near as clever as he thought he was (Athe Alphonso Davies debacle was complete comedy gold). Bad Wolf, I think he’s just someone who has been posting on here for years, he used to have a different user name but changed the name while keeping the same account, don’t think that dude is hiding anything. Just my opinion of course.

Well, we all know that at least one of those is still here, Chef Jamie can’t disguise his relentless bellendery in anything. Bear was good value indeed. Alpine just seemed very unhappy in life. Glasgow plain weird. I’ve not even heard of the granite man. I do wonder who Twar posts as these days. Some say Bad Wolf but I don’t buy it, he used to post under another username in the past but changed name. And I’m not sure I buy TWar/Bad Wolf being MLG either, they were/are all argumentative pedantic pricks but they seemed to have a difference between them.

How does that even happen Ffs?

It seems like you don’t either. Saints’ history started with a sash, then quarters, then red and white halves. Then we had nearly all of the 80s where we didn’t wear “traditional” stripes. I get it, you’re a stripe fetishist. Fair enough. A lot of other fans like it when we mix it up a bit. Stripes every year gets flipping boring. As Barcelona have shown it’s perfectly possible to deviate away from stripes on a regular basis and not lose any sort of identity. This years kit is dreadful though (although looked at its best against Chelsea as it was with white shorts and black socks and very similar to the first ever sash kit in 1885).