The Kraken

Slightly unfair. The first half was definitely horrendous from a saints point of view. Too slow, too ponderous, no zip in defence or in possession, just looked a bit clueless when trying to go forward. Definitely much fewer long hopeless balls but just an ugly brand of football again where the team just don’t seem to know what each other are doing, all too familiar under Jones thus far. Second half better, a bit more cohesion in possession. Palace have been shit this half, whether that’s through saints getting tighter, maybe. Overall a good result, an untidy game, a little bit of optimism but a lot more improvement needed.

First 30-40 minutes was abject. Not tight enough without the ball, no coherent plan in possession just slow and ponderous. The past half an hour has shown signs of encouragement, a lot more quicker pass and move when in possession. It’s a mile away from where it needs to be, but night and day from the Forest game in this half. Palace had a chance to make it 2-0 which would have buried us. Both our goals have come from massive goalkeeper errors. So we’ve been under rut but weathered that well. For now….

And we go defensive with 5 at the back to try to hold on.

Ha ha ha ha ha another great goal!!

Much better 5-10 minutes from Saints. I mean, I know it’s a low bar to clear, but it looks a bit better from an attacking point of view, more crisp fast passing in attacking areas.

Here he comes. Boom boom boom boom, I want you in my room, there ain’t no striker better than Jean Philippe Mateta.

For adams apparently.

I actually think Bednarek might be better than DCC.

Bloody hell Edozie. What an opportunity. And finally a quick break from Saints.

It wasn’t even that good a delivery, none of our players were challenging for it in the air. Just Ward I think jumping and not making the header and their keeper having an absolute ricket. It’s the only thing of note in another terrible half of Jonesball. We are a genuinely awful side to watch.

LOL.

WE HAD A SHOT ON TARGET!!!!!!

Commentator: “the away fans are already audibly not best pleased……and nor should they be”. The fans chiming in with “Nathan Jones….your football is shit”.

Saved by the crossbar.

Getting very outplayed here. Palace playing like we used to at our best: quick, crisp one touch pass and move, shift defence to attack very well. We look ponderous and out of ideas, any time we get forward we cut back and let them regroup. AMN is stealing a living, terrible player.

Not even a good goal to concede, just weak all over the pitch. Shocking defending from DCC,looks like Bazunu could’ve done better.

Yep. AMN lining up in CM, Edozie wide right. And the long balls begin already.

Flipping eck, the formation shown has Edozie at right wing back…..

Saints fans are in good voice.

Out of interest, who is “we”, brand new poster? Your first post on this board a few days ago was this one, where you used “we” to describe Luton. Confused? Yeah, me too…

This. In fact I’d be surprised if a lot our players don’t.

No, you’re not recalling it correctly. Redknapp came out with his doomed comment after he left us, he said ‘they were doomed when I got there’. As it was we were actually 18th.

Pretty much spot on tbf

I’m sceptical immediately about the metrics used of ‘potential’ used in that video. He could’ve used anyone to represent the point of undervalued talent and he used Asafa Powell breaking the world record in 2005, saying everyone was shocked as Powell was “a totally unknown man”. By that point Powell had: won the Jamaican 100m national championship in 2003; won two international events including a golden league 100m in 2003; finished 7th in the world championship 100m final in 2003; won the Jamaican 100m national championship in 2004 with a time of 9.91; then throughout 2004 he ran 9 sub-10 second 100m races. That is not a totally unknown man by any metric.

You’d just as well have a poll saying “are you Nathan Jones family/friends”, it would have the same sort of result.