The Kraken

This. Not expecting a complete revolution at this point by any stretch, but I’m yet to see what this guy brings to the party. I said it last week. For better or worse, you knew what a Russell Martin side was from a very early point. No idea yet what a Will Still side is, all just a bit throw it together and hope for the best at the moment. The Downes situation really did a number on us today tbf, but it’s not an isolated example. Lots to do.

I would genuinely love to hear what specialist advice or instruction our managers past and present receive from our GK coaching team regarding Baz. Because we’ve been saying exactly this since he signed for us. Tgat we still say it week after week after week is so concerning.

With the Baz free kick, I think two things are true. It was crap positioning from Baz, he got nowhere near it. But it was also a stunningly good free kick. I don’t think Bazunu gets to that even if he starts properly in the centre of the goal.

Still waiting to see what a Will Still side “is”. There were glimpses of it in the first half, some nice forward interplay. But this formation does these players no favours at all and we are so vulnerable to a counter attack. Extremely sloppy in possession, some good midfield pressing sometimes but at other times Watford just broke through our ranks with ease. And let’s face it, Watford are an average championship side. 2 weeks until the next game but Still has got a huge amount to do. Just fuck off with the 5 at the back now, it’s awful. He goes on about not being able to play a certain way because we don’t the right personnel, but every game we’ve ended up chasing he puts square pegs in round holes anyway. Lots to do, I’m not impressed at all so far.

A 5 minute spell where all of our centre backs made an absolute fuck up and put us in trouble. So pathetically sloppy.

Utter shit from Nathan Wood. Fucking prick.

Not really much other choice tbf

Hot knife through butter there from their goal kick.

That header from Wood 🤣

That was a nice move.

Agreed. We’re overloaded with defenders when we have the ball, we have a midfield imbalance and we’re vulnerable down the flanks. Again.

Someone must be having a ruddy long old holiday. Fair play to that.

I think Jose Fonte really has to go down as one of the best signings in league one ever. I have palace mates and used to go to Selhurst for a few games a season back then, when they were in the championship. Fonte always looked a cut above, his weakness back then was that he could undo it by making one big mistake in a game. Nonetheless he was a very, very good championship defender. To see him drop down from that level to the league below was remarkable. To even be able to slightly compare to that is very encouraging.

This aged well.

I had a quick scan of their forum earlier, they’re all agreed that it’s underpriced and £15m should be a start point. But they also point out that there’s no bidding war, no PL sides have shown an interest, and quite a few of them reference their own PSR problems which this would get them out of.

Imagine not signing this lad and you get to keep BBD instead ffs.

Given that Still has been whanging on about wanting to play with wingers, I think a bigger man up top is exactly what he wants.

Trust the process

Var says goal. Rangers have been appalling in the game.

Agreed. Call them inside forwards instead of wingers if you like, but when we used Fraser, Edozie, even Armstrong, I don’t recall criticism of us for being too narrow. Jo Tessem said something in the game today I very much agreed with; he prefers full backs running into the space ahead of them rather than wing backs looking to occupy the space. 352 imo gives us much less width than a 4 would, regardless of whether or not we have native wingers at our disposal.

I’m still waiting to find out what a Will Still side is. Under Martin, for better or worse, at least you knew what they were trying to be. This team doesn’t seem to have any sort of balance to it, just a bunch of players shoved together in a pretty turgid system. Needs to get a grip, that’s 3 league games and a cup game where it’s so often looked massively disjointed and so vulnerable on the break.

Absolute rubbish

I think "rare" is doing some heavy lifting there.

On the www.saintsweb.co.uk forum, are tdmickey and always_SFC the same person just tried that….

Where were our centre backs there? Ipswich broke and could have had a 3 on 1.