The Kraken

Originality should maybe be discouraged, allowed to run free we end up with “he’s the Kenyan, the mighty Kenyan”

🤣 I did think “WTF” when that got read out.

What’s the enquiry? “Is he still as shite as ever or has he got any better?”

It’s always fun when the misguided weapon thinks he’s got himself a gotcha moment.

Let’s have a look at it. 1) The ball comes in. Dozy has literally jogged across from helping out Manning and has put in a token effort at best to stop the cross. Bednarek looks like he’s in a reasonable position, all strikers are marked and Bednarek is cutting out the short ball in. 2) Bednarek has just realised he’s not getting his head to the ball. THB still just about goal side of the striker. Bazunu just taking a step back before he sets himself. 3) Ball has gone over everyone and is headed for the goal on the bounce. 4) This angle shows just how much the ball has curled before going in almost off the post. Bazunu is in a decent position but can’t commit until late and then just can’t get there.

An absolute Bad Wolf of a statement right there.

Dunno, I think it’s harsh to blame him for that one. Good ball in, keeper not certain whether the striker will get there so can’t commit either way, and it went in the corner. The keeper always looks dopey when they go in, maybe he could have anticipated better, but personally I’d give Baz a pass on this one. The cross should never have come in in the first place, Manning and Dozy just ambling about putting zero pressure on the crosser, utterly shite defending from a team up against it. I particularly enjoyed Baz sweeping when Huddersfield broke away right at the end; watching on telly I was just “oh fuuuuck” as their striker ran through then Baz suddenly appeared in shot with a crunching clearance.

In another example of Saints’ originality it’s just a copy of the one Man City have started singing this season. “Old Trafford is falling down, Ten Haag is a fucking clown, Glazers here for ten more years, Man City are on the beers”.

27 goals conceded from 17 games. Two clean sheets. Only 5 teams in the division have let in more goals than us.

He was stretchered off while on the oxygen. It certainly sounds very bad.

Russ Martin confirming what we all knew. Speaking after the match, Martin said: "I thought we were really brilliant in the first half and should have scored more goals but the difference in the second half was too big. "We have a bit of a problem at 1-0 up, at the minute. Everything we spoke about in the break, the opposite happened really. "We wanted to be relentless with energy and move the ball quickly to make them work but there was nowhere near enough energy or intensity. "We gave them more and more belief as the game wore on and we got a bit looser. We looked a bit more tired, which is interesting," he continued. "Maybe it's due to having a lot of players go away on international duty and maybe we need to look into that but there are no excuses, we should win the game. "The goal was coming. I am frustrated as it's an opportunity missed, and it's always hard away from home in the Championship, but the game was there for us." "We had some really good moves and their keeper has made some good saves but we allowed the atmosphere to shift and we became less brave." Asked what was said at half-time, Martin responded: "We made some tactical tweaks to have some more joy but we didn't do them. "It was just about trying to be relentless but we forced it too many times. We didn't need to force anything today. The game was coming to us when we moved it relentlessly. "It's really similar to the Rotherham game so maybe the players felt this is nice, this is easy - but it is never easy. "After a 15-minute break, the players can come out with a bit more energy so our mentality has cost us two points. "I have told the players that as I'm really angry about it and we need to make sure we are better than that on Wednesday."

Even Franny on commentary sounded frustrated by it; he rarely has too much negative to say but he made reference to it a few times and how ponderous we were.

Someone said on here it looks serious, possible ACL.

This is true. However, in this game, Huddersfield’s good spell lasted for pretty much all of the second half. Up to half time is was a very controlled performance, then the second half was completely night and day.

He loves a straw man, bless him. Trying a bit too hard for this one though.

Fucks sake Edozie. Headless chicken.

Fucking hell Baz. Well done son.

Absolute rubbish from Saints. Been abject all second half.

Squeaky bum time here.

From the sublime to the ridiculous here. Absolute shambles at the moment.

Ah man. Shocker.

We’ve had 3 shots on target according to BBC. I can think of the goal, Smallbone’s left footer from outside the box, plus Adam Armstrong had a chance that he should have connected better with and went into the keepers arms easily. Stuart Armstrong also hit the post. So not exactly dreadful.

Get in Arma. Very tidy finish to a slick move. Wonder if we’ll see any of Rod Stewart in the second half. Maybe we go 4-4-fooking-2 with a classic big man little man combo.

Hurrah, we failed to get the ball in the box from it.

Sure that Huddersfield lad hasn’t got any shin pads on?