Whitey Grandad

And nobody bought it. Or either of them.

You are not allowing for the time the ball took to drop from over head height to knee level.

Yes, poor management but their goal cam just two minutes into the second half . It is his failure to make changes after it that is most damning.

No, it won’t, but playing with the same people in front of him ought to build some sort of understanding between them. If if doesn’t then the simple explanation is obviously the right one. He’s just not good enough. Forster is not as good as he once was, but McCarthy is going backwards. Literally.

That proves my point. If McCarthy had rushed walked out for it he could have punched it clear. At the very least he should have been in Richarlison’s face. By the time the ball is kicked it is closer to McCarthy that Richarlison in your first photo.

It’s a consequence of messing about with personnel.

The ball is not in that picture. It lands two feet from where McCarthy is standing. It was a big cock up but in any other team it’s the goalkeeper’s ball every time.

You have to expect that a Premier League footballer could kick a ball cleanly.

“could only watch on as” Says it all.

The ball actually lands just in front of where McCarthy’s left foot is in that photo. With McCarthy’s extra reach it would have been a simple punch clear. To say the Richarlison clearly would have got there first is not true. The ball drops two yards inside the goal area in which the goalkeeper ought to be dominant. Even Salisu could see that and clearly expected McCarthy to deal with it. As did everybody else. There are five Saints defenders in that shot and yer Richarlison gets to where the ball is about to drop and volleys it below waist height. Goalkeeper’s ball in every game that I’ve ever seen.

Perhaps he was crying because he knew how bad we were going to be.

Stephens is ok as a back up just as long as he stays off the pitch.

🤗 Ah, I see. We might get a few Burnley supporters though.

Stephens had a several yards start on DCL who just ran past him as if he wasn’t there. All he had to do was match the run and at the very least try to bout him off somehow. We had two defenders there yet neither got anywhere close. The defence looked as though they had all just met for the first time. This happens a lot when you keep changing personnel.

Which Ralph might this be? Obviously it can’t be our esteemed football manager so… did your boyfriend dump you on a Saturday night? What a bastard

That depends on who the visitors are because you won’t get that from Saints. And if it’s category D you probably won’t get it from the opposition either.

That only applies to the top six. You should know this by now.

Yes indeed, pure brilliance. Certainly not the sort of finish that we’re used to at Saints.

I’ve just seen MOTD. Their first goal was ridiculous. Salisu seems to leave it to McCarthy who decides that he’s better off staying on his line instead of stepping three yards forwards and catching it or at least punching it away. He has now become a joke of a goalkeeper but why was he chosen to play instead of Forster? Any ideas? For their third goal Stephens does his usual trick of ball watching instead of picking up the runner coming in behind him. If we have to go through this season with Stephens and McCarthy as first choice then we are in trouble. Replace them both and we should be ok. Still, nobody ever got relegated on the first day of the season.

I don’t know what was going through his head for their first goal. A dolly drop of a ball drops into the goal area only four yards out yet somehow he is so terrified that he stays on his line. That ball almost touches the ground before it’s volleyed in.

“Past performance is no guarantee of future performance”

At least Forster will be in goal for Man Utd That leaves McCarthy for Newcastle away unless Ralph wants to inflict him on Newport.

RFID means Radio Frequency IDentification and is the way that almost all contactless cards are read electronically, especially debit and credit cards. Basically it means the same sort of season ticket cards that we have been using for the past few seasons. Calling the process a ‘download’ is misleading. The card is your identifier. When you buy a ticket for a game the turnstile system is notified that your card is a valid ticket/pass to get into the ground. No information is actually sent onto the card itself.

Do you think that having a long contract plays a part in their poor performance? A lack of motivation maybe?

Perhaps we should wait for the cheque to clear before letting on about his deficiencies?