vectraman

Saints 4 Arsenal 0. Boxing Day game under Koeman. 28% possession for Saints. Possession is a stat you can shove up your arse when it achieves very little. At no point sat watching this game was it boring, nor did it feel like we never saw the ball. I’m hoping Will Still’s style will be similar 🤞🤞

Get in there Stewart 👌

Nice feet from Robinson 👏

I get your sentiment here - every manager has some kind of philosophy, even if they aren’t preaching it publicly. However, the Pep and Russel Martin possession way of playing may or in RM’s case may not be successful. More to the point, I believe the issue that fans have with it is that it is a very slow and turgid, boring even, method of play. City V Saints and V Palace were so slow and dull. How many times as a City fan would you be saying for Christ sake shoot during a game. But no, another statistic pass will do instead. It’s a boring style of play. This season City and obviously Saints as a City very light tribute team got found out and that style was pretty effectively thwarted by teams. As a style a high press energetic fast break style of play is far more exciting to watch. Of course it can be countered, but that is where the pragmatic manager changes things during a game to help his team overcome tactical obstacles. This is where the RM and even Pep ‘philosophy’ falls down. It’s my way or the highway, it WILL work and we will continue to do exactly the same thing every game. That is what football fans don’t like. We can see it isn’t working, but the manager’s philosophy is etched in stone and he simply will not change it. Hence RM sacked. Championship - just about got away with his philosophy. Premier league with inadequate players up against good players, no chance. Most Saints fans could see this style simply would not work. It is now so ingrained that the players we have can’t seem to run, play fast passes, press, or last 90 minutes. Unfit, at top flight level is unforgivable, but they sure look the least fit team in the league. Whoever the next manager is I hope has a ‘pragmatic’ style and sets up differently for each match based on the opposition we are playing, not some rigid fixed unchangeable system…

Aribo with an attempt at a shot that he completely fucks up. Still no shots today 😡

Nice one Rusk. Play with no striker. No shots in the entire half and 2 down playing the most defensive shit ever. Everton aren’t even playing well. Absolute shit show of a performance. Change it now, coz you can’t make it worse. Abject.

Liverpool fans giving TAA a torid booing. Bunch of entitled twats. Real Madrid are a bigger more successful club. Fact. Can’t blame him for giving it a go. * PS now you know what it feels like when a bigger team poaches your players - shit isn’t it. 😂😂😂😂

Ruben Dias meltdown because we didn’t want to play properly - what an absolute 🤡. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15ppTExzXu/?mibextid=wwXIfr Hope they lose next week to Palace and end the season with nothing. Entitled nob jockeys. Plus a relegation to league 2 for fiddling the books for years.

Why? Why change the left back with minutes to go? Especially one as shit 💩 as Manning..

Certainly more sensible than the current rule. Why not just get rid of offside altogether? Would it lead to higher scoring games? Would take a lot of uncertainty out of whether a goal is a goal or not that *we currently endure. * Not us Saints fans obviously because we rarely ever score - the football fan in general 😉

I understand what you are saying, we are a really poor team with substandard players, but Luton were no better. But the old saying if you haven’t got the quality you make up for it with effort was simply not there either. If it was simply quality only, we would never ever see a cup upset would we? But they happen because the lower league side run their arses off. The whole side are clearly the least fit side in the division and that IS inexcusable. We should have been the fittest side out there to make up the lack of talent by being at least able to run for 90 mins. No chance. It stems from Russel Martin being too pally with the players, too soft, not working their arses off in training. No wonder the lazy shower of shit loved him. Hopefully he gets himself another management job with some other mugs and takes his buddies with him. Best thing he could do for us.

His contract is up at the end of next season - as long as we don’t do something monumentally stupid and extend it if we were to get promoted again 😱😨

Glad the football didn’t ruin a good day out 👍

Well Simon Rusk isn’t an inspiration for the next three games… Our positive to take was young Robinson coming on today. (Don’t even know if he touched the ball?). That’s it, he even sounds like he’s given up.

Sadly not, because KWP, Ramsdale and Fernandes won’t be in it, and they are the only three who have any quality about them. We can rejoice instead that Bree, Bazunu and Smallbone will be starting instead of them…🤢🤢🤮

No passion, no effort, no pride no nothing. Spineless useless talentless bunch of shit. We should have been 4-4-2 from the start and gone for it. But no, dithering walking football, pissing about playing across the back. Abject performance. Possibly worst of the season against the second worst team. Pathetic. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

What are the retards doing? Fernandes and Sulemana carry a (small ) threat, 2 down and we bring on bloody Smallbone and a nipper. 😖

Useless shower of turgid shit.

Stephens again. Get the prick off. He’s playing like a U12’s player. 🤬

Jack Stephens you useless twat.

Fucking Vardy unmarked with 3 defenders doing sod all. Absolutely shit you useless fucks.

Weasel wanker scores.

They can’t score for toffee. We are going to go 5 at the back, no attacking intent. 0-0 bore draw. Match of the day - another record - first time a game has no highlights, so nothing shown. 😁

I hope he does go to Leicester, and takes his ‘chums’ Jack Stephen’s, Will Smallbone, Ryan Manning and Nathan wood with him - all for top prices obviously. Gets his wages and their wages off our books too. Win win. Except for poor old Leicester - who may have a minus 10 points starting position if they get fined as they should 🤞🤞

One up front at home to wanky Fulham. Absolutely no ambition to try and win this. Now it’s another loss. One home win all season. Super wank.