vectraman

Wtf was that Smallbone? No composure whatsoever…🤦‍♂️

So where does this leave children in the rules? I have a 15 year old and a 13 year old who have been single jabbed….Are children now banned? So confusing.

We are in a bit of a slump currently, Arsenal away was never a game you’d pick as winnable, anything other than defeat would be an unexpected bonus. It won’t relegate us… But the team are all over the place. How the hell psychologically does Ralph’s selections affect the team? Lyanco - dropped, but wasn’t the worst last week. Peraud - can’t get in a poor side at left back, because our right back is there. Hello Ralph, wtf? Our captain and leader is so out of form he needs dropping, he adds nothing whatsoever to the side currently, apart from slowing us down with his backwards sideways passing. Elyounoussi is back, but to me adds nothing at all to the side, he’s still too slow and out of his depth in the premier league. Tella has started the last two games but again adds some pace but nothing resembling an end result. Bednarek has lost his bearings and gone from just about average to poor. Our defence last year was porous and poor, so we signed a left back we rarely play (Ralph’s signing), a cheap centre back who is fourth choice and has not improved our starting side at all. He keeps changing the line up, never a settled team. I would like to see Peraud at left back, KWP at right back, Salisu and Stephens (best of a distinctly below average bunch) Romeu and Diallo in CM, Livramento on the right and Redmond left (assuming Mr made of glass Djenepo is injured). Adams and Broja up front. Then stop tinkering. After 3 years you still have no clue about the best starting line up.

This. Lots of teams get spanked by Liverpool. 4-0 not the worst result. Arsenal looked appalling against them last week, we are not alone….

Get in there Saints 😁😁😁😁 Well played boys - kept us on the edge of our seats, but take the 3 points 🏅

This is a Saints nightmare game. Burnley will play deep, 10 players behind the ball, rely on quick breaks and dead ball opportunities. We know Saints are notoriously incapable of breaking down teams who play deep…. We must score first, else Burnley will happily take a 0-0 draw. Sadly I can see 0-0 or 0-1 Burnley being the outcome, with Saints having 70% possession and not being able to unlock the Burnley back lines. Wood scores from a corner…. I hope I’m completely wrong - I have a bet with a guy at work that this will be last up on match of the day tonight…

Get in Broja 😁😁😁😁😁😁

For me:- McCarthy KWP Bednarek Salisu Perraud Livramento Romeu Diallo A Armstrong Broja Djenepo I know it won’t happen because it is 4-3-3 and not the ‘fabled’ 4-2-2-2 but there we go!

Only player looking dangerous for England is Grealish. So he gets subbed off 🙄. Kane who has been dogshit is England’s equivalent of Redmond and stays on regardless….

Bednarek with some absolutely dire, weak defending. Out muscled by someone half his size. Crap.

Fab performance Saints and an exceptional point. Well played, tactically spot on Ralph, let’s get our first win now against Wolves next week. Come on Saints 😀

Enjoyed the game, our defence played very well - McCarthy was also faultless. JWP, Redmond, Moi all pretty anonymous the whole match. Broja looked a real handful when he came on - please start him next match! watching from the family centre it struck me that our defenders would be looking up to pass the ball out and our entire midfield and forwards were not making any runs, no movement at all. Just no one to play the ball out to. Throughout the whole game we were just stood there, shocking lack of movement everywhere. No idea why. Livramento is so full of running when he’s on the ball, some of our other players need to follow his lead. Good point, could have been three if Redmond took an early shot, and Broja had some luck near the end. Encouraging Saints.

I love Djenepo’s unpredictability, he can beat a player, just needs more end result - decent cross or a shot. There is a decent player in there, but understand why he is not a popular starting choice.

Good performance undone by lack of concentration in places. Before the game a point would have been a good outcome, should have won it though, almost lost it, got the deserved point - credit JWP for a cool head under pressure with the pen. still conceding too many goals - 6 in 3 games now, we haven’t solved the too easy to score against problem yet…

Exactly as you say 👍

Twat. We all have opinions, you are a gobby nob.

The response depends on the game and opposition. If we are 1 up and clearly on top then no, of course I wouldn’t want us to shut up shop. But away at Everton where we were definitely not on top or looking likely to score more, we definitely do need this conservative approach. Playing a high pressing game against decent teams will always leave you stretched at the back if they break against you. Why invite a quick break when you can play difficult to beat? Poch had us playing great football, but he had a far better quality selection of players to choose from than Ralph has. We are playing with distinctly poor and fragile players all over the pitch. Really not much quality in our side, really not much leadership on the pitch or from the sidelines. Got to play to your strengths, not the weaknesses, and our defence is a massive weakness sadly.

We have thrown away more points from winning positions than any other team - a table we are top of! But why? We are too nice, too soft, too easy to get through. We have no game plan (or if we do, it’s well hidden). We get in front - great. Then we just carry on as before, get weary, make errors, concede. Once one goes in, more are sure to follow. Why though? Ralph I’m afraid has to take the criticism for this. We don’t evolve to the situation going on on the pitch. Nothing. No response, no tactical changes, no personnel changes until it is too late to matter. Everton at half time. Should have been obvious we are going to come under pressure? We do nothing. We should get another CB on - Everton’s style is get crosses in for DCL to attack. Make it hard for them. Go 5 4 1. Leave Armstrong up front, drop deeper, make it difficult for them to play through you, make it hard for DCL - man mark him. Play horrible shit football - waste time, niggly fouls, stop the flow of the game, take ages with throw ins, get the crowd angry at our slow play, get the keeper to take his time with goal kicks, play it long - don’t piss about at the back trying to play it out, we are crap at it and don’t have the right players to do it. We concede so many goals by us giving the ball away at the back… teams know we try and play out so they press us and we give them the ball in dangerous areas. I’ve lost count of how many times watching us I utter the “stop pissing around at the back” phrase. yeah it’s the hip way to play football - if you’re City or Barcelona or another top team who have players comfortable on the ball at the back, but we don’t, so if we are 1-0 up, don’t do it. Play for the 1-0 win. Win ugly. Win Burnley style. Bore the crowd, get them on your backs, foul them, but above all be hard to beat. Take some yellow cards, let them know you mean business and you won’t be a walkover… Not us. Soft as shit, soft nice underbelly, no beast in CM to get amongst it and give the fragile defence some cover. Won’t win fans for pretty. But it may help win points. Go play ugly, play dirty, play to bloody well be difficult to beat. Over to you Ralph - get rid of the nice Saints and get us being horrible nasty bastards who run the clock down, piss the opposition off and get us the points.

I think we will go with 5 at the back, Armstrong on his own up front and 4 trying to stop them playing through our midfield. Forster in goal please! Better performance, ultimately 3-1 loss.

Well fingers crossed it all works out, else we will be going to AA. (Alcoholics Anonymous)!

17th. Watford, Newcastle and Norwich just slightly more shit than we are. We struggle to stop conceding goals, teams know we want to play out from the back and simply pressure us into giving them the ball in and around our penalty area. Neither of our keepers are comfortable on the ball, we keep giving soft self inflicted goals away. Our central defenders still can’t read the game (why would they, they are the same as last season). I am regularly told off for uttering my usual Saints watching phrase “ffs stop pissing about at the back with it”.

He’d be as awful as Solanke or Ibe have been. Eg useless waste of money.

Totally and utterly agree. Abraham would be a great upgrade on Ings - taller, quicker, younger. Won’t happen, but the happy clappers on here thinking it’s their own money that’s being spent amuse me… If we were a wealthier club, the saddos on here would be extolling it as a great deal. We should aim high, everyone heart on heart knows he would be an upgrade, but no, the saints web rules say he’s crap because he’s expensive.

Good luck to him. Decent money for him, we now need to spend it very wisely on a striker. A decent defensive midfielder would also not go amiss…

Definitely, and a leader and upgrade on all we have at cb. We need to get experience in and forget this young and for the future crap, with a mythical resale value nonsense. Need to change our tunnel vision strategy and get a bit of guile and experience in our side. Still think we need a big and nasty dm in to protect our glass defence and goalkeeper too, part of the reason we conceded so many goals last season…