vectraman

I’d go further - player goes down ‘injured’ ref stops the stadium clock. Subs add on 30 seconds each added on to remaining time instantly. Any injuries stop the clock throughout the game. I’d also have any yellow card = sin bin for 10 mins - 4th official to police timings. Throughout game, not just 2nd half.. keeper gets booked - reserve keeper comes on. Clock stops from moment of card to moment of restart. Time wasting (also known as black arts) can fuck off.

Because if no1 or 2 are the injured you have to have someone on the bench. As you know.

None at all. But with a world class number 1, and a very very good number 2, he doesn’t need to. You can’t level that at Saints. Bettenelli would comfortably be our number 1 if in our squad. Everyone before the season started knew our keepers would be weak, but SR did nothing about it. My point is why didn’t we get in a loan keeper/ buy a keeper who would be challenging for the number 1 shirt? Some healthy competition would not be amiss…

How many teams can you name where both first and second choices are universally so poor that you hope the loan keeper is a rival for first choice….

Because he offers no competition to the other two. Therefore pointless.

Instead we went for George ‘cone stacker’ Long.

More worrying is that you, me and everyone else just knows that the Sports Republic gibbons will give him a contract extension. I can see us being stuck with Baz for years to come 😡🤬

You are spot on, the defence is and has been poor for several years. The individual players are ok as championship defenders. Collectively they are all over the place, terrible positionally, can’t stop a cross, can’t mark anyone consistently - which is unforgivable in the championship. Either they are not being coached properly, they are but they don’t listen, or the lack of on pitch organisation isn’t there and it’s every man for himself. We are crying out for a wise head in central defence to sort them out and organise them during the game. Should we go up this season, every single one of our defenders who played today would need replacing in the prem. THB is the only one who maybe could be coached to a better standard. In fact of the starting side today IMO, Jander, Scienza, Azaz and possibly THB are the only ones who would be good enough in the Prem. Add Fellows to that who was injured and the extent of the required rebuild is clear. Fast, strong, fit as butchers dogs players are required. We don’t have many of those currently.

well if we don’t go up, leaving it until next season on reduced parachute payments certainly won’t do us any favours….

Not his fault that Nathan Wood completely fucked it up.

Nathan Wood, step up and receive your completely shit defending award.

Nice Saints. Absolutely wank defending. Excellent 😖

From nowhere, a Manning goal…dodgy keeper moment!

So we get tired, but the opposition get more energetic second half 🤔 These are professional athletes - however tired we are, at least 6 of them have to play the full 90, weirdly, same for the opponents… Every game our second half performance is quite frankly crap. That isn’t acceptable or understandable by any metric. Either we aren’t fit enough, or our tactics aren’t right. Yes a win feels good after the last 16 months, but we need to be so much better second half. Whatever the question is, Joe Aribo is proving he is just not the answer either…

Been coming. Crap game management Tonda.

Why oh why do we do this every game? Brilliant first half, make subs and we give the opposition the advantage. Really wank game management again.

Have to say today, we look so dangerous. Fair play to you Tonda 👍

Anyone who doubts Adam Armstrong at this level 🙄🤣🤣🤣 he’s on for another ~25 goals this season

Leo you legend 🥇

Baggies have a terrible away record. We have hit good form - 4-0 Saints 🤞 Assume we won’t need to water the pitch tonight 😁😁

Looking forward to this - Scienza back is a huge bonus for us. A lot will depend on how Birmingham set up. We don’t like teams that play deep with the bus behind the ball, also didn’t enjoy Millwall’s quick press and suffocating midfield. It’ll be intriguing to see how we adapt and change as the games progresses. Good luck Tonda in your first official game as boss. My prediction - a tight scrappy 1-1 draw.

Name a manager who has never been sacked!!

My concern is we seem to be welded to 5 at the back. This leaves the team short in midfield and Saturday was an example where going to 4 defenders and bolstering midfield would have been sensible (to my I’m not a pro football manager mind). Fellows is a winger not a wingback, but he’s pressed into that square hole, I would just like a right back at right back (Roeslev), drop a CB (whoever) and Wellington at LB who is a better defender than Manning. Any team we are about to play will have seen how Millwall handled us, and will adopt a similar plan I suspect. Get in our faces and press us at the back, or just sit back, park the bus and hit us on the break. We reverted back to tippy tappy to me to you at the back Russ ball on Saturday, not sure if that was planned, just happened again, or was because we didn’t know what else to do! I’m intrigued to see how Tonda looks at the opposition on Saturday and what he does different. Brum are decent and will cause problems for us. Saturday will be a big test for him, as teams will now know not to let us have space to play into. A manager who will adapt formation and personnel (like Quarsie in for Stephens v Leicester) to counter the opposition and not stick rigidly to formations will get a lot more slack from me than a rigid, this is how we play (Russel Martin no flexibility) type.

Unmarked yet we have 5 at the back. We just can’t defend under pressure. Sadly Romeu with a piss challenge set them up.

Absolutely shit defending. THB with an almost disaster pass.