vectraman

Remember 1976 against a superior Man Utd side? Thank god some of you doomsayers and may as well give up merchants weren’t in charge back then 🙄. i mean last year - cup is irrelevant it’s about staying in the prem. This year cup is irrelevant as we are in the hunt for promotion…When exactly should we try in it then?! I give you Leicester and Wigan in more recent times. Bet they’re glad they bothered..!

God this so disjointed 😬

What we are lacking is guile. Nothing clever, nothing quality, nothing adventurous, no risk taking. Just no guile at all. Boring. Plodding. Safe. That’s Saints sadly.

Decent save Bazunu.

2 fab saves from Bazunu in 5 minutes. Great stuff

One of Saints finest performances was when we dismantled Arsenal 4-0 on Boxing Day under Koeman. Cuco’s wondergoal match. It was fun, entertaining and we smashed them. 28% possession I believe that night. What I’d hope is our management team analyse the opposition, and then set up Saints to exploit their weaknesses and nullify their strengths. Just turning up and saying we are playing our way and ignoring the opposition is somewhat naive and amateurish. Play the way to beat your opposition seems to make sense to me. Maybe why I’m not a football manager 😁

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Just sack captain clueless Martin. Get Chris Wilder in, someone who knows what it takes to get out of this league. Proven at this level. Not some clever dick who thinks he’s a genius and results prove him deludedly wrong. what were you thinking Sports Republic? Always trying to be clever, thinking you’re smarter than everyone else when you clearly are far from it. Just get a normal manager in and get rid of this ‘process’ bollocks conceited twat. Please. We are not and never will be able to play like Man City so stop pretending we need a manager who thinks we can.

I can’t remember who said the quote, but it is a wise one :- “football is a simple game made complicated by managers” Seems to sum up RM if it is such a wildly amazingly complicated ‘process’ that it takes months for the players to learn it. Here is mine - play with a recognisable defensive formation, keep midfield tight, and allow you forwards to run into space and pass the ball to them quickly.

Equally possession is nothing without purpose…

This pissing about at the back, giving the ball away time after time. Inevitable goal. And we have a great ‘keeper’ at passing the ball. Shame he can’t save it with his hands. The manager has got to change this wide open defence, stupid passing for passings sake style with no end product. Mr Martin you need the mother of all team talks now. Sort your mess out.

Saints to win 2-1 😀🤞

If he was another unknown Man City nipper we would all be saying so far he is crap. In three games he’s messed up twice and been directly responsible for two goals against us. On the evidence so far he is far weaker than KWP at left back and worse than Peraud also. That is not an upgrade. * After 3 games, just what my mk 1 eyeballs are seeing…

Manning needs to get some studs in his boots. Two slips now, one leads to a goal, other could have done but he got away with it. Not impressed with him so far - certainly no better than Peroud…

No chance of a clean sheet so we win it 3-2. Che and AA both to score again 🤞

Well that was exciting! Eight goals and we didn’t lose - I think a draw was a fair result overall. As mentioned our defending was terrible, we have got to sort out our dead ball defending - we look like conceding at every free kick/ corner around the box. Our side is physically small, we don’t have much height in the side and we struggle because of it. No height up front at all - we get into some nice wide positions around the box in attack, and then have to play it along the ground as there is no physical presence at all. Oh for a Pellé type attacking focus. I though Norwich broke at pace and looked dangerous, we always looked vulnerable to their counter attacks. Bazunu could not be blamed for the goals - terrible defending for all of them. I really don’t know what the solution at the back is other than replacing both CB’s which isn’t going to happen. No pace in them, poor positioning, non existent marking we will concede a fair few goals. Definitely going to have some high scoring games - could be a long wait for our first clean sheet! Enjoyed it, nice to rescue it at the end (kudos Adam Armstrong) kept cool with a good pair of pens, good atmosphere - dare I say it was exciting?! Certainly better than the turgid dog turd we played at home last season. Get a big centre back who can organise, a DM who can get stuck in and break up play, and a focus upfront with some physical presence and we will do ok.

Tells ⚽️

COYR! Saints to win 2-1. Alcatraz to score. For a change a good start to the season 🙏🤞

Salisu is to centre backs that Lemina was to midfielders for us. Talented, but terrible attitude. Could have been great, but as others have said, only great when they felt like it, total waste of space when they didn’t.

Leeds for me.

A more defensive, deeper back 4, quick break style I’d suggest. We have pace on the wings and up front, to get behind sides. Win the ball in midfield, get it forward to the wide men/through ball to a pacy forward. Adam Armstrong scored his goals for Blackburn played through in that style… We have never played him like that - probably why he’s looked like a fish up a tree. Play to a players strengths and they may just work better…

I can see this too. I’m expecting another frustrating season - can’t score goals to put a game to bed whilst on top, and then concede absolute gifts by playing out from the back and getting caught out. We simply don’t have the quality in defence to play this style. Teams will know what our aim is - so they’ll press us at goal kicks and we’ll get ourselves in a right mess at the back playing out, and then they’ll play 9 behind the ball knowing we can’t break them down. My concern is RM will keep playing the same way with no plan B. We are not Man City and never will be, so trying to play like them with inferior players (even against inferior teams) is doomed to fail. It’s as if Sports Republic demand football played in this style, got a manager who fits the style, but has a team who aren’t equipped for it. Make much more sense to play in a way that suits the players you actually have, rather than a style we aren’t equipped for. Cue a season that promises much but fails to deliver.

Exactly like Mario Lemina - could have been a great player for us, sadly he mainly couldn’t be arsed.

Kulusevski Aged 23 and a very decent player has signed for spurs for £25 million. Can’t see JWP being worth double that 😬

It was a terrible challenge and very meant. Yellow all day long. Martinelli gets his come uppence by getting a cynical chop also no yellow. Strange reffing.