vectraman

Can’t disagree with most of your thinking there. We absolutely must have:- A first choice keeper. Not Forster. For 4.5 years we have regretted having him on a reputed 75k a week. He is not suddenly a world beater. He has had a few good games granted, but he really isn’t all that. Flapped at Leeds, flapped last night when Burnley scored the disallowed 3rd goal ( I mean he just flapped the ball straight at Rodriguez, and by luck it was disallowed. Totally crap keeping). As a keeper you should be pushing the ball out to the sides to safety. Even against Chelsea, he flaps the ball back into the danger zone but people say great save…..I’m not fooled. Criticise me if you want but I’m sorry he is just not the answer to our keeper problem. A starting quality centre back. Salisu on his day is decent (been awful recently, I think he’s thinking he’s off to greater pastures….) no one else is a good enough quality starter. Need an experienced CB, not some nipper who can have a sell on value one day, maybe. Evans at Leicester as an example. Of the type of player we need. Experienced head, knows what it’s about, can help our younger players improve. Assuming Broja can’t be retained we need a striker. No idea who or where from. But with Che on 7 goals, JWP on 7 and Broja on 6, the bar isn’t high….However, I think our strikers struggle due to lack of decent service…..leading us nicely onto… A creative number 10. We haven’t got one. In fantasy land a pacey player, who can take on and beat someone and play a quality through ball/cross. A Mahrez type player, but for £10 million…..not asking much I know 🤣. As a Saints fan, I know we could do with all of the above. But….. If I was the Saints owner, I’d be in this quandary. We may finish between 10th and 15th. Prize Money difference £10 million. Invest £50/60/70 million to gain maybe 5 premier league places (£10 million). No. Makes no financial sense at all. That is I believe the issue. There is nothing to gain by investing bigger, realistically you aren’t going to get better than 8th regardless, unless you put in hundreds of millions. Which we never ever will. So survive, stay up, is all we ever will strive for. Sorry that’s my logical head, and I can’t see anyway it’ll be anything but this… Mediocrity until we go down. Which we will. I want to be wrong, I’m a Saints fan. Please someone tell me why my outlook is wrong. Genuinely!

That twat Carragher is surely the most irritating, annoying pundit on tv. He has a voice like fingernails down a blackboard. I would pay to watch Martin Tyler fuck him. Preferably with a crowbar.

Ralph stating in today’s echo interview that there are actively looking at offering a contract to Fraser Forster…..

Wouldn’t argue against any you’ve mentioned - I think Pukki would be worth a punt, he couldn’t be less prolific than what we’ve got!

Because we don’t want an unknown quantity in goal. It’s the key position and we can’t afford to buy a nipper from abroad with no PL experience, and then find he is gash. And end up with McCarthy in goal again who is mediocre. yes abroad may be better value - but only if they end up any good! I don’t care if abroad is better value, I’m not paying. I just want a good quality number 1 keeper. I’m a Saints fan, not an accountant.

Forster has played fantastically well last few games, just like he did 5 years ago. We gave him a lucrative 5 year deal and for most of it he has been mediocre. No way does he deserve a new deal as number 1. McCarthy also should not be number 1. I so hope we have a new number 1 lined up and get him in early. Please not Johnstone - he has been crap for WBA this season. We need an experienced goalkeeper with PL experience. Not a nipper. We do not want to start next season with McCarthy in goal.

Well played Saints - you can do it when set up Properly. Well done Ralph for changing the formation 👍

Right Saints, keep it tight, get your bodies on the line, and go out and win this 2-0! It’s time we turned up and put a performance in for the St Mary’s faithful 🤞🤞

Got to play tighter and harder to get through… Forster KWP. Stephens. Bednarek. Salisu. Peraud. Armstrong. JWP. Romeu. Moi. Broja. Play difficult to get through, play on the break with KWP and Peraud getting forward with their pace, playing in Broja through a stretched Arsenal high defensive line 🤞🤞

Generally there are two ways team play away, everyone compact and hard to get through (Burnley, Newcastle, Watford and dare I say it Chelsea) and they look to hit you in the break. Or on the front foot, high line, possession football like Arsenal, Liverpool, City etc. We are generally terrible against teams that play deeper and stifle midfield. Chelsea, despite their recent poor home form, have let in just 9 goals away from home all season. Yep, just 9. I know that, I’m sure Ralph knows it. So you don’t set up with a weak 2 man midfield. That’s insane. You play deep, compact and try and hit them on the break. I’d have had Stephen’s in the back alongside Salisu and Bednarek, at least he plays with his heart on his sleeve and gets stuck in unlike most of our ‘nice’ players (and I know he’s not gifted technically, but his effort is there). Play deep, make it hard to play through, try and snatch a breakaway goal. we did nothing like this. Ralph really has no answer to compact teams (especially a quality one). Oh for us to have a horrible nasty dislikeable player like Alonso in our team. We are too nice, too inflexible, too one dimensional with our tactics. Getting beat by a good side, yes of course it happens. Making it easy with no backbone, fight, grit, determination or purpose is inexcusable.

Fair enough Vs the big boys. Please explain how that works against the mighty Watford, Villa and Newcastle, when we also were total garbage and looked disinterested and all over the place ?? No press, passing for the sake of passing and giving it away cheaply. Something has changed in the last 6 weeks, and it happens every game. Either the players have given up trying or the manager is not motivating them.

Just a couple of weeks ago at home to Watford. Salisu set up Hernandez beautifully for their first goal….

I understand he’s not an Ederson, but I think we’d need two new centrebacks as well to comfortably play out from the back. Whenever we play out or as I call it “piss around at the back” we look like we are going to concede as we are closed down and start playing increasingly desperate and suicidal passes. it gives me kittens watching it because we aren’t good enough to do it reliably. Obviously the cool and hip way to play, but I bet we concede more from errors doing it, than we ever create in goals at the opposition end. I agree Forster and McCarthy don’t do it well, and a more comfortable with ball at his feet type might, but I’d rather we got a keeper who makes saves, dominates his area, and isn’t the team’s weak link. Saying there are loads in European football who are cheap and better is all well and good, but you’ve got to pick the right one, based on zero PL experience. Who is to say you don’t pick another Gazziniga, rather than the new Ederson?

If Burnley go down, which is very possible, i’d like us to go for Nick Pope as our keeper. Better than what we have in every way, experienced, and I’d hope affordable for us 🤞🤞

Because what I think of a player is irrelevant compared to what Ralph thinks of him. If Ralph thinks he can get a tune out of him that's what counts, but I'd hope Ralph would have him here on loan first. Better explanation?

I personally think that if he can’t get in the Spurs side in front of Mr average Hoijberg, it’s a no. Spuds fans think he’s shit, I think he’s shit, and Levy valued him at 35mil. 🤣🤣 Only way I’d want him is on loan, with an agreed valuation. If he’s any good (unlikely!) we sign him, else thanks but no thanks, bye. Likely. I wouldn’t even consider a deal with shister Levy. He’s not worth dealing with. KWP was young and had potential, - Winks isn’t and hasn’t. I’d be gutted if we signed him - just no.

Can’t disagree with that. I just got fed up with seeing them bring subs on that cost more than half our team. I wish I was smart enough to think of a song along to chant at them along the lines of “where would you be without your desert millions…” They have deluded fans who are divorced from the real world of football now. We’ve still won the Champions League as many times as them though 😂😂 Football Is ruined by the bankrolled “big teams” and it ruins it as a spectacle now for me. I wish they would disappear into a super league and leave football for proper teams. I think the turning point was Grealish going off - he was turd today and they played much better without pretty boy..

Looks like Valery coming in to me…

He really has contributed nothing young Smallbone. Got to get Broja on. We look so sluggish, no runs, all static, not enough pace in the side. Change it please Ralph. Defending has been Tyro league, pissing about at the back, crap balls, poor decisions, Salisu playing like he wants to stay next season - eg crap and no one looking at him will be impressed!

How on earth did Sanchez not walk for that challenge? That was an assault on Diaz 😬

We have been on a great run, today was just one of those days where nothing worked out. Missed Salisu for sure, Bednarek and Jack are not a good enough combo at the back - both too slow and don’t read the game as well as Salisu. Hey ho, onto Newcastle and back to winning ways 🤞🤞

Think the result will heavily depend on the strength of the referee - Spurs are masters of buying free kicks and cheating their way through a game. Son and Kane (always in the ref’s ear) are the prime culprits. Hate seeing it, at St Mary’s the audible screams when spurs players dived was cringeworthy. Barring any cheap cheat goals I think we will do alright. 1-2 to Saints 🤞🤞

Bakery what were you thinking 🤦‍♂️

Available in non hd now, but hd channel vanished. Bloody Welshwoman ruin8ng the commentary anyway🤦

Get in there!