Elmore Saint

30 mins of confidence followed by an hour of fragility.

I like Jo, good insight and a passionate saints fan. Their podcast they record on the way home is a decent listen too..

That aged well....

Thank fuck Rothwell can hit the ball.....

Terrible game management and subs that only make us unsettled. Poor show

Of course I want us to be at the top table - and hopefully be in the upper half of it. However - this season is the most engaged I've been for ages - good fun, cheap tickets and a roller coaster ride. I'd take more of that if it wasn't for the slow decline that it would eventually bring to the club. However, only fighting for survival next year would really feel quite shit compared to this, but realistically, it is the inevitability of the PL and EFL divide...

1 lucky deflection and 2 goals caused by our fucking about on the ball in our own half! Blame the scar tissue I suppose…

Be glad you’ve not got the international feed. McManaman wanking on like the complete bell end he is.

Any kind of cutting edge up front and no smallbone and we’re 3-1 up. Ffs.

Would prefer Deano to the wankfest that is ESPN. Fucking painful to listen to them all banging on about Liverpool..

1995 league cup replay game vs Spurs at the dell. I worked with a bunch of lads who were spurs fans and we raced into a 2-0 lead and with more chances to before the half. The dell was buzzing and we were cruising. Ronnie Rosenthal came off the bench and fired in 2 second half goals. We went to shit in ET and lost 2-6 by the end. Got pelters from the spurs lads for the rest of my time there and still mad about it now!!

Is the pitch one of those hybrid surfaces to take account of the rugby? Seems like everyones passing and touch is just off it tonight.

Another lively day at SMS - glad to have witnessed it and enjoyed it with the Block 3 Saints. There were quite a few spaces at the back of 3 and 4, which surprised me. Support-wise, we made a great noise, that is sometimes lost due to the wider acoustics of the ground - but lots of good to and from with the Northam lads. First half was a surprise - and if this means we were getting a bad spell out of our system, let hope so. Huddersfield came out gunning for us, and it upset our rhythm. We played like we knew we'd win, without earning the right to do so first. Once harried, we lost shape, our passing game went to shit, and we were kept on the back foot. We had a few chances, but these were few and far between (Arma tried to be cute with the 1on1 and it didn't work) - neither of their goals came as any real surprise. I hoped for a half-time hair dryer and that seemed to be delivered. With the changes made (thankfully) we looked a different outfit after (whilst the power-up lasted). Rothwell's brace sent us into a frenzy and from then, I felt that we were not going to lose the game, but still looked fragile in parts. Even after their third, which was so flukey as to be unsaveable, I felt that we'd get something. Something about their blatant time-wasting from even before the half told me we'd make them pay for doing that. Fortune repaid us with the OG, and from then on it was one-way traffic (save for one cross of theirs that was right in front). Mara and Edozie goals were the product of our adaptability and hard work - total scenes in Block 3 by the end! Not what I fully expected, but a good day out nonetheless - time to learn, regroup and go again Tuesday. COYS!

Fuck. Horrible, horrible deflection.

This is like a game of Mario kart where you get a power up to you get back into the race, and then it wears off

Hope Russ has the hair dryer to hand at half time….

Such a shame that the FA Cup has come to this. Draw known before all initial games played. The league now so much more important so teams sacrifice their participation. The "magic" of the cup is sadly no more....

Surprised they took Asprilla off - he was running rings around Holgate.

Decent set of changes there...

Have we still got the receipt for Holgate - hopefully we're not beyond the returns window....

We need something - we look like a pub team that just met for the first time the car park at the ground....

Offside AND Handball...?

The keeper is the only one who has shown up for Swansea today....

was it VAR tissue?

Glad I went to the game and didn't follow it on here - there are some who are living in a parallel universe 🙂 First class performance from Fraser today - no stop effort from beginning to end. MoM performance by 10 mins in. He also brought Meghoma into the play very well. I liked what I saw from the other younger players - SAA was solid, Tyler and Bragg looked very at home. Impressed by Lumley, a good shot stopper, owned the role very well, was confident and VERY vocal to the players in front of him. Cant get all the hate for Charlie on here - thought he had a measured game and with two (almost three) selfless and spot-on assists. I like having him around. All in all another good day at the office - let's see who's next!