Convict Colony

This and a turnover machine cos he runs down blind alleys. He's a winger in this system nothing else, he can do less damage there.

I think the problem is that as soon as the ball is past them offensively they are meant to tuck into the midfield ahead of the CB's and clear the first ball as it comes back.What seems to happen is they don't really commit and are half in half out and the oppo gets the ball and is played out wide from the CBs into the space. Saw a nice vid on Pepe which said this is your position, for this part of the pitch if you don't follow it you are subbed, Henry didn't follow it , scored a goal but was subbed at half time for not following orders. Also I saw KWP do a lot of lateral runs today, not sure why but he went no where everytime.

Am gonna say these 3 shouldn't think they are

RUSSELL Martin hopes that Saints' 5-0 defeat to Sunderland, which ended their unbeaten start to the Championship, will be the wake-up call his players need. Bradley Dack put the Black Cats four goals ahead just after the break, taking the Saturday lunchtime kickoff out of Saints' reach. Gavin Bazunu pulled off some important saves to prevent Sunderland from adding to their lead before 16 year old Chris Rigg rounded off the game with his first senior league goal. Despite making a fast start to life back in the second tier, earning 10 points from their first four games, Martin has repeatedly pointed out his dissatisfaction with the performances against Plymouth and QPR. Speaking to Sky Sports immediately after his first league loss as Saints manager, Martin continued that message, saying: “It was deserved. "To start the game so poorly makes it difficult, but our reaction to the dissapointment or to defend in the final third, all the stuff we had worked on, (wasn’t good enough.) “Sunderland just fought more. They came out of every single duel with the ball pretty much and had much more willingness than us to run when out of possession. “I said before the game that we have so much to improve on amidst all the noise and the chaos of the last 10 days - late last night two of the players thought they were moving but they didn’t. “But that’s not an excuse when you step onto the pitch, especially here. The game plan goes out of the window a little bit when you go 2-0 down. “I think the fifth goal sums us up, we let the guy do three turns in our half with no contact at all. He crosses it and they score. "I don’t think that happens if one of our players does that, I’m pretty sure one of our players ends up on the floor from a Sunderland player. "The mentality was a big problem today. "However good you are on the ball, if you don’t want to run it’s a big problem. “I told the players that we need to make sure that this is a hugely important day for us in terms of understanding what the Championship is all about. "It’s important for me not to overreact with all the hurt, your ego is dented when you get beat and it’s on the TV."

I would rather get spanked before the break when we can work on it rather during the run of tough games after

I needed that laugh

Edozie/KWP maybe cos they dont like going backwards quickly

I will put a cheeky 1000 quid on him being the most improved saints player this season. It can only go up surely ?

Link ?

ok enough of this shit - I want suleman and fraser on the wings next game at least - DO NOT FUCKING PICK ARIBO instead as your change Rus

agree we need a bit less sexy footy, i would settle for 60% posession and less goals conceded

This was a good game to not start in except for KWP everyone else has been shit. Subs the winners in this game.

Someone pass this onto martin. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/15126/10549782/does-pep-guardiola-have-the-formula-for-stopping-the-counter-attack

Oh fuck wev'e suffered enough now aribo !

at least someone is fucked off

What did Martin say after we conceded 4 v Norwich - If downes was there we wouldnt of conceded 4.

our midfielders currently thankful for the defence and goalie for coping all the shit from today but I am sorry they have been fucking awful.

This ossie ardilles ball isnt it.

when was the last cleansheet we had ?

To be fair to KWP he was up near the corner flag originally faking a short corner.

Its edozie get a bigger tv 😉

Time and again we are conceding either long range goals or people attacking crosses in the space KWP leaves behind