wild-saint

I guess I’m the only one who thought it was a good result today. I was full expecting us to get beat today when I took my seat this afternoon. A little tongue in cheek maybe, but only a little.

Not sure the managers have ever had much sway on targets to be fair

i keep reading on here that Eric Black is significantly to blame for much that is wrong at saints. Genuinely, why do we think this? im aware that other teams he has coached at have been poor but what evidence is there of this? Im not saying that he isnt a bad influence but not sure where this has come from.

no no i understand what you are saying. Essentially PEH will either get better, maintain that level of performance or get worse depending on a number of ever changing variable factors. In summary we need to play him again to find out?

Agreed, as poor as Everton were today we have played other teams that were also poor and failed to COmfortably win / or have an attacking thread against.

Agree, I think him and Bertrand are developing a decent partnership down the left.

What sort of moron spends 200 million on a football club and then sits there and watches it implode and half in value in 9months. Surely he can’t be sitting on his hands and not preparing to act, can he?

Top 10 finish Decent attacking football Anything other than a bottom 6 finish To win a trophy Provide entertainment for my season ticket money To be bothered to watch All of the above. Your call which but for me the squad isn’t good enough.

Where did I say that? So you think the squad is good enough right now do you? I think a couple of sensible additions in those wide areas will significantly improve performances.

Would I fire him? Absolutely! Will saints fire him? Absolutely not! As that is the case I hope we spend some cash in January to fix the areas that are limiting our attacking threat, tadic & Redmond Will that happen ? Probably not. So relegation battle here we come.

yeah it was a great goal

New owner yet to show his hand as to his leadership plans. Never say never, However unlikely.

Why not keep VVD and also invest in some decent attacking players?

I agree with much of this but the absolute nail is that the chuckle brothers Tadic and Redmond are a truely aweful. I’d have them out of the squad and probably wouldn’t even let them go collect the cones after training. Hell, Redmond would turn back before he got to them. Redmond has had 10games on the spin and done **** all. I’d have boufal in at the number 10 role centrally with a licence to try things without fear of losing his place if he loses the ball. Give him 10games to gain confidence and find his feet. Maybe we need to play 3 at the back to allow the full backs more of a licence and space to get forward without the chuckle brothers slowing down their attacking threat.

And playing one up front for so long when we haven't scored more than about 5 goals in the last God knows how many games. It's Ines usable in my opinion. If we dont set up to get more players in the box particularly at home and saints will be in for one hell of a relegation battle this season. I actually think we are likely to get more wins away from home.its ****ing horrible to watch

When Redmond has the ball he always look to go inside / to the right of the fullback rather than the outside nearly every time. When teams double up he has no alternative but to play backwards if he is not prepared to go outside and therefore is very predictable. Unless he varies his play he will not improve his worth to the team. Its painful to watch. The other option is to play much more centrally as he then tends to be able to play either side as he has more space.

Actually I think he will play 3 CBs next week.

Even though we did last year and currently are this year?

Wasn't it the song the Watford fans were singing all game last week but obviously their players name inserted?

Without watching the game its difficult to judge but look at his positioning and the compelte lack of effort to defend those specific situations, (regardless of being out for 8/9 months) it very much looked like he couldn't be arsed. I don't care how rusty he is at the least he should be busting a gut. I have a feeling this well end messily in January with a sales a lower price than we could have achieved in August.

You think the team have a chance with your mrs then?

He will do nothing else but give it 100%. If clubs see him playing badly they may feel it's because of his injury and then effect whether they are still interested in him.

I personally think he is our best player in every position, so yes he could play up front.

i watched the game as well and tend to agree. Although the French have an abundance of top quality attacking players. He seemed to struggle for pace a little but i guess we knew that.

Of course, plenty in here. Couple of Glaswegian, Austrian and Marvel variety