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McGoldrick one on one with the keeper 9 out of 10 gets blocked. Never tries to lift it over, like Owen v Pompey.
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The way our players shoot a lot of the time, scuffing low power, the shots are on target but don't trouble the goalkeeper.
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Approx £8 - £10 a game. Depends when the ticket was bought. It isn't going to happen, how many games are going to have a Man Utd ticket incentive.
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If they want to do that they are going have to give £1m back to the 9500 season ticket holders or have the ST holders redeem their tickets and risk paying out £2m approx. I'd hand my two back, and I expect most would, a) not to be taken as a patsy by Lowe and b) save £250.
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There may be a system. The one we play is pack the left side, and leave the right side open for the opponents to attack. Then stroll back, it's the four defenders job to pick up the six attackers breaking that have got goalside. As James is the only right side attacker and defender it's now only three. Don't have anybody on the far post, never get behind the opponents defence. Make sure we pass it around long enough to allow the opposition to get behind the ball, then attack on a narrow front, getting as many players forward as possible, so that we are easy to counterattack. Don't make any runs into the box on the offchance of a breaking ball. Chasing the ball is the system. Lallana and McGoldrick play for themselves and almost never in their assigned positions, wandering all over the place. Most of all make sure we have run out of defenders when the ball reaches the two unmarked attackers on our back post allowing them to score.
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Tactically naive, can't win at home, publishes a system that the players aren't playing. Lopsided, no width or effective attacking down the right side, no forward right sided player, consequently our right side defence is wide open, because of that we are vulnerable on our left far post when outnumbered. No he isn't doing a good job.
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Davis is out of contract at the end of the season, to save his high wages I would suspect a free transfer. Surman is the most ready to leave, but his fee would depend on the terms. If it was money up front that would considerably lower the fee, if appearance related etc could be considerably more. I would think we would require the former. Lallana is not ready and I suspect knows it. He would be looking at reserve football for the forseeable future whilst he learns how to make the best of what he has got. A fee for potential only. I doubt he will want to go.
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Manchester Utd tickets and lots of kids and friends. The price of tickets can't be cut often or maybe again, or there would be a lot of season tickets handed back, especially over 60's and under 16's at a fiver on the day. If it was a regular occurrence my two would go back today.
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I think even the President of Ecuador got involved.
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Maybe it's because he want's to go forward not across the field. We have much bigger problems than Euell and JP isn't seeing them.
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Lallana has talent, it's just being wasted at the moment. He has been pretty ineffective. He could be successful if he played wide properly. He has been told to cut back on running all over the place and try and get into space that will hurt the opposition, privately, by a senior coach. That obviously didn't work. He is being played out of his favourite position, as he isn't able to command a regular place as the support striker. Either he has to nail down a regular successful starting position or he will be on the bench when Holmes is fit. That, if it happens could lead him to decide to go and play in, maybe Stoke's reserves. I don't want any of our young players to go, but the present shape of the team will hurt us. The way he is playing is causing us major problems on our right side. Putting that right now is more important than keeping Lallana. Ideally I would like him to take the advice he was given and solve the problem himself.
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He along with Robertson are the headless chickens whilst Lallana is the wingless right.
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Until Holmes comes back, when BWP could swop over, either James or Gillett could give us the width and balance we don't have.
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Just been shown.
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If you were interested in us winning and not being relegated so would you be. The lob sided lack of a right midfield will get us relegated, unless something is done about it. The one bright note, just seen it on Sky, Stoke in for Lallana and Surman. If Lallana goes, it will solve the problem. He is hardly contributing anything to the side at the moment. Besides we need the money. This problem is the main reason we can't break teams down at home. Not playing Lallana wide would improve the teams balance.
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He was playing in Mexico. I saw him in 2001 in the South American World cup qualifiers. He was awsome, one of the best players in the competition and a national idol in Ecuador. Our problem was he needed an operation and rather than having it went and played in the World cup, pretty much as Pahars did. I would be very surprised if the only way they could play with the injury, was pain killing injections. All this does is allow further injury. They hardly ever played for us after that. It wouldn't surprise me if that is how he is continuing to play.
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Pretty much sums us up at the moment, nobody wide creating or scoring, Nobody up front looks like they could hit a barn door with a banjo. BWP whilst not being a natural winger has nevertheless done fairly well, scoring 3 goals from there. For the rest 2 strikers and nobody playing wide right, Zilch. The management have to get tough and sort them out. It seems a bit like the story of the Emperor's new clothes. Everybody can see it but nothing is done.
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You have just identified our major problem. A headless chicken with no wings.
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I seem to remember he was aquitted.
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Saints Greatest XI - Second Best Right-Midfielder Poll
derry replied to St Landrew's topic in Golden Posts
Matt could really play anywhere except defence. I personally would have him as LM he could then swop for spells with Paine who was completely two footed to give variation. It has to be Ron Davies and Channon upfront. RD was the best striker in the world for a time. And probably the best attacking header of a ball of all time. I haven't seen anybody in 54 years to equal him in the air. -
For God's sake make whoever is picked wide right, bloody well play there.
derry replied to derry's topic in The Saints
I actually think JP wants him to be wide but doesn't jump on Lallana and lets him get away with it. Possibly the same with McGoldrick underpinned by the Lowe preference scheme. Our right side or rather a lack of one is our main problem in all aspects of the game and needs to be sorted. -
For God's sake make whoever is picked wide right, bloody well play there.
derry replied to derry's topic in The Saints
This is a problem for the here and now, the others coming in are for when and if. Gillett would at least play wide, as would James and Thompson. Lallana going walkabout is killing us. I would play Euell and Surman in the middle, McGoldrick and Lallana as strikers, Cork, Perry,Pearce and Skacel in defence with James and BWP wide. Insist on keeping the shape and give them a bollocking and the promise of 5 days under canvas on the Brecon Beacons running up and down Pen y Fan until they dropped. -
For God's sake make whoever is picked wide right, bloody well play there.
derry replied to derry's topic in The Saints
That's a whole lot better than one. -
For God's sake make whoever is picked wide right, bloody well play there.
derry replied to derry's topic in The Saints
James, Gillett, or Thompson. Maybe Gasmi but I reserve judgement as I haven't seen enough of him. Lallana could play there but he won't. Disciplined he would be my choice.
