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Glenn Murray, Jonathan Walters or Peter crouch...... Come to think of it don't Shane Long and Charlie Austin fit that criteria to...

No you are not. You buy a ticket to have seat at the game that's all. I bet there is no guarantee of entertainment anywhere on your ticket. You buy a ticket in hope of being entertained but no live sport can guarantee you will be so entertained and you are certainly not entitled to it.

Same as OXOs dad then..

Really? I must be reading different posts to you on this forum 90% on here where desperate for Puel to get the elbow. Also the word on the street is Les was happy for Puel to carry on if he tweaked the style of Football Puel said no and walked...

I thought that was why all our players wanted to go Liverpool for the passionate supporters...

I disagree this season and last we have had the highest number of crosses in the league (and the quality of the crosses leaves something to be desired) getting out wide banging in crosses hasn't been the issue and isn't playing to the strengths of any of our current strikers both Gabbi and Long would be more effective with early balls over the top into space or decent through balls down the channels were they can turn the opposition CBs around neither of them want to be wrestling with CBs with their backs to goal or trying to get their heads on high crosses. Austin would work better with balls from out wide but only if he is basically made to stay as close to the opposition penalty box as possible and other players actually get into the opposition box as to make space for Austin rather than the usual 4-5 opposition players and one saints player we normally see. I actually liked that we tried to play more one twos through the middle against west brom rather than the endless crosses from out we usual try.

I don't disagree but the post I was replying to said possession football is boring my point is it's not if you have the players capable of turning the possession into goals.

In fairness Man city have the most passes, the most back passes and the least long passes this season they also have the most shots and the most goals scored this season and no one would describe them as boring to watch this season surely?

Haven't we sold out all our home games this season? After all the people who said they weren't going to bother last season I expected SMS to be half empty this season but it seems there are plenty of others taking their place.

I wonder Hoj how feels about becoming an under 23s regular?

I think the evidence suggests we do not. It can't be all down to the way we set up. We have had the worst shots to goals conversion rate last season and this (despite having some of the highest shots stats in the league). Our players seem woefully bad at scoring goals Shane Long hasn't scored for something like 26 games, Tadic, Davis, JWP, HoJ Redmond, Romeu and Boufal all seem to find it easier to miss than get the ball on target. The West Brom game should have been out of sight long before Boufal even came on the pitch the number of chances we ****ed up.

TBF we seem to be dropping a lot of points playing safe. If they want us to stay in the PL then at very least they need to drop a load of cash on a keeper who can actually make saves.

Shame the big lump in the goal behind them is so bloody useless...

That's what Lemina brings to the party

It's clearly a bit of both. Forster is costing us points on a weekly basis it was obvious we needed to upgrade last season instead we gave him a nice big fat new contract. Neither of our GK back options look any better so the manager isn't left with much choice there. Other players are letting us down to. Bertrand is a good player increasingly looking like he is just going through the motions Same for VVD this season. Shane Long is a striker who hasn't scored for something like 26 games (no team can really afford to carry a striker that bad). JWP, Hojberg and Davis will be lucky to reach 7 goals for the season between them. Redmond, Boufal and Tadic are our creative players who don't create very much. We have mediocrity all over the front line. We have a decent holding Midfielders and a generally decent defence let down by a **** goal keeper it really isn't a good combination. Having said that the manager needs to get the best out of what we have. We don't play a style that plays to the strength of any of our three strikers. I can't help feeling we should go three at the back to give Forster as much protection as possible and give our full backs the chance to get forward more and two up top because none of our strikers seem suited to the lone striker role.

Only to a point. Some players have limitations that no amount of coaching will over come. No amount of coaching can increase JWPs pace to any useful degree for example. Shane Long has been coached by a succession of different managers and still can't hit a barn door. No manager can make Cedric taller so he doesn't get beaten so easily at the back post.

Didn't Koeman play Yoshida as a full back...

That's the worry isn't it Tadic and Boufal are supposed to be our two creative players we played both of them today and they created **** all.

Lemina I ****ing love Lemina if the rest of the team had as much ability and put in as much effort as him I'd probably like them more to..

eh?

But we had Shane "Is that a barn door? I'll never hit that" Long the Irish Jamie Vardy...Ok fair point

Yep the players got what they wanted but there has been little upturn in their performances this season.

**** starting team as well...

Not one saints player has looked good today just shocking all over the place