captainchris

A very good call

Praise and criticism where they due is entirely justified... Today - excellent - last two months mostly poor....

Correction- where Pelle doesn't have the movement

L Very good points also.... Even as a Saints supporter I have grown tired of the rather arrogant and complacent rhetoric right across the management structure lately... We truly are not as good as we think we are and management need to take quite a long hard look at themselves. Our buys have been largely quite odd and mostly average players who we spent quite large sums of money on..... We have not addressed obvious tactical inadequacy particularly in the final third where Pelle has the movement required to trouble defenders and yet we have continued adnorsium with this failed tactic for months on end. I fully expect it to continue for the final two games too with the same end result. Koeman seems to lack the ability to work round challenges or perhaps more worryingly he can't see the issues...

Three things.... Poor team selections by Koeman Selection of Pelle despite his obvious limitations. Selling Jack Cork - idiotic. Plus, it would appear lack team preparation and motivation for about the last three months...

What!!! Pelle stays on!!!!!!!!!!!! Why, how on earth ?????

Please can we take Pelle OFF. He might as well be in the crowd for all the use he is!

That was pathetic.... Come on Koeman show us how good you are!!!!!!

Oh dear oh dear, a certain lack of tolerance to different views I fear.....

Pelle starts! We play with 'good organisation' and sod all 'penetration' ! Tottenham press high up the pitch not allowing us any space and easily picking off Pelle all game. They score a late goal and Koeman says we were the better team and played with good organisation.... Tadic plays and has little effect on the game.... Am I the only one getting bored with the Pelle predictability game strategy we continually adopt with the same results game after game.... We have become a very average mid table team which stumbles on a few good results mixed in with poor ones. We have a very decent defence and defensive midfield but are seriously lacking after that... Have to say our failings going forward are mostly because our attacks continuously go nowhere because Pelle lumbers around like a statue yet Koeman continues with the failed predictable strategy... We have the rest of the season to plan for next year - who is good enough and who isn't. Surely we know that Pelle will not take us to the next level so let's start living in the real world and prepare for how the team will be looking for next season - hopefully with mobile goal scorers up front. At present our attack resembles a Subbiteo team .....

Same here. More cultured than some are giving Dave credit for..... Part of a great team. Will always remember him...

Very true and the reason for playing 'in front' of the opposition? Pelle's lack of movement...... How on earth Koeman persists with him week in week out is mystifying ...

We're you on Mars for the Chelsea game?

Naff ! Pelle again joke .....

Ditch Pelle - enough ! All the justification has been discussed at length already. Simply not good enough ....

Ahhhhh there lies the crux of the matter - ( I assume you are Ronald Koeman?) modern high quality football has moved since the big 'Target' man' hold up player . This is old hat and is no longer viable .... Good teams have much more mobile forwards who make runs, drop deep and are free and able to join in with creating..oh and scoring!

Well said Wade. Thousands can see it but Koaman can't which is worrying really ...

L Quote of the day and very true! Pelle really is woaful ..... Mr Back to Goal Pelle..... The coaches too should take some blame for not recognising how his lack of movement is strangling the team. Wake up Koeman can you not see for Gods sake?????

Sorry but completely wrong. Couldn't be more wrong if you tried I'm afraid. Here is the problem. Pelle is imobile! He relies on every one else to make the runs whilst he stands still with back to goal. Ok he sometimes lays the ball off but then again doesn't bust a gut to move defenders around or get into scoring positions. Mane up the middle with Long has looked better. This continuous Pelle ****fest with Koeman is holding us back..... Koeman is not learning the lessons...... Mr back to goal Pelle - time is up....

If a player has been woeful or out of form, how ever you want to describe it - for weeks then he deserves to be dropped and or criticised. That is not anything to do with lack of support for your team or disloyalty. For the record - Pelle has been pretty poor since Christmas for us and two goals for Italy against a makeshift defence and a minor football nation do not change that fact.

Increased capacity would automatically increase attendances whilst we are getting results. The reason is that many assume they will not be able to buy a ticket if they decide to attend only a few days before kickoff. People just don't bother to try and do something else. Also when tickets are left they are usually within the Chapel end. There is a reason for this - no one want to sit in a mortuary at a football match... Well obviously a few people do but lots don't.... If our ambitions are to remain near the top of this league we need a bigger stadium. Our attendances are effectively full houses. The bigger the stadium the more people who don't have season tickets can plan to go at relatively short notice.... If we had a capacity of 35,000 now the average attendance would be at 2000 higher...

F Good accurate summary

Well where were you first half yesterday? Pelle is not scoring goals and not mobile enough. Too much of a luxury away from home in particular.

Well done Kelv... Our defence is superb and makes Forster look better than he is. Personally I think Kelvin will be an improvement.

Completely unbalanced with Pelle in the team and this formation.... Really odd .... Burnley are loving this