OttawaSaint

Jesus those first 5 fixtures!?! I think well need to hopecwe can somehow grind out a couple of draws out of that lot. Zero points and a couple of spankings seems likely. The club has the air of a beaten dog right now, head down just trying to avoid the inevitable thrashings.

Who agreed on that? Where is it posted that we won’t sign anyone else? Most people looking at it objectively. Since the Liverpool win we’ve been abject and relegation form, all that’s changed since then is: Bertrand and Ings gone, Perraud and Livremento in. JWP injured, Vestergaard still on holiday and Shane Long is back? Forgive us for not thinking we’ll get off to a storming start.

I think the default is to be slightly apprehensive, pessimistic and hope that somehow we are much better. It comes from the pain of being optimistic and having it blow up in your face. We all want Saints to win but it feels like we are going to need to weather the storm a bit until we can undo the mistakes that Reed and Kruger made. Time will tell.

Ah but then you need to subtract the goals that Bertrand caused and also add in ones that he could have got assist on if he could be arsed to run down the wing...

I desperately want to be optimistic but I feel that we will be this season’s Sheff Utd. After the Liverpool win in January we have been awful. Since then we’ve only got weaker and not addressed our problems. So many of our defeats are similar. No attacking threat and full of mistakes at the back. If you look back at the goals we conceded last season, about 70% of them, the replay starts with us on the ball. Hoping that somehow 3 sides are worse than us and/or we get in some inspired signings. I’ve been wrong many times so maybe they’ll surprise me but it looks a bit gloomy right now.

No one really reacted like that. A few are concerned about how weak the defence/GK are, how thin we are up top and the increased pressure on the mids to play flawlessly to prop up our defence and attack. The short bench experiment was a bit odd IMO. Hopefully we get a couple more in the squad between now and next weekend and that the team that starts is stronger than the one we saw today.

She had more up top than what we started the game with today...

Seriously? Still don’t get the thinking behind these 2 friendlies with short benches. Is Ralph trying to show the board how thin we are squad wise?

That just won’t do, quick, direct, accurate. Kid obviously doesn’t listen, that ball needs to be recycled to the other mid and back to Bednarek...

Watched the whole tepid Long and Oba show and the stream goes down right before we scored. Figures. 😂

Damn, stream shut down.

It’s really bizarre. Was there any explanation for this. We are a team with a paper thin squad, what if we’ve made our subs and a key player gets a slight knock. We can’t afford to have players try to play on through an injury.

I think his legs are gone. Shouldn’t be anywhere near our bench let alone on the pitch. I’m thankful to him for his service but he knows that he can’t do it in the EPL anymore. Club should have let him go rather than get sentimental with the extension.

True. But from what we know Ralph can be very stubborn in his approach/tactics. We can’t really afford to take 0 points from the first few games. Not saying that will happen but this last game should be as close to our starting line up as possible.

I don’t see any “whining” just football talk amongst some rightly concerned Saints fans. Mistakes have been made today in team selection and on the pitch. Hopefully we learn from them.

Classic Bednarek running backwards getting turned the wrong waylay, good finish though.

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Yes some of the wrist slitters on here are annoying but you’re not doing yourself any favours. Why bait them?

This is concerning. I don’t see the logic in playing this last warm up game with Long and Obafemi up top. It would have been nice to have a bit of momentum going into the Everton game. Perhaps the extra rest for Telly and Adams will help. Who knows?

This. Such a shame we have so little cash. Having 2 GKs who are not that good can really ruin games where we play well enough to win/draw and they don’t make the routine saves (or make glaring errors).

Out-jumped Long and Armstrong and nodded in a corner.

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We do but let’s face it, Oba and Long up top, they could probably stay out at half time and we still wouldn’t score...

Makes me think of the fast show. Thethethethe Chris Waddle thethththtethe...

Ok Perraud, don’t do that in the EPL please. Luckily he was fouled but trying to go past players in your own box is a recipe for disaster.