Saint Fan CaM

Need Cardiff and Wrexham to have decent games tomorrow night

Brilliant noise from the away fans 👏

Fellows really was not up for this game - shouldn’t even have been on the bench.

Piss poor lazy from Azaz.

O.M.G!

Ref being an utter turd.

Massive chance for Dobbin!

Dobbin on thank fuck

Cunt Ref - just yellowed Tonda!

Ref making some nuts decisions now. EFL / Boro bias machine still working? 😏😉

Haha - fuck me Edozie. All part of the Tonda master plan. Break their hearts in the 2nd half!

No subs…mmm

When was the last time Saints had less than 36.4% possession and NO shots on goal in a first half? WBA are doing a great job stopping us play a game of football by out-passing and out-muscling us. If they could do a better job in front of goal it would be 4-0.

Yeah but no shots on goal? Ain’t gonna win games of football like that, let alone claw back a goal.

Not surprised - they’ve both been shocking.

They’re completely dominating us in midfield - need a change.

Fuck off Manning - every pass is backwards. Now he’s playing as a CB. If he had a satnav he’d get fucking lost.

Fuck me - can we have the ball just a bit please?

To be fair to them - get in the pen area - make the oppo team make a mistake. Things we don’t do enough of that. Plus note where their attack came from - our left.

Stephens fucks up and gives them a pen. Nice.

Their style of play is very similar to us. Who will break the lines first?

Manning + Edozie = clusterfuck in waiting

This is atrocious.

My view is defensive cover on our left (or lack of it) is a result of (a) Scienza being an overly attacking player who is very advanced high up the pitch much of the time as that’s his primary skill set, (b) Manning’s propensity to play high up the pitch when he doesn’t have the pace to recover his defensive position when we lose possession and (c) Manning’s lack of ability to defend competently when he is actually in position. Watch the number of times he’s dispossessed because he’s too slow making a decision to pass the ball - it’s quite a lot and for me explains why he chooses the ‘safe’ option of passing backwards so much.

He’s improving for certain and importantly I think he’s got attributes that Archer didn’t have, such as turning on a sixpence and decent pace. I do believe that by January/February he’ll be giving Tonda big selection headaches if the whole 1st team is available. His improved form has coincided with our rise up the table and a pretty decent goal difference - it will be difficult to separate out these factors, maybe to the point that it will take an injury to drop him to the bench.