Saint Fan CaM

What is this s-h-o-o-t-i-n-g thing you speak of? 🤨

That’s because he’s spent more time helping out at right back.

Of course he is - he’s had to work to the club strategic requirement of pass it backwards ball or whatever you want to call it. Plus he’s not a top manager/coach.

When the Arse have to resort to putting on their subs their team will be weakened and we can take advantage. And then I woke up.

45-50 minutes of more pain. Chins up kiddos.

And there it is. No one to blame really - just much better movement from a player who knows how to score. Plus Stewart - our striker was marking the shooter.

Can you imagine Baz doing that? Me neither.

Rambo keeps us in it…again.

Think Sulemana has looked one of our best to be fair, but seriously little end product.

Have to say Saints players have put in a shift as if the game means something. New gaffer in the stands helps?

Gilt edged chance!

So far what this tells me is we gave up midfield in most of our previous games.

Stewart receives a perfectly flighted clearance from Rambo and gets dominated off the ball. He’s no target man - weak as peepee.

Defence looking a shambles already.

Nice to see Rambo taking his Son out with him with a Saints shirt on.

Do you mean Arsenal score 4 in the 1st half, 4 in the 2nd half and Saints grabbing 2 consolation goals? 😬

Yep, but you’ll get over it eventually. 😉🤭😂

Ah well, cirque du Solent on the cards again. Not entirely sure how Taylor (who must be very match unfit) gets selected ahead of Sanda. Fuck it, who knows, it could be a genius move. 😏😉

Now announced officially. Thanks @trousers. 😉😂

Good news in terms of getting rid of deadwood, but not so good news for the Finance Director.

Until they conduct more than a half-arsed medical, then all bets are off!

Thing is, even if it means we loan them for nothing and pay a high % of wages, it may pragmatic as it’ll be important for Still to get them off campus.

Are player contracts renegotiated when they go on loan - i.e. does the contract term remain the same and continue to tick down?

Genuine question - do we know that Still was the second choice? I would suggest that he and Rohl were the front runners, but that Still ticked as many boxes if not more than Rohl. It could be argued that with another 3 years under his belt at a decent sized club, Still would be out of our reach, so for that reason I reckon this is a risk perhaps but a risk worth taking and no worse than appointing Rohl.

Yes these things are important but not a priority for me. The number one issue that needs addressing is how to attack and score goals - an attribute that has been woefully neglected and missing from our play. Goals win games. There is one common denominator in ALL of these things though - movement (or in our case lack of). In defence, players stood ball-watching or not closing down to press. At set plays (particularly corners), players are like statues with no one running onto balls into the box. In attack, even if there’s a quick break by one or even two players, inevitably there will be a turning back to pass sideways or more often backwards, eventually resulting in 11 oppo players behind the ball. Interestingly this can be rectified by good coaching, but it’s essential that players have the stamina and technique to deliver that on matchday and there are far too many squad players that just don’t have it in them so they’ve gotta go.