Saint Fan CaM

Another player with square boots…Smallbone this time. Saints looking too sloppy now.

Brilliant save from Lumley!!!

Tell you what, anyone saying we need a LB…look to Meghoma…twice the player Manning is.

And Mara.

Amazing looking back at Frasers strike. He brought it down and hit it across goal in a way none of our actual strikers could or would. Class shows.

Alcarez is really blowing hit and cold in front of goal at the moment…needs a little more composure.

Absolutely beautiful first time cross!

1-0 Fraser. Lovely!

Brave line-up. In theory we should be smashing this…but.

That’s part of the problem though…it unbalances the defence. He interprets RM-ball in his own way and tries to play like KWP, but with 50% of the ability, meaning his deficiencies especially in defence (but also in transition) are often horribly exposed. A decent team like Leicester will take him apart.

Does that mean responding to it is a bit like lifting the dogs tail, getting in close for inspection and saying “oh yeah, you do have an arse”? 🤔😉🤣

Whatever happened to the Woolston Ferry (bridge?) song? OK so it’s not there any more but it’s part of the club and areas history.

Sounds like a Saints type move. 6’1” tall, two footed, can head a ball and knows where the goal is…what’s not to like? A Che upgrade if you like.

To sit on the bench like Bree? There’s no way RM will displace Manning at LB unless he’s injured. No way.

I did actually say “too many” and the inference was IF this was the case. Martin seems to thrive on being buddies with certain individuals and while our results have been impressive, there have been fluctuations. Bringing Manning in over Bree was the start and then finding a way to get Stephens into the mix by displacing KWP from his natural position are examples of his approach which I don’t like. Round pegs, round holes and a balanced team makes for a better performance and over the last two games at least I would argue that we’ve seen a less organised, less composed defence.

Cause he sells media stories and that’s regardless of whether he’s successful or not.

You could say that of Manning too. Trouble is, you have too many ‘gaffers boys’ in the starting eleven rather than the best players available in the squad eventually the moral will drop and so will the ability to play RM’s gameplan.

Ah but there’s no fire or smoke without a little kindling. Nah, I don’t buy it too.

Could the day, date and time be added to the title please? Think this will see a fair few changes so not too confident of a positive outcome. We should win comfortably though. 2-1.

That’s definitely two points dropped - Norwich executed their orders perfectly whereas we didn’t have enough energy to maintain concentration for the whole game. Once again Che and Manning were poor, with the latter and Stephens at RB meaning a completely disrupted back four. Not a particularly enjoyable game but it does provide a valuable point and another game undefeated.

Ref now doing his best to please the home fans.

Stu A is spent - need new legs on…now.

Fucking idiots - so slow and complacent. Thats everything that’s wrong with how we play.

Sloppy passing in an advanced position and guess what? Nearly a goal from a break.

Get in - AA scores at last. Lovely from KWP.