Legod Third Coming

Ice, are you queer???

no argument from me pal. technically excellent most of the time. noe end product and some schoolboy errors. thats what you get from schoolboys. blame the cause not the symptom.

one ball, james misses it they score. until then we'd had 78% possession in the half - even u must agree they hadn't looked like scoring all half. not saying it's good, but we have gifted them two goals - that's poor!!!

the problem is our strike force - not good enough - not holding the ball up and not defending from the front - we've been undone by hoofball because we're not using our possession.

the last four game we had put this nonsense to bed and here it is again wtf is going on

they have created nothing. we have given this game away.

oh that is fecking james all over - tit

could also mix it up now and hit a few and pepper speroni

what these kids lack is good decision-making under pressure or in the final third - it's there for all to see. composure they need.

we just need end product - the build up play is fine. Surman unlucky - he was pulled back - another pen goes begging

lloyd james is actually turning into quite a good player

we are playing so well we DESERVE a goal!!! come on fellas!!!!

gr8 skill by james shocking end product but keep it up lads!!!

why wont lallana shoot? ffs

If you to55ers bothered to watch you will see the first goal was fecking foul! Shuqi shoved Pearce out of the way. What is the point of refs? Fecking useless k u n t! posted from my blackberry lol

The solution cannot be to play two players up front who have none of the attributes described above - since these are attributes of any striker in any formation! I cannot fly a plane. Should I find myself aboard one when the pilot croaks I will find someone else who can't fly and together we'll land like an Osprey in the Glens! BTW - all these 4-4-2 merchants - do we have the Mike Basset fan club on our board??

You're right of course. Immediately we should all get off our computers and nip out and run a soup kitchen... It clearly meant that we (as Saints fans) have a team whose attitude and commitment we can be proud of - which matters to many of us a great deal more than simple results (a huge amount of which is down to luck, decisions and factors beyond our control). Effort is not beyond the control of the team - and it is them whom I and many other fans support. So that, perhaps our football team might be a positive thing for us at a time when many of us are finding the remainder of life a touch harder than it has been for a while. But thanks for your lesson in what should be important to people. And now that we've established that this club means bugger all to you and the other moaning minnies in the scheme of things, perhaps you will be less vociferous in your constant barrage of criticism??

What do you suggest? Play two ineffective strikers instead of one? I think he's trying to see if any of the strikers he has can do the job - hence he has been through Peckhart, Robertson, McG and now Paterson. There is no different style of play is there? What is the alternative to passing to a bloke in the same coloured shirt?? Sometimes our lads overplay. Sometimes they go backwards because they dont see a better option. Without Holmes and Morgan we do lack (apart from James) someone who can hit a great cross-field ball. This I put down to age, confidence and ability - not the system. But I don't believe our failure to score has anything to do with playing 4-4-3 or 4-4-2, but failure to get a striker in form!! If we're good, and we're getting better, we should be able to beat people playing our way.

Having said which, I do get royally annoyed that we don't leave a fast man on the halfway line at corners.

Right, let's make this really simple. We can play the system. It creates opportunities. We don't take them. Shall I try Swahili in future?

This is a lie, my brother is the stig - FACT.

Er, but it does suit out players. They're now used to it. All it is not delivering is victories. You could play BWP and McG up front and we wouldn't score a single extra goal. Cos they ain't strikers. I've seen Lallana come back and make a saving tackle at Reading. Early in the season it looked like the fullbacks didn't get it, now they do. We're just not scoring. What's your proposed formation? 1-1-8??? We ain't got a decent striker - that's our key problem. Sten John would score a hatful in our system - any system probably. Do you want us to play 4-4-2? And if so why? The most successful teams no longer play this formation. To me our strength appears to be playing the ball short and quick on the deck.

According to Lloyd James they have played 4-3-3 from a young age and with a focus on moving the ball at pace on the floor, with the aim of making them confident on the ball. This Dutch football thing has been overdone. I talked with a cab driver about this and we both agreed that Liverpool of the 70s and 80s always played these little triangles. That's all we do. Every player should have an option all the time. I think the total football thing has been overdone. Only Cruyff ever played total football because he was a bloody genuis. Playing the ball on the deck and keeping hold of it - that's just the way God intended football to be played, that's all.

I liked it better when he used to talk about things I understood - Star Trek for example.

In the old days we used to be coached how to catch the ball. Now keepers couldn't catch a cold. They call that progress.