Smirking_Saint

Whilst I dont necessarily agree with the relevance at a football match Id say it is a tad ignorant not to appreciate the man and so hold a minutes silence for his passing. But then I suppose there are those who are completely OTT for these sorts of emotional public outpouring aswell so I get both sides of that particular coin As far as Saints V City Itll be a tough one but I reckon we will either scrape a draw or get thumped 3-1. Im normally more of an optimist then a pessimist bit looking at this Ill stick to what Ive said in my other thread, we look mentally and physically tired and knocks are taking there toll. Not just this but Morgan was the fulcrum to our tactics and morgan was so muchore effective in the defensive phase then Cork and would allow the FullBacks more freedom. Without them both I think we will struggle to pull off our game plan and considering Ive not seen much of a plan B (admittedly as plan A has been so effective) I dont think we will play another way. Id love to be proven wrong though

But of course a penalty and a red card is a double punishment, because thats exactly what it deserves. If I push you over on the way out of the box its a pen but possibly no card. Professional cards and denying a goalscoring opportunity is a red. It should be a red. So I dont see the issue with that particular point. As for sinbins ? No, I just dont get it, Im guessing its to 'fruit' the game up a bit. Other than that I dont get it, missing 10 mins for a third foul etc ? As per diving, it should just be looked at after the games, if it is a dive then its a yellow and IMHO if its a dive in the box that wins a penalty should be a ban. Obviously this only happens if its conclusive

Very, losing Morgan was bad enough, but both essentially means are tactics are now defunct, which considering its basically all we have been working since MoPo must be a tad annoying

Not kept up on this news, VW out as well ? Its bad, dont get me wrong I think we have been unlucky but I would say those still 'fit' look jaded, at least mentally if not physically. We need to use better recovery techniques or get a bigger squad IMO

Goes around like he owns the place FFS

This really, I am a Tory at heart but in essence I wouldnt want them to have more then two terms as it seems whoever is in power after that seems to just go into meltdown. Whilst I disagree with Brands overall assessment I do agree changes need to happen, politicians no longer represent and act for the people, it seems they just act for their own personal agenda.

They are knackered, jaded and picking up muscular injuries. Plus agreed Morgan is the fulcrum, thankfully we didnt listen to the knee jerkers and sell back when he was useless and would never make it.

Well its gonna get worse, Ive been asked to go up north to help with the storms. That said there is a reasonable breeze here aswell. Aslong as it doesnt snow I dont care

Its pretty much this, opposition teams know that we play very narrow and slowly build things up. Villa played a similar game to sunderland earlier in the season, play direct balls with quick breaks but get as many bodies behind the ball once we have it and suck the space out of the middle of the pitch. They played 5 at the back which allowed bodies in the middle but allowed the full backs to occupy ours which is where our 'width' comes from. Osvaldo is the man we need up top to provide mobility for orward balls but he isnt on his game yet. Lambert slows things down too much and isnt mobile enough to play up top alone. Perhaps we need to get a bit quicker and take more risks, change the tempo at times. We play a bit like Barca in the fact that we take few risks and win the ball back quickly when lost effectively stopping the other team playing, problem is we dont create enough at all as we dont have their players. I would say change the tempo every now and again to catch teams off guard

Why would we change our way of play which apart from the last three games is very successful ? If it wasnt for some **** poor (unusually) organisation against Villa and possibly Boruc against arsenal we wouldnt even be discussing things ? If we change our gameplan we open up, and look how that went at the start of last year. Keep what we are doing, give Ossie more time, try and get Ramirez fit and we will be ok.

Bang on

Yup, I largely ignored Ramirez' goals and assists last year and also Ossies goals this season. Still atleast Lamberts banging them in....... Oh

of course Dune. You lot have never lost a debate have you ? And there is never a situation within which you ignore salient points just to bang your drum over and over and over.

Whilst I agree that I wouldnt want anyone banned Im not sure that losing some of the worst offenders is going to be detrimental to the forum. Alps isnt one of those though. This forum went downhill when they had a mad year banning those that were merely sarcastic and commical/castrating the muppet show completely whilst allowing some obvious trolls to continue with their crap

Touche Alps, Touche

He gloats to to the left He gloats to the riiiight Alpine Saints only on when were sh!te

You realise glasgows just trolling dont you ?

Yes, which is why I love him but after that so what ? He doesnt fit the system ? So why the protection ? Make a choice accept we arent as good with him in the side or realise it and ask for changes. I respect what he has done but Davis did as much, and your not asking for his inclusion If we want to improve he isnt the future, same with Davis and Cork unfortunately. He has offered us so little for weeks now

2 mistakes, a worldy, we had more efforts on goal and much more possession ? Yeah Id say we did ok. Can you tackle the points glasgow and not just derail another thread ?

Eh ?

Sure I read it somewhere the players joking that training was a breeze at England compared to with Saints. Im assuming that Hoovield and Yoshi were picked dependant on the opposition but if Fonte was fit to play why not play him ? Not that I want our system to change BTW, Im a big fan, but I think we are going to have these little niggles more than most teams. Dont get me wrong, we have had Arsenal and Chelsea away, I wasnt expecting much there but we played ok, we even played ok tonight, organisationally poorer than usual but on balance didnt deserve the loss.

Less risky passes, less shots mean that you keep possession. As I said it wasnt a problem when we were not making mistakes and thus were not letting in goals. I think when Ossie clicks he'll play instead of RL and goals will come but its keeping it ticking over til then.

TBF I love the bloke but the defence he gets is rediculous considering the slating others get.

Do you think that we are working too hard ? The players recently said they were pleased to go on international training with England as they wont work so hard, also I reckon we collectively run further then most other teams, such is the intensity of our pressing. Add to this our reletively smallish squad do you think the reason we are making mistakes is because we are jaded and tired. And so picking up muscular injuries and making mistakes ? If so, can you imagine an extended cup run ? And even a europa campaign ? Or have we just been unlucky ?