badgerx16

Saints are tactically naive all over the pitch. A combination of playing last year's reserves under a one dimensional conference league coach.

Don't know why, but this result hasn't got me as down as it might have done. Maybe it was just too predictable that after two ( slightly lucky ) wins we would come down to earth with a bump. As has been said elsewhere, this was always going to be a roller-coaster ride, with the likely outcome a near thing, ( hopefully not needing a last day escape ), flirt with relegation. At least all the uber-positives are keeping their heads down; maybe scabby is starting to realise the 'golden' duo are more akin to pyrites. Still positive slant on the table, we are 4 points above 23rd, and 4 points behind 5th. Other than the top three this is a poor, and consequently highly competitive, league.

"and no matter how filthy it is, it's probably already been said on one of the Southampton message-boards" I would think it's been said, many times, on ALL of them

This morning, "Break the Cycle" by Staind

NorthernSaint, going off topic, ( as it is a bl00dy stupid one anyhow ), did you see the pier go up ? By the time I got round there, from over Wyre, it was all over.

Earlier this evening found 'Don't Fear the Reaper' on YouTube, took me back to my school years.

The Russian State Symphony Orchestra playing Carmina Burana.

If it has been Bart in goal instead of KD, what the scores have been ? In most of the games this season the keeper has kept us in it, even at bl00dy Doncaster ! What p1sses me off are the posters on here who have consistently bleated on about 'total football' and how well we will do this season, when the evidence on the pitch, and the considered opinions of most people coming on here after attending the games, show that no matter how much effort the team might, laudably, put in, they are many miles from being anything like the finished product; and whilst JP is getting better, I still have strong reservations about his tactical nous or willingness to change things when they patently don't work. ( There, now I've had a moan )

Scabby couldn't even explain the offside rule....... oh hang on, nor can most of the refs & Linos.

I think KD is the key to the season, at least until we get a settled CB partnership.

Once again Lord Lowe's decision to kick out the boot boy and bring in the golden duo is justified with another example of flowing total football. There, now that's spoilt Scabby's evening

Isn't 'muffin' the mule illegal ?

Liar, liar, pants on fire !

If somebody had come up to you at the end of the Sheff Utd game last season, and offered you the choice of Nigel Pearson or Jan Portvliet as the Saints manager for this season, which would you have taken ? ( Please no prevarication or replying 'neither'; a straight choice ).

You truly are a despicable character.

It might be, but the dutch duo have had a clean slate, NP inherited a team in meltdown that had just shown their collective @rses live on TV at Brizzle Rovers.

Scabby doesn't bite, he's Rupert's poodle.

I guess that makes you either a pot or a kettle, black in colour !

Now come on, you know very well he is not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

Could only post a brief response earlier, as the curry I was cooking was ready for serving, but now I can give this the considered response it most certainly does not deserve. Scabby, I do not want to be pedantic, or to disrupt your delusion, but Rupes is NOT a Lord. He is a ruddy cheeked, mediocre, wanabee financial big cheese who is desperately following the plans laid down by Barclays Bank in an attempt to stop his investment in the club going down the administration pan. He is not in control, the bank are. He is not visionary, he is following orders. Second, JP and MW are not a 'golden duo', they are just a pair of saps whose egos were boosted when Rupert came calling. Nigel Pearson was not kept on purely because RL didn't appoint him, and as a bonus he managed to find an opportunity to save a few shekels at the same time by delving into the lower echelons of the Dutch leagues. Goodness only knows what sort of endearments Rupes offered to JP that persuaded him not only that Saints were a good career move, but also to buy himself out his existing contract with a significant amount of his own money ! The collective career management records of the 'duo' amount to zilch, nil, nada, nowt,a big fat unimpresive ZERO. Third, whilst we can at times play some pretty passing football, there is a million miles between what SFC are churning out and Total Football. The Blackpool and Barnsley games showed that, and from looking at the comments on here about today's game, and looking at the match stats, we were far from convincing, and equally far from dominating DONCASTER. As for spittle on the keyboards, I bet you have wet dreams over RL. I support the Saints, and I support the manager, whoever he is, but I reserve the right to criticise where I feel necessary once the match has finished. JP was the wrong choice, but he is what we have, and there are signs that he has the potential to stabilise things, but we are very far ( and at least three experienced players ) away from a promotion chasing squad. However, I will never give any form of support, vocal or moral, to Rupert Lowe. The man presided over the decline of this club, has to shoulder a considerable share of the blame for it's current plight, and is too damned arrogant to do the noble thing and find a buyer for his share, and finally butt-out.

From one of the 'flat caps' who preferred to keep NP, Shut the **** up !!!!!

Hopefully something to build on - and my son's brass band have just won the National Championships in Harrogate, good day all round. :):):)

We have a habit of playing players out of position though, don't we ? Surman at LB, BWP on the pitch.....

As the song says "Tomorrow is another day"

He's not the only one. Dyer has been living up to his name, and BWP is living down to our expectations, to name but two others.