East Kent Saint

A strange feel to an end of season game , alot of fans seemed to be resigned to us not scoring . The crowd did make a show of supporting the team until they scored then it went a bit quiet !We didn't stay for the lap of honour , after watching Koeman etc last time waving etc to the crowd after saying he was staying then jumping ship days later !! The match looked OK to start with apart from the final third bit , loads of crosses into the box but not to anyone in particular , Forster , why was he not challenging Crouch ? you would think he could get a punch in to clear it . I thought the ref and lady lino poor , she didn't keep up with play , gave wrong throw decisions etc. Ref fell for their play acting all match. "Barry" seemed unlucky with his one on one as Butland,seemed to me, to slip and hit the deck to block the shot and the rebound hit "Barry's" foot to go out rather than him missing (so to speak). Not sure if Austin was offside for his "goal" but the pass was delayed so long I would not be surprised. Offside is so dificult these days , where we were in line at a free kick players were constantly going in/out of an offside position but eventually played on by the defence . Only careful study by video replay could sort some decisions out (imo) Our weakness seems to be the slowing of attacking play once we got the ball in their half , their defence regrouped and the final ball saw us outnumbered by big experienced defenders ! Boufal just disrupted the plan , players were looking to link up with him but he was always somewhere else and then seemed to want to play behind our midfield ! On to the worst part of the season ie who is leaving and possibly who may come in who we may of actually heard of before .

Pluto was declared to be not actually a planet by the sky boffins , for reasons that escape me !

Fonte may have looked OK when the WH team was set up to defend all game but we all know he came back from the Euros with a new head on and that led to his departure I very much doubt he would have played well if he had stayed at Saints .

Kat didn't waste time closing another business (printing ?) that ML had been keeping going so I imagine she has no problem selling Saints to maximise return to the family either . Unfortunately this is the football world since clubs started to be floated on the stock market to get further investment.

This is because the club has been up for sale for the last year or two , if not on the open market , then is has been prepared for sale . So no major investment in players or managers etc until it is sold and judging by the owners of say Cardiff , Leeds , Orient , Hull etc , being sold may not be the answer we ,the fans , are hoping for !!

To be fair to Lovren the analysis today say CP took note of the full backs getting forward so attacked the flanks to expose the 2 centre backs which is what happened so Klopp is in fact the guilty party !

I only saw it on MotD but we did have some good movements and Tadic could of had 2 goals , City were OK but their extra bit of skill(such as De Bruyne chip for a headed goal) tipped the balance. City have been found wanting in several games this season but our failure to score made it easy for them .

The Chapel's job is to applaud the Saints subs when they warm up along the touchline , apparently . I thought the OWTS was good on Sat although B'mouth booing when it started up was a bit rude !

I enjoyed the game , obviously I would have been much happier if one of our chances had gone in , was our offside goal offside anyone ?? couldn't see from the top of the Chapel !!! Is Bertrand OK ? he seems to get caught away from the left back spot plus his forward runs not so productive .

The announcements and chat are much improved in clarity so well done , the music however is too loud to be comfortable , hence the conversation comment , used as an indication of how loud the music was yesterday. Not much needs to change , just turn the volume down slightly when playing music and don't ever play "My way" again who ever is singing it ........

Too loud (music) in Chapel end , almost painful , no conversation possible !!!!

Fonte did well for Saints and although his leaving was not the best he still had to put his family first IMO and if he just fades away we should not forget the good times !

I suppose if Saints had just put him up for sale people would be saying it was disgraceful treatment of loyal player who had years left in him !!!!!!

Seeing several goals on MotD this weekend , which in normal view from the side line looked pretty well placed , were in fact massive deflections or pretty flukey !!! Walcotts goal looked well placed in the corner but viewed from behind him he hit it straight into the crowd of players and it bounced off the defenders knee to beat the keeper . Then Silva's goal looked straight forward but he actually caught it with the edge the boot and the keeper got a hand on it as well so what were said to be fantastic goals were in fact just lucky.

UEFA are now going to sideline Barca's ref !!

Re Barca , totally agree the end of the match was fixed ! dodgy pen , extra time etc but no mention of this in reports just fantastic comeback etc even worse than ManU bias or Liverpool Bias in the 80's .

Seen at normal speed it looked very much like an accident , Mings was trying to jump over Rooney and Ibra.... in the aftermatch interviews both players said stuff happens and they were happy to leave it at that so it could mean they both meant it and wanted to get away with it !!!

Us with dodgy knees soon get weary of getting up to see the action when the ball gets near the penalty area !!! Standing or sitting is OK but constant up and down is a killer for me . I find people who want to stand just to some how buck the system pretty irritating but not as irritating as ManU getting a late winner or their fans more concerned with jumping round and round with total disregard to the events on the pitch !!!!

off to Saudi Arabia !!!! Hooray !!!! might find making the wrong decision has different outcome over there !!!

Leicester managed to hang on to their forwards but seem to really miss Kante plus Mahrez has fallen apart since his move didn't happen in the summer. Vardy looked out of sorts after not moving to Arsenal but the team are not playing as well this season leaving him isolated up front . At the back Huth and Morgan look slow and their defence looks porous like ours ! So hanging on to players is not the answer but refreshing the team is but not wholesale big name transfers that don't get played a la Man U under Van G .

Well it does seem that the club is trying to do just enough until someone else comes along with cash .

As little of our game is usually shown on MotD can anyone tell me if the other 6 shots on goal (from BBC stats) were actual chances of a goal ? Like Liverpool at the moment we seem to have all the possession , more shots etc but less actual goals !

It's looking like any club that is for sale , ie minimum investment in new players , leave that to the new owners/partners to sort out if/when they take over !

So the diamond didn't work for Leicester either ! They could have made a game of it if Grey had ever tried to pass to Vardy rather than shoot from distance.

The idea really was that certain comments have been the accepted truth ie Koeman didn't play youngsters , Morgan moved from Saints for Champions League football at Man U and is now saying he is moving to Everton because they aspire to CL ! Man C would win the Prem as they got rid of safety first Pell and installed Guardiola who for the first few games the "bees knees" Finally top 6 teams could buy and keep the top players unlike mid table Saints etc ...