The Southampton "style"

[revolution saint]

It'll be our first chance to see the team today for a lot of us and given NC's previous comments about a Southampton "style" (see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8679885.stm) I wondered what people thought the style might be?

 

I don't expect to see much of it today given it's a friendly and we've got key injuries but it'll be interesting to see how that style develops over the season.

 

It would be quite good to have a recognised brand of football - we used to have it until Branfoot took over and we never really got it back. Thoughts?

[Saint_clark]

Relentless pounding down the wings will be the way me thinks.

[saintscottofthenortham]

Give the ball to Wotton.

[Saint_clark]

Give the ball to Wotton.

 

This is a thread about Saints, can we please not discuss Pompey and their star player.

[Colinjb]

The Southampton Style:

 

Lumping it upfield to Lambert and bringing the poachers into play?

 

Lets hope not.

[hamster]

Harrington jackets and bovver boots.

[Saint_clark]

The Southampton Style:

 

Lumping it upfield to Lambert and bringing the poachers into play?

 

Lets hope not.

 

Why not, if it works? Lambert nodding it down for Lallana, Puncheon, Barnard or Connolly = lots of goals.

[Colinjb]

Why not, if it works? Lambert nodding it down for Lallana, Puncheon, Barnard or Connolly = lots of goals.

 

Oh, if it works fair enough, but it's not really 'stylish' now. Would rather see long range Lambert specials, teasing forward runs from Lallana/Puncheon and space making defence splitting movement off the ball from Barnard and Connolly.

 

Or am I being too picky!?

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

It'll be our first chance to see the team today for a lot of us and given NC's previous comments about a Southampton "style" (see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8679885.stm) I wondered what people thought the style might be?

 

I don't expect to see much of it today given it's a friendly and we've got key injuries but it'll be interesting to see how that style develops over the season.

 

It would be quite good to have a recognised brand of football - we used to have it until Branfoot took over and we never really got it back. Thoughts?

 

What is so funny is that if this was Lowe who said this, he'd have been ripped to pieces...

[MarkSFC]

The "Southampton Style" will not be forged overnight. It's clearly an element of the brand that Cortese is creating. It will probably take 3-5 years to establish "the style" throughout the club and for football to recognise it as such. What that style is I would hope will be a brand of efficient attacking football played at a high tempo that stretches opposition to the max.

[SNSUN]

We will play a patient passing style. This will result in a few 0-0 scorelines with five minutes left on the clock, at which point we resort to lumping it to Lambert.

 

Or we will just rip teams to shreds with our creativity.

 

I like the sound of the latter.

[Saint_clark]

Oh, if it works fair enough, but it's not really 'stylish' now. Would rather see long range Lambert specials, teasing forward runs from Lallana/Puncheon and space making defence splitting movement off the ball from Barnard and Connolly.

 

Or am I being too picky!?

 

You'll get all those, after Lambert has nodded the ball down

[shurlock]

Jaidi launched forward to Lambert = goal. part of cortese's more for less efficiency drive.

[Clifford Nelson]

I think that is what we think of, but how to achieve it in organisation on the pitch? I'd like to think that it will take some of the inspiration from what we've recently seen from the world cup. Spain and Germany comes to mind. In all cases it sacrifices the second striker to an advanced midfielder who can make things happen across the whole width of the attack. We haven't got that player, but we have one big striker and two "second" strikers. So I can see us persevering with the current formation which encourages us to heave it to Ricky and hope for the best. If it will take 3-5 years to establish we have already wasted a year, and we are about two waste another, which leaves us 3 years starting from cold.

 

Alternatively the Southampton Style means starting in one formation and finishing in another and having the two wingers swap sides and occasionally play up front. That's how we finished last season. I wish I will see something else this afternoon, but I don't think so. AP's beliefs and experience is 4-4-2, and that's it, folks!

[Deppo]

Fake Stone Island jumper, tubby, pint of p*ssy lager in hand, gammy eye.

[MarkSFC]

It will be nothing to do with formation.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Harrington jackets and bovver boots.

 

Tut tut! Loafers or brogues please!

 

Sta-prest also.

[sadoldgit]

Playing with a red sash on the shirt?

[Badger]

Either of the following two 'Southampton styles' to recreate would be acceptable:

 

1. The 'Channon- Ball- Keegan - Golac' era , of quick one touch passing

or

2. 'The Alehouse' days of the late 1960's where McGrath, Gabriel , O'Neil and Fisher provided the protection and platform for others to excell.

 

Ideally,I'd like a combination of the two.

[John B]

Either of the following two 'Southampton styles' to recreate would be acceptable:

 

1. The 'Channon- Ball- Keegan - Golac' era , of quick one touch passing

or

2. 'The Alehouse' days of the late 1960's where McGrath, Gabriel , O'Neil and Fisher provided the protection and platform for others to excell.

 

Ideally,I'd like a combination of the two.

 

Having seen both eras I dont think we have the players for either

[sadoldgit]

I wonder if Cortese know what he is talking about?

[hypochondriac]

I wonder if Cortese know what he is talking about?

 

I too think that things like this should be left to the manager.

[docker-p]

The Southampton Style? Surely that is red and whites stripes, until some loon thought the best way to separate less able saints fans from their cash was to peddle a white shirt once worn by Peru.

[Colinjb]

The Southampton Style? Surely that is red and whites stripes, until some loon thought the best way to separate less able saints fans from their cash was to peddle a white shirt once worn by Peru.

 

Give it a rest mr condescending.

[sadoldgit]

I too think that things like this should be left to the manager.

 

It just heaps more pressure on the manager. Surely Pardew has enough to do to get us up without having to worry about how we do it? I agree about the stripes too.

[SFKA South Woodford]

The style will be everyone on their knees praying!

 

We are at present a limited team, get the ball to Lallana or Puncheon and hope that they can make something happen, or hope that Morgan and Rickie will have been told to let fly more often.

I think as one of the other posters alluded to, there will be a lot of 85 minute frustrations as teams stifle Lallana and Puncheon which effectively means that the entire attack is stifled. Until Pardew removes his finger from his a*se and gets the impact players the squad is crying out for, we are going to be a one trick side, and as i've said before there will be a good few occassions where that one trick will not be enough to get even a point let alone all three.

 

We had never finished a season so well, in my years of watching Saints and there was a real feeling of excitement that we would kick on this season and take the division by storm, but with the impact players we have lost this summer not having been replaced, that excitement and optimism has disappeared.

 

Take today for example, if there had of been a decent player signing this week, they could of added a few thousand on to the gate and cranked the optimism up a few notches, with better opposition they could of added a few thousand more and generated more excitement, so let's hope and assume the 'Southampton style' that this season isn't going to be the same as this pre-season and be one of missed opportunities.

[doddisalegend]

The style will be everyone on their knees praying!

 

We are at present a limited team, get the ball to Lallana or Puncheon and hope that they can make something happen, or hope that Morgan and Rickie will have been told to let fly more often.

I think as one of the other posters alluded to, there will be a lot of 85 minute frustrations as teams stifle Lallana and Puncheon which effectively means that the entire attack is stifled. Until Pardew removes his finger from his a*se and gets the impact players the squad is crying out for, we are going to be a one trick side, and as i've said before there will be a good few occassions where that one trick will not be enough to get even a point let alone all three.

 

We had never finished a season so well, in my years of watching Saints and there was a real feeling of excitement that we would kick on this season and take the division by storm, but with the impact players we have lost this summer not having been replaced, that excitement and optimism has disappeared.

 

Take today for example, if there had of been a decent player signing this week, they could of added a few thousand on to the gate and cranked the optimism up a few notches, with better opposition they could of added a few thousand more and generated more excitement, so let's hope and assume the 'Southampton style' that this season isn't going to be the same as this pre-season and be one of missed opportunities.

 

How do you known it's down to AP and not NC? For what it's worth I reckon we spent most of this years transfer budget last january in a bid for promotion leaving little in the kitty this summer.