Rod Le Shearer Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 ..Was horrible last night - and has been ever since our first couple of games this season ! Recently he hasnt shown any glimps of any imaginable quality to justify his place in the team. No pace, no strength, finishing like a schoolgirl, passing/decisions like a half-wit. Granted, he gets a couple of tap-ins now and then, but so would any other striker feeding of Lambert, Lallana & co. No wonder Adkins is looking for new strikers. We need a back up for Rickie, and a new striker to partner him. Two strikers, Nigel, and promotion will be much more likely. Only Rickie is a forward good enough for a top two championship club, with Guly as an acceptable option for some games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He was our MOM vs Forest last weekend, but we can't rely on him. He is a great option to have around though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He's hardly going to win a 50-50 with Matt Mills FFS; but can be very effective if he has a target to play off as he showed at Forest and Brighton *****il Lambert went off). Definitely has something to offer but we need a more reliable option there -a player who can play with and without Lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Le Shearer Posted 24 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Oddly enough (given his experience) he seems to be the first player to shrink when we are under pressure. He performes reasonably well when the team is playing well, but is too often the biggest underperformer when the team is having a bad day. Anybody else noticed this ? This suggests to me he is relying on the rest of the team, and doesnt really add any value in his own right. I wouldnt want him on the bench either,as he isnt an impact player. Release him ASAP, and use the wages on someone who make things happen,rather than waiting for things to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_lambden Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 It's harsh to say he's been poor since the first couple of games. Was fantastic at Forest last week, and like above, the whole team was poor last night so it's hardly fair to single anybody out. We all know we need another striker. He missed linking up with Lallana it seemed. Him and Guly did okay but the final ball was lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobM Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He's a great forward, but cannot lead the line. He needs to play off of somebody, but as we only have Guly around, that person to play off simply doesn't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 I've been saying it for months and I haven't changed my mind; Connolly is one of our best players when we are playing brilliantly. If we are anything less than brilliant he goes missing. It would be unfair to pick him out for last night, although he was our worst player along with Harding IMO, however he was never going to score. Lambert, one decent cross or a free kick and we might have nicked a goal. Guly can find himself a yard of space and nick a goal when you least expect it. Other players have a bit of pace or trickery which makes them a threat, but not Connolly. If you stick it on a plate he is a good finisher (see Boro and Forest) but otherwise I don't rate him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 good player when we are dominating games and Lallana feeds in little passes, but will not turn a game by a moment of magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Le Shearer Posted 24 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 24 January, 2012 This pretty much echoes my opinion of him. IMO, he is a luxury we shouldn`t grant ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Grute Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Think Lallana and Lambert are on the same wavelength as him and when they all play they link up really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Nothing stuck up front last night when we lumped the ball forward. Connolly kept trying little flick-ons which are never going to work more than once in a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 (edited) If the gift from Leicester had fallen to a player like Nugent instead of Connolly we'd have gone 1 up and the whole match would have been different. You don't get gifts like that very often and you just have to take them,a few minutes after Nugent blasts one in from a similar range and it's goodnight nurse.Connolly had time to take it forward a couple of strides and hammer it past Schmeichel, a class player doesn't miss those. Connolly is vastly overated. Other than that, all our chances fell to midfielders or defenders, why aren't our "strikers" getting on to the end of that stuff. Midfield always get the blame but they can't be "à la foire et au moulin" Edited 24 January, 2012 by Window Cleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He's not the sort of player we can rely on every week, and at teh end of the day when the midfield was as disjointed as it was he had no chance what so ever. They also closed down too quickly and he couldn't find the space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybeal Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Basically the forward problem we have is that we only have 4 forwards at the entire club capable of doing a job at this level Lambert, Guly, Barnard and Connelly (I don't count Doble as an option as when I've seen him he was not any where near). We went into the season with 2 of our 4 option having major issues- Connelly injury prone and old (he cost us nothing so anything from him over the last 3 years has been a bonus), Barnard injured and other non football related issues. Basically any fool can see that you can't go into a season expecting to get promoted from the NPC with basically 2 competent forwards. IMO we have been 2 strikers light all season and you can't expect to spend a total of £2.5M on a strike force to get out of this division - this is the problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splurty Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Completely agree except calling guly forward is pushing it ,he has scored goals but is better from deep .So with tandanari and ricky. I think we need probably 2 more forwards . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbojones10 Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 fickle rubbish he was our best player at forest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellman Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He was agood player once but a journeynman now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekelund24 Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He needs the better players around him, when he links up with Cork, Lallana and Lambert he is a brilliant player. Isolate him like last night it is pointless playing him. I think we need a forward to play off the last defender and this isn't his strength his is creating space and losing defenders which requires better players to pick you out (granted he has missed whilst doing this) Last night he was **** because the whole team were, especially the midfield and full backs who decided against the passing game partly due to the pressure Leicester's top 6 put on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambol2K9 Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Midfield didnt turn up last night, they were all over the shop, couldnt string two passes together. Connolly missed a sitter, but other than that, he's not the sort of striker that can create something from nothing, he needs lallana and lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simondo Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 to be fair, other than rickie, if the one on one were to be with anyone, i would have hoped for connolly however last night the whole team was gash.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Give it a rest, we was awful last night, Leicester played well. Connolly was fantastic at Forrest so give it a rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicestersaint Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 He is much better playign alongside Lambert although he is not as sharp as he was and if we get Sharp (pardon pun) then Connolly will, presumably, be on the bench. However, last night the midfield were simply awful and provided little or no service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Actually Connolly and Guly both had half decent games last night, specially 2nd half (difficult for me to see much of what they were doing 1st half, wrong end of the pitch). No decent support from midfield, but both were working tirelessly to make things happen. They are not great as a pair though to be fair. Some of the things Connolly was doing in the 2nd half were high class, but no-one else on the pitch was quick enough or alert enough to take advantage, AL and RL are very much on the same wavelength as Connolly and so it works better when the three of them (or even two of them) are together. Granted Connolly scuffed one decent chance he had, which is not good, but you cannot fault him getting into good positions or for his workrate. I heard someone text into Solent saying he was gash, maybe it was the OP. Anyone who thinks he is gash really doesn't have a clue. He was a mildly bright spot in an otherwise totally crap performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambol2K9 Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Players like guly and connolly will always look crap if no-ones linking up with them, midfield completely wet the bed last night for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Fen Posted 24 January, 2012 Share Posted 24 January, 2012 Bit harsh on Connolly, service was really bad. He should have done better with the chance he had but even that was from their mistake rather then us creating anything. We need an option when Lambert is missing to win the ball in the air, Guly and Connolly were never to going to win anything and our midfield or the full backs didn't really supply too much too feet. The only decent balls were the inswinging crosses from Fox on long distance free kicks creating the only other chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MbaleSaint Posted 25 January, 2012 Share Posted 25 January, 2012 Can't verify this but I heard that Connolly's mother died on Sunday so fair play to him for playing, but not entirely surprising if he was somewhat distracted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 25 January, 2012 Share Posted 25 January, 2012 Can't verify this but I heard that Connolly's mother died on Sunday so fair play to him for playing, but not entirely surprising if he was somewhat distracted. Blimey, fair play to the lad if true. FWIW I did think he looked a bit distant and distracted, didn't seem to be quite on the same wave length at times. Not suprsing if that's the case! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 25 January, 2012 Share Posted 25 January, 2012 Can't verify this but I heard that Connolly's mother died on Sunday so fair play to him for playing, but not entirely surprising if he was somewhat distracted. In which case I take back all I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 25 January, 2012 Share Posted 25 January, 2012 He needs to win more headers against 6ft 5 defenders in order for the new Southampton Style as seen on Monday to work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted 25 January, 2012 Share Posted 25 January, 2012 Can honestly say, Monday night was the only time I've ever seen him play badly for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingwing Posted 25 January, 2012 Share Posted 25 January, 2012 Can't verify this but I heard that Connolly's mother died on Sunday so fair play to him for playing, but not entirely surprising if he was somewhat distracted. It was announced she was taken ill for the Forest game with Adkins making a point of saying fair play to the lad for coming out for the game (as by the sounds of it the club was fine to let him have the time off). Very sad for the guy if she just passed away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes_and_Watson Posted 25 August, 2021 Share Posted 25 August, 2021 Hate to necro a thread since I'm not long here, but.... David Connonlly is doing co-commentary tonight. Before the game, the Harry Kane stroy came up, along with gentleman's agreements. Connolly said he had such an agreement with Saints. That a new contract was on the table for him, as he dealt with his dying mother and he needn't worry about it. Then he had an (other) knee injury and that agreement vanished. Instead he was released. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPY Posted 25 August, 2021 Share Posted 25 August, 2021 19 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said: Hate to necro a thread since I'm not long here, but.... David Connonlly is doing co-commentary tonight. Before the game, the Harry Kane stroy came up, along with gentleman's agreements. Connolly said he had such an agreement with Saints. That a new contract was on the table for him, as he dealt with his dying mother and he needn't worry about it. Then he had an (other) knee injury and that agreement vanished. Instead he was released. To be fair to the club, not sure we expected him to get injured getting down to pray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 25 August, 2021 Share Posted 25 August, 2021 1 hour ago, ChrisPY said: To be fair to the club, not sure we expected him to get injured getting down to pray. Didn’t Franny Benali break his arm sweeping up leaves, or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Bates Statue Posted 25 August, 2021 Share Posted 25 August, 2021 1 hour ago, Holmes_and_Watson said: David Connonlly is doing co-commentary tonight. Before the game, the Harry Kane stroy came up, along with gentleman's agreements. Connolly said he had such an agreement with Saints. That a new contract was on the table for him, as he dealt with his dying mother and he needn't worry about it. Then he had an (other) knee injury and that agreement vanished. Instead he was released. Interesting anecdote and to revisit the background on the original thread, I didn't know about any of that. I only recall he struggled for injury with us. Seems a bit shocking but not entirely surprising, tough decisions have to be made sometimes and we let go a lot of decent performers as we went up the divisions. In the strikers department alone we also showed the door to Barnard and Sharp despite all of them providing useful contributions in their short times here. Can't blame him if it left a bitter taste in the mouth though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedArmy Posted 25 August, 2021 Share Posted 25 August, 2021 Probably explains why he signed for the skates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stud mark of doom Posted 26 August, 2021 Share Posted 26 August, 2021 Odd that this one resurfaced yesterday - I was thinking that Tella’s finish last night, giving the keeper the eyes, was pure DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty's Caddy Posted 26 August, 2021 Share Posted 26 August, 2021 2 hours ago, Stud mark of doom said: Odd that this one resurfaced yesterday - I was thinking that Tella’s finish last night, giving the keeper the eyes, was pure DC. I thought exactly the same. Virtually same scenario, same classy finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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