Saint_lambden Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads? Turn up and support the team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Matty Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Far from being insane, he's making complex and difficult decisions in order for the club to succeed. Like him or loath him, insane he is not. On this basis I have amended your song for you, however I'm not convinced it works as a football chant, so I think we should just get behind the team instead? I always get behind the team but C--tese is insane - The EPL is the hardest league in the world and we were doing well after a shaky start. 2-2 at Chelsea, 1-1 against arsenal - hardly a failure.2 defeats in 12 games - not a FAILURE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Matty Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads? Support the team, hate C--tese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Interesting Tweet on the BBC LiveText page from Luke Shaw: Great to meet the new gaffer today. hard first session but good fun ! Now excited for Monday's game and hope the fans support us as ever ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads? Or the most sensible option... Turn up, support the team and create a positive atmosphere for a vital home game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Or the most sensible option... Turn up, support the team and create a positive atmosphere for a vital home game. Utter madness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Utter madness... I know, I must by crazy to suggest such a thing trousers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Alex Goring Crook @alex_crook Have been told #saintsfc players reacted positively to Pochettino's first training session today. Long live the king Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbenny Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Just moved to the Brighton area. Anybody watching the game in the pub or know of any good ones to watch the game in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads? Arsenal are playing tomorrow aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olallana Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads? We might listen to and take Luke Shaw on his words...?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave watson Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 What to do about Monday? Stay away to show Cortese we are fed up with his dictatorial approach in a mass boycott? or Turn up and boo the barsteward endlessly and sing for NIGEL throughout the game? What to do lads? Or get behind the team I have supported for 47 years rather than boo some twxt who has only been around for 3 years and is not bigger than OUR club! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Without a Halo Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Or the most sensible option... Turn up, support the team and create a positive atmosphere for a vital home game. However upset we may be and however badly we believe Nigel has been treated, this is the sensible option! Neither the players or the new Manager had any input whatsoever in Cortese's decison! Not supporting the team to somehow get back at Cortese is no more than shooting ourselves in the foot! We are where we are whether we like it or not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Support the team during the game, with todays results, a win would be massive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Armstrong Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 Could've done with this man at centre-half... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints Warrior Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 looking forward to some abuse to NC and on the pitch with a bit of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILLY Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 looking forward to some abuse to NC and on the pitch with a bit of luck. Need to get behind the team not cause problems. Move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 19 January, 2013 Share Posted 19 January, 2013 looking forward to some abuse to NC and on the pitch with a bit of luck. Nice one, that'll help things a great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 So do we know anything of how Pochettino likes to play? I have read a few articles that talks about pressing high up the pitch and playing possession football, but do we have any idea of formation or anything like that? He has said he has seen us for a few weeks so I'll be interested to see whether he looks to keep the players with what they are familiar with and phase in his ideas slowly or whether his ethos requires complete change at the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 looking forward to some abuse to NC and on the pitch with a bit of luck. Sorry, are you suggesting going on the pitch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Hope Pinocchio has us up for this game! Be good to get our nose in front early doors PMSL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAS Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Hope Pinocchio has us up for this game! Be good to get our nose in front early doors PMSL Yep, no word of a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeySFC Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Just totted up the available seats and it looks like there's still 2,939 tickets available for the game. So the attendance should be 28,804 which will be pretty decent for a Monday Night game I think, although would be great to see St. Mary's full. Reckon we'll sell another 1,000+ on walk-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Despite a lifelong dislike of Everton for that cheating git Adrian heath doing us out of an f a cup final place, they are a perfect example of how you can achieve success with stability and having faith in a manager from the lower leagues who is given a chance to learn his trade at the highest level. Limited funds influences what they can do in the transfer market, but they bring on their fair share of youngsters and are currently challenging for a CL place. Perhaps our nob of a chairman should take a leaf from Kenwrights book and have had a little faith instead of gambling at completely the wrong time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Must win game. For Ponchiettos sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Must win game. For Ponchiettos sake. Pretty much. We had actually earnt some breathing space, so the pressure would have been off if dear old Nigel was in charge. That's all changed, and the pressure in this game is pretty huge now. How utterly pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Draw wouldn't be awful. The key for me is the fans. Hopefully the atmosphere can remain positive to the players because they deserve that from recent displays and a win would be huge in terms of the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 I'd say must not lose. No-one would say a draw with Everton is bad, they're a good side. But I don't think we'd have lost under Adkins. Possible, but we were playing very well. If we lose now, it'll look like a ridiculous decision right away and multiply the pressure exponentially. But I'm reminded of when we sacked Sturrock and then lost at home to Bolton. Or the 3-0 home defeat to Ipswich which was gray's first game in charge I think. Negative atmospheres that had a terrible impact on the team. Kind of expecting the same so if we're honest the best result right now is 'match postponed'. Agree! Draw minimum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 I'd say must not lose. No-one would say a draw with Everton is bad, they're a good side. But I don't think we'd have lost under Adkins. Possible, but we were playing very well. If we lose now, it'll look like a ridiculous decision right away and multiply the pressure exponentially. But I'm reminded of when we sacked Sturrock and then lost at home to Bolton. Or the 3-0 home defeat to Ipswich which was gray's first game in charge I think. Negative atmospheres that had a terrible impact on the team. Kind of expecting the same so if we're honest the best result right now is 'match postponed'. Agreed, the vast majority of Saints realised that Hoddle should have been appointed and the decision by the board who were influenced by the vocal minority, had led us to install a manager who was out of his depth and would start us on the road to catastrophe. Some similarities this time, but let us hope history does not repeat itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Tone Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 So do we know anything of how Pochettino likes to play? I have read a few articles that talks about pressing high up the pitch and playing possession football, but do we have any idea of formation or anything like that? He has said he has seen us for a few weeks so I'll be interested to see whether he looks to keep the players with what they are familiar with and phase in his ideas slowly or whether his ethos requires complete change at the start. the press say that he likes to play 4-2-3-1 in the first and second team but insists that the youth teams play4-4-2 because he feels that is the best formation to develop skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananaman Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Could've done with this man at centre-half... no good, he's on loan to S****horpe at the moment........ oh sorry, thought it was David Prutton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itchen_block4 Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 So do we know anything of how Pochettino likes to play? I have read a few articles that talks about pressing high up the pitch and playing possession football, but do we have any idea of formation or anything like that? He has said he has seen us for a few weeks so I'll be interested to see whether he looks to keep the players with what they are familiar with and phase in his ideas slowly or whether his ethos requires complete change at the start. Apparenty he's a believer in 4 at the back. There isn't time before the Everton game to put that in and doing it this season woud be a huge risk. His football philoosophy is broadly similar to Adkns', ie playing out from the back, high tempo passing game, but prepared to be pragmatic, so I wouldn't be surprised to see minimal changes in the short term. Nigel Adkins was doing a good job and we don't want major changes to tactics and formations at this stage. I wasn't particuarly optimistic about this game anyway, so not the ideal game to judge Pochettino.Eveton are a strong side who are where the are for a reason and let's not kid ourselves that a draw would be less than a good result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Sounds like his teams play fairly similarly to how we do now really. Our total philosophy isn't going to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Hope the new guy does well and Goodluck to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 this game will bear very little on how MP wants us to play... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alehouseboys Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 OK, prediction time. I'll go 2-1 Saints, late winner that brings the house down. I'll also predict some of our numpty fans will boo the new boss when he's presented to St Mary's. My final prediction will be that the big screens will develop a technical fault so Sky wont be able to plaster NC's face across them for the inevitable reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jones91 Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 if the weather continues like it is now until tomorrow night what are the chances of the game being called off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 if the weather continues like it is now until tomorrow night what are the chances of the game being called off? The club have just tweeted a picture of the St Marys surroundings all cleared of snow and with no more of the white stuff forecast I think there is every chance the game will be on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Apparenty he's a believer in 4 at the back. There isn't time before the Everton game to put that in and doing it this season woud be a huge risk. His football philoosophy is broadly similar to Adkns', ie playing out from the back, high tempo passing game, but prepared to be pragmatic, so I wouldn't be surprised to see minimal changes in the short term. Nigel Adkins was doing a good job and we don't want major changes to tactics and formations at this stage. I wasn't particuarly optimistic about this game anyway, so not the ideal game to judge Pochettino.Eveton are a strong side who are where the are for a reason and let's not kid ourselves that a draw would be less than a good result. How many do we play at the back now then? Always thought it was 4 myself. You learn something every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
student Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Id expect Boruc Clyne Forren Yoshida Shaw Cork Spider Punch Ramirez Guly Rodriguez Sounds like Forren has known of the interest for a while so will have been privately training hard. Id expect to see all of Corteses signings playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jones91 Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 whats the weather like in southampton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 (edited) if the weather continues like it is now until tomorrow night what are the chances of the game being called off? whats the weather like in southampton? It isn't snowing in Southampton. The pitch is in good condition and under covers, as of 1 hour ago the immediate areas around the stadium are clear from snow. The game will go ahead. Edited 20 January, 2013 by Matthew Le God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 if the weather continues like it is now until tomorrow night what are the chances of the game being called off? The weather won't continue like it is (not that the little flurry's we're having today are causing any issues anyway). It will be dull and overcast tomorrow, still very cold though Tuesday it becomes interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jones91 Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 It isn't snowing. And the pitch is fine, as are the immediate areas around the stadium. brilliant thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 I think someone will be missing from the squad completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 I think someone will be missing from the squad completely. Lambert, probably. Wouldn't call it insane to see him gone before January is out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Lambert, probably. Wouldn't call it insane to see him gone before January is out. Not sure why its assumed Lambert won't fit the style? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottery st mary Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 (edited) Pray do tell us your thoughts.. Pleeeeese:) ie Missing from squad... For Heavens sake Fonte......lol Edited 20 January, 2013 by ottery st mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 Not sure why its assumed Lambert won't fit the style? There's no smoke without fire. Pretty sure we've been trying to shift him on for a while. Not that I agree with it, it's just another mental decision in the long line of mental decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 20 January, 2013 Share Posted 20 January, 2013 There's no smoke without fire. That is probably the worst phrase ever. Would you apply that to someone falsely accused of a crime they didn't commit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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