Brentford 3-0 Saints - Match Thread

[OttawaSaint]

I never thought anyone would top MoPe's "a draw is like a win" but this 🤡 has done it, several times. If only delusion = wins.

[Convict Colony]

It could be worse, you could be dragan solak whose money has bought the club, bankrolled our latest spending and who i think will suddenly become very involved in the day to day and decision making might be having a worse reaction.

The danish mafia might start becoming a bit more worried by our serbian warlord.

[Chez]

10 minutes ago, Raging Bull said:

Quite possibly why he did it. Payoff ahoy

 

why don't these owners insert "if you lose lots of games of football and we sack you, you don't get a pay off" into the small print?

[Miltonaggro]

4 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

The only SWF member with 2 arseholes ?

Same as the Boardroom at St Mary’s. There two arseholes propping up a flaccid prick. 

[santolijador]

We have gone full banter mode. Nathan has at least. 

[Toadhall Saint]

22 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

There's being frustrated and then there's throwing your toys out of the pram as soon as the slightest little thing goes wrong. You think players don't have Facebook and see the negative comments about them before they've even put on a shirt? Bree for example. Hardly going to help is it?

Your starting to sound like Jones

[OttawaSaint]

4 minutes ago, Chez said:

why don't these owners insert "if you lose lots of games of football and we sack you, you don't get a pay off" into the small print?

Yeah it's like me spawning a job as head of IT despite not having any credentials in IT and then just pressing random buttons and switches blaming everyone from the staff to the shareholders and the old woman in the canteen and then getting a nice big payout after I fry the servers, tank the share price and lose years of data.

Edited 4 February, 2023 by OttawaSaint

[Convict Colony]

ChatGPT seems to be welsh

[Bad Wolf]

1 minute ago, Toadhall Saint said:

Your starting to sound like Jones

You think slagging a player off before they've even kicked a ball for us helps matters?

[Lee On Solent Saint]

38 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

Isnt this the sort of thing ralph said after our first 9-0

Ralph said a lot of things, but he never blamed the fans

[Bad Wolf]

Is it true that Jones has gone back to calling the team "they" instead of "we" etc. Because if so, that fvcks me off more than anything.

[Bad Wolf]

1 minute ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Ralph said a lot of things, but he never blamed the fans

Yes, Ralph never said anything of the sort. Always owned up and never passed the buck to anyone else. Ralph was as honest as the day is long.

[Toadhall Saint]

16 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

Knowing "his way" from his Luton days and him saying we're going back to it is exactly the reason we should be sacking him now. Going down playing long ball hoofball. It's all so embarrassing. But knowing that we will probably keep him, and knowing that he will resort to his way of long ball, 3 at the back hoofball, then yes, if he does keep us up I will absolutely eat a slice of humble pie. In fact I'd eat the whole pie and a side of peas.

 

In fact if he keeps us up I'd get a tattoo of him on my butt. There I said it. And I don't even have any tattoos. Nathan Jones on my butt forever.

Nathan Jones my arse!

[Convict Colony]

To be honest I think I'd have gerrard from this list assuming we will get relegated anyway and he gets up playing well there and brings us up, not sure a non uk manager can come in an save us now although a fan of tedesco for what he has done in moscow and leipzig.

[Toadhall Saint]

5 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

You think slagging a player off before they've even kicked a ball for us helps matters?

Keep it up.

[badgerx16]

Luton have improved their league form and position since Jones left.

 

 

( Just saying ).

[Bad Wolf]

1 minute ago, Convict Colony said:

To be honest I think I'd have gerrard from this list assuming we will get relegated anyway and he gets up playing well there and brings us up, not sure a non uk manager can come in an save us now although a fan of tedesco for what he has done in moscow and leipzig.

It's finally, at long last, De Boer time!

[SotonianWill]

1 minute ago, Convict Colony said:

To be honest I think I'd have gerrard from this list assuming we will get relegated anyway and he gets up playing well there and brings us up, not sure a non uk manager can come in an save us now although a fan of tedesco for what he has done in moscow and leipzig.

personally id take tuchel, zidane and poch from that list, but if you want gerrard i’m not saying anything. 

[Appy]

3 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

To be honest I think I'd have gerrard from this list assuming we will get relegated anyway and he gets up playing well there and brings us up, not sure a non uk manager can come in an save us now although a fan of tedesco for what he has done in moscow and leipzig.

Zidane please. 
 

He’ll be itching to take it. 
 

 

 

[Weston Super Saint]

2 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Luton have improved their league form and position since Jones left.

 

 

( Just saying ).

How can they possibly improve from being the best in Europe?

Unless they're now best in the world?

[Convict Colony]

3 minutes ago, SotonianWill said:

personally id take tuchel, zidane and poch from that list, but if you want gerrard i’m not saying anything. 

I look at the underlying metrics like Rasmus and Gerrard with 1.96 points per game is up there with the best in the world and therefore will continue that form in the premier league or so the logic goes

[SNSUN]

22 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

The only SWF member with 2 arseholes ?

3 if you include my 4 year old. 😎

[Convict Colony]

3 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

How can they possibly improve from being the best in Europe?

Unless they're now best in the world?

[Pamplemousse]

Around me there were a couple of lads who kicked off when the fans started chanting Anti-Jones chants. Must have been his family. Baffling.

Edited 4 February, 2023 by Pamplemousse

[Convict Colony]

4 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

How can they possibly improve from being the best in Europe?

Unless they're now best in the world?

this is the best one today thanks weston

[Convict Colony]

1 minute ago, Pamplemousse said:

Around me there were a couple of lads who kicked off when the fans started chanting Anti-Jones chants. Must have been his family. Baffling.

Maybe their surname was Jones and thought it was about them

[Miltonaggro]

26 minutes ago, SotonianWill said:

he’d be less out of his depth than on the management side 

Either way 20,000 leagues under the sea, the Welsh Captain Nemo of football! 

[Weston Super Saint]

2 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Around me there were a couple of lads who kicked off when the fans started chanting Anti-Jones chants. Must have been his family. Baffling.

Fucking home fans getting in the away end. Stewards are shit etc etc.

[Miltonaggro]

3 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Around me there were a couple of lads who kicked off when the fans started chanting Anti-Jones chants. Must have been his family. Baffling.

Personal stylist and translator. 

[miserableoldgit]

22 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Same as the Boardroom at St Mary’s. There two arseholes propping up a flaccid prick. 

Not a student of anatomy then?

[redkeith]

36 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Don't need to listen to it really, it will surely follow the script.

''This is a wake up call''  ''We've got to learn from this''  ''We can't let our levels slip''

We haven't had any levels to  slip from since the 3 2 win at spurs 

[Miltonaggro]

3 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

Not a student of anatomy then?

Not of primates and invertebrates. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

41 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

cliffs ?

Yes, we've fallen off one.

Oh, did you mean cliffnotes? 🙂

[UpweySaint]

Can Jones get through a single presser without being a complete cock?!?

Honestly I didn't expect him to be able to perform miracles but we look beyond inept. It doesn't say much about him if he has been letting others dictate style of play, personnel or tactics be that the club or the fans. I would be gobsmacked if as part of the interview process he did not explicitly give an overview of how he planned to get the best of the squad and what recruitment he felt was necessary - any decent coach would. We're a long way from Poch, Koeman and bugger me but even Puel had a plan - dull as it may have been. 

If we want to scrabble for silver linings today at least we shouldn't be ransacked if we do drop. Some of our players stock must be plummeting. How many of our players based on the way they are currently playing would have many suitors? KWP? JWP? Somebody who thinks they can get the best out of Salisu? (I rate him highly but he's regressed and the carousel of CB pairings can't help) ABK who has looked good in flashes? Adams maybe to a side who will play two up top? Lavia for less than Chelsea bid in the summer?

I could see some of those going but beyond that I can't see many vultures circling. 

[OttawaSaint]

Facebook "defeat in the capital". Just fuck off media dept! Sick of reading "defeat...".

[Bad Wolf]

We're basically the new Sunderland, aren't we?

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, UpweySaint said:

Can Jones get through a single presser without being a complete cock?!?

Honestly I didn't expect him to be able to perform miracles but we look beyond inept. It doesn't say much about him if he has been letting others dictate style of play, personnel or tactics be that the club or the fans. I would be gobsmacked if as part of the interview process he did not explicitly give an overview of how he planned to get the best of the squad and what recruitment he felt was necessary - any decent coach would. We're a long way from Poch, Koeman and bugger me but even Puel had a plan - dull as it may have been. 

If we want to scrabble for silver linings today at least we shouldn't be ransacked if we do drop. Some of our players stock must be plummeting. How many of our players based on the way they are currently playing would have many suitors? KWP? JWP? Somebody who thinks they can get the best out of Salisu? (I rate him highly but he's regressed and the carousel of CB pairings can't help) ABK who has looked good in flashes? Adams maybe to a side who will play two up top? Lavia for less than Chelsea bid in the summer?

I could see some of those going but beyond that I can't see many vultures circling. 

I think the main issue is that the plan that Jones has involves attributes that most of our players don't possess because they aren't lower league scrapping types. Because they can't play that way, he doesn't know what to do because he's a limited manager. 

[OttawaSaint]

2 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

We're basically the new Sunderland, aren't we?

A laughing stock. 

[Fitzhugh Fella]

19 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Around me there were a couple of lads who kicked off when the fans started chanting Anti-Jones chants. Must have been his family. Baffling.

Sad Old Git maybe?

[Saint NL]

5 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

We're basically the new Sunderland, aren't we?

Are we getting a Netflix behind the scenes show? 

It'd be entertaining tbf

[Bad Wolf]

2 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

A laughing stock. 

Looking forward to the last 2 or 3 games when we're already relegated and put on some of those "No pressure" performances that already relegated teams tend to do toward the end.

[Stokieinpeace]

Feel very sorry for you guys you don’t deserve Jones. It’s a repeat of his tenure at Stoke where he tried his "fabulous" diamond system but didn’t have the players to utilise it. He left us at the bottom of league 1 after 15 games of his 2nd season. As time goes on he will start to get panicked and make even more bizarre decisions. The bloke seems out of his depth anywhere but Luton where he will end up again. 

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, Stokieinpeace said:

Feel very sorry for you guys you don’t deserve Jones. It’s a repeat of his tenure at Stoke where he tried his "fabulous" diamond system but didn’t have the players to utilise it. He left us at the bottom of league 1 after 15 games of his 2nd season. As time goes on he will start to get panicked and make even more bizarre decisions. The bloke seems out of his depth anywhere but Luton where he will end up again. 

He is the worst manager I have ever seen at Southampton and believe me that is a difficult title to attain. 

[Chez]

12 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

We're basically the new Sunderland, aren't we?

wonder who will be our Jack Rodwell and bleeding us dry on £70k a week in League 1.

[bpsaint]

1 minute ago, Chez said:

wonder who will be our Jack Rodwell and bleeding us dry on £70k a week in League 1.

Theo Walcott, after we extend his contract as he’s “good to have around the place” or some shit.

[stknowle]

1 hour ago, davefizzy14 said:

Absolutely fuming about that today. 

Why mate?

[Chez]

7 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Are we getting a Netflix behind the scenes show? 

It'd be entertaining tbf

I'm imagining something more along the lines of a channel 5, with Jones doing the Rogers' envelope trick and other all sorted bollocks in training.

[S-Clarke]

8 minutes ago, Stokieinpeace said:

Feel very sorry for you guys you don’t deserve Jones. It’s a repeat of his tenure at Stoke where he tried his "fabulous" diamond system but didn’t have the players to utilise it. He left us at the bottom of league 1 after 15 games of his 2nd season. As time goes on he will start to get panicked and make even more bizarre decisions. The bloke seems out of his depth anywhere but Luton where he will end up again. 

I had a look on the Stoke forums a few weeks ago and I was amazed at how identical your views are to ours, he's doing exactly the same things here.

Did he ever call out the Stoke fans for critising him out of interest, and did he refer to Stoke as 'they' when refering to the period before him..? Seems happy to just pass the buck for absolutley every element.

Edited 4 February, 2023 by S-Clarke

[Chez]

1 minute ago, bpsaint said:

Theo Walcott, after we extend his contract as he’s “good to have around the place” or some shit.

Ely was the one supposedly about to get a new contract. 

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

Theo Walcott, after we extend his contract as he’s “good to have around the place” or some shit.

I was skeptical when we brought him in on loan and even more so when we made it permanent, but many people reassured me that he’d be an excellent, experienced role model for our younger players to learn from. So just be grateful; imagine how sh*te they’d be if he wasn’t here.