Brighton 1-1 Saints - Match Thread

[Pamplemousse]

The games are coming thick and fast now, can we finally get our first point away from home?

Probably not. Away from home this season we've been particularly dreadful and I can't see how we get anything from this game. If it's a particularly bad defeat, can see the crowd finally turn vocally in large numbers against RM. Won't be a good look for SR, live to the entire nation.

Clutching at straws but RM is from Brighton and so no doubt would love to manage them one day, so who knows maybe we're in for a surprise.

[EssEffCee]

What happens on the pitch is largely irrelevant here as far as I'm concerned. It's in the away end where there's a victory to be won.

[benjii]

Honestly, who cares. We are down.

As long as we don't start getting bummed by several goals every match then nothing is going to change and we will be gearing up for Russell's promotion party part two in a year and a half.

[Sheaf Saint]

Oh no, I didn't realise it was Friday night.

I'm going to a gig this Friday so won't be able to watch. The last time this scenario happened (same venue as well) was October 2019 😐

 

[Whitey Grandad]

13 minutes ago, benjii said:

Honestly, who cares. We are down.

As long as we don't start getting bummed by several goals every match then nothing is going to change and we will be gearing up for Russell's promotion party part two in a year and a half.

Martin won’t be getting us promoted again. Even if the fans are still around at that time I doubt that I shall be but happy memories of times past and all that.

[Gloucester Saint]

8 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Oh no, I didn't realise it was Friday night.

I'm going to a gig this Friday so won't be able to watch. The last time this scenario happened (same venue as well) was October 2019 😐

 

I was out as well the night of the Leicester game and only realised when texts were flying in at half-time taking the piss. I’ve still never watched the highlights as a whole. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

I was out as well the night of the Leicester game and only realised when texts were flying in at half-time taking the piss. I’ve still never watched the highlights as a whole. 

Nope, me neither. I saw the absurd red card decision, and that was it. Couldn't bring myself to watch the rest.

[trousers]

29 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

I'm going to a gig this Friday so won't be able to watch

How come I never get this lucky...?

[franniesTache]

Probably one of the best cities in the country for pubs even if the ground is pretty far out of the city. So the good news is that when they get three we can all head back to town for a good friday night piss up in Brighton before boarding the vomit comet home.

As for the game, I mean do we have to? I'm really not sure how much more of watching Martin's ponderous football i can take, it's like a special kind of torture sitting through the inevitable sideways and backwards passing, and stupid costly mistakes due to the stubborn prick thinking he's better than he is.

It honestly feels like we just need putting out of our misery now and have our results wiped for the rest of the season if he's staying, i'd save a fortune and we wouldn't have to put up with the constant embarrassment every week.

We Limp Down.

[tdmickey3]

5 minutes ago, trousers said:

How come I never get this lucky...?

[Toussaint]

19 minutes ago, trousers said:

How come I never get this lucky...?

Find another room to decorate, even if it doesn’t need it. 

[Toussaint]

I am going, going to every away I can whilst we remain in the premier league. I need to build up enough credit for the remaining London away days and the trip to the last ever game at Goodison. That’s my motivation, I don’t expect us to get anything from any away games. I’m not one of those who thinks it’s a forgone conclusion that we will be so “lucky” next time so I’m going to make the most of this sad and pathetic season. 

Edited November 25 by Toussaint
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[franniesTache]

26 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

I am going, going to every away I can whilst we remain in the premier league. I need to build up enough credit for the remaining London away days and the trip to the last ever game at Goodison. That’s my motivation, I don’t expect us to get anything from any away games. I’m not one of those who thinks it’s a forgone conclusion that we will be so “lucky” next time so I’m going to make the most of this sad and pathetic season. 

I go to pretty much every away game because Saints are basically an abusive relationship for me at this point. Watching Russball brings me little pleasure, causes me a lot of pain, but I can’t give it up because I always think it might come good.

Oh well never let the football get in the way of a day out at the football right?

[Jack]

Comfortable defeat, having learned absolutely nothing from the manner of all of our other comfortable defeats. 
 

Russ to tell us that we’re still growing. 

[disconnect]

1 hour ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Oh no, I didn't realise it was Friday night.

I'm going to a gig this Friday so won't be able to watch. The last time this scenario happened (same venue as well) was October 2019 😐

 

In the same boat! See you down there? I assume it's the Modern Shakes / Burnt Tapes gig at Moor Beer Vaults you're going to 🤣

[kitch]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I was out as well the night of the Leicester game and only realised when texts were flying in at half-time taking the piss. I’ve still never watched the highlights as a whole. 

Same!

[Zorba]

Is it too early for Festive songs yet?

Surely we can get a bit of Slade's Merry Christmas in for our Russ..

 

Are you hanging on to your shitty Russball?
We’re all hoping that the axe will start to fall!
You just ride that red and white cash cow, (not Lucy)
Sending teams out to get slayed! 
Why do SR keep you at Saints anyway?

So, here it is Russ and Rasmus, is everybody having fun?
Look to the future now, we’re heading for League one.

Are you waiting for the goalfest to arrive?
Are you sure you've passed enough from side to side?
Does your keeper always tell ya?
Sometimes long balls are the best..
As he picks the ball again out from his net?

So, here it is Russ and Rasmus, is everybody having fun?
Look to the future now, we’re heading for League one.

Are you handing your resignation to the board?
Is it time now everyone knows you're a fraud.
Or will you take us down the leagues now? 
Into obscurity we’ll fade? 
But you won’t give a toss, you’ll still get paid.

So, here it is Russ and Rasmus, is everybody having fun?
Look to the future now, we’re heading for League one.

 

[Disco Stu]

Title gave me a panic attack thinking I had to endure another home game so soon. I checked and it's at the Amex thank god.

Edited November 25 by Disco Stu

[Sheaf Saint]

1 hour ago, disconnect said:

In the same boat! See you down there? I assume it's the Modern Shakes / Burnt Tapes gig at Moor Beer Vaults you're going to 🤣

Oooh, good guess. But only about 200 miles out* - it's Halina Rice at the Leadmill in Sheffield.

* I had to Google Moor beer Vaults cos I've never heard of it, but what a cracking little venue it looks!

[Midfield_General]

2 hours ago, benjii said:

Honestly, who cares. We are down.

As long as we don't start getting bummed by several goals every match then nothing is going to change and we will be gearing up for Russell's promotion party part two in a year and a half.

Exactly how I feel now. Who gives a fuck, it's clearly completely pointless. We'll do the same things, make the same mistakes, lose again, and then I'll have to hear that smug, gaslighting twat wave it away after the game as though he's somehow not responsible for making us a complete laughing stock.

We're basically relegated already - which before the end of November is quite an achievement - so it's not about going down anymore, it's just about pride and at least having a go at looking like a credible Premier League football team capable of winning the odd match. But if no-one at the club cares enough to change anything about that situation and actually give us a chance of at least saving a bit of face, why should I care either. 

[disconnect]

3 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Oooh, good guess. But only about 200 miles out* - it's Halina Rice at the Leadmill in Sheffield.

* I had to Google Moor beer Vaults cos I've never heard of it, but what a cracking little venue it looks!

Should've guessed it by the name! Never been but I know of The Leadmill. Enjoy! Looks like we're both spared a night off sitting on the edge of our seats whilst another pass across the box goes all to close to an opposition player! 

[coalman]

Lowest points total at Christmas is Sunderland with 5. Next lowest is 7. Easy 3 points in Brighton because surely someone has to get complacent eventually and we're sitting pretty.

[Toussaint]

6 minutes ago, coalman said:

Lowest points total at Christmas is Sunderland with 5. Next lowest is 7. Easy 3 points in Brighton because surely someone has to get complacent eventually and we're sitting pretty.

I think Liverpool were complacent yesterday and we still managed to gift wrap the points for them. 

[Jack]

52 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Exactly how I feel now. Who gives a fuck, it's clearly completely pointless. We'll do the same things, make the same mistakes, lose again, and then I'll have to hear that smug, gaslighting twat wave it away after the game as though he's somehow not responsible for making us a complete laughing stock.

We're basically relegated already - which before the end of November is quite an achievement - so it's not about going down anymore, it's just about pride and at least having a go at looking like a credible Premier League football team capable of winning the odd match. But if no-one at the club cares enough to change anything about that situation and actually give us a chance of at least saving a bit of face, why should I care either. 

Well put, pretty much sums it up for me. Doubt there will be a shortage of spares knocking around for this, it’s hard enough to get motivated to show up at SMS, let alone trekking to the middle of nowhere somewhere outside Brighton to watch it 

[SouSaint]

3-0 Brighton. Away end will turn on Martin. 

[Morse]

4 hours ago, benjii said:

Honestly, who cares. We are down.

As long as we don't start getting bummed by several goals every match then nothing is going to change and we will be gearing up for Russell's promotion party part two in a year and a half.

We are down, no doubt about that. Our last chance of changing that outcome disappeared when SR failed to sack RM at the last international break, even then i doubt SR's ability to appoint a decent replacement.  BUT it would be good to avoid the record for lowest ever points tally, which I believe stands at 12. 

[LGTL]

We’ll lose the same way we always lose. Predictable shit after predictable shit. I bet other PL managers cannot believe what they’re facing at times, we’re an absolute gift. 

Don’t care what anyone says, getting turned over by Bournemouth and Brighton is a fucking disgraceful state of affairs. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Despite the mounting casualty list, we sneak this one 1-0, from AA.

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

28 minutes ago, Morse said:

We are down, no doubt about that. Our last chance of changing that outcome disappeared when SR failed to sack RM at the last international break, even then i doubt SR's ability to appoint a decent replacement.  BUT it would be good to avoid the record for lowest ever points tally, which I believe stands at 12. 

Yep, most accept we're down, that was almost accepted before the season started, but it's how we go down. It will probably be Spring before the board buckle to fan pressure which will rapidly build now and bring someone else in (hopefully with a much different game plan) but if we eventually go down fighting then that sets us up for another pop next year in the Championship (which I think many wouldn't be wholly against). 

Home game for 'Farmer Saint' believe he's lives near Brighton, will be interesting to hear his views of the match and from those around him - think he's said he does go to Falmer with mates so guess he'll be in a home stand.

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

32 minutes ago, Morse said:

We are down, no doubt about that. Our last chance of changing that outcome disappeared when SR failed to sack RM at the last international break, even then i doubt SR's ability to appoint a decent replacement.  BUT it would be good to avoid the record for lowest ever points tally, which I believe stands at 12. 

I don't mind Ralph's two 9-0s and our record defeat record because there was always the likelihood that a game or two later, Ralph would turn it around and we'd play better/different and win. The lowest ever points tally tells another story. It tells a story of incompetence, not learning from mistakes and apathy.

And if/when we get relegated, I don't expect RM to get lucky twice and get us promoted again. We've got a squad good enough to stay up, but many of the better players will disappear. The only slight hope is that we scored twice last Sunday by going forward with purpose, so come on team, ignore RM's instructions and play your own game! 

[Convict Colony]

How many errors leading to a goal with this one generate.

I'm going for 2.

[Sarisbury Saint]

The come back starts.

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

58 minutes ago, Sarisbury Saint said:

The come back starts around the first week in August 2025

…there, finished your sentence for you

[Wade Garrett]

Doesn’t take a genius to predict this one.

Defeat and more fucking tomfoolery at the back .  Russell saying how brave we were afterwards and the board sitting on their hands again.

 Wouldn’t pay that lot with shirt buttons.  Feel sorry for the players who are being made to look like total cunts playing RussBall.

 

[Saint Fan CaM]

I’m sure I’m among many in anpproaching each next game with the hope that we might win or at least draw and so claim some pride and respect from the match. But even that has been stripped away - there’s no hope and it’s nailed on that Russball will provide us with a loss. 

I can’t imagine how the players must feel…they’re professionals and so must see more than most that whatever they’re being instructed to do is failing week after week after week. They must be confused and demoralised - it’s all their fault, despite what their esteemed boss says in the media. It must be, because nothing changes for them. How do they go into a game now actually believing they’ll win? They’re not that immune are they?

My late Dads family came from Brighton - I was born there, but my parents moved us to Southampton when I was 4 for better prospects. Since the time I knew what the local pro football team was about, Saints were my ‘home’ team (untypically following my Dads choice). Naturally I like to see Brighton do well - obviously not this Friday, but Russ will do his best to ensure we hand it on a silver platter to them, selecting round pegs in square holes etc.

Head : 2-0 Brighton. Heart : 2-2

Edited November 25 by Saint Fan CaM
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[Appy]

We’ll get pumped here, they’re too well drilled, too quick and too skilful for us. 
 

Definitely has the feel of the away end turning soon. 

[Harry_SFC]

3-0 Brighton.

[AlexLaw76]

How many goals will we concede due to 'playing out from the back'...?

Remember, when we do it is because that is how Martin wants us to play

[CB Fry]

44 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

How many goals will we concede due to 'playing out from the back'...?

Remember, when we do it is because that is how Martin wants us to play

When it happens yet again, I am very much looking forward to the Martinettes lecturing us that "it is simply an INDIVIDUAL MISTAKE it's nothing to do with the manager" yet again.

Russell Martin is just the unluckiest manager of all time with the most mistake ridden team that ever there was. He's so helpless I feel sorry for him. His world class gold standard tactics and selections destroyed match after match because of things that definitely aren't his fault.

The guy can't catch a break 😪 

[Weston Super Saint]

37 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

When it happens yet again, I am very much looking forward to the Martinettes lecturing us that "it is simply an INDIVIDUAL MISTAKE it's nothing to do with the manager" yet again.

Russell Martin is just the unluckiest manager of all time with the most mistake ridden team that ever there was. He's so helpless I feel sorry for him. His world class gold standard tactics and selections destroyed match after match because of things that definitely aren't his fault.

The guy can't catch a break 😪 

Apart from the Lucy thing  

[Zorba]

24 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Apart from the Lucy thing  

He probably gives her the same patter as he gives Rasmus week in-week out, and they’re both daft enough to fall for it..

“Let me try again.. just one more go.. it’ll be better next time.. I promise!”

Edited November 26 by Zorba

[eurosaint]

"Plucky Losers" yet again....

😇

[Saint NL]

Will there be a light show?

[tdmickey3]

5 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Will there be a light show?

No, a shit show, well from us anyway

[Colinjb]

17 hours ago, Zorba said:

Is it too early for Festive songs yet?

Surely we can get a bit of Slade's Merry Christmas in for our Russ..

 

Are you hanging on to your shitty Russball?
We’re all hoping that the axe will start to fall!
You just ride that red and white cash cow, (not Lucy)
Sending teams out to get slayed! 
Why do SR keep you at Saints anyway?

So, here it is Russ and Rasmus, is everybody having fun?
Look to the future now, we’re heading for League one.

Are you waiting for the goalfest to arrive?
Are you sure you've passed enough from side to side?
Does your keeper always tell ya?
Sometimes long balls are the best..
As he picks the ball again out from his net?

So, here it is Russ and Rasmus, is everybody having fun?
Look to the future now, we’re heading for League one.

Are you handing your resignation to the board?
Is it time now everyone knows you're a fraud.
Or will you take us down the leagues now? 
Into obscurity we’ll fade? 
But you won’t give a toss, you’ll still get paid.

So, here it is Russ and Rasmus, is everybody having fun?
Look to the future now, we’re heading for League one.

 

Very good! If only this could be recorded with someone of reasonable talent and production values.

[Challenger]

Anyone got any predictions on when things are going to " click " into place?

Could it be before or after we get a fit Ross Stewart?

[Dman]

They're really good, we're really shit. Easy pickings - on par with the bournemouth game.. expect it might actually be worse (they're just better). 

If we're going to lose, I kinda hope its an ugly one. That'll hopefully stick a rocket up the boards arse. 

[LiberalCommunist]

Bha are far better than us, and this should be a cakewalk. But. Close run defeat. 2-1 would be my guess. Enough that Russell can point to some improvement somewhere that nobody else sees. 

[Zorba]

1 hour ago, Challenger said:

Anyone got any predictions on when things are going to " click " into place?

Could it be before or after we get a fit Ross Stewart?

The only think “clicking” anytime soon is Ross Stewarts knees!

[Tom57]

My brother's driving us both there for this one and neither have been to the Amex before. Is it better to get the park and ride from one of the two places, or park in the city and get the train in? We'll be leaving Southampton about 4pm so I'd imagine we'll arrive in Brighton about 6:15pm to 6:45pm.