Chelsea 4-0 Saints - Match Thread

[SNSUN]

I reckon the 9 players on the bench could give the 11 on the pitch a decent game. Seriously. Speaks volumes about the starting line up.

[DT]

Seriously. What the actual fuck is our manager thinking with this line up? Why can’t we employ anyone with any tactical nous? Wish we had never gone up

Edited 25 February, 2025 by DT

[saintant]

Juric's team selections are completely baffling and hard to make sense of or even to guess what he's trying to do or how he wants us to play. I'm just totally apathetic now because everything about our club is batshit crazy.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Is Aribo the new shoehorn? 

[Lighthouse]

16 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

I'm on it... 😁

We’re going to need someone who makes Bonnie Blue look like Ann Widdecombe.

[obelisk]

Pretty much the sort of starting line up I expected. I'd like to say I don't care but I do. I can only hope that there's some sort of unfathomable master plan to make Chelsea fall down laughing.

[Lighthouse]

5 minutes ago, Thereisonlyonemickychannon said:

Last time I saw Saints at Stamford Bridge was a game on New Year's Day. We beat them 4-2.

Shame I am not there tonight then don't you know 

Goals scored by Beattie, Pahars and Marsden, what I wouldn’t give to have them in the team. I don’t mean 20 years ago in their prime, I mean I’d literally have them in the f**king team tonight.

[trousers]

22 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

At least it couldn't get any worse eh?

House!

[trousers]

That's enough for me. Confirmation that Juric isn't the answer. Next...!

[SNSUN]

5 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

We’re going to need someone who makes Bonnie Blue look like Ann Widdecombe.

I don't think Bonnie Blue is all that. As I told her to her face, shortly after queuing patiently with over a thousand other blokes to meet her. 

[Saint NL]

1 minute ago, SNSUN said:

I don't think Bonnie Blue is all that. As I told her to her face, shortly after queuing patiently with over a thousand other blokes to meet her. 

Congrats on the pregnancy btw 🎉🎉🎉

[SaintsBarry74]

24 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

At least it couldn't get any worse eh?

I thought I'd seen the depths of despair after that first 0-9 demolition. Silly me... Saints never fail to deliver new and inventive ways to utterly mortify their supporters.

I wish I could stop caring...

[Colinjb]

So............. Cricket score?

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, trousers said:

That's enough for me. Confirmation that Juric isn't the answer. Next...!

Baby biscuits until May and then

https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/mini/cooper

[Lighthouse]

Just now, Colinjb said:

So............. Cricket score?

The way England bat, probably.

[vectraman]

I am absolutely baffled at this starting line up. Totally and utterly woeful. Chelsea can score as many as they feel like Vs that side. Small bone starting away at Chelsea. Just why? How? Aribo alongside Downes, THB at CB, Smallbone on the bench. Surely the fuck 😬? And he’s lucky to be on the bench….

Just shows how shit our massive squad is. 🐶 💩. 
 

Minimum 5-0 incoming. 
 

[SNSUN]

6 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Congrats on the pregnancy btw 🎉🎉🎉

It was only to be expected. That's why they call me Pringles, once I pop, I can't stop.

[Wade Garrett]

Juric obviously wants the early payoff.

[lambtiss]

You can't even say that Aribo is an experiment. He proved he couldn’t play CB on Saturday.

[Chez]

4 minutes ago, lambtiss said:

You can't even say that Aribo is an experiment. He proved he couldn’t play CB on Saturday.

Aribo, ABK and Bree again. Bloody hell.

[Convict Colony]

Am not watch tonight, so you are all guaranteed a win.

 

[Suhari]

I just hope they are polite enough to give us a reach-around.

[tdmickey3]

We seem to attract loons as managers, why ?

Sports fuckin Republic that’s why, bat shit mental

[AlexLaw76]

The manger is a grade A moron 

[LiberalCommunist]

Tin hat time. This will sting. 

[Saint NL]

That batshit lineup has increased my interest in the game. Like watching your favourite pub burn down.

[IronCitySaint]

With Smallbone in CM, Aribo and Bree at the back, surely this is going to be at least 5 goals for Chelsea. Conceded the entire midfield before a ball has even been kicked. Utter lunacy.

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, LiberalCommunist said:

Tin hat time. This will sting. 

Unless it’s 10-0 or worse that’s frankly impossible by now.

[pimpin4rizeal]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

F**k me! You know those low budget zombie movies which are so bad they’re hilarious? Our starting XIs now have an essence of genuine camp.

 

The walking dead would probably do a better job in defense then our lot 

[Winnersaint]

This will be our ultimate EPL humiliation. You know what that means.

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, IronCitySaint said:

With Smallbone in CM, Aribo and Bree at the back, surely this is going to be at least 5 goals for Chelsea. Conceded the entire midfield before a ball has even been kicked. Utter lunacy.

I dread to think what goes on in his mind having seen those players in action in that formation and using it again.

As pig stubborn as Russell Martin was. Fuck Sports Republic.

[Saint Fan CaM]

This will be over well before half-time.

Edited 25 February, 2025 by Saint Fan CaM

[tdmickey3]

The season highlights CD is going to be a cracker

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Saint Fan CaM said:

This will be over well before half-time.

Its over now

[Norm]

Heavy loss tonight, he will be sacked in the morning.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

This will be over well before half-time.

That long?

[Toadhall Saint]

24 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Juric obviously wants the early payoff.

And he should get it like now!

[Saint NL]

Just now, Norm said:

 he will be sacked in the morning.

🤞🤞🤞🤞

[Saint Fan CaM]

Whose going to get a yellow for pulling Cucu’s hair?😂😂😂

[John Boy Saint]

Just now, tdmickey3 said:

The season highlights CD is going to be a cracker

Probably be on VHS so no bugger can watch it ……..or has to!

[tdmickey3]

1 minute ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Whose going to get a yellow for pulling Cucu’s hair?😂😂😂

Juric

[tdmickey3]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

🤞🤞🤞🤞

The return of Rusk

[Saint NL]

Big game for ABK. Let's hope he's better than Saturday.

[Gloucester Saint]

If you want to mourn how far we’ve fallen, watch the quick pressing, passing and transitions of Brighton v Bournemouth, both of which just handed us our arse (for the 20th time this season).

[Saint Scott]

Cole Palmer hasn't scored in 6 games, watch him bag a hatrick tonight 

[Saint_clark]

Smallbone a catastrophe already.

[northam soul]

Any links to a stream 

[Suhari]

4 minutes ago, Norm said:

Heavy loss tonight, he will be sacked in the morning.

Surely not.

SR wouldn't make themselves look such a set of cocks. Would they?

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, Saint NL said:

Big game for ABK. Let's hope he's better than Saturday.

What chance done he has with Bree and Aribo next to him, with a midfield that provides little cover, in a system that has layers rigiously man-marking people

 

[Hatch]

So far so good.  Only 89 mins to go.