Saints Vs Brighton friendly 2/8/25 3:30pm

[Saint NL]

Close to 2-2, out of nowhere

[SW11_Saint]

Penalty!!!

[CSA96]

Penalty to Saints

[miserableoldgit]

I am just following the game on here. Bit confused....for most of the game Quarshie was having favourable comments, then suddenly he is "Another defender who can't defend". Was he any good or not?

[Saint NL]

Quarshie won that

[gio1saints]

2-2!!!

[saintant]

Just now, hypochondriac said:

What this shows is Robinson simply has to start next week. One of the only bright spots of preseason. 

This is my issue - he's done really well preseason, scored today yet, in all probability, someone who has done less well will almost certainly take the place he should have in next week's starting X1. Reward success not failure!

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, coalman said:

Robinson has to be a starter. He's done more in ten minutes than Fraser/Armstrong/Archer.

Yep, if it’s going to be a 10th-18th place season of consolidation and freezing out some of the wankers in the squad, let’s at least have some players like Robinson, Sesay, Dipepa to give us some hope with the better older heads to support them.

[CSA96]

Saints 2-2 Brighton

Arma from the penalty spot

[whelk]

Great pen

[Saint NL]

Good penalty.

Game on

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, miserableoldgit said:

I am just following the game on here. Bit confused....for most of the game Quarshie was having favourable comments, then suddenly he is "Another defender who can't defend". Was he any good or not?

Both - younger potential player, will have ups and downs.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Penalty for nothing- will take it.

Blackmore did say it was a last minute ref change and that he was from the IOW...

[trousers]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

That's far better than our previous championship squad. Saints 2 Brighton 2. COYR!!

Never. Any. Doubt.

[Saint NL]

Still unsure what the penalty was awarded for? Pity? 

[coalman]

1 minute ago, miserableoldgit said:

I am just following the game on here. Bit confused....for most of the game Quarshie was having favourable comments, then suddenly he is "Another defender who can't defend". Was he any good or not?

He's made a couple of mistakes where he backed of Minteh that led to goals when he should've closed down the attacker.

[BotleySaint]

Just now, whelk said:

Great pen

Yep for all his limitations last year, still knows how to smash a pen in. 

[Pamplemousse]

Funny game this. Anyway Still will surely have seen what we're all seeing.

[hypochondriac]

Finally a few positives to take from the match. Sugawara looked lovely too. 

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, for_heaven's_Saint said:

Penalty for nothing- will take it.

Blackmore did say it was a last minute ref change and that he was from the IOW...

Difficult to keep up with play when you have 11 toes…

[CylonKing]

Just now, Pamplemousse said:

Funny game this. Anyway Still will surely have seen what we're all seeing.

It's Will Still mate! 😉

[whelk]

Battering them now

[SW11_Saint]

[sockeye]

Charles looking tidy

[for_heaven's_Saint]

This is much, much better.

[coalman]

Great header by Charles. Unlucky not to score.

[Pamplemousse]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Finally a few positives to take from the match. Sugawara looked lovely too. 

Surely Bree isn't ahead of him in the pecking order

[CylonKing]

Just popped on to see how we're doing and we've gone from 2-0 down to 2-2 as I've been reading. Makes a change from last season where every time I popped on the opposition scored.

[coalman]

When we play with intensity and get the ball out wide we actually look like a football team.

[maysie]

2 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Finally a few positives to take from the match. Sugawara looked lovely too. 

Hot as fuck

[tdmickey3]

1 minute ago, SW11_Saint said:

Armstrong looks pissed off

[gio1saints]

Wellington Jay and Sugawara - such a difference in energy! Much better. 

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, tdmickey3 said:

Armstrong looks pissed off

Pre-season to be fair but I suspect he wouldn’t mind moving on. Unless Ipswich come back in, which I doubt, can’t see where his market is. 

[Saint NL]

Wellington has been lively too

[disconnect]

Just now, tdmickey3 said:

Armstrong looks pissed off

He always seems like a bit of a grumpy tw*t anyway whenever they do those training ground questions etc 🤣

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, tdmickey3 said:

Armstrong looks pissed off

Literally looks no different to how he always does.

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, gio1saints said:

Wellington Jay and Sugawara - such a difference in energy! Much better. 

Bree and Manning haven’t helped themselves today. 

[gio1saints]

5 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Still unsure what the penalty was awarded for? Pity? 

Quarsie header was stopped with hand. Def 100% handball. 

[saintant]

1 minute ago, coalman said:

When we play with intensity and get the ball out wide we actually look like a football team.

Simple game isn't it - makes you wonder why we don't do what we are good at. Sometimes a lot is decided by how much intensity you put in from the start which is one of our long term failings - don't wait until you're 2-0 down, go for it from the first whistle.

[whelk]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

Bree and Manning haven’t helped themselves today. 

We all know their massive limitations. You’d hope the manager would too

[gio1saints]

Are we fitter than these? Is that’s what’s happening? 

[coalman]

Wellington and Robinson are linking up really well down the left.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Bree and Manning haven’t helped themselves today. 

Hopefully they've helped the manager.

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, gio1saints said:

Are we fitter than these? Is that’s what’s happening? 

Week ahead in pre-season so that may be some of it. Mind you, I thought that when Oxford battered us last season….

[coalman]

Just now, gio1saints said:

Are we fitter than these? Is that’s what’s happening? 

I'm not used to us competing past the 80th minute. 

[sandwichsaint]

25 minutes ago, saintant said:

That's us every year yet other clubs seem to plan, prepare and do everything better than we do.

I wish we were other clubs.

[Farmer Saint]

18 minutes ago, saintant said:

Clearly the reset has hardly got going yet. Disappointing because I was hoping a left field appointment like Will Still would already have got us looking like a totally different side but today is worrying.

Perhaps maybe, just maybe, it's not the Manager that is the issue...

[gio1saints]

Edwards is a well tidy player! 

[saintant]

1 minute ago, gio1saints said:

Are we fitter than these? Is that’s what’s happening? 

Wash your mouth out - nobody could have had us fitter than Russ boy 🙂

[Sevvy]

What was the firstgoal for us like,went for a dump and missed it,