Saints 1-2 Stoke - Match Thread

[OttawaSaint]

These lot make Mara, Djenepo and Elyanoussi look like world Cup Winners.

2-0! Dreadful!

[saint michael]

Fucking shit team 

[Saint_clark]

Should have signed Johannssen when we last went up. 

[Saint NL]

2-0, my god

[santolijador]

Didn't Thomas have a great game for Huddersfield against us a couple of years ago? 

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Absolutely fucking abysmal. Tactics from us is just crossing it to their keeper, low and behold, it works for them.

Fucking terrible.

[obelisk]

It's no more than Saints deserve. Still needs to shake things up big time. This lot are lethargic. 0-2.

[Disco Stu]

That red card was the final nail in the coffin.

[saintant]

Tough presser coming up for Will. He's well and truly blown this one.

[adrian lord]

Still out. 

[CB Fry]

Eduard Spertsyan absolutely licking his lips watching this.

[trousers]

 

Just now, Colinjb said:

Imagine how much of a better position we would be in f we had strikers who can cleanly strike/connect with a football.

We havn't had one since Danny Ings.

How many windows is it now we've not replaced Ings with a quality forward? 6? (Including this one it would seem)

0-2 FFS

STILL OUT

[coalman]

We can still win this. COYR

[OttawaSaint]

Joke of a club. Whole fucking team are shit.

[tdmickey3]

Fuckin awful

[LGTL]

Awful. Our recruitment has been an absolute fucking disgrace 

[benjii]

Baz back to normal.

[Micky]

Everything we haven't got. Invention, strength, ability and desire.

[saintant]

Quick, get the fucking check book out Spors.

[stknowle]

Oh fuck the fuck off. Absolute fucking shit. 

[stevematthews635]

What a fucking disgrace and shambles this club is.  

5 at the back, Armstrong starting and still can't defend for toffee.

Our strikers are abysmal and our play is so slow.

No way we are going up

[Saint NL]

This is not a team chasing promotion is it? We look very short of quality 

[Edmonton Saint]

Awful recruitment. Rewarding mediocrity with the Stephens extension. Terrible window so far.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Just now, Disco Stu said:

That red card was the final nail in the coffin.

Absolutely incredible isn’t it, only us.

I genuinely didn’t think it was possible to be worse than the last time we played them, yet here we are…

[sockeye]

Months and month to prepare and this is what we get. Absolutely pathetic. 

[saintant]

Just now, trousers said:

 

How many windows is it now we've not replaced Ings with a quality forward? 6? (Including this one it would seem)

0-2 FFS

STILL OUT

I keep saying we need a striker.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Not fuckin good enough. No goal threat at all. 

[DrunkenSaint]

shambles again

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Saint NL said:

One shot on target so far...mm

And 0-2. Stoke deserve that I have to say. They will be there and thereabouts this season.

Saints won’t unless there’s some open heart transfer surgery in this transfer window to the starting XI. 

Club have had their PSR wanting over the Dibling fee. Now 5-6 new faces this week and half of those into the starting line up next league game. Don’t mind if 3 of them are loans.

[obelisk]

Manning making no attempt to take on the full back.

[HKsaint]

Still, go home to play your football manager 

[Saint Fan CaM]

FFS - this is a masterclass in counter attacking. Stephens utter shite. Baz utter shite. We don’t know how to score. The squad is still crap.

[Edmonton Saint]

Just now, saintant said:

I keep saying we need a striker.

But we have Armstrong who was good two years ago (But has been utter trash since )

[Smirking_Saint]

Shite this

We need a striker

[trousers]

We're bringing on a Brentford reject defender... If that doesn't salvage the game I don't know what will....

[adrian lord]

Utterly pathetic. I hate Sports Republic and to be honest I am falling out of love with football. 

[Micky]

Humping aimless hopeful balls into the box.

[OttawaSaint]

Utterly dreadful. What is our game plan? We just pussyfoot around. No incisive runs or passes. Wait ages for them to get in position and couldn't finish a mars bar.

Stoke have a purpose, work so hard for each other. Pacy, incisive, composed. 

[Sunglasses Ron]

1-2!

[coalman]

Why take Charles off when Downes is a liability.

[Colinjb]

YES!!!

Better finishing then our strikers! Get in THB.

Edited 23 August, 2025 by Colinjb

[tdmickey3]

1 minute ago, LGTL said:

Awful. Our recruitment has been an absolute fucking disgrace 

Yep, zero change despite being told Spors is the man,   SR recruitment continues it's shit show

[Winnersaint]

Ah, eventually we'll become like Stoke they wisely said. 

Edited 23 August, 2025 by Winnersaint

[benjii]

Goallllll

[trousers]

Game on!!!

[Tanlee]

Probably been said many times already, but do we really need 3 centre halves, 2 more like full backs than wide men and Downes and Charles  sitting deep when at home to a team that should finish mid table, it seems ultra cautious to me. 

Edited 23 August, 2025 by Tanlee

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

The stoke attack is what I was hoping Saint would look like this season. Fast, skillfull, direct and strong. 
 

we’re still stuck with slow moving build up play

[OttawaSaint]

Hooray a goal. THB. Too little, too late.

[stknowle]

1 minute ago, Disco Stu said:

That red card was the final nail in the coffin.

I don’t know if they record stats for this but I bet we’d be fucking high up in the world football ‘failure to take advantage of being a man up’ table. FFS.

[sockeye]

Who needs strikers anyway?