Saints 1-2 Stoke - Match Thread

[Saint NL]

Stoke running down the clock very effectively 

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

Need to be very active in that area next week and if selling Fernandes helps then do it.

Also need some subsidised loans out - AA, BBD. SFC isn’t a good environment for them.

Don't trust them to buy anything of decent quality 

[Convict Colony]

side note I'm annoyed by how many times downs has tried the run behind and manning hasn't played it in 

[Toussaint]

Completely forget D Downs was playing 

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Roeslav looks like our best player at the moment.

That’s what is needed, another half-a-dozen, 3 perm, 3 on loan, who don’t have last season’s PTSD. 

[OttawaSaint]

Sideways sideways sideways. Wait...wait...wait.

I'm fed up.

[Saint NL]

Downs is awful, can't control the ball

[benjii]

I hope there's a good boo at the end.

[tdmickey3]

Just now, OttawaSaint said:

Sideways sideways sideways. Wait...wait...wait.

I'm fed up.

Running the clock down for them 

[Osvaldorama]

14 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

It's fucking miserable supporting this team.

Yeah. Fucking depressing. 
 

Go down a league and literally look just as bad. Absolutely pathetic today. Credit to Stoke for looking strong and digging in. 
 

What the fuck were we doing in pre season? 
 

Edited 23 August, 2025 by Osvaldorama

[OttawaSaint]

"We could end up like Stoke"

[AlexLaw76]

Will Still is not all that

[tdmickey3]

Just now, benjii said:

I hope there's a good boo at the end.

Polite applause 

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Toussaint said:

Completely forget D Downs was playing 

Sadly he does look horribly out of his depth, there’s a reason Koln weren’t busting a gut for a new contract for him to lead their Bundesliga line. Loaning him out is the smart move, have to address mistakes a lot quicker on recruitment.

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, tdmickey3 said:

Running the clock down for them 

As usual.

[CB Fry]

At least Ipswich and Sheffield United both lost as well.

[OttawaSaint]

The high wide ball doesn't work! STOP!

[sockeye]

Just now, OttawaSaint said:

"We could end up like Stoke"

We’ve ended up worse than that… we’ve ended up like Southampton

[Disco Stu]

Nobody wants to shoot.

[OttawaSaint]

Why don't we SHOOT?

[Challenger]

EVERY failing from last season laid bare for all to see, except to those running this club.

Slow, weak ineffective players and tactics and mostly pathetic signings 

For fucks sake buy a fucking striker that can do what he's paid to do.

[Colinjb]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

Will Still is not all that

If we had strikers worthy of the name then we would have had a point here. It's a disease at the heart of our club, has been for years.

All credit to Stoke for taking the chances they had. 

[Andrew Watson]

What an utter f---ing shambles. Probably should not expect any thing else from this bunch of over paid losers.

[coalman]

Downes natural urge to stop and pass back is utterly infuriating

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Will Still is not all that

Recruitment not doing him any favours. 

[Morse]

Why is our recruitment so shit. You know and I know we're not going to sign anyone that will improve this team !

[OttawaSaint]

Offside. Criminal. Fuck off!

[obelisk]

This is most certainly a wake up call. This lot are nowhere near promotion material.

[Harry_SFC]

Downes is crap

[Sunglasses Ron]

Well, that was really, really, shit.

Need something pretty special in the transfer market to salvage this me thinks (which I don’t see happening, given our track record at recruitment).

Bad times.

[OttawaSaint]

I hate this team. So fucking feeble.

[Disco Stu]

Stoke absolutely deserve the win. Sacrificed the first half with Armstrong as a lone striker. Back 3 doesn't work and never will. And we still don't know how to break down 10 men.

[Saint NL]

All over. 

Total wank.

[Micky]

Useless.

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Sadly he does look horribly out of his depth, there’s a reason Koln weren’t busting a gut for a new contract for him to lead their Bundesliga line. Loaning him out is the smart move, have to address mistakes a lot quicker on recruitment.

Maybe don't make them in the first place.

[AlexLaw76]

Still is as bad as Russell martin

we sign shite players

Spors can fuck off also

 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Just now, coalman said:

Downes natural urge to stop and pass back is utterly infuriating

Absolutely. System player. Nothing more. 

[skintsaint]

Would have battered them with a decent striker. Get the cheque book out.

[Winnersaint]

Just now, Sunglasses Ron said:

Well, that was really, really, shit.

Need something pretty special in the transfer market to salvage this me thinks (which I don’t see happening, given our track record at recruitment).

Bad times.

You never know in few seasons time we might get off to a blistering start to the season when we turn into Stoke.

[LGTL]

Absolutely fucking atrocious that was. Disgusting. Recruitment an absolute disgrace, fucking sort it out you useless wankers and preferably before those scab cunts come in September. 

[coalman]

Our proven Championship strikeforce continues to fail to find the back of the net.

[Sheaf Saint]

All just far too pedestrian. Looks like too many players are still playing Russball.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

Still is as bad as Russell martin

we sign shite players

Spors can fuck off also

 

Nobody is as bad as Martin 

[Saint NL]

Just as well we brought on the big guns, Downs, Stewart and Archer did absolutely nothing (apart from Stewart missing a sitter).

We absolutely have to buy a striker, no excuses.

[OttawaSaint]

Stoke looked like a pack of hungry dogs. We looked like we had indigestion.

Embarrassing!

[Osvaldorama]

We aren’t going to be lucky enough to scrape up through the playoffs again. 

We’re in big trouble.
Whole squad is fucking toilet. And the recruitment is not improving at all. 

No strength, no patterns of play.
Just an absolute nothing team. The strength & desire from Stoke is just completely alien to this bunch of dossers. 

[obelisk]

One nil down with 30 minutes left to play and Saints manage to concede another before offering a display of just how impotent they are in attack. The manager needs to have a rethink.

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Nobody is as bad as Martin 

He got us promoted, and he was a twat

[HKsaint]

Relegation battle begins

[OttawaSaint]

2 minutes ago, coalman said:

Our proven Championship strikeforce continues to fail to find the back of the net.

I was promised goals goals goals!