Bristol City 3-1 Saints - Match Thread

[Thinwhiteduke2]

Are there really three teams in this league worse than us?

[skintsaint]

1 minute ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

All three Bristol City goals have been defensive screw ups.

Yep all on the players, adding to the missed chances that should really have put us a few goals up.

Cheesed off.

[Osvaldorama]

1 minute ago, Saint86 said:

Has downs touched the ball? It's impressive that Robinson has come on, managed to carry several attacks, and done it all whilst we're playing with 10men!

Hes a shadow. 
 

Positions himself like he’s never played football before. And when it does come near him, he gives it away. Astonishingly bad signing 

[Southner]

4 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

To have a really good fucking laff!

His stomach must be in fucking agony. 

[hypochondriac]

3 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I’ve got Cheltenham Town to watch with the return of Steve Cotterill. A better football manager on grass than Will Still playing his laptop will ever be.

I've been to three games this season. I can't see myself wasting my time any time soon until they give me a reason 

[RedArmy]

2 minutes ago, benjii said:

It's Russel Martin's fault. His presence haunts them. 

It’s such a shame that Azaz and Fellows haven’t managed to get over last season. 
 

 

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

What's impressive is that people can slag Downs off for miss controlling the ball and not touching the ball once at the same time. 

Sorry missed that, too busy counting our shots

[Sheaf Saint]

Bristol City - 4 shots on target, 3 goals.

Just imagine if we could ever get close to that kind of conversion rate.

[Tommy]

Give Roy Keane a call, at least then we will have a manager that will tell these how shit they are 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Gotta say Still is not the answer, but the chances of a replacement now are minimal. And anyway, these players are just not good enough even to mount a play off challenge. It’s very bleak.

[Suhari]

Just now, lambtiss said:

I wish we had a decent manager like Nathan Jones

First time this sentence has ever been written.

[Mr X]

There's no way SR have the balls to. Pull the trigger on still and admit yet another monumental fuck up to add to a never ending list! ... Still's here win or lose.... Mostly lose 

Edited 19 hours ago by Mr X

[Saint NL]

Just now, Sheaf Saint said:

Bristol City - 4 shots on target, 3 goals.

Just imagine if we could ever get close to that kind of conversion rate.

If Bazunu was in goal it's be 4-1 😂

[RedArmy]

Just now, Tommy said:

Give Roy Keane a call, at least then we will have a manager that will tell these how shit they are 

Not sure he’ll be telling THB how shit he is. 

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Sheff Utd had the balls to sack Selles after 5 defeats. They're now 3 points behind us. They'll be above us in 2 weeks time. 

And people think Still should be given more time. 😩

[Jack]

Nice to see a sense of urgency here. Absolute cunts, all of them 

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Give it a rest. 

I’m not sure objectively it is though. Ali Dia was a national league striker who looked better in the PL than anything Downs has produced so far at a level he’s supposed to be able to play at. And he was a sub famously subbed. I wouldn’t inflict him on Sholing or Winchester. I can’t think of one footballing attribute he has. He’s tall but if we want height, call Steven Finn from TMS away from the Ashes and stick him up top.

[Saint Fan CaM]

90 minutes 3-1 down and we’re passing it around at the back. Atrocious!

[vectraman]

4 minutes ago, pingpong said:

I don't think still is the problem, it's the players.

I predict still will lose his hair before season is out, or at least turn grey.

As a ginger, turning grey would be a blessing 😉

[Baird of the land]

90th minute and we are still arsing about with the ball at the back. Clueless

[Colinjb]

12 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Ralph in as DoF, Lallana manager until end of season, Still and Spors gone. Ralph needs full control to get a spine in place for January, avoid the drop and review how Adam has done in May if we stay up.

There's one Rat that needs to leave this sinking ship.

Perhaps he's actually been an Albatross all along. 

[badgerx16]

Where's the urgency ?

[Southner]

3 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

That's just teasing. No way he's coming back.

Would be less painful headbutting a fridge. 

[lambtiss]

Get Gerrard, simply because I'd like to see him headbutt Lampard when we play Coventry.

[Suhari]

Do they have Brett Omerod?!

[benjii]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

Where's the urgency ?

System is working.

[tdmickey3]

What an absolute shit pile this football club has become since we didn’t give RH a striker.

Quality has fallen like a brick out of the skyscraper window and still dropping

[Suhari]

1 minute ago, vectraman said:

As a ginger, turning grey would be a blessing 😉

As a ginger, balding and shaved, I understand.

[Saint86]

Just now, lambtiss said:

Get Gerrard, simply because I'd like to see him headbutt Lampard when we play Coventry.

Hate to break it to you, but Sports republic are more likely to hire Rooney.

[Lone ranger]

Two down and still playing slow ponderous pointless short passes across the back. Absolutely no ambition, no drive, no enthusiasm. Just watched P….y for a couple of minutes. They may be losing to the top team but far more energy and far more inspiring. Where did it all go wrong for SFC?

[badgerx16]

Just now, Saint86 said:

Hate to break it to you, but Sports republic are more likely to hire Rooney.

Can he still play ?

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, lambtiss said:

Get Gerrard, simply because I'd like to see him headbutt Lampard when we play Coventry.

I’d take Gerrard, Carrick, but not Rooney. Someone who has football stature and will light a fucking bonfire under Solak’s fat arse. 

[Saint NL]

Fellows needs to stay away from Flynn Downes. That was his trademark booking, after getting the shits

[stfrancisofbenali]

7 mins of injury time on Saturday, zero ambition to go and win the game. 26 mins of normal time left tonight, zero ambition to really dig in and fight our way back into the game. A tactical lesson from Bristol City who were so much smarter than us. 

[Sevvy]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

Can he still play ?

Probably better than some of our lot,

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Sevvy said:

Probably better than some of our lot,

Low bar

[BotleySaint]

It seems it's been years since we had a team that actually played football like other teams.

So much passing it around and lumping it forward.

Successive managers, different players.

Why can't we just have a normal football team!?

[Saint_clark]

Absolutely hate Ashton Gate.

[obelisk]

From a comfortable first 30 minutes Saints descended into an absolute shambles. Maybe if Leo's shot had gone in but from that moment on the heads well and truly dropped again.

[Saint NL]

Boos at the final whistle for the second game in a row. Are the owners listening?

[saintant]

Let's look at their three goals because we absolutely gifted them all 3. Goal one, we set up a poor line and Wood misses the through ball when he should have cut it out easily. Goal 2, a lucky ricochet onto the post but McCarthy decides to jump over the ball and leave it to Twine. Goal 3, we decide to pass it straight to Twine who has a free run on goal. When do we get gifted goals? Very rarely. We should have been 3-1 up at half time and somehow contrived to lose that 3-1. Oh and the big black lad came on and bullied the life out of our defenders.

[Suhari]

I only saw the last 35 minutes.

And it was shit.

[Turkish]

Great effort from the lads hope the fans gave them good clap for their efforts. They did their best. Unlucky lads keep trying 

[Farmer Saint]

Do you remember when some of our fans used to scoff about our 25 game unbeaten run? 🤣

[Saint86]

The worst part of this, is that I genuinely think city are pretty fucking shit. Their only game plan was park the bus and hit fairly low quality counters... At home... Vs a team they're comfortably above in the league. And even then, we had to literally gift them 3 goals.

Something clearly rotten in the dressing room. Think his time is up and there is no point prolonging it. Sincerely hope spots is looking at replacements as we speak.

Edited 19 hours ago by Saint86

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Saint86 said:

Hate to break it to you, but Sports republic are more likely to hire Rooney.

He’s a dreadful manager but we all know it will be Spors’s cousin from Bundesliga 3 or Rasmus’s nephew who has never played but is general manager at Middlefart FC in Denmark. They can’t stand the thought of an adult manager who would challenge their lunatic ideas. 

[Jimmy_D]

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, although we were unlucky that literally every mistake ended up in the back of the net.

[Southner]

Well that was fucking abysmal. 

[Saint NL]

Not many reasons to be cheerful after that, but Norwich have dropped into the bottom four. Rumours of a certain R. Martin being lined up to replace their manager 😂

[Turkish]

Just now, Saint NL said:

Boos at the final whistle for the second game in a row. Are the owners listening?

Listening to what? We are a player trading company now, we can easily get good money for Scienza, Robinson and Jander. It’s going well for them