Blackburn 2-1 Saints - Match Threads

[lambtiss]

8 minutes ago, saint michael said:

MLG 5/1 to replace him

At least the team's use of grammar should improve

[Patches O Houlihan]

Fuck off Saints. That was absolute wank. [with the exception of 5 seconds from Leo]

Shit Attacking. Shit Defending. Shit personnel management this morning. Woeful choices of subs. Another top player out for a period by being asked to be a one man team, and now Wely has a suspension from Bobby Madley being a CU next Tuesday.

Absolute bollocks, and what is so hard to take is that none of this had to happen. Fucking Sports Republic deciding to tear up everything 6 months after they arrived and re-invent a triangular fucking wheel.  

[Wade Garrett]

1 minute ago, Dr Who? said:

Agree. The only way this will change is an impact manager who can do and have proved at this level. If we cannot get someone with pedigree or they have no plan to get someone with pedigree then we stick. Unfortunately we do not know, but looking at the past it is not looking to promising. 

There is no scenario, in my opinion, where we stick.

[sfc4prem]

3 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Scienza going over to the fans to calm them down, Stephens and Still got both barrels 😂

Scienza has some fucking balls. You'd want him next to you if you were parachuting into Normandy back in 44. 

[kitch]

He's got to go, I've changed after that one. Shame, I want him to succeed but that was abysmal.

Sport Republic can go with him, absolute clowns.

[BotleySaint]

Even Blackburn now have 3 wins to our 2.

[Midfield_General]

That substitution is the worst thing I've ever seen a human be responsible for. 

And I include 9/11 and the bombing of Hiroshima in that. 

[Colinjb]

That is on Still. Cannot defend that at all.... Just like us.

[Saint86]

Just now, Wade Garrett said:

There is no scenario, in my opinion, where we stick.

No acceptable scenario.

[Farmer Saint]

2 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Problem is. We have left it too late for the likes of rohl and potter. Really think we need to go for challinor of potential options (I.e., that would consider us).

Why would we want Potter????? Rohl's first game for Rangers looked awful as well.

[Football Special]

1 minute ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

Fuck off Saints. That was absolute wank. [with the exception of 5 seconds from Leo]

Shit Attacking. Shit Defending. Shit personnel management this morning. Woeful choices of subs. Another top player out for a period by being asked to be a one man team, and now Wely has a suspension from Bobby Madley being a CU next Tuesday.

Absolute bollocks, and what is so hard to take is that none of this had to happen. Fucking Sports Republic deciding to tear up everything 6 months after they arrived and re-invent a triangular fucking wheel.  

Season is over so anyone bothering to turn up next week we need full 90 mins Sports Republic abuse. The time has come 

[Saint NL]

Blackburn were SHIT.

Somehow, we were worse.

[hypochondriac]

We need to sack off the failures. That means still to go then play a Ln attacking midfield of 

Scienza Aribo fellows 

 

[saintant]

It's hard to see him surviving because he's come here as a young manager with fresh ideas but it's not worked. His inexperience goes against him once results start to go pear shaped and the fan base are quite rightly now baying for blood. I think SR will give him more time but can't see anything improving because he's not been the manager we were promised.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

After AA missed his one on one chance, I was thinking that was far too close to winning. Far better to sacrifice even more of an attack than usual to bring on Cap'n Shoehorn.

With yet another error prone defensive player on the park, we immediately gave up all forward momentum, resulting in a soft equaliser.

Charles had to go off through injury. Fortunately, that didn't completely derail the entertainment of Will Still's Tombola of Subs.

We immediately lost any sense of shape and looked like 11 strangers when the 2nd soft goal went in.

We were never anywhere near getting back into it. So Wellington's straight red made zero difference. 

An utter shambles of a performance from a club priding itself on leading with incompetence from Solak all the way down.

[Baird of the land]

3 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Problem is. We have left it too late for the likes of rohl and potter. Really think we need to go for challinor of potential options (I.e., that would consider us).

Get Wagner in. Experience in this league, harshly sacked by Norwich.

[SaintTex]

I am out. 

 

[LGTL]

2 points from Derby, Swansea, Bristol City and Blackburn. Absolutely fucking diabolical and a new low. 

[OttawaSaint]

Still is utterly out of his depth.

In virtually every game the 2nd half is abject.

Why? Because he doesn't understand how to use subs. He just randomly throws players on and hauls players off. The result is a total mess. 

[Convict Colony]

3 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Scienza has some fucking balls. You'd want him next to you if you were parachuting into Normandy back in 44. 

Southampton fans v Brasilan fans, he thinks we are pussy cats 😉

[Football Special]

I've been warning how shit we are for weeks , the spine of the team is weak as fuck, it's an absolute fucking shambles , big squad but no team , we'll struggle to compete and are 100% in a relegation battle 

[ally_uk]

Scienza aside this was one of the worst games of football I have watched this season. Was like a watching a match between two relegation candidates.

What the fuck has happened to our club seriously? The downfall has been rapid. 

We looked so unorganised and disjointed, our midfield is nonexistent and so easy to bypass.

Game management and substitutes absolute comical, the moment that killed the game was taking off Scienza......

I literally sat and went we're fucked now and you straight away could see Blackburn growing in confidence and running through our non existent midfield. 

Absolute diabolical I don't know where we go from here. 

[Vancouver Saint]

Goodness...just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...we manage to plumb a new low!

So many things wrong with that performance and Will Still's bizarre substitutions I don't know where to start. Did I hear the Saints fans shouting "You don't know what you're doing when he took off Scienza and brought on Stephens?" Too right.

We have also lost probably our only consistently good player in Shea Charles. I mean for good not just from injury - he's not going to hang around with this bunch of losers.

 

[Football Special]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Blackburn were SHIT.

Somehow, we were worse.

The game would have been an embarrassment to league one, both sides dreadful 

[Midfield_General]

1 minute ago, saintant said:

It's hard to see him surviving because he's come here as a young manager with fresh ideas but it's not worked. His inexperience goes against him once results start to go pear shaped and the fan base are quite rightly now baying for blood. I think SR will give him more time but can't see anything improving because he's not been the manager we were promised.

Honestly, what are his ideas? What is he trying to implement? 

I wanted him to be given a chance but I just see someone who doesn't have the faintest idea what they're doing. He just looks lost and scared. 

[Wsaint]

14 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Didn't think I'd say this, but bring back Ralph if he's up for it. It was odd that he was at the game on Tuesday.

I doubt he is, pretty sure it said he was invited by Craig Fleming who's now with city, he wasn't there just for us.

[Hopper]

Shocking, head in hands performance. We weren't ever in control of the game and it was wild from both sides. He's fallen on his sword today baffling substitutions.

[Dr Who?]

5 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

There is no scenario, in my opinion, where we stick.

No but you get my point. 

[markr27]

I am going to stand on the side of the garden, with my arms folded for the next 100 minutes 

 

That will motivate me.

[Osvaldorama]

Fucking shambles. 
 

Finishing the game with 9 men, 4 of which are centre backs. 2 of which are 18. 
 

No manager should survive this car crash. 
 

Astonishingly bad 

[Bewildered]

There can be no coming back from that for Still for me.  Sure, the players embarrased themselves again but the second half was a clinic in managerial incopetence.

 

[Morse]

Sack Still? My arse, sack me. I dont want to be a Saints fan anymore. 

[saintstowin]

Perfect time for the next quarter season manager to get their go now.

[badgerx16]

8 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Scienza has some fucking balls. You'd want him next to you if you were parachuting into Normandy back in 44. 

The Brazilian army fought in Italy.

[Convict Colony]

4 minutes ago, Football Special said:

I've been warning how shit we are for weeks , the spine of the team is weak as fuck, it's an absolute fucking shambles , big squad but no team , we'll struggle to compete and are 100% in a relegation battle 

Narcisstic injury

[sotonjoe]

6 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

Get Wagner in. Experience in this league, harshly sacked by Norwich.

Not sure he's looking to get back into management, given the interviews he's done on the subject

[badgerx16]

7 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

( Team name here ) were SHIT.

Somehow, we were worse.

 

[Baird of the land]

2 minutes ago, Hopper said:

Shocking, head in hands performance. We weren't ever in control of the game and it was wild from both sides. He's fallen on his sword today baffling substitutions.

Thought Still was going to get away with it because despite how badly he set us up, blackburn's confidence in front of goal was woeful and their fans were turning on the team/board. Then, Still reached into his bag of special sub moves and turned the game to ensure blackburn got the result.

[Crab Lungs]

As I said previously. 

He has to go, this won’t get any better.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Crab Lungs

[OttawaSaint]

4 minutes ago, markr27 said:

I am going to stand on the side of the garden, with my arms folded for the next 100 minutes 

 

That will motivate me.

More movement than Stephens...

[RedArmy]

2 hours ago, Saint_clark said:

Try to enjoy the win today mate. 

Will do. 

[Saint_clark]

Just now, sotonjoe said:

Not sure he's looking to get back into management, given the interviews he's done on the subject

Simon Rusk is available. 

[Football Special]

[BotleySaint]

After last seasons humiliation, somehow it seems to be getting even worse.

[captainchris]

18 minutes ago, coalman said:

We'll have a great squad in League 1. Armstrong and Archer will score bucket loads at level.

No they won’t !

[Saint NL]

Still looks sick in this post match interview. He knows what's coming

[hypochondriac]

Just now, Saint NL said:

Still looks sick in this post match interview. He knows what's coming

Unfortunately for him there's nothing he can do or say that can excuse those substitutions.

[Midfield_General]

4 minutes ago, markr27 said:

I am going to stand on the side of the garden, with my arms folded for the next 100 minutes 

 

That will motivate me.

Then after 68 minutes go up to your one and only beautiful tree, hack it down with a chainsaw and replace it with a load of barbed wire and a bucket of shit

[sockeye]

20 minutes ago, coalman said:

We'll have a great squad in League 1. Armstrong and Archer will score bucket loads at level.

Of course, because Downs was actually bought with next year in mind.

[RedArmy]

1 minute ago, Saint NL said:

Still looks sick in this post match interview. He knows what's coming

Has the still got that gormless “this normally works on football manager, I don’t understand” expression?