Southampton v Preston - Saturday 3pm

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

5 at the back is shit. Just play 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3, the fans want it, you want it, just fucking do it. It can't be any worse than the last two games.

Didn't he revert to a back 4 vs Hull and that resulted in one of our worst performances of the season? That  seems to have spooked him into playing 3/5 at the back when perhaps he should've seen that match as a one-off blip...?

Edited 5 hours ago by trousers

[saintstowin]

I get the sense that Still now thinks 4321 (or 4 at the back in whatever form) is a gamble that he'll only take in specific circumstances - in our case this seems to include the two extremes of perfect player availability, and terrible form with a different formation. And I expect if he does do it he will be looking to ditch it with the first sign of something not going well.

This in itself is bizarre and a reflection not just on us and rock bottom confidence, but on modern football.

Football remains a simple game, but with plenty of people ready to make it complicated.

[Farmer Saint]

Defenders are top shit to play 4 at the back unfortunately. It's why we reverted to it under Martin and pretty much all the time since.

[Dr Who?]

As we seem to be going backwards, I can only see this being a draw or a home defeat. Preston are looking ok, well compared to us everyone is. Things will not improve for the long run even if we managed to fluke a win. I am not sure why Still has not been sacked as he is clearly out of his depth. Also I cannot see how waiting for the international break is going to help, just sometimes you can tell that this situation is only going to end badly for Still and the club. 

[hypochondriac]

13 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Defenders are top shit to play 4 at the back unfortunately. It's why we reverted to it under Martin and pretty much all the time since.

But we played five at the back against Bristol City and Blackburn and stil conceded three and two-Blackburn could easily have scored more. 

[LGTL]

I’ll be stunned if he sits there and gets the sack paying a system he doesn’t like. It’s absolutely fucking bonkers that he won’t play 4-2-3-1. We’re shit playing 5 anyway, so at least play and build the system you want. 

A whole pre season and a quarter of the way through the actual season and he’s still bleating on that he can’t play his favoured formation. It’s absolute bollocks and he needs to grow a pair because he seems to be fucking petrified of everything at the moment. 

Edited 4 hours ago by LGTL

[Jack]

Yeah load of old waffle in the presser. Still keeps harping on about how good we were against Swansea, we only looked any good because they are/were fucking awful. If we’d have actually beaten anyone recently then you could maybe give him that one, but we’re going into November and we haven’t won at home since the summer FFS

[OneMrsWallace]

4 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

He seems to be in a doom loop. Cant play his favoured system as we let in too many. Changes system with players out of position, and we let in too many.

He made a point of the 'hybrid wingback' .....how's that working out!

If that's his presser, I think we'll be well beaten on Saturday. Fight back...with what? If we were as good in games as we are in training...FFS. 

[SWLondon Saint]

11 hours ago, Saint NL said:

That header was genuinely better than any of our strikers have managed all season 🤦

 

 

Bloody hell, thought you were just being ironic but that is a proper old school centre forward header 😂 Totally unmarked, but still a great effort!

[coalman]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

Defenders are top shit to play 4 at the back unfortunately. It's why we reverted to it under Martin and pretty much all the time since.

Playing with a back 5 doesn't seem to make us harder to score against than a back 4. If our defenders aren't up to it playing more of them seems like the wrong choice. I'd rather play more in midfield and make it harder to move the ball through us. Right now we get overrun in midfield too easily and then our not-up-to-the-job defenders have to deal with it. Then we have fewer options to pass out of defence and just wind up hoofing it up field.

 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

1 minute ago, SWLondon Saint said:

Bloody hell, thought you were just being ironic but that is a proper old school centre forward header 😂 Totally unmarked, but still a great effort!

I'd bet Will Still is tempted to pop in the store and get a red and white striped shirt with Baz's name and number on just in case.....if we're losing with 10 mins to go and we're gonna just start bombarding their box he just as well sling someone on who can actually get on the end of the balls in. Failing that, someone could sneak round and set one of the warehouses alight behind the Chapel to get the game called off. Worked last time.

[die Mannyschaft]

10 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

Bloody hell, thought you were just being ironic but that is a proper old school centre forward header 😂 Totally unmarked, but still a great effort!

Baz lost marker and ran into space very well. Which player are not good at doing due to pre programmed football.  There needs to be more old school basic football tactics and skills implemented on Saturday.  Have we got anyone who can header the ball apart from Baz ?

[Saint NL]

There's always someone in the match threads asking for a stream. 

I learned of both of these sites today and they both look very promising. Worth bookmarking:

 

https://streamed.pk/

https://watchsports.to/

[Football Special]

3 hours ago, LGTL said:

I’ll be stunned if he sits there and gets the sack paying a system he doesn’t like. It’s absolutely fucking bonkers that he won’t play 4-2-3-1. We’re shit playing 5 anyway, so at least play and build the system you want. 

A whole pre season and a quarter of the way through the actual season and he’s still bleating on that he can’t play his favoured formation. It’s absolute bollocks and he needs to grow a pair because he seems to be fucking petrified of everything at the moment. 

I agree and fed up with him bringing up last season, we're all well aware how shit it was Will, but we expected a bit more this season not more of the same 

[Football Special]

7 hours ago, BranfootsLoveChild said:

Just looked at the seat map. Surprised so many general sale tickets have been sold. 

Cat C prices helped and could get cheap tickets for junior members so that's probably helped, still loads of empty seats, Preston will have over 2000 empty seats in their corner as well