QPR 1-2 Saints - Match Thread

[Zorba]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

FT 

1-2 victory.

usually you would suggest that winning when not playing well is a sign of good things. 

There are no good things. This was horrible. Horrible formation, horrible mistakes, horrible goal keeping

The system is a fucking joke, as it has been most of the season. A fucking joke, we conceded 20 chances!!!

Too may players out of position, those in position are not particularly comfortable (CBs being pulled wide all of time). 

CM being wide open, with huge gaps between most of the team and the CBs.

We got away with it due to individual brilliance, as there was almost nothing from patterns of play to suggest we were anything near average.

Oh, Bazunu should never play again.

 

 

But other than that.. are you happy?

[Lee On Solent Saint]

He's bound to get the job, fuckin Ankerson is there watching

[Lord Duckhunter]

2 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

If only the players showed that kind of resilience and composure all season. 

There’s was absolutely no composure at all, WTF were you watching… 

[obelisk]

Some composure from Azaz when breaking free and we could have had a 3-1 lead with a Downs goal as well.

[saintstowin]

We won 58-9 in clearances.

[LGTL]

Fuck sake we even win shit now. Everything about this club is just shit. 

[Sir Ralph]

The 5-3-1-1 doesn’t work we can’t press with it

[Swaythling Saint]

A Scienza beauty papering over the cracks, awful 15 mins at the end..onwards and upwards!

[Greedyfly]

1 minute ago, inspectorfrost said:

I wouldn't start Bazunu in a national league side

I wouldn't put him on the tills at Tesco's

[skintsaint]

On 04/11/2025 at 09:29, skintsaint said:

 

You would want a really shit lucky win, with terrible football, just to prove he isn't the right person for the job.

 

 

👀

[Jack]

Fucking dreadful really. Smash and grab, Bazunu doing his best to give away more points. Hope Spors doesn’t start getting any more stupid ideas off the back of this 

[Harry_SFC]

Terrible, terrible performance. Saved by a moment of unbelievable skill from Scienza. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, woodsaint1 said:

Pathetic performance. On the plus side, hopefully that means Eckart wont get the job

I wouldn’t bet on it, Tonka Bean obeyed Rasmus by bringing back his two favourite players and Spors by bringing on his striker from the Koln Christmas Market kickabout.

Such brownosing gets rewarded.

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

There’s was absolutely no composure at all, WTF were you watching… 

In front of goal. We scored both shots on target.

Edited yesterday at 21:48 by Saint_clark

[Wade Garrett]

Thank god we’ve got Scienza.  That was fucking diabolical but a win’s a win.

Need a strong manager in asap.

[stknowle]

4 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

We are shite. 

But we won.

That sums it right up. Hopefully to fuck we can start to get some confidence from here but fuck me the way we struggled to hold on against such a routine ordinary opponent. Something radical has to change.

[Lighthouse]

Clearly a team very low on confidence and cohesion but they dug deep and saw it out, so fair play to them for that. It's about as good as you can hope for with an interim manager in charge and should keep us within reach of the playoffs by the time the new bloke is appointed.

My main worry is that Leo's injury will keep him out for a while. Why aren't we allowed to have nice things?

[Miltonaggro]

A thankfully narrow panicky win for zwieback - a German rusk…

[RedArmy]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Fuck sake we even win shit now. Everything about this club is just shit. 

Russell Martin would have hated that 

[LGTL]

Solak was there watching tonight. Interesting what he made of it. He’s not blind so I assume he thought it was fucking shit. 

[skintsaint]

👀👀

[Miltonaggro]

2 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Thank god we’ve got Scienza.  That was fucking diabolical but a win’s a win.

Need a strong manager in asap.

Chuck Norris?

[saintnick]

We are above the skates, I’ll take that 

[HarvSFC]

Win was important for the bigger picture, but if that was an audition for the full time position from Eckert then it was shite. But, yeah, hopefully a competent manager is looking at this and seeing there is something to work with, especially if we get another three points against Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend, which we should do considering they are the 2025 version of our 08-09 squad.

Our strength is in the wide attackers, get them on the ball more and quickly in space and give them the freedom to attack and not against defences that have already set up because we're too slow.

But, like Sheffield United tonight needed a wonder goal to win the match and we were very much backs against the walls for the last 15 minutes.

[The Kraken]

6 minutes ago, woodsaint1 said:

Pathetic performance. On the plus side, hopefully that means Eckart wont get the job

Just the opposite I imagine. 3 points against the Wendys and it’s his.

[Osvaldorama]

Harrowing, harrowing performance from a harrowing, harrowing club. 
 

Bazunu & Downs are honestly 2 of the worst players in their positions to ever play for us, at any level. Absolutely atrocious. 
 

How the fuck did we win that 😂

[CB Fry]

The two wins we've had since the opening day were thanks to wonder goals.

 

[washsaint]

What a bunch of utterly miserable t**ts on here.  Saints have forgotten how to win so they were always going to make it difficut for themselves.

They showed more spirit tonight than they have done for a very long time and put their bodies on the line and didn't crumble.  Hopefully that will give them some confidence.

Yes Bazunu made a howler for their goal but his save at the end and his catches helped us kill the game off.

Fellows and Azaz were absolutely dreadful (again) and Manning is terrible.

3 points and hopefully some confidence going into the Wednesday game

[Saint Fan CaM]

2 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

Russell Martin would have hated that 

He would - only 38% possession.

[bpsaint]

3 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Solak was there watching tonight. Interesting what he made of it. He’s not blind so I assume he thought it was fucking shit. 

Hopefully his delight alongside MLT means he really does care about this club.

That cunt Ankersen in the directors box though, this whole sorry saga has got his mitts all over it.

Edited yesterday at 21:53 by bpsaint

[saintant]

15 minutes ago, Stowmarket Saint said:

I don't think Downs has run fast enough to register on the heat map! 

He'd struggle to run a sub 40 minute park run, and would fall over 4 times around the course!

Utter cart horse. 

Looks like he's towing a caravan.

[Patches O Houlihan]

6 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Fucking lucky.

We played the same as every other game this season;

• Easy tap in missed on their goal line
• One of our shots takes a massive deflection and hits the bar (but goes in)
• Long range worldie from Scienza crept inside the post instead of hitting it
• Really shit goal given away 2 mins after we score
• Useless subs hand the game to the opponent for the last twenty minutes
• Manning was fucking woeful
• Baz has the goalkeeping IQ of Graham Norton
• Made a shit team look really dangerous

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Chuck Norris?

Even David Norris would be an enhancement if a bit fishy. At least unlike Downs (and Archer frankly) he has experienced scoring at SMS.

[Saint NL]

Sounds like Juric gave his own player (Lookman) a shove on the pitch in the Champions League. Knew there was a hard man in there somewhere

[Wade Garrett]

1 minute ago, bpsaint said:

Hopefully his delight alongside MLT means he really does care about this club.

That cunt Ankersen in the directors box though, this whole sorry saga has got his mitts all over it.

Hopefully he’ll listen to Matt more than Wankersen.

[CB Fry]

1 minute ago, washsaint said:

What a bunch of utterly miserable t**ts on here.  Saints have forgotten how to win so they were always going to make it difficut for themselves.

They showed more spirit tonight than they have done for a very long time and put their bodies on the line and didn't crumble.  Hopefully that will give them some confidence.

Yes Bazunu made a howler for their goal but his save at the end and his catches helped us kill the game off.

Fellows and Azaz were absolutely dreadful (again) and Manning is terrible.

3 points and hopefully some confidence going into the Wednesday game

It's not spirit to be backs against the wall vs a terrible QPR team.

It's not spirit to have appalling game management.

We were fucking terrible 

[egg]

Absolutely shocking, but it's a win, and will hopefully breed some much needed confidence. 

Has that performance pushed SR towards RM? 

[Mustang Saint]

14 minutes ago, Greedyfly said:

I wouldn't put him on the tills at Tesco's

I wouldn't even have him as a kerbside loader collecting recycling bins, he'd fucking drop them all or hang onto it till the lorries driven off. 

[saintant]

6 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Clearly a team very low on confidence and cohesion but they dug deep and saw it out, so fair play to them for that. It's about as good as you can hope for with an interim manager in charge and should keep us within reach of the playoffs by the time the new bloke is appointed.

My main worry is that Leo's injury will keep him out for a while. Why aren't we allowed to have nice things?

Not to mention skill, pace and power.

[Stowmarket Saint]

A win is a win. And by God we needed those 3 points! 

Some of those players that are out there are "running" around with seemingly not a care in the world. No pressing from the forwards, who then retreat into the mass of disorganised players on the edge of the box, almost physically trying to hide in the crowd! Then when the ball gets cleared they amble to close the opposition down, who then proceed to continue to hump balls into the area. It really is Sunday league stuff at times. I could go on but just like some of the players on the pitch I can't be bothered.

Glad Leo got his goal though, he really is the one only shining light at the moment, so it's fitting he got the goal to secure the much needed 3 points! At least he looks like he gives a f*ck.

 

Edited yesterday at 21:56 by Stowmarket Saint

[Patches O Houlihan]

10 minutes ago, danjosaint said:

Absolutely the worst game management for 15mins that ive ever seen 

Downs played the last 15 mins inside our area - so there was no out ball and their defenders could push right up without worry

[Galway saint]

2 minutes ago, washsaint said:

What a bunch of utterly miserable t**ts on here.  Saints have forgotten how to win so they were always going to make it difficut for themselves.

They showed more spirit tonight than they have done for a very long time and put their bodies on the line and didn't crumble.  Hopefully that will give them some confidence.

Yes Bazunu made a howler for their goal but his save at the end and his catches helped us kill the game off.

Fellows and Azaz were absolutely dreadful (again) and Manning is terrible.

3 points and hopefully some confidence going into the Wednesday 

[Sir Ralph]

Just now, Stowmarket Saint said:

A win is a win. A by God we needed those 3 points! 

Some of those players that are out there are "running" around with seemingly not a care in the world. No pressing from the forwards, who then retreat into the mass of disorganised players on the edge of the box, almost physically trying to hide in the crowd! Then when the ball gets cleared they amble to close the opposition down, who then proceed to continue to hump balls into the area. It really is Sunday league stuff at times. I could go on but just like some of the players on the pitch I can't be bothered.

Glad Leo got his goal though, he really is the one only shining light at the moment, so it's fitting he got the goal to secure the much needed 3 points! At least he looks like he gives a f*ck.

 

We can’t press with that shit formation 

[Midfield_General]

3 points or not, that was embarrassing 

[Hopper]

[Verbal]

Where does this leave Eckert on the all-time best list of SR-era Saints' managers?

[pingpong]

Another 3pts from bazunu, that's 9 so far this season with him in goal, higher return than with calamity McCarthy.

[Patrick Bateman]

Not really sure what to say. A win is a win.

Bazunu should NEVER be in the first 11 ever again - bloody awful goalkeeper, we won in spite of him. 

Something to build on in terms of winning confidence, but that was so bad. 

[St Chalet]

Good result to hang on with 9 men. Downs and Aribo absolutely MIA

[S-Clarke]

4 minutes ago, washsaint said:

What a bunch of utterly miserable t**ts on here.  Saints have forgotten how to win so they were always going to make it difficut for themselves.

They showed more spirit tonight than they have done for a very long time and put their bodies on the line and didn't crumble.  Hopefully that will give them some confidence.

Yes Bazunu made a howler for their goal but his save at the end and his catches helped us kill the game off.

Fellows and Azaz were absolutely dreadful (again) and Manning is terrible.

3 points and hopefully some confidence going into the Wednesday game

If that was against, I don't know, Man City or Chelsea yep I'd buy that.

But that was against a fucking horrific QPR side.

That final 15 mins, as well as the first 45, was as bad as I've seen. They didn't show any spirit, they shrunk into their shells for the final 15 mins and panic panic like shit. They got over the line through luck and a Leo worldie, not because of any fricking spirit. 

Bazunu was lucky he didn't kill us the game. That 'save' he made is irrelevant because of the goals he lets in. He dropped one to almost make it 2-2, and then dallied on the ball and gave away a stupid final corner. That last 15min collapse was borne from Bazunu doing Bazunu things, and it's why he should not be playing.