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Millwall 3-2 Saints - Match Thread

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notnowcato

notnowcato

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Just now, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

They played well but equally Saints team were poor and the subs didn't help.

Yep, subs influenced the game in a negative way. 

saintstowin

saintstowin

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From what I saw we deserved to lose. No control of that game. Fortunate not to concede the winner before it happened, with a couple of good off the line clearances. I think that's an own goal not that it matters. 

Millwall are having a good season and we weren't good enough to match them. Frustrating.

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Saint NL

Saint NL

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5 minutes ago, jimmer42 said:

I think Aribo was the issue......so slow

A midfield of Aribo and (a half fit ) Romeu must be the slowest in the league 😂

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DT

DT

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1 minute ago, notnowcato said:

Not Romeu, not Manning or THB… all on Baz. Bellend. 

It was a fucking howler to add to his massive collection. He's cost us so many points over the past few seasons it's incredible. But we are still blind to the keeper position.

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Vancouver Saint

Vancouver Saint

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At 1-0 up Adam Blackmore commentating says: 'Now can we see what mettle this team is made of - can we defend and keep a clean sheet?' The answer is emphatically NO!
Bazunu is an un-goalkeeper if there is such a thing. Just so weak in so many aspects.
And the Tonda Eckart miracle-man myth is also exploded...we looked ver ordinary. Millwall the better team - did they have three games in a week like us?

Ed Rooney

Ed Rooney

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2 minutes ago, DT said:

It was a fucking howler to add to his massive collection. He's cost us so many points over the past few seasons it's incredible. But we are still blind to the keeper position.

Fuck off, 2nd goal on Arribo jogging out, 3rd goal on Romeu tackling like  a twat 

blame the keeper when it’s his fault yeah but not when one of the 10 in front let him down 

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bpsaint

bpsaint

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Could have been 3 points, deserved to be 1, ended up with 0.

Unfortunately our little purple patch has made many think we’re better than we are,but at the end of the day we’ve still game the same grifters in defence leaking goals, and a donkey in goal. 

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Baz Fl

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Subs are supposed to add fresh legs and improve your team’s work rate, Aribo did the opposite. Will Still didn’t get many things right but his opinion of Aribo was spot on. 

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notnowcato

notnowcato

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Just now, DT said:

It was a fucking howler to add to his massive collection. He's cost us so many points over the past few seasons it's incredible. But we are still blind to the keeper position.

Mate, put it down or put some lemonade in it. One of our best players today. 

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Behind Enemy Lines

Behind Enemy Lines

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4 minutes ago, notnowcato said:

Grow up

Care to explain that one to me?
 

These players have been so below the level I would expect for a Championship club for a long time. 

 

Saying ‘grow up’ isn’t exactly a way adults should communicate on a message board. 

Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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Just now, LGTL said:

Missed Flynn Downes today. Had zero control in midfield whatsoever. 

I'm not convinced he would have had the mental strength to deal with the abuse he would have got from the home fans TBH. Not sure he would have made a difference.

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JohnS

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Got what we deserved today

Very poor & quite worrying 

Clueless most of the time & needed a complete change of tactics 

Bellis needs a week of passing & touch training or maybe a month

Aribo was a waste of substitution

Seemed a lack of energy today & no real urgency - maybe last run of games has caught up with us 

 

 

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badgerx16

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2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Missed Flynn Downes today. Had zero control in midfield whatsoever. 

 

1 minute ago, rooney said:

And Scienza

Our squad should be able to cope.

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Tanlee

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Maybe Leo is the our best defensive asset too, when the balls going forward more recently I forgot how shit defensively we can be! 

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qwertyell

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Frustratingly, at one stage today we were just 3 points off 2nd. Which, if you're looking for silver linings, tells us we've forced ourselves back into the promotion picture after a terrible start - with plenty of points left to play for. 

Irrelevant, though, if we're as poor as today and still can't defend properly no matter the combinations back there. 

A hard earned point wouldn't have been the worst outcome, but we really didn't deserve anything more. 

Back to the training ground for Tonda to give the lads a damn good staring at. 

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notnowcato

notnowcato

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2 minutes ago, Behind Enemy Lines said:

Care to explain that one to me?
 

These players have been so below the level I would expect for a Championship club for a long time. 

 

Saying ‘grow up’ isn’t exactly a way adults should communicate on a message board. 

Sublime irony, congratulations. 
 

Poopy pants. 

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bugenhagen

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Why did we let them hit so many crosses? Where is the pride in stopping crosses coming in from your side. Like we invited them to cross again and again. It must be easier to stop the crosses ever coming in, than rely on Baz and our marking…

And Aribo… why bother? He certainly didn’t. 

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Doctoroncall

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5 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Millwall up to third.

Very poor today, never really got going. Back down to earth with a bang. 

Millwall were physically stronger and they had the right tactics. Poor from Eckert, the subs were wrong and and we should have been able to see out a draw after an 87th min equaliser

The concerning issue is we haven’t beaten a top 10 side iirc. I think the highest placed club was Charlton and Leicester, who I think were 11th and 12th at the time we played them. 
 

Need to be able to compete with these teams if we want to climb higher. 

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Saint86

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Shocking game from our cbs today... Marking, passing, closing down... Like FFS, this is the basics of the game that they get wrong time after time after time, so many times today we gave Millwall chances - with largely unforced errors as well. Poor!!!

Thought we also looked tired and lacking in ideas / bravery - and that is party on Ekert - the aribo sub in particular made us worse as had even less out balls, and we stood off Millwall and tried to defend, and in effect we gave them the game to win.

We do have injuries though, and he is a young manager that needs these kind experiences to learn.

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die Mannyschaft

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Fuckin hell how bad are Saints at defending. And without Leo we sit back and it back to Russell Martin ball. 

Got torn apart by millwall how bad is that. We look very slow as a unit.  

Don't put Aribo on again!!

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Osvaldorama

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A few wins followed by a loss away at a good side is still a big improvement. 
 

And I do think we look better than under Still. We were bad, but we weren’t miles off it like we have been. 

I generally feel a lot more positive than I did a couple of weeks ago. 

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die Mannyschaft

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1 minute ago, Osvaldorama said:

A few wins followed by a loss away at a good side is still a big improvement. 
 

And I do think we look better than under Still. We were bad, but we weren’t miles off it like we have been. 

I generally feel a lot more positive than I did a couple of weeks ago. 

We won't pick many points against decent teams only the poor ones like Charlton and Sheffield Wednesday.  

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Convict Colony

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5 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

On retrospect 4 wins and 1 loss aint too bad, this game reminded me more of tonda's first 2 games

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

This reminded me of the QPR away game except we weren't as lucky this time. Aribo sub killed us - a blight on Tondas copybook.

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saintant

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The stats show Millwall were content to let us play a form of Russball which we've not been doing under Eckert. Too much pointless possession and negative passing. Their manager has done his homework and worked out how to stop our fluid play. I guess it's now a question of how Eckert reacts after his first setback and I'm sure he found today a tough lesson.

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stknowle

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Reality check. Didn’t watch just kept checking in on the score and went on the full big dipper of emotions. On balance I was very satisfied with a point at 2-2 and then….😞😞😞.

Osvaldorama

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Just now, die Mannyschaft said:

We won't pick many points against decent teams only the poor ones like Charlton and Sheffield Wednesday.  


Yeah but we aren’t a very good side tbh. 
 

If Scienza stays fit and we bring in a striker in Jan, I think we can make the playoffs. But we won’t be bothering the autos.

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goodymatt

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THB should be keeping that goal out, slicing the clearance into his own net in the last 30 seconds of the game is absolutely gutting.

We were poor and 2nd best for large parts but felt Millwall just didn’t show enough quality in the final third to get the win. We very nearly got away with the bad performance.

Their wonder goal was another first goal for your club coming against Saints, we love to do that.

As I posted before Charlton I do worry about being down to bare bones at CDM. Jander looked very tired and having Downes suspended and Charles injured really lumped the pressure onto him. We had to chuck on Romeu when he’s clearly not ready and the outcome wasn’t favourable. Similarly having no fit RB or RWB makes shutting up shop more of a challenge.

We had a large number of players missing today: Charles, Downes, Downs, Scienza, Archer, Stewart, Roerslev, Jelert, Edozie Notable attacking options to change how we got up the pitch were just not there.

Scienza is our best player, we missed him greatly today. This illness bug has been very annoying.

 

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saintstowin

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I hope Tonda can change how open we are when we don't have the ball. So many crosses, many that could be stopped I think, and we're not good enough to defend them. Invited pressure and couldn't cope. 

Total agreement about Aribo. No way he's first sub (or any sub unless he ups his level). Tough one for OR to come on for. 

And on the ball we just didn't have enough sustained possession in their half. I think we would have won if we did because we did look dangerous at times.

saint michael

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Sad thing is I think today is more the team we are. Last 4 games have been great but has felt at full pelt but we still have the underlying shit mentality and shit defence who think tapping it around at the back is the way to a sound defence. Add that to no ability to manage positions in a game and voila this is what we get and will continue to get. 

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Convict Colony

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Guys aside from 1 gusty night at Elland road 2 years ago romeu has never had wheels so i am surprised people are saying he is slow, he's always been slow, he's a CDM who drops back into CB when 1 moves up.

He is however usually a destroyer so that tackle for their goal was very poor, i'll allow rust as the excuse.

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