Millwall 3-2 Saints - Match Thread

[derry]

Aribo was abysmal. Slow, not committed and going through the motions. Personally I've never liked Aribo because he is so embarrassingly left footed he can only turn one way, that together with his lack of pace and mobility it astounds me that we are paying him over £3.5m a year. He should be shelved now and got rid of in January even if a contribution is required to transfer him. His performance hurt us yesterday If Tonda thinks otherwise he is deluded. Enough to cast serious doubts regarding his promotion. Yesterday's result was unfortunate. Personally Stephen's went missing at the last goal, Manning's poor positioning facing the wrong way contributed. That goal spoilt an otherwise decent result in the circumstances. 

[Tamesaint]

3 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

Robinson was perfectly fine yesterday. Don’t fall into the weird Jo Tessem trap. Blaming him for things that simply weren’t his fault yesterday, it was really odd. 

Also, talk of experience again, just a reminder that we got worse yesterday when our two least experienced players went off and we bought tons of experience on. 

We needed the experience in the first half to calm down the crowd and take control of the game. The atmosphere was hostile and our midfield of Robinson (18 years old), Bragg (20) and Jander (22) was young and inexperienced. We would have benefited from Fraser's nous.  Certainly bring on some young legs to run at the tiring defence towards the end but expecting them to take control of the game was in retrospect asking too much. 

[Fabrice29]

6 minutes ago, Tamesaint said:

We needed the experience in the first half to calm down the crowd and take control of the game. The atmosphere was hostile and our midfield of Robinson (18 years old), Bragg (20) and Jander (22) was young and inexperienced. We would have benefited from Fraser's nous.  Certainly bring on some young legs to run at the tiring defence towards the end but expecting them to take control of the game was in retrospect asking too much. 

Hostile atmosphere ffs 🤣 We went 1-0 up in the second half btw. We weren’t playing well but our young and inexperienced guys had managed us through the majority of the game just fine. 
 

It wasn’t inexperience that shit the bed in a tackle despite everyone saying what a hard man he is in the final moment of the game. Nor inexperience failing to challenge at the back post from the following cross or an inexperienced goalkeeper that couldn’t block a fairly tame header. 

Edited 32 minutes ago by Fabrice29

[Badger]

22 minutes ago, Fabrice29 said:

 Nor inexperience failing to challenge at the back post from the following cross or an inexperienced goalkeeper that couldn’t block a fairly tame header. 

Some good points.

Can’t disagree on the last point either. Our Gk is very experienced in not blocking fairly tame headers (and shots).