Doncaster 2-3 Saints - Match Thread

[saintant]

Bollocks to the fucking lot of them. They can now get on their private flight and be back to the comfort of their mansions in double quick time. This entire squad and SR just make me want to puke. 3-0 up at half time to fucking Doncaster and they still proceed to almost throw it away. Club is rotten to the core.

[Baird of the land]

Another concerning radically different halves

at the end we looked a non league team trying to cling on against a top flight one.

[trousers]

Just now, Hopper said:

Boruc-esque 😂 

Was just about to post the same... Definite Artur vibes... Jekyll and Hyde... 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, musesaint said:

Not sure how Tonda is going to spin that shite show 

Blah Blah, important thing is we are in the hat for the next round......Great to give some guys on the fringes more minutes......

[Turkish]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

Can we not find a specialist giver of halftime pep talks ?

Maybe Rasmus can do them? 

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

Switched off at half time, how many did we smash them by? 😁

As did the team.

[John Boy Saint]

Is 

Just now, Saint NL said:

All over.

Christ, it's hard work watching these each week.

New keeper is a nutcase.

The rest is the same as every week.

Boruc MKII ?

[imadirtyurchin]

Three things:

1. WTAF is up with our second half performances?

2. Not sure about this new keeper

3. Why the hell do I persist with watching and following every game when it brings me so little joy and entertainment. I think there’s actually something wrong with me.

Edited 19 hours ago by imadirtyurchin

[OttawaSaint]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

Was just about to post the same... Definite Artur vibes... Jekyll and Hyde... 

Dan Peretz is havin' a party!

[Mr X]

Tonda can stay now as we narrowly beat the mighty doncaster 

[scumbag]

Should be sacked, but wont be.  Total circus of a club. Someone lock this knobhead of a manager out of the changing room at Fratton. 

[lambtiss]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Did our new glovesman save us?

Let's put it this way, it was a soft one to save but we all know that Bazuno would have palmed it into the goal.

[obelisk]

New 'keeper made 3 good saves in that game. A bit crazy though but I put that down to jet lag.

[AlexLaw76]

The manager is fucking useless

His in-game management is some of the worst we have seen...absolutely shocking

Good to hear "Sports Republic, get out of our club"

 

[ErwinK1961]

If the new guy is half as good as Boruc, then I’ll snap your hand off.

[lambtiss]

I thought Wellington was an improvement on Manning

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, obelisk said:

New 'keeper made 3 good saves in that game. A bit crazy though but I put that down to jet lag.

Looked as shaky as fuck but is still a massive upgrade on Baz!

[CB Fry]

Is the goalie a nutcase? Sounded like he was charging out quite a lot?

[rooney]

3 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Can we not find a specialist giver of halftime pep talks ?

And a set piece coach

[Pamplemousse]

Ultimately Peretz did his job there at the end.

The defenders once again didn't.

[AlexLaw76]

 

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Maybe Rasmus can do them? 

I suspect he already does either live or via Skype.

[LGTL]

Eckert will comfortably go down as one of our worst ever managers. 

Fratton is going to be an absolute mess with that shambles of a manager and with that shambles of a mentality. 

[Osvaldorama]

Keeper has barely played football for a while, so he’s gonna be rusty. 
 

Made some cracking saves, too. I don’t think we’d have held out with bazunu in goal there 

[Wade Garrett]

Glad we got Eckert and not Solskjaer or Carrick.  Just think how shit that would be.

[saintant]

3 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Dan Peretz is havin' a party!

Never lost a game when he's started.

[Pamplemousse]

Just now, LGTL said:

Eckert will comfortably go down as one of our worst ever managers. 

Fratton is going to be an absolute mess with that shambles of a manager and with that shambles of a mentality. 

I'm just praying that we can replicate what we did to Charlton, at least once more.

[Saint86]

5 minutes ago, scumbag said:

Should be sacked, but wont be.  Total circus of a club. Someone lock this knobhead of a manager out of the changing room at Fratton. 

Feels like SR are naively holding on and things will come to a head at Fratton... We're like a robin reliant stalled on the tracks in the face of a freight train as it stands... we're going to get humbled - this team has no belief, no confidence, and is the most tactically appalling saints side I've watched. I reckon you'd be very hard pushed to find a saints fan feeling optimistic about that game as it stands...

SR could have acted to save the end of the season, so the only assumption any of us could make it that they really are so incompetent as to still being supporting the intern.

Edited 19 hours ago by Saint86

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

He's obviously trying to get a St Mary's ban, must have finally had enough of watching us every week.

[Saint NL]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

Alfie senses something is up, his tweets have been a lot less safe recently

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Tepid second half.

Doncaster increased their tempo, threatened from crosses, and we folded.

We were 3 up without hammering Doncaster. All the easier to slip into the low energy, low determination, low attack zone we spend so many seconds halves in.

Leo coming on probably saved us conceding again, as he kept the ball up the park for a bit.

In the end Peretz had to palm the ball away twice to stop the equaliser. We looked very shaky on set pieces, against a side who had clearly been working on them.

 Into the next round, which is all that matters.

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

Has someone at the club upset Alfie - he seems to be quite scathing recently.

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

I’m liking the new Alfie house 

[bpsaint]

Happy to give Peretz the benefit of the doubt, he’s barely been here 48 hours so can forgive a couple of adrenaline rushes. Couple of decent saves at the end to prevent an equaliser.

That second half though, utter fucking shite. Can only hope one of the two games prior to the derby is bad enough to get Tonda the boot.

[sadoldgit]

We avoided a banana skin, unlike the previous cup winners, and are through to the next round.

Could be worse.

[Osvaldorama]

We are genuinely so bad. 
 

Astonishing really. 
 

We’ve just shown that our level is slightly below a league one relegation side. Looooool

[Miltonaggro]

I think for Rasmus this may be the first perfect Tonda performance. We fucked up first half, it didn’t need breaking, we broke it, then kept working hard to capitulate to shite opposition, then seizing unworthy victory from the jaws of victory. Reckon Rasmus and Johannes might be waiting for Tonda at his studio flat tonight, with some flowers and optrex. 

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Eckert will comfortably go down as one of our worst ever managers. 

Fratton is going to be an absolute mess with that shambles of a manager and with that shambles of a mentality. 

Sadly I can only see it being lambs to the slaughter. Shit themselves in the tunnel like in 2005 and probably be a couple of goals down early as we won’t cope with their intensity 

[sfc4prem]

What was that second half!?! My 5-0 prediction is laughing at me from its 48th-minute grave. 

A terrid performance after Tonda's half-time chat and changes

[saintant]

4 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Eckert will comfortably go down as one of our worst ever managers. 

Fratton is going to be an absolute mess with that shambles of a manager and with that shambles of a mentality. 

To be fair that's a given whoever is our manager.

[SNSUN]

9 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Can we not find a specialist giver of halftime Pep talks ?

He's busy with City

[Saint86]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Alfie senses something is up, his tweets have been a lot less safe recently

Surely he just can't swallow this unacceptable shit that's being served up by SR and Eckert any longer? The entire fanbase needs to turn asap.

[Disco Stu]

Felt very postive after the first 45. Especially with us switching to the back four. I particularly enjoyed the performances of Bragg and Matsuki.

Most of that feeling of  positivity was unfortunately undone with that second half performance. I think Tonda was right to switch shape second half as whatever tweak Doncaster made caused us endless problems. It's still alarming just how stark the difference was when there were no changes of personel after the interval. Complacency perhaps? I just hope the first 10 minutes of that second half doesn't mean that's the last we'll see of a four at the back system. It was clearly working in the first half.

I'm willing to give Peretz the benefit of the doubt given he's not match sharp but it wasn't a great debut. Still, he managed a couple of decent saves. I can understand the Boruc comparison as he seems a bit of a nutter.

Edited 19 hours ago by Disco Stu

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I’m liking the new Alfie house 

I reckon he's got another job lined up.

[disconnect]

8 minutes ago, lambtiss said:

I thought Wellington was an improvement on Manning

I thought he’d always been better than Manning but he clearly isn’t one of the “mates club” which gets him picked every week

[Willo of Whiteley]

12 minutes ago, musesaint said:

Not sure how Tonda is going to spin that shite show 

Excellent win with loads of positive performances.

Peretz was incredible today.

Stewart back on the pitch, you can see why they liken him to Miroslav Klose.

”I played four at the back” and we only just won so what do those pesky Saints fans know.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, Disco Stu said:

I think Tonda was right to switch shape second half as whatever tweak Doncaster made caused us endless problems.

It's the only thing he knew how to do, he had no other answers to negate a League 1 manager.

[SNSUN]

1 minute ago, saintant said:

I reckon he's got another job lined up.

Next Saints manager? 

[Gloucester Saint]

8 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

I like very much this new version of Alfie. He’s had the moustache but getting the RAF directness out in him now. I like his bombs aimed at SR’s dams.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

10 minutes ago, saintant said:

I suspect he already does either live or via Skype.

It would have to be. It can’t be via Teams as Tonda doesn’t understand teams.