Norwich 2-1 Saints - Match Thread

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, madge said:

Tonda has not showed any tactical ability in play… that is a worry. Seems welded to this 3 at the back

As he has been instructed to do. This is why we didn't go for an experienced manager - can't have someone with their own ideas.

Edited yesterday at 14:26 by badgerx16

[Saint NL]

Comfortable for Norwich. We should be pushing for an equaliser, but nothing....

[Sunglasses Ron]

Massive setback and reality check this. Piss poor.

[OttawaSaint]

Crowd love a good cheated win.

[sockeye]

Out of ideas

 

[Miltonaggro]

Just now, obelisk said:

Norwich camped deep in Saints half easily seeing the game out. There's a lesson for Eckert.

Likely to have a complete syllabus by May.

[Saint_Jonny]

Absolute joke of a second half. Dog shit. What was the tactic, bore Norwich to death? 

[Sheaf Saint]

Commentator: "Talk about game management. Norwich have got this spot on".

That's a huge concern, because we have none whatsoever.

[Midfield_General]

Tonda somehow manages to deliver a performance that was like the lovechild of the worst of Still and the worst of Martin. 

At the back, Martin's awful, pointless, tippy tappy shit inviting pressure and creating panic, and going forward, Still's low-energy, clueless, patternless, pointless floaty high balls for big central defenders to calmly nod away from our sea of midgets. 

Absolutely putrid. 

Edited yesterday at 14:30 by Midfield_General

[SNSUN]

Score the penalty and this is a different story... but it's not. Hey ho. We go again.

[Saint NL]

High balls up to Archer and Armstrong. Great stuff.....

[Osvaldorama]

Why are we so bad in the second half of games?

[Lee On Solent Saint]

We aren't getting anywhere near top six with Eckret in charge 

[obelisk]

There's no way this lot are getting promoted. Playoffs a long way off too.

[saint michael]

Very similar to Milwall game. They found us out early 

[beatlesaint]

No urgency whatsoever last 20 mins, that’s appalling 

[Turkish]

Absolutely shit today 

[tdmickey3]

1 minute ago, madge said:

Tonda has not showed any tactical ability in play… that is a worry. Seems welded to this 3 at the back

He doesn't really have any, if you take the rose tinted glasses off

[Sheaf Saint]

We've managed ONE touch in the Norwich box since they scored their second goal.

Maybe we should get some more defenders on.

[benjii]

2 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Not a sniff the whole of this 7 minutes.

Bottlers!

Not a sniff the whole half.

[OttawaSaint]

God it's tough supporting Saints.

[AlexLaw76]

New manager bounce well and truly over

this was like peak Will Still

3 at the back mess

[scumbag]

It's all fine...he's 'learning'. Just with the first team now.

All perfectly rational in an SR world.

[Osvaldorama]

Tbf, should be a point away from home if the ref had eyes. 

[Saint86]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

To be fair, Norwich have played much better football under their new manager ergo they're probably in a false position right now (a bit like us a a couple of months ago)

They've completely outplayed us. There is no "to be fair" about it. And without their best player and top scorer.

[Lighthouse]

You just know if we were 2-1 up with seven minutes of injury time, we’d be defending four consecutive corners. Saints? Nope, let’s turn back inside and find a pass to a CB, then misplace it straight to a Norwich player.

[Saint Fan CaM]

4 minutes ago, HarvSFC said:

The Romeu return is going the same way as Walcott and Lallana isn't it.

Yep. A warning for anyone thinking it would be a good idea to bring JWP back.

[Saint Billy]

What a pile of IBS.

[Saint NL]

We've been crap after the 10th minute. We'll get smashed against Coventry playing like that

[Lee On Solent Saint]

We have this absolutely incredible ability to make fuckin shit teams look fuckin amazing. 

[HKsaint]

Norwich is just a relegation team

[Morse]

Clearly its been a false dawn. Same shit defenders making the same shit mistakes and a manager unable to change things mid game. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Terrible today. Several players had off days. Not good enough 

[davefizzy14]

There was hardly any urgency in the last ten minutes from us. Really dissapointing 

[stknowle]

Yeah that was yet another shite second half. We need a fucking plan B. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Sorry Tonda but that was a tactical clusterfuck on your part.

Please, please, please, for the love of fucking Christ, can we PLEASE ditch this fucking ridiculous defensive formation?

[James]

Just now, Saint86 said:

They've completely outplayed us. There is no "to be fair" about it. And without their best player and top scorer.

And yet the only reason they won is by handballing it into the net…

[NewYorkSaint]

So frustrating.   On another day the first half ends with us 2-0 up and Darling off the pitch. It was shocking what he did to Leo...   But we really failed to respond second half. Big big disappointment.  We can't have this depend on having our perfect starting team avail....

[Lord Duckhunter]

1 minute ago, OttawaSaint said:

Crowd love a good cheated win.

Don’t talk pony man. They throughly deserved the win. Before you start about a handball, the disallowed one was soft as shite. 

[Jack]

12 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

We have been comfortably 2nd best today.

we have just 2 ways of starting a meaningful attack.

pass it about and hope THB finds a midfielder in space, or hope Leo provides some individual magic.

Trouble is, teams are now shutting down the middle of the park.

Yep. We need to work on another system and try to dominate the midfield more. 90% of our possession today was fucking about at the back and we just jet putting ourselves in the shit

[obelisk]

Norwich seemed much more interested in winning the game. Saints were much more interested in clocking up passes in their own half.

[Jimmy_D]

Got unlucky with not taking at least a 2-0 lead in first half.

Level dropped just enough the second half for that absolute **** of a ref to gift them a win.

[Baird of the land]

Team has zero clue what to do once they go behind.

even the couple of times in the last 15 when we did play it forward, no saints players could be bothered getting into opposition half to compete for the second ball.

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

New manager bounce well and truly over

this was like peak Will Still

3 at the back mess

It was. It was an absolute mess at the back, outrun in midfield and no threat at all second half. The amount of time they had to put crosses in beggared belief. 

[badgerx16]

Just now, Lee On Solent Saint said:

We have this absolutely incredible ability to make fuckin shit teams look fuckin amazing. 

Because we aren't as good as we think we are.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Romeu loves Saints.

I love Romeu.

But, I don't think he's what we need on the pitch anymore, unfortunately.

[IronCitySaint]

It is tough when you have to score three goals in any game to have a chance of winning. Oh, well, the players got the manager they wanted so there is no need to try anymore. New manager, same typical Sport Republic performance. 

[saintstowin]

Fully deserved defeat. Any missed pen and wrong goal discussion will simply detract from looking properly at how bad that was and what to do about it. Awful, awful performance.

[James]

Just now, Lord Duckhunter said:

Don’t talk pony man. They throughly deserved the win. Before you start about a handball, the disallowed one was soft as shite. 

It was both a foul and a handball. Deserved or not they got a huge assist from the ref today. 

[Saint Fan CaM]

1 minute ago, Osvaldorama said:

Tbf, should be a point away from home if the ref had eyes. 

Easy to say when you’ve got a zoom lens and slow motion. That goal is down to weak defending and a chicken-shit goalkeeper.