Saints 1-1 Coventry - Match Thread

[Turkish]

Fucking Manning plays it straight back into trouble fucking idiot and they score straight away 

[obelisk]

Easy cross into the box. Header. 0-1.

[LGTL]

Wellington and particularly Manning have been absolutely diabolical. 

[BotleySaint]

Inevitable just before half time. 

Defending all over the place. Largely Mannings fault.

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

Down goes the stream. Bastards.

Back up just in time to see Coventry score. Piss off.

[SouSaint]

Stop the fucking crosses you useless cunts. Every fucking game. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Manning is having a mare even by his standards.

Oh fuck.

[Edmonton Saint]

Absolutely shocking by Manning.

[AlexLaw76]

Another cross

another goal

[obelisk]

All comes from Manning panicking and giving it away when he had plenty of time.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

What the fuck, Manning half way up the pitch when that cross came in

 

[saint michael]

and there you fucking go

[Saint NL]

Free header. 

Is anyone surprised?

[Mr X]

FFS could see that coming all day long! 

[saintant]

That's all on Manning. Instead of smashing it into row Z he tries to keep it in play and gives it back to them. We played a back four for ten minutes and got on top so why did we then revert to a back five since when they have had all the ball. Madness. Play a back four!!!!!

[SNSUN]

Watching this on and off (working) and some of our play has been horrifying. Manning there just before the goal just smashed it back to their players. Awful. Defence with no header either. That was a simple goal for them.

[AlexLaw76]

We have to try and play another way.

Tonda well and truly found out

[RedArmy]

Get Fellows on ffs. 

[Saint_clark]

Manning just watches the fullback wander into his area to pick up the loose ball. Him and Downes spend so much time watching the play with no awareness of what's going on. 

[Mr X]

We literally gave them all time and chances in the world there! 

[UpweySaint]

Poor defending. An even game so far and we’ve made that too easy for them. Time for our first good second half under Tonda?!

[BotleySaint]

Wellington had his man at the back post. Three defenders ball watching in the middle.

[adrian lord]

Oh no. This game is likely to give us a true sense of where we are in terms of development under this manager.  

[Harry_SFC]

Manning 😂 bloke is utter shit 

[kitch]

Manning is dreadful!

[Ed Rooney]

Absolute mong fans singing manning again, same mongs who sang about Mara 

another cross from manning side 

Fuckin manning again ole ole 

[Themotherfunky]

Makes you wonder what they're doing in training all week, defending wise. How many have we conceded from crosses? Same old fucking story.

[badgerx16]

3 CBs allow yet another free header. What is the fucking point ?

[LGTL]

It’s so obvious yet some complete spastics before the game were defending this back line. Fucking shambles as predicted by anyone who knows. 

[Zorba]

That’s it then, another lacklustre second half coming up.. ffs!

[Sheaf Saint]

Just watch Manning jogging around marking nobody in the build up to that.

He's just so utterly fucking shit it's quite unbelievable.

[Saint NL]

I hate Manning, first he gifts the ball back to Coventry and then he's no where near the guy crossing the ball.

[imadirtyurchin]

This is only going one way at the moment. Once again we don’t stop the cross. Again 

[Ed Rooney]

Just now, kitch said:

Manning is dreadful!

One of the worst left backs we have had 

[JohnS]

Piss poor defensively as usual

Another cross & we seem to all freeze

 

[kjurwi]

Manning just leaves his man. 

That man crosses in to the goal.

[Gloucester Saint]

Terrible from Manning, this is like a collage of the worst bits of early Benali defensively but who is picking the free striker up six yards out? No pressure whatsoever on the cross coming in, just pick your spot. And again nearly, between a cross and a shot that time.

Pathetic. Three centre backs and their striker gets a free header six yards out. Dopey cunts. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Hawkswood]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Fucking Manning plays it straight back into trouble fucking idiot and they score straight away 

Not just that, he was ball watching when the ball came back into the area where he should have been and the winger could just pick out his cross with no pressure 

[Mr X]

Just now, UpweySaint said:

Poor defending. An even game so far and we’ve made that too easy for them. Time for our first good second half under Tonda?!

He doesn't know what to do in the second half of games especially when we are trailing we have been found out and teams know exactly what to do against us! 

[StrangelyBrown]

Manning is absolutely shit - what on earth was he doing to stop the cross that led to the goal.

Wellington is no better - miserable excuse for a footballer.

[SNSUN]

We have to win the second half. Should be fun.

[Maggie May]

Hopefully there’s an alternative we can turn to manager-wise, hence only the 18 month deal for Tonda.  We’re going to slide down the table soon. 

[BotleySaint]

Good run Scienza. Not quite the finish. 

Unless we can stop giving them corners and crosses we're done for.

[AlexLaw76]

HT

wE simply cannot keep playing this way,  no midfield and relying on individual brilliance.

Tonda well and truly found out

Edited 9 hours ago by AlexLaw76

[Obstacle1]

Are any of our defenders good? 

[badgerx16]

Just now, SNSUN said:

We have to win the second half. Should be fun.

Fun isn't the word.

[goodymatt]

Scienza losing his footing after taking them all on, he was complaining to the officials as he left the pitch that he was fouled.

We've had the big chances despite their possession in our third. Annoying to be losing and so avoidable after Manning panicked.

[SNSUN]

1 minute ago, StrangelyBrown said:

Manning is absolutely shit - what on earth was he doing to stop the cross that led to the goal.

Wellington is no better - miserable excuse for a footballer.

At least you can say Welington is playing out of position. That's on Tonda. Manning has been playing LB/LWB for years and he is currently the best we have. We're miles away from the Prem.

[obelisk]

Can't keep a clean sheet again but we've seen that the Coventry defence is vulnerable if Saints can ever bother to attack.

[saintant]

Take off a defender, play a fucking back four and bring on Fellows and we might get something from this game. keep the back five and it's over now.