Saints 0-0 Millwall - Match Thread

[trousers]

4 hours ago, Fitzhugh Fella said:

I find his post match comments insulting and patronising.

Having endured the game at Oxford and yesterday it is utter tedious garbage and yet he tells me it's all OK?

After the draw at St Andrews he said if we pick up 3 points v Millwall it would have been a good point. After the game today he said if we win at Middlesborough then the point v Millwall there would be positives from the game. It's basically AI generated surely?

 

3 hours ago, Appy said:

Exactly, Will Still was crap but at least he said when it wasn’t good enough, we’re just being gaslit by SR’s yes man. 

 

8 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Exactly this, I know a lot of people didn't rate Will Still but he at least was straight talking - he told it how it was, if it was shit he'd say it was in certain words. I always thought Still saw the same game as me and the supporters, he just wasn't able to change it unfortunately. 

Now with Tonda, he's doing the thing I hate most in any manager. Trying to create an illusion of positively by frankly lying to the supporters faces. No one can get behind someone who sees an entirely different game than the one we've paid to watch. He said it was a good performance yesterday and that there were lots of positives - major, major alarm bells from that. He doesn't see what we see, which means nothing is going to change.

He's probably fooling himself by thinking we're dominant because THB, Stephens and Wood pass it between each other for 70 mins, but we can all see through that bullshit.

Yep... The very same arrogance and/or disregard for fan opinion that made Martin such an unlikeable manager in the PL. It's a slippery slope... 

[Cabrone]

I don't know what's happened, back in November the clouds seem to have finally lifted and the team was playing fast attacking football with huge success, we looked odds on for playoffs and even a tilt at top 2. Now they have gone back to stodge ball.

Some people on here are saying it's SR but if it is then why were they happy to allow the November form to continue? As incompetent as I think they are I don't think it's them - they want us to win like anyone else.

Looks to me like a combination of a manager that has lost his balls and a bunch of players who are comfortable playing under performing  stodge ball.

4-4-2 please and show some fight!

I'd rather lose playing attacking football that dying of Russball boredom.

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, Cabrone said:

I don't know what's happened, back in November the clouds seem to have finally lifted and the team was playing fast attacking football with huge success, we looked odds on for playoffs and even a tilt at top 2. Now they have gone back to stodge ball.

Some people on here are saying it's SR but if it is then why were they happy to allow the November form to continue? As incompetent as I think they are I don't think it's them - they want us to win like anyone else.

Looks to me like a combination of a manager that has lost his balls and a bunch of players who are comfortable playing under performing  stodge ball.

4-4-2 please and show some fight!

I'd rather lose playing attacking football that dying of Russball boredom.

It is obvious that teams are now pressing is in a way that stops us playing. It is fairly straightforward 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

18 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

It is obvious that teams are now pressing is in a way that stops us playing. It is fairly straightforward 

And we have a manager who has no idea how to counter this. One way of playing and that's it.

[BARCELONASAINT]

I'm sure as youngsters many of us had it drilled into us by managers we played for at kids, youth and senior level that the best form of defence is to attack and that is certainly how i grew up playing the game. I just don't understand this horrible crab like football that barely gets beyond the halfway line because we are so slow to release the ball to our wingers and attacking minded players.

If this is what the modern game has become then you can bloody well keep it Saints but you are going to lose many fans if you persist in playing this shit. I now find myself changing channels to watch the darts or something else that is just more entertaining!