Saints 1-1 Charlton - Match Thread

[captainchris]

19 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Certainly a disappointing performance from Saints but Jones team had done their homework, sat deep and frustrated all our efforts to penetrate their front line. Kudos to them but it highlighted the lack of creativity in our team and to a certain extent a lack of leadership when the going gets tough. 

Scant pickings for Sienza and Fellows today as they were well marshalled by their fullbacks. Fellows had another poor game irrespectively of the close marking and seems to have lost confidence. IMO it was a mistake to start him over Matsuki who has been performing dynamically in recent matches. The high spot for us was undoubtedly Stewart's well taken header, really classy stuff from the big man.

Their goal was disappointing; awful defending by Stephens and Manning allowed Carey far too much space to pick his spot but Peretz could have and should have done better and will have nightmares after his howler.

Charlton did not deserve a point but Saints showed that they still have much to do to convince that they really are serious candidates for promotion. On this showing they are not.

We can expect a similar pattern of play on Tuesday evening and if we can't come uo with some clever tactics to overcome visitors sitting back in a low block at SMS in the meantime, one fears our season will start to peter out.

Fellows, Azaz and Jander to be fair. I couldn’t believe we brought on Jander rather than Bragg … 

We are playing players who are not affecting games, Fellows in particular is not producing enough all round and needs resting… 

[captainchris]

4 hours ago, saintant said:

Controversial view but I think Cam Bragg is the guy who makes us tick in midfield and should be starting more games. He's good now but would benefit from a run of games. IMO he's the crucial link and the brightest midfielder we have but we're wasting his talents.

100% correct and he should have come on first, not Jander who is not as good as Bragg.

[spyinthesky]

One thing that the team cant be accused of is not trying.

Whilst the result yesterday was disappointing, every one put in a shift.

[Badger]

16 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

One thing that the team cant be accused of is not trying.

Whilst the result yesterday was disappointing, every one put in a shift.

This was noticeable. I’m a miserable old bastard and often come away cursing the bunch of … but we did go for it yesterday, so despite one or two individual moments of “ffs” you accepted the result without criticism (well not too much anyway) of the team or manager.

This was a welcome change from seeing the final 10 minutes ‘chasing’ a winner with the CB’s passing it between themselves for most of it. 

[Badger]

10 hours ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

While Fellows was disappointing he did supply a really good cross to Scienza for the shot blocked on the line early in the game. What happened with the Downes scuffle where he got a yellow card? I didn't really have a clear view.

Have found this, so far the only footage of the Downes incident. 
 

the incident is about 8.40 

[Harry_SFC]

8 hours ago, saintant said:

Controversial view but I think Cam Bragg is the guy who makes us tick in midfield and should be starting more games. He's good now but would benefit from a run of games. IMO he's the crucial link and the brightest midfielder we have but we're wasting his talents.

Who do you start him ahead of though? Downes is playing well again and as the last game and a half has proved, Charles is our best midfielder. 

I suppose he might have a chance soon when Downes gets suspended for 2 games. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Harry_SFC

[Osvaldorama]

1 hour ago, spyinthesky said:

One thing that the team cant be accused of is not trying.

Whilst the result yesterday was disappointing, every one put in a shift.

Yeah, I thought this too…
 

one of the rare times I came away thinking.. ‘fair play to Charlton, they defended extremely well and shithoused it.’ Instead of..’why the fuck didn’t we go for it’

[Nordic Saint]

38 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Yeah, I thought this too…
 

one of the rare times I came away thinking.. ‘fair play to Charlton, they defended extremely well and shithoused it.’ Instead of..’why the fuck didn’t we go for it’

Their goalkeeper was better than ours and they also had a lot of luck. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Nordic Saint