Man City vs Saints - Saturday 5.15pm

[saintant]

Downes suspended for 3 games. Massive miss for this game and the two remaining league games. Bollox!

[OldNick]

Well the players have to 'Do it for Flynn and Ryan'

Interesting no retrospective for Gabriel 

Edited 3 hours ago by OldNick

[bender]

At least he'll be back for the play offs.  For me, the last 2 league games are only about whether we finish 4th or 5th.  In other words, do we play Boro away or home first

[Baird of the land]

Has anyone got the video of the incident. Curious as i don't remember thinking there was anything too bad in the original challenge to be worthy of a retrospective red card.

 

[saintant]

Team without Downes

Peretz

Bree Stephens/Wood THB Wellington

Jander Bragg

Matsuki Azaz Scienza

Larin

[Saint_clark]

16 minutes ago, saintant said:

Downes suspended for 3 games. Massive miss for this game and the two remaining league games. Bollox!

You're fucking kidding me? As someone else has said, nothing for Gabriel who went for a headbutt but Flynn grabbing someone by the shirt and wrestling with them a little deserves a three match ban. 

[beatlesaint]

3 minutes ago, saintant said:

Team without Downes

Peretz

Bree Stephens/Wood THB Wellington

Jander Bragg

Matsuki Azaz Scienza

Larin

I think he'll play Charles or Bragg.

Fellows will start and I think Stewart will as well.

[23rdSaint]

3 minutes ago, saintant said:

Team without Downes

Peretz

Bree Stephens/Wood THB Wellington

Jander Bragg

Matsuki Azaz Scienza

Larin

Fellows and Stewart over Matsuki and Larin. I imagine we'll be looking to play out wide and relying on THB's long pings to Fellows. 

[Football Special]

3 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

You're fucking kidding me? As someone else has said, nothing for Gabriel who went for a headbutt but Flynn grabbing someone by the shirt and wrestling with them a little deserves a three match ban. 

Corruption 

[23rdSaint]

2 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

You're fucking kidding me? As someone else has said, nothing for Gabriel who went for a headbutt but Flynn grabbing someone by the shirt and wrestling with them a little deserves a three match ban. 

Leading with elbow, not handbags

[saintant]

11 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

Has anyone got the video of the incident. Curious as i don't remember thinking there was anything too bad in the original challenge to be worthy of a retrospective red card.

 

It's on the Flynn Downes thread.

[Saint_clark]

5 minutes ago, 23rdSaint said:

Leading with elbow, not handbags

Yeah I obviously missed that watching the game live, only saw the afters. Still though seems corrupt as fuck to ban him for something unintentional but not Gabriel who clearly intended to headbutt Haaland.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

Yeah I obviously missed that watching the game live, only saw the afters. Still though seems corrupt as fuck to ban him for something unintentional but not Gabriel who clearly intended to headbutt Haaland.

They obviously decided it was intentional otherwise he wouldn't have been charged and banned.

[EssEffCee]

5 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Yeah I obviously missed that watching the game live, only saw the afters. Still though seems corrupt as fuck to ban him for something unintentional but not Gabriel who clearly intended to headbutt Haaland.

Isn't there some archaic rule that they can only punish after the fact if the ref didn't see it? Presumably the ref didn't include it in his match report.

[Lighthouse]

4 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Yeah I obviously missed that watching the game live, only saw the afters. Still though seems corrupt as fuck to ban him for something unintentional but not Gabriel who clearly intended to headbutt Haaland.

The difference being that Gabriel was booked as the referee saw the incident at the time and acted accordingly. A yellow was very lenient but that’s what he gave. Downes elbow was clearly not seen at the time, which is why he has a retrospective ban.

It doesn’t seem fair on the face of it but them’s the rules.

[BARCELONASAINT]

so no Manning, no Downes and Captain Jack 50/50 at best. The thought of Nathan Wood against City terrifies me!

[RedArmy]

We beat Arsenal without him….

[SNSUN]

Ticket acquired, Boxpark Ticket acquired, route in sorted, now just need to decide what to wear seeing as I only have home kits and nothing yellow in my wardrobe! I my be travelling alone but I'm getting excited for this one. Yes we'll probably not win but I'm going to make the most of the atmosphere and hey, if we do miraculously win I will be cancelling my Sunday plans with the family to go sodding mental.

Now to go out and buy something yellow...

[saintant]

32 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

so no Manning, no Downes and Captain Jack 50/50 at best. The thought of Nathan Wood against City terrifies me!

Me too.

[beatlesaint]

25 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

We beat Arsenal without him….

While Downes missing is a major blow the one consolation is it is the position where we have the best options as cover with 2 out of Jander, Charles and Bragg to start. Hell you could even throw Romeu in as cover for the cover 😂 

[macca155]

57 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

The difference being that Gabriel was booked as the referee saw the incident at the time and acted accordingly. A yellow was very lenient but that’s what he gave. Downes elbow was clearly not seen at the time, which is why he has a retrospective ban.

It doesn’t seem fair on the face of it but them’s the rules.

Downes has been cruising for this for a while. He needs to learn some self control. That was a red every day, the yellow was very lenient.

3 games that don't matter that much, shame for him but he'll be fit for the play offs, which are the key games.

Jander, Bragg, and Charles can cover defensive midfield duties and errr Romeu.

[SNSUN]

Just now, beatlesaint said:

While Downes missing is a major blow the one consolation is it is the position where we have the best options as cover with 2 out of Jander, Charles and Bragg to start. Hell you could even throw Romeu in as cover for the cover 😂 

I was going to post this but you beat me to it. Had we lost Peretz it would have been way worse. Maybe even Breezy or Leo. Even Welington is decent cover for Manning. 

[trousers]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

so no Manning, no Downes and Captain Jack 50/50 at best. The thought of Nathan Wood against City terrifies me!

I know that having not played for ages counts against him, but would Quarshie be a better match-up vs Haaland? 

Edited 1 hour ago by trousers

[saintant]

3 minutes ago, trousers said:

I know that having not played for ages counts against him, but would Quarshie be a better match-up vs Haaland? 

I get where you're coming from but I can't see Tonda selecting Quarshie with no recent games under his belt.

[trousers]

1 hour ago, saintant said:

They obviously decided it was intentional otherwise he wouldn't have been charged and banned.

Tonda was adamant in today's press conference that it wasn't intentional. I imagine we'd have appealed the decision if it was earlier in the season, but I guess we feared the impact of the "we know better than you" geniuses at the FA doubling-down on their decision would have on the play-offs. Maybe the first sign we've had that the club consider promotion more important than winning the cup...?

[trousers]

4 minutes ago, saintant said:

I get where you're coming from but I can't see Tonda selecting Quarshie with no recent games under his belt.

Yep, likewise. He hasn't even been on the bench of late, has he? (Which maybe seems a tad odd in itself, given Tonda has been extolling the virtues of squad rotation in recent times)

Edited 1 hour ago by trousers

[Ken Tone]

1 hour ago, SNSUN said:

Ticket acquired, Boxpark Ticket acquired, route in sorted, now just need to decide what to wear seeing as I only have home kits and nothing yellow in my wardrobe! I my be travelling alone but I'm getting excited for this one. Yes we'll probably not win but I'm going to make the most of the atmosphere and hey, if we do miraculously win I will be cancelling my Sunday plans with the family to go sodding mental.

Now to go out and buy something yellow...

Body paint?  😉

[suewhistle]

5 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Imagine if we had to face them with Baz in goal! 😬

The answer is no! I'm not going to imagine any such thing.

Still no! 

[Dark Munster]

5 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Thankfully we've now got a keeper who is capable of MOTM performances as well.

Imagine if we had to face them with Baz in goal! 😬

We wouldn’t have got to the semi final if Baz was in goal!

[saintant]

57 minutes ago, trousers said:

Tonda was adamant in today's press conference that it wasn't intentional. I imagine we'd have appealed the decision if it was earlier in the season, but I guess we feared the impact of the "we know better than you" geniuses at the FA doubling-down on their decision would have on the play-offs. Maybe the first sign we've had that the club consider promotion more important than winning the cup...?

Can't seem to find the press conference. Where did you see it?

[saintant]

1 minute ago, saintant said:

Can't seem to find the press conference. Where did you see it?

Found it on official website 🙂

[bender]

Just bought myself 2 x £90 tickets.  Selling my original 2 x £32.50 tickets