Saints vs Swansea - Tuesday 7:45pm

[sockeye]

Onto the next one, luckily we are at home this time against a strong Swansea side. We are lucky that the LND is not fit as they sit at the top of the table undefeated so far this season.

Need to see a response following the pathetic effort against Lincoln, and for these new guys (Dobbin, Mubama) in attack to start kicking on.

It would be great if we could give a Schlott-Abbott pairing a go for this game.

[saintant]

Think this will finish 0-0 followed by a loss at home to Brizzle City who usually seem to have our number.

[Turkish]

FFS you bunch of melts were playing Swansea and Bristol City! Both clubs in our catchment area and we are bigger than they could ever dream of being. Yeah I get it’s their cup final but 9/10 the small guy loses and Watford have already had the 1. Easy wins to the south coast Real Madrid 

[Harry_SFC]

Peretz, Bree, Abbott, Schlotterbeck, Manning, Downes, JWP, Scienza, Azaz, Fellows, Larin. 

I would give Abbott and Schlotterbeck a run of games now and hope they are able to form a solid partnership because I just don't trust Wood or Stephens. Especially the latter. 

[saintant]

53 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Peretz, Bree, Abbott, Schlotterbeck, Manning, Downes, JWP, Scienza, Azaz, Fellows, Larin. 

I would give Abbott and Schlotterbeck a run of games now and hope they are able to form a solid partnership because I just don't trust Wood or Stephens. Especially the latter. 

Agree with this - there's not much to lose other than discovering he's worse than Stephens and Wood but at least we'll find out.

[Patrick Bateman]

Keep Stephens away from the team, tell Scienza to stop fucking falling over and run at his man, get Jander fit. Easy win ... 

[benjii]

7 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

Peretz, Bree, Abbott, Schlotterbeck, Manning, Downes, JWP, Scienza, Azaz, Fellows, Larin. 

I would give Abbott and Schlotterbeck a run of games now and hope they are able to form a solid partnership because I just don't trust Wood or Stephens. Especially the latter. 

Agree with this, although Matsuki over Fellows.

[Baird of the land]

Hopefully after their strong start they’ll come onto us like Millwall, which will help us break them down despite our horribly limited midfield.

 

[BarberSaint]

6 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Keep Stephens away from the team, tell Scienza to stop fucking falling over and run at his man, get Jander fit. Easy win ... 

Tongue in cheek, I hope.

If we're not at our best they'll beat us. 

And Jander - even if fit - will play his first game in months.

[Pilchards]

Around 60 minutes hook off Larin, Scienza, Downes and whoever else is playing really well as we need to save them for Bristol City.

According to the coaching team the next game is more important than the current one.

[Football Special]

10 minutes ago, Pilchards said:

Around 60 minutes hook off Larin, Scienza, Downes and whoever else is playing really well as we need to save them for Bristol City.

According to the coaching team the next game is more important than the current one.

That's accurate, especially as Bristol City have had their midweek game vs Lincoln postponed (Lincoln involved in Carabao cup) so our analysts will fear Bristol's fresher legs 

Snoop Dog's Swansea look very good so far, only 1 goal conceded in 5 league games , last seasons top scorer Vitopnik now back and available , from what ive seen they are opposite of Lincoln's style, good passing football on the floor so perhaps a better style for us to play against. 

Prediction: 0-0 

 

[Football Special]

P.S. are they still trying to sue us for poaching Russell Martin? 

[Toadhall Saint]

Draw at very best esp if we play like we did in the second half vs Lincoln.

[Obstacle1]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

P.S. are they still trying to sue us for poaching Russell Martin? 

They dropped the case and now we're countersuing them for letting us have him

[beatlesaint]

1 hour ago, Pilchards said:

Around 60 minutes hook off Larin, Scienza, Downes and whoever else is playing really well as we need to save them for Bristol City.

According to the coaching team the next game is more important than the current one.

Unfortunately this is the trap that Tonda has fallen into, he's not the only manager to do it, but they hide behind "data" saying Player A was getting fatigued etc. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

17 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

Unfortunately this is the trap that Tonda has fallen into, he's not the only manager to do it, but they hide behind "data" saying Player A was getting fatigued etc. 

Training and physical conditioning needs to improve then you'd have thought.

Maybe something is lacking at club level for this.

[beatlesaint]

Just as an aside anyone coming from the west of Southampton remember the main A31 through the New Forest is closed overnight so its a lovely trip through Lyndhurst and Christchurch on the way home !

Edited 2 hours ago by beatlesaint

[Football Special]

33 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

Just as an aside anyone coming from the west of Southampton remember the main A31 through the New Forest is closed overnight so its a lovely trip through Lymington and Christchurch on the way home !

Do you mean Lyndhurst and Christchurch? Won't be too bad on a35 that time of night, a mate of mine drives from Dorset and planning to park at Brockenhurst and get train in which also seems a good option 

[Pamplemousse]

We seem to be quite good at home (in the league) so I'll go for a routine 3-1 victory

[beatlesaint]

52 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Do you mean Lyndhurst and Christchurch? Won't be too bad on a35 that time of night, a mate of mine drives from Dorset and planning to park at Brockenhurst and get train in which also seems a good option 

I do yes, old age moment, i'll change it 🙂

 

[die Mannyschaft]

Draw 1-1. Based on last two games, think tactics will revert to sit back as much as possible and wast as much time holding the ball. Larin to score. 

[SouthWalesSaints]

Good ticket sales, only 1000-1500 left. 
 

Need a top atmosphere and hopefully a good home week of 6 points puts us right in the mix. 
 

Watching wolves struggle at Birmingham has cheered me up, no one other than West Ham are ahead of us in terms of quality. 
 

Hope TE can get us going.