1st Half

[AlexLaw76]

What is it this season with being very average in so many first 45 mins?

It is killing us....we have been lucky that the club can field better players than most, but next season will be a rude awakening if something does not fundamentally change.

[tdmickey3]

💩 

[Patrick Bateman]

10 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What is it this season with being very average in so many first 45 mins?

It is killing us....we have been lucky that the club can field better players than most, but next season will be a rude awakening if something does not fundamentally change.

1st half is clearly the spying mission before the right tactics are used for the 2nd half ... right? 😂

[CanadaSaint]

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that our shittiest first halves seem to come against the “weaker” teams. The chess we always try to play in midfield doesn’t work so well against teams who lack our skill but bring all-out effort. I’m not sure it’ll change until our transition speeds up - a lot.

[RedArmy]

Two dogshit first half’s this week have cost us top spot. 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Away from home we show teams too much respect. If we want automatic promotion, you go to these shite teams and you impose your game on them. We allow them to get a foothold in games, bring the crowd into play. If we started away games like we did against West Ham we would be much better off. 

[beatlesaint]

After winning a couple of away games I honestly thought our early season away form was down in some way to the uncertainty surrounding Tonda’s future over Spygate and when that was decided it was like throwing the shackles off.

Then came the last two away games or to be more precise those first half performances 😔

[LoyalSaintSO50]

Got nothing right from kick off for about half hour or so. If you watched the first half at West Brom and first half today as a neutral you’d be thinking what a pile of shite

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, CanadaSaint said:

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that our shittiest first halves seem to come against the “weaker” teams. The chess we always try to play in midfield doesn’t work so well against teams who lack our skill but bring all-out effort. I’m not sure it’ll change until our transition speeds up - a lot.

Get the players fitter and you’ll see quicker starts. They’re having to start with Russball because they’re seemingly only 75-80% of where they should be fitness-wise. In most games there’s a 20-25 minute spell where we score and then do enough to win comfortably but today the goal didn’t happen and PNE actually looked more likely to score in injury time than we did which was another tell on poor fitness. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[stknowle]

11 minutes ago, LoyalSaintSO50 said:

 If you watched the first half at West Brom and first half today as a neutral you’d be thinking what a pile of shite

I watched both first halves as a Saints fan and thought what a pile of shite.

Edited 3 hours ago by stknowle