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Saints Fans Set New Record Time To Decide Scapegoat
at 13:57:32

It's pretty hard to retain possession when the game plan was to clip it long into Pelle when we couldn't find a way to penetrate a very compact WBA side. Considering how isolated Pelle was every time he received the ball, which was put into him at head height or chest height more or less every time, I think he did well; when he did win flick ons or held the ball up who was there to support him? Tadic and Davis/Prowsey were hugging the touchline and a lack-lustre Schneiderlin was playing with a cigar in his mouth, not bothering to get involved with any combination play in the final third. He is trying to bring players into play by holding the ball up, but it is the system with which we are playing that is failing him, not the other way round. When did we revert back to clipping it long into a striker like we used to when we were a very unimaginative championship (Pre-Adkins) side? Perhaps if we gave the ball into his feet, or played someone in the number 10 roll to support him in and around the 18 yard area and winning flick ons we would see Pelle's full ability, and people would stop displacing their frustrations about a very rigid system - with no apparent Plan B - onto a new signing still learning the ropes of a new league in a new country.

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