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Playing style
at 19:24 24 Sep 2023

our current team appears to be a picture made up from the remnants of four different jigsaw pictures:-
1)Ralph's high press that resulted in tiring us out before the opposition achieving most points lost from a winning position.
2)Jones' lump it up the park but by the time we got players who were ok with this in, he was out.
3) Selles' defensive obsession which resulted in conceding, not scoring and losing. Some say it was possessive but the only thing we kept hold of during his time was a relegation spot.
4) Wusty's possession which other than the first couple of games, seems to be about us giving possession to opponents.

I'm just wondering whether we could pull it all together and create a hybrid of playing defensively when the opposition have the ball in our half, press when they have it in their half, keep hold of the ball whilst going forward and then maybe lump it forward on occasions if playing through the opponent is difficult or to clear the ball from our penalty area when we're being pressed? in other words, mix it up a bit? Just a thought like.......

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Reasons to be cheerful
at 11:20 10 May 2023

Amidst all the gloom, doom and despondency, there are some positives from this season:-
1. We didn't concede 9 goals
2. or 8 goals, in fact, we didn't concede 7 but Man Utd did.
3. or 6 but Man Utd did.
4. We were one of ten sides not to concede more than 4 in a match. Forest, Bournemouth, Leicester, Leeds, Wolves, Brentford, Brighton, Spurs, West Ham, Man U. all have.
5. Our man JWP got closer to breaking Beckham's free kick goal record
6. SFC one of only three teams not to lose to Arsenal, City and Newcastle being the others.
7. Did the double on Chelsea and Leicester
8. Unlike the last time we were relegated, we haven't had United fans singing, "We'll be back to send you down...."
9. Unlike most relegated sides, we have a number of high value players we can build around next season or that can provide funds for a rebuild.
10. Despite all the angry, frustrated and cynical voices, we'll all still be Saints fans next season.

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