| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? 11:24 - Nov 18 with 5606 views | BasingstokeR |
Or did they just play comptentently and we played awful?
Finding it hard to stomach the otherwise good BBC report by Phil McNulty as he's lashing superlatives on Saints, when IMHO we would've lost to almost anyone yesterday playing like that. Norwich excellent yesterday? Almost certainly. Saints excellent? If that's them being excellent they're absolute certs to go down IMHO. |  | | |  |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 23:36 - Nov 18 with 1222 views | Bombay_TV |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 23:23 - Nov 18 by BasingstokeR |
Where'd all these trolls come from? |
Nice avatar sir
Do you know cocklebreath? |  |
| BANJO THE MUTH FU_CKAS FFS. STROLLING AROUND UNCHALLENGED AS USUAL FPS |
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| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 23:43 - Nov 18 with 1212 views | BasingstokeR |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 23:36 - Nov 18 by Bombay_TV |
Nice avatar sir
Do you know cocklebreath? |
Yes, I saw him wearing a Pony Saints jacket in Bedford place once | | | |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 05:50 - Nov 19 with 1175 views | lockseaf77 |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 23:23 - Nov 18 by BasingstokeR |
Where'd all these trolls come from? |
Loftus Road |  | | |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 06:47 - Nov 19 with 1160 views | DesertBoot |
Eleven strangers who had watched a couple of matches on TV, learnt the basics and had an hours practice, would have beaten us.
It was astoundingly easy for them. |  |
| Wish I could be like David Watts |
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| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 08:09 - Nov 19 with 1132 views | St_Guido |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 12:11 - Nov 18 by Neil_SI |
In some places they were excellent, yes.
You have to look at the bigger picture, not just our situation, but theirs too. They were under as much pressure as we were before the match, but do not have the names of experience that we do on paper and they were away from home.
If I was their manager I would have been delighted by the performance. You can only play against what's in front of you and they seized the opportunity when presented, and they did so in a calm and collected manner and with a trust and belief in their philosophy and approach.
That doesn't mean they are an excellent side that will go on and walk themselves up the table, but in this encounter they were the superior team. I thought there was a lot of charm in their display. You could see points where they were a little bit naive or inexperienced, so they made some mistakes where better sides would have punished us even more, but that also shows they've played well and put in an encouraging effort for themselves.
I said in another thread that our core performance was not really all too dissimilar to many of our display's under Mark Hughes, but as you pointed out individuals, that tends to have been the case. One or two individuals were able to put in a performance that carried many other elements or papered over cracks in our overall display. Yesterday we didn't really have anybody in an attacking sense who was able to do that, as Taarabt gave an uncharacteristically all round performance where you saw him coming back and doing some defensive work for the team in order to try and get on the ball and get things going.
I said at the start of the season that my big concern in terms of our preparation was that we never did any work on what happens when we are pressed as a unit (in terms of the type of teams we played in pre-season), and that we would see whether anything had been done on the training ground or whether the players were good enough, and the moment we have been, we've pretty much fallen apart.
The same problem then applies now. If you apply any sort of pressure on our defensive and midfield units, you'll find great success. Southampton for all their tidy football pressed us well and compressed the space that led to us either panicking or just kicking the ball the way we were facing and hoping for the best. |
Well written & fair minded post Sir! You 'd make an excellent footy journo imho. I've aways had a soft spot for QPR, since I spent part of my gap year living in Nottinghill Gate in the mid-70s & visited Loftus Rd quite a few times as the nearest ground. Good luck for the rest of the season (apart from our return fixture of course). |  |
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| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 08:53 - Nov 19 with 1108 views | BasingstokeR |
I think Ricky Lambert looked good, fair play to him rising through the leagues. Jack Porteus Cork also looked tidy and everyone knows Hogan's mate Lallana is a decent lad. Puncheon benefitted from this seasons trend of every ex player we come up against playing well and or scoring against us. Is there anyone else in the future games that's played for us? | | | |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 09:04 - Nov 19 with 1098 views | Neil_SI |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 08:09 - Nov 19 by St_Guido |
Well written & fair minded post Sir! You 'd make an excellent footy journo imho. I've aways had a soft spot for QPR, since I spent part of my gap year living in Nottinghill Gate in the mid-70s & visited Loftus Rd quite a few times as the nearest ground. Good luck for the rest of the season (apart from our return fixture of course). |
Thank you, that's very kind, though our leader of this site is the journalist who deserves all the acclaim for his written work. :)
Good luck for the rest of the season too and I hope you stay up. It was a great win for your lot and I saw how much it meant to some of the supporters who were hugging each other in the street afterwards. We've been there before as well. |  | | |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 09:07 - Nov 19 with 1094 views | St_Guido |
| Did Saints play Excellently yesterday? on 09:04 - Nov 19 by Neil_SI |
Thank you, that's very kind, though our leader of this site is the journalist who deserves all the acclaim for his written work. :)
Good luck for the rest of the season too and I hope you stay up. It was a great win for your lot and I saw how much it meant to some of the supporters who were hugging each other in the street afterwards. We've been there before as well. |
Yup, my elder son was there & had a ball. Sadly I was watching my youngest get stuffed at rugby! | |
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