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Reply | Southampton V Ipswich Town The Preview
at 18:24 20 Sep 2024
Well we need to win. Another loss would be so damaging. Every 'expert' and pundit predicts us to lose every week unless we change our approach and so far, they've been right.
So tomorrow RM needs to show one of two things.
Either he sticks to his plan, it works, we win, and we start to look like we know what we're doing. Or...
He changes style and we find a new resilience and different way to be effective.
Lose again with 70% possession and 5 shots and the pressure will be ramped up by some considerable margin. |
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Reply | Potential good news re Tyler Dibling
at 11:51 19 Sep 2024
Surely he stays for the season at least.
And I would say play him. I know we're supposed to baby these young players but he'll be off soon so we should get as much from him as we can. Let whoever buys him and pays him a fortune manage his game time.
I'm a bit tired of these players being here, getting injured or whatever, we rehab them slowly, then they leave the first chance they're back on their feet, so we see virtually nothing from them.
Play him til he goes. |
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Reply | Southampton At Everton The Carabao Cup Verdict
at 14:02 18 Sep 2024
I'm genuinely baffled how we have so much possession but do so little with it.
Secondly for those that saw the match, Lallana seems to have played well and people say he's being saved for Saturday- yet the report says we improved and had more control once he was replaced by Fernando's.
So on Saturday do we play Lallana, or Fernando's, or both? |
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Reply | FFS
at 12:44 15 Sep 2024
It's too early to guess how many points we'll get. We have to wait til we've played at least ten games surely.
I agree goals are going to be a problem. Armstrong seems to struggle in the PL, and BBD has been ineffective so far although sticking him out on the touchline doesn't help him. What happened to having a striker that stays within the width of the box?
Stewart is still an unknown. Maybe he will be the focal point we have been missing, you never know.
What is clear is that we have to score goals as we don't seem able to keep them out. |
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Reply | Mn Utd Game Matchday Thread
at 11:23 14 Sep 2024
Have say RM seems to have been brave at last. Let's hope those players deliver for him! |
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Reply | Let Dibling start against United.
at 11:08 13 Sep 2024
Basically if you're good enough you should play. History is littered with players that get into a starting line up at the age of 16, 17 or 18.
As for damaging his confidence, he looks like the most confident player we have, I'm more concerned about the rest of them!
Certain players need to be dropped. All decent players that were good last year, but PL games simply pass them by and they have no effect.
Finally he must change the passing from the back. I've seen lots of recent interviews with pros all saying it's madness for saints. They can't all be wrong. If we do it again it will look like pure stubbornness from Martin.
Scholes and Big Sam both said they cannot understand why we take such risks particularly as there has been no pay off at the other end of the pitch.
Hopefully RM will adapt it slightly and keep the ball further from our goal so maybe one bad pass won't be fatal.
I get the feeling we are a decent side currently being strangled by our rigid pattern of play. With a few tweaks we could well start picking up points and there's no reason it can't start tomorrow. |
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Reply | The Give Russell a chance thread
at 12:03 7 Sep 2024
Some odd comments that RM got us up last season against the odds.
We had every advantage so we should have been promoted. There was no real excuse.
I also don't get the "he a new manager and it takes time to learn in the PL'.
Well im a tactical idiot but even I said before the season started that we could not play around our box in the PL with the players we have. In fact loads of people said it so RM is so stubborn he needed convincing.
I have two problems with him. First he says he wants the players to be brave. Our endless possession is not brave. It's cowardly. We are too scared to take any risks to create anything. We are second in the league for possession but have zero points.
Secondly, he seems to have no structure to our attack. No pattern, no plan. Who plays two forwards 50 yards apart with no one in the box for 90 minutes?
I like him as a person and I like having the ball in the middle and top thirds. But if he can't see that our current style is stifling us both defensively and offensively then this season will only go one way.
Let the defenders defend when necessary and let the more creative players have the freedom to try riskier passes to make chances. Currently we look completely overcoached.
He needs to quickly for his own sake and for the team. |
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Reply | Broja to Ipswich
at 23:04 5 Sep 2024
Seems he's finally arrived at Everton. We don't seem to have much up front but I'm still not jealous.
In fact I think he's injured and can't play til December, which is very Broja... |
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Reply | The Give Russell a chance thread
at 11:21 5 Sep 2024
Thing is, by insisting on our rigid style I'm not sure RM is 'giving last years players a chance'.
What's he going to do? Drop them and replace them with the new signings, and then change the tactics?
If he really wants to give them a chance he should change the syle now and give them the opportunity to implement it. |
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Reply | !!!!!!!!!! Russell Martin out !!!!!!!!!!!
at 20:24 1 Sep 2024
After 3 games we shouldn't even be mentioning sacking anyone.
I would like to see some changes in our approach. We've tried the total possession thing and there was very little to be encouraged about.
Personally I'd like to see us become more of a counter attacking side.
As Nick always says 'the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result'. |
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Reply | !!!!!!!!!! Russell Martin out !!!!!!!!!!!
at 20:46 31 Aug 2024
What's weird is he played the newer and younger players on Wednesday to 'give them an opportunity to impress'.
They did, but then he uses the fact they played in that game as the reason they can't play on the Saturday. Mad. |
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Reply | Most important 2 days of the season
at 10:25 29 Aug 2024
Football is mad. After we lost Saturday there was a meltdown - me included - and then a win changes the mood. Some of the new signings looked good which was encouraging, although we did still ship 3 goals. Maybe that's the price we will pay for actually trying to score some goals though.
As for Dibling I hope Martin is brave enough to actually play him. I'd play him as much as possible. His long term development is going to be someone else's problem as doubt he wont be here for very long. |
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Reply | I’m hearing Dutch keeper has failed medical
at 09:14 28 Aug 2024
Yes arsenal will be aware of our need as we get close to the deadline.
But they also know Ramsdale wants to play and they won't want him hanging around if he's not happy. It does appear there is a deal to be done. |
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Reply | O’SHEA SIGNS!!!!!
at 12:36 25 Aug 2024
Bit like us they offer 15 million for everyone and see who says yes.... |
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Reply | Mental Matt Le Tissier - oh dear
at 12:34 25 Aug 2024
I saw a video on yt recently of him speaking at a 'festival' back in June where he was discussing his theories in front of an appreciative audience. He also revealed that he has now got religion and has been learning about jesus.
Each to their own. He certainly seems like a man searching for meaning in his life. |
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Reply | That defeat is down to Martin
at 17:42 24 Aug 2024
I didnt see it today but did we really have 65% possession and 5 shots whilst they had 23 shots?? Really? |
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