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Keep Scienza and Fellows on the bench until the derby game, we need them to contribute 60 mins each minimum.

Looking forward to Scienza, Fellows etc. being rested/protected in this one, ready for the massive game next week against Doncaster 💪

2 things can be true at once. He can not be up to the job and have a shit defense. The latter is especially true, and if the new keeper comes in and is below average, that might help us diagnose the actual problem.

Apparently us lot are the dense ones 😂. Crazy to think there’s people out there blind to how poor Baz is.

This excerpt is from a scouting report posted by another user in the Peretz thread... Sound familiar? Playing Style & Strengths Modern GK: Comfortable with the ball at his feet, good short distribution, suits possession-based teams. Weaknesses: Aerial/command of area: Biggest area for improvement – can be hesitant on crosses/high balls. Experience: Still raw at top level; needs consistent games to develop (reason for loans). Long distribution: Prefers short passes; less effective in direct styles.

There's one in France, where someone has drawn an auroch over it in disgust. 🙂

"No Rasmus. Those are rows and those are columns!."

100% yes....when we win. 100% no. When we lose.

No. Absutely not. I've got nothing against the guy but you need a manager with experience at this level. If he's part of the long-term plan then Tonda should've been made assistant manager but to give him the job made no more sense than giving it to Will Still.

Agreed. There’s a lot of rewriting history going on lately. I’d have preferred someone else but once results, and more importantly performance ,were dso good h, he deserved the job. Overall the points total is probably about par, and I’m not sure anyone else would have more from those games, but the issue is the downward trajectory. Spells like this are when experience is vital ,so not having any is defo a worry,. I’m a bit on the fence at the moment, we probably could have done better, but we could have done a lot worse and still be grubbing around the bottom of the league. Once results were so good the club were in a difficult situation, his results pretty much made it inevitable he’d get the gig, One thing for sure, is there’s a lot more saying they never wanted him now, than there was after those victories

Isn’t it weird how we like goalkeepers are good with the ball and players who are good without it? Have the spreadsheet formulas got mixed up?

Hadn't spotted that in any of the cave paintings I've seen pictured.

I'm sure as youngsters many of us had it drilled into us by managers we played for at kids, youth and senior level that the best form of defence is to attack and that is certainly how i grew up playing the game. I just don't understand this horrible crab like football that barely gets beyond the halfway line because we are so slow to release the ball to our wingers and attacking minded players. If this is what the modern game has become then you can bloody well keep it Saints but you are going to lose many fans if you persist in playing this shit. I now find myself changing channels to watch the darts or something else that is just more entertaining!

I agree. It was a good save but he was rooted to his line on a couple of occasions and let his defenders deal with a couple of balls about 3/4 yards out that he could easily have collected, resulting in corners against. Can’t get a new keeper in quick enough for me.

The fact a good save is credited as “world class” & people are waxing lyrically about the save, tells you everything you need to know about Baz. Expectations are so low, it’s probably the first time Baz has made a save you didn’t think he should. It was very unlike Baz , he actually made it harder for the bloke to score by abandoning his ghost alter ego and made himself bigger. It’s one of those where you spread yourself and hope the ball hits you, thatd nit a criticism as it’s an important part of being in nets. Poor miss from the guy, he probably thought 1-0 and must be worried he’ll end up with the unenviable record of being the only bloke denied a goal by a good Baz save. He’s still shite though. A couple of times he could easily have collected crosses but didn’t, the only which went for a corner was embarrassing, if that was an under 15 keeper I’d be bollocking him for not giving the defender a call and collecting the ball.

And we have a manager who has no idea how to counter this. One way of playing and that's it.

Seeing some of the videos on the BBC, words honnestly fail me. Literally dozens of people stood inside a burning with their smartphones out videoing the whole thing going on around them and not moving. It seems like it was only when the heat became unbearable that many of them were forced into a mad crush for the exits. It's genuinely scary what smartphones and socially media have actually done to the collective psyche of society. Teenagers passively burning to death for likes on their Instagram reel.

May not have a direct impact, but it definitely shows low standards. Much like renewing the contracts of underperforming players. There is a complete culture of failure

It is obvious that teams are now pressing is in a way that stops us playing. It is fairly straightforward

I don't know what's happened, back in November the clouds seem to have finally lifted and the team was playing fast attacking football with huge success, we looked odds on for playoffs and even a tilt at top 2. Now they have gone back to stodge ball. Some people on here are saying it's SR but if it is then why were they happy to allow the November form to continue? As incompetent as I think they are I don't think it's them - they want us to win like anyone else. Looks to me like a combination of a manager that has lost his balls and a bunch of players who are comfortable playing under performing stodge ball. 4-4-2 please and show some fight! I'd rather lose playing attacking football that dying of Russball boredom.

Aside from the convenient clean sheet yesterday, there was the argument previously that we need an extra centre back as we concede too many goals. How about trying to score more goals too? Most of the time the centre backs are just strolling into each others way and it clearly isn't working as we're still conceding and not scoring enough (despite dominating possession most matches). It was forgivable when the players were obviously trying to win once Still went, but now they seem completely settled back into this terrible passive rubbish.

I will say with absolute certainty that our recent goalscoring struggles have absolutely nothing to do with our strikers being complacent, because they're banging them in against hapless goalkeepers in training. If you are going to try and argue that then two years ago we were the leagues third top scorers, so presumably you're going to insist that we were training against the leagues third best goalkeepers, to achieve such a high standard? No, thought not.

Yep... The very same arrogance and/or disregard for fan opinion that made Martin such an unlikeable manager in the PL. It's a slippery slope...

In very close succession. Cause of death, "Boredom"

Agreed with this very much. I thought he stood out for being the only player looking busy (until Felllows and Robinson came on), and trying to pass the ball forwards. Let's hope that that intent is not coached our of him.