John Boy Saint

On the Echo FB - Alfie House commented that Sulemana is on the bench due to fatigue. You can’t deny he put in a shift Thursday against a background of very little full match conditioning.

Especially given the levels of wonder the medical world operates at, and even more so the science of sports medicine. Someone must have had an inkling of the various scenarios with the injury he was carrying at signing.

Scoreline aside plenty of positives - the fact we were still at the races at 70+ mins says much about the work being done by Juric and his team, especially compared to previous games where we’ve only lasted 45 minutes at best. Shame the subs dulled us, I guess they could see the drop off from the bench, but such was our work rate during the match, bringing on players not use to coming on in games being played with such improved endeavour, they were going to struggle get up to the same speed.

Fuckng he’ll pull the pin out of the grenade and drop it down the front of your pants

Ah well

Fuck me! Brilliant

But he has the “I was here that night” badge

5 minutes for 9-0 bingo

Considering how fragile we have appeared this season, good to see we set out to win with an honest line up. We are in the next round and didn’t suffer like Brentford at the hands of Plymouth to dent moral further. Shame they have ruined the format of the cup just for the big boys - Tamworth were deserving of a replay pay day v Spurs.

Gosh!

Fuck a duck!

Sulemana is top of the drug testing list post match.

Dunno - I still quite like Moving

Looking forward to seeing your first Post Box topper 😁

That’s a tad harsh! 🤪

Strachan had them super fit - last 10 minutes of games were great because they were conditioned to go 120 minutes. Paul Telfer most folks figure of derision if they knew buggerall about football, he was key to the fitness regime as Strachan knew what ever he asked of the players for match conditioning he knew Telfer would smash it and the other players would have no complaints about it being too hard. Some of pre season training was done on the sandy beaches (resistance) up near Edinburgh- last man across the line was thrown into the North Sea: Telfer won every race. As noted last season, at the end of the Coventry game where they threw the kitchen sink at us, our players were mostly out on their feet - whereas the intensity of Coventry should have seen their players broken in defeat sprawled on the pitch after so much fruitless effort. Boxing Day afternoon you could see us second half getting gappy - and that’s down to substandard fitness.

Yup we are looking gappy

Arse

Didn’t expect a ex Swansea player to close the circle - moments after my comment.

Bloody Fabianski has been our Kryptonite going all the way back to Swansea!

Blimey Spackman is annoying

Oooooo - inches

Merry Christmas to you all believers or not 😁

Doesn’t look like he will be taking prisoners

I think that’s alright - good point and we looked much better with no suicide football. Most notable the departure of defending corners with every Saints player in our own 6 yard box.