BARCELONASAINT

Totally agree about Quarshie and have been saying for a while he is the ONE defender i do rate in this Saints team.

The positive i will take from that first half performance was at least it more entertaining than the last few games. Negatives, we are very open and making a very injury hit opposition look pretty good. Scienza has obviously been asked to tuck in more but that takes away his attacking creativity, he has to be wide and free to receive the ball where he can run at players. Is Tonda fucking around with tactics and trying to make players something they are not!!

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 started watching the game with the Millwall commentary team because i hate having to listen to Jo Tessem who i sometimes think must be a secret skate because he rarely has anything good or positive to say about the team or players (the last few weeks he has a point). However the second half i changed channel to watch the Southampton stream with Tessem commentating. Like most on here he is pretty scathing of Baz every week despite Adam Blackmore trying to stand up for Baz. Anyway regarding Baz save yesterday, once Tessem had seen multiple replays of the save he could not stop gushing over what a brilliant save it was. Fair play to him because i fully expected a similar remark to many on here that refuse to give Baz any credit. The lad has many flaws to his game and as a former keeper myself i scrutinise everything he does but yesterday he won us the point.

i'm assuming you are talking about our absent defenders?

I'm sorry but the guy is so completely out of his depth it's embarrassing. Shame on you Sports Republic for yet another masterclass in fuck ups!!

fucking hell, Leo off????

At the moment i would rather be watching one of my wifes shit programmes housewifes of Beverley Hills!! Fuck me how to send your fans to sleep with 45 minutes of absolute dross

Our defending is abysmal

It baffles me so much why manager after manager keeps playing the same defensive unit that concedes every bloody game.....but silly me it is actually quite simple. Sports Republic don't want to pay out on "clean sheet" bonuses. They must have saved a fortune the last 3 seasons!

no matter how shit he performs Stephens the statue keeps his place and more depressingly the captains armband when he is bloody useless as a defender and a captain

I would say every home game between now and the end of the season is a "must win game" IF the club honestly have ambitions in making the playoffs. I just want to be entertained rather than the utter crap we have gone back to recently.

How the fuck Jack "I'm a complete statue" Stephens starts and is rewarded by being the captain despite his complete inept defending is beyond me. Just wtf is going on!

The honeymoon period for Tonda is well and truly over. Tonight will be another evening of frustration and pain for all Saints fans as the viewing public on Sky will see a very poor Birmingham destroy our utter shit back line. They will watch a manager who is clearly not his own man and is playing a rigid formation the board are telling him to play (that can be the only reason that successive managers have refused to change) They will watch Tonda take off our most creative attacking players because he is carefully managing their minutes whilst failing to manage a bloody win. They will watch him bring on players that immediately make the team weaker and make the opposition look world class in a matter of minutes. 4-1 Birmingham

I love the guy, he has been excellent for Southampton in the past but that's exactly it....the past! I warned everyone that having watched him regularly playing in Spain that his legs had gone and i've seen nothing so far to suggest he can do anything on the pitch to help at the moment. It's actually embarrassing watching him get the nod ahead of Bragg.