Saint Fan CaM

Why ouch? That’s hardly a reason to celebrate Martins tenure! 🤣

This will be far from an easy game in terms of gaining points, but there’s absolutely nothing to lose in a home game, so go as strong as possible up front. Per the changes I’ve made above, I’d leave Dibling on the bench to run at tired legs later. Score? Who the hell knows…optimistically 2-1. If Juric goes back to 5 defenders we’ll lose 1-2 or 1-3.

I think a key thing for me is Juric is less wedded to a specific system…he’s trying different formations etc. OK, we may not like everything we see, but at least he’s trying. And the build up play is definitely less laborious and has almost eliminated the errors at the back resulting from endless suicidal passing between the GK and defenders. This in turn means we have less possession, but it’s difficult to tell whether that’s made us worse - we couldn’t get any f-ing worse under Martins intransigent system.

So do you prefer watching Man City’s football over Nottingham Forest or Brighton or even Bournemouth? Again, all of the latter three teams gets my vote…so much more entertaining.

I’m at a loss as to why anyone thinks keeping the majority of the losers in the current 25 man squad would be a good idea. There may well be individually talented players that would do well in the championship, but this squad is not a TEAM…it’s a bunch of misfits forced together by a series of unsuccessful sub-standard managers and management styles. No identity - no guile - few players exhibiting a true ‘footballing brain’ - lack of hunger to create something special. It could be argued that 9 points flatters us! I think back to Fonte dropping a division to play for us. I think of a lesser Lambert who got his shit together to become one of the most successful CF’s in the top flight with us. I think of even Ward-Prowse running his bollocks off for 90+ minutes for the cause and having an amazing dead ball skill to boot. There are more examples. Spors can create another successful promotion team, but I don’t think he’ll be doing that with the majority of the current squad sadly.

Clearly not in terms of results, but surely it was obvious from my post that I consider there to be enough of a difference to make the point. It could be argued that the difference would be even greater if Juric had the type of,players at his disposal to suit his style of football. Are you trying tell us that you don’t recognise a difference between Martin’s type of football and Juric’s? Really? 😳

Is this a good thing and/or something to be excited about? Honest question.

I was pleased to play a small part in ousting Lowe from his perch in SFC and welcomed the new regime with Crouch etc., which eventually came good with Markus’ short but effective reign. I have to say that I have some empathy with some of Lowes politics, but as always the deployment of ideas is everything…talk is cheap.

It might subjective, but if both managers were given the same team but with much better players which yielded the same better results, which style of football would you prefer to watch? For me it would not be Martins boringly predictable game that’s for sure.

Our press isn’t a press - one player sits back and then gets by-passed. Rinse repeat. Liverpool players on the other hand press as a unit of at least three and invariably win the ball back or force an error. Big difference and result.

Pen on the way - handball Suga. Nailed on.

Here we go - Manning and Les off for TP and Aribo. Standard.

Of all the unlikely games to pinch a point I’d love us to stick one on these scousers twats in commentary.

Lallana in for his bi-annual cameo to help out Liverpool a bit.

Manning has found his shitness.

Suga and Archer on. TB and Groanback off.

Jeez - we’re all over the shop now. No composure…confidence shot to pieces.

Gotta get Groanback off - doing nothing of any use.

Oh dear - here we go again - Smallbone with a lovely pen to hand the game to them.

Bum

Brilliant save from Rambo.

Because he starting to panic.

Three subs for Pool - that’ll do it.

Ugly for Liverpool? 😉😂

And this is what we all expect right? Competitive and looking like they give a fuck. That’s all. Even if we lose this game which is very likely, I’ll be content with the performance. Just think how much better we’d be with a better striker.