East Kent Saint

A classic , on live terrestrial TV , playing a team that can’t win , we were bound to play them back into form from our past history ! Brighton aren’t that bad , they set up after half time and defended well , saw redmond / Bertie were the main plan of attack and doubled up on it , to cap it all Lala finally played a good 90 mins for them !

Is having 2 men on the posts a corners in the same category as the long ball game ? They might be better employed than standing in the box watching Dunk head it in via a Forster no go area ha ha !

Players look good playing in a system that suits them , when they step up and suddenly asked to be lone striker or play left side rather than right side etc they look crap . Having said that selling teams hear Chelski and say GK that will be £70M please !

He’s come along way since his debut, described at the time as lightweight, no obvious position to play in etc on here ! MLT was , according to an “evening with” I attended , easy going , no fan of training or Hoddle , happy to be still paid if dropped so I didn’t get the impression he was over ambitious. After all Steve Williams didn’t do so well after his move to Arsenal !

VAR has slowed the game , spoiled celebrating and caused more controversy than the on field refs so far . Failed to solve penalty decisions and turned offsides into a ridiculous lottery based on parts of the body. Goal line tech works , no dispute .

Injury comebacks AND Covid recovery , I know people on here disregard Covid effects but other teams have shown that it is a major factor .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56324875 Is there a search facility for threads that are several pages back ??

And made a disallowed goal ! He’ll be over the moon !

A bit like Walcott re time to think about it !

In the last 5 results for each team in the Prem each team has at least one win except one ? Yes you guessed it !

I thought he would be OK as sub giving an option and harassing up front but getting the contract seems to have scrambled his “brain”

He still had a role when retained BUT he regressed to a caricature after he signed . Offside , total failure of first touch , never played anyone in etc !

Typical maybe of a player who wants to do well but nothing comes off so vents his frustration on his team mates . Saints need some quality players to drag the youngsters up a level .

I see the Ref has admitted that he shouldn't have allowed the first 2 Welsh tries ! A bit late now , he is being retained on the Ref's list anyway.

And questionable 3rd umpire decisions in India apart from the usual unsuitable pitches for cricket at any level. The usual Indian tactic was to fix the pitch for the first test so India went one up then set the rest of the pitches to produce high scoring draws.

They have missed the point that Before Gao could go through with the deal the Chinese dictatorship decreed that large sums of money could not be taken out of China to buy football clubs in the west so GAO had to raise the money from elsewhere to buy the Saints hence no money to invest in players or vast building developments .

VAR has now undermined on field refs and is a separate debating point . Man U claiming they are hard done by is an illustration of how stupid it’s become. No way a penalty in other words Ole !

In the old days in school hockey I heard the umpire muttering “If they appeal for a decision they are not going to get one”

Rugby refs obviosly coppying Mason now , tells Farell to talk to his team and when England in a huddle lets Wales take the penalty which results in a try !

Long scores again ! Although they lost at home ....

My , repetitive ! , memory of John Mc Garth was him fouling George Best at the Dell so many times GB picked the ball up and presented it Big John saying “ If you want it so much have it “ or words to that effect !

Hmmm 1-2 already !

Villa also standing still in the league ..... 0-2 now

Only a few points behind Spurs today ! and a yellow card for Hoj ....

I think we need positive thinking players to boost our team to success !