S-Clarke Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Friendlies mean nothing. Agreed, you can't judge this season on our friendly results. A couple of years ago, BWP got 6 goals in pre-season...but only managed 10 in the full league. And last year we romped to a 12 or 14-0 win over some side - didn't do us much good tbf. Sometimes I think limping through pre-season games like this is better than winning 14-0, as you can have a clear look at the areas which need improving - rather than it being masked over by a fluke result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Block 5 Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Kelv ?! Sorry Kev.... Freudian typo. Thought you were a goalkeeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PercyR Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Sorry Kev.... Freudian typo. Thought you were a goalkeeper. Back of the net!! There wasn't much he could do to keep that one out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Back of the net!! There wasn't much he could do to keep that one out! PM required :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Channon's Sideburns Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 (edited) Well I have just got back, living in Bournemouth, and i have to tell you...... oh dear, there is a serious amount of work to be done, an awful lot of players need to be bought in, and a new manager with a bit about him to get the best out of what we have. The only good points were - Mills at left back looked useful, Patterson when he came on looked busy...then I am struggling. The bad points were - Lancashire is still as slow as before, Rasiak didnt seem interested, Lallana was...umm....**** ****in poor, there i said it. Still its only a friendly, presumably a fitness thing and next saturday against Ajax we will begin to see the team take shape I hope. But we are gonna need 5 or 6 players I reckon. Hard to disagree with that... Rasiak was a disgrace...no effort made really. Lallana was better upfront with Rasiak 1st half, but poncy and ineffective 2nd half. Paterson good, Lloyd James M.O.M for me in centre midfield...looked good. Put it this way, our 'young stars' were shown up by fitter young players in the Bmth side... Time to face it, regardless of all the guff about our Academy...Bmth's youngsters were better than ours...who are....just actually not THAT GOOD. Six players needed MINIMUM to turn us around...and Rasiak can foook off. Plus....Bournemouth's organisation was poor - not to plan accordingly with anticipating more Saints fans was embarrassing - and the fact it took them ages to agree to open up more of the stand for our supporters was poor. ...and they ran out of HOT WATER at half-time...so couldn't sell drinks...plus no Beer... Funny how there seemed to be more Saints fans there than Bmth...haha Edited 11 July, 2009 by Channon's Sideburns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey1saint Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 (edited) Don't think we can read to much into these friendly's so far.(I haven't been to any games yet) The teams seem to have been changed around at half time. Edited 11 July, 2009 by surrey1saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Channon's Sideburns Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Don't think we can read to much into these friendly's so far.(I haven't been to any games yet) The teams seem to have been changed around at half time. The majority of the team played today remained the same throughout the 90mins. They were slow, ineffective and Bournemouth showed us up at times - fitter and hungrier. We needed a reality check - this was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Amazed that people are slating rasiak after meaningless friendlies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey1saint Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Seems like we need WGS in soon then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Channon's Sideburns Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Amazed that people are slating rasiak after meaningless friendlies Hypo...he just didn't look interested today. Slower to react than normal. Only shot on goal was a backheel in mid-air from a cross... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Hypo...he just didn't look interested today. Slower to react than normal. Only shot on goal was a backheel in mid-air from a cross... The thing is we all know he's a good player - he's big and strong and can hold the ball up. The key is to get a manager in who will get the best out of him. If we can do that we'll be laughing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SET Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Rasiak is a spent force, whose career is in terminal decline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Hypo...he just didn't look interested today. Slower to react than normal. Only shot on goal was a backheel in mid-air from a cross... He has always been lazy. I only care about how he does in real games. He will score goals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Rasiak WILL score goals. However, he is the laziest footballer I have ever seen, and we can only guess on how bad he is for morale. I know how I would have felt with such a lazy player in a team I was working my socks off for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graffito Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 I haven't seen the friendlies but just going on last season, considering that we've lost some of the better players since then and given that we struggled against physical and direct teams I fear we'll get hammered in League 1. The squad needs to be strengthened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_hill Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 Didn't see the game obviously but I've seen plenty of friendlies, enough to know they bear little resemblance to our prospects for the forthcoming season and Bournemouth in particular seems to serve as a tranquiliser for most of our players. I also agree that Bourenemouth fans seem to have a strong dislike of us, but let's but honest, who cares? No need to panic, I say. We have the best goalie in league one. If SJ and BWP can keep fit then we have pace and power up front and we will score goals in this league. Let's watch Rasiak in competitive games before slating him. He could score bucketloads in this div, top scorer if he wanted to be. Where is Sagonowski by the way? Midfield and defence looks more worrying. Do we still have De Seijs? He is exactly what we need at the back for league one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 11 July, 2009 Share Posted 11 July, 2009 New Manager first and soon. Then a major clear out - like spending half an hour in the small room after a really big curry. Surely there are any number of non league clubs who will take some of our current squad off our hands? Then we need to sign some footballers and start playing the game in a different way. A way that means we score more goals than we concede, more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4INT Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 Strong manager required who will get on with ML and let him know what players he thinks he requires - it sounds like respectable funds will be available so pending news I am very optimistic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisobee Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 Oh well, it took all of 3 days for the euphoria to disperse and do I already sense the first seeds of despondency? I'm not really sure what one could expect at this stage with us having been close to closure and still no manager in place. It's rather stating the obvious to say we are way behind in terms of our pre season build up but I'm confident we'll have a new manager in place sooner rather than later and only then will our season really begin. So the reality is we are likely to struggle for the first part of the season and with the -10 points I suggest getting out of the relegation zone by Christmas would be a reasonable target. Lets just be grateful we still have a team, an owner who is clearly very astute and as long as we get behind the team then there is even an outside chance of a play off place. I think it would be unrealistic to expect anything more, we consolidate this season and I'm confident we'll push on next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katalinic Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 Amazed that people are slating rasiak after meaningless friendlies But they are only meaningless if the players want them to be - this squad appears to lack any sort of heart and committment - we need a group of players that treat a friendly like the world cup final, a group of players who have some hunger and desire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelso kev Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 Dont worry. The new owners know what they are doing. We have a new gaffer and he is sorting out the players we need as we talk. It will be all sorted by the end of the week. As they have already said they want to hit the ground running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alehouseboys Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 ...Bournemouth's organisation was poor - not to plan accordingly with anticipating more Saints fans was embarrassing - and the fact it took them ages to agree to open up more of the stand for our supporters was poor. ...and they ran out of HOT WATER at half-time...so couldn't sell drinks...plus no Beer... Funny how there seemed to be more Saints fans there than Bmth... A steward was telling one large group of fans who were complaining that they only expected 200 not 2000 and they couldn't move the netting across as they'd allowed home fans in that area - despite the rest of the ground being sparsely populated - and they'd just have to find seats (that didn't exist). Eventually of course they move it, twice, how hard was that? A bit easier finding a seat second half as so many cleared off at half time...it was ****e... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Channon's Sideburns Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 A steward was telling one large group of fans who were complaining that they only expected 200 not 2000 and they couldn't move the netting across as they'd allowed home fans in that area - despite the rest of the ground being sparsely populated - and they'd just have to find seats (that didn't exist). Eventually of course they move it, twice, how hard was that? A bit easier finding a seat second half as so many cleared off at half time...it was ****e... Which makes it even more crazy...you could have fitted their whole support in HALF of their main stand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Red Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 As a ticket didn't get a numbered seat the bovine Bournemouth stewards could have moved the black segregation thing long before they did. Anyway nobody seems to have picked up the highlight of the day: Fans behind the goal start singing 'It's all gone quiet over there" about five seconds before Paterson scores ! With regards to the match the Saints were tactically bankrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up and away Posted 12 July, 2009 Share Posted 12 July, 2009 To be honest there are very few of these players worth keeping. There are a lot of these players worth keeping. The problem is that most are too young and need decent players around a selected few. I really feel we will miss DMG the way he was improving towards the end but we will just have to see what comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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