Moan Moan Moan Bloody Moan!!

[John Boy Saint]

Boy do we have some moany thick folks following our team, and it's amazing what a colourful assortment we get sat within earshot of us.

 

Last nights game saw 2 lads sat behind us, all the first half all you got from behind us was a running commentary, with, do this do that do the other, if I was Adkins I would do this I would do that. We should have kept Chamberlain, we haven't been the same since he left, he always made things happen bla bla bla: then along quite a few folks they booed the team at the half time whistle!

 

The booing around the stadium at half time raised a question from the chap in front: why are folks booing we are only one down and there is another 45 minutes to play............... And we are top of the league too!!

 

Mrs JBS commented that not only was she listening to the clap trap from behind her but the old bird sat next to her was equally as bad.

 

Second half we knock our game up a couple of gears Guly scores, normal service on the pitch resumes and the cobblers from behind fades away. However the old Trout next door but one has gotten a bit louder, gem of the latter stages of the game as we are running down the clock, Kelvin is playing you come too close and this ball going past you with a Hull forward, she's shouting come on get on and kick it out.................... Obviously not at the Everton game when we should have headed for the corner rather than trying to guild a very fragile lily.

 

Then to cap this off walking back to the car I overhear 2 separate conversations moaning about the game and saying that we won't be able to keep this up much longer!!!!!

 

Why bloomin bother turning up, we are on the best footballing adventure we have been on for ages and the misery guts still aren't happy!!!!!

[Mark Mywords]

They hack me off too. Surely they must realise by now what type of football NA wants us to play. But no, there are constant shouts imploring the players to get rid of it, hoof it upfield or give it some welly. Top of the league, 21 consecutive home wins and still they moan. And as for the booing at half time - unbelievable.

[Crazy Diamond]

No.

 

Guly was dreadful last night. I won't apologise for voicing my opinion on him.

[Mark Mywords]

You have an apt adjective in your user name.

[Professor]

Having a moan seems reasonable given the inconsistent performances. The last 3 games of 2 wins and one defeat ask more questions than they answer.

Against Brighton, we stopped them having any meaningful attack and no shots on goal but the scoreline only looked respectable because of two extremely doubtful penalties.

Losing to Bristol City was obviously a poor result, but then a poor Watford side score 2 against them.

And now a 2-1 win at home to Hull after going a goal down, several players below par and for the 3rd time recently failing to score against 10 men.

Add to that our manager being less than convincing in his football knowledge when interviewed, always saying the same things about fantastic bunch, hardworking professionals, superb staff, etc. etc. but not a lot about the game itself. Maybe he feels constrained by not having been an outfield player himself but I hope he talks differently to the squad.

WHU fans must feel more confident given the fire their team seems to be showing and the prescence of Big Sam. At the moment I'd back them to overtake Saints before Xmas, but maybe that would be the prompting the club needs to bring in some extra quality in the January window. The gap to 3rd place looks good for promotion, but its still over half the season to go and to lose out on the exceptional opportunity of going up this season that the club now has would be criminal.

[Minsk]

Yes Professor, Adkins clearly doesn't have much football knowledge and doesn't convey himself very well to the players - that's why we are top of the league and turned the game around in the 2nd half last night!! Good grief, it beggars belief!!!!!

 

I'll tell you what though, I will be very happy if for the rest of the season we win 2 and lose 1 out of every three games!!!!!

 

And I agree with the OP, the moaning is quite ridiculous. I actually gave up on the match thread for a while last night due to the amount of wrist slitters on there, especially at half-time.

 

Still, I guess everyone is entitled to air their own opinions - even if it does make them look quite ridiculous.

[Reynoldson!!]

Having a moan seems reasonable given the inconsistent performances. The last 3 games of 2 wins and one defeat ask more questions than they answer.

Against Brighton, we stopped them having any meaningful attack and no shots on goal but the scoreline only looked respectable because of two extremely doubtful penalties.

Losing to Bristol City was obviously a poor result, but then a poor Watford side score 2 against them.

And now a 2-1 win at home to Hull after going a goal down, several players below par and for the 3rd time recently failing to score against 10 men.

Add to that our manager being less than convincing in his football knowledge when interviewed, always saying the same things about fantastic bunch, hardworking professionals, superb staff, etc. etc. but not a lot about the game itself. Maybe he feels constrained by not having been an outfield player himself but I hope he talks differently to the squad.

WHU fans must feel more confident given the fire their team seems to be showing and the prescence of Big Sam. At the moment I'd back them to overtake Saints before Xmas, but maybe that would be the prompting the club needs to bring in some extra quality in the January window. The gap to 3rd place looks good for promotion, but its still over half the season to go and to lose out on the exceptional opportunity of going up this season that the club now has would be criminal.

 

Not sure if serious...

 

I'd hate to see you if we fell as low as 4th

[AussieDog]

It's all very well wanting us to be better, but the trouble with that approach is that you don't give yourselves a chance to enjoy where we are and what we are doing right now. For all those moaners - look back to the beginning of the season and then answer TRUTHFULLY where you expected us to be right now. Now re-assess your comments of the past few games. Our home record is EXCEPTIONAL. Our away record is...well pretty typical Saints, but not as bad as alot of people make out.

I'm sure our fans are no different to the those at every other club. Football supporting is all about opinions - but if you want to enjoy it as well, then you need to take the balanced approach. Yep, we COULD do better. We COULD spend money and gamble that an incoming player will fit in straight away and make us a better side. We COULD also end up in the position of the blue few, by spending too much for a club of our resources and scaring our owners off if we don't find a way of balancing the books.

If football was a predictable game then the Bookmakers would all be broke, every team would win at home and lose away (because every team expects to win their home games...). It's the unpredictability of it that keeps us interested!

[Tamesaint]

Add to that our manager being less than convincing in his football knowledge when interviewed, always saying the same things about fantastic bunch, hardworking professionals, superb staff, etc. etc. but not a lot about the game itself. Maybe he feels constrained by not having been an outfield player himself but I hope he talks differently to the squad.

 

I trust that you are joking.

 

Top of the league. 8 points clear of the play off teams. Post war English record equalised for successive home wins. All this on top of a promotion last season when he took over a rabble in mid September (anyone who was at MK Dons will testify to thee rabble tag). Yet Adkins doesn't know much about football !!

 

Perhaps a genius like you Professor ought to go round and give him the benefit of your vast knowledge.

[saint_bert]

Fella behind me told his mate it was time to bring De Ridder on. This was at 80 minutes.

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

The chap who sits next to me constantly frets about our defending, even when we're 3 goals up with 85 minutes played. But instead of moaning about our moaners, I just accept that this kind of endless worrying is the normal state of mind for the average Saints fan.

 

We don't go to football matches just to have fun and enjoy ourselves you know !

[Dalek2003]

Having a moan seems reasonable given the inconsistent performances. The last 3 games of 2 wins and one defeat ask more questions than they answer.

Against Brighton, we stopped them having any meaningful attack and no shots on goal but the scoreline only looked respectable because of two extremely doubtful penalties.

Losing to Bristol City was obviously a poor result, but then a poor Watford side score 2 against them.

And now a 2-1 win at home to Hull after going a goal down, several players below par and for the 3rd time recently failing to score against 10 men.

Add to that our manager being less than convincing in his football knowledge when interviewed, always saying the same things about fantastic bunch, hardworking professionals, superb staff, etc. etc. but not a lot about the game itself. Maybe he feels constrained by not having been an outfield player himself but I hope he talks differently to the squad.

WHU fans must feel more confident given the fire their team seems to be showing and the prescence of Big Sam. At the moment I'd back them to overtake Saints before Xmas, but maybe that would be the prompting the club needs to bring in some extra quality in the January window. The gap to 3rd place looks good for promotion, but its still over half the season to go and to lose out on the exceptional opportunity of going up this season that the club now has would be criminal.

 

We didn't show much intent in the summer. I think the plan this year and that the team we had would achieve this. \still believe mid table will be the outcome.

[dune]

The chap who sits next to me constantly frets about our defending, even when we're 3 goals up with 85 minutes played. But instead of moaning about our moaners, I just accept that this kind of endless worrying is the normal state of mind for the average Saints fan.

 

We don't go to football matches just to have fun and enjoy ourselves you know !

 

This annoys me immensely. We can be cruising to victory, yet you still get the knobs who come out with "this is Saints" zzzzzzzzzzz. This is a different squad from a few years ago and we are not cursed to lose games. FFS.

[trousers]

Boy do we have some moany thick folks following our team, and it's amazing what a colourful assortment we get sat within earshot of us.

 

Last nights game saw 2 lads sat behind us, all the first half all you got from behind us was a running commentary, with, do this do that do the other, if I was Adkins I would do this I would do that. We should have kept Chamberlain, we haven't been the same since he left, he always made things happen bla bla bla: then along quite a few folks they booed the team at the half time whistle!

 

The booing around the stadium at half time raised a question from the chap in front: why are folks booing we are only one down and there is another 45 minutes to play............... And we are top of the league too!!

 

Mrs JBS commented that not only was she listening to the clap trap from behind her but the old bird sat next to her was equally as bad.

 

Second half we knock our game up a couple of gears Guly scores, normal service on the pitch resumes and the cobblers from behind fades away. However the old Trout next door but one has gotten a bit louder, gem of the latter stages of the game as we are running down the clock, Kelvin is playing you come too close and this ball going past you with a Hull forward, she's shouting come on get on and kick it out.................... Obviously not at the Everton game when we should have headed for the corner rather than trying to guild a very fragile lily.

 

Then to cap this off walking back to the car I overhear 2 separate conversations moaning about the game and saying that we won't be able to keep this up much longer!!!!!

 

Why bloomin bother turning up, we are on the best footballing adventure we have been on for ages and the misery guts still aren't happy!!!!!

 

Stop moaning about people moaning FFS! ;-))

[Ian the Red]

Having a moan seems reasonable given the inconsistent performances. The last 3 games of 2 wins and one defeat ask more questions than they answer.

Against Brighton, we stopped them having any meaningful attack and no shots on goal but the scoreline only looked respectable because of two extremely doubtful penalties.

Losing to Bristol City was obviously a poor result, but then a poor Watford side score 2 against them.

And now a 2-1 win at home to Hull after going a goal down, several players below par and for the 3rd time recently failing to score against 10 men.

Add to that our manager being less than convincing in his football knowledge when interviewed, always saying the same things about fantastic bunch, hardworking professionals, superb staff, etc. etc. but not a lot about the game itself. Maybe he feels constrained by not having been an outfield player himself but I hope he talks differently to the squad.

WHU fans must feel more confident given the fire their team seems to be showing and the prescence of Big Sam. At the moment I'd back them to overtake Saints before Xmas, but maybe that would be the prompting the club needs to bring in some extra quality in the January window. The gap to 3rd place looks good for promotion, but its still over half the season to go and to lose out on the exceptional opportunity of going up this season that the club now has would be criminal.

 

Are you being serious? Adkins has more football knowledge in his big toe than you do obviously!

 

We were not playing that well in the 1st 45 yesterday, NA changed it, gave us the option of pace and width in De Ridder and we won. I have seen the last 10 league games and whilst I do agree we are not the finished article we are good enough for this league. We have played very, very well for most of this season so far, so we are due to put in some below par performances. That's the nature of football, not many teams can maintain top gear for the entire season. We have played poorly in the last two; Bristol was the worst we have played all season; but Brighton? A solid performance and one very dubious penalty, and two defo pens not given.

 

WHU were always going to be there and there abouts but they are not still not top and we made them look very ordinary at SMS. Yes, we do need to strengthen in January, thats obvious. Once we are back in the prem we will need to strengthen again, thats obvious as well. Played 19, 42 points, two below par performances but 3 points. And you are questioning NA?????

[John Boy Saint]

Stop moaning about people moaning FFS! ;-))

 

Yahoo!!! 14 in before the reply I thought I would get by about reply 5!!!!

 

I thank you Trousers!

 

That Professor is a funny chap

[Paul75]

**stares at screen in disbelief**

[The9]

Re: the booing - what a load of planks.

 

Re : being top of the league - actually we weren't at half time when the booing took place.

[hypochondriac]

I think our level of performance has dropped in recent games, but we are still getting results so it doesn't matter. The problem will come when our home form gets a bit worse of we don't improve the results away.

 

A win against Doncaster would really do us the world of good and mean we can afford to slip up at home, although obviously we don't want that to happen.

[Verbal]

anyone who was at MK Dons will testify to thee rabble tag.

 

Thou art not far wrong.

[The9]

Fella behind me told his mate it was time to bring De Ridder on. This was at 80 minutes.

 

Probably slightly worse than the Northam Numpties chanting "Steeeeeeeeve" after about 15 minutes.

 

Hull worked hard, their movement was excellent in the first half and we were stagnant. Nigel clearly pointed this out, we were out of the traps from the whistle in the second half and never looked back - great management. As was bringing De Ridder on... when he did.

 

On the way back to the car, I heard some bloke saying that we "only scored normal run-of-the-mill goals". Lallana did two Cruyff turns before crossing for Lambert's head back for Guly's (second time) smashed home volley, what exactly did he want ?

[Lazlo78]

...and for the 3rd time recently failing to score against 10 men.

 

Yes, a severe lashing to Hammond for not captaining the side better when defending a 2-1 lead in the last 15 minutes of a game - tie him to the mast! After the sending off, we should have steamrollered them and scored a hatful. We should have sent an injured Rickie back on the pitch to get a hattrick!

 

You bet I was booing. I was booing so hard they could hear me all the way from Denmark. Yesterday proved conclusively that we are top of the league by chance, simply by luck. The team really isn't very good, and soon we'll all have a healthy dose of reality. Just promise me not to gloat too much when our collective bubble bursts...

[ant]

Fully in agreement, JBS - just one little thing...

 

The booing around the stadium at half time raised a question from the chap in front: why are folks booing we are only one down and there is another 45 minutes to play............... And we are top of the league too!!

 

We weren't top of the league at half time

 

Fans' criticism of the players/performance is OK in itself, but at least make it factually accurate! Bite your tongues. I would never, ever boo my team - especially with half of the game still to play. The number of people seemingly unable to understand that the opposition can't do anything with the football if they don't have it stuns me.

 

Can't think of a time when I've been happier as a Saints fan. The majority of our Prem days were fraught, it feels incredible to be leading the pack and playing such resilient, eye-catching football. People have to realise that it won't be like that every match for all of the 95-ish minutes though.

 

Take the rough with the smooth and give our opponents the respect/credit they're due. We will not dominate every game we play and the fans need to back the team and pull them through periods of sustained pressure. So often when the crowd picks up in volume it translates to extra confidence and drive on the pitch.

Edited 30 November, 2011 by ant

[Wes Tender]

People who paid their hard-earned cash are entitled to express their opinions. Yes, we have had an incredible run this season and generally everybody is over the moon at how far we have come since Adkins arrived on the bus. But put simply, the game is an entertainment event and if the players seem not to be trying their best, then it is fair comment if people shout at them to pull their finger out. Rather than individual comments, I was more concerned at how flat the whole stadium was last night.

[Saint Billy]

When will people realise that a moaning football fan is nothing new.

[sotonjoe]

TBH I thought the biggest idiots last night were the ones who gave Guly a standing ovation when he was finally substituted.

[ant]

I was more concerned at how flat the whole stadium was last night.

 

Agreed, it was dead other than for the first ten mins in the second half. Tried to raise a response in the Northam after we conceded and was just met with blank looks and so carried on singing to myself... The crowd seems very quick to get on the players' backs at the moment. I don't remember us waiting to be entertained last season when grinding out results against teams parking the bus. Arrogance? The weight of expectation?

[rallyboy]

tis an indicator of how far Nigel has taken us.

Three years ago we would have thrown everything at them second half and just as likely been caught on the break - 0-2.

But now, it's standard practice to win home games, anything less would be considered abject failure.

 

So turning it round like that would be exciting for most teams, but Nige has raised expectation so much, it's just what we do now, we win.

Business as usual.

 

But a great three points.

And congratulations to many fans who are now realising that hoofing it means they bring it back up our end fairly sharpish.

[angelman]

Given our performance in the last 5 minutes, I think people are right to moan (or be worried). What I can't understand is that we ratchet things up a couple of gears, but then after 10-15 minutes have taken our foot off the gas. When we are running in top gear, we really are good, but after the 2nd goal went in, we laid off and looked much more average. And what a cross by Richardson!

 

As for the booing, must say that I didn't notice any.

 

And for the first time in a long while, I got really ****ed off with the off side rule (or rather players getting caught offside so often).

[um pahars]

Rather than individual comments, I was more concerned at how flat the whole stadium was last night.

 

To be honest I was disappointed with the size of the crowd itself. 22,000 was less than I had expected.

 

Whilst not condoning the going over the top slagging off and booing, I don't think there is anything wrong with recognising we were below par (and still won) last night. And whilst I'm all up for undying support & praise, Guly was terrible for large spells last night!!!

[angelman]

UmP, I have to agree with you. Particularly the crowd size - I know £30 is a fair bit, but given our position and how we are playing, I would have thought another 3-5K would have been there. But at least I could get a beer at half time without queuing for too long.

 

With the Guly bit, the person next to me was thinking that maybe, like many South Americans do, he was feeling the cold (not that it was that cold).

[John Boy Saint]

When will people realise that a moaning football fan is nothing new.

We all know that: but a sustained flow of complete cobblers cascading from the mouths of 2 separate couples during the game becomes very tedious.

[Wade Garrett]

I feel sorry for my brothers who have got season tickets in the Chapel. I've sat with them a couple of times now, and there are a couple of blokes behind who talk crap for the whole 90 minutes. It is so difficult sometimes to resist the urge to ask them to stop spouting so much crap within my earshot.

[Pip]

I can see both sides.

 

As a fan I want to see the exciting football that we all know the team are capable of and turned on for the vital 10 minutes last night. However, it's a long old season and there's no point in playing flat out when you don't need to. The message from the bench is very obviously to keep the ball and therefore stop the opposition from playing -it's effective but it's just not the gung ho attitude we're used to from Saints.

[Lord Duckhunter]

Here's the table at the same stage last year.........

 

http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-championship/2010-2011/table/2010-11-28

 

QPR had 41 points compared to our 42, and were 8 points clear of 3rd which is the same as us. If anybody is not happy with that, they are seriously deluded.

[wagon 84]

Boy do we have some moany thick folks following our team, and it's amazing what a colourful assortment we get sat within earshot of us.

 

Last nights game saw 2 lads sat behind us, all the first half all you got from behind us was a running commentary, with, do this do that do the other, if I was Adkins I would do this I would do that. We should have kept Chamberlain, we haven't been the same since he left, he always made things happen bla bla bla: then along quite a few folks they booed the team at the half time whistle!

 

The booing around the stadium at half time raised a question from the chap in front: why are folks booing we are only one down and there is another 45 minutes to play............... And we are top of the league too!!

 

Mrs JBS commented that not only was she listening to the clap trap from behind her but the old bird sat next to her was equally as bad.

 

Second half we knock our game up a couple of gears Guly scores, normal service on the pitch resumes and the cobblers from behind fades away. However the old Trout next door but one has gotten a bit louder, gem of the latter stages of the game as we are running down the clock, Kelvin is playing you come too close and this ball going past you with a Hull forward, she's shouting come on get on and kick it out.................... Obviously not at the Everton game when we should have headed for the corner rather than trying to guild a very fragile lily.

 

Then to cap this off walking back to the car I overhear 2 separate conversations moaning about the game and saying that we won't be able to keep this up much longer!!!!!

 

Why bloomin bother turning up, we are on the best footballing adventure we have been on for ages and the misery guts still aren't happy!!!!!

 

Here here, well said that man!

[Super_Uwe]

If there were people booing the side last night, that really is out of order.

 

We have won our last 21 matches at home. 21 matches. This is a run which we may never see again in our lifetimes.

 

If we are not playing at the top of our game, so bloody what? Whatever we are doing is working and it's working well.

 

If certain fans can't have faith in NA and the players then they never will quite frankly. Yet again the team has bounced back from a defeat with a win; if that isn't a good sign then I don't know what is.

[S-Clarke]

Some of the fans last night were doing my bloody head in.

 

Comments along the lines about Barnard not being good enough for this league, if we don't beat Hull we don't deserve promotion, Lambert is just average at this level, Lallana has been found out, Guly is ****, Davis is dodgy. All in all quite a frustrating night listening to all that tosh.

 

I have no issue with critising the team generally, as we didn't play well in the first half. It's the stupid outlandish conclusions people come to and knee-jerk responses to things they don't really understand.

 

We're in a stunning position in the league, we didn't play well, but we won and are now 8pts clear of third. A year ago we were top 10 in L1 losing at home to Brentford. We've come a bloody long way with the same group of players, which IMO has totally shocked me.

[James]

The booing was completely out of order. It is a worry that when we start to have any kind of minor struggle at home the fans immediately jump on the players back.

 

Moaning football fans are annoying but everyone is entitled to their opinion I suppose and I bet we have all been guilty of it in the past.

[Windmill Arm 2]

I think someone should start a thread about the moany phukers who start threads about the moany phukers ........

[doddisalegend]

It seems to me the mood at SMS is changing with expectations. Last night was really flat for long periods and the crowd appeared to be more nervous than earlier in the season the closer we get to looking like we might get promoted the worse it will become.

[alpine_saint]

Boy do we have some moany thick folks following our team, and it's amazing what a colourful assortment we get sat within earshot of us.

 

Last nights game saw 2 lads sat behind us, all the first half all you got from behind us was a running commentary, with, do this do that do the other, if I was Adkins I would do this I would do that. We should have kept Chamberlain, we haven't been the same since he left, he always made things happen bla bla bla: then along quite a few folks they booed the team at the half time whistle!

 

The booing around the stadium at half time raised a question from the chap in front: why are folks booing we are only one down and there is another 45 minutes to play............... And we are top of the league too!!

 

Mrs JBS commented that not only was she listening to the clap trap from behind her but the old bird sat next to her was equally as bad.

 

Second half we knock our game up a couple of gears Guly scores, normal service on the pitch resumes and the cobblers from behind fades away. However the old Trout next door but one has gotten a bit louder, gem of the latter stages of the game as we are running down the clock, Kelvin is playing you come too close and this ball going past you with a Hull forward, she's shouting come on get on and kick it out.................... Obviously not at the Everton game when we should have headed for the corner rather than trying to guild a very fragile lily.

 

Then to cap this off walking back to the car I overhear 2 separate conversations moaning about the game and saying that we won't be able to keep this up much longer!!!!!

 

Why bloomin bother turning up, we are on the best footballing adventure we have been on for ages and the misery guts still aren't happy!!!!!

 

What do you suggest ? Dobbing them into the stewards (newly dressed in black shirts) and stand aside to watch them being dragged out of the stadium to the on-hand firing squad ?

 

I wish you happy-clappys would shut up. Everyone is entitled to make a pr*ck of themselves with their expressed opinion on something. Why does someone talkind cr*p bother you so much ?

 

Do you ever hear people complain if they overhear someone saying "I reckon we will win promotion" ?

[Dig Dig]

What do you suggest ? Dobbing them into the stewards (newly dressed in black shirts) and stand aside to watch them being dragged out of the stadium to the on-hand firing squad ?

 

I wish you happy-clappys would shut up. Everyone is entitled to make a pr*ck of themselves with their expressed opinion on something. Why does someone talkind cr*p bother you so much ?

 

Do you ever hear people complain if they overhear someone saying "I reckon we will win promotion" ?

 

Do you think it's right and fair on the players that a proportion of our fan base booed them at half time because we were one down? Especially in a game where we'd won all 18 of our previous league games at St Marys.

[Papa Shango]

Covered this in my blog a few weeks ago (http://www.thesaintshub.com/whydofansboo.html if you're interested in reading). Some fans don't deserve the success we are currently having. Constructive criticism away from the ground if fine, but the current crop of players have done more than enough to earn our support. Some don't seem to appreciate how bloody well we've done this season. After all this is largely the same side that was playing in League 1 last season. We're top of the league, score loads of goals, play great football and win all the time, but still some are never satisfied. I thought the crowd was pretty dead last night. We should be bouncing for 90mins every game. Some don't seem to understand that even the best teams have off days. Hell, even Barcelona lost on Saturday. People have got that old Saints mentality in them, but this is a completely different team. Player for player there's not much between each team in this division, but every time we lose/draw/play badly some fans do nothing but moan about how bad we've been, rather than give the opposition credit. Last nights performance wasn't as good as Middlesbrough, Leeds and other games, but we still played some absolutely blinding stuff at times. If we had played like any other season before this one, people would be raving about how good it was. Expectations have been raised however, and some won't accept anything less than perfection.

[Papa Shango]

No.

 

Guly was dreadful last night. I won't apologise for voicing my opinion on him.

 

Yeah all he did was score a goal. Supporters are meant to support their players

[boxosponge]

Barnard not being good enough for this league. I AGREE

if we don't beat Hull we don't deserve promotion I AGREE

Lambert is just average at this level, I AGREE EVEN THOUGH HE IS SO IMPORTANT TO US

Lallana has been found out, I AGREE. FAR TOO OFTEN HIS TRICKY TURNS JUST GIVE THE DEFENCE TIME TO COVER. AND WHEN HE PLAYS WIDE HE LEAVES THE FULL BACK EXPOSED

Davis is dodgy. YES HE CAN BE AT TIMES, BUT ON BALANCE WORTH HIS PLACE. BETTER THAN BART ANY DAY

Guly is ****, DON'T TALK SUCH ********

 

We've come a bloody long way with the same group of players, which IMO has totally shocked me.

YES WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY AND I AM DELIGHTED. BUT WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PREMIER LEAGUE AND WILL NEED TO INVEST HEAVILY.

[mitch01]

Having a moan seems reasonable given the inconsistent performances. The last 3 games of 2 wins and one defeat ask more questions than they answer.

Against Brighton, we stopped them having any meaningful attack and no shots on goal but the scoreline only looked respectable because of two extremely doubtful penalties.

Losing to Bristol City was obviously a poor result, but then a poor Watford side score 2 against them.

And now a 2-1 win at home to Hull after going a goal down, several players below par and for the 3rd time recently failing to score against 10 men.

Add to that our manager being less than convincing in his football knowledge when interviewed, always saying the same things about fantastic bunch, hardworking professionals, superb staff, etc. etc. but not a lot about the game itself. Maybe he feels constrained by not having been an outfield player himself but I hope he talks differently to the squad.

WHU fans must feel more confident given the fire their team seems to be showing and the prescence of Big Sam. At the moment I'd back them to overtake Saints before Xmas, but maybe that would be the prompting the club needs to bring in some extra quality in the January window. The gap to 3rd place looks good for promotion, but its still over half the season to go and to lose out on the exceptional opportunity of going up this season that the club now has would be criminal.

 

Alternatively, you could say we are having a fantastic season, winning a few games without playing well and still holding off a WHU squad who wouldn't look out of place in the PL. Criticising Adkins is laughable. I genuinely can't tell if you are 'trolling' or not. We have a good chance of getting into the automatic places, but a playoff position having just been promoted is a successful season, no matter what our start was.

[Papa Shango]

Now I remember why I hardly ever go on here anymore. So far this morning I've read that we've not been playing well and it's only a matter of time before we slip into the play-offs. Guly and Lee Barnard are rubbish, and one moron even said Adam Lallana didn't play well last night. If you can't enjoy watching Saints now then you probably never will. Our players are great, our manager is great, our Chairman is great. The whole club is ****ing great. Reading some of the comments on here you'd think we were bottom of the league not top. Goodbye!

[Chez]

TBH I thought the biggest idiots last night were the ones who gave Guly a standing ovation when he was finally substituted.

spot on

[Chez]

Yeah all he did was score a goal. Supporters are meant to support their players

so if you score that means you play well?