red&white56 Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Disappointing today - not the fact that we lost, but more in the way we played. We looked like Saints away from home of the old days. All of our moves forward though Billy didn't work, he couldn't seem to win headers of keep the ball. We had a bit more success down the wings but didn't look likley to score - whereas Blackpool looked dangerous for most of the game. But as many have said before me - I'll take a whipping today (even if it is on TV) rahter than next week-end. I want vengance for the FA cup defeat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 I can handle players having poor games because it happens, even when it happens to about six at the same time. What I can't handle is "the fittest team in the division" being outworked and out-hustled for the entire ninety minutes. Having someone instantly up their arses just caused us to play even more square passes and backward passes in midfield than we usually do, explaining why we had lots of possession but virtually no penetration. And yet if Sharp had scored the penalty and Jos had scored when he could have farted it in, the story could have been oh so different. This post sums up (very well) my thoughts about today. I had an idea that we would lose today but not in such an inept way. At 70 minutes, I asked if the TV could be turned off (watched the game at my son-in-laws) but I was forced to endure the remaining 20 plus minutes. Was that our worst 'performance' of the season so far? We will need to play 100% better against Reading, or we will get stuffed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 I'm just not going to dwell on it. Saints are a very good team. They will put this behind them and do what they need to do next game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Just back from Blackpool. stunning support, such a shame that Guly spurned his chip over the keeper and Sharp missed the penalty, was all downhill from there. Draw a line under it and move on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainchris Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 I'm just not going to dwell on it. Saints are a very good team. They will put this behind them and do what they need to do next game. Errrr ....buries head in sand...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corky morris Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Very very poor with many terrible performances with Guly, Sharp, Chaplow, Butterfield & Joss at their worst. Adkins playing the diamond when Blackpool play with decent wingers was a mistake too. Move on & beat the fish *****ers next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graffito Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Your very accurate and well made point about our midfield being too far advanced is one that few have picked up on but so very. No. It was because we didn't move the ball quickly enough and that was partly because Blackpool closed down so fast. Lots of possession but mostly in our half. We have struggled all season against teams that close us down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyinthesky Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Toi be fair we were hammered at leedsa but got out of jail thanks to Kelvin Davies and were a tad fortunate at Millwall Dont think we have been firing on all cylinders lately decent an impressive run Hope all this be rectified, starting on Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Errrr ....buries head in sand...... I should go into a blind panic because we lost one game after a 12 match unbeaten run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 No. It was because we didn't move the ball quickly enough and that was partly because Blackpool closed down so fast. Lots of possession but mostly in our half. We have struggled all season against teams that close us down. 100% correct! We just don't cope well against teams that take the game to us! We want to play our passing game but many teams have worked out how to play us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 [/b] 100% correct! We just don't cope well against teams that take the game to us! We want to play our passing game but many teams have worked out how to play us. Agree, perversely this is why we may do okay next season (in the Premiership) as we'll "do a Swansea". I fully expect Swansea to get relegated next season, but there's no reason why we couldn't copy them and stay up for one season with our game, when on form. Today, we were sh*t, totally and utterly sh*t. But, we're still top, we'll still go up (I think) and we still are a good side. Blackpool were very very good today and Ince was brilliant - WHEN we go up, I would love us to buy him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cestrian Saint Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Always felt that we'd lose today. Certainly didn't expect such a **** performance. I'm seriously worried about the game next week as I don't think we'll get the result that we need. I put a large sum of money on us finishing 3rd and I'm sticking by that. I really do think that we'll make a mess of this so I may as well get some financial gain from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS1980 Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Has ince signed for Blackpool or on loan? Looked lively all game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Just back from Blackpool. stunning support, such a shame that Guly spurned his chip over the keeper and Sharp missed the penalty, was all downhill from there. Draw a line under it and move on! As my nipper said, the support was "proper". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 West Ham lost as well. One more game gone, gap to 3rd place is still 2 games (+ GD) with 6 to play. A pity about the title though. I think we'll have to beat Reading if we are to win the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Get a life... if i could only take you seriously, what were you saying about swings and roundabouts? Seen a few on you rounds have you? Dear Father, please forgive me, for i have Sinned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicestersaint Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Holloway got his tactics spot on - we got ours woefully wrong and yet did little to change things throughout the match. I am a big NA fan but today's game exposed his limited tactical nous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenue Saint Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 if i could only take you seriously, what were you saying about swings and roundabouts? Seen a few on you rounds have you? Dear Father, please forgive me, for i have Sinned... Lol, you crack me up you little bellend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzzza Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 i hope NA reads these threads, many excellent observations. Most noticable thing lacking as in many away games and games without RL seems to be as the yanks say 'wanting it'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Didn't see the game as I was working. That f**k. Wont comment on the game, but this should provide comfort to some... West Ham have 6 games left. They need 2 wins and a draw just to get above where we are now. They have 3 easy fixtures and 3 tricky ones IMO. we are still very much in the driving seat. Come on Barnsley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Codger Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 [/b] 100% correct! We just don't cope well against teams that take the game to us! We want to play our passing game but many teams have worked out how to play us. Errr... if many teams have worked out how to play us, how come we are top of the league? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 WTF Guly was probably one of our better players today. His chance on goal was not easy, Sharp missed a penalty, so do other players in games. The main problem was that our fowards were not given a chance. No width or decent balls played in to the fowards. Hoof ball doesn't work without a Lambert type player, you have to get the ball to the byeline, can't remember many times we achieved that. LLanna although one of our better skillful players did not do much to make Messi look sh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrek Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Just got back. That was total gash today. And Blackpool is a dump. But the last 20 minutes in the away end was a full on party! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St_Tel49 Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 (edited) I knew as soon as Sharp missed the penalty that it was not going to be our day. For those of our fans who in the past were a bit sniffy about Lambert's scoring record because of the number of penalties it included - well today showed that penalty goals are as important as any other. It might, just might, have been a different game had that goal been scored. I expected better of Sharp than what he delivered. Fair play to Blackpool - they got into our faces and when teams do that we seem to struggle to get going. What bothered me was that we just seemed to have no ideas. Considering the possession stats we created nothing to very little. I suppose that DeRidder was brought on to run at them - except he didn't. A generally poor performance through the team and a disastrous one from the back four who were constantly caught out of position. An honourable exception to Morgan who was everywhere but was getting precious little from the rest. Oh, and Nigel, forever passing along the back line does not win games. Ah well - blue line, move on. PS Respect to our support that was there - I could hear it all through the game in spite of the rubbish they were watching. Edited 31 March, 2012 by St_Tel49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank's cousin Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Just back through door -what can I say that's not been said? Not much but maybe .... I took my Geordie father in law down big Magpies fan so came as a neutral and sang OWTs with the lads. ... Started lively ... Gully misses a chip ... Sharp misses a pen.... From where we were looked like their pen was wrong? Not seen any replays so can't tell... Generally a poor display, but not our day really. May turn out to be an important lesson- we ain't there yet and the lads need to work twice as hard again for the rest of season if they want this as badly as we do Ddraw a line etc.... Support was great especially the marathon OWTS Father in law the game as 'draw' - I know we were pants but it was not a 3-0 - just shows that our expectations of this side are very high given the standards they have set themselves - today they did not meet them, but we have a nice game next week to show a good 'reaction' in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 31 March, 2012 Share Posted 31 March, 2012 Made them look like Barcelona. Saw it coming a mile off. We need to consider bringing in a Psychiatrist before our next appearance on TV. Magnificent support, very proud of that. Bounce back against the DFCSB's and all is forgiven. Failure not even an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 we can't win them all. thought we would lose today very poor performance we will win at the weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capitalsaint Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Dobbie is a great player. Reading between the lines of this post, it is clear I knew he'd get a brace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Was at this yesterday. Mixed feelings about it. Performance from the team was pretty crap - Blackpool could have scored more, whereas we just didn't look like scoring. Didn't actually get to see much of the game due to the pillars / being a short-arse and everyone standing throughout. As others have remarked, our support was immense. Last 20 minutes or so was non-stop singing, with some particularly funny crap about when the Blackpool Early Leavers Brigade started their march out of Bloomfield Road and when the attendance was announced. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Errr... if many teams have worked out how to play us, how come we are top of the league? Look again! I didn't write that we loose to every team that takes the game to us, just that teams try to stop our passing game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obelisk Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Some gripes. 1. If their's was a pen then my mum is the Queen. Still, poor defending to let him into the box for a dive. 2. Was Taylor-Fletcher offside when their keeper hoofed it up the pitch before heading it on? Even so, to let the ball transfer from their keeper to the back of our net in just a couple of touches without a Saints defender managing a tickle is woeful. 3. Never a corner for their 3rd. Should have been a goal kick. Nevertheless, Jos must have been marking the invisible man. Either that or he fancied a stroll on his own. All that said though. Had Guly not missed an open goal early on. Had someone confident been on hand to take the penalty. Things could have turned out differently. Blackpool weren't that great really. Long balls into the channels for their pace to use was all they had. Let's just hope that reminds Saints of what would be waiting in the play-offs should they screw this up. Time to draw a line under that result, learn the lessons and give our neighbours a spanking next weekend. I really don't fancy the idea of a squeaky bum for the coming month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian the Red Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Could have been so different if Guly and Sharpe had scored. Guly should at least hit the target, Sharpe's pen was poor. From then on we were 2nd best. Jos was dreadful, at fault for their 2nd and 3rd. We need to learn from this result and ensure that the players realise that the hard work is not completed yet, we still need 12 points to guarantee promotion, thats 2pts per game. Looking at the fixtures, 2 wins over Easter will set us up nicely. Believe!! We will be promoted....... as champions!! COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasper57saint Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Whenever we play a team with pacy wingers we struggle.Today we couldn't stop them. Move on to next saturday and see what we can really do. I had us to win today but so be it. PS. Their penalty wasn't (ours was) Their second goal was a gift and the third from a corner that wasn't. PPS. How Guly didn't get an early yellow I'll never know. Three times he ran into the back of a player.Is there something we should be told? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corky morris Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 WTF Guly was probably one of our better players today. His chance on goal was not easy, Sharp missed a penalty, so do other players in games. The main problem was that our fowards were not given a chance. No width or decent balls played in to the fowards. Hoof ball doesn't work without a Lambert type player, you have to get the ball to the byeline, can't remember many times we achieved that. LLanna although one of our better skillful players did not do much to make Messi look sh... Completely disagree about Guly. He was a passanger for most of the game. However he is clearly not a big strong back to goal type striker so why the hell did we hoof it too him first half? We did change 2nd half, but all that did was allow them to press out CB's. It just shows how important Lambert is & that is exactly why I would have bought a striker capable of winning a header when our keeper or CB's hit the longer ball forward. There were planty that were rubbish yesterday. I think that was even worse than Donny away!!! Joss had his worst game ever for Saints yesterday IMHO too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Some gripes. . Had someone confident been on hand to take the penalty. Things could have turned out differently. . Sharp would have been the appointed penalty taker, Nigel probably thinks he's the bee's bolloaks still and he no doubt scored plenty of penalties when he was at Scunny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Toi be fair we were hammered at leedsa but got out of jail thanks to Kelvin Davies and were a tad fortunate at Millwall Dont think we have been firing on all cylinders lately ........ You've hit the nail on the head here. I think you can almost divide our season neatly into 3 distinct phases: We got off to a superb start when we very often just blew other teams off the field with the speed and quality of our play, in fact I've seldom seen this club produce better football. A predictable, if rather disappointing, mid season mini slum followed unfortunately, which itself was superseded by a period of what we might almost describe as 'winning ugly'. The trouble with winning ugly of course is that, sooner or later, you are bound to 'lose ugly' too - as happened yesterday in front of the bloody BBC cameras alas! But 'nil desperandum' my south coast friends ! We're still top of the league and fantastically placed to secure automatic promotion - if only we can keep our nerve that is. ... oh and if we could see just a little less of Guly do Prado please Mr Adkins that would do very nicely thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 we have a complete bunch of fannies on here all doom and gloom....people saying sharp needs to sort his head out, some saying "why didn't we buy a target man".. ffs, there is a reason why we are top of the league... also, you can't win the all....even man u get a spanking from time to time we were well beat...fair play to blackpool....we STILL created a few chances and it was not our day we will beat pompey and all will be well again some proper fannies on here ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 we have a complete bunch of fannies on here all doom and gloom....people saying sharp needs to sort his head out, some saying "why didn't we buy a target man".. ffs, there is a reason why we are top of the league... also, you can't win the all....even man u get a spanking from time to time we were well beat...fair play to blackpool....we STILL created a few chances and it was not our day we will beat pompey and all will be well again some proper fannies on here ffs And the fannies only come out after a defeat.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 we have a complete bunch of fannies on here all doom and gloom....people saying sharp needs to sort his head out, some saying "why didn't we buy a target man".. ffs, there is a reason why we are top of the league... also, you can't win the all....even man u get a spanking from time to time we were well beat...fair play to blackpool....we STILL created a few chances and it was not our day we will beat pompey and all will be well again some proper fannies on here ffs Hahaha! Quite right DD. We can't be doing everything wrong. We've had some luck of late. We had none yesterday. In hindsight, their's was not a pen, ours was but we blew it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Lol, you crack me up you little bellend. nice one, here's another, lets see how quick you are this time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW11_Saint Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Agree, need to draw a line under this one. In some perverse way it may have done us a favour - illustrating we have no devine right to win games, and we need to treat very game like a cup final if we're going to go up. I thought there was a good argument to play Deano yesterday. If nothing else he always puts in hard graft and we could have done with his industry in midfield. I'd play him at Posh for the same reason. Chappers just not back in his groove yet. Anyway, onto the Skates and 3 points... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 (edited) we have a complete bunch of fannies on here all doom and gloom....people saying sharp needs to sort his head out, some saying "why didn't we buy a target man".. ffs, there is a reason why we are top of the league... also, you can't win the all....even man u get a spanking from time to time we were well beat...fair play to blackpool....we STILL created a few chances and it was not our day we will beat pompey and all will be well again some proper fannies on here ffs Eh? There's no doom and gloom - we're in the driving seat and masters of our own destiny. We do plenty of things right. But its not as if this performance came out of the blue. Its painfully easy to predict which games we're going to struggle in - surely its sensible to ask why don't rectify things. My advice: go to a game or two FFS. Then you might understand the frustration of seeing us run into the same f**king brick wall each time certain conditions are present. Edited 1 April, 2012 by shurlock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Eh? There's no doom and gloom - we're in the driving seat and masters of our own destiny. We do plenty of things right. But its not as if this performance came out of the blue. Its painfully easy to predict which games we're going to struggle in - surely its sensible to ask why don't rectify things. My advice: go to a game or two FFS. Then you might understand the frustration of seeing us run into the same f**king brick wall each time certain conditions are present. i do thanks the conditions were the same in hull..yet we won despite (I'm sure) you predicted otherwise... we were just bad yesterday. it happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 i do thanks the conditions were the same in hull..yet we won despite (I'm sure) you predicted otherwise... we were just bad yesterday. it happens In what way were they the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Uwe Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Just a very bad day at the office. Blackpool really got their teeth into us and never allowed us to get any real play going forward (as highlighted by the amount of possession we had without really doing much with it). Disappointed for Billy Sharp that he missed his pen - they made a good point on the Beeb that he didn't really look composed or focused when running up; he kept looking over at the ref to see if he could start his run-up and stuttered a bit before striking the ball. But hey ho - we don't miss many penalties and so I suppose we were due one at some stage. The Blackpool that played yesterday though were excellent; quite frankly if they were able to put that sort of performance together each week then they would undoubtedly be up chasing for automatic promotion. Ince in particular was very good, we didn't really seem to be able to deal with him. Coupled with our bad defending that really sealed our fate. Overall though the West Ham result means we haven't really lost out, and if we can beat both the Skates and Reading then we will still be in pole position to win the title. I have full faith in the team to bounce back from that game though - whenever they've messed up in the past two years they have always come back the next week and got the result they needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 if it makes any of you feel better west ham have only won 8 in the last 22.......lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicestersaint Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 we have a complete bunch of fannies on here all doom and gloom....people saying sharp needs to sort his head out, some saying "why didn't we buy a target man".. ffs, there is a reason why we are top of the league... also, you can't win the all....even man u get a spanking from time to time we were well beat...fair play to blackpool....we STILL created a few chances and it was not our day we will beat pompey and all will be well again some proper fannies on here ffs You sound like a member of the current Conservative government! It will all be alright on the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disconnect Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 Bad stuff. Butterfield was awful, as was Fonte - every time he got the ball and didnt get rid of it straight away I felt he might fall over or pass it to one of their players. Far too narrow in the first half. Couple of dodgy offside decisions against us which would've led to good opportunities and match could've been different, but not really good enough. Where's Puncheon? He's looked at least half ok a few matches he's played this season, and at least has a bit of pace and wants to get forward! Too many sideways passes - even 3-0 down at 80 mins defenders were just passing across each other until one of them just smacked it up to no one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobM Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 You sound like a member of the current Conservative government! It will all be alright on the night. And most of the posters on here sound like the same idiots queuing up for petrol in a blind panic, over a strike that didn't and doesn't exist, over a shortage that was made by the panic itself. Perspective, if you could bottle it and sell it you'd make a fortune selling to our fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidshokk Posted 1 April, 2012 Share Posted 1 April, 2012 "P1ss on the tower, we're gonna p1ss on the tower" Best away day for me in terms of fans support. Never "Disco'd" so much whilst losing a game badly. Shows how times have changed and what a good position we are in. The pool fans around the stadium looked so puzzled by us having such a party despite getting tonked Now on the long journey back to Soton with a hangover (just remembered seeing booze britain being filmed as a guy covered in blood was being arrested) Might have to barf up along the way :-S Blackpool is a strange strange place. Topped off by my mate buying a gollywog in the gift shop a moment ago. Aren't they banned?!?!!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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