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Guly 5 Hate how the fans were singing for de Ridder, embarrassed by that, but he didn't have a great game, to be far he didn't see the ball because we bypassed midfield

de Ridder 6 never saw the ball, we just don't feed him enough, but when he got his chance he fluffed it

Agree with most of your assessment, and especially the above. Perhaps now people will begin to see that it is not Guly that is the problem. Its embarrassing when so-called supporters boo their own players off the pitch, but perhaps they should consider what they wish for, because de Ridder was no better. It is the rest of the players and how they use them that are the problem, but I swear Guly would have buried the chance the SDR fluffed. I like Guly but have to concede he was awful today, in the same way SDR was awful.

 

Game spoiled for me a bit today by the knob sat in front of us. Completely out of his brain, falling over everyone. We really do have some mongs who are so-called supporters (never seen him before in the area that I sit regularly). Spent the part of the game that he was able to be at doing ****** signs to the Skates who were over a hundred yards away from him. I guess he thought he was proper hard, in fact he was a total ****, hope its a long time till scum like that come to the ground again, suspect he only comes to derbies.

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Dirty bastards indeed. Probably would've been a different game had we kept Schneiderlin on the pitch as we had to play it long from the back as Hammond and Cork can't string together 2 passes (sad but true). Guly was a spectator, i'm a fan of his but today he just wasn't there. Came off his marker for their first and left our wide areas exposed when he drifted infield. Not sure if today was just a bad performance or whether he's not cut out for high-intensity games like that.

 

Tbf, their two goals were crackers. However, had our marking been better on the edge of the area they wouldn't have had the opportunity to shoot. Real sickener to lose that lead so late on as well.

 

P*mpey fans were mongs as per usual, load of gobby 14 year olds Block 1 side who were safe and sound behind the police line. Not sure they would've been so mouthy had there not been as large a police presence.

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Davis at fault for 1 st goal.. cork was cracking.. when he got pushed off the ball it was usually a 60 40 in their favour. Lambert nowhere near fit. Fox frustrating as is often the case. Ahhh !!!

At the end of the day their keeper pulled off about 3 worldys to keep them in it.. a wonder strike from them to equalise 2 nd time. And northam support was awful from the moment the skates scored their .1st to 10 mins from the end. From the itchen chapel corner we were completely outsung for about an hour. Bottom line.. we created enough clear cut chances to beat most teams

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pretty poor team performance,rickie def not 100 percent,we need some pace.personaly i thought cork was the only one up for it.please stop thinking the sun shines out of adam,hes shooting is woeful,he should have put the shot away instead of going down.they had two wonder strikes and scored.why have resorted to so much long ball,and we took the p*** out of the hammers for it.its still on but alot harder and dont think we will win monday,not very often we come away from palace with a win.i also thought we looked tired today all over the pitch.also why dont we close down our opponents like they do to us.

still,keep the faith,five to go but we will need to play better.coys

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Point is a point and now that Bristol won I feel a bit better.

 

BUT Saints defending is shocking and getting worse game by game. We gave em to goals by not bothering to close down. Wasted corners and crosses again a problem for us. On the plus Sharp is Sharp and some good attacking at times.

 

Guly needs to go on loan to Littleton FC, I played for them and he would slot into Sunday/Sat football well. Maybe an Arm chair on the Pitch if he starts for Palace. Give him his cedit he was brillaint early on in season but not my god he is slow and cant keep the ball. Did no one tell him its a Derby game today!

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footballs a funny game, im sitting here gutted

 

but the irony is, take out all the ifs and buts, what that result actually, factually, did was return us back top and (added to the bristol city result) dropped the skates further from safety

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It feels like a defeat, but the reality is that we just need to match Reading for the next five games to win the league.

 

The atmosphere wasn't great, but from the Northam/Kingsland corner I didn't hear much from the Blue Few either.

 

If we win the next two games, it won't matter so much.

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Point is a point and now that Bristol won I feel a bit better.

 

BUT Saints defending is shocking and getting worse game by game. We gave em to goals by not bothering to close down. Wasted corners and crosses again a problem for us. On the plus Sharp is Sharp and some good attacking at times.

 

Guly needs to go on loan to Littleton FC, I played for them and he would slot into Sunday/Sat football well. Maybe an Arm chair on the Pitch if he starts for Palace. Give him his cedit he was brillaint early on in season but not my god he is slow and cant keep the ball. Did no one tell him its a Derby game today!

 

I find it hard to criticise the defending. If you're restricting the opposition to shots from 25 yards, you're doing most things right. The leveller at the end was just an incredible effort.

 

Sometimes you just have to accept when someone does something that good that, be honest, 90% of the time goes into row Z.

 

I need to see it again, but not sure how Kelvin didn't save the first...

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I find it hard to criticise the defending. If you're restricting the opposition to shots from 25 yards, you're doing most things right. The leveller at the end was just an incredible effort.

 

Sometimes you just have to accept when someone does something that good that, be honest, 90% of the time goes into row Z.

 

I need to see it again, but not sure how Kelvin didn't save the first...

 

He didn't react quickly enough.

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Blackpool showed us how to play 4 4 2 with width Pompey showed us how the diamond packed Midfield works

We need to learn from these games and move forward!

 

Yep we need to learn from a team who are going to be relegated and a team who will just about scrape in to the play-offs. Meanwhile I am happy to be top of the league

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Bah Sharp did a Johno quick performance, 2 tap ins (first should have been Fontes anyway) and then NOTHING, such a frustrating player.

 

Everyone else gave it a good go against a keeper playing like a man possessed! Full credit to Ashdown, without him it would have been a cricket score line and was the only player pomp of championship standard.

 

Still a mad home draw will do considering both goals were someone smacking it as hard as possible and looking surprised it was a goal. Hopefully we play like that against Palace and Reading for a decent chance of 6 points from the next 2 games. Home Morg is ok as we need him

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what exactly did Sharp get booked for after his first goal?

 

Seriously ?

How about running past the whole length of the skate supporters for starters ? (and thats ignoring the "sshhh" sign he gave them)

Did that not count as insighting the crowd which is a bookable offence ?

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Seriously ?

How about running past the whole length of the skate supporters for starters ? (and thats ignoring the "sshhh" sign he gave them)

Did that not count as insighting the crowd which is a bookable offence ?

 

And do you know what? I don't mind that. I like the odd player who can wind the opposition fans up... it never did United any harm having Roy Keane ;)

 

I don't want all our players to do it, but one or two is fine.

 

BT did the same in the Carling Cup.

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Seriously ?

How about running past the whole length of the skate supporters for starters ? (and thats ignoring the "sshhh" sign he gave them)

Did that not count as insighting the crowd which is a bookable offence ?

 

Wow. Is that seriously a bookable offence now? You see that sort of thing all the time. I never saw Chopra get booked when he danced about in front of us at St Marys a few years back, or Jerome, or Fuller.

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And do you know what? I don't mind that. I like the odd player who can wind the opposition fans up... it never did United any harm having Roy Keane ;)

 

I don't want all our players to do it, but one or two is fine.

 

BT did the same in the Carling Cup.

 

I dont mind it at all either but in a highly charged local derby its gonna be a booking all day long.

Now if he had turned left after he scored he would have been alright probably !

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He didn't react quickly enough.

 

Saw the strike again on telly, a far fiercer shot than it looked at the time. Don't think Davis could have done much tbh. IMO, as well as Guly going AWOL and allowing them to double up, I thought Richardson was at fault, had a couple of chances to nick it away and just did nothing. He was very poor today.

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Bah Sharp did a Johno quick performance, 2 tap ins (first should have been Fontes anyway) and then NOTHING, such a frustrating player.

 

 

You just can't please some people... Billy scored 2 goals more than any other Saints player, (and one or two others..Lallana and Fonte in particular .. had easier chances and missed.)

 

for me a draw seems fair (if against the run of pla)y. Pompey can't blame us if they go down, and we will go up if we get results in the final 5 games.

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You just can't please some people... Billy scored 2 goals more than any other Saints player, (and one or two others..Lallana and Fonte in particular .. had easier chances and missed...)

 

Agreed. Thought Sharp did the job we bought him for - 4 goals in three games? - whereas our long range shooting was hopeless! And bizarre. We are not that sort of team. We normally try and walk the ball in...

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A few thoughts on today's match:

 

The ref was bloody awful, his ineptitude going a long way towards ruining the game. Apparently it is now withing the laws of the game that any SFC player can be elbowed in the rids, or receive a forearm smash to the face, without fear of punishment from the officials.

 

SFC not anywhere near our best (yet again) but clearly the better team and we easily created enough chances to win this game 3 times over.

 

PFC keeper (Ashdown) had the game of his career, while Kelvin won't be happy conceding twice from outside the box efforts - however well struck.

 

Jack Cork, Billy Sharp, and Adam Lallana all had good games I thought. Ricky Lambert I must say looked very off the pace, Fox was terrible, and as for Guly do bloody Prado .....

 

I was massively disappointed with the result to be honest but its gone now, so take the single point and move on to the next game.

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If their goalkeeper had been playing for us and ours for them we would have won.

 

I thought the same at the Bristol Game - David James is still a top Goalie

 

Although it is getting tense at the Top of the table but I still think Saints will do it

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ffs, we are 4 points clear....I would have taken your right nut for that 10 games ago.....

 

Why would you want his nut? lol

 

For me in the Kingsland, the linesman seemed to making decisions at random, and also tried to disallow our 2nd?

Guly and Hamond seemed poor. Thought Fox was great first half.

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I just read some of the sh/te alpine saint posted. What a thorough crap supporter he is. It's good to see the majority are sticking behind the lads and not going in for his manic depressive bullsh/t.

 

I tell you what, you wouldn't want to be down in the trenches with him. Mainly because he'd have flooded it with his constant bed wetting.

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I tell you what, you wouldn't want to be down in the trenches with him. Mainly because he'd have flooded it with his constant bed wetting.

 

ahhhh, he just get's on my nerves. It wasn't the best of days, but it's done now and we're top of the league with 5 to play. If you are a proper fan you get behind the club now. End of.

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ahhhh, he just get's on my nerves. It wasn't the best of days, but it's done now and we're top of the league with 5 to play. If you are a proper fan you get behind the club now. End of.

 

Absolutely. 4 games in 14 days.

 

Lots of twits and turns, but a very quick turn around so we can rectify mistakes very quickly - and punish other teams slip ups. This period will really test all 3 squads.

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Not much to say except Davis should of saved the first goal. No keeper should be beaten at that angle from that far out. Looking at the footage it's like he tried to do a flashy save when should of just palmed it over. Our defence was shocking at times and how Norris had that much space with a minute to go was criminal. Add to that our tactics were well and truly wrong. We put huge pressure on Lallana to create things and when he couldn't we just hoofed it. Guly was ****, de ridder was ****, Lambert looked knackered from the start, Hammond couldn't keep the ball etc. sharp cork and Lallana were the stand out players for me.

It was a good game to watch and a point was a fair result. But we need to win our next two games now or we will be under massive pressure.

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