kpturner Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 ......in all likelihood. How will you feel? 1) Still glad to be in the PL 2) Wrist-slitting suicide risk 3) "Adkins out" merchant 4) Reserving judgement until Christmas 5) Baying for Villa blood 6) Meh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 ......in all likelihood. How will you feel? 1) Still glad to be in the PL 2) Wrist-slitting suicide risk 3) "Adkins out" merchant 4) Reserving judgement until Christmas 5) Baying for Villa blood 6) Meh! meh....I thought we would have 1 point in all that....but either way, expected to be bottom....with our start, won't really judge till completion of game 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 We'll probably win against 1 of them, that's the way we work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Wet fannies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 6. Pretty much what I expect, not too bothered though, early days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Pretty much what I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 25 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 25 August, 2012 6. Pretty much what I expect, not too bothered though, early days. That'll be "meh" then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangy Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Depends on who we bring in next week,if we do no business at all then probably all 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Depends on who we bring in next week,if we do no business at all then probably all 6 Crikey, if we do no business at all then it's best to get Samaritans on speed dial for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Saints Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 4. We were playing Wycombe a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 4. We were playing Wycombe a couple of years ago. To be honest, as good as our journey has been, that has absolutely no relevance on us now. We want to stay and build in this league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benali Saint Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 4 & 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Saints Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 To be honest, as good as our journey has been, that has absolutely no relevance on us now. We want to stay and build in this league. Agreed but we need to remember how far we've come in short space of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'00' Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Saints never have a good start in the PL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 6 the whole PL is a bit Meh..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggles31 Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Knowing Saints we'll go beat Man Ure and draw with Arsenal and we'll all be back in Champions league dream land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Resigned to it There is no way the team that played today will get a point against Man Utd or Arsenal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 6. Still think we'll survive the season and stay up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amesbury Saint Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Saints never have a good start in the PL. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 I shall be looking forward to games 5, 6, 7, etc. Started watching Saints in Div 3 (South), loved it then and loving it now. Come what may, I follow Saints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 I shall be looking forward to games 5, 6, 7, etc. Started watching Saints in Div 3 (South), loved it then and loving it now. Come what may, I follow Saints. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 ......in all likelihood. How will you feel? 1) Still glad to be in the PL 2) Wrist-slitting suicide risk 3) "Adkins out" merchant 4) Reserving judgement until Christmas 5) Baying for Villa blood 6) Meh! 7) Resigned to the inevitable in May 2013, but not particularly troubled by it either because the footballing world we now inhabit stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latheal Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 7. Still enjoying the ride and trying to guess what happens next. Also trying not to get too worked up over playing 4-3-3/4-5-1 when we blatantly haven't got the players to do it. Understanding that it was a 5 year plan and we're well ahead of schedule and that the club hasn't let us down yet. If it takes a relegation to understand the Premiership, then so be it. Fact is, Wigan were far better than anything we played in the Championship last year and apart from right back, I'd argue that was a weaker team than what we put out for the majority of last season. Would love for us to just go for it though, ala Blackpool. We can't defend for ****, may as well go for broke. If we could just move the ball a little quicker, we'd give ourselves a much better chance. It's not all doom and gloom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawillwill Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 I'm 99% certain we will be above Liverpool after 4 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 7. Still enjoying the ride and trying to guess what happens next. Also trying not to get too worked up over playing 4-3-3/4-5-1 when we blatantly haven't got the players to do it. Would love for us to just go for it though, ala Blackpool. We can't defend for ****, may as well go for broke. If we could just move the ball a little quicker, we'd give ourselves a much better chance. It's not all doom and gloom! This but with perhaps more of a Swansea outcome when it all clicks into place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Too soon yet to panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Played 4 and lost 4 is pretty much what I expected tbh. Wigan were never going to be easy. So pretty much I am unsurprised at our lack of points and wont be expecting us to get any any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Just watched us on Match of the Day. If we don't improve at the back we've got no chance. I was annoying myself today, criticising, and had to remind myself where we have come from. If we're bottom after 4 games there'll be no wrist slitting from me. Villa look garbage at the moment, so I'll be looking for a result there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalneSaint Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 The opening 4 games was always going to be hard, as well as being a very steep learning curve for all concerned. Baptism of fire....meh!!!! Lets see where we are after 10 games.... No need to panic...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 I didn't expect to lose today, especially as Wigan had sold their best player. If we had bothered to buy Premiership quality players prior to the start of the season we would more than likely have 3 points out if the first 4 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeySFC Posted 25 August, 2012 Share Posted 25 August, 2012 Apart from last season we never have a good start to the season no matter what league we're in (Championship 2007/08, 2008/09 League 1 2009/10, League 1 2010/11 just some recent examples) For me 6, I'm really enjoying the PL at the moment not really bothered that we haven't managed to beat the Champions at their own stadium or a tough Wigan side that beat Arsenal at the Emirates, Liverpool at Anfield, A very good Newcastle side 4-0, Man United 1-0 at the end of last season. ALOT of people underestimated Wigan (Maybe the team included?) and thought we'd win this 4/5/6-0, I didn't. The points will come. Keep the faith, Believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 Staying in the prem is the only thing we should striving to achieve,all this talk of champions league,playing like Barcelona blah blah blah is frankly very cringy. Also saying 'we were playing wycombe a couple of years ago' or 'we nearly didn't have a club' or 'we are ahead of schedule on the 5 year plan' basically has no relevance to anything at the moment and is also defeatist and cringy. The facts are we have done well to get where we are in a short space of time,as yet we haven't done brilliant in the transfer market,apart from a few short spells we are struggling on the pitch and Adkins doesn't seem to have an answer to it or the ability to change it. If you are happy to plod along and struggle with a good possibility of relegation then change nothing,keep smiling,you'll probably be satisfied with the outcome. If you want us to stay in the prem and build on that success then changes need to be made and plans have to be re drawn. I know which I would prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 Apart from last season we never have a good start to the season no matter what league we're in (Championship 2007/08, 2008/09 League 1 2009/10, League 1 2010/11 just some recent examples) For me 6, I'm really enjoying the PL at the moment not really bothered that we haven't managed to beat the Champions at their own stadium or a tough Wigan side that beat Arsenal at the Emirates, Liverpool at Anfield, A very good Newcastle side 4-0, Man United 1-0 at the end of last season. ALOT of people underestimated Wigan (Maybe the team included?) and thought we'd win this 4/5/6-0, I didn't. The points will come. Keep the faith, Believe The problem is Wigan (no disrespect to wigan) are one of the weaker sides in the PL and they had no trouble beating us if we can't pick up points at home to teams like Wigan where are the points going to come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 The smell of bullsh1t emanating from this thread is overpowering. No proper football fan - of any team - could possibly be entirely unconcerned to see his/her team is at the bottom of the league without a point after four games. If this sorry state of affairs should occur here, then I can promise anyone reading this that I'm not going to be all 'cool calm & collected' about it as some on here claim they will be - I'm going to give the (metaphorical) cat the kicking of its ferking life and be a utter bear to everyone around me. If we were to continue in such miserably uncompetitive form then - sooner or later - I will certainly expect the 'powers that be' to take the appropriate action to address the situation. Failure is not a option. I've paid over £500 to follow this team this season - which is a lot of money to me - and in return for that I expect to see us field a viable Premier League team that doesn't roll over and have its tummy tickled every time it plays the likes of Wigan Athletic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabrone Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 My expectations were to get less than 3 points from the first 6 fixtures so not too concerned. From the day we clinched promotion I expected this season to be really tough and 17th would be a great achievement. This is a tough league, the finishing is razor sharp and if you do not have a fantastic defence you will regularly ship goals, even when you dominate a game. That's why I'd been hoping for a top class GK + CB all summer long. I suspect the fans who are getting the most upset are the ones that expect us to be challenging for top 6. Wigan should have given the dreamers a big reality check. Remember Reading last season? We battered them but their superior finishing cost us. That's what you can expect in this league over and over. We are in a dog fight but I believe we can stay up, we do need to adapt ASAP though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 1, 4 and 5. "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 Those that seriously believed any of the hype rolled out over the summer have had a bit of a bloody nose yesterday but 1 game does make a season, fully expect certain areas to be addressed.......what gets on my t1ts is just how long we take to do transfers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 1. Enjoy the ride. If we go down, we can look forward to the NPC which is a great league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tisspahars Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 7) Resigned to the inevitable in May 2013, but not particularly troubled by it either because the footballing world we now inhabit stinks. That sounds quite hopeful - when you've resigned yourself to the inevitable of us not going up automatically in each of the last two years it has worked out rather well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 7. Still enjoying the ride and trying to guess what happens next. Also trying not to get too worked up over playing 4-3-3/4-5-1 when we blatantly haven't got the players to do it. Understanding that it was a 5 year plan and we're well ahead of schedule and that the club hasn't let us down yet. If it takes a relegation to understand the Premiership, then so be it. Fact is, Wigan were far better than anything we played in the Championship last year and apart from right back, I'd argue that was a weaker team than what we put out for the majority of last season. Would love for us to just go for it though, ala Blackpool. We can't defend for ****, may as well go for broke. If we could just move the ball a little quicker, we'd give ourselves a much better chance. It's not all doom and gloom! I would be interested whether you now agree with my views that we have been planning for a WBA style 'yoyo' strategy ? My view has been rubbished by a fair view posters over the last few months but I think secretly more people are coming round to my way of thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaver girl Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 What about the team that played City? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southamptonfclegend Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 of course we are gonna be bottom of the league after 4 games, but then we got a relitively 'easier' run of games which we need to start picking up points from although saying that I was hoping we would pick up points yesterday and we didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 The smell of bullsh1t emanating from this thread is overpowering. No proper football fan - of any team - could possibly be entirely unconcerned to see his/her team is at the bottom of the league without a point after four games. If this sorry state of affairs should occur here, then I can promise anyone reading this that I'm not going to be all 'cool calm & collected' about it as some on here claim they will be - I'm going to give the (metaphorical) cat the kicking of its ferking life and be a utter bear to everyone around me. If we were to continue in such miserably uncompetitive form then - sooner or later - I will certainly expect the 'powers that be' to take the appropriate action to address the situation. Failure is not a option. I've paid over £500 to follow this team this season - which is a lot of money to me - and in return for that I expect to see us field a viable Premier League team that doesn't roll over and have its tummy tickled every time it plays the likes of Wigan Athletic. I take it you didn't watch us at The Dell then. Hopefully we'll all be feeling a lot more confident at the end of the transfer window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convict Colony Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 I'm going to be at 4. I would of hoped to of knocked Wigan over yesterday if we had done all of our transfer business, but given that we still are "apparently" in for 4 more positions (Ram, Phillips, CB,LB) we can still mathematically could improve 35% of the team based on signings alone (if we played Jrod as CF its more like 45%) so i retain long term hope based on the assumption we get those A class players. I think to pursue and create long term value you need patience, have belief in what you are doing and set standards of excellence. Reacting to the short term events (I would taken 1pt after 4 games before the season started) and letting your emotional response drive you negates this and we become like every other knee jerk club, results matter in May not August. On another note the impact both Santi Carzola and Michu have made on their teams leaves me highly optimistic that a Ram or another could do the same for us, its just that as mentioned billions of times, JRod, Guly are playing in positions to which they are not suited at this level which inhibits the 4-3-3 framework as 2 of the forward 3 are out of position. You can make do in the championship but not with the big boys, I do hope Man City spank Liverpool who i think have similar problems to us and like us are bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 I honestly think it will read, played 6. Lost 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersonic Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 most on here are almost number 2 now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterlooville saint Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 Was hoping for something yesterday, but when you think about it Wigan were THE form team at the back end of last season, so if we have nothing after 4 games I won't be surprised. Really hope we are very busy in the transfer market next week as we need to strengthen and really believe we will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 ......in all likelihood. How will you feel? 1) Still glad to be in the PL 2) Wrist-slitting suicide risk 3) "Adkins out" merchant 4) Reserving judgement until Christmas 5) Baying for Villa blood 6) Meh! 4) and 6), seeing as it was pretty much expected the day the fixtures came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyer Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 Theres a pretty good chance you wont be bottom if you manage to get a point, QPR have Man City (a) Chelsea (h) Spurs (a) as the next 3 games and have a bad GD already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeySFC Posted 26 August, 2012 Share Posted 26 August, 2012 The problem is Wigan (no disrespect to wigan) are one of the weaker sides in the PL and they had no trouble beating us if we can't pick up points at home to teams like Wigan where are the points going to come from? Arsenal, United, Liverpool and Newcastle seemed to do alright last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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