Saints v Forest - Post match reaction

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

Here please

[Plumstead_Saint]

Oh dear

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

Merry Xmas Saints fans: love from the board, management & players.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

The guy currently on the "Third Half" on radio hampshire is actually talking some sense for someone who is simply ranting and raving

[Thedelldays]

4 points adrift of norwich with a massively worse goal difference to them...

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

4 points adrift of norwich with a massively worse goal difference to them...

 

and a massively worse team. How bad is that?!?!

[redstripe]

Sfc rip

[70's Mike]

i walked out after their second goal, we had no threat , no shape, no idea of how to change when we go behind at home, and finally with performances like that NO HOPE

[Micky]

'In the bleak midwinter....' and boy is it bleak - will be very interesting to see what those who were there thought of the game....

[alpine_saint]

A florid middle-digit raised by the board, management and players of SFC to their long-suffering fans and especially the 12,000-odd who gave the club another chance.

[SNSUN]

It's a four team lottery at the bottom.

 

We are arse. Not looking forward to 2009.

[camdijk]

Jan uses the 'F' word on Solent. My, he must be angry. ;-)

[Saint Jimbo]

WE NEED OUR STRIKERS!!

lallana is a midfielder so i'd sell him on hes been useless lately use the money to pay the wages of john and rasiak

our team with these strikers would be complete, our midfield is good, our defence would be good provided that the service to these strikers get goals then the opposing team would be two down or so and the pressure on our defence would be far less, giving them more confidence.

 

If this doesn't go according to plan in our important games over january, then the manager should go but for f***'s sake get some strikers and get some goals!!

[70's Mike]

one down, carry on with the same system offer no threat and just replace one forward with another.

even chelsea throw JT forward when they are behind.

[SNSUN]

To make this team good: Davis, New Signing, New Signing, New Signing, New Signing, Schneiderin, Lallana, Surman, John, Saga, Rasiak.

 

:-D

[hackedoff]

Did anyone REALLY expect anything else ? The club is run by people with no football knowledge, " managed " by someone with limited foreign lower league experience and played by third rate ( odd exception ) players. This club is now in its death throes and I am afraid it now too late to do much about it.

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11103

 

Good job JP pledged to entertain the bumper crowd; imagine how bad it would've been if they'd been really crap today...

[ART]

SAINTS BLACKEST CHRISTMAS ......... EVER!

 

Even in Premiership relegation season we had a new manager and new hope in Harry Redknapp at Christmastime.

 

Look at the Sunderland, Blackburn and Spurs results to see what a change of manager can do instantly. Lowe wants a young track suit manager and there will be none better than Roy Keane or Paul Ince ever again available.

 

I've supported Jan all the way but today's result (especially as this game was one for the supporters~~~~ Grrrr!!!) means Jan must fall on his sword or Lowe needs to show his skill and shoot him.

[Delmary]

I hope the Lowites final smell the coffee. Lowe should be kicked out of our club next Mon at the AGM. He's responsible for this unnecessary mess.

[St Landrew]

Radio Hampshire phone in is quite interesting. The callers are talking quite a bit of sense, and David Armstrong can only agree with their comments. He's also saying a few home truths himself.

[offix]

Is Branfoot still available?

[thorpie the sinner]

Did anyone REALLY expect anything else ? The club is run by people with no football knowledge, " managed " by someone with limited foreign lower league experience and played by third rate ( odd exception ) players. This club is now in its death throes and I am afraid it now too late to do much about it.

 

I think our club finally died today!!!! The problem is Lowe actually doesn't care so anything we say falls on deaf ears!!!

[Thedelldays]

armstrong cant inderstand why Jan has not been removed...1 win at home all season with the number of defeats is simply not even close to being good enough..

[corsacar saint]

I could not make the game, however if the pro Lowes on here are happy that after

another woeful result and performance that the club are heading in the right direction

god help us.

[OttawaSaint]

Wow, our once proud club reduced to this.

 

I am so upset about this that I can barely follow the games, it is too painful. I have been a Saints fan for nearly 30 years. Very sad it has come to this, it is a slow painful death.

[hackedoff]

Can anyone dress up Jan as a duck ( or Christmas turkey ) and stick him on Lowe,s farm ?

[Delmary]

Can anyone dress up Jan as a duck ( or Christmas turkey ) and stick him on Lowe,s farm ?

He'll be gone before Mon, Lowe will bottle it before the AGM.

[Dalek2003]

Will Glenn come and save us ?

[Thedelldays]

Will Glenn come and save us ?

lol

 

 

would be interesting if he did come back and really saved us etc...:yawinkle:

[um pahars]

When anyone says we play attacking and exciting football, I will refer them to this game.

 

When anyone mentions Total Football, I will refer them to this game.

 

When anyone says we are making progress, I will refer them to this game.

 

Make no mistake, this was no fluke result, this was no one off poor performance or a bolt out of the blue, this was plainly total and utter rubbish.

 

Another one dimensional set up which was not delivering.

 

Some of these players aren't that bad, but the way we set up and the way we were playing is just appalling!!!!!

 

Davis - 6 - Three very good saves that kept the score down.

 

James - 3 - Offered nothing.

 

Perry - 5 - Tried his best, but was surrounded by players not performing.

 

Pearce - 2 - Looked nervous and always suspect.

 

Skacel - 5 - Tried his best, but eventually gave up

 

Euell - 5 - He is not a right winger, HE IS NOT A RIGHT WINGER

 

Surman - 4 - Overrun by Forest's midfield

 

Cork - 4 - Overrun by Forest' midfield

 

Holmes - 5 - Tried his best, btu the very fact we were one dimensional and trying to play everything through him meant he was oon snuffed out.

 

Lallana - 5 - So skilful and silky, but Forest had him sussed and kept him from hurting them.

 

McGoldrick - 0 (zero) - A waste of a shirt.

 

Subs :

 

Wright Phillips - 5 - Tried his best, but back to normal

 

Gasmi - -5 (minus 5) - made Ali Dia look good. Didn't have a clue, did not look as though he knew where he was playing or what he was doing.

[lamanga]

Like Art (hello Art) I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt for a while, but today has been the final straw for me regarding Poortvliet. He'll be on later talking about "the boys." How can they get inspired by that?

[St Landrew]

Where is that little bugger that many tried to stuff some sense into. The one who arrogantly called certain loyal Saints fans, flatcaps..? The one who called a passionate manager, the bootboy..? The one that called the present management, the golden duo..? The one that lauds the present Chair so high, he mistakenly calls him a Lord.

 

Well..? Where are you..? Paid off, no doubt.

[Thedelldays]

sad day Um...

 

will be interesting to see LGTC and nickh defending this crud...

[Stepgar]

only caught the second half, just donlt know where we can go form here. Lowe is too egotistic to change things, wilde is just turned in to another yes man and needs to grow back some balls and/or sell his shares and JP is simply out of his depth tactically. Shame really, I feel that Jan could offer his services to the reserves or youth set upset up.

[lamanga]

or his IP points to Britannia Rd, St Landrew

[alpine_saint]

He'll be gone before Mon, Lowe will bottle it before the AGM.

 

No he wont, he already has key shareholdings in his pocket.

[eling-saint]

After 40 years of supporting and watching the Saints I have finally decided enough is enough. For only the second time I left a game early ( the first time was in 1976 cup run when we were losing 0-1 to Villa at the Dell and I left before Fisher hit the equaliser, we all know what happened after that !) as the team were without doubt the most clueless I have seen. Lowe out, Wilde.. hang the bastard, the Dutch connection can **** off home. Saturday afeternoons are no longer football dominated.

[Window Cleaner]

Where is that little bugger that many tried to stuff some sense into. The one who arrogantly called certain loyal Saints fans, flatcaps..? The one who called a passionate manager, the bootboy..? The one that called the present management, the golden duo..? The one that lauds the present Chair so high, he mistakenly calls him a Lord.

 

Well..? Where are you..? Paid off, no doubt.

 

 

he was just a troll sharpening up his writing skills for his daytime job as an agony aunt.

[yorkie]

Surely things can't get any worse!

 

Any other club would be looking at alternatives. Any other board would be demanding something better. Any other club would not have 28,000 turn up to give them another chance?

 

It is really daft, but even from this far up the M18 I know how it hurts!

 

And if anyone tries to tell me it is the stay aways fault - these bunch just aren't up for it!

[SW11_Saint]

I am all for giving people time, but this is the last straw for me I am afraid.

 

Jan Poortvliet was the wrong appointment, at the wrong time; appointed by a man with a track record of poor decisions and the drastically misguided belief that he "always knows better" than anyone else.

 

We had a very able young manager in Nigel Pearson (note readers, Leicester won 4-0 today to cement their place at the top of League 1), some promising youngsters who could have been brought through in a considered and sensible way, without over-pressurisinng them, and some seasoned pro's who could help their progression. We could easily have cut costs etc. but have retained Pearson and the hub of a half-decent side. But oh no, it was time for another moment of 'genius' by the leader of the board...

 

If anyone else was Chairman I'd want them to ACT NOW, end this bizarre experiment with lower league Dutch coaches, and appoint someone with experience. But of course our Chairman is Rupert Lowe (I'm ignoring the monkey that is the SFC Chairman, and focussing on the organ-grinder here) so (a) he won't do anything to stop the rot, as that will entail admitting he was wrong, something he is unable to to - even if for the good of the club; and (b) who the **** would trust him to make a sensible appointment anyway??

 

Today was a must win game. We LOST. The manager must carry the can for our inability to win at home. Can you imagine any other club with a home record of just one win all season retaining the services of their manager?

 

We are in very grave danger of slipping into the third tier of english football. Read that sentence again, and think about it.

 

If you are reading this, you think about it too Mr. Lowe. Do you just sit idly by, continuing to watch us fall apart, or do you take action NOW to try and stop the rot?

 

In honesty, I have absolutely no faith in you whatsoever to do the right thing, and my AGM ballot-card illustrated this fact, but against logic, I do cling to the remote hope that you will take counsel from those around you and do something to help save our Saints while there is still time...

Edited 20 December, 2008 by SW11_Saint

[Papa Shango]

Utter utter ****e. Lowe is taking us down again. Sorry Jan, time to go now. We need someone like Billy Davies in asap before it's too late. NoGoaldrick is the biggest waste of space ever.

[egreog]

My prediction was almost right!!....they scored and extra goal......but surprisingly Saints jettisoned the pretty pointless football for pure dross football........perhaps this is a new policy!!

However, its so predictable and there is simply no light........ no leadership, .........no clue,...........no will to win........... just a "pay me my wages and let me go home" attitude with two fingers to the fools who pay hard earned cash in the current economic scenario..........let the whole thing slump into administration........ at least the outcome CANNOT be any worse than this crop of total wasters...........there actually MIGHT end up with one or two individuals who have a vague idea how to run a football club in charge!!

[saintchrissy]

Jan has to go, he is one dimensional and does he not realise that his "young" team were brought up under George Prost who played them as a very successful 4-4-2, players are playing out of position in a 5-47590239853290 or what ever it is each week, please please please bring back Nigel Pearson at least the players had some fight and passion under him and knew what position they were playing!!!

[RedArmy]

5 years ago tomorrow we beat the skates 3-0 to go 4th in the Premiership. Now we're 4th from bottom in the Championship.

 

Depressing is not the word.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Jan is making NO sense in his radio hampshire interview. He is bouncing from one topic to the other

[EastleighSoulBoy]

'In the bleak midwinter....' and boy is it bleak - will be very interesting to see what those who were there thought of the game....

 

In the bleak midwinter, all the fans did moan

Forest, hard as iron,Saints had lost at home

 

I can't even be ar5ed to change any more words.

[Baj]

went on a whim, wish i hadn't ****ing bothered, the worst £15 i have ever spent and the worst saints performance i have ever seen.

 

...still, at least I didnt have to go shopping with the wife which was the original plan...

[Spudsaint]

Fair play to anyone who turned up today to give the club another chance. Not me I'm afraid. As I've said before on this site not a penny more until the Lowelife depart.

[St Landrew]

Jan is being interviewed on Radio Hampshire now. I feel very sorry for him, because I believe he does know what he's doing, but he's being handcuffed by the finances, and the players at his disposal. But he wants to impose a system on players who don't seem to know how to play as a team, the way he wants them to.

 

I've just heard him admit that he doesn't know what to do regarding where the goals are going to come from. For me, that's enough. As a manager, you should never not know what to do.

 

But if Poortvliet has to go, then Rupert and Co has to go too.

[Delmary]

Jan is being interviewed on Radio Hampshire now. I feel very sorry for him, because I believe he does know what he's doing, but he's being handcuffed by the finances, and the players at his disposal. But he wants to impose a system on players who don't seem to know how to play as a team, the way he wants them to.

 

I've just heard him admit that he doesn't know what to do regarding where the goals are going to come from. For me, that's enough. As a manager, you should never not know what to do.

 

But if Poortvliet has to go, then Rupert and Co has to go too.

Have to agree with you:(