doddisalegend Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 I'm hoping the Palace fiasco does not signal an unravelling of our style of play and a decline in performance. The ease with which we were sliced open by fast running forwards was scary to watch as we've been so rock solid up until now. There may be a tendency for the coaches to over-react to that defeat and change things around unnecessarily this week to plug the perceived short-comings of last Saturday but it's a different situation and different team. For sure Swansea will come at us out of the blocks knowing that we will be in a pensive frame of mind until we settle into our routine. If we go 1-0 down in the first 10 minutes, it is not easy to see how we will score and get back into it especially if they then park the bus. Really? We've only failed to score at least one goal six times this season (including cup games)
Saint Garrett Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 I thought we were expecting Morgan, Victor and Toby back by the Swansea game? West Ham game, not this one.
doddisalegend Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 West Ham game, not this one. bugger....
Saint Garrett Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 bugger.... At least we have the following week off!
Batman Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 I thought we had players back for the QPR game?
shurlock Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 I thought we had players back for the QPR game? Was my understanding too.
The Cat Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 Koeman said 2 weeks for the 3 of them in the pre match Palace press conference.
david in sweden Posted 26 January, 2015 Posted 26 January, 2015 When did that happen exactly? You half talk some " utter " TRIPE. it's only a joke... between me and Lets B Avenue. I wrote a text some time ago, and mis-typed 3-5-1 ...instead of 3-5-2 , and he's been making a joke of it ever since. The text you read was my joke reply to him. OK ?
Saint Fan CaM Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 We should smash them but we won't....it will likely be a 1-1 tense draw and the start of our 2nd blip resulting in a slip down to 7th in the table. The thin squad effect will finally catch us up.
USA SaintsFan Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 We should smash them but we won't....it will likely be a 1-1 tense draw and the start of our 2nd blip resulting in a slip down to 7th in the table. The thin squad effect will finally catch us up. I still fail to see how you call yourself a saints supporter.
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 I still fail to see how you call yourself a saints supporter. Being a Saints supporter doesn't mean you have to publicly shout you expect Saints to thrash everybody
Puddings and Monkeys Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 I still fail to see how you call yourself a gloom for us.saints supporter. Don't worry, each week he peddles his negative, drone like ramblings. He obvious works on the basis that we win if he predicts doom and gloom for us. His glass has never ever been half full.
hutch Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 Being a Saints supporter doesn't mean you have to publicly shout you expect Saints to thrash everybody In the Oxford English dictionary a supporter is defined as "A person who is actively interested in and wishes success for a particular sports team"
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 In the Oxford English dictionary a supporter is defined as "A person who is actively interested in and wishes success for a particular sports team" Like I said I guess he wishes success for Saints, he just doesn't predict it. A man who is jilted at the alter several times is highly likely to be cautious waiting for bride nos 8 to pitch up
EBS1980 Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 Can this game get us one step closer to top 4? http://t.co/tLUv3UkExE A quick thought of the season so far
newyork Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 Is it confirmed Yoshida is back for training before the weekend? I know some have said yes I just want to be sure
krissyboy31 Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 He should cheer the fck up if 8th women have agreed to marry him and his team are 3rd in the premier league. Like most of us, he's still got the "typical Saints' fan" feeling that it's bound to go t!ts up at any moment!
Window Cleaner Posted 27 January, 2015 Posted 27 January, 2015 Excellent news, Senegal have managed the nigh on impossible and got themselves knocked out of the ACoN, Mané available for Sunday maybe.
Saint Fan CaM Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Being a Saints supporter doesn't mean you have to publicly shout you expect Saints to thrash everybody Well at least someone has an ounce of common sense. Either that or you're not a hormonal 13 year old internet warrior who has no interest in other people's views (unlike some on here). Anyone would think a prediction of 1-1 was a bad thing...oh how things have changed for the little darlings.
david in sweden Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Is it confirmed Yoshida is back for training before the weekend? I know some have said yes I just want to be sure I suppose there's a reasonable chance he could play .. providing that he's fit and looks OK in training. RK said in interview that he wasn't happy with Gardos' performance last weekend and consequently took him off at HT.
Coldridge Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 We should smash them but we won't....it will likely be a 1-1 tense draw and the start of our 2nd blip resulting in a slip down to 7th in the table. The thin squad effect will finally catch us up. Feeling very optimistic about this game now based on some of your previous predictions: Newcastle 2 Saints 1. Actual result: Newcastle 1 Saints 2 Man U 3 Saints 1 Actual result: Man U 0 Saints 1 Saints 1 Arsenal 3 Actual result: Saints 2 Arsenal 0 Saints 0 Newcastle 0 Actual result: Saints 4 Newcastle 0 West Ham 2 Southampton 0 Actual result: West Ham 1 Southampton 3 Bring on the three points I say!
Coldridge Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Is it confirmed Yoshida is back for training before the weekend? I know some have said yes I just want to be sure http://ameblo.jp/mayayoshida Using google translate on Japanese can be a bit of a nightmare, but hopefully what came out as "You have joined the practice of Southampton from yesterday" means that he's back.
fez Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 http://ameblo.jp/mayayoshida Using google translate on Japanese can be a bit of a nightmare, but hopefully what came out as "You have joined the practice of Southampton from yesterday" means that he's back. Though he does say "Jet lag is terrible. (5:45 now)"
saint1977 Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Looking forward to this one - although in the Northam for the first time in years rather than our usual in the Itchen because that's what was left. Two quite depleted squads facing each other, if we are able to have Maya and Sadio on the bench it would be a big help. Cork should have regained a bit of sharpness and hopefully being hooked at HT last week will have given Gardos a kick up the backside. Be good to be nearer full squad at QPR hopefully but for now, I fancy a nervy 1-0 win on Sunday.
verlaine1979 Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Wasn't Gardos taken off because he was on a yellow?
Window Cleaner Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Wasn't Gardos taken off because he was on a yellow? Some of us thought so but RK said he was shîte so evidently that's why he was taken off.
Jack Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 RK doesn't seem to bother taking people off just because they've been booked. Mane springs to mind in those 2-3 games when he was tearing around and throwing himself into challenges, even on a yellow he was left on.
Beckenham Saint Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 RK doesn't seem to bother taking people off just because they've been booked. Mane springs to mind in those 2-3 games when he was tearing around and throwing himself into challenges, even on a yellow he was left on. Think it might depend on their position on the pitch. Gardos came straight off after his yellow against Arsenal at our place.
Saint_Ash Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Think it might depend on their position on the pitch. Gardos came straight off after his yellow against Arsenal at our place. He was pretty poor that game as well though.
Beckenham Saint Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 He was pretty poor that game as well though. That's funny, I remember watching it thinking it was one of his better games!
Saint_Ash Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 That's funny, I remember watching it thinking it was one of his better games! I suppose to be fair he was pretty solid with his tackling but I found his distribution to be poor and slow and Arsenal forced him into too many errors. It's getting to know the pace of the prem I suppose.
WealdSaint Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 Me & the boy have tickets for The Northam...............buzzing already!
Sour Mash Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 If Mane and Elia are both fully fit, who should we pick? Or both and keep Tadic on the bench?
Asaint4ever Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 If Mane and Elia are both fully fit, who should we pick? Or both and keep Tadic on the bench? mane and elia on the wings make me very hard. tadic bench? yes!
doddisalegend Posted 28 January, 2015 Posted 28 January, 2015 If Mane and Elia are both fully fit, who should we pick? Or both and keep Tadic on the bench? That would be my first choice Tadic has been very hit and miss recently. Midfield of Cork, Reed and Davis for me to.
Bad Wolf Posted 29 January, 2015 Posted 29 January, 2015 If Mane and Elia are both fully fit, who should we pick? Or both and keep Tadic on the bench? Stick with Tadic and keep Mane as an impact sub.
fanimal Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Have Swansea got a team? Seems lots out and Dyer reckons they are better than us…..hmmmm….
Sour Mash Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Have Swansea got a team? Seems lots out and Dyer reckons they are better than us…..hmmmm…. Who is out for them? I know Sigurdsson is suspended.
Saint_Ash Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Who is out for them? I know Sigurdsson is suspended. Ashley Williams may be out which is good for us as he's probably their best defender and in midfield they've lost Sigurdsson, Ki Sung Yeung and Routledge who are 3 first teamers. So looks like 4 first team players could be out but we're without Toby, Morgan, Vic, Long, Rodriguez and maybe Mane so I think we're worse off.
Alwightmush Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 So looks like 4 first team players could be out but we're without Toby, Morgan, Vic, Long, Rodriguez and maybe Mane so I think we're worse off. Let Tiss is at Staplewood today and tweeted a pic of Sadio, albeit leaning on an inflatable defender, it appeared he was part of training so could feature to some degree.
Window Cleaner Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Let Tiss is at Staplewood today and tweeted a pic of Sadio, albeit leaning on an inflatable defender, it appeared he was part of training so could feature to some degree. I expect Mané to start myself, no reason why he shouldn't.
Sour Mash Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Ashley Williams may be out which is good for us as he's probably their best defender and in midfield they've lost Sigurdsson, Ki Sung Yeung and Routledge who are 3 first teamers. So looks like 4 first team players could be out but we're without Toby, Morgan, Vic, Long, Rodriguez and maybe Mane so I think we're worse off. Cheers, I still read that as pretty good news overall, key players for them.
aintforever Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Being a Saints supporter doesn't mean you have to publicly shout you expect Saints to thrash everybody I would say the opposite is true. You are not a true Saints fan unless you have a deeply ingrained pessimistic streak brought about by years of watching the side f*ck things up. I blame that season under Nicholl when we were top after three games - then went 18 without a win. For example, before the Sunderland home game me and my 5 mates - all season ticket holders, decided with a fairly high degree of certainty that the game would be tight and we would probably draw 0-0.
Jimmy_D Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Ashley Williams may be out which is good for us as he's probably their best defender and in midfield they've lost Sigurdsson, Ki Sung Yeung and Routledge who are 3 first teamers. So looks like 4 first team players could be out but we're without Toby, Morgan, Vic, Long, Rodriguez and maybe Mane so I think we're worse off. Not forgetting that they've sold Bony as well.
fanimal Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Could Cork play for them if he signs today? Bloody hope not!
Saint Charlie Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Could Cork play for them if he signs today? Bloody hope not! No. Would have to have signed by the lunchtime cut off so he won't be playing against us this season.
trousers Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Koeman: "Mane and Yoshida are available for Sunday. Yoshida was back on Tuesday and Mane had his first training session today"
trousers Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 @bigadamsport: #saintsfc boss Ronald Koeman: "Jack Cork is in Swansea. I don't expect him to be the team this weekend".
lifeintheslowlane Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 @bigadamsport: #saintsfc boss Ronald Koeman: "Jack Cork is in Swansea. I don't expect him to be the team this weekend". Is that just his head...or his whole body?
shurlock Posted 30 January, 2015 Posted 30 January, 2015 Koeman: "Mane and Yoshida are available for Sunday. Yoshida was back on Tuesday and Mane had his first training session today" Any word on Morgan, Victor and Toby? Likely to be available for next week, assuming they're all out on Sunday?
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