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Why do you bother posting on here? You are a proven troll so feck off.

 

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I don't know I find his attempts to get a rise out of people quite funny myself:lol:

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What a surprise (not)

 

Why bother to take him on pre season ? It was perfectly obvious that HE would not risk himself playing whilst he was/is negotiating his transfer

 

Anybody care to deny he's going ??

 

Spreading your positivity & optimism once again...........#WeMarchOn..........hopefully without SR....

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I read the posts on here before I knew what the results were. Id assumed we'd got badly stuffed in both games. Turns out the side is better than many of the the posters.Who'd have thought

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Is anyone bothered 3 pre seasons against European teams 0 wins and quite a few conceded? Backline worries me at the moment.

 

Its early in pre-season and we are mixing and matching the defence to build fitness and look at the under 21 players. It won't be anything like that during the Premier League season.

 

- The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Leipzig had 1 first choice player (Stekelenburg) out of 7

- The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs Valencia had 2 first choice player (Fonte and Wanyama) out of 7

- The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Salzburg had 2 first choice players (Stekelenburg & Cedric) out of 7

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It was just a kick-around in the heat in a warm-up friendly. Nothing to get excited about.

 

Exactly this - same hysteria happens every year on here but ultimately pre-season results have absolutely no bearing on the season.

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Is anyone bothered 3 pre seasons against European teams 0 wins and quite a few conceded? Backline worries me at the moment.

 

We're always going to concede goals against the level of opposition that we've been playing considering we've mostly been using U21 players at the back in these past few games. Judge us in the Gronigen/Feyenoord games when we'll be at full strength (minus Bertrand).

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You could tell we played a few reserve players, they all looked a bit green in that second game.

 

I'll get my coat.

 

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You could tell we played a few reserve players, they all looked a bit green in that second game.

 

I'll get my coat.

 

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:)

 

I hardly noticed them. They were well camouflaged against the grass.

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I don't know I find his attempts to get a rise out of people quite funny myself:lol:

 

Exactly, people getting worked up by trolls should just not reply.

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Thought both keepers did well in the two half games yesterday

 

Felt sorry for Dom Gape in the second game, totally out of his depth.

 

Also the enigma that is Gaston Ramirez still fails to live up to his potential

 

There was one occasion when he lost the ball in the inside left channel just in side his own half and basically gave up chasing back as the opponent in possession ran towards our goal.

 

Will put J Rod's decision to shoot from well outside the box when put through down to rustiness but you would expect a £12m striker (Shane Long) to have taken the ball round the keeper rather than screw wide when well placed and similarly Dusan Tadic should have hit the ball first time for his chance.

 

Still perhaps if Mane had scored with his free header in the first game we wouldnt have conceded straight away and could easily have reached the final

 

As it is there has to be big improvements in forthcoming games

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Is anyone bothered 3 pre seasons against European teams 0 wins and quite a few conceded? Backline worries me at the moment.

 

What worries me more is the lack of goals scored in the last two matches.

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Is anyone bothered 3 pre seasons against European teams 0 wins and quite a few conceded? Backline worries me at the moment.

 

Not really, we'll only see where we are when we drop the hanging chaff and start using the first team squad only. Yesterday we had no composure, probably due to too many average players who'll not make the first team.

Edited by Window Cleaner
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What worries me more is the lack of goals scored in the last two matches.

 

You are worried because in a total of 90 minutes of friendly competition a below full strength Saints side didn't score a goal?

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If we ship 3 or 4 against feyonord, then I'd start to worry.

 

I think thats a fair assessment.

 

Even then I'd rather see us experiment and lose in pre-season than go all out for wins. I can't fault the coaching staff thus far.

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Pretty sure I heard WTFILN :toppa:

 

Red Bull fans (with a few Saints fans near them singing the "real words"). For some reason the Tony Christie song is popular in Germanic countries, Bayern fans sang it during the Champions League Final against Chelsea too.

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Juanmi won't be on set pieces for long!

 

He will if our stats say a cross to the far post is more likely to result in a goal than a shot.

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Why does the commentator think that Mane switching sides will stop the booing. Ahaahahaa

 

Not as silly as it sounds, the one side of the ground was basically a load of portakabins with a single tier, the rest was two tiers, there's some validity to the idea that him being further from the majority of fans would quieten the crowd. It wasn't that many making the noise either, the ones near us in the hardcore home singing section were pretty quiet about him, booing and whistling was all from the side opposite the "portakabins".

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Its early in pre-season and we are mixing and matching the defence to build fitness and look at the under 21 players. It won't be anything like that during the Premier League season.

 

- The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Leipzig had 1 first choice player (Stekelenburg) out of 7

- The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs Valencia had 2 first choice player (Fonte and Wanyama) out of 7

- The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Salzburg had 2 first choice players (Stekelenburg & Cedric) out of 7

 

my thoughts too, and to think that people don't realise that.

Pre-season has always been a period of experimentation and sometimes it's "make or break" for the U21's.

They may train every week with the first teamers, but getting into a start side - even in a pre-season friendly - is their real big test.

 

Calum Chambers "success" came after he switched roles when Clyne was injured. If any of the current youngsters really want to impress.. now is their one real chance.

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Posting this from Munich Airport (in work tomorrow...), not particularly bothered that two half strength sides with our best two ex-players missing lost, I'll only be bothered if those two gaps aren't filled. Stekelenburg and Cedric already look good buys.

 

I'm actually more annoyed by the white numbers on the green kit, what an awful choice.

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Posting this from Munich Airport (in work tomorrow...), not particularly bothered that two half strength sides with our best two ex-players missing lost, I'll only be bothered if those two gaps aren't filled. Stekelenburg and Cedric already look good buys.

 

I'm actually more annoyed by the white numbers on the green kit, what an awful choice.

 

The green kit is an awful choice tbf.

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If we ship 3 or 4 against feyonord, then I'd start to worry.

 

Then you should really worry as Feyenoord massively lacks goalscoring ability... :(

Can't imagine a 35-year old Kuyt is going to hurt the Saints.

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