Saints foreva Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Bournemouth have played well TBF We're not exactly making it hard for them though are we?
Chalkboy Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Where is Sadio? Surely the one on the pitch is an imposter.
Plastic Posted 1 March, 2016 Author Posted 1 March, 2016 4th official fainted? Coin probably. Thank god that half is over
Batman Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 HT By far the 2nd best side Formation all wrong and offering nothing up top Rom not very good IMO
sebsanderssaint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We will lose this and our season will fall away. Pathetic so far. completely agree
TwoPints Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Where is Sadio? Surely the one on the pitch is an imposter. My thoughts exactly. No wonder they look like they have more players than us. Half of our team have gone into hiding.
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Friend has banged his head...wont help his ablility
captainchris Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game....
Window Cleaner Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Where is Sadio? Surely the one on the pitch is an imposter. I think his head is elsewhere.
DuncanRG Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Let's hope the second half is as different here as it was in the reverse fixture...
trousers Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game.... 2.1/10
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We're not exactly making it hard for them though are we? No, they are making it hard for us
GarrettIvo Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We don't seem able or willing to play through them.....just out wide..... Austin is anonymous...does nothing,rather have Pelle holding it up to bring others into play. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Right. And as soon as a Pelle flick goes astray you'll be demanding he never plays again.
simo Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Hopefully they'll be as poor as we were after our storming first half at home !?
Toadhall Saint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game.... So you keep saying
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game....
Mr Biscuits Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Too loose at the back someone needs to nobble at least one of their forwards. I had hoped that Long, Austin and Mané up front would cause problems but it's just not happening - every time one of these three gets the ball they are closed down and shut out by at least two players. Ron needs to get a grip of these players and shake them out of the funk they are in
GarrettIvo Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Been crap but I blame Yoshida for the goal, being he was on the park and all.
Sheaf Saint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We've just not been able to compete in midfield. Every time we win the ball back they are all over us in an instant and we can't find a decent forward pass to our strikers who are isolated and feeding off scraps. Really need to up our game in the second half. What the hell has happened to Mane? He's a shadow of the player he was in the second half of last season.
Pamplemousse Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We clearly miss Clasie in midfield. Mané is a waste of space, £30M please and get rid in the summer
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 HT By far the 2nd best side Formation all wrong and offering nothing up top Rom not very good IMO Should we bring Pelle on?
Mr Biscuits Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game.... Shut up you hoofw@nking bunglec*nt.
Pamplemousse Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game.... I'm having serious doubts about your ability to troll. You must do better, you're far too obvious I'm afraid.
Dalek2003 Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We can still turn this around. Strange how quickly things can change in football. We could do with at least a point here.
Special K Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Bloody hell, Mane can be soooo frustrating to watch..
Saint Charlie Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Woeful first half. Look off the pace and have no midfield.
Patrick Bateman Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 I think his head is elsewhere. With a performance like that (and the ones recently), the only elsewhere is going to be a move to the 4th division to portsmouth.
Edmonton Saint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Unfortunately I feared this might happen. We lose a game and all confidence seems to go and we then go on a stuttering run for 6 weeks or so. We are still very fragile mentally and it's something that has needed to be addressed for a while.
Lighthouse Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We will lose this and our season will fall away. Pathetic so far. That's the spirit! Surely the oldest football cliche in the book is, 'a game of two halves'.
saintsmike25 Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 The player we miss today and could do with is Tadic. Mane's pace isn't going to work as he's clearly off-colour, we need more incision and precision and need to do more to peg Bournemouth back, last time out that's how we beat them. Long and Austin have both been ineffectual, but have had little or no service. Bournemouth have been very good, clearly treating this as a derby and rightly so, Josh King has been excellent as has Matt Ritchie and Charlie Daniels and Max Gradel, Bertrand/Cedric have been pegged back for the most part and Romeu/JWP have struggled to get to grips with the game, Fonte has had a bit of a shocker, Van Dijk has been excellent. As much as Bournemouth dominated they had only two shots on target, but that was as poor as I've seen us. We need to simply play Bournemouth at their game and start being first to the ball and using it more effectivily. Koeman made a good change by taking off Yoshida who was off the pace, and bringing on Davis, but what we need is Mane to start showing us the player that we all know is there.
CWD Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 This is dreadful. Bournemouth are playing well tbf, but as someone else pointed out we're making it easy for them. Could have been a lot worse than 1-0, need a massive second half. Stringing more than three forward passes together would be a good start. Mané has been shocking, I'd put Tadic on ASAP. Still think we can win it, but Ron needs to put a rocket up them.
Wiggles31 Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Wow that was awful. Tadic needs to get on and we need to get some width. Wing backs were pressed back and never were able to get forward and front 3 not getting any service.
SO16_Saint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Having serious doubts about Koeman considering the players he has at his disposal. Too many poor decisions in terms of tactics and personnel ..... He needs to up his game.... Seriously? So the previous 6 games where we were 5:1:0 was what? A blip, and he's actually shyt?
monosaint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We can only improve in the 2nd half. It was obvious that Bournemouth would have that high energy. We need to break it down better in midfield and then move it from there. Letting them boss the midfield. In games like this we need VW and Romeu to be playing.
Plastic Posted 1 March, 2016 Author Posted 1 March, 2016 We've been poor, but some of the comments here are crazy. Better 2nd half I'm sure...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Shut up you hoof****ing bunglec*nt Love that, never heard it before...
Mallagroth Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Well from what I am seeing I don't think we are playing that badly, we had wrong formation in the midfield which has been addressed eary and we lost composure towards the end of the half with our passing, Bournemouth are well up for it as expected and giving everything but really their best chance was from a well taken set piece, a stunning save but unlucky rebound onto their player, they scored by luck of the deflection off the save. I don't think we are out of this by any stretch just need geeing up at halftime and for our forwards to calm down and link up better, we had solid control of the game up to the break against Fonte for the free kick. This is like a cup game as far as fixtures go and closest Bournemouth have to a derby, it will be annoying to not get three points but certainly not doom and gloom its the nature of a fixture like this.
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Unfortunately I feared this might happen. We lose a game and all confidence seems to go and we then go on a stuttering run for 6 weeks or so. We are still very fragile mentally and it's something that has needed to be addressed for a while. How do you come to that conclusion, are you a body language expert or an online shrink
verlaine1979 Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We don't seem able or willing to play through them.....just out wide..... Crosses have been our main/only offensive weapon pretty much all season (and the latter half of last season too). We don't have anyone with the skill or composure to run a game through the middle.
Dalek2003 Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 We've been poor, but some of the comments here are crazy. Better 2nd half I'm sure... Some poor trolling going on.
CB Fry Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 I thought we were going to definitely maintain the form from our six-match streak for the rest of the season. What happened to that?
Jarakka Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 It's just awful, it really is. Alright, no Clasie, but what's with all these misplaced passes and losing possession constantly? We could barely get out of our own half. I can take us losing, but a performance like this...
austsaint Posted 1 March, 2016 Posted 1 March, 2016 Where is Sadio? Surely the one on the pitch is an imposter. He's been more involved than Long and Austin to be fair. There's just no delivery for our attacking three - I think Ron has to try Tadic or either Long/Austin or Ward-Prowse.
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