InvictaSaint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Amongst all the hysteria currently occupying most threads on this board - I wonder if this comment is actually nearer both the truth and the facts? I'm sorry but that is apologist nonsense. We went into this game on the back of a (lucky) away win at Barnsley, and we knew EXACTLY what was needed - a win. Did we achieve that? No. What does that say about the mindset of the club? 2-0 down at home to yet another of our relegation rivals, until we finally pull a goal back in injury time, which is all too little too late. We have won ONE home game all seson - ONE!! It's beyond pathetic and if you think being two points off safety makes any ****ing difference at all with the clueless numpties in charge of football at SMS you are being seriously naive; what is going to turn our home form around after more than half the season? Nothing except a change of leadership. Otherwise, prepare for League 1; that's not hysteria, that's REALITY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Which part of my post is incorrect? NOTHING to do with bad luck, we missed chance after chance. we have wingers playing on the wrong side of the pitch so when chances fall to them they hit the corner flag. a manager who goes from the blind to the ridiculous , he paniced when they scored and handed the game to Donny who were awful in the first half. you have to have been there to understand, frankly after 48 years of going to games i am fed up of leaving every home game early because of the managers mistakes, and finally if it had nt been for KD we would have been behind at half time, whereas their keeper only had to watch our efforts in the first half , he only made his first save when we were one down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Did you ....? yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC Forever Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Very very true. We have a clueless leader who has the weakest defence in the league. What does Jan do? He takes a defender off and loses the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Sounds like we were unlucky again, good job were only 2 points from being out of the bottom three One month ago we were 4 points ABOVE the bottom three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madruss Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Desperate times at St. Mary's. The worst home form in our history and if anything it's getting worse, not better Just like the 1-0 victory over Leicester proved crucial to our survival last season, I feel the two home defeats against Forest + Donny will prove decisive in this year's relegation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC Forever Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 And our games next month are a lot harder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 We need to play all of our home games at Nottarf Krap. SMS is hexed, as for the rest, couldn't say,been out at the Cross Country Championships this afty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I'm sorry but that is apologist nonsense. We went into this game on the back of a (lucky) away win at Barnsley, and we knew EXACTLY what was needed - a win. Did we achieve that? No. What does that say about the mindset of the club? 2-0 down at home to yet another of our relegation rivals, until we finally pull a goal back in injury time, which is all too little too late. We have won ONE home game all seson - ONE!! It's beyond pathetic and if you think being two points off safety makes any ****ing difference at all with the clueless numpties in charge of football at SMS you are being seriously naive; what is going to turn our home form around after more than half the season? Nothing except a change of leadership. Otherwise, prepare for League 1; that's not hysteria, that's REALITY. Errrr I didn't say any of those things for which you 'credit' me - I am just trying to substantiate how we played - it appears most of the comment here are from those who were not at the game. You need not bother reminding me about our predicament - I am well aware of that - as my previous post proves. If it makes it any easier for you - I didn't expect our league form to be much from what we are currently displaying. I expect us to be relegated - we have neither the players or management structure to do much else - if by some miracle we do manage to avoid it then that is a bonus. Perhaps now that you have ranted at me - we might discover just how the team played today - as I have asked on another thread was the performance shyte or just the result? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 We have won 1 home game out of 14. Before today Doncaster had scored 17 goals in 26 games. Unless Ferguson can put a word in for us and get all our fixtures changed to away games we are heading fir Div.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgiansaint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I don't blame JP as such. He probably knows more about football than most of us put together. But it just seems that the experiment has failed. Fair play to him he didn't get a squad fit for the requirements. The kids are just kids. You can't ask a young boy's body to repeat the physical performances of an adult's for over 25 games a season. They can't perform miracles. Their bodies haven't even fully developed FFS. For the sake of comparison, how long did it take Shearer or MLT to be the finished article? From what I've seen or heard (games on the web), I believe he would have cut it with last season's squad as his ideas and his approach of the game do seem sound. But now might be the time for a new manager, Sgt Major like, though I fear he wouldn't fare much better. "You can't win anything with kids" has been proved wrong. "you can survive with talented kids only" is being proved wrong. Wrong vision, wrong strategy. Don't put the blame on the nippers. I'm sure they're giving their all. They have been asked to run before they knew how to walk. What you can't do, you can't. I feel so sorry tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC Forever Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Fans let us down. Northam should of gone on the pitch,the Sundays would of bit chunks out the board over the fans reactions. Police would of advised RL not to attend games etc. RL was not there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Ponty he thinks that your point that we lost because of an offside goal is a typical apathetic comment. We lost because total football, the dutch trio and a crazy chairman are not performing along with the team. Just look at all the other home results this season, you cannot use 1 offside goal in all honesty I was only commenting on this game, as per the thread title. I agree, at times this season we've been truly, truly awful, and at other times we've been even worse. We've also looked really good on occasion too, and I mean really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Did you ....? Yeah, I thought we were useless. Apart from a good spell at the start we were 2nd best all game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 NOTHING to do with bad luck, we missed chance after chance. we have wingers playing on the wrong side of the pitch so when chances fall to them they hit the corner flag. a manager who goes from the blind to the ridiculous , he paniced when they scored and handed the game to Donny who were awful in the first half. you have to have been there to understand, frankly after 48 years of going to games i am fed up of leaving every home game early because of the managers mistakes, and finally if it had nt been for KD we would have been behind at half time, whereas their keeper only had to watch our efforts in the first half , he only made his first save when we were one down Thanks Mike - would appear that we basically deserved what we got then - zilch...!! I wonder how this will effect things between now and the end of the transfer window as well - if we start to loose the likes of Kelvin, the season could become total embarrasment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 ****ing disasterous result though JP can only play with the cards he has. Yet again, the need for a proper striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Yeah, I thought we were useless. Apart from a good spell at the start we were 2nd best all game. 2nd best to what apparently was a poor Donny side - it doesnt get any worse really does it? New grounds again next season travelling saints...!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 (edited) RUPERT LOWE IS OUR SAVIOUR! (SB,SCOOBY,ECT) he'll save us from adminstration, but he wont save us from the drop. All for the sake of saving some pennies. THE FOOTBALL TEAM MAKES THE PENNIES! so having a good winning one will offset any outlay(FANS BACK) on a better manager/ players. IF YOU CANT SEE THAT LOWE YOUR THE BIGGEST C_U_N_T IN FOOTBALL!! Edited 17 January, 2009 by SOTONS EAST SIDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 ****ing disasterous result though JP can only play with the cards he has. Would help if he played them in the right positions though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccerMom Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Sorry to say the performance was shyte. You know, I may be just a mum who takes her kid to football, but even I could tell we were in trouble from the kick-off. We can't finish. We are making the same errors in defense that we were making at the beginning of the season. When someone gets into a finishing position, they don't shoot, they pass. Why? It's been the same game after game. Even the nipper's team know that you need to get the ball forward. And as for having the wingers on the wrong side, well, all season long there hasn't been enough width and this just made it worse. There was a point for about five minutes when Holmes and BWP swapped over (probably on their own initiative, it was when a Donny corner was taken), but then suddenly they were back in the wrong place. Go figure. I made the point after the Manure match that even the warm-ups are chaotic. These guys just need the basics drilled in over and over until it's automatic again. They are so into the fancy stuff that they've forgotten how to do the simple stuff. I feel sorry for JP, I really do. And I feel sorry for the players. But it's just clearer and clearer that it's not working, but someone is just too convinced of their own reality to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Fcccking disgraceful. The lowest I have ever felt walking home from a match. The Club is imploding and something needs to be done to arrest this decline. Tactics, motivation, whatever, there can be no excuse for losing to a team as sh7t as Doncaster. Some people involved with Southampton FC should be hanging their heads in shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 When we went down from the EPL we failed to beat our relegation rivals at home. When we are relegated from the CCC it will be because we failed to beat our relegation rivals at home. I'm sure the usual morons will soon be here to tell us how our goal hungry young strikers will score 20 each or how there was no managerial alternative. Fu cking wan kers the lot of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGC Saint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 That really is the final nail for me. My patience has worn too thin and Jan (nice a bloke as you seem to be and I'm sure your heart's in the right place) needs to go NOW! We NEED a change of management ASAP or L1 is the only place we're heading. Feel sick to the core at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Shango Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Total ****e. The whole team look completely clueless. They seemed to just walk it in on the second goal. JP OUT! LOWE OUT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madruss Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 But now might be the time for a new manager, Sgt Major like, though I fear he wouldn't fare much better. "You can't win anything with kids" has been proved wrong. "you can survive with talented kids only" is being proved wrong. Maybe we could get Leicester's manager in. I hear he has those sort of qualities :mad::mad: Seriously I get the financial constraints the club is under, but I'm completely at a loss to believe that the difference between the combined wages of Poortvliet, Wotte & Gorre and the sole wage of Pearson was really that much. And even if it was, I would still rather have Pearson than Schneiderlin (I'm sure the annual cost of those two options, including transfer fee...etc, would be fairly similar) Even when a club is hard up, its most valued resource should be the manager. He should be in charge of everything to do with the team, and he should be accountable if things aren't going well. Lowe's master strategy has been to employ a manager on paltry wages, put him in charge of some things to do with the team and not make him accountable for disastrous results (as Norwich, Forest, Charlton and Watford have done). Surprise. It's not working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorpie the sinner Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I am glad this wasn't a must win game like everyone said on Sunday!!!!!! Rudderless spiritless spineless nearly goal less a total ****in mess!!!!! what a disgrace!! I HAVE NEVER FELT SO LOW IN FOOTBALLING TERMS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvictaSaint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Errrr I didn't say any of those things for which you 'credit' me - I am just trying to substantiate how we played - it appears most of the comment here are from those who were not at the game. You need not bother reminding me about our predicament - I am well aware of that - as my previous post proves. If it makes it any easier for you - I didn't expect our league form to be much from what we are currently displaying. I expect us to be relegated - we have neither the players or management structure to do much else - if by some miracle we do manage to avoid it then that is a bonus. Perhaps now that you have ranted at me - we might discover just how the team played today - as I have asked on another thread was the performance shyte or just the result? Micky, I wasn't ranting at you so apologies if it appeared that way; it was more a general rant at those who feel the situation can be salvaged or that there are positives to be taken. There simply aren't. I am just so angry at what has happened to our club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 KD, Perry, Saejis, and Saga - plus Surman is now 22 and BWP is 23, and each has played over 100 games; so can everybody stop coming out with that lame excuse, purlease ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tac-tics Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Reality is we are down and out. Don't bother keeping the faith as my heart always has but my brain over rules me this time. Spiritless today. League 1 approaches, sad times, as someone said "final nail in the coffin".. till the end and all that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 KD, Perry, Saejis, and Saga - plus Surman is now 22 and BWP is 23, and each has played over 100 games; so can everybody stop coming out with that lame excuse, purlease ! exactly the players are played out of position, in a system that works away but has been a dismal failure at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Gutted and devastated. That was one soul destroying afternoon. We played so well during the first half too, just couldn't finish for toffee. The sucker punch goal immediately after kicking-off the second half was our downfall. Heads dropped, discontent filled the air, heads dropped further. Fights in the Itchen stand, fights in the Northam stand, attempted pitch invasion from the Northam, the atmosphere got more and more hostile, and quite rightly so. I watched my team, my Club, fall apart in front of me this afternoon, and someone HAS to take the blame. Rupert, forget your ego for just one nanosecond, and you'll realise you're killing this club. We're waiting for you to do the right thing, do the decent thing, and naff off... if you cared about this Club like you claim to, like WE do, you'd do it. Oh, and take Mr McGoldrick with you. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Utter c untish s hit today AGAIN AT HOME! Gutless second half after the rediculouse 1st goal. FFS SAINTS! ANOTHER weekend ruind! First time ive EVER left early today, because of our totally embarising fans in the northam, was genuinly upset at your behaivour today, you bunch of ****ING RETARDS!!!! OMG IM ****ED OFFF!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Under Weststand Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 What a dark day another poor result, with Forest winning & Norwich easing to a 4-0 moral boosting win it puts us in a perilous position. If we cant beat Forest & Doncaster at home we are Royally F**ked. I sincerely hope we can somehow stay up but this was a crucial month for us & so far its gone from bad to worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supaimpy_returns Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 someone get JP out and pass on Dowie's phone number, at least he'd instill I fighting spirit and then even if the team can't play ugly the manager could! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Micky, I wasn't ranting at you so apologies if it appeared that way; it was more a general rant at those who feel the situation can be salvaged or that there are positives to be taken. There simply aren't. I am just so angry at what has happened to our club. No sweat mate - most of us are gutted tonight and it's going to take one almighty miracle to get out of this dung heap now. As I said - I have resigned myself to relegation. I am but an armchair fan and so have only seen the televised games - but those alone have convinced me that we just do not have the quality required. I am a little hacked off that many actually reported early season that these kids would come good. From what I have seen - I see little sign of them being able to hack this league. Maybe not their fault - but next season will be even harder - we will be the team that everybody wants to beat, and lets face it - that aint too hard to achieve right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiltshiresaint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I didn't think it was Jan's fault (too much!) until today, but no competent manager would have made the kind of substitutions at 1-0 which so utterly destroyed our shape today. Hope he does the decent thing and falls on his sword, 'cos I can't see Lowe sacking him! Dowie or Curbishley in, or we're completely f*cked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southamptonfclegend Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 absoloutely SH*T, looks like we're going down, saganowski + davis only players who looked like they gave a sh*t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 When will we reach rock bottom ? We have been nose diving ever since the appointment of Sturrock. When will it end ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccerMom Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 absoloutely SH*T, looks like we're going down, saganowski + davis only players who looked like they gave a sh*t Don't think that's entirely fair. Think it's probably that Saga and Davis were they only ones who were clear about their job and their position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Man Do Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Can anyone actually explain those subs to me? Holmes looked pretty decent to me to be replaced by that inept mug Smith and as for taking off Perry for (in my mind) the ineffective Lalllana god only knows what JP was schmoookin this afternoon :-( Going down I reckons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Marco Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 In the first half i actually thought we were alright, did some good moves which created some chances. The only problem is DMG fecking missed them all again. The pattern was like this We shoot! its over the bar... We shoot! its near the corner flag....We shoot! we take out a flood light etc.. etc.. where as Doncaster is like, They shoot! Davis saves, They shoot! Davis pulls out a worldclass save!, They Shoot! Davis saves. That is not just the pattern for this game but pretty much all the games. Second half we didn't come out, guess the players were checking their phones for transfer news or something. After we went 0-1 down we just went into our shell, which was further worsened by Jan the clueless man taking off Perry to make the midfield even more congested. Doncaster then just went into defence mode and we couldn't do anything. There second goal was pretty good move, one that we should of been doing. That then sparked the crowd and i was right next to where the protests were at Jan. His reaction to me just summed up the man, a little look and a smarmy smile. The type that makes you know he won't be quitting. You know the "haha i'm untouchable, shout all you want". And to be fair it is true. Lowe won't fire him because it will be him admitting he was wrong, and he won't walk as this is is big chance, i doubt many of us would do it either if we were in that situation. However i think this is the game that majority of people decided enough is enough, Jan has to go as does Lowe. But as much as we chant/shout it wont make any difference. We have been here before. The only way they are going is if someone comes in with money or if we go under. We have now lost to 2 of the teams around us at home in the space of a few weeks. We did not play great and we did not deserve to win. Davis has done what Davis has been doing all season and saving shots and doing it very well. Where as we just can't get ours anywhere near the target. Lallanas shot near the end as well as DMG header just sum us up. We get the ball 35-40 yards out and they see pound signs in the goalies eyes and go for it which goes major wide, goes over the bar by a few hundred feet or it rolls tame to the keeper. As that guy Andy Gray always says "if you don't hit the target how will you score? If you miss the target so much is it being unlucky or just poor finishing?", and even the most biased of fan has to say our finishers are poor. Saga to his credit looked ok, better then last week for sure, if we were going to score it would be because of him. If we had John and Saga playing we would score more goals for sure. DMG is just a waste. I have not even looked at the table as i can imagine its bad. One thing is for sure lose/draw at Norwich and were pretty much down. As much as the deluded try so hard to say they are right after flukey win against Barnsley we have 5 losses to every win. We are where we are because over 28 games we deserve to be there, we are playing crap, we are crap. Question is that because of the players or the system they are asked to play by the manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I didn't think it was Jan's fault (too much!) until today, but no competent manager would have made the kind of substitutions at 1-0 which so utterly destroyed our shape today. Hope he does the decent thing and falls on his sword, 'cos I can't see Lowe sacking him! Dowie or Curbishley in, or we're completely f*cked. There's one thing changing the formation to try and chase a game, but that three at the back totally fccked us over. We lost our shape and they had a go at us, which resulted in their second goal. Naive, shocking, disgraceful, embarrassing, clueless, you could go on for ages to describe our tactics. Poortvliet was absent from the technical area for most of the second half. He must go!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chap in the Chapel Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I had a flashback to 2006 today, the third week in January, as we folded to an ordinary Ipswich team. That day, the fans decided that enough was enough and vented their fury at Rupert Lowe. Three years later almost to the day, it's exactly the same again. I thought about every major decision that Lowe has made for this club since 2004 as I was walking back across the Itchen Bridge tonight, and arrived at the conclusion (albeit with the benefit of hindsight) that he's got every single one of them wrong. Sturrock, Wigley, Redknapp, Burley, returning to the club, Pearson and Poortvliet. All crucial for our success. All WRONG. He must be forced out again somehow, and this time it MUST be with no prospect of a return. I honestly hope he's banned from the stadium for what he's done to this club, today being the final straw. That was so far from acceptable it's untrue. A poor coach sending out a team with an attack blunted by having players on the wrong side. The so-called 'world's top 50 young players' forward deciding that with two goals in two league games he doesn't have to try any more. A switched-off defence at the start of the second half. Panic substitutions and a formation change to try and rectify things. Our fans have strong emotions aroused by this club. But fighting with each other has got to be the lowest point and is indicative of how badly Lowe and Wilde have fouled up. They'll be donning tin hats, huddling down in the bunker and digging deep into their own pockets for some website PR plants, no doubt. It's got to the stage where they could bring some unity to the fans by simply resigning, selling their shares and walking away. If, however, fan protests it has to be, then the message should be clear: LOWE AND WILDE OUT - THIS TIME FOR GOOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 The first half we looked ok because Donny were cr4pping themselves. They had as many chances as we did AND came as close to scoring TWICE. Half time 2-2 would have been the correct score. Our efforts however masked the fact we had NO MIDFIELD for the whole game. Donny ran us ragged there. Spunked all over us. Neither Surman nor Spiderman held - both were all over the place. We had no shape, no discipline. No spine or structure to the team. THIS is our problem. We are shapeless. Jelly fish. And the piece de resistance? Oh, playing a right footer on the left and vice versa so we have no WIDTH. Brilliant. No shape AND no width. Can he compound this disaster I wonder?? Like Bob the Builder - YES he can. By going 3 - 7... What a twerp. Someone should have killed him when they were having a go at him. And Lowe. Got us banned from the league. Put me out of my misery. Oh, how was their 2nd goal? And ours. Only I left after 61 minutes and I'm NEVER EVER going back. EVER. Until Lowe is hanging from the Itchen Bridge with JP dangling off him, and me cutting each of Lowe's fingers, one by one, slowly with a blunt knife. Not that I feel bad tonight or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSaint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 There can be no more excuses made for Jan Poortvliet. After Donny scored he lost the plot and made suicidal tactical changes that bewildered the defence and riled the crowd as nobody, including the players and maybe even he himself had a clue what he was playing at. Another new low has been achieved, with more likely to come. JP Out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 both Schniederlin and James were whistling to get the attention of the bench and shrugging their shoulders looking confused -not good to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Matty 76 Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 Neither Surman nor Spiderman held - both were all over the place. Under-statement, Surman was a disgrace. Only I left after 61 minutes and I'm NEVER EVER going back. EVER. Until Lowe is hanging from the Itchen Bridge with JP dangling off him, and me cutting each of Lowe's fingers, one by one, slowly with a blunt knife. I'm sure you say that yet you'll be back in a few games time, and the day that Lowe leaves SFC could still be very far away. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 (edited) Same crap different game . I'm off to consider alcoholism , suicide or maybe just watching 'TV Burp' on ITV in an effort to cheer myself up . Edited 17 January, 2009 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I couldn't believe the substitutions. Taking Perry off was crass. As soon as Doncaster scored they made a substitution and went three in the midlle and played narrow, compacting the defence. We then brought Adam Lallana on, neither winger played on the touchline but then they never do, Lallana except for a couple of runs floated around in midfield and never really threatened. We then tried to batter the door down, conceded an absolutely awful goal, which I am sure wouldn't have happened if Perry had been on and backing up Saeijs and James. I thought Molyneux was lightweight, for me Skacel back next week. Unless we play natural left/right players wide on the touchlines we won't win another game at home. If Portvleit wanted to cause some damage, he should have left Holmes/Smith on the left, BWP on the right, put Lallana up alongside Saganowski with Mcgoldrick in support. Taken off Molyneux and Schneiderlin who was pretty ineffective today and played Surman and Gillett in the middle with Perry, Saeijs, and James at the back using Holmes and BWP essentially as wingbacks. As it was the changes completely knackered the teams shape, the players didn't know what the hell they were trying to play and the second half was a shambolic mess. I thought Saeijs looked a good player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um Bongo Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 First half we played ok, kept giving the ball away though, Surman was a waste of space today, too lightweight. Second Half we just never appeared, The bloke was in an offside position but it came off BWP so doesnt matter. BWP and Holmes never ran, or stayed out wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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