Derby v Saints (Friendly) - Match Thread

[trousers]

Saints in new yellow away kit

[Batman]

how are you watching t hat?

[johnnyboy]

Saints in new yellow away kit

 

Don’t suppose you want to periscope it ?

[doddisalegend]

Does anyone know how to get the video player to work, it's saying not started on my phone and laptop?

 

yeah me to

[angelman]

Video player is shoit and needs to be seriously overhauled. Very poor and surprised OS is happy to continue with it.

[Batman]

All I am getting is that the game has not started?!

[eurosaint]

Does anyone know how to get the video player to work, it's saying not started on my phone and laptop?

 

Same with me, is it actually on stream on the SFC website ??

[davefizzy14]

Same with me, is it actually on stream on the SFC website ??

 

It says it is but not playing so far?

[larryhagman]

Pretty much anytime I try to watch anything on the saints website, it doesn't work. Even videos of press conferences that have already finished ffs. Tad amateurish

[eurosaint]

Pretty much anytime I try to watch anything on the saints website, it doesn't work. Even videos of press conferences that have already finished ffs. B

 

Fecking incompetent more like !

[larryhagman]

Its almost definitely just updates anyway. As mentioned above

[trousers]

how are you watching t hat?

Derby website. (I was sad enough to pay a fiver )

[Dusic]

Saints poor so far. Sloppy passing between back 5 and midfield and Austin extremely isolated. Hoedt dreadful on the ball.

 

Personally I don't think we suit the 5-3-2 from an attacking perspective, especially when the wing backs are JWP and Targett.

 

Once all our CBs are back and available then surely Bertrand switches to LWB.

 

Armstrong doesn't look suited to the deeper role.

[Batman]

Saints poor so far. Sloppy passing between back 5 and midfield and Austin extremely isolated. Hoedt dreadful on the ball.

 

Personally I don't think we suit the 5-3-2 from an attacking perspective, especially when the wing backs are JWP and Targett.

 

Once all our CBs are back and available then surely Bertrand switches to LWB.

 

Armstrong doesn't look suited to the deeper role.

 

still lack obvious pace

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Hoedt giving the ball away in dangerous areas multiple times.

[davefizzy14]

So are there any other streams that we can use to watch the game on?

[Hobbit73]

Down under stream from the website works perfectly (which I couldn't say for the way we play at the moment). .. Casting it on the telly from laptop...

 

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[SuperSAINT]

How is Mo playing?

[davefizzy14]

Down under stream from the website works perfectly (which I couldn't say for the way we play at the moment). .. Casting it on the telly from laptop...

 

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Down under stream? Where's that?

[Hobbit73]

Sydney, Australia... It's a stream from Rams website...

 

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[Saints foreva]

Struggling to string 3 passes together at the moment.

[benjii]

I do worry if Hughes is too wedded to this system. Needs must and, fair play, he got us over the line - just - last season. Stoke were a disorganised mess when we played them when they were under him, though.

[doddisalegend]

I guess the saints OS isn't even giving us text updates then?

[striker]

Seem to need another player in midfield, its only Armstrong and Lemina and they look to be getting over run

[Batman]

Seem to need another player in midfield, its only Armstrong and Lemina and they look to be getting over run

 

433 would suit our player more IMO

[jamesfp1]

I guess the saints OS isn't even giving us text updates then?

Nothing for them to say other than it's all Derby and Saints looking like a pub team.

[doddisalegend]

I do worry if Hughes is too wedded to this system. Needs must and, fair play, he got us over the line - just - last season. Stoke were a disorganised mess when we played them when they were under him, though.

 

it would work better with the right personnel. Bertrand is wasted as a CB, Romeu should be sitting with Lemina , Cedric will offer more than JWP and ideally Stephens and Hoedt should be on the bench.

[Crab Lungs]

Saints poor so far. Sloppy passing between back 5 and midfield and Austin extremely isolated. Hoedt dreadful on the ball.

 

Personally I don't think we suit the 5-3-2 from an attacking perspective, especially when the wing backs are JWP and Targett.

 

Once all our CBs are back and available then surely Bertrand switches to LWB.

 

Armstrong doesn't look suited to the deeper role.

 

But Hoedt is young therefore guaranteed to improve according to many

[rooney]

I guess the saints OS isn't even giving us text updates then?

 

They have just put the Teams up. Things are moving?

[SaintBobby]

This is pretty dire. Mainly Derby pressure and only one half chance for us, which Redmond ballooned.

[Saints foreva]

Good save McCarthy. The CBs are so poor.

[trousers]

Woeful Saints defending... Derby through on goal... One on one with the keeper... Great stop McCarthy

[doddisalegend]

They have just put the Teams up. Things are moving?

 

should get our first update on the game at half time then...

[Batman]

who is going to be the first to say 'cant read anything into pre-season games'?

[trousers]

Can't read anything into pre-season games

[verlaine1979]

Thinking about it, the two note-worthiest teams making a success of playing 5 at the back do both have Eden Hazard in them. Maybe there's something in that.

[doddisalegend]

So business as normal at the back then. We need Yoshida and Vestergaard to step up this season so we don't have to see Hoedt and Stephens embarrassing us in a saints shirt every week..

[Cabbage_Face]

Gonna be a long season.

[Hobbit73]

OK, I'll use my last message for something meaningful [emoji23]. Sparky out!!!

 

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[Sinned]

I reckon that as Derby are charging for the stream, they won't give free access to Saints Player, as it may cut their income

[doddisalegend]

who is going to be the first to say 'cant read anything into pre-season games'?

 

Well I think we can say Hoedt and Stephens are still ****e on the other hand this won't be our first 11 in the PL...... well I hope not

[rooney]

I reckon that as Derby are charging for the stream, they won't give free access to Saints Player, as it may cut their income

 

Saints were selling away tickets too so you may be correct. Perhaps we will be let in free at half time:)

[Saints foreva]

Worrying performances from Stephens and Hoedt

 

They are making the exact same positional mistakes as last season.

[Saints foreva]

33 year old David Nugent comfortably outpaces Hoedt but chips over.

 

0-0 half time.

Edited 21 July, 2018 by Saints foreva

[trousers]

Half time. Derby look much more 'match fit' than us. Redmond probably our best player.

[SaintBobby]

Bit better in the last ten or fifteen mins of the half.

[doddisalegend]

Redmond our brightest player in sort of a free role across the front

 

That's the role he has played in the two Chinese pre-season games and got himself a couple of goals it would be great if Hughes could breed a bit of confidence into him and he had a good season.

[benjii]

How has Elyounoussie looked?

[striker]

Well....

The good news is the players in the back three today possibly won't be playing come Burnley. Stephens is just poor, Hoedt is weak, and Bertrand will be out wide. Yoshi, Jannik, Bednarek, with Bertrand and Cedric will make a huge difference. I thought JWP and Targett were poor too. I don't know completely what was going on in midfield, but it just seemed like Derby were running through them. I don't know if Hughes is trying out a new scheme (which isn't working), or if Armstrong just isn't that good. I thought Mo, Redmond, and Austin were ok, nothing too exciting but its hard when the the other 7 are defending most of the time. McCarthy was really good, the best player on the pitch.

 

Thats the way I see it, I'm sure others will see it completely different

[shurlock]

I do worry if Hughes is too wedded to this system. Needs must and, fair play, he got us over the line - just - last season. Stoke were a disorganised mess when we played them when they were under him, though.

 

How’s the book pal?