Weekend 18/19 Aug - Other Games

[Batman]

Dreadful first 20 mins in the early game (Cardiff v Newcastle)

The screen I am watching has the god awful Drury as the tater. Horrible

Edited 18 August, 2018 by Batman

[shurlock]

Absolute hunger football.

[whelk]

Fulham 11/1 to beat Spurs. Don’t expect they will but seems value that

[Pamplemousse]

Both teams are rubbish

[SaintZamboni]

Shocking match. Best league in the world, not bloody likely!

Just shows how bad it can get when you have 14 also rans every season

[whelk]

Kenedy first player in PL for many a moon not to have complete a pass in the first half

[whelk]

Shocking match. Best league in the world, not bloody likely!

Just shows how bad it can get when you have 14 also rans every season

 

Yeah there were never sh1t games in the past - it’s all the big 6’s fault

[for_heaven's_Saint]

We should be looking to take 6 points off of both of these teams if we want to progress into a top half team again.

[ericofarabia]

Cardiff play the Warnock way. DIRECT. They make Tony Pulis look like a football purist!! Hope they get the least ever amount of points in The EPL.

 

Amazing Stats from last season........ http://www2.squawka.com/football-team-rankings#possession-&-passing#team-stats#english-football-league---championship|season-2017/2018#0#90#any#any#season#1#all-matches#total

 

3rd Lowest Possession Average 47% .... ball always in the air and then possession lost every 1 in 3 passes attempted.

 

Least amount of successful passes (7010) made and lowest % (61) of successful passes completed!!!! Over 800 less successful than the next lowest and 11000 less than Fulham.

 

2nd Highest average distance per pass made 22 metres

 

If the League Table was based on "Passing related Stats" they'd have finished bottom of The League.

 

You have to pity their fans having to watch them week in week out ..... somehow it worked in The Chumpionship, but it MUST fail in The EPL .... except Liverpool

[whelk]

Cardiff Centre forward Zahore? Looks absolutely dreadful

[doddisalegend]

Cardiff Centre forward Zahore? Looks absolutely dreadful

 

Gudio dreadful?

[RedArmy]

Warnock is a genius.

 

Get promoted and get bonus.

Sign nobody of Prem quality.

Get sacked by winter.

Find another club and negotiate promotion bonus.

18 months later restart the cycle.

[whelk]

Gudio dreadful?

 

Not sure he keeps his eyes open when he heads the ball dreadful

[John Boy Saint]

Just about sums that turgid game up, what a shoite penalty

[whelk]

Kenedy’s had a great game

[saint1977]

Wow, didn’t think there could be a worse PL game than Watford v Sheffield Utd but a decade on, this surpassed it. One of the worst individual performances I’ve ever seen by Kenedy.

 

Good result for Saints though with neither side getting 3 points. We are poor but surely not as bad as that excuse for sport?

[Matthew Le God]

Shocking match. Best league in the world, not bloody likely!

Just shows how bad it can get when you have 14 also rans every season

 

Which 20 team league in the world has better quality in the bottom 14 clubs?

[John Boy Saint]

How is Carragher back on Sky!? ............ he gets right on my thrupenny bits.

[whelk]

I’m enjoying Wolves pushing the Top 6 clubs

[Baird of the land]

Worrying that i'm already grateful that cardiff and newcastle both dropped 2 points in this relegation battle.

[max_saints]

West Ham tearing it up with all their new signings

[Crab Lungs]

I’m enjoying Wolves pushing the Top 6 clubs

 

They won’t be all that, as predicted. They were flat track bullies last year. Nunos not gonna last either.

[Saint Albert]

Vardy got a red today, so he should be suspended for next weekend’s game.

[whelk]

Emery won’t last long at this rate

[Crab Lungs]

Emery won’t last long at this rate

 

He’s not that great anyway.

[Batman]

Arsenal have missed 2 sitters so far

[Saint Albert]

Decent finish for the Arsenal goal, but the most expensive keeper in the world probably could have saved it.

[Gorgiesaint]

Emery won’t last long at this rate

 

Yeah, that's a typical saints forum view. Brought in to rebuild a team, and less than a game & half in (against Manchester City & Chelsea as well) they're struggling not surprisingly so let's give him the chop.

 

He’s not that great anyway.

 

That's right, did a terrible job with Sevilla. All those nights in the Champions League & Europa League at a club with similar income to Saints. Terrible. Useless.

[Batman]

2-2

Great game

[Saint Albert]

2-2

Great game

 

v. enjoyable.

[Batman]

Another brilliant chance missed for Arsenal

[Saint Albert]

Arsenal could have had two more after the equalizer.

[John Boy Saint]

What a bonkers game Arsenal looking worse than Dagenham & Redbridge with 9 men, 2-0 down. Then Chelsea suddenly start thinking of their cream cakes at half time 2-2.

Just hope half time doesn’t take the fun out of the game for us neutrals

[Batman]

Another one missed

 

They are tearing Chelsea apart

[OttawaSaint]

Swiss cheese defences. Arsenal have missed at least 3 sitters. Crazy stuff.

[whelk]

Yeah, that's a typical saints forum view. Brought in to rebuild a team, and less than a game & half in (against Manchester City & Chelsea as well) they're struggling not surprisingly so let's give him the chop.

 

 

 

That's right, did a terrible job with Sevilla. All those nights in the Champions League & Europa League at a club with similar income to Saints. Terrible. Useless.

 

Sarri won’t last long at this rate

[John Boy Saint]

That Mitrovic goal for Fulham v Spurs has to be a contender for Goal of the Month. Such quick thinking.

[Baird of the land]

Can’t stand this new endangerment interpretation. Should lead to multiple red cards a game if consistently applied.

[whelk]

They won’t be all that, as predicted. They were flat track bullies last year. Nunos not gonna last either.

 

Tbf look pretty decent on MOTD highlights. Sort of team that might murder us

[whelk]

City looking good. Already could be 2 up.

Keeper takes full shot to nads.

[Batman]

City 3-0 up within 35 mins

[SuperSAINT]

Latest:

 

City 4-1 Hudds

Burnley 1-3 Watford

[Lighthouse]

On the basis of what we’ve seen so far, there are definitely worse teams than Saints. West Ham continue to be a mess, Burnley have been crap, Huddersfield have lost 2 tough fixtures but 8 goals conceded will be a worry. Nothing from the promoted sides looks particularly special either.

[Dalek2003]

On the basis of what we’ve seen so far, there are definitely worse teams than Saints. West Ham continue to be a mess, Burnley have been crap, Huddersfield have lost 2 tough fixtures but 8 goals conceded will be a worry. Nothing from the promoted sides looks particularly special either.

 

If Burnley are 'crap', why didn't we beat them?

 

Having said that, I agree with you and stand by my prediction of 15th.

[Batman]

On the basis of what we’ve seen so far, there are definitely worse teams than Saints. West Ham continue to be a mess, Burnley have been crap, Huddersfield have lost 2 tough fixtures but 8 goals conceded will be a worry. Nothing from the promoted sides looks particularly special either.

 

and yet for an hour, they were by far the better side than us. But that was because they are more 'in' for the season then we are....or something

[SuperSAINT]

and yet for an hour, they were by far the better side than us. But that was because they are more 'in' for the season then we are....or something

 

We've got a touch of gastroenteritis as a team -- Problems at both ends.

 

Hughes needs to sort out both problems.

[Lighthouse]

We've had the chances to win both games. I'm not saying we deserved to but we were in them and had Austins header gone in etc. we could have 6 points despite playing poorly. Our 2 games have been nowhere near as bad as a few other teams.

 

If we'd gone to somewhere like Everton and lost 3-0 without a shot on target, as we have in the past, then I'd be more worried.

[benjii]

Man U are a mess.

[BotleySaint]

Man U are a mess.

Usual Mourinho implosion. All that grumpy negativity has to rub off.

[Saint-Fred]

We've had the chances to win both games. I'm not saying we deserved to but we were in them and had Austins header gone in etc. we could have 6 points despite playing poorly. Our 2 games have been nowhere near as bad as a few other teams.

 

If we'd gone to somewhere like Everton and lost 3-0 without a shot on target, as we have in the past, then I'd be more worried.

 

 

We have won something like 3 games in 19 this Calendar year.

I'd say "nearly scoring" isn't good enough and we need to start winning.

 

I bet every team is looking at us thinking "that's three points".

 

Judging whether we are better than other sides at present is dangerous, Look at Palace they looked dead and buried last season so I would assume every team (including us) will improve at some point.