Burnley vs Saints - Match Thread

[hypochondriac]

We have a very average team. Got to hope we keep boufal and djenepo comes good.

[Suhari]

  verlaine1979 said:

Ings completely uninvolved so far. Attack very one dimensional as a result.

 

Frustrating.

 

He's really not bringing anything to the team today.

[Faz]

Romeu falls over to present Barnes with a chance. Fortunately he’s not Jack Stephens so that’s all right.

[shurlock]

  verlaine1979 said:

Ings completely uninvolved so far. Attack very one dimensional as a result.

 

Yep a recurring theme.

[OttawaSaint]

Better by Ings there, decent tracking back.

[East Kent Saint]

  OttawaSaint said:

Not really noticed Ings so far.

 

I said that last season and he was then featured on MotD as the key player in our goal/attacks with his link play for the same match I just watched at StMarys !!!!

[Batman]

Been decent 1st half at times.

When get the ball down to play, we look decent....burnley have done well to turn parts of the game into a hoof-fest.

 

Ings very disappointing. Stephens recovered well after a near howler

[Lighthouse]

  badgerx16 said:

Has it been 'disgusting' though ?

 

I won’t be buying the DVD.

[tajjuk]

Their defence is solid and conditions are favouring Burnley's crap football but if we keep playing we'll create chances especially if we get at their fullbacks who are both crap to be honest.

[Saint_clark]

  hypochondriac said:

We have a very average team. Got to hope we keep boufal and djenepo comes good.

 

And so it begins!!

Another day JWP, Adams and Redmond would have buried their chances and we'd be creaming ourselves. Finishing isn't as clinical as it could be but the performance has been good so far.

[Saints foreva]

Pretty awful game of football tbh.

[trousers]

Would have taken 0-0 before the start and looks like what we're going to get. Solid start.

[obelisk]

Game has 1-0 (94) written all 0ver it.

[OttawaSaint]

I’d withdraw Ings, get Adams up top and introduce Boufal to the game.

[shurlock]

The better side without really creating much. The odd flourish from Redmond apart, not much quality on display from either side.

[HarvSFC]

Defended well as a unit, but need to do more in attack. Adams winning none of the long balls, Ings anonymous and Redmond hasn't seen enough of the ball, which is a shame as when he did he worked the goalkeeper, who I can't remember doing a lot else. At least we've got a few attacking options on the bench, which seems weird saying.

[badgerx16]

  Saints foreva said:

Pretty awful game of football tbh.

 

Admittedly I have had more entertainment from watching the family of long tailed tits feeding in my front garden.

[hypochondriac]

  Saint_clark said:

And so it begins!!

Another day JWP, Adams and Redmond would have buried their chances and we'd be creaming ourselves. Finishing isn't as clinical as it could be but the performance has been good so far.

Nothing "begins" it's an opinion based on what I've seen on the pitch. People get so sensitive but that was an underwhelming half of football. I'm optimistic that the x factor from the likes of boufal and djenepo will be a big help this season but I'm not going to pretend that was a decent half of football just to keep people like you happy.

[verlaine1979]

We'd be winning if the object of the game was to get the ball wide to your fullbacks, but not a great deal happening after that point. Hopefully RH has seen enough to tweak the team and the advantage.

[qwertyell]

0-0 h/t. Been quite tidy without doing anything too special, but we all know how these games against cloggers go for Saints: we'll play all the football and lose 1-0 to a scrappy set piece or massive defensive brainwave.

 

It'd be nice if Danny Ings contributed something of note, but maybe that's asking too much of £20m worth of knackered body parts.

 

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[St Marco]

Not sure we need 5 defenders tbh. Might be worth putting someone else in midfield and trying to keep the ball a bit better.

[hackedoff]

  hypochondriac said:

Nothing "begins" it's an opinion based on what I've seen on the pitch. People get so sensitive but that was an underwhelming half of football. I'm optimistic that the x factor from the likes of boufal and djenepo will be a big help this season but I'm not going to pretend that was a decent half of football just to keep people like you happy.

 

Well said,we are supposedly aiming for improvement this season. Nothing there to suggest that.

[John Boy Saint]

Pretty much as expected - Burnley’s game doesn’t suit the style Ralph wants us to play.

[striker]

The song remains the same.

[Lighthouse]

  hackedoff said:

Well said,we are supposedly aiming for improvement this season. Nothing there to suggest that.

 

We've started with a s**t first half against Burnley, that's completely different to last season.

[badgerx16]

We have played 45 minutes away from home at a wet & windy Turf Moor. Let's not write off the season, or the players, just yet.

[Pamplemousse]

Terrible game so far. We're mildly better but Burnley have been beyond awful so that's not difficult.

[OldNick]

Im glad I logged on after reading the comments on here lol. Motd last game me suspects

[BotleySaint]

Resting on our heels a bit too much this half so far.

[saintwbu]

If anyone didn’t expect this to be a scrappy, boring, **** game then I want whatever you’re smoking! Burnley away, wet and windy, it’s everything you would expect.

[OttawaSaint]

Same issue as the last few seasons. Nice and tidy until we get to the point that a final killer pass is needed and we **** it up.

 

Is this just what we get from 10-15M players? Can we expect them to do a Sterling, Silva, TAA or Robertson. Can we expect them to do it once in a while?

[hypochondriac]

  saintwbu said:

If anyone didn’t expect this to be a scrappy, boring, **** game then I want whatever you’re smoking! Burnley away, wet and windy, it’s everything you would expect.

I don't think anyone thought differently.

[trousers]

  saintwbu said:

If anyone didn’t expect this to be a scrappy, boring, **** game then I want whatever you’re smoking! Burnley away, wet and windy, it’s everything you would expect.

Some of the more canny SWFers predicted a 0-0 to be fair...

[Mr X]

Should have let jwp at least get it on target

 

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[BotleySaint]

  Mr X said:

Should have let jwp at least get it on target

 

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Good effort from Bertrand. Not far off.

[Viking Saint]

Stephens.....

[Suhari]

Surely Boufal for Inga soon?

[trousers]

Anyone know how Burnley managed to get an Oriental sponsor on the front of their shirts without an awful thick surround where we failed...?

[SNSUN]

The speed and directness of Djenepo, Boufal, Redmond, Obafemi, Adams, Long and even Bertrand, Valery and Cedric should make a few teams crap their pants this season. It's just about finding the right balance.

 

Our bench is decent today, let's use it.

[OttawaSaint]

Cooler head needed by Redders there...

[OttawaSaint]

Alright, that’s enough of Ings for ove day. Terrible pass.

[Mr X]

Danny ings is dreadful today, the new Austin at 5 times the price!

 

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[Viking Saint]

  trousers said:

Anyone know how Burnley managed to get an Oriental sponsor on the front of their shirts without an awful thick surround where we failed...?

 

Umbro, not UA

[Saint_clark]

I'd like to see Boufal or Djenepo on for Ings.

[Lighthouse]

Romeu has looked decent but then stopping them from playing in midfield was never going to be the hardest job today.

 

Oh sausages.

[Batman]

booooo barnes

[Saint_clark]

Well, ****.

[OttawaSaint]

Jesus Christ. Same old ****ing story.

[Saints foreva]

You ****ing donkey Vestergaard.

[shurlock]

  trousers said:

Anyone know how Burnley managed to get an Oriental sponsor on the front of their shirts without an awful thick surround where we failed...?

 

And I thought you’d be troubled by having “love bet” slapped in bright white over their shirts.