Saints 0-0 West Ham - Match Thread

[Saint Billy]

This is like the good old days of a couple of years ago. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Macca has kept us in it there. 

This has been an awful performance overall. We've gone off the boil so badly in recent games.

 

[jasonb]

We haven't laid a glove on West Ham this half. Not too sure if its fatigue but the passing is so slow and predictable atm. 

However, we always knew our form would dip at some point. Great thing is it can return ad quickly as it has left us. 

[DT]

If we don’t go for the win we will lose

[East Kent Saint]

Looking at the bench , how do you make a change for the better ? 

[OttawaSaint]

We’re so low in quality right now. Men over and we waste it time and time again.

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, East Kent Saint said:

Looking at the bench , how do you make a change for the better ? 

Obafemi on for Long?

[Jonnyboy]

Do we ever have a good Xmas spell? 

[egg]

Why are there stewards in a ground with no fans? 

[LGTL]

This has been really, really poor, especially second half. Ings looks affected by this poxy contract situation. 

[Saint Billy]

Just now, East Kent Saint said:

Looking at the bench , how do you make a change for the better ? 

Even if you put on Forster instead of Long it would be an improvement. 

[DT]

Transfer window reassessment right here

[Plastic]

Difficult game. WHAM have been pretty good. 

[OttawaSaint]

Last minute and we back track. Fucking do something!!!! 

[adrian lord]

Defensive masterclass by WHU to be honest. 

[egg]

Nil Nil about right. Poor game, although they've been the better side. 

[OttawaSaint]

Walcott kicked the turf. Ffs!

[DT]

God, the lack of ambition. 

[BotleySaint]

1 minute ago, Jonnyboy said:

Do we ever have a good Xmas spell? 

Last year. Wasn't it the Christmas form that saved us?

[jasonb]

Just now, Plastic said:

Difficult game. WHAM have been pretty good. 

They have defended resolutely. Dawson marshalled them superbly at the back. You have to factor the opposition, it's not just Saints being poor. 

[hackedoff]

Another naive performance,corner well and truly turned. 

[OttawaSaint]

I hate West Ham!

[obelisk]

Right now I'd take a point.

[northam soul]

Well we certainly passed the life out of the half way line

[obelisk]

Typical. Give away a daft free kick right at the end.

[adrian lord]

crap

[Mr X]

Terrible in terms of creativity, more points lost

[S-Clarke]

The less said about that the better.

That was absolutely diabolical. We are certainly in a slump, be interesting to see where we are at the end of Jan. I doubt it will be anywhere near the top 6.

[Jeremy Corbyn]

3 1/2 games without a goal. Ralph out?

[Jonnyboy]

Dull end to 2020. Properly off the boil and back to being a mid table side. 

[CB Fry]

Brilliant game for the neutral, though.

[OttawaSaint]

Brutal. Wasted opportunity, no one wanted to be brave. We look utterly bereft of attacking ideas and confidence. 

[obelisk]

Well, in the past we'd have lost that. Take the positives.

[Edmonton Saint]

Awful. We had zero intensity or drive. The threadbare squad is starting to wear us down as we have little in the way of personnel changes we can make.

[Viking Saint]

Absolute dross. 90 minutes I'll never get back

[Saint_clark]

Ings attitude has been atrocious since he came back from injury. Sick of seeing him stand there demanding the ball, throwing a hissy fit when he doesn't get it, then cheaply giving it away with an over ambitious pass or run. 

[East Kent Saint]

Stat : Ings had fewer touches than any other Saints player and none in WH box !!

[S-Clarke]

Just now, obelisk said:

Well, in the past we'd have lost that. Take the positives.

We were lucky West Ham were equally as dreadful. They seemed more bothered about stopping attacks than attacking themselves.

[Yorkshire Saint]

These are games we would have lost 1-0 in recent years. Take the positive and move on ..

[harvey]

Terrible...we seem more concerned with not losing than winning. Bertrand I wouldn't bother with a new contract, too slow and too many backward passes lately.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Just now, obelisk said:

Well, in the past we'd have lost that. Take the positives.

Fully agree, a point against a decent team that we dislike playing against and our manager not on the sidelines.

If we were West Brom fans we’d have plenty to moan about.

[Turkish]

Another point closer to safety 

[BotleySaint]

Two games ended nil nil in a row. Both heavily featured Shane Long. Hopefully Ralph will take note.

[Baird of the land]

The positive is that we took a point. Good to see Ings back, lovely movement for the disallowed goal but not sure why he played the full 90 as he didn't look 100%.

We were pretty terrible going forward. I know that we like to recycle the ball back but today it just seemed excessive and slow. We are missing vestergaard's set piece danger too.

Can't understand why we still persist with long rather than giving a youngster that 30 minutes to have an impact. Long's major achievement today seemed to be tackling djenepo.

 

[woodsaint1]

Another clean sheet for Jack Stephens. Thought he wasnt PL standard

[trousers]

1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

Ings attitude has been atrocious since he came back from injury

Which just happened to coincide with Ralph going public on Ings contract situation... Something defo not right with Ings (mentally as well as physically) IMO

[woodsaint1]

Joint 5th for now....

[sad saints fan]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Another point closer to safety 

Exactly what I think

[madge]

Armstrong should have been on at half time and when you need a goal you throw on the prolific Shane long. West Hams bench looked so much better than ours. Great start to the season but we look fooked now..

[badgerx16]

5 minutes ago, Mr X said:

, more points lost

How ? We began with 25 and finished with 26.