Norwich 2-1 Saints - Match Thread

[OttawaSaint]

Fuck cunt. Threw away a very decent chance of 3pts. Bollocks!

[bangkoksaint]

Don’t worry we’ll bury Liverpool next week………

[trousers]

Game over. Decent first half, crap second half. One defeat in 5 games. Hey ho. Will leave the knee jerk over-reactions to the usual suspects. 

Edited 20 November, 2021 by trousers

[Jimmy_D]

That’s three points dropped.

[Chapel End]

Poor 2nd half.

 

[OttawaSaint]

That chance, Broja/Adams/Armstrong would have buried. Waster!

[saint michael]

Hasunhutl at his bizarre decision making best…. The guy must think he is some sort of tactical genius 

[Disco Stu]

Relegation battle it is.

[obelisk]

Saints really need to do something about these 2nd half capitulations.

[Totton Saint]

we wait all week looking forward to the game and now this. 

[BotleySaint]

Classic saints by the sounds of it. Get all our hopes up with a good run of results. Then lose the one we should win! Agree on Walcott tho.. didn't even look good on loan. Seems to have lost all sense or control or awareness. Hardly even a footballer.

[Pamplemousse]

That second half was shite

[AlexLaw76]

Easily one of the worst managerial displays from the manager.  Awful decisions from start to finish.

McCarthy shite - should be dropped for that

Diallo shite

Romeu our best player

[Chapel End]

Just now, saint michael said:

Hasunhutl at his bizarre decision making best…. The guy must think he is some sort of tactical genius 

Nah mate they are all on here 😉

[badgerx16]

Fail to make pressure count in the first half, fail to turn up in the second.

[CWD]

One of the worst halves of football from us in a long time. Could barely get out of our half... against Norwich ffs 

[Mr X]

Ralph may be an average coach but his game management particularly  in the second half of games is beyond shit! 

[stknowle]

Jesus.........That 2nd half.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Just now, trousers said:

Game over. Decent first half, crap second half. Will leave the knee jerk over-reactions to the usual suspects. 

Yeah, pissed right off right now but broadly happy with the 10 point return from that 5 game run. Tough December coming up 😕

[TWar]

Two massive goalkeeping errors cost us today

[hasper57saint]

Why can we never seem to compete with the Clubs around and below us? Same old same old.

[Saint_Jonny]

Fucking horrendous second half. What did Ralph do to them at half time? 

[DT]

1 minute ago, Chapel End said:

Poor 2nd half.

 

Bed wetter

[whelk]

1 minute ago, Disco Stu said:

Relegation battle it is.

We were 8th after 4 mins

[Chapel End]

Just now, TWar said:

Two massive goalkeeping errors cost us today

Yep,he was terrible 

[Pamplemousse]

Watch us go and beat Liverpool now.

 

The Southampton way.

[Sheaf Saint]

Ralph needs to take a lot of the blame for that result. The rest falls on McCarthy I'm afraid.

Very poor subs second half - Walcott contributed nothing. What on earth has Tella done to consistently get overlooked for him?

[OttawaSaint]

Alright, signing off. Great first half, thought we looked really good, energetic full of running and ideas. 2nd half was criminal. Hopefully we get Redmond, Stu and Moussa back next week because I don't want to see Walcott and Lyanco coming on again. Lyanco is decent enough but the wrong move and it destabilized us at the back. 

[TWar]

Just now, Chapel End said:

Yep,he was terrible 

Shame really, bad day at the office and two big errors. Bounce back for next week.

[trousers]

Watford 4 Man Utd 1

😂

[danjosaint]

Fu**ing atrocious from Walcott,  Ralph and Mccarthy 

[Chapel End]

Just now, DT said:

Bed wetter

Do STFU,but you can't disguise your glee

[whelk]

Do opta do stats comparisons on first half v second half? If Ralph just let them talk among themselves at HT they could not do any worse 

[RedArmy]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

We were 8th after 4 mins

And at 90 minutes we got beat by the worst team in the league. 

[Baird of the land]

We've got to sort these jekyll and hyde performances.

There's no point dominating first halves only to go missing in the second, especially as we can score no more than one when dominating.

Thought Livramento was poor again. Surely time he was given a rest given we've got perraud.

No clue why Ralph has taken a dislike to Tella. He'll probably play him against liverpool where there's little chance of him being allowed the ball in dangerous positions.

How walcott keeps getting chances despite being awful is crazy.

Hopefully that's a one off by mccarthy. Seemed slow to react to shots. At the very least you'd expect one save of the two, which would at least allow us to crawl home with an embarassing draw.

[verlaine1979]

2 minutes ago, TWar said:

Two massive goalkeeping errors cost us today

Our inability to do anything other than put in hopeful crosses during the first half cost us today. Absolutely no craft in the attacking third.

[BotleySaint]

Man Utd showing what happens if you don't actually sack the manager and just let it drift on in a zombie like state.

[wadesmith]

That feels like a defeat tbh.

[Bewildered]

Did ralph spike the half time drinks with horse tranquilisers or sonething? Second half was worst we have played this season and subs were poor. How walcott gets game time over Tella i don't know. Broja didnt do anythong and subbing off Romeu made no sense.

 

 

[Pamplemousse]

We missed Redmond tbh.

 

Walcott is done. Finished. Finito.

[striker]

Mccarthy was poor, Walcott was poor, basically almost every player was poor. At least Ralph looked dapper in his 3 piece suit

[CWD]

1 minute ago, wadesmith said:

That feels like a defeat tbh.

Yeah, I get the same feeling every time we lose.

[Mr X]

How can Ralph not see Walcott should be nowhere near any Premier league side is beyond me, even Shane long offers more.... let that sink in 

[Mallagroth]

We often lose after the break and we often seem to lose to bottom of the table, doesn’t help that Walcott has the first touch of a rapist. 
 

I forgive Ralph for the drubbings but it’s games like this when we are in control, lose shape and then we should be able to tactically change and recover with the better players on paper and plenty of time left in a match. However we almost never do, against the arguable worst team in the league it really make me question his ability in the prem for anything more ambitious than basic survival.

he doesn’t often seem to be able to read the game when it’s in play, and his subs choices baffle me every game even the ones we’ve won recently…

[Dark Munster]

Just now, Pamplemousse said:

Walcott is done. Finished. Finito.

Absolutely, and it's been clear for ages. I wish Ralph could figure out what's bleeding obvious to all of us.

[Vancouver Saint]

OMG - that was terrible! I'm so angry. We've had some bad second halves but that has to be the worst ever. Some of our worst performances of the season. McCarthy terrible. Dialio terrible. KWP terrible. Walcott - seriously? Ralph - wtf were those substitutions...I get Broja for Elyenoussi who was also terrible...but Walcott, c'mon...take off Romeu? Lyanco is fine but why do that. When we knew we'd likely have control. of the ball why wouldn't you feature Redmond, S. Armstrong or Djenepo - some serious questions here about selection.

TERRIBLE!

[Lee On Solent Saint]

What the fuck was that? Everyone bar Ralph could see that Diallo was the weal link playing where he was, why the fuck didn't he make a change earlier?? Tella should have come on for him. Ralph fucked us over again, completely winnable game, honestly he tries to be too clever. Just play the best players in the right positions.

[davefizzy14]

Really dissapointing to lose that today. We absolutely dominated the 1st half, should have been 2 or 3 up. Then second half we were not on our usual level. Dont understand why Ralph decided to bring Che off and put Adam out wide. We lost our rhythm then.

[Nordic Saint]

This is not the first time I've said this and sadly it won't be the last: I never want to see McCarthy or Walcott play for Saints again. They cost us so many points over a season.

[Saints foreva]

Manager took off our best player in Romeu and left Diallo on who was shocking the entire game, he's a long way off being a Premier League standard player. 

Walcott shouldn't be anywhere near our squad, what a atrocious bit of business that is. He'd struggle in the Championship.