Ward Prowse free kicks.

[Whitey Grandad]

53 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Indeed it is ridiculous. No point even having VAR if it has such a limited remit. On field refs should be allowed to ask for replays of anything they want, and VAR officials should be able to notify the on field ref of any incidents where there has been an obvious error.

VAR is not used for ball in or out of play, nor should it. My views on VAR have been quite clear. I don’t like it at all. I don’t like the way that it is being used to re-referee the game.

[saintquin]

On 21/04/2022 at 09:00, Sunglasses Ron said:

I thought there was goal line technology and VAR, but the former didn't work and the latter wasn't used for some bizarre reason?

Didn;t they just forget to turn the goal line tech on?

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, saintquin said:

Didn;t they just forget to turn the goal line tech on?

I think it just got confused by the goalkeeper getting in the way. Technology isn’t perfect.

[harvey]

Tbh if JWP didn't have his freekicks in his armoury he'd be League one level.

[jawillwill]

8 hours ago, harvey said:

Tbh if JWP didn't have his freekicks in his armoury he'd be League one level.

You've either:

- never watched Saints play;

- never watched JWP play; or

- never watched any League 1 football.

Whichever one it is, you've made yourself look a bit silly.

[S-Clarke]

13 hours ago, harvey said:

Tbh if JWP didn't have his freekicks in his armoury he'd be League one level.

I guess he's always been a poor man's Barry Bannan.

[jawillwill]

On 22/04/2022 at 22:33, harvey said:

Tbh if JWP didn't have his freekicks in his armoury he'd be League One level

Second goal was that of a bang average League 1 player.

Edited 24 April, 2022 by jawillwill

[saintquin]

On Radio 5 they said JWP has scored twice as many freekicks than any other player in the top 5 European leagues (8-4) over the last 2 seasons.

Not bad!

 

[LiberalCommunist]

One of his ugliest, but damn that was sweet! 

[Saint_clark]

3 minutes ago, LiberalCommunist said:

One of his ugliest, but damn that was sweet! 

I thought it was a very clever freekick to be honest. The whole world including the keeper was expecting it in the opposite top corner. The fact Romeu was stood where he was and ducked just as JWP hit it shows it was 100% intended to go where it did.

 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

On 23/04/2022 at 11:40, S-Clarke said:

I guess he's always been a poor man's Barry Bannan.

🙂 Villa's Xavi. He's got a career out of it mostly at Champ level, but he was billed as something with a lot more. While JWP did make that progression, without the same level of fanfare.

[Suhari]

Pleased he scored from open play.

He should be doing more of that. Hope it continues.

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

I don't know if anyone else has spotted it but he's rather good at them?

[Dr. Kucho]

In Garth Crooks team of the week. Garth writes:

Ward-Prowse: When you're 2-0 down away from home at half-time you had better have someone special in your team capable of turning the deficit around otherwise the game might as well be over. Fortunately, Southampton have James Ward-Prowse, who seems to have the ability to dig the Saints out of almost any hole. His two goals against Brighton were timely as they were beautifully struck. Southampton will do well to hold on to this player. He's got so much more to offer and would make the perfect replacement for Jordan Henderson at Liverpool.

[Saint_clark]

4 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said:

In Garth Crooks team of the week. Garth writes:

Ward-Prowse: When you're 2-0 down away from home at half-time you had better have someone special in your team capable of turning the deficit around otherwise the game might as well be over. Fortunately, Southampton have James Ward-Prowse, who seems to have the ability to dig the Saints out of almost any hole. His two goals against Brighton were timely as they were beautifully struck. Southampton will do well to hold on to this player. He's got so much more to offer and would make the perfect replacement for Jordan Henderson at Liverpool.

He really is such a prick.

[Barsiem]

6 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said:

In Garth Crooks team of the week. Garth writes:

Ward-Prowse: When you're 2-0 down away from home at half-time you had better have someone special in your team capable of turning the deficit around otherwise the game might as well be over. Fortunately, Southampton have James Ward-Prowse, who seems to have the ability to dig the Saints out of almost any hole. His two goals against Brighton were timely as they were beautifully struck. Southampton will do well to hold on to this player. He's got so much more to offer and would make the perfect replacement for Jordan Henderson at Liverpool.

It’s hilarious how obsessed he is with JWP joining Liverpool

[Whitey Grandad]

10 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said:

In Garth Crooks team of the week. Garth writes:

Ward-Prowse: When you're 2-0 down away from home at half-time you had better have someone special in your team capable of turning the deficit around otherwise the game might as well be over. Fortunately, Southampton have James Ward-Prowse, who seems to have the ability to dig the Saints out of almost any hole. His two goals against Brighton were timely as they were beautifully struck. Southampton will do well to hold on to this player. He's got so much more to offer and would make the perfect replacement for Jordan Henderson at Liverpool.

There should be a law against that sort of thing.

[Whitey Grandad]

5 hours ago, Saint_clark said:

He really is such a prick.

There should be a law against him.

[Teddeer]

I liked the fact that JWP scored with a totally different type of free kick. This will add to his armoury as keepers and defenders will now have to factor in a lower trajectory strike into the bottom corner. 

[rallyboy]

It was a bit of a shambolic wall - as Prowsie is such a danger you'd think they might have prepared for a free-kick scenario.

What an invitation of a backheel from Romeu for the 2nd one, and what a strike!

[Bad Wolf]

On 22/04/2022 at 22:33, harvey said:

Tbh if JWP didn't have his freekicks in his armoury he'd be League one level.

I'm guessing this is a wind up? Let's just say that's true (it clearly isn't) then that's a heck of a "one thing" to have in your arsenal!

Sometimes a player does one thing so well that it's worth having him for just that one thing. Again though, that's clearly not the case with JWP, just thought I'd take this troll comment at face value.

[tajjuk]

On 24/04/2022 at 21:48, Suhari said:

Pleased he scored from open play.

He should be doing more of that. Hope it continues.

He should but I also have a feeling he has in recent times or at least I feel he is getting into those spots a little more and is willing to take the shot on, he was doing it for England as well. 

Main issue is the 4-2-2-2 systems means its often the no.10s who get into that 'red zone' as Ralph calls it, and only really Armstrong is good at long shots. 

But he seems to be improving all areas of his game, his penalties have got better IMO, he's striking the ball better from distance (hasn't he scored two outside the box this year?) and he's adding to his free kick ability. 

[Dman]

2 hours ago, tajjuk said:

He should but I also have a feeling he has in recent times or at least I feel he is getting into those spots a little more and is willing to take the shot on, he was doing it for England as well. 

Main issue is the 4-2-2-2 systems means its often the no.10s who get into that 'red zone' as Ralph calls it, and only really Armstrong is good at long shots. 

But he seems to be improving all areas of his game, his penalties have got better IMO, he's striking the ball better from distance (hasn't he scored two outside the box this year?) and he's adding to his free kick ability. 

To be fair, from what I’ve seen this season, it seems to be Romeu who is the more advanced of the 2, in what I’d call a traditional ‘box to box’ type role, when we attack (similar to Sunday), with prowsey sitting a little deeper. 

Im sure there is a heat map which will prove that to be wrong, but that was my observations from the games I’ve been to this season. 
 

how can I check this @TWar

probably partly explains why we’re seemingly so easy to counter against. 

I dont really rate him as a manager, but for me, prowse would develop really well under the guidance of someone like Lampard who was the king of arrive late from deep and scoring goals. 

Edited 26 April, 2022 by Dman

[trousers]

Garth Crooks in seeking reaction and getting reaction shocker...

[Sarnia Cherie]

How many more free kicks does JWP need to score from to claim the record and do they need to be scored for Saints?

[ant]

The Premier League record is held by Beckham with 18; JWP needs 5 more to beat that.

At 27 and fit as a fiddle, who'd bet against?

Craziest thing is that 8 of his 14 in the Premier League have come since 1st November 2020. 

[Winnersaint]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

Garth Crooks in seeking reaction and getting reaction shocker...

He'd have been better off sticking to C&W🤪