Tottenham 4-1 Saints - Match Thread

[OttawaSaint]

Wakey fucking wakey!

Offside but still. Wake up!!

[Disco Stu]

Caught fast asleep.

[S-Clarke]

So now we have no striker, fair enough. What has Adams done to Ralphs wife??

[Charlie Wayman]

Just now, trousers said:

Stephens on?

You gotta be kidding' me! Does he never learn?

[coalman]

Wake up, Saints

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, Suhari said:

Stephens and Stu on.

For?

[The Kraken]

Fuck me, that was lucky!

[Suhari]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

For?

AA and Valery.

[Golac's Iron Gonads]

armstrong for Armstrong and kin ell thought it was 3. Not that it won't be at some point,

[Baird of the land]

I almost Joked that we'd bring Stu on up fronnt because of Ralph's whole he's a striker now. Comedy gold.

Don't get how stephens polevaults around in term of favour. Seemed least favoured but now he's ahead of Katchup and Lyanco.

[coalman]

Ralph is going full Pep. Get rid of the centre forwards and have lots of midfielders instead.

[niceandfriendly]

1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

For?

Looks like Adam Arm and Valery

[LGTL]

So no striker on the pitch. Can’t be any worse then Armstrong in fairness. 

[Edmonton Saint]

The Valery experiment lasted 45 minutes. New season , same old crap from Ralph 

[The Kraken]

Looks like big Joe up top then.

[OttawaSaint]

Stu now up front? What message does that send to Adams.

Now we'll have both AA and Adams with no confidence.

Shocking man management from RH. Can't say I'm surprised. 

[Suhari]

I do think Adams would work well with Aribo upfront.

Maybe he is moving on.

[LGTL]

His treatment of Adams is just bizarre. 

[Wade Garrett]

And then he brings fucking Stephens on.  45 minutes in and I’m fucked off with Ralph already.  I really want him to do well, but unfortunately he is fucking useless and should have been sacked at the end of last season.

 

[sydney_saint]

Really need Che to come on. At the moment it's hard to attack anywhere other than the wingback without the ball sticking to a centre forward.

One of the positives I do really like is JWP getting so far forward. I think he can score 6-8 from open play in that position, on top of the 5-6 he will get from penalties and freekicks. 

[saintant]

Ralph continues to be an enigma - he continues to baffle with his decisions.

[VectisSaint]

11 minutes ago, macca155 said:

I'm here and trust me Armstrong and Djneppo are the problem.  Both lacklustre and out of position. Spurs relentlessly attacking the left side.

Romeu struggling so slow.

Rest look OK, lots of positives  not a disaster by any means.

Bring on Lyanco and Adams that will help.

It's too hot 🔥 melting in the sun

Don't think we can bring on Lyanco.

[OttawaSaint]

It's like that fast show sketch.

RH, did you set up a solid formation and pick our best player in each position?

RH: even better than that, I've gone with a horribly open and unbalanced lineup with some of our weakest players!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 minutes ago, coalman said:

Ralph is going full Pep. Get rid of the centre forwards and have lots of midfielders instead.

It's our new false no 10...false no 8...false no 6...false hope approach. 🙂

[RedArmy]

Wreck it Ralph

[Toussaint]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

So now we have no striker, fair enough. What has Adams done to Ralphs wife??

He doesn’t dress like a paedo choirmaster for a start

[SambaMaverick]

KWP asleep today, even Djenepo has been more switched on defensively

[Charlie Wayman]

Jo Tessem won't last long if he hogs the mic and talks over Adam all the time. He's getting on my wick.

This is heading for 6 or 7-1

[saintant]

Are we going o let Spurs stroll around in the sun or are we going to get at them and have a right go!

[stevy777_x]

Bazunu s kicking has been abysmal today

[saintscottofthenortham]

So... We really are going to do this Stu Armstrong striker experiment, then.

[Toussaint]

Cunning plan, pack your penalty area for damage limitation

[Victor]

8 minutes ago, trousers said:

Stephens on?

Don't worry, it's Dale Stephens (according to BBC). Let's hope he's good.

[John Boy Saint]

Anyone else’s commentary 2-3 seconds ahead of the game?

[niceandfriendly]

Bazunu's kicking

[AlexLaw76]

we are just wide open all over the show...

[Sunglasses Ron]

Just now, Victor said:

Don't worry, it's Dale Stephens (according to BBC). Let's hope he's good.

They're about 10 years late on that one!

DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION

Tottenham 2-1 Southampton

Southampton have made a double change at the break, by the way.

Yan Valery and Adam Armstrong make way, Dale Stephens and Stuart Armstrong on in their place.

 

[The Kraken]

This formation simply doesn’t work.

[obelisk]

KWP is going to have a few bruises.

[AlexLaw76]

FFS Ralph. just fucking change the formation/set up.

[SNSUN]

1 goal away from a draw! It can be done...

[OttawaSaint]

1 minute ago, saintscottofthenortham said:

So... We really are going to do this Stu Armstrong striker experiment, then.

Seems so. I just...don't get it...WTF is RH doing? He seems to sap the confidence out of the players and coach them all into non entities happy to just go through the motions. Automation or whatever calls it.

[saintant]

Just now, The Kraken said:

This formation simply doesn’t work.

Is anyone other than Ralph surprised? He's just gone for extreme measures to try to stop the goals going in - trouble is, it doesn't work for us.

[Viking Saint]

So chasing a game, we have Stephens and Bednarek on the same pitch with no recognised striker?? FFS...

[Bad Wolf]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

FFS Ralph. just fucking change the formation/set up.

Until he goes 4222 and we concede another two and it'll be "Why didn't he just stay with the formation and try and keep the score down and hit them on the break?!"

[St. Ciervo]

As least Ralph left the track pants at home today. Maybe that's where today began to unravel?

[saintant]

Just now, Bad Wolf said:

Until he goes 4222 and we concede another two and it'll be "Why didn't he just stay with the formation and try and keep the score down and hit them on the break?!"

Well we conceded two soft goals already with this formation to be fair so it can't be any worse.

[Saint Fan CaM]

We could pinch a draw here with a goal  - if only we had a striker or two on the pitch or even on the bench to score it.

Oh.

[OttawaSaint]

Take Broja for instance. He was flying high after that goal vs West Ham and its almost if RH told him to stop being so cocky and then punished him by putting Smallbone as a forward soon after.

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Bad Wolf said:

Until he goes 4222 and we concede another two and it'll be "Why didn't he just stay with the formation and try and keep the score down and hit them on the break?!"

you do know we beat them with that formation, against almost (if not) this exact starting 11?