Tottenham 4-1 Saints - Match Thread

[John Boy Saint]

Oh dear

 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 minute ago, saintant said:

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.

It will ahve been a worry a lot of us ahd: that the repalcement fro Ralphball would rob of of that dynamism when it was going well, but not be able to shore us up or be creative enough either. Still, only a goal in it...

[OttawaSaint]

Goallll Salisu...in our net though. Comical.

[saintant]

Just now, Saint Fan CaM said:

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.

Are we creating and missing chances then?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

correction...only 2 goals in it...

[Saint86]

Wow. Right when we were getting back into the game...

[stknowle]

Salisu.....................our.best.central.defender.

[Disco Stu]

Does Salisu not have a right foot? 😐

[Nemi]

As someone who’s unable to watch, is it actually that bad or is it just that Spurs have a far superior set of players compared to us?

[OttawaSaint]

Hilariously bad. What a joke! 😂 

[trousers]

Game over

[Sunglasses Ron]

We are horrific 😂

It's one thing losing to a team like Tottenham, but we seem to excel at doing all the hard work for them.

Yet another opening day loss it is then...

[The Kraken]

That’s is fucking pathetic Salisu.

[striker]

nice finish

[Saint86]

Salisu doubly at fault for that. Shocking. One of the worst own goals you will ever see.

[Bad Wolf]

To clarify, I don't believe Ralph is a good manager. But I also don't believe he's at fault for every single thing that goes wrong.

Unhappy medium, people.

[saintant]

Why do we continually give away such soft goals?

[Baird of the land]

That's Comically bad defending

[Disco Stu]

I wonder what Ralph will do to try and turn this game around. Change shape perhaps? Playing with a striker might work.

[FarehamSaintJames]

Superb selection.

Superb tactics.

Superb defending.

Superbly inexperienced.

🤣

[Sunglasses Ron]

Fucking hell, bottom of the league to boot now!

[striker]

This formation sucks, as does the goalie and Valery

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Just now, Nemi said:

As someone who’s unable to watch, is it actually that bad or is it just that Spurs have a far superior set of players compared to us?

We are poor and a much better Spurs team aren;t having to work to hard to look that much better than us. And as I type, that's another one...

[saint lard]

Get Hasenhuttle out of our club now. It’s gone on way too long. 

[Baird of the land]

1 minute ago, Nemi said:

As someone who’s unable to watch, is it actually that bad or is it just that Spurs have a far superior set of players compared to us?

That bad.

[Nordic Saint]

5 minutes ago, DT said:

Strange selections. Tick. Dodgy tactics. Tick. Ralph slotting straight back into it. 

Let's hope it doesn't take too long for Ralph to learn that, with the players he has, 3 at the back doesn't work. It just leaves us totally exposed.  When he did it before. it was, in effect, 5 at the back, as he just needed an extra central defender to cover for Vestergaard, but the way he's playing it now, we really are left with only 3 defenders, which is suicidal when they are players of such limited ability.

[sydney_saint]

Bednarek marking the keeper there....

[Suhari]

Oh dear.

4-1

[Viking Saint]

Fucking hell....

[Disco Stu]

Urrgh. It's all too predictable. How depressing. Ralph never learns 😞

Edited 6 August, 2022 by Disco Stu

[bpsaint]

Embarrassing but not surprising, I put £20 on us to lose 4-1 at 16/1

[Baird of the land]

Sack him now

[Golac's Iron Gonads]

I know we don't have a forward on the field but we really don't like to get it in the box, Stick it in there and see what happens, Like they did when Salisu tapped it in,

[trousers]

F**k this.... Ralph out....

[Saint86]

Hall marks of the emirates game for Yoshida's debut. Horrendous defending this game. Isn't Selles a defensive mastermind?

[Bad Wolf]

Just now, striker said:

This formation sucks, as does the goalie and Valery

This must be a record for turning on a player. Even for our fanbase.

[SambaMaverick]

Why did SR keep this fucking clown in a job if they're so clever?

[obelisk]

Embarrassing. Ralph out.

[HKsaint]

Salisu out!

[AlexLaw76]

Are we really going to persist with this manager?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Probably not the only one, but Djenepo was well out of position all the way through that move for the 4th.

[FarehamSaintJames]

New season, same Ralph 😅

[LGTL]

Just now, bpsaint said:

Embarrassing but not surprising, I put £20 on us to lose 4-1 at 16/1

I’d cash out, this could be anything now. 

[trousers]

Just now, bpsaint said:

Embarrassing but not surprising, I put £20 on us to lose 4-1 at 16/1

You're going to lose your money....

[jasonb]

Hmm. Could be 5 or 6 if they fancy it with what... 30 mins left. Pffftttt

[The Kraken]

Utterly, utterly terrible.

Yet again exposed down the flanks.

Fuck off Ralph. Shamefully shit.

[SNSUN]

Well this is going exactly how most of us thought it would then.

 

I said it at the end of last season and I'll say it now. RALPH NEEDS TO GO.

[Saint_Jonny]

Thought we were doing ok until the OG (which was horrendous). 

Here comes the drubbing though. Soft underbelly still there. 

[Edmonton Saint]

Salisu has been awful pretty much all this calendar year. We’re depressing to watch right now, still can’t do the basics .We spent all pre season with this nonsense 3 at the back to make us hard to beat, yet we still have no idea how to defend. I think I posted in the opening thread of the 2017 season that Stephens shouldn’t be anywhere near our line up, yet here we are 5 years later still trying to pretend he is a premiership level defender. 

[Disco Stu]

What could have been if Tottenham got the red card they deserved.