2022/23 Other games

[The Cat]

Just now, CB Fry said:

Struggling to see how this makes any difference to us whatsoever but yeah.

It might affect who goes down with us. I'm bang up for that being Leicester.

But yeah.

[Turkish]

9 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Struggling to see how this makes any difference to us whatsoever but yeah.

Course it matters we are only 3 points off 19th!

Edited 4 April, 2023 by Turkish

[trousers]

[OttawaSaint]

Leicester thought they'd got a last minute penalty. VAR overturned it. I need to see that again, looked like a pen at normal speed.

[trousers]

Just now, OttawaSaint said:

Leicester thought they'd got a last minute penalty. VAR overturned it. I need to see that again, looked like a pen at normal speed.

Nah. Was a foul the other way 

[OttawaSaint]

So tantalizing but we can't score for toffee and give away some of the most ball achingly soft goals. 

A somewhat reasonably skilled team could pull this off but our lot don't have the guts it takes.

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, trousers said:

Nah. Was a foul the other way 

Thanks, as I said I need to look again. 

[whelk]

Chelsea spunked what £250m and look so shit. Quite funny they are as bad at scoring goals as us

[saint lard]

Tricky games for West Ham tomorrow and Saturday. 
Also Everton,Forest away also At the weekend.  
Leicester V Bournemouth is a bit of a bugger. 
Easy 3 points for us against City and everything is rosey.😉 

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:

Leicester v Bournemouth Saturday! 
 

Forest look in the shit, although rumours doing the rounds cooper out if they lost today. 

[CB Fry]

8 minutes ago, The Cat said:

It might affect who goes down with us. I'm bang up for that being Leicester.

But yeah.

Leicester and Forest down and Derby promoted is my personal dream scenario so there is that.

[trousers]

2 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Thanks 

My pleasure

[whelk]

13 minutes ago, The Cat said:

I don't really get annoyed by much but that bloke is an absolute helmet. Wouldn't be surprised if him and DT were also posting on some South Korean suicide forum. 

Aye and guarantee he’s posted Romeu’s legs have gone and we should ship him out

[adrian lord]

Apart from the top two teams, the league is atrocious this year. Liverpool and Chelsea playing out the most appalling nil nil draw just about sums it up. 
 

 

…yet still Saints conspire to get relegated. SR have a lot of questions to answer.

[S-Clarke]

31 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Leicester v Bournemouth Saturday! 
 

Forest look in the shit, although rumours doing the rounds cooper out if they lost today. 

I'd take him next year in the Champ, it was always going to be hard for Forest with their scattergun approach. I think he's done well to make them somewhat competitive to be honest.

[Crab Lungs]

26 minutes ago, adrian lord said:

Apart from the top two teams, the league is atrocious this year. Liverpool and Chelsea playing out the most appalling nil nil draw just about sums it up. 
 

 

…yet still Saints conspire to get relegated. SR have a lot of questions to answer.

And they will answer them, no doubt, in calm and relaxed manner.

Edited 4 April, 2023 by Crab Lungs

[Crab Lungs]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I'd take him next year in the Champ, it was always going to be hard for Forest with their scattergun approach. I think he's done well to make them somewhat competitive to be honest.

We’d dilly-dally and someone else will get him.

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, Crab Lungs said:

And they will answer them, no doubt, in calm and relaxed manner.

The league position doesn’t matter we can look back on this season with pride in the amount of young players we’ve given a platform to prove themselves on

and the women’s team have done great 

 

[S-Clarke]

3 minutes ago, Crab Lungs said:

We’d dilly-dally and someone else will get him.

Remember, we do it on our terms and we will not be dictated to. Our way is the envy of all, that's why we're propping up the rest.

[S-Clarke]

32 minutes ago, adrian lord said:

Apart from the top two teams, the league is atrocious this year. Liverpool and Chelsea playing out the most appalling nil nil draw just about sums it up. 
 

 

…yet still Saints conspire to get relegated. SR have a lot of questions to answer.

It's certainly a bit of an odd season, the usuals have been pretty poor which has allowed the likes of Newcastle, Fulham, Brentford and Brighton to have a bit of fun. Not entirely sure it's just down to quality, as there is a lot of quality in this league, maybe it's just got a bit more competitive and other teams can punch harder now. (Newcastle for one, Villa don't hold back either).

There are some decent squads down in the bottom half too and some decent money has been spent, we're the only team you can look at and say yeah we don't have enough. Every other side has something. 

[InvictaSaint]

4 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Remember, we do it on our terms and we will not be dictated to. Our way is the envy of all, that's why we're propping up the rest.

Strongest team in the league, us. 😉

[S-Clarke]

Just now, InvictaSaint said:

Strongest team in the league, us. 😉

Don't temp them, I can see the merch being developed as we speak  

[BallBoy]

Decent results for us tonight but it's useless unless we actually improve ourselves. Too late IMO.

[S-Clarke]

18 minutes ago, BallBoy said:

Decent results for us tonight but it's useless unless we actually improve ourselves. Too late IMO.

This is the killer really, these are irrelevant if we keep dropping in the results we do against Leeds/Wolves/West Ham etc. It's the hope that kills so for my sanity I'm just accepting the fate now, it's definitely tight down there and from 12th - 18th there are 3 or so points in it, but we're absolutely rooted to the bottom and actually getting cut adrift in a season where it's so tight above us. Typical really.

[Noodles34]

1 hour ago, saint lard said:

Tricky games for West Ham tomorrow and Saturday. 
Also Everton,Forest away also At the weekend.  
Leicester V Bournemouth is a bit of a bugger. 
Easy 3 points for us against City and everything is rosey.😉 

And we have ?

[Andrew Watson]

We are finishing last, so pretty immaterial really.

[SotonianWill]

we’re being left behind now 

[JRM]

Leicester v Bournemouth is a big one on Saturday,  despite the fact we're already down its still interesting to follow the relegation battle to see who is coming with us, going to go right to the last game I reckon

 

[hackedoff]

1 hour ago, SotonianWill said:

we’re being left behind now 

And deservedly so,ill run outfit from top to bottom.

[Saint Billy]

Might of well start gathering the rotten tomatoes for the lap of honor at the end of the season. 

[bpsaint]

I’d feel more confident about gaining  promotion next season with Bournemouth and Forest coming down with us, rather than 2 of West Ham, Leicester or Everton.

[saint lard]

And that ladies and gentlemen is how you rip West Ham a new one. 
Newcastle going in dry straight away. No messing. 

[DT]

Newcastle showing how bad West Ham are. Inexcusable how little we tried to beat them, with fault starting at Selles’ batshit selection. Again. 

[JRM]

6 minutes ago, DT said:

Newcastle showing how bad West Ham are. Inexcusable how little we tried to beat them, with fault starting at Selles’ batshit selection. Again. 

Exactly, a little bit of attacking intent, take a few risks actually try to win the game.....we never find out how bad a teams defence is because we don't test them 

Edited 5 April, 2023 by JRM

[stknowle]

Surprised to see Wham folding so easily I thought they looked like a top quality rock solid outfit against us.

[Lighthouse]

23 minutes ago, stknowle said:

Surprised to see Wham folding so easily I thought they looked like a top quality rock solid outfit against us.

Calmness personified for the third.

[Crab Lungs]

1 hour ago, DT said:

Newcastle showing how bad West Ham are. Inexcusable how little we tried to beat them, with fault starting at Selles’ batshit selection. Again. 

Totally agree. Minging side. Like Forest. Like Wolves. Etc etc.

[Pamplemousse]

Given that we still have to play Bournemouth and Forest, yesterday's losses for them were perfect for us. Those are two teams we have to overhaul if we are to stay up, and if we beat them both we should do so.

Leicester in big trouble too but I actually think Everton are more likely than them to go down.

[Pamplemousse]

55 minutes ago, JRM said:

Exactly, a little bit of attacking intent, take a few risks actually try to win the game.....we never find out how bad a teams defence is because we don't test them 

If we set up against Palace like we did against West Ham I'll go balistic.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

13 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Given that we still have to play Bournemouth and Forest, yesterday's losses for them were perfect for us. Those are two teams we have to overhaul if we are to stay up, and if we beat them both we should do so.

Leicester in big trouble too but I actually think Everton are more likely than them to go down.

Think Everton have to much fight in them. No quality but they have desire. 

[Jonnyboy]

24 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Given that we still have to play Bournemouth and Forest, yesterday's losses for them were perfect for us. Those are two teams we have to overhaul if we are to stay up, and if we beat them both we should do so.

Leicester in big trouble too but I actually think Everton are more likely than them to go down.

That would be very Sainsty to beat them both and finish 18th.

[Yozzman]

Shame West Ham didn't gift us a couple of goals like they have tonight.

[Chris cooper]

1 minute ago, Yozzman said:

Shame West Ham didn't gift us a couple of goals like they have tonight.

We haven’t got composure to finish like that .. 😅

[Lee On Solent Saint]

3 minutes ago, Yozzman said:

Shame West Ham didn't gift us a couple of goals like they have tonight.

You have to actually attack a team to score goals. Not sure if that's in our make up any longer. 

[SaintTex]

Amazing how one result just changes dramatically things right now.

IF we had beat West Ham, we would be in 18th and they would be in 20th.

but West Ham is in 15th and we are 20th.

 

i know... if, if, if.

[saintant]

34 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

If we set up against Palace like we did against West Ham I'll go balistic.

I'm afraid Selles is a coach who believes you need to set out to stop the opposition rather than going gung-ho from the start. I don't see any evidence that he'll change this mind-set.We are always better when we start high tempo and take the game to our opponents. He'll scrape the odd win but invariably we'll go behind and lose.

[sad saints fan]

We are always better when we start high tempo and take the game to our opponents.

Like we were last season when we lost more games from a winning position than almost anyone else . We were all moaning then about a lack off fitness in our players and maybe that is still a problem ,which is why Selles sets up the way he does.

[obelisk]

Selles will no doubt point to the fact the Newcastle also conceded one goal against West Ham - therefore Saints as good as Newcastle. 😇

[JRM]

2 minutes ago, saintant said:

I'm afraid Selles is a coach who believes you need to set out to stop the opposition rather than going gung-ho from the start. I don't see any evidence that he'll change this mind-set.We are always better when we start high tempo and take the game to our opponents. He'll scrape the odd win but invariably we'll go behind and lose.

I think we set up that way as there's zero confidence in our defence and keeper so we try to protect them with this negative football. 

[Dellman]

if you've no confidence in your defence, all the more important to build the  attack. That's just common sense