Aston Villa 1-0 Saints - Match Thread

[Crab Lungs]

And the point of Elyounoussi is…?

 

This has been so bad. And to lose to Villa, who are horrific and are just waiting to be pasted. Jesus.

[OttawaSaint]

Prowse shoving again like an enraged netball player...

[Saint NL]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:40, Saint_clark said:

Surely McGinn can't get away with that reaction.

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He just did 🤣

[harvey]

This could be a good team if it weren't for Ralph.

[trousers]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:40, SNSUN said:

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Not what I expected your missus to look like to be honest

[Saint_clark]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:40, Saint_clark said:

Surely McGinn can't get away with that reaction.

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He does. Suplex Djenepo to the ground and no card.

[Saint Billy]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:36, trousers said:

Ok... hands up..... Having played my umpteenth benefit of the doubt card, I'm duly poised to join the "WTF are you doing, Ralph?" club....

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Welcome bruv. 

 

[adrian lord]

Some action and fight at last but not the sort we really need.

[Donatello]

I really wish journalists would ask Ralph about his in-game tactical decision making/thinking. Why doesn't Edoize get on the pitch to 80ish mins? Why do you feel your side were unable to create a shot on target? Do you finish every training session with a rimjob from Elyounoussi, or just every other session?  

[Saint Fan CaM]

Fook me, if JWP passes backwards once more when in plenty of space I’ll end up damaging the TV!

[obelisk]

Unbelievable how many times Saints midfield have given the ball to Villa. We just cannot build any sort of momentum.

[Saint NL]

Here comes Ings to get the 2nd...

[Ade]

Ralph seems to have sucked the life out of these young exciting players. Absolutely awful performance.

[Micky]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:38, Norm said:

Based on this game, both teams likely to be in the bottom 5 at end of season. Pi$$ poor to watch. 

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I'd snap your arm off to be top of that league.  We'll be bloody lucky to survive at this rate. 

[JRM]

So so easy to defend against this Saints team 

[Sfcphilc]

Can get 100/1 odds on us to win.

[Mr X]

Ralph and the team need a serious look at themselves after tonight... None of them have turnt up! 

[OttawaSaint]

7 against 15 here, 4 of ours just can't stop passing to them. Laughable!

[Saints foreva]

Villa won't have an easier win all season. 

82 minutes and we've had absolutely fuck all. Pathetic. 

[Sheaf Saint]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:40, Saint_clark said:

Surely McGinn can't get away with that reaction.

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He did.

And don't call me Shirley.

[Saint_lambden]

Horrific performance. Like a League Two side in possession. Created absolutely nothing against a side low on confidence. 

[Greedyfly]

Thank fuck we didn't waste money on a striker!

[Lee On Solent Saint]

That throw in just sums this shit up

[saintant]

This is totally embarrassing.

[SNSUN]

Crud.

[Saint NL]

That throw in routine sums up the whole game

[Saint Scott]

What the fuck have they been doing the last two weeks. It's like a group of lads that have never met turning up hungover to make an 11 against a pub side

[AlexLaw76]

Please sack Ralph. Horrific

[obelisk]

Dreadful. Losing to yet another poor team. Hardly a chance created all game.

[Lord Duckhunter]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:44, Lee On Solent Saint said:

That throw in just sums this shit up

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Even the commentators are taking the piss. 

[OttawaSaint]

That throw was us in a nutshell. Clueless and ineffective.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Just stop the utterly pathetic ‘long’ throws FFS. Ralph has to go now…he doesn’t have a clue to how beat a poor team.

[SNSUN]

[jamesfp1]

In our darkest days I don't remember being this angry. 

[OttawaSaint]

Came home early from work for this. Have a fucking headache now.

[hypochondriac]

Can't help but feel we'd be better under someone else. This is so awful. 

[BotleySaint]

This is the worst I've seen us play for a long time. Really really poor. Lack of concentration, no one trying. Just dull football.

[Saint Billy]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:39, Miltonaggro said:

Hartleys or Robertsons? 

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Well, if you are leaving the jam in the jar, which I wouldn't recommend due to complications, I would go for an own brand as the jam is unimportant in this exercise. 

[Mr X]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:44, Greedyfly said:

Thank fuck we didn't waste money on a striker!

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Walcott springs to mind 

[adrian lord]

We are going nowhere under Ralph. A cycle of dross and defeats punctuated by intermittent, sack-repelling, but short lived upturns. Time to move on.

[bangkoksaint]

The whole club

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:44, Saint NL said:

That throw in routine sums up the whole game

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[OttawaSaint]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:45, jamesfp1 said:

In our darkest days I don't remember being this angry. 

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I'm fucking apoplectic with rage. We're good enough to win this but this setup and tactics blunts us. Pointless.

[SNSUN]

Could get a bit of injury time here. Just enough time for a completely undeserved equaliser.

[harvey]

  On 16/09/2022 at 20:41, Saint Fan CaM said:

Fook me, if JWP passes backwards once more when in plenty of space I’ll end up damaging the TV!

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I got slated for it, but apart from the freekicks, he's overated.

[Suhari]

We've been fucking shit.

[badgerx16]

If they used this match to advertise the PL the overseas TV companies would hand their contracts back.

[sandwichsaint]

This is one of the worst PL games I've ever seen. Only consolaton is that for those scratching around for 'three teams worse than us' is that Villa are absolutely dire too. 

[Saint NL]

Imagine getting tactically outplayed by Steven Gerrard. 

Can't be many managers who can say that, so in a way, Ralph IS special.

[RobJones1971]

I’m struggling to remember such a meek surrender from us as this ….

[Mr X]

So bad we may as well have signed villa over the three points at the start! as we've clearly even gift wrapped them