Southampton 1-1 Arsenal - Match Thread

[Saint_clark]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:25, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Just no urgency

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Ralph has said he's retiring at the end of the season, how many times have you seen a colleague going through the motions as he approaches retirement? We have a manager and a team that just doesn't care.

[OttawaSaint]

Fuck! Just saw Elyounoussi!

[Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:23, GDog07 said:

Obviously the only way it was going to go, those three get three points and we get nothing.

Even Nottm Forest showed a little backbone yesterday, what happened to us giving the big guns a hard time at home?

I don’t usually worry about us dropping away, but this season is starting to look it, we don’t have any attacking integrity about us.

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And look at the players who have scored today;

Ings has 2, Bailey, Tielemans, Barnes, Rodrigo

It is quality we don’t seem to have this season

[Lee On Solent Saint]

"Armstrong waited for it, Arsenal did not" One sentence sums us up

[Chez]

Stu is doing well to keep the ball and buy us a little time.

Fuck sake JWP. Bad place to lose the ball there. Real lack of options I should add. The formation kills us offensively.

[Sheaf Saint]

Brilliant. A prolonged period of just passing it sideways and backwards, and as soon as we inevitably give it away they get through and have a shot on goal.

This is beyond turgid to watch. It's fucking pathetic 

[OttawaSaint]

If we hold on to a 1-0 defeat RH will be smiling ear to ear, his favorite result...

[Saint Fan CaM]

What is the point of Aribo?  I want him to succeed, but just don’t see anything that tells me he wants to.

[santolijador]

Stuart Armstrong is having a shocker, Lyanco looks up for it, has started well

[Saint NL]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:26, OttawaSaint said:

If we hold on to a 1-0 defeat RH will be smiling ear to ear, his favorite result...

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I'd take that right now.

How sad is that?

[Chez]

attack vs defence

[RedArmy]

Name 1 player in this squad that Ralph has made a better player and I’ll name you 10 he’s made worse. 

[Thereisonlyonemickychannon]

Cheating kunt

[danjosaint]

Absolutely fucking dire, no cohesion no fight no idea no pride, fucking disgace and it stems from that ego driven clueless twat in charge, along with the other prick Semmens they borh need to get out of our club

[niceandfriendly]

I've lost the stream. Anything working out there?

[Lighthouse]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:22, Dorchester Saint said:

Oh look!! Villa sacked their clown manager and now they’re 3-0 up in their very next game, but here we are still bungling along with this fucking clown!! 

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Agreed, the sooner we get rid of Ralph, the sooner our £30m strikers can get back to banging in goals.

[Saint_clark]

That looks a foul to me...

[Mixedkebab]

I know it’s only 0-1 but we are such a nothing team these days it already feels like game over. Can’t remember supporting Saints ever being so depressing. Atmosphere awful as well 

[Saint NL]

Sake booked for diving....

 

That looked dangerous for a second

[adrian lord]

It’s hard to make a case for us staying up this year.

I really can’t pick out three teams that are worse than us technically and have less fight.

 

 

[OttawaSaint]

Saints always look like a newly formed team in their first match.

What's your name again? Dave? Have we got 3 Daves?

Nah that's Trevor! 

Thought he was Tony, Stuart's brother?

Who's Stuart?

Edited 23 October, 2022 by OttawaSaint

[AlexLaw76]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:30, adrian lord said:

It’s hard to make a case for us staying up this year.

I really can’t pick out three teams that are worse than us technically and have less fight.

 

 

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on this path, we are very much going down.  It is clear to see when watching most of our games.  Saying otherwise is being a bit deluded

[Mr X]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:30, adrian lord said:

It’s hard to make a case for us staying up this year.

I really can’t pick out three teams that are worse than us technically and have less fight.

 

 

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We could pay the price for not signing enough experience or a decent striker

[Saint_clark]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:30, adrian lord said:

It’s hard to make a case for us staying up this year.

I really can’t pick out three teams that are worse than us technically and have less fight.

 

 

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We are the worst team in the league from what I've seen.

[Micky]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:30, adrian lord said:

It’s hard to make a case for us staying up this year.

I really can’t pick out three teams that are worse than us technically and have less fight.

 

 

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Don't worry, you won't have to. We won't.

[RedArmy]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:30, OttawaSaint said:

Saints always look like a newly formed team in their first match.

What's your name again? Dave? Have we got 3 Dave's?

Nah that's Trevor! 

Thought he was Tony, Stuart's brother?

Who's Stuart?

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Just thinking the same. Fuck knows what they do in training, they look like they’ve never played together. 

[OttawaSaint]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:29, niceandfriendly said:

I've lost the stream. Anything working out there?

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Like your stream, stuttering, static, annoyingly slow...dead.

[coalman]

Jesus should be picking up a yellow for simulation there as well.

[Saint NL]

Naughty from Lyanco.

He's getting stuck in at least

[obelisk]

Can't see how we're not going to be in the bottom 3 when the Qatar farce gets under way.

[Saint_clark]

Why are we waiting for him to tie his shoelace? We should play on around him.

[igsey]

I know Arsenal are top of the league and everything, but we just look awful. So passive, sloppy passing, our captain barely involved. Looks like we have the referee on our side at least.

[Viking Saint]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:32, Saint NL said:

Naughty from Lyanco.

He's getting stuck in at least

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He hardly touched him. You'd be embarrassed to go down like that

[Chez]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:29, Mixedkebab said:

I know it’s only 0-1 but we are such a nothing team these days it already feels like game over. Can’t remember supporting Saints ever being so depressing. Atmosphere awful as well 

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we've improved a bit and put a few passes together and even got a shot off...that's how bad its got. I'm trying to defend us with "we got a shot off".  Still, hope springs eternal. Come on Saints.

[OttawaSaint]

I long for the days of pretending to be injured at 60 minutes so the players could scarf gels full of amphetamines...

Edited 23 October, 2022 by OttawaSaint

[Sheaf Saint]

Ooh, we managed a touch in the Arsenal box!

[adrian lord]

Good lord we are actually putting some mild pressure on!

[niceandfriendly]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:31, OttawaSaint said:

Like your stream, stuttering, static, annoyingly slow...dead.

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This one just came back for me https://www.eplsite.uk/stream3.html

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Must be winning the corner count now!

[Mallagroth]

Looking for a positive we are at least making it a scrappy affair and have broken up their momentum and free flowing play. If we can get a bit of confidence to string at least two passes together could be a more interesting match.

[Saint_clark]

Getting wound up by this ref now. Hopefully the players are the same.

[Sheaf Saint]

WTF is Jesus whingeing about?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

The ref really didn;t need to get in the way of one of our passes. We've struggled to pick out a man all afternoon without his efforts.

[Victor]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:31, Mr X said:

We could pay the price for not signing enough experience or a decent striker

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Oh yeah, that's an original thought.

[Lighthouse]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:30, adrian lord said:

It’s hard to make a case for us staying up this year.

I really can’t pick out three teams that are worse than us technically and have less fight.

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Thankfully the case for staying up isn’t constructed solely on your performance against the team top of the league, with your five best players injured.

[OttawaSaint]

Starting to regret that "Saints -EPL Champs 23/24" tattoo...

[adrian lord]

Referee is our best player so far.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

still annoyed we hold up the game for players to sort their boots. Perhaps there's some shopping they'd like to nip off and do, while we wait.

[Saint_clark]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:36, Sheaf Saint said:

WTF is Jesus whingeing about?

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There should be a minimum 10 yards for those uncontested drop balls. He wanted to try and tackle JWP immediately.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 23/10/2022 at 13:36, Sheaf Saint said:

WTF is Jesus whingeing about?

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10 commandments I think...