Brentford 3-0 Saints - Match Thread

[saintscottofthenortham]

Tall Paul looked fucking shite. But he only arrived in the country yesterday, and we were fucking shite, so I wasn't going to start labelling him.

[Dangerspoon]

It was another shocking display today. Players are alright but they haven’t got a clue where each other are and there’s no system. That’s on the manager

[Saint_clark]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:43, teamsaint said:

We do concede a lot of goals from headers.

 

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Thank god we signed a sweeper keeper to dominate his box. 

[OttawaSaint]

It's like having a car, keeps breaking down, unreliable, making you late for work. 

You have plenty of cash to get a new one, one that's in your price range and known to be not flash but reliable. Will get you from A to B no problem.

But then you try to look clever, you buy a piece of junk with different colored panels and an exhaust the bilges thick black smoke from a one eyed meth addict called Colin.

Imagine, if I manage to get that running and arrive early to work. Everyone will be so impressed. I'll get a shiny medal and an award at work!

Anyone can buy a Toyota like Steve in accounting, but I'm built differently!

[saintscottofthenortham]

I'm going to have to really try to resist this cunts post-match presser. 

[Wsaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:57, Chez said:

Tall Paul has not won a single header since he came on and we have hit it long in the air to him a lot. He looks slow. A couple of nice passes. Zero impact. Actually, we looked worse with him up front.

Sulamana looks quick, decent touch and will offer a threat, but don't ask him to track back. 

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Oh dear, doomed then 😂

[Convict Colony]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:55, Manuel said:

Luton Town seem to be improving since Jones' departure.  Another win today, up to 4th now!

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yeah my mate is stoked (pun intended after todays win) he says they are playing more expansive football now the snake has gone.

[Saint Scott]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:53, Bad Wolf said:

Lavia for Walcott might just be the single strangest tactical sub I've ever seen in football with the POSSIBLE exception of the time Stuart Pearce brought on a keeper so David James could play upfront.

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Alcaraz came on for lavia, Walcott for edozie

[adrian lord]

That tall geezer was something like 12th on our shortlist of strikers in the window? Smacks of desperation.

[Convict Colony]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:59, Saint_clark said:

Thank god we signed a sweeper keeper to dominate his box. 

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[Saint_clark]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:55, Manuel said:

Luton Town seem to be improving since Jones' departure.  Another win today, up to 4th now!

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Incredible isn't it. We hired him on the basis of him doing so well with Luton and it genuinely seems like he was holding them back.

[badgerx16]

The Board will not sack Jones.

We are going down.

 

Now I have accepted that I will feel much better.

[Jimmy_D]

Couldn’t have been much worse overall today.

[Lighthouse]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:56, badgerx16 said:

Should have sacked Ralph, ( unless you think 6 wins in a calendar year is acceptable ), should never have considered Jones..

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I’m genuinely curious, when people say this, whether it’s because they honestly think Ralph was underachieving with that squad or if six wins is not good enough because people just want better.

If Sir Alex had a squad of Gasmi, Pekhart, Forecast, Davenport and Bernard in the Premier League, what would be an acceptable number of wins?

[adrian lord]

Other results haven’t been great to boot.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:01, Saint_clark said:

Incredible isn't it. We hired him on the basis of him doing so well with Luton and it genuinely seems like he was holding them back.

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It's because he left them better than when he started...

[Weston Super Saint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:56, badgerx16 said:

Should have sacked Ralph, ( unless you think 6 wins in a calendar year is acceptable ), should never have considered Jones..

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Personally I'm living in hope we'll get back to those dizzy heights!

[Chez]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:53, Dman said:

 

The striker, absolutely fucking terrible. 

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I didn't want to say it on the transfer thread, as everyone was soooo excited, but I thought he looked quite poor in his highlight videos and not a Prem player. If this game is anything to go by, he's barely a championship player. Can you get jet lag on the Eurostar?

[jabei]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:55, saintscottofthenortham said:

Lost for words, here. Diallo, Moi and Walcott. Killing us.

Our best chance of the game, when we had 15 minutes of momentum before he the twat took Lavia off, falls to Che. Open goal, keeper in no-man's-land... Che heads wide.

We deserve everything we get. We've bought a one way ticket to the Football League.

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Why Walcott? He didn’t do anything wrong. Just fashionable to slag him off I guess. Bit like Redmond. 

[Bad Wolf]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:01, badgerx16 said:

The Board will not sack Jones.

We are going down.

 

Now I have accepted that I will feel much better.

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We're going down regardless tbh. I'm looking forward to The Championship.

[BotleySaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:00, adrian lord said:

That tall geezer was something like 12th on our shortlist of strikers in the window? Smacks of desperation.

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Can't really judge him based on coming off the bench with us 2-0 down and basically no tactical plan for the game.

Any player would struggle in our team.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:01, Jimmy_D said:

Couldn’t have been much worse overall today.

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Just a bournemouth win away from a full set. Thanks BHA! Now there's a well organized team...

[Chez]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:01, Jimmy_D said:

Couldn’t have been much worse overall today.

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Brentford should have scored the open goal chance in the first two minutes. It could have been more goals.

[Bad Wolf]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:01, Saint_clark said:

Incredible isn't it. We hired him on the basis of him doing so well with Luton and it genuinely seems like he was holding them back.

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You CAN'T question the job he did at Luton. You just can't.

[Miltonaggro]

Perpetual moribund dogshit! 

[Convict Colony]

Somewhere in Austria Ralph has walked into his spare room after seeing our result

[obelisk]

I'm all for giving a bloke a chance but I cannot defend Jones after that latest gutless performance. What a state the club are in. Where to go from here?

[funkymojo44]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:55, obelisk said:

Should've sacked Ralph in the summer.

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Possibly yeah, Sports Republic have been an absolute mess either way.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:03, jabei said:

Why Walcott? He didn’t do anything wrong. Just fashionable to slag him off I guess. Bit like Redmond. 

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It's not Walcott's fault but he really shouldn't be anywhere near the squad. Another 🤡 masterclass.

[MAY-Z]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:57, Chez said:

Tall Paul has not won a single header since he came on and we have hit it long in the air to him a lot. He looks slow. A couple of nice passes. Zero impact. Actually, we looked worse with him up front.

Sulamana looks quick, decent touch and will offer a threat, but don't ask him to track back. 

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Why do we have so many people who just blatantly make stuff up?

 

Tall Paul won 6/13 aerial duels, and how on earth did we look worse with him upfront given we only had 2 shots in the time before he came on, 12 afterwards 

[Saint NL]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:03, Chez said:

Can you get jet lag on the Eurostar?

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😂😂

[Convict Colony]

  On 04/02/2023 at 16:58, saintscottofthenortham said:

Tall Paul looked fucking shite. But he only arrived in the country yesterday, and we were fucking shite, so I wasn't going to start labelling him.

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To be honest messi could join this shit show and look like a poor mans edozie

[Crab Lungs]

I don’t want to say I’m starting to turn this week but the team selections are hopeless, compounded by some risqué recruitment and abject, weak displays… Ugh, not quite sure how it can be turned round, even with an elite manager in charge.

[saint michael]

I think I now understand the problem

1. we have a keeper that can’t make saves

2. we have a defence that can’t defend

3 we have a midfield that can’t pass

4 we have an attack that can’t score. 

5 we have a manager that can’t manage

6 we have coaching staff that can’t coach. 
 

[coalman]

Nathan Jones "People say I don't know what I'm doing, but I actually do"

[Whitey Grandad]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:05, obelisk said:

I'm all for giving a bloke a chance but I cannot defend Jones after that latest gutless performance. What a state the club are in. Where to go from here?

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His league record is six losses and one win so far.

Who's for sacking him tomorrow?

 

[MAY-Z]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:03, jabei said:

Why Walcott? He didn’t do anything wrong. Just fashionable to slag him off I guess. Bit like Redmond. 

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Yeah I’m hoping if we do go down we get a fan clean out too 

[Convict Colony]

I would say 75% of this forum thinks the manager is the weakest link at the club at the moment.

 

[bobby_charles]

SR are such a bizarre outfit arent they

[Andrew Watson]

So,so predictable, get rid of Jones whilst we are still not too far adrift. A mate just texted me saying he watched online,he said so bad defensively it could have been far more.

[hypochondriac]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:08, Convict Colony said:

I would say 75% of this forum thinks the manager is the weakest link at the club at the moment.

 

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I'd say higher than 80% of the total fanbase. 

[OttawaSaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:07, coalman said:

Nathan Jones "People say I don't know what I'm doing, but I actually do"

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His tracksuit accidentally opening to reveal...what was that...a pom*ey badge?

[badgerx16]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:02, Lighthouse said:

I’m genuinely curious, when people say this, whether it’s because they honestly think Ralph was underachieving with that squad or if six wins is not good enough because people just want better.

If Sir Alex had a squad of Gasmi, Pekhart, Forecast, Davenport and Bernard in the Premier League, what would be an acceptable number of wins?

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Yes I think Ralph underachieved, probably as a consequence of things going a bit stale. His team selections and tactics became increasingly bizarre; his reluctance to react to match situations and make timely tactical substitutions cost us time and again.

If Sir Alex and Ralph had the same squad, containing those players, I would expect Fergie to strongly out perform Ralph.

[Convict Colony]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:06, MAY-Z said:

Why do we have so many people who just blatantly make stuff up?

 

Tall Paul won 6/13 aerial duels, and how on earth did we look worse with him upfront given we only had 2 shots in the time before he came on, 12 afterwards 

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Give me facts over opinion everyday sir, facts cut through bullshit.

[Toadhall Saint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:09, Andrew Watson said:

So,so predictable, get rid of Jones whilst we are still not too far adrift. A mate just texted me saying he watched online,he said so bad defensively it could have been far more.

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If it wasn’t for Salisu and some truly last ditch defending it would have been.

[Convict Colony]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:03, jabei said:

Why Walcott? He didn’t do anything wrong. Just fashionable to slag him off I guess. Bit like Redmond. 

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Thought he looked more direct and gave us more potency to be fair.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:08, Whitey Grandad said:

His league record is six losses and one win so far.

Who's for sacking him tomorrow?

 

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That's a 50% win rate though. With all due respect...

[SNSUN]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:07, saint michael said:

I think I now understand the problem

1. we have a keeper that can’t make saves

2. we have a defence that can’t defend

3 we have a midfield that can’t pass

4 we have an attack that can’t score. 

5 we have a manager that can’t manage

6 we have coaching staff that can’t coach. 
 

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Apart from that we're fucking brilliant.

[Convict Colony]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:11, OttawaSaint said:

That's a 50% win rate though. With all due respect...

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bro I wish jones was my school teacher, he'd turn 40% into 80% with his logic

[Miltonaggro]

  On 04/02/2023 at 17:08, Convict Colony said:

I would say 75% of this forum thinks the manager is the weakest link at the club at the moment.

 

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Far too low, every single supporter that I speak to off here wants him gone. Regulars and season ticket holders. Clear he has been out of his depth from week one.