Bristol City 3-1 Saints - Match Thread

[Chez]

Manning. Sweet Jesus. Then Bednarek does absolutely nothing to close the player down...he picks out a man and its 3-0. 

[Convict Colony]

Weve been utter shit all game

[sifter]

Manning has struggled tonight - looks like Bristol targetting that side.

[Edmonton Saint]

Smallbone is trash. So weak in midfield. Maybe we shouldn’t have been so cocky in January and actually looked to improve the starting XI and go all out for promotion.

[SotonianWill]

It’s so sad watching our many great players surrounded by absolute idiots who can’t pass the ball 5 yards. The left back and this sub-par midfield are awful. 

[SaintBobby]

What a flop....sloppy performance....

[hypochondriac]

Not sure if this is a blip or a symptom of something worse. 

[Saint_Ash]

That's it, getting fucking relegated now. 

Win on Friday and we're back in second. 

[Sir Ralph]

Poor inaccurate passing, bad decision making, no movement and no forward passing. That’s why we lost

[woodsaint1]

Just now, Micky said:

I think that's why we won't get promoted. When it comes to the crunch you need to be able to handle the pressure, we can't. 

First defeat in forever and they're straight out of the woodwork with their negativity

[badgerx16]

Over-confidence, fatigue, or flattered by the unbeaten run ?

[tdmickey3]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

This is like September 

It’s only one game

Incredible how so many fans turn on 1 game….. poor support

Edited 13 February, 2024 by tdmickey3

[Convict Colony]

James Bree

 

[coalman]

We've given the ball away so often the last couple of games. In really stupid areas. Lacking intensity all over the park. No idea why we took off our two most threatening players either.

[LaptopSaint]

6 minutes ago, IronCitySaint said:

This has been terrible tonight but the thing I find unbelievable is that after so many games unbeaten, we are still not in the top two. Pretty unlucky to have such strong teams in the league this year. I think this is the end of our automatic promotion hopes. Leicester and Leeds look unbeatable and we still have to play them both away.

Seriously anyone saying this is the end of our automatic promotion hopes needs to have a cold shower and a stiff whisky. FFS.

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

This is like September 

It is. Sloppy passing giving the ball away cheaply and getting caught on the break over and over again. Really really poor performance

[macca155]

Teams lose games it happens. Its amazing they've gone 25 without losing one.

However this performance has been straight put of September's playbook and that is very concerning.

Bad day at the office, learn and move on.

Leicester out of sight now, so essential they hurt Leeds

[Mr X]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

Over-confidence, fatigue, or flattered by the unbeaten run ?

 

Just now, badgerx16 said:

Over-confidence, fatigue, or flattered by the unbeaten run ?

All of those things! 

[Mattio]

Seems like teams are finding a way through Russ-ball

[Sunglasses Ron]

What a pathetic way to lose that incredible unbeaten record. Extremely disappointing.

[Toussaint]

AA looks as ineffective as he was in the prem tonight 

[SaintBobby]

Smallbone has been very poor 

[Block41 Saint]

Just now, tdmickey3 said:

It’s only one game

Tbf we were very open to the counter attack on Saturday as well. Its a concern that our defence have gone to utter shite against two average teams. 

[Winnersaint]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

Over-confidence, fatigue, or flattered by the unbeaten run ?

All of that. Leeds will hit a rough patch.

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

Over-confidence, fatigue, or flattered by the unbeaten run ?

Mostly filled with a very easy set of fixtures, for a top 6 side

[stknowle]

Can’t criticise too much given the run we’ve been on but we’ve been well beaten tonight. Absolutely smashed really.

[Viking Saint]

Just now, LaptopSaint said:

Seriously anyone saying this is the end of our automatic promotion hopes needs to have a cold shower and a stiff whisky. FFS.

Agree, and I'm doing my bit by starting on the latter right now

[SNSUN]

Sulemana just falls over. And that's bedtime.

[obelisk]

Sulemana falls over his own feet. Sums up the shambles.

[Winnersaint]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

Mostly filled with a very easy set of fixtures, for a top 6 side

That has been the unspoken bit of our season.

[Jack]

Just now, Mattio said:

Seems like teams are finding a way through Russ-ball

When we pass straight to an opposition player every time we get up the pitch, then don’t try to recover to win it back, that’s pretty piss easy to find a way through 

[BranfootsLoveChild]

After 24 games  we've been found out. Had to happen eventually. West Brom on friday will be interesting......

[Bad Wolf]

2 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

Fuck right off troll

The internet in 2024: If you don't like what someone says, they're a troll.

[BotleySaint]

Sulemana unbelievably poor. Every time he gets the ball he stops it. When he tries to run he falls over his own feet. That's all I've seen him do.

[verlaine1979]

Not a good sign that with a 10m+ price tag, Charles can't come in and run a Championship midfield.

[Chez]

Sulemana has had a mare since coming on.

[woodsaint1]

1 minute ago, LaptopSaint said:

Seriously anyone saying this is the end of our automatic promotion hopes needs to have a cold shower and a stiff whisky. FFS.

Standard SWF. One defeat and the world is ending. If we lose on Friday people will be calling for RM to be sacked

[Mr X]

Just now, Sunglasses Ron said:

What a pathetic way to lose that incredible unbeaten record. Extremely disappointing.

It's not the losing it's the fact we haven't taken the game to them at all, been off from the first kick, no intensity or desire tonight think we are knackered 

[bpsaint]

Would have genuinely taken the loss at Watford rather than that last minute equaliser. Didn’t need the extra game and sure as shit don’t need a trip to go and get battered at Anfield. So many of the lads look fucked.

[Block41 Saint]

Just now, BotleySaint said:

Sulemana unbelievably poor. Every time he gets the ball he stops it. When he tries to run he falls over his own feet. That's all I've seen him do.

£22m. 

[Galway saint]

Saturday will have taken a lot out of them

lack of control in midfield today and no platform to play from.

without downes we struggle in midfield and charles isn’t the answer 

[Chez]

Just now, BranfootsLoveChild said:

After 24 games  we've been found out. Had to happen eventually. West Brom on friday will be interesting......

they ran us ragged at our place. That will be tough.  

[Convict Colony]

Manning had 5 goals and 10 assists for swansea last season and 10 yellow cards.

This season he's got 2 assists and 8 yellow cards, good to see the only metric he's looking like beating is yellow cards

[BranfootsLoveChild]

Does Sulemana ever pass the fucking ball.......

[SambaMaverick]

Just now, verlaine1979 said:

Not a good sign that with a 10m+ price tag, Charles can't come in and run a Championship midfield.

Dodgy as fuck signing, I'll die on that hill. Either that or an incredibly naive one

[Toussaint]

I hope we (Russball) hasn’t been sussed out, I remember clearly the day when Ralph ball was sussed and we barely won a game after that.

Edited 13 February, 2024 by Toussaint

[ally_uk]

Ahwell it happens onto the next one... no need to piss the mattress 

[sfc4prem]

Keep the faith boys. So we didn't do the business tonight - plenty more games to come.

[Harry_SFC]

It's almost as if you press us, we don't know what to do.

I think we've been worked out...

[Miltonaggro]

4 minutes ago, sifter said:

Manning has struggled tonight - looks like Bristol targetting that side.

He was appalling on Saturday. You could have driven a combine through the gaps he was leaving. Has to be Bree in there next game.