Saints 1-2 Millwall - Match Thread

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

32 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Only listened to the commentary but sounded absolutely dreadful. Tessem raging through most of it about our tactics/shape/etc.

It's going to be the play offs for us. Just goes to show how fucking moronic the talk of us chasing down  Leicester to win the fucking league was. We're now solid fourth.

We still have top 3 to play away. We will lose all 3 I think. So 4th is not nailed by any means

[Miltonaggro]

11 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

80% possession, though. So when you think about it properly, we actually won.

Well done Russ and the boys.

Brave as you like! 

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, david in sweden said:

81% is the highest possession stat. this season,  most of it was in/around  the centre circle,  and our 13 corners led to just 1 goal.

Re-think required here Russell...... 

Speaks volumes.

[Challenger]

24 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

This is why I was talking about burnely and their adoption this season, they are getting destroyed more than katie price's car insurance

Getting destroyed more than Katie Price's minge, more like.

[Harry_SFC]

📊 Will Smallbone vs Millwall: 

 

• Lost possession 13 times

• 0 Tackles

• 0 Interceptions

• 0/1 Aerial duals won

• 0/3 Ground duals won

• 0/1 Successful dribbles

• 0/2 Cross accuracy 

Just seen this on Twitter. Surely this can't be true 😂

Edited 24 February, 2024 by Harry_SFC

[Miltonaggro]

1 minute ago, Challenger said:

Getting destroyed more than Katie Price's minge, more like.

With zero penetration (another KP analogy). 

[Miltonaggro]

1 minute ago, Harry_SFC said:

📊 Will Smallbone vs Millwall: 

 

• Lost possession 13 times

• 0 Tackles

• 0 Interceptions

• 0/1 Aerial duals won

• 0/3 Ground duals won

• 0/1 Successful dribbles

• 0/2 Cross accuracy 

Just seen this on Twitter. Surely this can't be true 😂

Midfield Colossus 😂

[dellboysaint]

Our form has dipped since we lost Alcarez. It was hugely frustrating that it was decided he should move on. Was he not liked by Martin because be moved forward with the ball and looked to create chances. Perhaps Alcarez got fed up with the ponderous sideways passing and trying to play with the likes of Smallbone who do not break into a sweat and are content to pass the ball back. Rothwell is no comparison with Alcarez or Downes. 

[Saint Matty 76]

The most surprising thing about that is that you’re saying surely it can’t be true!

Clear as day he’s not good enough, amplified without Downes making him look passable

[Saint NL]

3 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Midfield Colossus 😂

Well the statue part is correct....

[S-Clarke]

2 minutes ago, dellboysaint said:

Our form has dipped since we lost Alcarez. It was hugely frustrating that it was decided he should move on. Was he not liked by Martin because be moved forward with the ball and looked to create chances. Perhaps Alcarez got fed up with the ponderous sideways passing and trying to play with the likes of Smallbone who do not break into a sweat and are content to pass the ball back. Rothwell is no comparison with Alcarez or Downes. 

I don't think you can put this on Charly leaving, he wasn't a key part of the 11 that went unbeaten in 25. In and out at best, but never a regular (that's why he went). I didn't think our style really suited Charly which is a shame as he could have thrived at this level, so I do somewhat agree with what you say in terms of the reasons he's not here.

But I don't think you can say we're missing Charly as he wasn't really the regular we all thought he'd be.

[6ft8saint]

9 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Brave as you like! 

Can I drink you have. We don't need possession we need goals lots of them. Why is everyone scare of shooting 

[Thereisonlyonemickychannon]

Martin out. Tippy tappy backy sidey backy sidey bollockes is not for this league!

[Oldandtired]

What really annoyed me was that Millwall weren't good, they weren't clever, basically they were just there. And we still couldn't beat them.

Edited 24 February, 2024 by Oldandtired

[Thereisonlyonemickychannon]

5 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Midfield Colossus 😂

Small one is shite!

[S-Clarke]

2 minutes ago, Oldandtired said:

What really annoyed me was that Millwall weren't good, they weren't clever, basically they were just there. And we still couldn't beat them.

That's a good way of putting it! They did just stand there, they didn't really do anything spectacular - but we were so, so predictable in that second half. 90% of the passes were telegraphed before they left the players foot. 

That's what's made today's game even worse. Credit to Hull who were very good on the night, and so were Huddersfield when they came to St Mary's, but Millwall were atrocious and we didn't have enough imagination or drive to move them around.

[6ft8saint]

2 minutes ago, Oldandtired said:

What really annoyed me was that Millwall weren't good, they weren't clever, basically they were just there. And we still couldn't beat them.

If it wasn't for the offside 1st goal and then the non penalty they would not have scored. However we didn't look like scoring either. Not the 4-0 thrashing that was predicted. What happened today is we lost another fantastic borrowed player

[Sarisbury Saint]

11 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

📊 Will Smallbone vs Millwall: 

 

• Lost possession 13 times

• 0 Tackles

• 0 Interceptions

• 0/1 Aerial duals won

• 0/3 Ground duals won

• 0/1 Successful dribbles

• 0/2 Cross accuracy 

Just seen this on Twitter. Surely this can't be true 😂

It’s not.

[Badger]

2 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

We still don’t have a decent striker - someone who knows where to be at the right time in the box.

A critical failure in the summer, and in January. Again.

[Wade Garrett]

81% and hardly laid a glove on them.  RussBall is the ultimate con.

What a fucking shit Saturday afternoon.  
 

[CSA96]

 

[obelisk]

Russell is apparently offering us an "exciting" end to the season. Does he mean the sort of excitement where Saints cling on to a play-off place or does he mean more adventurous tactics?

[Oldandtired]

38 minutes ago, coalman said:

I'd rather have a wobble now, sort our shit and turn up for the play offs than get pipped and fizzle out. At least this way we have time to turn it around. We're still a good side that has played some lovely stuff this season.

Admittedly I'd also rather we win every game until the end of the season and go up automatically.

We're not playing lovely stuff now. Today as with Tuesday was clueless.

[S-Clarke]

Just now, Badger said:

A critical failure in the summer, and in January. Again.

The striker situation at this club has been incompetent. Look at the options Leeds have - Bamford, Gelherdt, Piroe, Rutter.  We've got Adams and Mara as 9's. Not enough.

Even Ipswich went and recruited Keifer Moore as they saw a gap (they'd lost Hirst for the season). Not sure why we think we're so different.

We'll probably start playing with false 9's soon.

[Harry_SFC]

3 minutes ago, 6ft8saint said:

If it wasn't for the offside 1st goal and then the non penalty they would not have scored. However we didn't look like scoring either. Not the 4-0 thrashing that was predicted. What happened today is we lost another fantastic borrowed player

I must admit it did look like a penalty to me at the ground. Haven't seen it back though.

[Badger]

1 minute ago, S-Clarke said:

The striker situation at this club has been incompetent. Look at the options Leeds have - Bamford, Gelherdt, Piroe, Rutter.  We've got Adams and Mara as 9's. Not enough.

Even Ipswich went and recruited Keifer Moore as they saw a gap (they'd lost Hirst for the season). Not sure why we think we're so different.

We'll probably start playing with false 9's soon.

Isn't the 'False 9'  we last used at Juventus ?

[revolution saint]

1 minute ago, S-Clarke said:

The striker situation at this club has been incompetent. Look at the options Leeds have - Bamford, Gelherdt, Piroe, Rutter.  We've got Adams and Mara as 9's. Not enough.

Even Ipswich went and recruited Keifer Moore as they saw a gap (they'd lost Hirst for the season). Not sure why we think we're so different.

We'll probably start playing with false 9's soon.

We should play Stephens as a false 9

[LGTL]

16 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

📊 Will Smallbone vs Millwall: 

 

• Lost possession 13 times

• 0 Tackles

• 0 Interceptions

• 0/1 Aerial duals won

• 0/3 Ground duals won

• 0/1 Successful dribbles

• 0/2 Cross accuracy 

Just seen this on Twitter. Surely this can't be true 😂

He is absolutely horrendous. Even if they aren’t true, the bloke needs selling. 

[S-Clarke]

Just now, revolution saint said:

We should play Stephens as a false 9

Tbf I'm sure he played there today, he played every fucking where else.

[Turkish]

Just now, revolution saint said:

We should play Stephens as a false 9

He’s very good as a false 5 so why not

[OttawaSaint]

3 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

 

"Really exciting"...fuck off Rustie!

[S-Clarke]

Just now, LGTL said:

He is absolutely horrendous. Even if they aren’t true, the bloke needs selling. 

He'll be the pin-up boy for our future Championship seasons! The spine of Stephens, Smallbone, Manning and Mara is enough to give you nightmares.

[Badger]

2 minutes ago, obelisk said:

Russell is apparently offering us an "exciting" end to the season. Does he mean the sort of excitement where Saints cling on to a play-off place or does he mean more adventurous tactics?

Winning games at home v the likes of Millwall, and Rotherham would make it more exciting or perhaps I'm missing something. And not having a porous defence with Bazunu behind them.

[Pamplemousse]

I have to get a train back to London with these neanderthals 

Fuck you Saints

[Thereisonlyonemickychannon]

6 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

81% and hardly laid a glove on them.  RussBall is the ultimate con.

What a fucking shit Saturday afternoon.  
 

Totally agree. Martin out

[Pamplemousse]

3 minutes ago, Badger said:

Isn't the 'False 9'  we last used at Juventus ?

Exactly. Whoever sanctioned that loan deal is a fucking moron.

[Miltonaggro]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

He'll be the pin-up boy for our future Championship seasons! The spine of Stephens, Smallbone, Manning and Mara is enough to give you nightmares.

It will go down in history as our invertebrate era! 

[Suhari]

22 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

With zero penetration (another KP analogy). 

That'll be the Smallbone.

[6ft8saint]

7 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

I must admit it did look like a penalty to me at the ground. Haven't seen it back though.

I was there too at the ground like every other home game it hit him in the face re nose bleed

[Challenger]

5 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

"Really exciting"...fuck off Rustie!

I'm really excited about Wednesday, so I think it's starting to work.

[LGTL]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

He'll be the pin-up boy for our future Championship seasons! The spine of Stephens, Smallbone, Manning and Mara is enough to give you nightmares.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so predictable. It’s exactly how next season is going to look. Plenty more results like today to come. 

[Suhari]

We were fucking shite today.

WTF has changed?!

[Mr Saints]

Completely played into their hands. They would have been praying for an early set piece, up steps Willy Smallbone with a completely needless foul, punt into the box and we can’t deal with it. From then on it was laboured and sluggish.

Too many lost their heads towards the end, which is a recipe for disaster in the play offs. Composure needs to be regained quickly on the pitch and in the dugout.

[warsash saint]

Come on, who wants the Premier League anyway??!!!

Edited 24 February, 2024 by warsash saint

[LaptopSaint]

I’m already getting strong Gregorz Rasiak Derby playoff flashback nightmares 

[gammon cheeks]

Best right backin the league playing at left back.......best centre back playing at right back ! Manager fav Stephens back in at centre back......I think Russell is starting to,lose the plot . Very predictable football .Millwall were shit and we still could not beat them!

[saintant]

Might as well put out our best side against Liverpool because we aint getting an automatic spot and the play-off position is sealed. Nothing to rest players for now.

[6ft8saint]

9 minutes ago, LGTL said:

He is absolutely horrendous. Even if they aren’t true, the bloke needs selling. 

Why we didn't take 9million from Sheffield United is beyond me he could be another one of their problems now

[Chris cooper]

1 minute ago, LaptopSaint said:

I’m already getting strong Gregorz Rasiak Derby playoff flashback nightmares 

Idiakez blasting pen over the bar at derby 

[Morse]

Millwall were well organised,, but that's it. There is not a decent footballer amongst them. And apart from AArmstongs header second half we offered nothing. Poor, very very poor today. I think we're going to be in this league for another season at least.