Saints 4-2 Sunderland - Match Thread

[Saint Fan CaM]

What the hell is going on? 2-2 and we could easily lose this the way the subs have worked. All the responsibility of the Manager trying to keep his mates in place and playing our best CB out of position. Utter madness.

[Turkish]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:33, AlexLaw76 said:

Started again with a poor attempted clearance by the best CB in the league stuck at RB....he is clearly very uncomfortable out there

2 more goals shipped

 

Martin is a knob

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He’ll drop him next week and carry on with super Jack in the middle 

[coalman]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:34, Saint NL said:

A draw would feel like a loss.

Bree is coming on for Stephens, so THB at CB at last

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But but but Manning 😭

[skintsaint]

[Saint Scott]

Stop trying to shoehorn Stephens into the team, he unsettles the entire defence.

We actually kept goals out with THB and Bednarek as the CBs. Play Bree in his natural position, it's fucking obvious

[OttawaSaint]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:33, Mr X said:

Sulemana must be the most overpriced player ever 

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Absolutely shocking. Should be nowhere near the team yet RM brings him on for a player who was playing great and he immediately comes on and gifts them a goal. Headless chicken!

[RedArmy]

Best CB partnership in the league before he decided to piss about with it when Stephens got fit. 

[Elmore Saint]

Terrible game management and subs that only make us unsettled. Poor show

[Saint86]

You could write the script as soon as smallbone was taken off.

We play with an anchor, a typical CM, and stu - we lead 2-0.

We take the CM off for a CAM, go with 1 anchor and essentially 5 attackers.... and once again we lose all possession and defensive shape, the side is completely imbalanced and we concede 2 goals.

At this point, Martin's inability to see this and to stop fucking it up is becoming indefensible.... the guy cannot see the obvious and does not learn. How many points are we going to drop? Time after time he either starts like this or changes to this. Its laughable.

Even if we get away with it today, we've needlessly conceded 2 goals (and counting).

Edited 9 March, 2024 by Saint86

[bugenhagen]

Subs all wrong today. Why take off the genuine quality of Brooks and replace it with... nothing.

[AlexLaw76]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:35, Turkish said:

He’ll drop him next week and carry on with super Jack in the middle 

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We'll get the usual "it's my fault" etc from the manager

Assuming we do not go up, I hope martin is relieved of his duties...clown

[Mr X]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:34, saintant said:

Wrong subs at the wrong time. Very poor and now we're chasing without two of our key players. Time for Sulemana to step up to the plate.

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Good luck with that one! 

[Farmer Saint]

Thank God I bet on a draw/loss. Not good enough defensively. 

[HKsaint]

RM out please

[Turkish]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:34, AlexLaw76 said:

Thank fuck.

Stephens off, Bree on. Should have happened at HT.

 

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Should have been from the start. A decent right back on the bench our best centre back at right back to accommodate super Jack. Joke

[Saint NL]

Theres one kid with a really shrill voice yelling stuff that's really irritating 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

MartinBall out form the back failed a bit there. We''re making a heck of a lot of work getting it out of our own third.

[Turkish]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:36, AlexLaw76 said:

We'll get the usual "it's my fault" etc from the manager

Assuming we do not go up, I hope martin is relieved of his duties...clown

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He won’t be. Were balls deep in this philosophy bullshit 

[Suhari]

Wow. Rugby tackle but not a yellow?

[Saint Matty 76]

How about we all calm down a little now

[AlexLaw76]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:37, Turkish said:

Should have been from the start. A decent right back on the bench our best centre back at right back to accommodate super Jack. Joke

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It is all about getting players on the pitch who deserve it (not the best team)....

[Saint NL]

Rothwell banger 3-2

[bugenhagen]

Thank f... for Roddy

[Mr X]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:37, Saint NL said:

Theres one kid with a really shrill voice yelling stuff that's really irritating 

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That's our manager 

[SNSUN]

2 nil up when I left the house, ten minute drive to spend dinner with my family for my dad's birthday and it's 2-2. 

 

Goal?

[Suhari]

Rothwell!!!!

[Elmore Saint]

Thank fuck Rothwell can hit the ball.....

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Rothwell!!!!! Doing the thing he does best!!!!!

[saintant]

A host of poor subs and the second ones were a desperate measure. This one is at RM's door. Very poor game management.

[stknowle]

I’m trying so hard not to slag Martin off again but fuxsake these dumbass defences he keeps insisting on picking are making it hard not to. 
Anyway get in 3-2. Lovely strike as well.

[OttawaSaint]

It's not that we've lost more ground for autos because in don't think we can get there anyway. But we can't be doing this bullshit in the playoffs.

 

Edit: 3-2!

[The Juice]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:34, coalman said:

Rothwell is not the answer here unless the question is - how can we make our midfield less effective.

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Head up; we've all done it. 

[AlexLaw76]

3-2

Guess where that started from? 

THB in CB and put a good ball into midfield..

[Saint Fan CaM]

Brilliant strike from Rothwell.

Trouble is we have to score 6 to win a game of football now.

[Galway saint]

tessem laying into russball

[obelisk]

Said we'd need three. There we are but not sure that'll even be enough with Saints defence.

[Saint Billy]

What a player Rothwell is😁

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Manning holding off two of their players, with no a massive amount of support there.

[CylonKing]

Are you not entertained? 😁

You know your going to see goals goals goals.

[Greedyfly]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:39, AlexLaw76 said:

3-2

Guess where that started from? 

THB in CB and put a good ball into midfield..

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I mean it's fucking obvious to everyone on here isn't it, in fact everyone is unified for a fucking change, but he seems to want to shoe-horn shit in just because. Utter tit. 

[Saint NL]

Rothwell double 4-2

[OttawaSaint]

Yessssss! 4-2!!!

[Suhari]

Rothwell!!! Again!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

4!!!!! Rothwelll

[coalman]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:38, The Juice said:

Head up; we've all done it. 

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The lad can shoot.

And gets his second. Bring me my humble pie

[The Juice]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:38, The Juice said:

Head up; we've all done it. 

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I mean.. twice is quite bad. But head up

[trousers]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:04, trousers said:

At the game. We look very comfortable but that's partly down to Sunderland being poor. We should be out of sight by now but we're not clinical enough up front. Can't see Sunderland being as poor in the second half, so this this far from over yet. COYR!

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^not this!

[Chez]

  On 09/03/2024 at 16:35, OttawaSaint said:

Absolutely shocking. Should be nowhere near the team yet RM brings him on for a player who was playing great and he immediately comes on and gifts them a goal. Headless chicken!

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He didn't gift them a goal. 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Rothwell again! Superb counter.

[Saint Matty 76]

Lovely stuff, turns out we're not the worst team on the planet

Hopefully this is the end of the THB at RB experiment with KWP back for the next game