Leicester 5-0 Saints - Match Thread

[bpsaint]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:31, sambosa75 said:

He’s owed one after injuring van Dijk just before the League Cup final loss against Man Utd.  With VVD fit and doing a job on Zlatan we’d have won that with plenty to spare.

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Yep, never forgotten that, never will. Nasty little rat faced prick.

Back to the game, looking at the side, the lack of cohesion and interest, and another load of changes to the lineup I genuinely don’t understand how anyone can truly say they’d stick with Martin to try and get us promoted next season.

 

[6ft8saint]

Again attacking play and no shot

[Mr X]

We are ridiculously susceptible to the break 

[Saint Fan CaM]

With all seriousness we don’t deserve to win this game or to go up in the auto’s. The Manager doesn’t know how to coach an attack minded team.

[obelisk]

How can Adams be offside when it was played by a Leicester player?

[Ed Rooney]

Fuckin titanic changes direction quicker that Aribo 

[saintant]

Clearly RM learnt nothing from the first game against these. 

Now lino doesn't know the rules.

[Lighthouse]

The ref doesn’t even know basic laws of the game. Wonderful.

[Saint NL]

How's that offside? FFS ref 😂😂

[Chez]

Leicester showing u all our limitations individually and collectively. Leeds fans may have bene right. Flat track bullies.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:44, obelisk said:

How can Adams be offside when it was played by a Leicester player?

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Surely the ref could have seen that and over ruled the lino?

[SNSUN]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:41, sandwichsaint said:

£10m for Charles when we had no reliable striker or keeper. Funny piece of business.

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Club saw pound signs. A youngster who could be worth dozens of millions potentially is fine if they're good enough. Trouble is we had hits with Tino and Lavia and the club want more. 

Still time for Shea but I wouldn't want to be relying on him next season whichever league we're in.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Terrible offside call there.

[Obstacle1]

Wait till Martin sees these possession stats. Definite proof we should be top!

[SambaMaverick]

Our attacking play is all wrong and has been for weeks. There's no overlaps, it's all concentrated in the middle and it's far too slow.

KWP is only coming inside and Bree isn't coming forward at all, makes us far too predictable.

[Mr X]

Just realised ever since Russell Martin got a haircut we've been shit! 

[Lord Duckhunter]

A proper manager would get into these cunts at half time. Pathetic 

[saintant]

Bravery Russell - all I've seen is complete cowardice.

[Badger]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:43, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Smallbone on for 2 seconds, and we already look much more fluid.

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As in piss poor ? 

[Harry_SFC]

77% possession and nothing to show for it. Classic Russball. We've got no chance in the play offs with this guy. 

[Edmonton Saint]

Andy Hinchcliffe is getting to Garry Birtles level of annoying. Just shut up already. 

[gammon cheeks]

Get Brooks off ..Frazer on 

[obelisk]

Saints attack mostly static but that's hardly surprising when any occasional runners are ignored.

[Micky]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:43, Baird of the land said:

At some point you've got to try and play the ball towards the box.

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Calm down son, let's not get ahead of ourself, next you'll be wanting us to have a shot. 

[Killers Knee]

When the Leicester back 4 have possession we just stand off 5 yards like statues, allowing them to survey the field and pick out passes.  No pressure, take your time.  Infuriating 

[Obstacle1]

Would like to see KWP on the right side as their right back has the beating of him for pace

[skintsaint]

Well that was proper shite. Can only get better....cant it?

[6ft8saint]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:41, sandwichsaint said:

£10m for Charles when we had no reliable striker or keeper. Funny piece of business.

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And then loaning out our exciting midfielder to a team on a false promise of mega money which looks to be slowly disappearing. And let's forget the 16m forward who is scoring for fun in Turkey 

[Toussaint]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:46, Badger said:

As in piss poor ? 

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Diarrhoea 

[Turkish]

Stop complaining you sad fucks 

[Sir Ralph]

Passing backward and no urgency. No winger attacking outlet. Poor poor performance 

[Colinjb]

We need to do something different in the second half.

Which of course, we will. We always get worse in the second half.

[Elmore Saint]

Good job we are renowned for energetic, tactically changed second halves, a new way of playing supplanted by insightful substitutions........oh fuck!

[Sir Ralph]

Wish we had got relegated with Ralph

[obelisk]

Free kick gifted to Leicester so they have a chance to lump it in the box.

Saints look a distant second best to this lot. Still only 1-0 though.

[stknowle]

GASH

[Block41 Saint]

HT. Dogshit performance.

[S-Clarke]

What an absolute load of horrific bullshit.

Outclassed by a team many levels above us, seemingly. Not acceptable.

[AlexLaw76]

HT

Leicester wont know what hits them around the 60 min mark

[gammon cheeks]

Why the fuck don't we get it wide and get some crosses into the box?  Everything is through the middle so fn boring 💤 

[davefizzy14]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:48, Obstacle1 said:

Would like to see KWP on the right side as their right back has the beating of him for pace

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Exactly this. KWP should be back at right back and Bree at left back. 

[Toussaint]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:49, Colinjb said:

We need to do something different in the second half.

Which of course, we will. We always get worse in the second half.

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How many wingers are on the bench?

[Baird of the land]

Truly pathetic. The most appalling stat was was us having 70+% of possession whilst barely getting out of our own half.

You'd honestly think losing 1-0 gets us promoted by how we have approached this.

 

[coalman]

On the plus side, at least Martin's team talk isn't going to be "keep doing what you're doing"

[Lee On Solent Saint]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:50, S-Clarke said:

What an absolute load of horrific bullshit.

Outclassed by a team many levels above us, seemingly. Not acceptable.

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Not even layed a glove on them. Unexcusable.

[Saint NL]

Well that was awful, worse than expected.

The only player coming out with any credit is probably Bednarek. 

Midfield is completely overrun and out of ideas, but what bench options are there? It'd have to be a change of shape and theres no chance of that happening....

[Chez]

  On 23/04/2024 at 19:45, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Terrible offside call there.

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I don't want to hear any excuses about the ref being shit. We aint been good enough so far. 

[obelisk]

We need to bring on our tall striker and lump it towards him. We don't have one? Ah!

[trousers]

If Dibling doesn't get a crack of the whip yet again, whilst Sulemana is given another pointless run out, then I'm going to get jolly annoyed. 

[sandwichsaint]

Never fear, we have Sulemana coming on at 68 mins.