Non-Saints Games - 24/25

[East Kent Saint]

Brighton have managed no attempts on goal on or off target yet !

Edited 6 October, 2024 by East Kent Saint

[LGTL]

Brighton slowly but surely heading the same way as us. Won’t be this season, probably won’t be next season, but it’ll come to them eventually. 

[saintant]

Spurs are a very good watch. We can only dream of playing this type of football.

[Lord Duckhunter]

16 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Brighton slowly but surely heading the same way as us. 

They’ve even  got Baz in nets 

Edited 6 October, 2024 by Lord Duckhunter

[saintant]

27 minutes ago, saintant said:

Spurs are a very good watch. We can only dream of playing this type of football.

Brighton are a very good watch 🙂

[East Kent Saint]

Whoa a second half come back by Brighton 😄

[saintant]

Two sides going hammer and tong and getting the ball forward as fast as they can - it'll never replace Russ bore ball.

[LGTL]

45 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Brighton slowly but surely heading the same way as us. Won’t be this season, probably won’t be next season, but it’ll come to them eventually. 

Like I said, turning into us 😂

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, saintant said:

Two sides going hammer and tong and getting the ball forward as fast as they can - it'll never replace Russ bore ball.

I know, if only that was us conceding three goals in 17 minutes, I wish we were Spurs.

[verlaine1979]

1 minute ago, Lighthouse said:

I know, if only that was us conceding three goals in 17 minutes, I wish we were Spurs.

If there's one thing our cautious control of the ball has given us this season, it's defensive solidity. Right? Right??

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I know, if only that was us conceding three goals in 17 minutes, I wish we were Spurs.

We'll do it plenty of times this season so don't worry.

[Lighthouse]

1 minute ago, verlaine1979 said:

If there's one thing our cautious control of the ball has given us this season, it's defensive solidity. Right? Right??

We’ve not had a collapse this hapless against a team of obviously inferior players. I’m not saying we’re good but if we were playing like Spurs have second half, against much better teams than us, we’d be on the wrong end of double figures. There’s nothing to envy here, the game has come to life because Spurs are defending like clowns.

[saintant]

Just now, Lighthouse said:

We’ve not had a collapse this hapless against a team of obviously inferior players. I’m not saying we’re good but if we were playing like Spurs have second half, against much better teams than us, we’d be on the wrong end of double figures. There’s nothing to envy here, the game has come to life because Spurs are defending like clowns.

Give your head a wobble - it's a great game of football between two very good teams.

[verlaine1979]

11 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

We’ve not had a collapse this hapless against a team of obviously inferior players. I’m not saying we’re good but if we were playing like Spurs have second half, against much better teams than us, we’d be on the wrong end of double figures. There’s nothing to envy here, the game has come to life because Spurs are defending like clowns.

Spurs have defended poorly, but I don't see a lot to choose between the two teams' attacking talent. Mitoma and Minteh easily as good as Johnson and Werner.

[Lighthouse]

21 minutes ago, saintant said:

Give your head a wobble - it's a great game of football between two very good teams.

Spurs have just thrown away a 2-0 lead and come away with nothing, against an inferior team that Chelsea ripped to pieces last weekend. They played ridiculous football in the second half, let in 3 in 17 minutes and didn't even have a goal of their own to show for it. Yes, it was great for us neutrals but to be holding that up as a way we should be playing is just absurd. Go and have a look at the Spurs forum and see what their fans make of their 'hammer and tongue' football.

[East Kent Saint]

Good to see Welbeck still getting on the scoresheet , he seems to have been playing forever !

[vectraman]

3 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

Spurs have just thrown away a 2-0 lead and come away with nothing, against an inferior team that Chelsea ripped to pieces last weekend. They played ridiculous football in the second half, let in 3 in 17 minutes and didn't even have a goal of their own to show for it. Yes, it was great for us neutrals but to be holding that up as a way we should be playing is just absurd. Go and have a look at the Spurs forum and see what their fans make of their 'hammer and tongue' football.

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[Dark Munster]

2 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

Good to see Welbeck still getting on the scoresheet , he seems to have been playing forever !

Underrated player. His record for England wasn't bad.

[suewhistle]

Brentford have been scoring a bit, but I didn't realise how until I read this tongue in cheek football diary piece in The Guardian about how they'd also been losing:

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Clearly something had to change and against Wolves, Brentford adopted a different approach, losing the pre-match coin-toss and waiting a full 75 seconds to score pretty much the same goal for the fourth game in a row. Send players forward, get the ball launched and then whack in a cross for whoever happens to be completely unmarked in the opposition penalty area to steer goalwards. Considering the first recorded game of association football was played in 1863, it seems amazing that nobody has ever thought of doing this before. And considering Brentford had scored early goals in their previous three games, prompting forensic dissections of their approach, it seems even more amazing that Gary O’Neil’s Wolves were so totally unprepared for this eventuality.

What a brilliant idea! The difference with our approach is that unlike Wolves our opposition are fully prepared for when we cough up the ball in our own half.

[HarvSFC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly3z0rjq4xo

He's doing it again.

[CB Fry]

19 minutes ago, HarvSFC said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly3z0rjq4xo

He's doing it again.

As long as he's not our manager, I really like him. Would love to see him take Charlton up.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

"Sometimes players let us down and players let us down [on] Tuesday, absolutely let us down.

"I took responsibility for that but we bounced back today with a wonderful performance and I'm really proud of the football club."

His taking responsibility, while blaming others hasn't gone anywhere.

[S-Clarke]

The bloke is a contradicting machine. Absolute loon.

"I'm experienced enough to know you can't panic, you can't listen to noise.

"There's been a lot of noise this week. I got abused by my own fans the other day, absolutely abused by my own fans, who questioned our selections. If Charlton fans want to pick the team, I'll move.''

[Midfield_General]

The most thin-skinned man on the planet, pathologically unable to take criticism or just ignore it, decides to become a football manager - a job where you basically very publicly take shit for a living. So strange. Now he's not our problem I find him utterly fascinating. 

I kind of want to draw them in the Cup at St Mary's just to see how he deals with it. 

Edited 9 October, 2024 by Midfield_General

[Picard]

Am I right in thinking there is no men's midweek football to encourage us to watch the women's champions league?

[Harry_SFC]

On 08/10/2024 at 14:11, S-Clarke said:

The bloke is a contradicting machine. Absolute loon.

"I'm experienced enough to know you can't panic, you can't listen to noise.

"There's been a lot of noise this week. I got abused by my own fans the other day, absolutely abused by my own fans, who questioned our selections. If Charlton fans want to pick the team, I'll move.''

"noise" seems to be the in-thing at the moment. Isn't this what Martin bangs on about as well. How he "doesn't listen to it or let it affect him" despite clearly getting upset about it. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

32 minutes ago, Picard said:

Am I right in thinking there is no men's midweek football to encourage us to watch the women's champions league?

No.

[LGTL]

36 minutes ago, Picard said:

Am I right in thinking there is no men's midweek football to encourage us to watch the women's champions league?

Yes, that's the reason. It's definitely nothing to do with the International football being played this weekend.

Talking of which, it'll be nice to have a weekend where Saints don't lose. 

[Sarnia Cherie]

11 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

"noise" seems to be the in-thing at the moment. Isn't this what Martin bangs on about as well. How he "doesn't listen to it or let it affect him" despite clearly getting upset about it. 

RM mentions 'narrative' quite a lot after the matches. Whatever has gone wrong in the game and that's usually a fair bit, he knows this will be the topic of the supporters' 'narrative'. I find his manner patronising on the subject of the fans opinions. As if he is patting us all on the head and humouring us because, of course, he knows better.

[Dr. Kucho]

24 year old female Turkish referee gets lifetime ban after sextape with 61 year old official. 

https://dailysports.net/news/scandal-turkish-female-referee-had-an-intimate-relationship-with-a-61yearold-official/

[Midfield_General]

2 hours ago, Dr. Kucho said:

24 year old female Turkish referee gets lifetime ban after sextape with 61 year old official. 

https://dailysports.net/news/scandal-turkish-female-referee-had-an-intimate-relationship-with-a-61yearold-official/

Orhan Erdemir: giving hope to 61-year-old men the world over

[benjii]

Looks a bit like a Tranny but worth a pump either way if you're in your sixties.

 

My mate reckons ladyboys are top shags anyway. More physical.

 

[skintsaint]

4 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Orhan Erdemir: giving hope to 61-year-old men the world over

Wouldn't know if looking at me or the guy standing 20 years to my left.

[John Boy Saint]

Ingerland looking a bit shonky v Greece 

Pickford nearly making this Christmas’s Goalkeepers bloopers video.

[suewhistle]

England showing all of Saints' faults, just with better players..

[Turkish]

15 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

England showing all of Saints' faults, just with better players..

Remember our league one days when some people claimed we were better than England? 🤣🤣🤣

[John Boy Saint]

Ooops

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

49 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

England showing all of Saints' faults, just with better players..

I'm hearing the commentator say, they want to put the ball in the middle to the centre forward but the problem is we haven't got one - now, where have I seen that before?

All this False 9 crap!

[Saint_clark]

44 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Remember our league one days when some people claimed we were better than England? 🤣🤣🤣

TBF if you posted the two line ups from the promotion season, we probably could have been competitive. The championship season definitely.

[whelk]

Give Carsely the job permanently. One shot on target in first 5 mins 

[Saint_clark]

What are these strange new passes the Greeks are doing, beyond the defence and ahead of the strikers to run onto? 

It'll never catch on.

[Saint_clark]

Anyone missing Southgate yet.

[Colinjb]

F*ckin' Carsball.

All credit to Greece. 

Oh look, a barely deserved equaliser.

[whelk]

 Matterface is such an arse head 

[whelk]

“Its becoming a catchphrase”

[Colinjb]

Fair play Greece.

That defending really was like watching us.

[whelk]

lol I so don’t give a shit about this game and actually please for Greece and their fans

[Saint_clark]

Absolutely pathetic. 

But hey, at least we won't choke another semi or final.

[Saint Billy]

It just goes to prove that English managers are clueless. A team full of all the best talent and the manager still can't get a decent game out of them.

[suewhistle]

LOL, my stream died at half time so I went off and spent my time more productively. A wise move, I now see!