Non-Saints Games - 24/25

[Baird of the land]

1 hour ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Everton are excellent. David Moyes is brilliant. 👍🏻

Yeah don’t get the Everton fan contempt for moyes.

 

also see bbd scored. Maybe a step closer to a sale in the summer.

[Galway saint]

so looks like we will all be back down in the championship again next season

not great for the health of the game 

[SNSUN]

8 hours ago, Galway saint said:

so looks like we will all be back down in the championship again next season

not great for the health of the game 

Nope, looking more like a closed shop every year, although it's not unfeasible someone could come up and survive, the gap between the Championship and Premier League is widening as you can see from this season. Leeds might make a shot of it next season but beyond that it will take a team to have a near perfect transfer window the summer after promotion. If we'd signed more players of the calibre of Ramsdale, or scouted more players like Fernandes, then we might genuinely have had a shot of safety but even then, with Wolves likely to pull way (which I think they will), the gap between the bottom 3 and the rest is likely to be pretty big at the end of the season. Even Everton have got their shit together (to a point) this season, after seasons of being perennial crapsters.

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

Forest just look absolutely monstrous.

What the hell has happened to JWP?

Is he injured..he's not even getting in Forests Match day squad now.

[SW5 SAINT]

25 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

Forest just look absolutely monstrous.

What the hell has happened to JWP?

Is he injured..he's not even getting in Forests Match day squad now.

No room for him in their match day squad, you answered your own question - Forest are monstrous. JWP has had a lost two years…..

[Holmes_and_Watson]

6 minutes ago, SW5 SAINT said:

No room for him in their match day squad, you answered your own question - Forest are monstrous. JWP has had a lost two years…..

Looking at the pace of the Forest goals, I didn't see any of their attacks that would have benefitted from JWP being there. He might have thought he was moving to a side that would have to hold on in games. Not the case.

9 hours ago, Galway saint said:

so looks like we will all be back down in the championship again next season

not great for the health of the game 

 it is getting more difficult. But this season saw a side with money all recruitment and suicidal tactics, a side on their second consecutive promotion and one looking over their shoulders at PSR breaches. Other sides might have more of a chance.

[Lord Duckhunter]

He’s not getting a game because he’s bang average and Forest aren’t. 
 

Always been over rated by some on here. 

[FarehamSaintJames]

Arsenal 1-0 Man City (2 mins)

Pep’s Russell Martin playing out from the back style of football still isn’t working 

[Lord Duckhunter]

Fucking joke. The arrogance of doing that in the first couple of mins got what it deserved. Luckily, it seems to be going out of fashion. 

[FarehamSaintJames]

20 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Fucking joke. The arrogance of doing that in the first couple of mins got what it deserved. Luckily, it seems to be going out of fashion. 

Nearly conceded again from playing it out. Luckily for them it fell to Kai Havertz. 😂

[coalman]

Christ. More suicide football from City

[Lord Duckhunter]

Even when you get 2 top teams and players playing Lego ball it’s fucking boring. Pass, pass, pass, it’s fucking tedious….

Edited Sunday at 17:40 by Lord Duckhunter

[Lighthouse]

Decent goal from City that, well worked and patient.

30s later, Arsenal back in front. Game's woken up now.

Edit: I'll never understand defenders turning their backs on a shot. Seems to end up in a deflected goal more often than not. Man up and take one in the tits.

[FarehamSaintJames]

City were always scoring, Arsenal have sat further back as the game has gone on.
Flukey goal from Partey, so much luck with that deflection a minute after City equalise.

[East Kent Saint]

5-1 even Pep gave up at 4-1 !

[Holmes_and_Watson]

39 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

5-1 even Pep gave up at 4-1 !

Perhaps his possession football isn't extreme enough. Perhaps he needs a consultant, who he has already said he could learn things from. Step forward Mr Martin!

[trousers]

7 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Perhaps his possession football isn't extreme enough. Perhaps he needs a consultant, who he has already said he could learn things from. Step forward Mr Martin!

I have been assuming the only reason that someone of Martin's calibre hasn't yet accepted any of the plethora of offers he's no doubt had for his services, is that he's holding out for the ultimate job...

Edited Sunday at 19:21 by trousers

[stknowle]

Man City - 4 titles in a row, cooking along nicely for a 5th then BOOM!! Pep praises Russell Martin

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, stknowle said:

Man City - 4 titles in a row, cooking along nicely for a 5th then BOOM!! Pep praises Russell Martin

As soon as he said that we play the way they like to do, the penny dropped with all the other clubs. "Hey, why don't we just cuff them the way we did Martin's team?"

[SaintsBarry74]

9 hours ago, stknowle said:

Man City - 4 titles in a row, cooking along nicely for a 5th then BOOM!! Pep praises Russell Martin

Biggest jinx in PL history, I mean they were very dominant up until that statement. 

[Sarnia Cherie]

10 hours ago, stknowle said:

Man City - 4 titles in a row, cooking along nicely for a 5th then BOOM!! Pep praises Russell Martin

I always feel there is a sarcastic side to Pep. He may have been smiling when he spoke about Martin but deep down, he was thinking what a prat. You always know when Guardiola is under pressure, he reaches for his water bottle. He's drunk a lot of water this season, has Pep. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

I always feel there is a sarcastic side to Pep. He may have been smiling when he spoke about Martin but deep down, he was thinking what a prat. You always know when Guardiola is under pressure, he reaches for his water bottle. He's drunk a lot of water this season, has Pep. 

I know that's what I thought. So, I had another look.

In the interview, he does go into some detail as to why. Martin had set up to do similar passing movements, but without going toe to toe with everything City's better players were doing. As a result, City, had a little bit at the end where we could have got an equaliser, and they hadn't put the game beyond us.

I think it bothered him they hadn't been well ahead, and even had the risk of losing a couple of points.

So it comes across as a comment about that, and a style he likes to see. But from a position of winning lots of games, in which we were an annoyance for 5 minutes.

[Turkish]

On 01/02/2025 at 14:23, CB Fry said:

I wish we were Leicester no sorry Brighton no sorry Forest.

I wish we played like Forest. They are quite old school, pace and power with runners wide and through the middle with a big target man who is brilliant at getting on the end of crosses into the box. This ridiculously outdated style of play will never take off when you can spend 90 minutes passing it sideways and backwards.

[Monk]

One for the FA Cup. 

 

Burnley came to town on Saturday, utterly, utterly woeful football side. The two CB's are steady and James Trafford is very good (bit of an odd bloke). 

[skintsaint]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cp3j2770l2vo

Henderson having a bit with the Dutch journos 😅