Saints 0-1 Forest - Match Thread

[gio1saints]

Fuck fuckfuck. 0-1

[John Boy Saint]

Arse

[obelisk]

And there it is.

[Edmonton Saint]

There we have it 

[adrian lord]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

If all you do is pass it sideways and backwards you will get high posession % - Forest are 4-1 in shots on target.

 

1 minute ago, OttawaSaint said:

Lots and lots of passing back and sideways with no end product.

 

2 minutes ago, saintant said:

Possession means nothing if you don't do something with it.

Normal service resumed from last season then…

[St Chalet]

Watch Reactive Russ do what he should have done 15 minutes ago now. 

[OttawaSaint]

Fucking abysmal!

[obelisk]

100% relegation material.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Aribo having one of his moments way back in midfield, and deciding to go backwards when he finally gets the ball. Normally, he'll do something much more positive shortly. Hope so. We need something here.

[bpsaint]

That whole thing started with Smallbone bottling a 50/50 on the halfway line. 

[Mr X]

Just now, HKsaint said:

Smallbone again

Tries hard but way to lightweight for this league

[badgerx16]

Just now, saintant said:

Where is the bravery RM keeps talking about?

It's in his team selection and tactical set up, defying all logic and evidence.

[AlexLaw76]

Now I bet he makes subs

Same Martin, reactive as per

[saintant]

Predictable as night following day. Now he'll make changes 🙂 Too late!

[madge]

How is smallbone still on the pitch .. I can see it and I’m 2300 miles away.. martin is 20 yards away… we’re shite… 

[OttawaSaint]

Why didn't Aribo clear it? Fuckkkk!

[Mr X]

And that's that 

[Patches O Houlihan]

Joe had an opportunity to boot it away and didn’t 

[thornhill_saints]

Just now, obelisk said:

100% relegation material.

FACT MATE

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Sod. That was scruffy. I noticed ASribo fall on his butt somewhere in that.

[Baird of the land]

70 plus minutes of playing badly with zero changes made by the manager. Who would have guessed the result

Edited 24 August, 2024 by Baird of the land

[SNSUN]

Awful defending

[Saint NL]

Awful stuff, so many chances to clear and none taken.

[badgerx16]

So now will Russ change it ?

[Greedyfly]

Just now, obelisk said:

100% relegation material.

This. We could play for 3 weeks against 4 players and still not score. I generally think the back unit, minus Shoe-HornbJack, are ok with a new GK, but we've needed a new no 9 for seasons. Here we are. We won't be up for long.

[Viking Saint]

And there you fucking have it

[Saint Billy]

Aribo should kicked that ball out to kingdom come 

[OttawaSaint]

Brings on Edozie. Fuck off Russ!

[Suhari]

I have a feeling we won't qualify for Europe this season.

[Colinjb]

Aribo needed to just clear that and Mccarthy had no command of his area. 

Very poor goal to conceed. 

Edited 24 August, 2024 by Colinjb

[Sunglasses Ron]

Sigh, very disappointing but not a surprise I guess. Anyone who thought this wasn’t going to be a horrible slog are getting a nice reality check.

[adrian lord]

This is the sort of game we have to win to have a hope of staying up.

[SNSUN]

Clubs don't get relegated in August but this is a team we shouldn't be losing to if we want to stay up.

[HKsaint]

Smallbone and Aribo are not good enough 

[Edmonton Saint]

Why didn’t Martin show some bollocks and actually be proactive and make subs when the game was 0-0? Same old, going to be a long difficult season 

[Harry_SFC]

Martin having another poor day at the office.

[Saint NL]

Four at the back and archer up front?

[Mr X]

Recipe for disaster when you have 50% or more of your team thats not premier league level and then you add in a manager that's not either 

[badgerx16]

We are looking every inch relegation favourites at present.

[SNSUN]

Get the keeper sorted then for the last 5 days of the window can we please bring in another attacker. Please.

[Suhari]

Sugawara off. I don't like that.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Well, the more we set up to play cautiously, hoping for a slip to allow us loads of space to attack, the more they were just going to get on with their own, much more attacking game plan. Nothing we didn't see last season.

Martin will look to the likes of Aribo not clearing when he should have, and look at those possession stats as a good foundation.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, OttawaSaint said:

Brings on Edozie. Fuck off Russ!

Typical

[SNSUN]

1 minute ago, HKsaint said:

Smallbone and Aribo are not good enough 

Thankfully when we do get Fernandes and Lesley up to speed, they won't be playing much. We hope.

[Saint NL]

Bijlow is currently punching himself in the hamstring

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Brings on Edozie. Fuck off Russ!

Finally. Someone with an end product. Now we'll see some attacks!

[OttawaSaint]

RM mouthing off at Saints fans there!

[RedArmy]

But but but we played really well against 10 men Newcastle. 
 

Our third season finishing 20th in the prem awaits. 

[Micky]

Should be 2

[stknowle]

1 minute ago, adrian lord said:

This is the sort of game we have to win to have a hope of staying up.

Yep and we haven’t looked like scoring whatsoever