Saints 0-1 Forest - Match Thread

[AlexLaw76]

Feck me, he has Stephens at LB

[obelisk]

Forest attack with pace. Saints amble around with a few backward passes. Have we had a shot this half?

[Dr Who?]

Should have made those changes around 60 minutes as we were losing our way. Not great tactics there. Still need to be creating more and lacking the cutting edge. Hopefully it will come! 

[FarehamSaintJames]

So which CB is now playing FB?

Why wait to go behind before making a sub?

Fantastic formation of 5-5-0.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Just now, Saint NL said:

Bijlow is currently punching himself in the hamstring

Knowing his injury record, that more likely to give him another wrist fracture than damage his leg. 🙂 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Smallbone is completely out of his depth - game passing him by. Get him off RM.

[Gingeletiss]

1 minute ago, Suhari said:

Sugawara off. I don't like that.

Putting his mate at RB at a guess!

[Sheaf Saint]

Why is Smallbone still on? He's so obviously such a weak link today. 

[gio1saints]

Cmon mateus lad score on your debut! 

[Saint Fan CaM]

We will lose this - 100%.

[OttawaSaint]

Comprehensively outthough, outworked, outplayed.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Tator: FOrest will expect Saints to come on strong here.

Martin: That's just what they will expect. I'll outsmart them by doing the opposite.

🙂 

[obelisk]

RM just makes a few desperate throws of the dice.

[BotleySaint]

Better half so far but nothing to show. Then inevitably fall behind. 62% possession though... 

Edited 24 August, 2024 by BotleySaint

[Suhari]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Feck me, he has Stephens at LB

SHOEHORN!!

[saintant]

Jobs for the boys innit! Mustn't rock the boat.

[Suhari]

Ahhh.

JS off now.

[Bobsmith]

Martin is clueless. Goes ultra defensive, refuses to change it up until we're behind. Constantly plays his favourites, Stephens, Smallbone and Armstrong, the latter of which are not good enough for the premier league. Relegation beckons without a decent attacking midfielder (Alcaraz) and striker. 

[tdmickey3]

Reactive management and never proactive,same as last season but against much much better opposition.

We all know how this ends in May

[Harry_SFC]

Martin just won't take his mates Stephens and Smallbone off will he. 

[trousers]

McCarthy actually having another decent game overall.

[Suhari]

Just now, Suhari said:

Ahhh.

JS off now.

Actually, it was THB.

WTaF?!

[saintant]

Just now, Harry_SFC said:

Martin just won't take his mates Stephens and Smallbone off will he. 

Think he just pulled Jack off.

[Mr X]

Just now, Harry_SFC said:

Martin just won't take his mates Stephens and Smallbone off will he. 

Lucy told him not to 💪

[OttawaSaint]

Left JS on and hooked THB?!?!

[Farmer Saint]

God I enjoyed Wembley, but I am now returning to my original thoughts last season, that God the Premier League is boring and full of shit - the Championship is infinitely more fun. 

[saintant]

Just now, trousers said:

McCarthy actually having another decent game overall.

Yeah, it's not a keeper we need it's ten new outfield players - who knew.

[Nottssaint1]

What did Martin do towards fans?

[Edmonton Saint]

Be nice if Tall Paul was on the bench to throw on in this kind of situation, sometimes I feel like Martin would rather lose playing his way then mixing it up a bit 

[HKsaint]

Edozie can’t shoot? 

[badgerx16]

Touches in opposition penalty area ; Saints 13 Forest 31.

[SNSUN]

Stream has gone. I'm going to say definitively, that's probably a good thing. I can't see us getting back into this unless someone scores a worldy or a penalty.

Edited 24 August, 2024 by SNSUN

[Saint NL]

Promising signs from Archer so far

[saintant]

Just now, Edmonton Saint said:

Be nice if Tall Paul was on the bench to throw on in this kind of situation, sometimes I feel like Martin would rather lose playing his way then mixing it up a bit 

Nah, we are too much of a footballing side to hoof it high into the mixer 🙂

[Suhari]

Nice touch from Fernandes then.

[Mr X]

Ten minutes shit or bust now boys 😂

[Micky]

One nil down, at home, ten minutes to go, showing very little. Does not bode well for the rest of the season.

Edited 24 August, 2024 by Micky

[Winnersaint]

4 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

We are looking every inch relegation favourites at present.

I'm not sure what was expected. basically a Championship team in our current guise bar KWP. Even THB, Bedders, Flynn Downes marginal Premier League players at best. AA we know about and history may well repeat itself there.  My expectations were not high, but as others say no-one gets relegated 2 games in. 

[OttawaSaint]

Everything dies when the ball goes to Edozie...

[Patches O Houlihan]

Is it just me or has every corner we’ve taken across both PL games been utter shit?

[IronCitySaint]

Last week was a bit unlucky. Today has just been rubbish. This team is simply not going to score enough goals or provide enough threat to hurt anyone in this league. Forest are one of the weakest teams, but have been 100 times better in every department. Worrying. 

[Ralph Fastenbüttl]

omg, Edozie drives me fucking mental. Absolutely zero end product. Infuriating player.

[Saint NL]

Edozie cant be the best we have, surely? He's actually got worse

[Weston Super Saint]

4 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Reactive management and never proactive,same as last season but against much much better opposition.

We all know how this ends in May

It's not lasting until May!

Down with the Xmas decorations is looking ever more likely.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Ah Edozie. Showed far too much of that. Earlier, he went for the trained cut back, with 2 broadly better deliveries on.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, Mr X said:

Ten minutes shit or bust now boys 😂

RM prefers bust.

[obelisk]

Forest should be well out of sight by now. Still just 0-1 but Saints don't look a threat at all.

[HKsaint]

1 minute ago, Edmonton Saint said:

Be nice if Tall Paul was on the bench to throw on in this kind of situation, sometimes I feel like Martin would rather lose playing his way then mixing it up a bit 

What is the most important thing to Martin is to win possession percentage 

[OttawaSaint]

Nothing positive to take out of this so far. Such a poor performance.

[Winnersaint]

Just now, IronCitySaint said:

Last week was a bit unlucky. Today has just been rubbish. This team is simply not going to score enough goals or provide enough threat to hurt anyone in this league. Forest are one of the weakest teams, but have been 100 times better in every department. Worrying. 

It is worrying but not irredeemable, but he's going to have to get new players bedded in PDQ