Saints 1-1 Ipswich - Match Thread

[notnowcato]

Fuck me, football can be a cruel mistress at times. Gutted. 

[Baz Fl]

Bringing in two strikers that played in a  relegated team that couldn’t score enough goals to keep their team alive, brilliant move 🤬

[Saint Fan CaM]

2 minutes ago, CanadaSaint said:

The "D" is one of the most dangerous places on the pitch, and we left it wide open. Unfrickingbelievable.

To be fair the shot took a massive deflection from Aribo - who fucking wimped out and turned his back. Ramsdale didn’t stand a chance.

[saintant]

Fulham had 39% possession today yet had 22 shots half of which were on target and won 3-1. possession football....go figure.

[badgerx16]

Other than blocking at Archer's feet, how many saves did their keeper make ? With Baz or Macca in goal we would have lost.

[Patches O Houlihan]

7 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Standard 

Martin out 

There was nothing wrong with the tactics or team selection: Play out to encourage a 4 or 5 man press - then play it over them into space for Archer and Fraser to run on to.

Way way too easy to try to pin that on Martin. 

Archer missed one after doing well to enable it

BBD missed a couple of opportunities

Stewart could have done better getting on a couple of crosses. 

 

[LGTL]

Championship standard match which is where we’ll both end up funnily enough. The subs from Martin were mostly lunacy, the guys just a pretty shit manager. 

[LiberalCommunist]

Gutted. Can’t have nice things. 

[Maury Dyer]

So happy when we went up. I'm soon and gloom now.

[madge]

Martin needs to get his head out of his arse.. our strikers are shite, is tall Paul really that much worse than Ross Stewart who to Be fair looked average. Tall pauL has scored goals in turkey.. he has to be given a chance and we need to play a formation that can accommodate him.. we had offensive free kicks and passed backwards when we need a 2nd goal.  But we’re totally fecked under Martin if we can’t beat Ipswich. Long depressing season ahead.

[Long Shot]

3 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

What did he get wrong today?

Playing Archer as a lone target man

[Greedyfly]

7 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Ross Stewart should never have been on the pitch. All that pressure from his free kick. Added nothing at all. 

Yep, we seem to have the largest number of inert strikers ever. Might as well give Tall Paul a go at this rate. 

 

I've revised my number up up 69

[OttawaSaint]

Martin needs to go. No need to bring on Aribo and shore things up. All it did was add on more time and then uh oh Joe deflected in the equalizer (felt like a winner).

[vectraman]

4 minutes ago, saintant said:

Why do we always seem to concede late goals either at the end of the first half or end of matches?

Especially as all the possession crap is meant to wear the opposition down and we pounce when they’re tired. 
Not working is it?

Pointless passing for no gain whatsoever. Don’t get it and never will. Possession is pointless without purpose. Sigh. 

[egg]

1 minute ago, Baz Fl said:

Bringing in two strikers that played in a  relegated team that couldn’t score enough goals to keep their team alive, brilliant move 🤬

This irritates me. Any two strikers in that Sheffield United team would have looked shit, and Sheffield United would have gone down regardless. 

[CanadaSaint]

Just now, Saint Fan CaM said:

To be fair the shot took a massive deflection from Aribo - who fucking wimped out and turned his back. Ramsdale didn’t stand a chance.

But that's the point. Once it's hit anything can happen. You have to stop the shot. Defending the "D" is very basic stuff.

[Sheaf Saint]

2 minutes ago, Zorba said:

Playing the whole game in our own half might have something to do with it..

You watched a different match from me then.

[Suhari]

Frustrating.

Good at times, but still not dynamic enough.

Once again the subs made us worse.

[Patches O Houlihan]

6 minutes ago, saintant said:

Why do we always seem to concede late goals either at the end of the first half or end of matches?

Because the players are having to play at 100% capacity just to make the grade; they get tired, and mistakes get made. Was the same under Ralph

[OttawaSaint]

6 minutes ago, saintant said:

Why do we always seem to concede late goals either at the end of the first half or end of matches?

Because we don't go for the jugular and just retreat and then lose the ball.

[Saint86]

1 minute ago, madge said:

Martin needs to get his head out of his arse.. our strikers are shite, is tall Paul really that much worse than Ross Stewart who to Be fair looked average. Tall pauL has scored goals in turkey.. he has to be given a chance and we need to play a formation that can accommodate him.. we had offensive free kicks and passed backwards when we need a 2nd goal.  But we’re totally fecked under Martin if we can’t beat Ipswich. Long depressing season ahead.

Tall Paul is miles better than Ross Stewart.

[Vancouver Saint]

Sooooooooooo predictable!

What is it with Ipswich and conceding late late extra time goals.

We defend corners way too deep...no way should that shot get through a block.

I wonder just how big those two points lost will be at the end of the season. We needed that win.

Haven't sworn as much for a long long time. What's the point of all that endeavour when you throw it away at the last.

Subs took away from momentum. You just knew that chance Diaz blazed over the bar when it could of put the game to bed would cost us.

Sure lots of positives...Fernandes is great. Lesley gonna be really good, Dibling a phenom, Ramsey some great saves (but also not the best distribution), Downes a good game, Suguwara a good player...

But man, we had to see that game out. Very very frustrating.

😠

[Zorba]

Just now, Sheaf Saint said:

You watched a different match from me then.

Mine was shit, we threw away a 1-0 lead. How did your match end?

[egg]

Just now, Long Shot said:

Playing Archer as a lone target man

Yep. He's not a solo CF. He needs to play with someone around him. 

People can defend RM as much as they like, and he was let down by poor finishing, but he's the one who sets us up and manages us during the game, and what he's doing just isn't working. 

[saintant]

Just now, OttawaSaint said:

Because we don't go for the jugular and just retreat and then lose the ball.

Seems so obvious to us you'd think a highly paid manager would be able to work it out especially considering the number of times it happens.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, Saint86 said:

Tall Paul is miles better than Ross Stewart.

Shhhh!

[stknowle]

5 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Got spanked for me first half and we're lucky to go in winning. We're the better team second half and they got a jammy equaliser at the death. 

Yep. If we’re being honest a draw was a fair result. Obviously gutting though, back to that familiar last minute goal against in the Prem feeling! 

There were positives, Fernandes, Dibling obviously, Ramsdale,  others looking like they are growing into it  at this level (THB, Downes), Sugawara looks like he belongs here, Stewart (in the bits I saw between fucking glitching streams) looked kind of capable(?), Archer at least had some decent chances and was a tad unlucky, esp for the first. To temper all that this is Ipswich at home, literally our most winnable fixture and it was a right old struggle.

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, egg said:

Yep. He's not a solo CF. He needs to play with someone around him. 

People can defend RM as much as they like, and he was let down by poor finishing, but he's the one who sets us up and manages us during the game, and what he's doing just isn't working. 

Exactly. The easiest home game of the season….

we are going down without much of a fight with Martin.

[Farmer Saint]

Strikers just not up to standard - that's all - apart from that we looked decent against a team that finished above us last season. 

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Sooooooooooo predictable!

What is it with Ipswich and conceding late late extra time goals.

We defend corners way too deep...no way should that shot get through a block.

I wonder just how big those two points lost will be at the end of the season. We needed that win.

Haven't sworn as much for a long long time. What's the point of all that endeavour when you throw it away at the last.

Subs took away from momentum. You just knew that chance Diaz blazed over the bar when it could of put the game to bed would cost us.

Sure lots of positives...Fernandes is great. Lesley gonna be really good, Dibling a phenom, Ramsey some great saves (but also not the best distribution), Downes a good game, Suguwara a good player...

But man, we had to see that game out. Very very frustrating.

😠

He'll be even better when Russ realises he should be starting games.

[sfc4prem]

Unlucky there. Reminded me of the late David Norris Portsmouth equaliser in the 2-2. Gutting.

 

[CB Fry]

Ipswich deserved a point from that game all day long.

We are never going score anywhere near enough to stay up.

[hypochondriac]

Hard to shake the feeling that a better team would have capitalised on our errors and scored a few today. 

[CanadaSaint]

We are playing out from the back less, and playing it back into the back more.

Russ likes to call it brave football but I think it's gutless football.

We didn't surrender two points at the death, we surrendered them by refusing to even look for a forward ball countless times in the first ninety minutes.

[OttawaSaint]

COCK!

[Jonnyboy]

Ah what a shitter, 3 points would've been so sweet 😒

[badgerx16]

Second half free kick, centrally, half way inside their half - get the fucking ball into their penalty area, not ours !!!

[Football Special]

5 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Sooooooooooo predictable!

What is it with Ipswich and conceding late late extra time goals.

We defend corners way too deep...no way should that shot get through a block.

I wonder just how big those two points lost will be at the end of the season. We needed that win.

Haven't sworn as much for a long long time. What's the point of all that endeavour when you throw it away at the last.

Subs took away from momentum. You just knew that chance Diaz blazed over the bar when it could of put the game to bed would cost us.

Sure lots of positives...Fernandes is great. Lesley gonna be really good, Dibling a phenom, Ramsey some great saves (but also not the best distribution), Downes a good game, Suguwara a good player...

But man, we had to see that game out. Very very frustrating.

😠

I'm gutted, feel so drained by that, but those two points won't make a difference at the end of the season unless other teams have points deducted 

[Sarnia Cherie]

How many chances did our strikers have to kill this game? As for BBD he is beginning to get on my nerves. Just counting down the minutes to celebrate our first win then a jammy equaliser. Cheesed off.

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, CanadaSaint said:

We are playing out from the back less,.....

And too many of Ramsdale's clearances were daisy cutters that went to an Ipswich player.

[Harry_SFC]

Can someone tell me how we spent £22m on two attackers who are actually worse than Adams who we let leave on a free? Absolute negligence from the club yet again

 

[Harry_SFC]

Also yet again Martins subs made us worse. Recurring theme.

[Saint86]

Reality is that we played well, but we didn't take our chances and Martin bottled it at the end with the subs and changes. That an Ipswich once again are the luckiest team i've ever seen us play. 3 times now. absolute joke. Out strikers are just not good enough for this level, which may well send us down.

As an aside, how many millions have SR spent now to still not replace danny ings... Who i think is outscoring (or at least matching) our current strikers, despite playing in a struggling Spam side.

Edited 21 September, 2024 by Saint86

[saintant]

We continue to do well on the possession stats.

[Bad Wolf]

13 minutes ago, Zorba said:

Playing the whole game in our own half might have something to do with it..

Not sure what game you were watching...

[hypochondriac]

7 minutes ago, stknowle said:

Yep. If we’re being honest a draw was a fair result. Obviously gutting though, back to that familiar last minute goal against in the Prem feeling! 

There were positives, Fernandes, Dibling obviously, Ramsdale,  others looking like they are growing into it  at this level (THB, Downes), Sugawara looks like he belongs here, Stewart (in the bits I saw between fucking glitching streams) looked kind of capable(?), Archer at least had some decent chances and was a tad unlucky, esp for the first. To temper all that this is Ipswich at home, literally our most winnable fixture and it was a right old struggle.

I thought bbd did OK when he came on. People on here thought he was shite but I disagree. The concerning thing is they were the worst team we have played this year and we still couldn't win. 

[Mr X]

2 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Can someone tell me how we spent £22m on two attackers who are actually worse than Adams who we let leave on a free? Absolute negligence from the club yet again

 

This 100% we aren't going to score anywhere near enough to stay in this league 

[Bad Wolf]

1 minute ago, Harry_SFC said:

Also yet again Martins subs made us worse. Recurring theme.

It isn't Martin's fault the player's on the bench are sub par (the ones on the pitch are too tbf). Who on Earth could have come on and stopped that?

[East Kent Saint]

94 mins of hope dashed again 😐

[LGTL]

Between 10-15 points is a real possibility. And that’s if we’re lucky. We aren’t going to score enough goals  to trouble anything other 20th. But then that was fucking obvious after the Newcastle game.