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Bournemouth 3-1 Saints - Match Thread


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18 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Tall Paul on the bench. Interesting. 

It'll be interesting if Tall Paul comes on...though there seems to be a queue of strikers on the bench and I can't see him jumping that queue.

Would like to have seen KWP in the line up but otherwise that seems a fair starting team. Let's see if Cornet does anything in the middle. 

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1 minute ago, Edmonton Saint said:

Gotta be honest , not a fan of Cornet. Especially as a lone striker. He’s been very mediocre at best in his career so far.

If we play 4-2-3-1 properly he won't be a lone striker.

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4 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

To be fair, and I don’t like the squeaky Scouse twat, but he nailed our issue 100%

Tbf, even Stevie Wonder can see the issues we're having....

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5 minutes ago, Edmonton Saint said:

Gotta be honest , not a fan of Cornet. Especially as a lone striker. He’s been very mediocre at best in his career so far.

Has he? He was more than decent at Lyon, looked very good for Burnley but struggled at West Ham and had a serious injury. 

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                                          Onuachu

                                          Stewart

                                          Archer

                                          Brereton-Diaz

                                          Armstrong

                                          Cornet

                                          Aribo

                                         

                                         Lallana         

   Taylor                                                                   Sugawara

                                        Ramsdale

If the full-backs can get forward and get some crosses in, 7 centre-forwards should give them something to think about 

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1 minute ago, Oldandtired said:

You know you're old when people are talking about false number nines, double pivots, playing with verticality and your immediate reaction is WTF?

Indeed. Pray, what are these "transitions", "the press" and "channels"? Are they when the other team get the ball, someone runs toward an opponent with the ball, and the direction in which a slide-rule pass might have once been played? 

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2 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Has he? He was more than decent at Lyon, looked very good for Burnley but struggled at West Ham and had a serious injury. 

In terms of our recruitment he fits perfectly - great at Championship level - unproven in the Prem.

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So much wrong with our 'recruitment' this summer

How's Fraser - who wasn't even first choice in the Championship - swanned into the team with no proper pre-season? 

Why aren't we playing a proper number nine despite signing two? Why are there four forwards on the bench?

Why isn't there a centre-half on the bench? One injury and we're playing rubix cube trying to fix it. Edwards and Wood clearly aren't good enough - why sign them?

That side gets rolled over by our team from last season, let alone in the Premier League.

I realise this is negative half an hour before a game, but fuck me, the state of it. COYR

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Tonight's triple sub will be Stewart, Lallana and Brereton-Diaz on at around 60 minutes. The latter will play out wide again. Adam Armstrong will get the last 10 minutes and then the additional sub in extra time could be anyone.

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3 minutes ago, adrian lord said:

Indeed. Pray, what are these "transitions", "the press" and "channels"? Are they when the other team get the ball, someone runs toward an opponent with the ball, and the direction in which a slide-rule pass might have once been played? 

I know! And what are these 'footballs' and 'boots' that these damned hipsters keep going on about? 

What's wrong with a pig's bladder and clogs? 

World's gone mad

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1 minute ago, HarvSFC said:

Tonight's triple sub will be Stewart, Lallana and Brereton-Diaz on at around 60 minutes. The latter will play out wide again. Adam Armstrong will get the last 10 minutes and then the additional sub in extra time could be anyone.

There will be no sub in extra time because we’ll be behind and Russ will be far to busy writing the script to his after-match interview explaining how brave we were, how delighted he was with 60% possession and he enjoyed learning so much from the game.

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well no surprise that no matter what Russ puts out is immediately shouted down by most on here and everyone is bitching before the ball is even kicked. I don't expect a win, unfortunately every team in this division is better than us but for gods sake we are not out of September yet, get behind the manager and the team!

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Don't tend to look at this too much but was looking at it earlier for our shots per game, but expected goals shows just how shit our strikers are compared to the other teams around us. Feels like we're creating enough, just not doing enough with it:

 

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Martin can't have much time left, especially if we lose tonight. Next up Arsenal away (loss) then Leicester at home (would be a must win game) and Man City away (loss). I think he'll be lucky to be our manager on 2nd November when Everton come to town.

That being said, could another manager keep this squad up? It's definitely in the bottom three in terms of Premier League quality, but would a change in manager give us the fight to scrap out the points needed for survival? I'm not convinced.

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Just now, BARCELONASAINT said:

well no surprise that no matter what Russ puts out is immediately shouted down by most on here and everyone is bitching before the ball is even kicked. I don't expect a win, unfortunately every team in this division is better than us but for gods sake we are not out of September yet, get behind the manager and the team!

Get behind them…….yet every team in this division is better than us?

In terms of motivation don’t give up the day job mate ffs 🤣

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Just now, obelisk said:

Tall Paul to come on in the 89th minute to reinforce the defence. Clears off the line in the last minute of added time with a header that only he can reach. 0-0 and RM lives to fight another week.

More likely than any other option - other than a humiliating drubbing by Bumfluff.

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