Saints 1-3 Newcastle - Match Thread

[AlexLaw76]

Fuck me

Suagawara is coming on. What a terrible player 

[Maggie May]

1 minute ago, obelisk said:

That fanny around ghost of Martin still hangs across the team. Need an exorcist for sure.

This is on Juric.

[Saint NL]

Ivan dusted off Martins tombola for those subs

[Mr X]

1 minute ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Just out of interest, who do you think would have been interested in managing us after Martin?

Brown bag Arry ? 😂

[Viking Saint]

Archer on for AA. Hopefully IJ has now figured out what a fucking fraud of a footballer AA is

[adrian lord]

"Aye, we're doomed. DOOMED I tell ye..!"

Edited Saturday at 16:20 by adrian lord

[Saint Fan CaM]

I just don’t understand how the system employed or players are decided upon or how subs are used. Nothing seems conventional or expected…just random shit.

[miserableoldgit]

1 minute ago, Viking Saint said:

Archer on for AA. Hopefully IJ has now figured out what a fucking fraud of a footballer AA is

So you wouldn't want him in the Championship next season?

[Viking Saint]

2 minutes ago, BotleySaint said:

Need to give up on the Uguchukwu experiment. 

Plenty of other players I'd bin off before him

[OttawaSaint]

3 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Just out of interest, who do you think would have been interested in managing us after Martin?

No one.

Juric can rest easy though. No one expecting him to get us out of this Martin will get the blame. He probably would like to win or draw, but doesn't really stress if we don't. 

[obelisk]

Bree actually beats his man and looks forward. Screws it up though.

[Viking Saint]

Just now, miserableoldgit said:

So you wouldn't want him in the Championship next season?

No, I'd like someone who can score some fucking goals now, and not wait 7 months for them to be useful

[Saint NL]

Those fat Geordies enjoying their big day down south in the warmer climate 😂

[Thereisonlyonemickychannon]

Oh the days when I used to go to the Dell. Channon....what a player.

[Big M]

You can't blame Juric for this,he has inherited the worst squad of players ever assembled for this league,not a single one of them should be playing in this division bar a couple,but let's be honest most aren't currently good enough for the championship,we literally have league 1 standard footballers,Juric will walk at the end of this awful season and the club needs a complete clear out,no new contracts for any of these,a complete new starting 11 next season,at the moment this squad is poisonous.

[Toussaint]

3 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

This is on Juric.

Really, which manager in the whole wide world would make us competitive against the billionaires that are a Newcastle United?

[obelisk]

Newcastle break quickly with millions of runners. Saints escape.

[John Boy Saint]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Ivan dusted off Martins tombola for those subs

Bench is a bit like the last kids to be picked in school playground football

[AlexLaw76]

That break…. No midfield for us.

Shyte formation

[Toussaint]

1 minute ago, Thereisonlyonemickychannon said:

Oh the days when I used to go to the Dell. Channon....what a player.

Those were the days when everyone had a chance. The ladder has been well and truly pulled up now. 

[Osvaldorama]

This is fucking horrific 

 

(As usual)

[Sheaf Saint]

I've decided that instead of watching Saints games, I'm going to spend 90 mins every Saturday punching myself in the gonads. I think it would be less painful.

[benjii]

Janny B with heroics.

[Mr X]

These players can't even muster up the effort to give us eleven points between them across a whole season 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, Toussaint said:

Really, which manager in the whole wide world would make us competitive against the billionaires that are a Newcastle United?

Which manager would make us even competitive? This squad is absolute dogshit.

[captainchris]

3 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

So you wouldn't want him in the Championship next season?

Definitely not, he is truly shit… Not even one one our top 20 players and that really is saying something !!!

[miserableoldgit]

Just now, Viking Saint said:

No, I'd like someone who can score some fucking goals now, and not wait 7 months for them to be useful

This answer doesn't make sense. AA isn't a Prem player but there are very few better Championship strikers. This season is a write-off. You want to get rid of him now and then buy a new striker for next season?

[danjosaint]

25 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Juric uses a fast paced style and will have a higher quality of player in his midfield next season in the Championship relative to the majority of opponents compared to our struggles this season. So why wouldn't it work?

Omg it's not to do with our pace it's to do with opponents,  in the epl it's significantly faster and stronger than a lot of leagues so the 2 in midfield do not work as per Man utd 

[Sunglasses Ron]

And to think we still have 14 more matches to go...

[AlexLaw76]

Again, they break and we have no one in the middle of the park.

 

[adrian lord]

1 minute ago, Thereisonlyonemickychannon said:

Oh the days when I used to go to the Dell. Channon....what a player.

Rodrigues forward to Williams, dinks it to Ball...Osgood, CHANNON! It's in!

[Harry_SFC]

3 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

This answer doesn't make sense. AA isn't a Prem player but there are very few better Championship strikers. This season is a write-off. You want to get rid of him now and then buy a new striker for next season?

He will score goals, then we'll go up and it'll be rinse and repeat. I'd be happy to keep him but only if it meant he'd then be sold if we went up. 

[Wsaint]

At least Pompey are getting battered...

[Patches O Houlihan]

10 minutes ago, BotleySaint said:

Need to give up on the Uguchukwu experiment. 

Who are you playing instead? Surely we have a choice of Downes/Les, Aribo/Les, Aribo/Downes. 

I would rather Downes be playing, but I would suggest Downes/Les is stronger than Downes/Aribo. (Have assumed that one of Dibling/Fernandes or our new Dane would be playing the attacking midfield role)

[OttawaSaint]

Starting to feel that this isn't much fun. 

[miserableoldgit]

4 minutes ago, captainchris said:

Definitely not, he is truly shit… Not even one one our top 20 players and that really is saying something !!!

24 goals and 13 assists in 52 games is "truly shit?"

 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, OttawaSaint said:

Starting to feel that this isn't much fun. 

I felt like that in August

[notnowcato]

What the fuck are we actually trying to do when we have the ball? I see no obvious direction, no cohesion, so slow to close down. It’s like watching 11 strangers. 

[Saint NL]

Just now, OttawaSaint said:

Starting to feel that this isn't much fun. 

What do you mean?

Each week we see one team playing attacking football and scoring goals for fun....

[Matthew Le God]

8 minutes ago, danjosaint said:

Omg it's not to do with our pace it's to do with opponents,  in the epl it's significantly faster and stronger than a lot of leagues so the 2 in midfield do not work as per Man utd 

That did not answer the question.

[Mr X]

7 minutes ago, Sunglasses Ron said:

And to think we still have 14 more matches to go...

Not long now till we are officially crowned the worst team in premier league history 

[benjii]

How the fuck is James Bree playing in the PL?!

[Saint NL]

Smallbone coming on, this isn't ending 1-3

[miserableoldgit]

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

He will score goals, then we'll go up and it'll be rinse and repeat. I'd be happy to keep him but only if it meant he'd then be sold if we went up. 

I don't have a problem with this. Horses for courses. He is a very good Championship player. To keep calling him a shit footballer is obviously ridiculous.

[OttawaSaint]

I thought a decent manager could get a tune out if this lot. So.

1) Is Juric not decent?

2) Does RM deserve less vitriol?

3) Players are now just totally shot mentally so it's not a fair question?

[OneMrsWallace]

We don't have a single tough character in this squad. They're all just drifting through till the season ends. What a mess. Silence from the board. Pathetic. 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Oh fuck Smallbollox coming on for Aribo - that’s at least another goal against.

[Patches O Houlihan]

1 minute ago, benjii said:

How the fuck is James Bree playing in the PL?!

He set up our goal... 

... agree he should be a last 5 mins 5th sub at best

[Sheaf Saint]

O 

1 minute ago, Saint NL said:

Smallbone coming on, this isn't ending 1-3

You reckon he'll score a brace and rescue a draw then?

[obelisk]

Fernandes looks knackered.