We need a really good partner for Ings next year. He is a player who needs someone to build a real relationship with. If we don't bring in a good striker, a good creative player and at least one really strong centre back, next season will probably not be the step up we want...
Thank goodness the season is over - that display about sums up our season. Getting concerned about Ings, fully appreciate that he is coming back from injury (again); but just not seeing enough quality for the £19M we are committed to be paying for him...
I was just saying to my mate, I like Redders, as he’s very good, but not quite good enough to get nicked by a big club.
Disappointing to peter out so meekly after securing safety, but safety was the aim of the game. Well done Ralph and the boys for that, because for a while it was looking like a tough ask. Big summer coming up to show us whether bringing in Ralph, and getting rid of the old regime was just a flash in the pan or if we’re actually committed to pulling away from the relegation battle next season.
We were clueless in the final third, as per. Took a gift for us to score. Southampton didn’t look great either tbh.
Got to say that an independent fan would have thought it was Saints who were the relegated team and not Huddersfield who thoroughly deserved their point. In another season we would have been relegated with 39 points. The season seemed to peter out at the very end and I think we should have fun far more points. The performances (even under Ralph) have been disappointing against lower placed opposition and I just think today's performance was typical of this season. All in all, the performances will need to improve next season as the league will be likely to be much more difficult. I have been disappointed with the results against Bournemouth and Huddersfield and feel we have been lucky that the three relegated teams have been so abjectly poor. Despite some of the truly heroic results and the turn around in fortunes by Saints back in the winter, I think they might not have been sufficient in another season. 39 points often sees you relegated. I feel Ralph has basically achieved the minimum asked of him having inherited a weak and demoralised squad. I am not convinced the second part of the season has been wholly the success some supporters might suggest but I share the optimism for next season when, with some decent recruitment, we will be better able to assess his merits. For much of today's game, the squad was average at best with the exclusion of Redmond. We probably require rebuilding to the extent when we got up from the Championship so that next season these kind of matches can be taken as a guaranteed 3 points. I don't feel what we witnessed today was that impressive and hope we start the season in August who a revitalised team who do more that simply what is just about enough. I felt it was a disappointing conclusion to a disappointing season.
I would have thought you might be more annoyed that SFC for the second season in succession failed to reach 40 points, than pleased that LFC missed out. SFC have managed to accumulate 77 points over the course of 2 seasons, which is 20 short of LFC´s total over the course of this season. Not something to gloat about is it? The points total is not good enough for one of the most experienced sides in the bottom half of the PL bar West Ham and Everton. Next season the target needs to be 50, and if it is not reached then questions need to be asked.
Spot on IT!!! We all know the consequences of continued mediocrity. Just look where it took our dearly beloved PFC!!!!
Over the past 22 seasons, the average needed to be safe has been 36 points, so we've been safe for a while. No PL team has ever entered game week 17, with single figure points, and survived. Ralph has worked miracles.
End of term, "Can we play games, Miss?" type of match. I'm astounded to find from the BBC that we had even three shots on target. Despite the goal it felt like none. No lessons whatsoever to be gained from that. The most enjoyable thing about the day was that next to us we had three empty seats then one of the happiest, drunkest young men I've ever had the fortune to see. I mean he was falling over drunk (but with enough sense to head backwards into the seat behind). He was hiccoughing and looked about to puke but held it in. He went down to the bar early enough before half time to miss the goal then came back up clearly having had a few more. Now he was hilariously plastered. I would say that twenty people ended up watching him instead of the lacklustre effort on the pitch. Someone's going to have an extremely sore head tomorrow but at least he won't remember the match. Vin
