Match Day Thread Burnley v Saints Saturday 10th August 3pm

Sure I read something saying he played centre mid and had been converted to centre back. Might be wrong, I watch a lot of the Bundesliga but don’t recall him at all.

 

Why wasn't Hojbjerg playing? Clearly Ralph does not know what he is doing and needs to go. We can terminate all the defences contracts to free up wage space and sign some pacey defenders..... or we can all chill out. Have a pint and wait for all this to blow over. It's only one loss to Burnley. Bournemouth lost 4-0 last season could be worse.

 

I'm sure the majority of our fans will turn on him when he doesn't keep a clean sheet against liverpool.

 

Because we've only played friendly games over the last few months and they don't count?

I don't understand why some fans seem to think he's only been in the job a couple of months. He's been the boss since Cardiff away last year. He's had ample opportunity to sort out the defence either through coaching, or two transfer windows. It's absolutely ridiculous how bad they are

 

But its not the one game is it? Or do we just pretend last season didn't happen and he didn't have the whole summer to sort this out?

 

I usually feel rubbish waking up on Sunday after a bad loss (or any loss for that matter....or any draw where we were winning at one point), but fairly sanguine today....probably because it was the FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. Not saying that I'm not disappointed and I recognise a similar pattern to matches last season, but I trust Ralph and I know that we have a lot of decent players. The thing that surprises me most is that we didn't score as I think our strength is more in attack.

Ralph was apoplectic about the capitulation after the first goal when we had played well initially, he will have brooded overnight and be back firing on all cylinders today....the players had better be prepared to duck. Let's be more positive and say a lesson has been learned...but also don't be raging if we lose to Liverpool....a lot of teams will do that. Just want to see a good performance promising better.

 

If you're going to judge him on the defence do you think it would be fair to let the bloke integrate his signing in that position?

You can't coach out that sort of mistake.

 

It took Klopp a lot longer to sort the Liverpool defence out and he had millions more at his disposal.

Now he can do no wrong.

It's a tough league and the same defence that can keep a clean sheet against Chelsea can concede 3 at Burnley

 

Why do you think he makes the signings?

And no, we’re not forgetting last season, where had he been in charge since the start, with his points per game ratio we would have finished in the top ten.

What’s your point? Or are you just angry?

 

The old saying is that it is the hope that kills you. A lot of disappointment for most fans is down to expectations and feeling badly let down. There will always be games like this..most teams will have them....but it would be better if it was mid-season (and mid-table) rather than the first game. But it isn't so we have to suck it up.

 

He’ll have us Danso on the ceiling, I’m sure.

 

Our tendency to collapse was worse before Hasenhuttl arrived. He brought through valery who was one of our best players yesterday and this new CB who's not been here long enough to play yesterday.

If you remember before Ralph got here for comparison then it's hard to say he's not gone some way to sort out the defence.

As I said at half time yesterday, our defence were on top.

 

Do you live next door to Impsaint? I’m not sure the water can be all that good up there

 

Ok mastermind, what would you have done and please include what to do with the wages of the players that no club wanted to sign this summer?

 

- Assuming Danso is better than Stephens, and with Hojbjerg back in, that's already gonna make us more solid.

- Tough first game for Adams, but we need to get that partnership with Ings firing because our biggest worry is not the defence; it's relying on Redmond too much. If he gets injured, we're ****ed, because Djenepo is gonna be raw as **** for his first ten games.

I thought they were just chatting about premature balding.

 

No, Claire.

 

Based on yesterday, it's not Stephens we need to worry about. It's the great Dane.

 

Based on a year's worth of evidence, both of them are equally bad.

 

Once again, I would remind you that JWP was our JOINT HIGHEST goal scorer last season.

 

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One game and we're done? Really?

Vin