To the people who booed at full time: Please improve your understanding of football. West Ham are a very good side and have some super players. Scamacca was excellent for them - starting to settle in England now and looks very much the established Italy international that he is. West Ham are simply a better side than us and it showed for large periods. Did well to get a point in the end. They spent a lot of money on Paqueta and Scamacca and they have clearly improved their side. A draw is a decent result.
Of course it's nothing to do with the fact West Ham have a team full of established internationals who just were too strong for us. Nope, has to be Saints played poorly.
This. Needed a result today, whether pretty or not. West Ham were impressive today I have to say and probably deserved to win. But we ground out a point and I'll take that. Thought Bazunu had probably his best game in a Saints shirt as well.
Tbf, they paid their money and sure it was for a culmination of recent performances and being in the relegation zone as much as another meh game against an ok side
Tbf Adam Blackmore pointed out that we spent £60m in total and they had a single player who they paid £51m for. The financial inequality is draining genuine competition from the league.
Agreed though to be honest I've heard much worse but you have valid point. Overall we came away with a point but Moyes must thinking 3 should have been his to celebrate, so a positive.
Not wishing to be offensive but how many foul throws get pulled up in this league? There are usually a few every game that go completely unnoticed. I agree that they should be penalised but it’s rare that they are.
oh, totally agree, obstruction is another that's rarely given that annoys me, mainly players standing on the keeper with no intention of playing the ball
Hello Tom, as my name suggests I'm a watcher of this forum rather than a participant but after reading your posts I feel I am compelled to join and ask you a question. Are you employed by Southampton FC in any form? A poem I quite like, "Casabianca" by the English poet The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
They had 5 full backs in the team and played on Thursday night. You are defending the indefensible. We were beyond awful second half
Definitely feels like two points dropped. Che was peak-Che. Excellent hold-up play (I was amazed that he came off, we were so poor without him), but failed to do the most important thing for a striker. I thought AMN was very good (surprisingly so tbh). Shame about the guy next to him.
Watching the Liverpool City game - quite telling actually, Pep going apoplectic that Rodri made a ‘safe’ back pass to his CB when there was a really obvious progressive pass up to De Bruyne. I probably counted around 9,000 occasions where we did that today, and not just JWP.
BTW, I do want a change, but also to point out that Fabianski made two excellent saves in the first half, to keep it at 1-0. Just before everyone forgets that.
Picking up on my comment, early second half. We don’t seem to have the ability to take the sting out of opponents when they build up a head of steam, with conceding a goal being almost inevitable. Forster was always good at taking 2 minutes per goal kick, for example, but there doesn’t seem to be any nous amongst the current players to disrupt the flow. A few fouls on the half way line would help us to reorganise and the occasional player “needing” treatment to eat into the time, that doesn’t always get added on. A bit of off the ball needling to get a response from an opponent to help him lose concentration. Basically we need to dole out a good dose of ****housery until we start playing again. Not saying that I like these tactics but they are successfully deployed by every other team in the league so I wouldn’t be averse to us doing the same if it helps.
