Exactly the same starting 11 for me. This leaves a reasonably strong bench for the inevitable substitutions later in the game. This starting 11 has done well over the last two games, everybody seems to agree that Cork & Shaw have made the team more competitive - so why change it when their confidence is probably the highest its been all season.
Any-one heard anything about Lee? Doesn't seem to get mentioned even though I thought he was now fully fit?
Same 11, stay with Gazza. Stop changing the keeper!!! He played against Leeds not long ago, haven't heard anything since though.
Same team for me> Gazza i am sure will be having a lot of Positional coaching this week and will be just fine. His confidence will get better with games and I hope by xmas the question of our number one keeper is resolved. If not we may have a slight problem?
Got to be the same starters. And lets not forget, for Hoilett to score that goal it also required the defence to allow him a free header in the area. Gazza could have stayed on the line and he might still have scored.
Yes for me Gazza shoulkd have stayed back but Adam was aty fault for giving the QPR playera free run into the box.
Strange to think how people used to moan about SKD staying on the line. Only experience can teach when to stay and when to go (sounds like the start of a love song).
I think Adam may have let him go assuming our two strapping 6ft 2 centrebacks could deal with a 5ft 8 little winger. Fonte was marking no-one in particular and got caught under the ball, and Maya slipped trying to recover and get to the ball. I don't think it was wrong of Adam to leave him considering they had one man in the box before Hoilett arrived and we had three defenders. I think if you asked Nigel if it was Adam's responsibility to be in open play heading clear crosses in the middle of the box 8 yards out, he'd have a bit of a chuckle at your expense. Personally I think he did exactly what he was meant to have done, followed Hoilett until he went into the box and thus became the responsibility of the defenders, and then left him to make there was no room for them to find someone on the edge of the box, so we don't have goals like in the Fulham game where we have 8 men back but all chasing the ball or 10 yards deep in the box marking no-one and leaving acres for their players to arrive on the edge. A bit like the Swansea game, you can say Maya should have controlled the pass better or dealt with it first time, you can say Adam should have tracked Hoilett all the way or that the defenders should handle him. But at the end of the day if Gazza didn't make a suicidal back pass and if he stayed on his line, we may well have been celebrating two clean sheets as well as two victories. Not trying to crucify the chap and still happy if Nigel sticks with him, just how I see it.
Fair points Mikey. Again individual errors.Let's hope we can get through the Newcastle game without any!
Drum roll please! Here comes Tommo, slayer of the mighty QPR... New found shining hope for all of the Saints not606ers. Work your magic sunshine! Otherwise you'll be for the sack just like Di Matteo, doesn't matter how well you've done in the past, one loss and you're out and you'll be replaced with some old hasbeen like Lamballana!
same team. gazzaniga has done more good then he has done bad, and his mistakes haven't LOST us games yet!
