Can't help but feel that Victor will not be a natural on ice. Imagine the speed that will be achieved with that weight on a toboggan. Luckily I don't imagine ice sports will be high on the agenda.
Why is it that having a target man is such a must? Are we Stoke Ham Albion? Liverpool seem to be doing well enough without a big man up top. City are fine without a target man, Arsenal cope pretty well without Giroud etc...
I agree with you, but you must admit that suddenly changing our whole style of play would be difficult to accomplish overnight. Or perhaps that's what they'll be up to in Switzerland!
Sorry to hear about your Dad. Glad Saints won the game after he died so you could dedicate the win to him.
That's what my wife says. Put it down to a combination of illness and many years of supporting Saints through thin and thinner. 5th place after a dreadful run, happy days
Very sorry for your loss, MA. I'm in a similar position with my 99 year old Mum. I've been informed that she has only a matter of days to go before we lose her. There's a part of me which wants her to carry on and a part which knows that her innings is over. I'm hoping she can at least make it to her hundredth birthday on March 10th. I'm not even sure she knows or cares, so it is entirely up to her now.
Long cross, Tadic header actually, but I agree with you Chilco. It's in this nice little compilation:
Thanks TSS. Those were the days, and they'll be back I'm sure, once the confidence has been restored to the whole team.
And here's the replay of the whole game. I haven't watched it yet, but I assume it's the NBC stream most of us watched last night, with the insufferable Trevor Francis as co-commentator. Hard to believe he was the first Englishman to be transferred for a million pounds. http://www.footballorgin.com/2015/03/premier-league-2014-2015-southampton-v.html
Downloaded that last night. The commentary is in Spanish. Funnily enough, even though I donta speaka da lingo, it didn't spoil my enjoyment one jot [I thought it might]. I even kept the sound up so that the crowd noise and atmosphere could come across. Couple of observations: Not the most entertaining match, so Saints winning certainly helped there, but at no point did I want to fast forward to the goal, so it was good enough. Incidentally, the goal wasn't soft, as AP put it, in my opinion. I thought it was a perfectly good poachers touch by Mane. At present, I feel that with players on the books like Tadic, Elia, Djuricic, Mane, etc.., that although they are of excellent quality, they aren't meshing together brilliantly, as yet. It might be that they are are all of a similar type. Then again, that might be their eventual strength. There was a time, earlier in the season, when everyone seemed to know where everyone else was. At present they seem to have lost their way somewhat, and that extra half-second they need on the ball is their undoing. Never mind. Every team goes through uneven patches.
It's amazing how people hold on though TSS and has been documented endlessly. A friend of mine's mother recently passed, the day after her 62nd anniversary (she should have gone a lot earlier going by medical expertise). My father lived in Portugal and worked for a German company - I said to my mum when he was in his last what should have been hours (but ended up as days) that he was waiting for the Portugal vs Germany Euro cup game! Needless to say, an hour after that game he passed away. Sorry to hear that you're going through tough times, but what a fantastic innings your mum has had.
Let's hope so! Though to be fair our attacking can't exactly get much worse at the moment, and we have nothing to lose against Chelsea. We were very fluid under Poch, and hardly ever used long balls, so its definitely possible. Even though Lambert was supposedly our big man, we all know he was more than that, and we seemed to do well enough with Jay Rod up top.
I read these comments before watching the extended highlights back, and was expecting a poor saints performance - from the half hour Sky highlights, I thought we looked pretty good and had enough chances that on another day (when the confidence comes back) we'd have scored 3 or 4. Pelle, Djuricic and wanyama all could have scored on another day
It wasn't a poor performance, we were the better team for all but the first 15 mins of the 2nd half. I agree with you.
Except: He watched Speroni shamelessly time waste without a single gesture or word On every single goal kick or free kick that Fraser took after we'd scored, he was waving for Fraser to get moving. Odd. He completely ignored hands to the face when Palace got their single corner and someone or other pushed one of our defender's faces when they were, suddenly, trying to speed play up (no idea of names on either side). Vin
Steady! Where did I say, or even imply that I would be a capable referee? And he did see it. He went across and waved them off in different directions but didn't deal with a serious physical overreaction by a Palace player. Oh, and I suspect you've ignored the point about timewasting because you'd have to acknowledge inconsistency from a referee. Which is against the rules. You're laughably keen to take offence to any criticism of referees from other people. You need to have a more neutral view. I thought that's what referees were trained to do. Vin
I have been doing that lately but you always seem to point out the negatives, no matter how small when a referee has a good game. It's petty. The timewasting from Palace wasn't that bad.
