Match Day Thread Norwich V Saints 2/1/2016 KO 15:00

Beefy - you cannot leave us all hanging like that... any more news - at least a little hint - we all promise to keep it a secret

 

Indeed. Clasie and at least one of JWP and Davis will be subbed at some point during the game, you've got to assume. And given the options available, it would have to be Reed to replace one of them.

Reed, Mane and one other to be our three subs. Most likely Gaston, but potentially Seager or Yoshida.

 

Late to a team meeting.

 

Hasn't he done it before?

 

Not for the first time...

 

Yes

 

Thought so. Some one needs to buy him a new alarm clock.

 

Oh goody, is it agent related or just a minor indiscretion?

 

Late again?

 

I want to say it was the Everton home game last season, when we won 3-0 (which ironically was probably the last time we had so many kids on the bench, as well as being Reed's best game for us).

 

I thought more 4-2-3-1 with Davis the middle of the 3. Tadic doesn't usually play through the middle he tends to start wide and drift in-field. Wouldnt be set positions for the three I would guess

 

The worry is that our side does not scream of goals :s

 

I said that against Arsenal...

(I also said it against Watford...)

 

Let's hope I am completely incorrect! The league keeps showing how little there is between most sides so we will have to hope for a quick goal!

 

So Mane was originally in the side, would guess JWP has come in for him....will probably be the usual 4-3-3 / 4-2-3-1 type formation, with JWP taking Mane's right wing position

 

Nope, it was Liverpool at home last season. Almost worked in our favour that day, had Djuricic (who was presumably the Mane replacement) either shot or been given a penalty.

 

I understand the need for discipline, but can't we just dish out fines, rather than weaken the first team, further?

Have to be honest and say that the cynic in me, sees this as the beginning of the end of Mane playing for Saints.
Did he threaten to go on strike, and agitate for a move, when we were chasing him?

 

It certainly encourages bids & unsettling behaviour from other clubs.

 

Either Davis or JWP will have to give cover to Martina. While we wait for him to unleash that shot.

 

Think it is as simple as it looks...he's been late. Koeman won't tolerate it....not starting is the thing that hurts players and shows how seriously he takes it. Good on him I say...players have too much power these days. He'll come on as a sub later anyway.