Me too! Stonking head. Blocked nose. Croaky throat. Just got dressed when the dentist called to cancel my appointment. Could have stayed put.
Exactly. I've said so many times that moaning would start as soon as we didn't look like keeping/improving on a league position. Short term vision.
An interesting read, glad everyone is in agreement now! I have been studying the statistics of my personal involvement in games this season. Unfortunately the two games I failed to keep track of at all until they were over, because of other commitments, were the 4-0 against Arsenal on Boxing Day, and last night's game. This has led me into a deep moral conflict. I have to find a way of attending games, or watching them on TV, without actually noticing what is going on. Is this possible?
Sadly I missed last nights game. I missed my connecting flight in France (the french can't do anything on time) so instead of landing at 4.30pm at Heathrow I had to get on another flight which didn't land until after 10pm. Am I right they played a 3-5-2? Presumably Targett was in Front of Bertrand? I stayed up to watch MOD but fell asleep so didn't see Tadic's goal.I woke up to the manager chat after. I thought Lineker and co would at last discuss parts of the game but they talked about another match mainly!!! So I was a bit peed off. Why is our games so often with in the last couple of highlights shown all the time. It surely can't have been the worst game of the night........well can it have been? Nice to see us win and fairly convincingly by all accounts, I'm told we should have had a hatful of goals..............
I was also out last night and only found out the score later. I think I must, as I have always suspected, be the centre of the universe.
The chat programme on 5 Live between 10 and 10:30 mentioned Saints once (apart from reeling off the results) and it was very much a "oh, yeah, Southampton won too," throwaway line. Absolutely no discussion or even a comment about the game. I know there were a lot of other talking points last night but come on! To be fair, they didn't mention the Stoke match either. We're just not fashionable enough...
So why aren't you called skinnyletiss.....you can't change my mental image of you at this stage of our relationship.
But the important thing was that the appointment was cancelled. Cancelled dental appointments (unless you are in pain) are the stuff of dreams.
The term should be "Happy Clapper", the alternative is a "Neggie", the former stay positive no matter how bad things seem, the latter are the ones that have been sowing all of the seeds of doubt, doom and misery, they never appear when the Saints have had a win to give credit where and when it's due. They are, still (mostly) Saints fans with an equal desire for success, they just go about it in a different way, they seem to think the more you moan and criticise (they call it constructive), the quicker things will be done to rectify the situation, when in truth the more they moan, the worse morale gets and the slippery slope to oblivion surely follows. (I may be exaggerating a little and I hate labelling!).
Fans on forums only affect themselves really.....except when the media pick up on it as facts. And happy fans don't make such good copy as upset fans. The problem is that one person soon gets reported as if it is a majority view. All this talk about parents being unhappy at the Academy probably represents one or two....contented people don't speak out as much.
I didn't really see Betrand as a 3rd centre back. I thought he was more of a left back playing narrow (a bit like Fox- oops), and Targett was more of a wide midfielder than a left back. But its irrelevant, whatever the actual system, it worked well. We were lucky in one sense, that Watford wanted to play football all over the pitch which led to them giving the ball away in ridiculous situations. Disappointing that we didn't really make the most of it with some more sloppy finishing. I have been trying to come up with a MotM but I end up making a case for almost all of them (apart from Fraser who only made one save - rubbish - and, by the way, how stressful it must be with Gomes as your goalkeeper, from sublime to ridiculous in the blink of an eye. Is it against the law for goalkeepers to actually catch the ball these days?). A good night all round apart from the fact that I now have trench foot and pneumonia.
I haven't watched the second half so I can't comment, but it seems that he tactic panned out ok in the end, so there's quite a big possibility that I was wrong. Been there before, and that won't stop me giving my opinion on players and tactics, that's why we're here for.
Radio Solent quoted a statistic that before the game Gomes had punched the ball 31 times more than any other GK in the Premier, the tactic is very effective as long as you don't punch it straight to someone like Zaha!
Absolutely! Being wrong is actually great, because it means you learn something new. I specialise in being wrong!
Can't blame Gomes for punching last night; would have been like trying to catch a greased frog in those conditions.
