A few seasons ago a spanking of Everton at St Marys changed our fortunes...More of the same again please!
But their sides have With you on this one - cannot see where a goal is going to come from and I think they have enough to get at least one.
just make sure you lock your car up before the match. Everton fans are more likely to steal things than any other fans that visit st marys this season and there's nothing worse than having your car nicked whilst you were watching the football
do i detect a slight deterioration of optimism among saints fans? Not enough goals? Is that the problem? Or is it talk of consortiums or selling our players / strikers? Hmmmm? or is it just the sad truth that we were preferred it in league 1 smashing teams every Saturday. Oh to play on a Saturday and turn up with no ticket **** off premier league
Pretty sure it's caused by a poor patch of form. Every team has them from time to time. We will recover. Of course league 1 days had advantages such as it being easier and cheaper to get tickets. But if a team ever did not want to improve and compete as high up as possible then they may aswell just cease to exist. One of the things that makes football, and indeed all sports, so captivating and entertaining is the competitive nature of the game. Without ambition and desire to succeed there is no competitiveness. Every fan, player, manager and team should want to achieve as much as possible regardless of prices, having to suffer the odd bad season, getting smashed now and then against bigger teams etc.
That is quite a plausible scenario unfortunately. On the other hand, if we can score first and force them to come out of their shells...
I remember when Everton visited us at the Dell when away fans would pass behind the family section. The stewards went along us ladies at the back and told us to keep our handbags safe.
Fingers crossed mate, I'm pretty sure they'll be happy for us to have the majority of the ball. So it's about fashioning a chance and taking it. Tadic out is a big blow. Boufal has to start for me.
I don't generally have a problem with the possession style of football we play, but I do share the same concerns as many others, at our current inability to score goals. Our slow build up is so easy to defend against, and it is my belief that we have become far too rigid, with regards to positioning. I mentioned on another thread how our midfielders (I would exempt Davis from this) just don't gamble, by running into the space between the opponents back four and midfield, preferring to step back for a square pass or a backward pass. This generally means our front players are always having to drop deeper for the ball, which in itself wouldn't be too bad if a midfielder then ran beyond him, but it rarely happens. Actually, it would be nice to see a pass made to a midfielder who is actually running forward, and not standing still, which is another bugbear with me. For me it's quite simple. If your team isn't loaded with players who can go past an opponent, from a standing start, then you need to develop a system where you run into the right areas, to receive a simple pass that takes opponents out of the game. As others have already said. Everton will probably just let us have the ball, and hit us on the break.
Quick reminder. Sunday 27 November 4.30pm Southampton v Everton (Sky Sports) Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: S Long, H Lennard Fourth official: R East
I too miss the happy clappy threads! This must be the doom and gloom thread! All of our players are capable of scoring a goal! We will win 6-1 yes 6-1! we'll score goals from every part of the pitch, 6 different goal scorers! I'm just not having oh we'll lose 1 nil - we'll pass it about for 90 minutes and Everton will catch us on the break. At the start of the season it was oh this diamond doesn't work, then, diamonds are forever, now oh this diamond doesn't work. I'm guessing Claude has a few ideas beyond us football geniuses!
I did have a few words ready for Ron until we inexplicably lost yesterday. Well good old Ronald is coming back to visit his dear old friends on the South Coast. He was probably the best manager we ever had and ever will have. We miss him so much. We miss his honestly and gently spoken words in his news conferences, we miss his honesty and his team tactics, we miss his honesty and his team selections and lastly we miss his honesty and his happy team dressing room. Is there any way we can entice him back for good? I’m lying Konman! How’d you like it you lying fat bastard! You’re going to get one hell of a reception! (and you will have the honour of it all focussed on you because there aren’t any ex Saints in your team - you couldn’t take any with you because none of them liked you!) We’re going to murder you! (and we’ll play a few academy players so you can’t work out our tactics – you know, the ones you’ve never seen play) That 5-0 loss to Chelsea is going to feel a lot less like a nightmare when we’ve finished with you!
Hojbjerg Clasie JWP and Davis are all about the same level and all bang average in prem terms. None of them can shoot properly in open play and none are creative. Davis at his best can play a good through ball. Mostly they play sideways because that is the limit of their capability. I live in hope that JWP kick on at some point. None of them are awful either they are just average. Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk
Hope you're not driving from Northampton to Southampton tomorrow fella... you may be a tad disappointed
