Match Day Thread Northampton Town vs Saints - Tuesday, August 12 - 19:45 KO

Hahaha, just listened to it. He really did sing it!

 

It looked worse in real time to be fair. Also as others have said he is trying too hard - it is not natural. Once one goes in, I think he will relax. I also miss (pun intended) those 'Che' moments from our game, where we all feel we could be footballers

 

Just watched it and you're kind of right in that it was behind him. I still feel a top striker would have contorted their hips or whatever they do to get the shot away, but yeah, fair. The ball in to him wasn't crap though either; could have just done with a tiny bit more pace on it. Just one of those things.

Props to Archer though who got the move going and made an excellent through ball to BBD. Just pointing it out because he got a lot of flak last night.

 

Oh yeah, he still should have scored but it wasn't as much of a sitter as I first feared.

 

Totally agree that he needs to get one, then we'll start to see what he has about him. I actually thought some of his link up play last night was pretty good, and he's a physical presence. I don't think he's going to be Rickie Lambert, but then I don't think he's going to be Mara either.

 

Draw for the 2nd round is tonight around 7.20pm.

 

I thought Archer was bright throughout

 

He had a few feinted moves early on where he clearly wasn’t on the same wavelength as those around him. Hopefully it’ll come good and gel in time.

 

oh Che! As Ralph said, he made the hard look easy but the easy look hard. If this lad scores his first goal with a 30 yard lob over a top keeper we’ll know we have found the new Che Adams! Mind you, I’ll be happy with 3 yard tap-in as I’m sure he would be. Newsflash. He didn’t turn down a lucrative offer from Real Madrid to come to us. Hopefully he’s a work in progress, but giving him grief won’t improve his performance

 

Just got a flash to watch extended highlights of last nights game. That’s this evening’s insomnia treatment sorted.

 

He was clearly the better of the front three. It’s not easy being stuck out on the wing. He needs to play through the middle and have through balls put in for him to run on to.

 

Yep he needs the middle. Arma needs to be on the wing.

 

Pace for days. Decent if we play against high defence. Against low block probably need some height.

 

Ball numbers for the draw.

Bromley away would be my first choice but a few other potential decent ones like Wycombe, Cambridge and the winner of Exeter/Cheltenham.

Would say I'd want Wimbledon but doubt I'd get a ticket.

1 AFC Bournemouth

2 AFC Wimbledon

3 Brentford

4 Brighton & Hove Albion

5 Bristol City

6 Bromley

7 Cambridge United

8 Cardiff City

9 Charlton Athletic

10 Coventry City

11 Fulham

12 Millwall

13 Norwich City

14 Oxford United

15 Plymouth Argyle

16 Reading

17 Southampton

18 Swansea City

19 West Ham United

20 Wolverhampton Wanderers

21 Wycombe Wanderers

22 Cheltenham Town or Exeter City

 

Sods law we get Wolves or something grim like that

 

Not sure why they're in the southern part of the draw but never mind.

 

Let’s defeat all the Hamptons.

 

Based on who's left in it presumably. Would be a dreadful tie though.

I'm half expecting away to Brentford where we'll almost certainly concede 3 goals.

 

West Ham away for Fernandes debut

 

Nah, I am sure he played at the London Stadium last year, so it wouldn't be his debut with us there