Match Day Thread Blackburn (A) 25/10/25 15:00

Saints: hold my beer.

 

They'll likely drop it on your foot and smash it into a foaming mass of glass shards

 

This team cant handle the pressure so tactics are irrelevant!

 

McCarthy
Mads Edwards wood manning
Jander Charles
Fellows Azaz scienza Armstrong

0-0 or 1-0 defeat. SR won’t do anything if we lose. They only pull the trigger when our season is well and truly over.

This season is producing similar feelings to last season.

 

We can, and stop calling me Surely?

 

Mads is injured

 

I’d have Archer over Armstrong. He can’t play centrally and we lose any form of a central attacking threat when he’s moved there in previous games

 

In a world where we actually develop into a good team, I think Fellows is the better option on the right than Armstrong because he's a better player imo and will be more involved in our attacking patterns of play. Armstrong however has to stay in the team for the moment because he is the most likely goal scorer we have, but he has to stay in the team coming off the right (or left).

Archer is low on confidence, if he wasn't I'm sure he slots that 1v1 rather than just blasts it. I think we just have to give him a sustained run as our striker and it's not like he's keeping a better option out of the side. Don't think it's worth moving Armstrong from his strongest position to play centrally tbh, it may get Fellows in the team but it reduces Armstrongs goalscoring and we desperately need that right now.

The obvious thing to try, as has been said many, many times on here is to bring in more creativity (and through balls which will suit Archer) into the middle of the pitch and that means dropping a CB and playing Azaz or Scienza as that number 10. I know it's been our woeful finishing and then awful moments of 'defending' at the back that have cost us results, but the problem isn't just that we are missing good chances, it's that we only create chances in short spells of a game. If we are struggling to put chances away, we just need to create as many chances as we can throughout games and with more chances we surely score a few more goals. Other than changing manager, bringing in a free-agent striker, or black magic, it's all we can do really so I hope we see it on Saturday.

 

Macca
Mads
Wood
Edwards
Manning
Charles
Jander
Fellows
Scienza
Azaz
Armstrong

No idea who plays as CF

 

It's not as much fun as that.

 

Chilco banned me from replying in the Will still thread, so adding my thoughts here.

I’m not sure we should sack still tbh. I don’t rate him so far, I think it was a bad appointment and we need more experience, but we can’t just keep changing manager.

Plus other managers (and players) leave us and instantly improve.

The problem is higher up. Something is rotten inside the club.

I am beginning to think the decline continues until SR leave at this point. That may take another relegation and the owners selling up.

If we lose to Blackburn however, his position is probably untenable.

 

It's fair enough to be able to air these views on here, but you are preaching to the converted, we know all of this, and are powerless to do anything about it.
Perhaps a personal letter to each of the individuals that concern you might get a better response?

 

What are you on about?

 

Why are you asking? It's fairly obvious I would have thought. You have concerns about the future and current state of the Club, so ask the people who are responsible for the debacle, not a bunch of posters, who are not responsible for the mess and can't have any effect on the outcome.

 

Didn't Armstrong just score a perfect centre forward’s goal on Tuesday night?

He can play as a central striker, if we play through balls, but not if we just lump high crosses into him.

 

Yep. Or organise a protest. Several people on here would join, and plenty from SW and Tw*tter.

 

It occurs to me that it is possible that there isn't a person on the Planet that could manage us out of the current mess, there may not be a striker alive today that could play for us succesfully and there is perhaps not an Ownership Group in existence that could rescue us. So for the time being we will have to put up with what we have.got. Cheer up.

 

As far as I remember, the only organized protest that had any effect was in the Rupert Lowe era. We (Saints fans) mostly sit back and pray, the only time that that has worked was when the Liebher era came to fruition. Miracles take time, the impossible takes much longer. It's taken 5 Centuries for the King to pray with the Pope, so don't give up.