So close for saints in the final minute as Guly's piledriver is parried by Gerken, but Puncheon and Rodriguez cannot force the ball in. 2 minutes of added time.
Was following it on OTIB as well, but what they were saying about Morris and what I saw of him on Saturday is impressive
Bit annoyed we couldn't hold on, but we've lost only 1 game in the pre season and Joe to be fair it was the first game, the improvement starts now!
It wasn't a win, but I feel this was our best result so far. We're mixing it with the kind of team we want to be with and that experience is invaluable going forward for our fitness. If we can hold Southampton and play some great football then I think we might just be able to hang on in this division. Another signing or two and we're potentially mid-table certainties.
Woah, are many thinking this negatively? I know after three consecutive years of horrid starts in an ever increasingly competitive Championship we have no real cause for hope but this is different. We've got a manager with experience, unlike Millen, who's already had a good amount of time at the club last season, unlike Coppell, and probably has his best years in management ahead of him, unlike Johnson. Unless we're in the bottom three after ten games I wouldn't think relegation is even a possibility.
Tbh im glad we have Man City away and not you boys on the first game of the season, well played last night and all the best
"crowd 2605" Look what ****wit put up.. Thats over half their normal attendance for a league game, in a meaningless friendly against a side with no real draw, who we have just played (off the park) twice in the last season.. Can they actually get any ****ter than they are now?
If anything I was trying to positive. Relegation is a definite possibility for us. We barely held on last season and if Portsmouth didn't go tits up we'd have stayed up by a single point. I'm happy to see that we've shifted a lot of dead weight, but until the season kicks off I don't think we can say for sure whether we've improved or not. If we haven't then by logic we're favourites for relegation outside of the new teams coming up. It's why I thought Scotland was a poor choice for a pre-season tour. We needed early signings and we needed tough opposition to put the team through its paces. More than anything it shows a lack of new ideas from McInnes if we go back and forth to Scotland for players, staff and pre-season games. However, I think we've done well in the transfer market and ideally we'd shift a few more players and land some more in the loan market.
