**** - My thoughts on the game

Not even worth summarising this shower of ****.

****

Ratings -

Elliot - 6 - Couldn't really do much for the goals. A few decent punches and claims.

Santon - 3 - Awful defending.

Tav - 4 - Not impressed.

Willo - 3 - Awful defending for the 2nd goal. Sloppy moments throughout.

Dummet - 5 - The lad looks decent. Good pace. Didn't get forward that much though, and questionable defending at times. But I'm not gonna pick on him, he's just a youngun.

Anita - 7 - Worked hard, good on the ball.

Bigi - 6.5 - Some **** passes at times, but good work rate, good defending. Had to get up the pitch when asked.

Marv - 5 - Had to stay back to defend, couldn't get forward. Some decent play.

Ranger - 5 - Can't really blame him for anything. He threatened sometimes.

Obertan - 2 - ****.

Sammy - 1 - Also ****.

Shola - 1

MOTM - Anita.

Summary - ****.

 

Why did Marveaux get a higher rating than Ranger - Ranger was the only threat we had and played reasonably well. He was (sadly) my highlight!

 

You're right. Ranger upgraded to 5.

 

Also though Tavs wasn't that bad. I thought the players who are nowhere near the first team, Tavs, Dummett and Ranger were our better players. Santon was dreadful and think we can safely say is not a right back. Anita and Bigi were solid enough. Pity Abeid didn't show up.

 

only 7 years left lol

 

Pardew gets a 0.5 for me.

Absolute ****e for the SEASON. him and his tactics have been horrible.... His players can't execute the offside trap, and we live and die(we have died so many times) by it. 2nd Goal today, Willo moves forward but doesn't realise Left Back playing the striker on, also no communication on that. What the F?! I know sometimes you can' blame the manager for mistakes, but his subs are well documented. What's more, the team plays hoofball at an alarming rate. Let's face it, route one football is only going to find its target about 20-30% of the time, the rest of the time it's going to the keeper, the defender is going to clear it, or it's going somewhere down the sidelines where the striker can't reach, or the defender is going to win the ball....

The Point is, our players aren't even the most technically gifted, and having them hoof the ball up front isn't going to work. Today , we looked like a League One side out there against Brighton, utterly dominated.

 

Whether you like all of them or not, one thing's for sure, the 'ghost' team below wouldn't have lost to Brighton and it wouldn't be languishing where we are in the league.

Krul
R Taylor
Coloccini
S Taylor
Simpson
Ben Arfa
Tiote
Cabaye
Gutierrez
Ba
Cisse

Real shame how we've contrived to see such a promising group decimated one way or another this term...

 

SAFC ply a full strength side and manage a lucky draw with Bolton.
epic fail you div.... Lol.

 

lol

 

We were far from full strength and dominated the game -check the stats fool!