Jury's out for me. I think Hughton has done wonders in defence and bought in quality players like Bassong, Whittaker and Anthea. This is the basis of a team that can survive in this league. On the other hand he doesn't seem to have ideas to break down defences and create quality chances. Would I be happy to play like this for the rest of the season and survive? yes, for me grinding out points at this end is the priority. Would I be happy to start next season the same way? no. Still, let's not overreact. Saints are a good team with some expensively signed talent in there. A draw against teams below you isn't the end of the world. Games against Sunderland, Stoke, Villa, Reading, Wigan, Swansea and West Brom offer the chance of some points. We may carry on as we are or we may suddenly find a formula that works and sprint over the line rather than crawl over it. Who knows? I've been following this team too long to make any predictions as to what's around the next corner. OTBC Get behind the lads and the manager.
Christ what a horrible thread this has turned in to. The football we're playing isn't the most exciting, but comparing it to Stoke?! Come on guys, really? From what I saw we were able to play some reasonable stuff, it's not the best football in the world but we had wingers breaking in to the box and drilling in low crosses. It wasn't relentless hoof ball, and Hughton has never managed teams that way. Also Southampton are a decent side this season capable of playing good stuff and scoring plenty of goals. I think everyone needs to have an hour away from the keyboard and think about things.
Vietnam, you have NEVER heard CH tell his players they are "crap". You have NEVER heard him say all the players they play against are so much much better than them. You have NEVER heard him tell his players that they can't win against team X or team Y. Do you think for a moment he told them that they couldn't beat Man U, or Arsenal, or Tottenham before they went out and did just that? Or Everton a fortnight ago? I suppose Holty missed the penalty because CH had told him beforehand that he couldn't convert a penalty if he tried? Too many players today had poor games, that's all. Fortunately Bunn and the back four didn't.
Phil Thompson reckoned that Holt should have been booked for a dive rather than giving him a penalty so I guess justice was done!
Since when has a genuine disagreement equalled 'fabricated rubbish'? What is the point of a forum if we are not allowed to disagree and discuss? In my view, the weather and pitch won today, with Southampton in second place, and we were some distance behind. This view is held sincerely about the game today, and should not be interpreted as a definitive judgement on our team, our management, the fans or the great wheel of fortune.
That would be true if the judgement was made solely on one game, its not though, its been made on a collective of rubbish performances throughout the season.
It was a game affected by dreadful conditions - however, unlike the dire games against the Nukes and Fulham where we at least deserved a point I was relieved with the point today and thought we got out of gaol against a very good, neat and sharp Saints team. Let's face it, it if wasn't for the excellence of Bunn today (why not MOTM ???) the solidness of Bassong and Anthea and some very poor finishing by the Saints we could have been thrashed today so a point was a good result all things considered. The conditions clearly were an influence but too many players had bad games today and I'm relieved and grateful for another point towards the limp to safety.
By God your team is so **** you have to come over here clutching at straws, you both are SERIOUSLY deluded!
No they weren't -they were very good imo and gave one of the better performances here this year - they should have buried us and 0-5 wouldn't have been unfair. We forced Boruc into two saves all game - one a Snoddy free kick and the other a Holt penalty - Bunn made at least half a dozen excellent saves and walked the MOTM in my opinion. I know it was hard watching the game through the driving rain and sleet but to say the Saints were very poor is a load of bollocks so I guess you must have looked away quite a bit. We were the very poor side and got lucky with our scrambled point.
You're wrong there, Dave...Irdan is actually a closet Glory Hunting ManUre fan, spends all his time on the ManUre forum sucking up to them...probably another reincarnation of the dear departed Matth/Meth...
Quite a few posts on here are making the pink 'in posters seem reasonable. For goodness sake people just look at where we could be! There are 7 teams in the Premier League worse off than us. Quite a few of these teams are moaning less yet have a smaller chance of surviving than us. There are 85 professional football teams (13 in the Premier League and 72 in the football league) who would love and appreciate to be in the position we are in now. I would have thought that these recent poor seasons in the Championship and a season in League 1 would make fans more appreciative. It's a bit like people in the UK not appreciating what they have in comparison to the millions in Africa who have nothing.
If you can describe any point Southampton were incisive or showed any real ingenuity I'll stand corrected. They didn't, not throughout the whole game, its why they created two good chances in 90 mins despite dominating possession. They were rubbish, we were even worse. I don't think people realise how bad we were.
Is it true dave that carrow rd sales of horlicks have gone through the roof at half time? I've said it once and id say it again, we told you that who-tons tactics are to kill the game of football, take away that one run of fluked results and you are relegation material.
