Match Day Thread Southampton vs Everton 15/08/2015 12.45 pm

According to BT Sport, apparently our squad is "less experienced than it was yesterday"! I assume they mean last year?

We also need to "find a way to get Bertrand back". He's injured! I'm sure we're trying our best to get him fit. (I'm not sure if he thought we hadn't bought him and just hadn't got him back on loan or if he was referring to the injury bizarrely.)

 

Targett had no protection at all.

 

Such a shame BT has Europa/CL, their pundits/ commentators are poor. The whole set up on BT is conference league to Sky.

 

First time we've conceded 3 goals since Palace in the cup, in the league was City last November Shows how spoilt we were defensively last year.

 

But what's the point of going out of Europa and finishing, say, 9th or 10th? What does that achieve?

 

Letting off steam is one thing, but critisicing the players by saying they should donate their salaries is another. Donating salaries would suggest that the players gave up and owed the fans something, when in fact they tried their hardest, but were beaten by a combination of a side in good form, poor management decisions and a newly-gelling team.

There is a long way to go, but all the pieces are coming together. There are plenty of positives

 

Bad performance but half of you need to calm down! We are gonna be a mid/lower mid table side, hopefully trying our best in the europa. No point just playing for the PL, then not trying in europa. Useless!

Targett, isnt good enough yet, having no protection in front of him isnt helping matters either! When we have Bertrand and another CB defence will be better. I think Koeman will learn quickly our best team, it certainly isnt with as many attacking players as we have now. Saying we are gonna go down is a bit ridiculous at this stage

 

5 goals conceded in 2 games. Didn't see that coming, but then we were without 4 of last season's back 5.

Everton were brilliant today. It'll probably be another 2 years before they play that well again.

 

Also, we had the same number of points this time last year, and look how that turned out

 

We're almost as bad as Barcelona...

 

Well I am big enough to admit when I am wrong & I was wrong about today. Truly amazed we won but I think we honestly deserved it. Looks like schiderlin ( or ever how you spell it) is going to be a huge miss for you. Anyway best of luck for the rest of the season.

 

We played very well today, although I would find it hard to argue we our in good form. With any luck we can use this as a platform to build from.

 

That was evident against Newcastle too. Maybe it would have been okay last season with our first choice back 4, but with so many new players in defence, especially at full back we needed to play a more solid/compact formation. I'm sure Koeman will sort it out, but if we start with the same formation and personnel again I'll be miffed. Early days and at least 1 more player to come in. Onwards and upwards.

 

You definitely deserved it. Fantastic performance today.

 

We all react spur of the moment. It's therapeutic to let it out within reason. The reaction of the 1,000s of fans that left after the third goal was also knee-jerk. Consequence of expectation and coming down from a high. People aren't used to it.

 

Reckon today Swansea will show us how bad Newcastle actually are, and that we in fact made them look semi-decent. While we adjust, though, I wish we were wasting these points on top six opposition than supposedly easier games.

 

O well. Hopefully we can sign a centre forward too.

 

everton outplayed us but they hardly had to do anything, we were shockingly bad

 

Survival in the pl .

 

Don't think we're at risk of going down. Squad's too good. Manager's too good.