After the the socks they start with Southampton and have great praise for us. Nice to hear. [video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20388615[/video]
Amazing what one good result can do isn't it? Everyone saying we're dead certs for relegation, then "they could do well this season".
It is a bit daft as per usual with the media. A couple of games ago our players were walking time-bombs on the pitch who couldn't function together in the slightest and the only thing we worked together to create was mistakes, we were doomed to finish bottom and set a record for most goals conceded. Two games later we are a well-oiled machine that is going to do well! Hopefully the players feel the same.
Ha Ha...I couldn't believe Hanson's comments on MOTD, haven't heard so many positive adjectives fired out of his mouth for ages. Okay, he was a bit down on Gazza, but that's understandable. When's Lawro going to compare us to Barcelona? ;-)
Lol. Difference is Hanson can eat humble pie. He is willing to admit when he's wrong, and willing to make fun of his own statements 'you will never win anything with kids' Lawrenson is the opposite and will dig and dig rather than admit errors. He's probably still thinking up something to cover the ITK Gaston Remark. I like Hansen though. don't understand why so many don't. Good Pundit IMO (both when he slates us and when he praises us)
I like Hansen too, I think his analysis is good and no-nonsense, he reads more into the games than others who will just look who's scored the most goals and then show a few highlights of the goals and other moments, and he has a good dry wit.
Hansen can come across as arrogant. People don't like arrogance, even when it can be backed up. I'm a bit disappointed that Lee Dixon isn't a pundit for the Beeb anymore. He was the best of their bunch, IMO. Obviously, I can't speak for SKY. BTW, Colin Murray may be a tad Saints biased, as he admitted the other week on MOTD3 that he has Saints supporting relatives.
He was better than MOTD2 lousy staff, and certainly hes more insightful than saggy face himself. On MOTD2 it was suggested that we won becuase QPR were terrible, they were too defensive etc. Said very little about us outplaying them for the whole match and even suggested that we looked like we were going to lose for much of the second half? They really dont watch much of the games.. Anyhow, Nice to see someone watch us, and actually merit us on what we do well, rather than the lazy punditry of we just use Lambert and everyone else does nothing! If anything Lambert has been rather ineffective when compared to our midfield, certainly in recent weeks.
Did you mean MOTD1 staff..? Murray and the pundits were fulsome in their praise on MOTD2 and just added heaps to it on MOTD3. The message seems to be getting across to pundits, in general, about the Together As One concept, although nobody mentions it by name. They talk about the remarkable spirit within the side, and Murray, for example, has Adkins down as a miracle worker. BTW, I would not say that Lambert is ineffective. He plays well even when he doesn't score.
No on two, there was so much jibberish about how Lambert won the game for us, when that wasnt the case. Hansen on MOTD praised us immensely.
That's odd because I watched all of the various MOTDs and every pundit said Saints were the superior team and, if anything, marked out Puncheon as the stand out. However, all of them talked about Southampton as the team.
Forgot to mention, I was quite taken aback when Dion Dublin admitted that his former manager Ron Atkinson used to have a bottle of brandy and one of whisky and a line up of shot glasses, and used to ask his players to choose a shot before they left to go out on the pitch, if they wished to. Dublin always chose brandy. Anybody else slightly gobsmacked by that..?
Can't say I found it very surprising. Also wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't unique to Atkinson. Won't see it these days in the the times of Dieticians and Yoga though!
How come i got an advert before the video? (which is now paused while i question it!) This is BBC right. There should be no adverts :-(
