Saints Stuff

Just been watching cup final videos...

Why oh why do I do it to myself?

 

https://www.footballfancast.com/pre...southampton-midfielder-wants-feyenoord-return

Clasie wants to return to Feyenoord....always sad when things don't work out after high hopes.

 

https://talksport.com/football/prem...mber-chances-created-season-171116262188?p=16

Saints are 5th in chances created league. On one level that sounds hopeful....on the other hand, it is bloody annoying.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...rino-vows-fulfill-Southampton-s-ambition.html

Interesting read. Quite a positive spin for the Daily Fail. MP2 does sound a decent bloke and definitely a step up on Koeman who was not universally liked by players. Still needs to deliver though in terms of results. He is right though - a bit more luck against the likes of Watford, Swansea and Burnley it would look very different indeed. Similarly suprising results against Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal could easily put us back in the top half of the table.

 

I saw this headline "Southampton footballer Dušan Tadić banned from driving for six months" and thought "That's a part of his game that he could cut out", then I noticed that it relates to dRiving

 

Luck against Watford?

Umm do you mean the match in which we were thoroughly out played and a shot that went way over the bar in the middle of the second half sparked almost wild celebrations?

Don't think luck played a part there.

 

Don't exaggerate!

That shot was in the 90th minute!!

 

Nah that I'm thinking of an earlier one where we all sang 'we had a shot!'... The one in the 90th minute Watford sang it back to us

 

I am doing a crossword and the following clue is stumping me. “Get a goal”.
Begins with S, has 5 letters.
I’m not sure what a goal is, but think it has something to do with “Shooting”.
Based on what I see at SMS, all I can think of is “Scuff” or “Shank”.
Help.

 

1 goal or 20 goals, it's all the same.

 

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-11-16/world-pancreatic-cancer-day-2017-kelvin-davis

A cause close to my heart. Good on you Kelvin.

 

Ex Irish international and former Celtic and Man United player has been diagnosed with it recently. Only 36. Some harrowing rumours flying around about it but needless to say he has the toughest battle of his life on his hands.

 

Yeah survival rates for it are really low. Out of all the types of cancer, Pancreatic is a particularly nasty one.
Hopefully he can overcome it

 

That Mail article is quite disturbing. He states:

Same problem in last 20 matches
I like to dominate
Our players are suited to possession football
We could change our style but it's now important to win the way we have been playing
If you defend badly it is hard to attack. If you attack badly it is hard to defend

I'm not sure which of these worries me most. Take your pick.

 

I don't like the whole 'we need to keep doing what we're doing' comment.

 

The style we have been playing is exactly what we need to do going to Anfield and the Etihad (and any other tough away game). It is just not suited to when we play at home to the smaller teams. I think we will get battered on Saturday tbh but that's just because Liverpool's attack is very good. People say that these are the types of games Liverpool struggle with, but if you look at the games where they draw 0-0 lose 1-0 there is a common theme, they have loads of chances/shots but can't convert. All they need is 4 of their 30 shots to go on target and there is a good chance they score 3.

 

There is literally nothing there to like.

20 games and he hasnt tried to fix the problems.
We dont actually dominate teams much at all
Posession football is boring, low scoring and susceptible to last minute 1 shot on target defeats it would seem
Its very important to win the way we've been playing but it doesnt ****ing happen much. Maybe its BECAUSE of the way we've been playing?
Cats land on their feet, toast lands butter side down. If you stick buttered toast on the feet of a cat it'll hover in space doing neither (science. fact.)
Thats our season so far. Hovering between defend and attack doing neither.

I cannot for the life of me understand this manager. Defend while you attack, attack while you defend? Its bollocks. all bollocks. And it makes no sense. I'm actually starting to think the man is an idiot. Either that or he's a genius and Im the idiot. Take your pick.

 

That's all we need as well...conversion of chances. We are 5th in the EPL for chances created (just behind Spurs)...it's actual goals where we fall down. Pellegrino has the same problem as Puel....team set up to win...but doesn't. I'm sure he isn't above a few tweaks, but feels that the game plan is right and doesn't feel that major changes are required....or he feels he hasn't the players to play any other way. We may disagree, but he is the manager and his head is on the block. If management was easy, managers wouldn't get sacked left, right and centre.

 

We're not creating anywhere near as much as we were this time last year imo.

Always skeptical of these stats too, who and what defines a 'chance'?