Let me start off with a big thankyou to all the regular posters on this site who manage to keep not only me but a good squad of my mackem friends who work away from home for 9 month of the year updated on our fine football club.
I managed to watch the game today from japan(visiting girlfriend and meeting parents for 1st time) and have to say I was baffled with a lot of pdc decisions prior and during the game, the 1st being the omission of cabral, now I know this could come down to injury so I could forget that one.....
the second was switching Johnson and giacherrini over as neither is a typical take on your man and hit the byeline kinda winger and as last week showed are far more dangerous cutting inside and causing defences problems and where I feel Southampton were vulnerable today and were there for the taking on the counter,
sessegnon, now I know by regulary reading this forum has suddenly became a scapegoat alongside Larson but what did he actually do wrong today in a 1st half where we were being penned back after the early goal, he worked tackled tried to link up play on the few occasions we fed him and could have been a real asset in a stretched 2nd half when Southampton were taking chances and leaving themselves open to counter attack.
altidore, not knocking the boy as I thought he played well last week but today was poor throughout the 90 and can't for the life of me see why he lasted the full 90, he was bullied all game and didn't half go to ground a lot for a guy his size and stature and was shown in 10 mins how to stand up to defenders by young whickam !!!!
larrson, thought he played well today worked his socks off put himself about and generally kept the ball on a day when we treat it like a hot potatoe, now I know he has his boo boys although i'll never understand people getting on the backs of someone who plays for our club and no fault of his own gets picked in a position which is not his best yet still gives effort, i'm not saying he's a quality premier league player but is a good squad player of which we have been short of depth in last few years so come on boys save your griping for the kinda player who likes to tweet about our misgivings which only hurts the loyal fans who have backed him throughout his safc career and not at the people whom he is aggrieved with....
colback, thought he was solid again today and was baffled when he was brought off at a time when our defence were handling whatever Southampton could throw at us, unless of course he picked up an injury otherwise why not take off gardner who was already on a yellow card and was one of our weakest players at that stage of the game !!!!
I honestly think pdc got it wrong today and if we'd have finished the game with
westwood
celustka diakate jos colback
Johnson larrson Vaughan giach
sess
whickam/ji
we'd have been able to hurt Southampton on the counter in the last 30 and went on and won the game, now this is just my humble opinion and i'm sure many won't agree tho some will disagree solely cos they need scapegoats from year to year.
rant over lol btw thought diakate was immense today after a shaky 1st 5 mins and the defense on a whole was outstanding, again thanks to the regulars keep on posting and scouring internet for news on transfers as it is much appreciated from the lads strung out across the globe KTF and FTM
I managed to watch the game today from japan(visiting girlfriend and meeting parents for 1st time) and have to say I was baffled with a lot of pdc decisions prior and during the game, the 1st being the omission of cabral, now I know this could come down to injury so I could forget that one.....
the second was switching Johnson and giacherrini over as neither is a typical take on your man and hit the byeline kinda winger and as last week showed are far more dangerous cutting inside and causing defences problems and where I feel Southampton were vulnerable today and were there for the taking on the counter,
sessegnon, now I know by regulary reading this forum has suddenly became a scapegoat alongside Larson but what did he actually do wrong today in a 1st half where we were being penned back after the early goal, he worked tackled tried to link up play on the few occasions we fed him and could have been a real asset in a stretched 2nd half when Southampton were taking chances and leaving themselves open to counter attack.
altidore, not knocking the boy as I thought he played well last week but today was poor throughout the 90 and can't for the life of me see why he lasted the full 90, he was bullied all game and didn't half go to ground a lot for a guy his size and stature and was shown in 10 mins how to stand up to defenders by young whickam !!!!
larrson, thought he played well today worked his socks off put himself about and generally kept the ball on a day when we treat it like a hot potatoe, now I know he has his boo boys although i'll never understand people getting on the backs of someone who plays for our club and no fault of his own gets picked in a position which is not his best yet still gives effort, i'm not saying he's a quality premier league player but is a good squad player of which we have been short of depth in last few years so come on boys save your griping for the kinda player who likes to tweet about our misgivings which only hurts the loyal fans who have backed him throughout his safc career and not at the people whom he is aggrieved with....
colback, thought he was solid again today and was baffled when he was brought off at a time when our defence were handling whatever Southampton could throw at us, unless of course he picked up an injury otherwise why not take off gardner who was already on a yellow card and was one of our weakest players at that stage of the game !!!!
I honestly think pdc got it wrong today and if we'd have finished the game with
westwood
celustka diakate jos colback
Johnson larrson Vaughan giach
sess
whickam/ji
we'd have been able to hurt Southampton on the counter in the last 30 and went on and won the game, now this is just my humble opinion and i'm sure many won't agree tho some will disagree solely cos they need scapegoats from year to year.
rant over lol btw thought diakate was immense today after a shaky 1st 5 mins and the defense on a whole was outstanding, again thanks to the regulars keep on posting and scouring internet for news on transfers as it is much appreciated from the lads strung out across the globe KTF and FTM
