Southampton Banter Archive March 16 2015

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16 Mar 2015 11:54:56
Fraser Forster ummmmm. He is undoubtedly a great shot stopper but whether you like it or not he is rubbish coming off his line . Yesterday he was man of the match but he was mainly responsible for the first goal and got Fonte in trouble a few times with indecision . The centre halves have to have confidence that the keeper is in control of his six yard box. Fraser hasn't got this part to his game yet, when he does then you can call him world class until then he is just a great shot stopping keeper who makes the crowd and the defence very nervous on set pieces . I can't remember him actually saving a set piece free kick or shot from outside the box this season.

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16 Mar 2015 15:23:39
Early in the season I defended Forster from your criticism Chris, however I have to say I was wrong to a degree. His decision-making isn't to the level we need it to be, he's got terrific reactions at close quarters but he definitely still needs to improve on collecting crosses and his positioning for free kicks. He has all the potential to be the best English keeper, just needs to work on his weaknesses much like David De Gea has done at Manchester United.

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16 Mar 2015 21:22:45
I agree. Fraser Forster is not the finished article, however having said that, looking around the other EPL teams there isn't many keepers that I would swap him for. We must remember also that he's still relatively young for a keeper. They seem to improve with age so hopefully he will work on his weaknesses and maybe in a year or so he'll be the best keeper in England. Then we go back to other teams wanting to prise him away from us. He obviously has ambitions to be England's no.1 and would want to be playing regular European football so could become yet another player that we struggle to keep at Saints if we can't provide that.

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18 Mar 2015 08:34:51
Seems like we have a bored person intent on disliking any post criticising Fraser Forster. You don't think Fraser himself uses this site do you?

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16 Mar 2015 10:58:41
Yesterday's result should be a massive boost to the team heading into the next four fixtures against Burnley, Everton, Hull and Stoke all of which we should be winning realistically. The creative play in the first half yesterday was terrific, it had pace, good movement by our attacking players to find space and it really put a world-class defence under immense pressure in Chelsea. Mané has really begun to be dangerous and ambiguous to defenders which is the type of player we have been missing, once he is more efficient with his shooting he may well turn out to be one of the best players we've ever had.

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16 Mar 2015 11:53:31
Back to how we know this team can play-great performance. Only criticism IMO is that our strength on the bench was not shown when we made our first two subs. RoKo will deal with it, I am sure, and remind players that come on late in the game against a team who had a hard game midweek that they must make an instant impact.

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