Southampton Banter Archive August 19 2012

19 Aug 2012 19:48:18
I do feel Fonte stepped up his game today and performed very well at times, although i do think CB is still nedded. but i thought that today Danny Fox and Kelvin Davis did let us down a little, Davis i though was a little slow to react in goal, BUT.... overall it was a great performance and am pround to be a saint.

JustASaint

It was Fonte and fox that made the mistake to set up their goals so I think they need replacing glad to see no hammond

19 Aug 2012 18:37:47
Hi,Forest fan here . sorry to crash your site. just want to say what a brilliant display of football you put on today, unlucky with the result,good luck for the season!

Cheers mate.

Disappointed to get nothing from the match, but hopefully it shows we can hold our own in the prem.

JJ

I disagree, we may not have got points but we were impressive. We saw just what we're capable of and I think that is something to take from it.

Hey Forest fan, thanks for the support mate much obliged! =0)

Thanks a lot, the first game and we've proved the doubters wrong already.

p.s you got a good left back in harding btw

Pps. Gillett, Blackstock and McGoldrick ain't bad either and Arsenal thought we were their feeder club!
SaintGazza

Have to disagree, Gillett is terrible, but McG and Blackstock are good. 2 out of 3 isn't bad.

19 Aug 2012 18:19:08
Ok, I'm going to give an opinion on the City game. I think we defended well for most of the match. Only thing is that Fonte made one or two poor clearances. Maybe slightly unlucky with the penalty but it was saved. We should have had a penalty for the Foul on Jay Rod but hey we looked very strong. I think that shows our attack is up to the challenge in the top flight. I think Fox was unlucky, wrong place wrong time for the goal by Nasri. I would like a new Centre back still and maybe a left back but I won't criticise Fox too much he did play well and got back really put in the effort. Just one error for him really so just unlucky.

Just a note. I think our attack is superb having seen that but lets just say Ramirez would be like icing on the cake.

What does everyone else think about it? Where do the rest of you think we need to make signings?

I think our defence was solid. You give city 70%+ of possession and you are going to crack eventually, it's not the defenders fault - I'd rather see a bit more ball retention in midfield. I thought all their goals were scrappy rather than our defence being ripped apart. I was disappointed with our positioning for second ball, we were winning lots of first balls but city were mopping up on the edge of the area so we struggled to clear our lines and that led to a couple of the goals.

Offensively, other than showing some clinical finishing I was disappointed. Joe Hart had nothing to do. I would like to see a little more inventiveness going forward.

Having said that, I was pleased with the performance away to the best team in the league. I am sure we will only go from strength to strength. I don't think we urgently need any signings, although one or two would be good to strengthen the squad.

JJ

First half wa sutter horse rubbish we where getting battered second half was superb started passing the ball around well and looked a lot more confident on the ball. first half i felt we looked very shakey

Danny fox and fonte aren't up to the job

19 Aug 2012 17:51:29
pleasing performance by Saints. But I am furious that we are still having to field that total liability, Danny Fox. Out of position. Bad judgement. Costs us goals and at this level, a lot of points.

He was good. The one error really in that match. Just a shame it was such a big error.

How many games will he make just the one mistake? He cost us points last season. Now we must be tight and I always fancy the opposition to score when he plays, he's crap. Thing is, most of you Fox fans don't know enough about football to actually notice the poor positioning and sloppy ball retention, you only notice glaring errors.

His positioning was good and he played a critical supporting role to Jay Rodriguez as he was needed to do so. He made several good challenges in the match. I'm not saying he's fully up to the job but he's no disaster story.

19 Aug 2012 11:26:24
Shirt numbers released, nobody assigned to 3 or 10, number 10 shirt being taken from Guly. Surely there is players lined up to fill these?! Assuming Ramirez would be given 10 and hopefully another CB to take the 3 shirt?

Numbers dont mean anything. van persie has 20 at man utd, he could have taken the number 9 from berbatov..
carragher 23 at liverpool, hazard 17 at chelsea, and there all players who are vital. so numbers mean nothing

To the person above saying "numbers mean nothing" you are a moron.

Numbers do mean something in context. When pre-existing players have preference for the numbers 3 and 10 and are not allowed to have them, it means other players are planned to have them.

For instance... Guly Do Prado has been our number 10 for the past 2 seasons. He is in our starting line up but got relegated to number 21 this season. If he has preference to be number 10, why would we move him to number 21 unless there was someone else planned to be number 10?

Granted some players have different preferences for higher numbers and also sometimes don't get their first choice numbers when clubs allocate them, but if someone is denied a number it wouldn't be just to leave it un-used.

JJ

19 Aug 2012 02:03:03
Love It... Of all the players out on loan.... Barnie pops over to the cherries for 5 months and opens his account by putting one past the Skates....At Fr****n Park! Awesome! We still love ya Barnie

Pompey fans were offering him out lol after he scored what a legend

18 Aug 2012 22:40:55
Ian Holloway has refused Matt Phillips his transfer request according to the BBC. Why is it I see an incoming argument between player and club yet again... *Sigh*