Southampton Banter Archive August 27 2015

27 Aug 2015 22:40:51
The worry is we're waiting for injured players to return.all defensive players, we're waiting for transfers in. again only rumoured to be defensive players. The reason we've succeeded in past seasons was the high energy, high press intense game played with what seemed two players, hassling defenders, chasing every ball. can you see tadic, pelle etc doing that!? Plus that game / tactic protected what I'm sorry but if you're honest has never been a strong defence. I know I'm going to get clean sheets, best defence blabla thrown at me but when things are down saints defence has always reverted to the panic Sunday league, sliced clearances, mis kicks and so on. I would stick reed in full time, he still carries some of that high intensity game about him and purchase another out and out goalscorer ( a fit Michael Owen esque would do ) start running for each other and working for each other, at the moment we look all lost at sea

27 Aug 2015 23:06:01
for me we need Charlie austin

27 Aug 2015 22:12:57
Im sorry but that was a shocking result. Again no goals, come on guys time to admit we need another striker to help Pelle with the work load. Two words, Charlie Austin!!

28 Aug 2015 07:03:27
What's the point in buying another striker if we're not making the chances? We need creativity. We need someone to play in that hole. The long ball tactic might have worked if we had someone running on from midfield but our running was all wrong. It worked once, with Davis, who isn't exactly known for his high goalscoring rate from midfield. We just don't look like creating anything. The gap between midfield and strike force is huge. I was one of those "rose-tinted" bunch before the season got underway. Well from what I've seen it actually looks pretty desperate. I won't start slagging players. But now that I've seen how much the club's around us, above us and below us have spent I am concerned. Stoke look a serious proposition after their purchases. We look too static, too predictable, and low on confidence and ideas from front to back. Yes we are missing first team players. But the formation was badly wrong last night, the tactics were horrifically wrong. Our shape has been poor all season and doesn't look like getting us goals. We were able to remedy that last year by having a solid defence and riding our luck a little. But if you don't create, can't score, and are leaking poor goals, then you're on for a whipping. Last night's game was relegation form.

27 Aug 2015 22:41:19
The way we are playing is painful to watch, no effort and no conviction, all we are doing is hoofing it up to pelle in which he wins 1/10. We are becoming so predictable, the opposite to last season.

27 Aug 2015 22:54:50
To quote the manager: "It was our best performance of the season."

That should be the statement that really sends shivers down your spine.

I remember Pochettino trying to take the credit for Saints' good start to last season with the remains of "his squad" and thinking what a cheeky git he was. But he might have been onto something. From the second half of the season up until now, Koeman's Saints - and it surely is his mess of a side now - have been progressively getting worse.

It's worrying, to say the least. There's a whiff of the Michael Laudrups about this: a steller first season, cashing in on the previous manager's hard work, and then found wanting as soon as things got difficult.

27 Aug 2015 23:11:07
OMG what a crock of s*1t

28 Aug 2015 00:05:11
Something is stirring, koeman doing it on purpose to show board we NEED quality signings, who knows all I know is 1 cb + clasie will not sort this mess, sort it out ffs

28 Aug 2015 00:06:24
Ronald must be still suffering from the after effects of the anaesthetic if he thought that was our best performance of the season so far . If that is what he really thinks we are in big trouble , it was mentioned that the team has gradually deteriorated from the days of MoPo and I agree , we could be in serious problems if things don't change pretty soon.

28 Aug 2015 02:12:21
Saving my judgement for tomorrow but Pelle wins 9/10

28 Aug 2015 13:42:45
How many games have saints won this year (since january)? I think other posters have asked this in the past, it equates to relegation (league wise). There has been a decline in Saints performances for a while now, and our quality of recruitment has not been on par with those that have left. Something needs to change

27 Aug 2015 21:49:07
Koeman is the main man to blame, playing with 5 defenders? What happened to your 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3? No creativity, JWP not ready for first team football. Koeman needs to sort it out. Lacklustre and no effort.

27 Aug 2015 21:44:20
Maybe some of you will now take off your rose tinted glasses.

We are an absolute disgrace, we look like a league 1 team.

We do not have the squad to compete in any competition.

Koeman doesn't have a clue.

Livid is an understatement. Our odds on being relegated have dropped from 40-1 to 19-1 and rightly so.

We will be relegated

27 Aug 2015 20:42:04
2 second half goals with no reply it is then. COME ON BOYS!

27 Aug 2015 20:33:19
Saints not creating anything again . Why can't Les Reid see that we cannot win games unless we score goals?

28 Aug 2015 07:58:27
Time to start spending some of that money mr reed we need two or three in quickly

27 Aug 2015 15:07:06
Bit worried koeman wants us to be more direct tonight, I think half the problem is we seem to be hoofing from the back rather than playing.

27 Aug 2015 15:54:46
It will work so long as he has someone playing off his shoulder to collect the ball and the full backs get down the wings to stretch their defence.

27 Aug 2015 17:39:11
They spent the last 20 minutes or so hoofing it long at Pelle in the first leg and it was pitiful. They were playing much better earlier on in the second half, passing the ball around at pace.

Hopefully that's what Koeman means by being more direct.

27 Aug 2015 19:43:43
If the line up for tonight is a serious statement of wanting to progress then I for one will be amazed if we get through. I just cannot see where the goals will come from.

27 Aug 2015 20:24:52
can't wait until Ryan B is back in the team, we need to sort left back out

27 Aug 2015 21:52:09
We are the new Stoke!

27 Aug 2015 00:32:19
New poster here.
Vic is good at breaking up play but his technical ability in my opinion is poor when he has to pass the ball more than 5 yards or shoot. I remember watching the game at home last season against Everton and Harrison made more tackles than the whole of the Everton team put together. Harrison doesn't have the physical presence of Vic but I feel with the right players around him he should be given a chance. Vic is so called ill maybe tomorrow would be a good chance for the lad to start. It would be interesting to hear what other saints fans think

27 Aug 2015 13:14:55
Totally agree Sammie. I was impressed by Reed almost every time I saw him play last season for U21 or first team. He gets stuck in and passes better than Vic. He deserves some game time

27 Aug 2015 17:29:07
Wanyama is such an underrated player by a lot of saints fans, mainly 'cause most don't understand what he does or expect him to be something he's not. He's not on the pitch to play fancy balls or score 10+ a season, he's there to break up the play & bully the opposition, which he does very well. most compare him to Schneiderlin because they're both 'defensive midfielders' but just like there are strikers there are different types of DM's, Schneiderlin, now Romeu and/Clasie are the 'fancy' ones, Wanyama is the 'simple' one

He's not irreplaceable by any means, there are lots out there like him but he is and has been just as important to the defence as Schneiderlin was and alderweireld supposedly was