So after Saturdays debacle I again have the honour of starting the build up and matchday thread.
VVD back in?
Tadic Out?
anybody else in or out?
The Hokey Cokey Saints team.
1-2 away win JWP free kick goes in the top left hand corner and Hoedtgets his first goal header from corner delivered by JWP. their goal a hoof upfield which bounces infront of Forster who dives out of the way to allow it to roll into the net.
0 voters
2:2
4 own goals…
Tadic is a senior pro and top earner.
He needs to start.
Always find a place for your best players.
He can’t be any worse than our present goalkeeper.
Mix it up a bit and catch the opposition out.
1-0
I’m feeling low about Saints right now. I can’t see us beating anyone
I recommend that this game is played behind closed doors so that the melts don’t get upset about an off game.
If Burnley beat Palace today and they sack de Boer we will have new manager syndrome to overcome next week.
If they dont sack him we will have then honour of trying to get him the sack whilst Palace team could be fighting to save his job or not if the players have already decided they cannot play for him.
Right now, I’d settle for a turgid 0-0 draw.
Obviously if we line up in a 4 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 1 and play McArthy we’ll win this easily
McCarthy (fuck it)
Cedric VVD (fuck it) Hoedt Bertrand
Davis Romeu Lemina
Gabbiadini Austin Long
Whilst that team will never happen, I’d bet we’d fair no worse than yesterday and may even muster two attempts at goal.
Tactics? Long diagonal balls in to the channels from the centre backs for Long and Gabbiadini to chase and Austin plus the other forward getting themselves in the box.
Are England on to something? Has Forster completely run out of confidence? Might it be an idea to pull him out for a bit?
This has got 0-0 written all over it. So 4-4 it will be.
Well Palace lost today so don’t expect de Boer to be managing the team next Saturday.
With that in mind Dougie Freedman/Jose Fonte will be the temporary man in charge in which case I expect us to get thumped royally, 5-0 the Palace I say.
We will explode from the off in a frenzied high pressing masterclass of intelligent energy expenditure. We shall attack like soldier bees who’s queen has just had honey spat in her royal face. Palace will wilt and hang on like punch drunk Stotes looking for a stoppage that the ref just won’t provide. We are southampton of the Southampton Way.
0-0 for me.
Newcastle have more points than us now! 
Yesterday we put balls forward (I know it didn’t work. Yet). We went into them in pairs (paid off when we got it right). Neither have I seen in a long time and neither have the players. Things are changing and by tortious they need to.
You can’t ignore the weird We Can’t Score thing, and it is weird because these players can do what it takes to get the ball off the opposition and shove it into the back of their goal. But this only happens when we click as a team which has been rare since RK fkd off. After the uncertainty through the summer we now have an unsettled team.
The truth is that we’ve had an unsettled team for almost a year and a half. They play as individuals, either having a good game or not. Oriel, Davis, Maya,Cédric and James are constants because they do look up, find others, and play in a team like fashion because it’s their default setting.
It was the same for Bertrand but he’s been ground down along with Long and Tadic. These are all key players when we win.
Redmond, Boufal, Gabby and Højbjerg still look like new players that need to understand the way the team plays but there isn’t one.
Pelligrino has to build a successful team with this and it’s no small task. Four, five or six games won’t sort that out. We are trying to create an entire team not integrate one or two players.
And as for those already losing their ish at the beginning of September, ease up and watch the development between here and November.
There will be some poor results but I bet something of Barry’s or Goat’s that we start slowly getting our shit together. X
This’ll be a cracker, a one off, this is what the premier league is all about, the English game as its finest with two teams throwing caution to the wind and just going for it. This song is this game.
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Thank you for that. I needed to calm my tits.
Top post chap.
OK own up.
Who hacked Bazza?
Once again you have managed to confuse me with your sarcasm intermingled with random phrasology.