Saints going to get it up the Arse

Well I hope that they’re going to make a fist of it!

As long as the Arse play for 90+ mins like they did for 85 versus Stoke and then don’t get a dodgy penalty, we will be fine :lou_lol:

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If you have ever wondered what the meaning of the sporting term “a good length” was, I suspect we are just about to discover it.

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Lot of short stuff about as well on TMS

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Time for the blood letting. Abilityy vs Balls.

If ever we needed a fit and firing Steve Davis back this is it.

Lemina - obvious class but cost us golas in last two games and we crumbled after each of them. Can we trust him not to do it again? Drop

Tadic - I think that he THINKS he tries, but it is not working at the moment Drop

Redmond - He has the Balls but he doesn’t (yet) understand what to do with them. Looks like a fish out of water when he is pressed Drop

Boufal - Think we are beyond step overs and potential now. No doubt that he cares but not yet got the cutting edge. As such one step over from being brushed aside. Keep

PEH - Horrible mistake trying too play the ball out but he has what it takes Keep

JWP - Just hides in so many games (mainly when up against bigger quicker lumps) but need him to play the passes forwards Keep

Romeu - Has been shocking - off the pace and indecisive. Has to step up now Keep

Gabbi - So long and thanks for the memories - completely ineffective and lightweight Austin covered more ground than him Saturday Drop

Carrillo - is he still here? Drop

Stephens - Unfortunately we only have one CB spare - and Jack plays right side Maya plays left Keep - just

Hoedt - being shown up for his lack of pace and his effort isn’t matching his lack of experience - tough call but he goes Drop

Maya - Hail Mary time but he does have experience - Keep

Cedric - living on past glories has looked a fish out of water of late Pied is no better than Championship standard but has to come in Cedric has offered nothing Drop

Betrand - If Matty was still here an easy decision, Matty isn’t so Keep.

Macca Keep

Chazza Keep

Long Keep

Sims Hesketh have to be in contention now

Macca

Pied Stephens Maya Bertrand

Romeu PEH

JWP Davis (I Wish) Sims

Boufal

Chazza

benched

FF Hoedt Cedric Lemina Long Tadic Carrillo

Just think we would see more effort from that line up

Oh. This may change our plans…

Bit slow off the mark one of our crew already booked in for a round of golf…

Thing is Phil, I dont think we have a bad squad and that these arent bad players. We are just completely shot of confidence and it is spreading like wildfire. It all seemed to start with the Fonte debacle - God knows what happened there but his antics seemed to set the ball rolling - followed up with VVD playing the dickhead too and a downward spiral has ensued. Puel has show at Leicester that he isnt a bad manager, Pellegrino wasnt when he came but I think we broke him. I am not a big Sparky fan but he knows his way around the Prem and it looks like we might break him too! The plot has been well and truly lost and I doubt if you could currently cobble any team together including some youngsters that would make a difference. It comes to something when we are praying for Yoshi to get fit!

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Sparky would rather be somewhere else already :lou_eyes_to_sky:

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Just want 11 blokes not afraid to put a shift in and have a bloody go. Don’t expect a win, but it’s got to the stage where the team doesn’t even appear to try. Time for someone else to take up the mantle of leadership on the pitch (Romeu?) and motivate 10 others to at least roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. Send all the show ponies and move seekers to the back of the queue and see if we can get a bunch of fellas who aren’t afraid to play this one.

If we can get stuck into the Arse early on, we might get a point.

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Don’t think many of us were keen on heading down the Pub Sunday.

Equally being in this place has loads of negatives about it (as in the nightmare ex pat scenario Smiler and myself are in with relatives back home).

However what this place has always managed to do is to give us once in a lifetime moments.

And (all being well) we are going to have a massive moment on Sunday. Heading to the Pub to have a few drinks with one of our Sporting Heroes.

We may not get a #win photo but we will have a moment.

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For me, it will be the most interesting team selection of the season. Will Hughes base it upon effort shwon this week in training or will he stick with the last 11 and give them a chance to prove themselves? Hopefully he’s put the hammer on them this week in training and we see a reaction to the pitiful display at WH.

Looking forward to this one although will be watching on TV. Hopefully the bastards don’t make me stove the TV screen in by 2.30pm on Sunday as it’s only 3 months old.

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Time for Sparky to show what he is made of. If he can turn this lot on underperformers around he deserves the freedom of the city!

I was at the Emirates last night.

Arsenal played some really lovely stuff going forward (that 2nd Ramsay goal was class), but they were utterly schoolboy at the back. Mustafi & Bellerin were awful. Wilshere had a bit of a shocker too.

Was a weird game, could easily have been 4-4 if CSKA had some players capable of finishing. We’ll definitely get chances against them.

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And we have nobody to finish’

Havent had that since Pelle left

Short memory PS. Austin can finish. So can Gabbi (just not since his injury, except at Burnley).

JWP needs to play. He works his butt off and his deliveries are unique in the squad: they often find a team mate.

Upvoted as I’m desperately clinging to any positive thoughts I can find. :lou_sunglasses:

I know they’re 4-1 up but they have a long away trip to Moscow next week, so hopefully they’ll be foot off of the gas.

They’re also more than likely going to finish 6th as well, and with Shitty winning the League Cup the Europa league place will go to the team in 6th so they won’t be stressing about finishing in 5th.

Remind me where he is in the golden boot table?

and Gabbi his last decent finish was the ruled out one from the league cup final.

At the moment we have nobody that is putting the pigs bladder in the onion sack and we need some one to do that if we want to win a game.

You’ve obviously forgotten the goal he scored against West Ham in the first game of the season!!

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I thought selective history was standard operating procedure on this site :lou_lol:

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