The cloven hooved one's official match thread: The mighty Demons vs the slickly sweet stuff

Get your money on 0-2 Everton win.

This thread is more depressing than Pap’s so I’m going for the reverse score over here

1:2 loss

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If the reality is truth and it is as we’re shit in comparison to previous seasons and other teams in the League I don’t find it depressing, I find it sad no one questions to why we are worse, what are the reasons and why we are shit scared of even admitting it?

We use words like transition and time and gelling when its all alot simpler than that gash, we’re shitter as we sell our best players.

You do that Baz, and I’ll get a fiver on Saints to win 2-0 and whoever is right buys the first round next time we meet, deal? :lou_smiley:

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I’m starting to think that we are shit on this occasion because we DIDN’T sell our best players last summer.

Hear me out… VVD, Bertrand and Romeu have been shadows of their former selves this season. The first two I suspect (or know in VVDs case) don’t give a hoot and don’t want to be there.

Perhaps we SHOULD have sold Tadic two years ago rather than keep him, allow him to peak and then see him grow stale and intolerably useless.

The reason we have improved prior to the last couple of years is perhaps because those players (and managers) were hungrier and more motivated to move up in the world. But this year we put our foot down (and rightly so) and are now enduring the consequences.

Just a thought to look at the flip side. Other than that I agree with you, particularly as we didn’t adequately replace the attributes of Pelle and Mane.

Bertrand and VVD don’t want to be at the club, they’ll be gone soon, why buy players who want to use you as a stepping stone? Buy ready made 28/9 year old journeymen who’ll do a job of staying in the league, Huddersfield have got rid of their academy, what is the point of them? They don’t play anyway, now if there was a quota then of course but why should we be the lab for the bigger clubs?

3-0

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2-0 to Everton

As this is the official thread trying to be usurped by the @pap third rate developer I will be using this one.

2-0 to saints without a shot on target 1 deflection that would have hit the corner flag if left alone and a back pass that bypasses the Toffee keeper like the A34 past Winchester

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As per the thread title why is goat boy starting this thread and not big Tit?

Tis referece to the current avatar… he who resides in hell, which could be a metaphor for having been sucked into this nightmare world… or not.

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Just got back from the Saints v Hants CC charity question of sport at Mountbatten School. True to form they didn’t score their either

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Just watched Everton getting thrashed at home 1-5 by Atalanta, who had not won an away match this season.

3-0 to us*

*assuming Martina plays

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IF ONLY

I could get over this fatalism that the performances of the last 11 months have driven me into. 8 wins in 11 months I read on Twitter last night?

Toffees were woeful last night Unsworth out of his depth players out of position and no fans at the game.

And it STILL screams Southampton Nil to me.

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He’s talking the talk, can they walk the walk :lou_facepalm_2:

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Read a Sky article this morning which was based on stats and was comparing Puel’s Saints to MoPe’s. It basically seemed to be saying “not much has changed”. Can’t be bothered to link to it because it wasn’t very informative. One surprising fact was that Forster has made a lot more saves this season, but I suppose that could be because he’s faced more shots?

Mark Lawrenson has us down for a 2-0 win, so that doesn’t bode well. I will be watching the match up the pub with a load of Evertonians, i really really hope that this is the game when Saints surprise us all and give them a thrashing. But i won’t be holding my breath.

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This one??