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Report | Southampton v Preston North End Your Report added by Bawdrip at 22:41:57
Great win. First half performance was great and comfortable in the second. Could have been more. Given Preston are a good side and the pressure to win this game it was an excellent result. A change of keeper for the rest of the season is worrying though. |
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Report | Southampton v Preston North End Your Report added by codge at 22:19:07
Great first half totally different second half but we’re never really in trouble.If they can continue on playing this way we will be in with a shot at automatic promotion. Overall a good result and let’s keep it going. COYS. |
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Report | Hull City v Queens Park Rangers Your Report added by Geoff78 at 19:32:16
I thought we were awful yesterday but having slept on it perhaps it isn't the end of the world. We were tired - 2 long distance trips in 5 days - Hull opened the scoring with a worldie and we never had the confidence to come back after that. And you may have noticed we can't score goals. We missed at least 2 really good chances. Most disappointing was the inability of Hayden and Field to get to grips with Hull's smart passing and the space they created in midfield. I also wonder whether playing Chair, Willock and Andersen is a luxury we can't afford. Although there are some lovely touches from Andersen I don't think he's really lived up to his promise yet. Willock was our only threat - my MotM. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by Ifonly at 14:54:09
Redwight correctly points out one of the problems with tippy tappy, but there are many, many more. Some of these are:
- It's dangerous. Passing the ball around your own box used to get defenders dropped. Now it's all the fashion. Go figure.
- It's slow. By the time you get up the pitch, the opponents have closed down the space.
- It leaves you exposed to the counter attack because you end up with the majority of your players in the top third of the pitch.
I could go on, but the biggest point for me is that tippy tappy works if you have the best technical players. So it could work for us in the Championship because we have relatively good players for this league. But if we get promoted it's a whole different story. So I wonder what the point of developing this style is, if it only means that we come straight back down. |
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Report | Hull City v Queens Park Rangers Your Report added by JamesB1979 at 13:17:27
I think the 4 hour drive back helped me look at things with a bit more perspective. Although still, tired, annoyed and sober by time I got home. Sometimes you come across teams that have better players and they perform. The first goal was top class. I’m not sure you can do too much. In a game like this against good forward players and a good side, that first goal is key. It gave Hull confidence and did opposite for us. We had some very good chances at 2-0 and 3-0 down. Both to Smyth, whose finishing is shocking but neither would have made a difference other than to our goal difference. I thought Willock did well but he fought a lonely battle. Cannon also looked good. The rest poor to very average. We need to start Frey in next games, more for Dykes and the crowds mental health. It’s getting toxic and he’s getting blame for everything. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by redwight at 12:48:55
The problem with 'tippy tappy', jameshill, is the predictability of it. By all means have it as your basic style of play, but what drives so many of us mad is that it is practised relentlessly, thus completely removing the element of surprise. Surely one aspect of good management is to occasionally do the unexpected and keep the opposition guessing. instead of which RM seems to regard it as the football equivalent of a virility symbol. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by jameshill at 12:15:55
SanMarco,
I hear you but consider this: Every fan of every club thinks they 'should be doing better'! I have friends who support Liverpool who tell me that regularly. The corollary of that is that we could be doing worse. A different manager with WORST results. As for what you deridingly call 'Tippy Tappy' consider this: Most modern forward thinking coaches try to play this way. Why? Presumably because its the percentage call. It's not a function of good or bad players. Yes you loose sometimes but more often you win. It's a net gain. If we get promoted guess what - RM will be considered a genius by all and 'Tippy Tappy' the way to go.
One other thing: How many players in the championship have as many Premiership games under their belt than Jack Stephens. A handful maybe. How did that happen if he is as bad as made out to be. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by SanMarco at 10:43:47
'The TRUTH is the table does not lie' says jameshill. Yes - but the 'what if' question (which, of course, can never be answered) is could we be doing better? Under RM's management our team would seem to be fourth best and that is the TRUTH the table tells us. Many fans have a feeling that we could be doing better. Poor old JS has become the fall-guy for that particular argument (as was Manning, and maybe Smallbone, earlier in the season) but in the end the tippy-tappy and the frequent inability to finish teams off has cost us dear and that is not the fault of any player.
Having said that it has often been exciting. Is that down to RM. Answers on a postcard... |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by jameshill at 22:22:06
Do I take it we are all going to be spared the recent drivel about Jack Stephens being poor and the manager clueless?
What has changed after the last two games? The answer is that we have won but nothing else. Jack Stephens is and has never been the problem and neither has been the manager. The former is a loyal servant who tries his best each game and the later is a young enthusiastic coach who seems to have both imagination and the respect of his players.Do they make mistakes? Of course they do and so do all you moaners do as you do whatever work you do.
Furthermore where does this deluded belief that ‘we have the best squad in the division’ come from? I’m sure fans of Leicester and Leeds say exactly the same. The TRUTH is that the table does not lie - it never does.
I believe we have a great bunch of players playing for a passionate manager and with our support - not our moaning - will do even better. Be proud of your team, win or loose, and enjoy the privilege of what is a really exiting season. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by Bawdrip at 21:54:20
We made hard work of it again but great to win it so late on. Watched in Portugal whilst on holiday thanks to Saints Player. If we can beat Preston it sets up an interesting last few games. I'll be at Cardiff and then Leicester with my Leicester supporting son in law. Play offs still look most likely but you never know. Beat WBA again then Leeds or Norwich at Wembley. Rode our luck a bit today but came strong at the end. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by SaintPaulVW at 20:41:14
Could criticise various players, subs choices but so what! cracking game of football to watch. With the other results, I'm starting to believe again. Leicester and Leeds games looking like huge matches.
COYR |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by Jellybaby at 19:32:41
Exciting game and great ending, but an all too familiar pattern is being established of early dominance followed by a poor attempt at keep ball leading to often fairly mediocre opposition getting back in to the game and stealing or nearly stealing points.
I would love to be proved wrong, but I don't believe this team has the mental toughness or this manager the guile to win every game and claim an unlikely automatic spot, but you never know...
Not just because of his goal, but Downes was MOM, although an unlikely challenger was JS with two timely saving tackles. |
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Report | Southampton v Watford Your Report added by Avior at 18:55:04
I know a win is a win at this stage of the season but god do we make it difficult for ourselves. Great first half an hour then go all passive and let them back into it. Solid first set of subs, Aribo and Brooks were both poor, but unfortunately Stuey wasn't at the races. Manning for Bree fine but not required. Then what was RM thinking taking off Adams for Mara, he was playing really well and not tired. Smallbone should have been off with Aribo, he was really leggy even before he got a knock. This meant Downes had to run twice as far = equalizer. Why we didn't have Charles on bench to bring on for Smallbone is ludicrous. Why do we need Fraser, Edozie and Sulemenia, they are never all going to come on? THB, Downes, KWP, Adams, AA all superb. COYR |
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Report | Plymouth Argyle v Queens Park Rangers Your Report added by AlexKjaj41414 at 18:05:21
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Report | Plymouth Argyle v Queens Park Rangers Your Report added by Hooping_Mad at 17:00:08
After Sheffield Wednesday that was appalling, failed to cope with their press and ran out of ideas early it seemed.
We could have just man marked the better players and gone from there but no. The last 2 games have felt like a cross between Warbs ball and Ainsworth and it's awful.
Coming to the conclusion that half our squad are so bad they are even holding us back in terms of training the first 11.
Please let it be over. |
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Report | Southampton v Coventry City Your Report added by TimSaint at 09:44:23
Never a pen
Should have won more convincingly
Again we don't kill a game off, gift the opposition a goal and panic.
Most played quite well, but Brooks was too casual and off the pace.
The subs all did well and helped see the game out, apart from Mara. He was lazy, ineffectual, gave it away too much, failed to give Bree options down the right, drifted across the pitch and didn't put any effort in. It was like playing with 10 men. When he first got the ball, he should have used his fresh legs and accelerated into the Cov half, so that we could clear our lines. Instead he walked with the ball, got tackled and put us back under the kosh. Even the ineffective Sulemana would have done better. With his pace, at least it would have drawn two Cov players away from their attacks. |
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