Southampton away 1-0 full time

[SuperMike]

32 minutes ago, Blue-fox said:

You’ve got to ask yourself, why didn’t he throw souttar up front for the last 10 mins and launch the ball to him. 

Never seen him do such a thing - would likely blow his tiny mind.

[David Hankey]

Bottom team does the double over us, sums up our season.

[Leicester_Loyal]

1 hour ago, Livid said:

Rodgers aside.

 

Does any other team being remotely comfortable, give away a penalty, save the penalty and then retreat back into its shell and get completely dominated for the next five minutes? 
 

We’re building from the back in the last few minutes and then we’re trying the low percentage passes in midfield? Which is it we’re building cautiously or we’re trying to get it forward. Do one or the other but not both. 
 

Rodgers ultimately carries the can but this team are clueless. 
 

I think I’m just about done with them for this season. 

Mate this ALL comes from Rodgers. If they ignore his advice or speak out, if they play different to how he wants them to play, they’ll be dropped or banished like so many before them. 

[TheShark]

5 minutes ago, David Hankey said:

Bottom team does the double over us, sums up our season.

That alone should be a sackable offence 

[Buggsteam]

1 hour ago, BigMicky said:

What a load of rubbish, plenty put the effort in today, one mistake cost us and some terrible finishing from at least 3 of our players. More than enough chances to win the game. What tactically did Rodgers get wrong today?

More than enough chance to win the game??? 
we didn’t even have a shot on target let alone have chances to win the game. 
 

Which players put in any effort. Only one that looked like they was giving it was Praet when he came on. 
 

Rodgers tactics of playing such a high line, consistently persisting we play tippy tappy passing round the back. 
Being 1-0 down with 70 mins played and we’re still knocking around the back with no urgency to get it forward. 
 

Rodgers is paid a lot of money to manage, motivate and get the team performing. 
We’ve not done that properly all season and are going backwards with the lack of ideas of how to break teams down. 
We play boring and easy to read and deal with football if you can call it that. 
 

If I was failing that badly in my job I would have been sacked by now. 

[Clarkey123]

As much i as I hate to say it, we really missed tielemans today 

[kingkisnorbo]

1 minute ago, Clarkey123 said:

As much i as I hate to say it, we really missed tielemans today 

Why do you hate to say that? 

[Clarkey123]

1 minute ago, kingkisnorbo said:

Why do you hate to say that? 

Because he’s leaving and we won’t replace him. KDH had zero creativity today 

Edited 4 March 2023 by Clarkey123

[Buggsteam]

1 hour ago, BigMicky said:

We arent mates. How is rodgers to blame for woeful finishing or misplaced passes? You can't answer.

Rodgers is the manager, he’s job to train them and to motivate them. 
That’s what they are supposed to be doing all week in training. 
If the players are not performing on the pitch then he is clearly doing something wrong in training and motivating them. 
This season has been shocking and the last couple of years we have slowly been getting worse under him. 
So he’s clearly not doing his job if he can’t get he’s team up to beat bottom of the league and move six points clear of relegation. 

[ts_1010]

50 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Once again our shocking attempt at playing a high line failed.

I think the only way to play such  a high line it to have 2 rapid cbs.

 

All teams know that there is a huge space behind us, and even if our guys are no slouches, they don't stand a chance.

 

The only solution we have this year is to drop them back. It's not Rodgers normal strategy but I've seen far too many identical goals this year.

[Paninistickers]

The strangest thing is that most players played a half decent level of  6/10  or 7/10 and won their battles (Tete apart, who was his standard 4/10) ...and their xG must've rivalled ours v Arsenal. 

 

Best I've seen KDH for a few weeks. Mendy steady. Praet and Wilf bith decent when on. Castagne best game in a while. Faes and Souttar looked fine to me. Ricky largely steady. Kels if we exclude his nightmare finishing. How the **** can you have better players, then the players largely play better than those poorer opponents and still conspire to lose? It's another Rodgers stat and logic buster. 

 

Today goes down with Bournemouth away, plus the Mickey Adams Middlesbrough away and Wolves away

[BigMicky]

53 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

I’m irrational ? You’re still looking for excuses despite performance number 1001 where we’ve barely shown up against the side sat bottom of the league and I’m irrational ? 
 

Stupidity now seems like a kind description…

Hows it irrational by blaming the parties responsible? If thr players finish the chances, we win the game amd thats the long and short of it.  Petty insults showing your true class there.

[Thequickbrownfox]

Replace Brendan Rodgers with Ted Rogers. Remember that guy who used to present a bizarre, ill conceived show every week that was very scrappy, confusing and hard to watch? Ah, wait a minute.

[Rossiter]

3 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

The strangest thing is that most players played a half decent level of  6/10  or 7/10 and won their battles (Tete apart, who was his standard 4/10) ...and their xG must've rivalled ours v Arsenal. 

 

Best I've seen KDH for a few weeks. Mendy steady. Praet and Wilf bith decent when on. Castagne best game in a while. Faes and Souttar looked fine to me. Ricky largely steady. Kels if we exclude his nightmare finishing. How the **** can you have better players, then the players largely play better than those poorer opponents and still conspire to lose? It's another Rodgers stat and logic buster. 

 

Today goes down with Bournemouth away, plus the Mickey Adams Middlesbrough away and Wolves away

Have we really got 'the better players'? The only player for us on the pitch that is wanted by the top clubs is Maddison. Ward Prowse possibly similar. I personally don't think atm we are that much better player for player than the teams around us.

[Rossiter]

VK massive massive miss. Hope we can hang on to him.

[Paninistickers]

1 minute ago, Rossiter said:

Have we really got 'the better players'? The only player for us on the pitch that is wanted by the top clubs is Maddison. Ward Prowse possibly similar. I personally don't think atm we are that much better player for player than the teams around us.

I'm talking Southampton. They are absolutely fcking shite. I mean rea, genuine, utter fcking dogshite. Even JWP is rank ordinary, set pieces apart.

[supernuk]

17 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

The strangest thing is that most players played a half decent level of  6/10  or 7/10 and won their battles (Tete apart, who was his standard 4/10) ...and their xG must've rivalled ours v Arsenal. 

 

Best I've seen KDH for a few weeks. Mendy steady. Praet and Wilf bith decent when on. Castagne best game in a while. Faes and Souttar looked fine to me. Ricky largely steady. Kels if we exclude his nightmare finishing. How the **** can you have better players, then the players largely play better than those poorer opponents and still conspire to lose? It's another Rodgers stat and logic buster. 

 

Today goes down with Bournemouth away, plus the Mickey Adams Middlesbrough away and Wolves away

Most players were a 4 outta 10. Rodgers was a 2 outta 10. You're way off 

[Rossiter]

Just now, Paninistickers said:

I'm talking Southampton. They are absolutely fcking shite. I mean rea, genuine, utter fcking dogshite. Even JWP is rank ordinary, set pieces apart.

Fair enough but who would they really want to buy from our team  out there today?

[Mickyblueeyes]

29 minutes ago, BigMicky said:

Hows it irrational by blaming the parties responsible? If thr players finish the chances, we win the game amd thats the long and short of it.  Petty insults showing your true class there.

Ok. Let’s take your point of view.

 

What was the excuse for the defensive high line and ridiculously poor press (similar issues we saw v Blackburn (different players) and at times v Arsenal oh and Man U (twice)) ?

[Guest ttfn]

2 hours ago, Bert said:

0 shots on target against the team with the worst home record in the league. 

I don’t think this is a fair stick to beat Rodgers with today at all, he doesn’t finish the chances. We created plenty today and Iheanacho should have scored at least 2.

 

And of course the reverse is true - when Iheanacho, Vardy or Maddison “run hot” or when Tielemans scores from 30 yards with our only shot on target in the cup final, it’s not vindication of his managerial genius. 

[Sunbury Fox]

We're just so predictable. Whatever the situation or time in the game, we seek to build play in exactly the same methodical way. It's the same patterns of play over and over again. So opposition managers know exactly what we're going to do, which makes it so easy for them to set traps for turnovers on the one hand and to set up their defence against our attacks on the other. 

 

A truly depressing day all round. Hard to see how we turn this around after losing to such a poor side. 

Edited 4 March 2023 by Sunbury Fox

[Corky]

15 minutes ago, ttfn said:

I don’t think this is a fair stick to beat Rodgers with today at all, he doesn’t finish the chances. We created plenty today and Iheanacho should have scored at least 2.

 

And of course the reverse is true - when Iheanacho, Vardy or Maddison “run hot” or when Tielemans scores from 30 yards with our only shot on target in the cup final, it’s not vindication of his managerial genius. 

It will sound odd but our players are not used to having chances in the positions they occurred. If we create opportunities like that regularly I think more composure arrives. They don't usually have big chances in the middle of the box.

[foxfanazer]

Another dark day for the club under the stewardship of this utter fraud. He's taking us down boys and girls

[21st Century Fox]

Saw Mike Stowell at Membury Services and was tempted to ask him whether he'd fancy a sixth go as caretaker manager.

[South Shire Fox]

4 hours ago, Clever Fox said:

Anyone know why he took Mendy off. We all know NDiddi can't pass the ball as good a Mendy.

Because hes a clueless twat, random captains, random substitutions. Bloke is a coach, an absolute con artist as a manager

Edited 5 March 2023 by South Shire Fox