Southampton Post Match Thread

[Staf]

I couldnt believe the size of Sappleton he is HUGE

[Koke]

As someone else has said, it seems like Clemence is trying to play the creative role, when that just is'nt his role.

Where was all this creativity from King, because thats supposed to be his role. Clemence made mistakes because he took risks. Dont criticise him for that.

Are you seriously asking a rookie and a kid like Andy King to step it up big time with our creativity? He's 18 years of age and still learning for God's sake.

[WetFlannel]

clemene was poor but can you suggest alot of players that are in the championship and are better???

[The Reverend]

Ollie probably realises the size of the task now.

His predecessors (naming no names Allen*) have bought in a bunch of duffers who simply are'nt good enough.

Clough could'nt motivate this bunch of duffers.

[WetFlannel]

Our midfield really is a problem that needs to be addressed... we dont boss games from there, which is where it all goes wrong

[WetFlannel]

does anyone know where i can view holloways interview as he seems slightly ticked off...?

[davieG]

As someone else has said, it seems like Clemence is trying to play the creative role, when that just is'nt his role.

Where was all this creativity from King, because thats supposed to be his role. Clemence made mistakes because he took risks. Dont criticise him for that.

Because King was obviously asked to play the holding role!!!

[The Reverend]

Because King was obviously asked to play the holding role!!!

So why is that then?

We should be blaming Holloway for Southamptons midfield domination then should'nt we?

[Nath]

No threads about how good Stearman is yet.

Yet again he was terrible.

Where was he for there first goal?

Smallest ever playing known to god headed it, at the back post.

Get Kenton in Ollie.

[Koke]

Nathan Dyer is a good but little annoying player to be faced with. But he shouldn't have been allowed to head that ball back into the box.

[Thracian]

Newton should have put us ahead in the opening minutes and his effort from that chance, effectively an open goal, was pathetic. Hume's wasn't much better from the initial chance.

Thereafter, despite an almost identical shots on target record and 10 shots to nil off target, we had serious shortcomings but, despite those we lost because of two schoolboy errors from Kisnorbo. First he misdirected a pass that was never on to Sheehan when he should have played the ball to the goalkeeper to clear or put the ball out.

Secondly, from a throw in he again ignored the boring but simple pass back and hit theball across to defenders who were being rapidly closed down.

Both errors cost goals as did Clemence's totally unnecessary handball and Stearman's failure to mark his man on the far post at the first goal.

A catalogue of silly errors, none of which Holloway could have expected.

Generally though we were second to the ball, weaker in the tackle, short of tempo throughout and lacked anything like the movement which would have particularly disturbed what looked quite a competent Southampton side.

Our central defenders wasted possession constantly and one of our strikers posed no threat whatsoever from the off.

Unfortunately changing him didn't improve matters because Sappleton is no way first team material as I have tried to emphasise on occasions and was plainly obvious today.

We had four senior players in our outfield starting line-up today - McAuley, Clemence, Newton and Cort. Every one was a serious disappointment.

[Mikey]

Poor game to be honest.

Good strike by King but that's about it. can't understand why people booed Cort though, he's already low on confidence so that will just make it worse.

I thought the back four were pretty poor as well, not like them.

Clemence was poor, Newton was poor, Cort was poor, Hume and Sheehan were OK.

[Joe.]

Newton should have put us ahead in the opening minutes and his effort from that chance, effectively an open goal, was pathetic. Hume's wasn't much better from the initial chance.

Thereafter, despite an almost identical shots on target record and 10 shots to nil off target, we had serious shortcomings but, despite those we lost because of two schoolboy errors from Kisnorbo. First he misdirected a pass that was never on to Sheehan when he should have played the ball to the goalkeeper to clear or put the ball out.

Secondly, from a throw in he again ignored the boring but simple pass back and hit theball across to defenders who were being rapidly closed down.

Both errors cost goals as did Clemence's totally unnecessary handball and Stearman's failure to mark his man on the far post at the first goal.

A catalogue of silly errors, none of which Holloway could have expected.

Generally though we were second to the ball, weaker in the tackle, short of tempo throughout and lacked anything like the movement which would have particularly disturbed what looked quite a competent Southampton side.

Our central defenders wasted possession constantly and one of our strikers posed no threat whatsoever from the off.

Unfortunately changing him didn't improve matters because Sappleton is no way first team material.

Wow. I actually agree with most of that.

Apart from that final ludicrous statement

[Hullfox]

1) First he misdirected a pass that was never on to Sheehan when he should have played the ball to the goalkeeper to clear or put the ball out.

2) Secondly, from a throw in he again ignored the boring but simple pass back and hit theball across to defenders who were being rapidly closed down.

Both errors cost goals as did

3) Clemence's totally unnecessary handball and

4) Stearman's failure to mark his man on the far post at the first goal.

That's four goals we conceded then.

[David O'Leary]

Total waste of space and time today!

First 5 minutes I thought we werer going to woop them - but them we slowed down and never got going again.

When you have a team which consisting of 5 "development" players at the end and the likes of Cort and Newton who between them seem on drugs with the inability to do anything right (or even attempt to) and an almightly off day for Clemence - it was never going to be any different.

If we had 10 Humes we would walk the League.

McCuley starting to concern me as well - he's a liability with feet anywhere near the box.

We chickened out of so many situations - dangerous area edge of box - turn and face goal or pass it pretty much back to the defense eventually? - Guess what we were doing! Shambles.

1 Midfielder and 1 "fit" Striker desperately needed - still.

He is a good player, but today was pretty poor, worked hard but not much else

[Thracian]

That's four goals we conceded then.

It does rather sound like that rather than different people being partly to blame for both our goals.

Apologies. It felt like four goals anyway!

I'm totally pissed off with another underperformance at home and now I've returned to hear my son's car has been trashed and robbed of brand new stereo, MP3 player, etc etc while it was in a staff car park in the middle of the afternoon.

Am now going through exactly what I'd like to do to the next thief I come across although you wouldn't want me to repeat what my imagination has come up with.

It would certainly catch the headlines though, I can promise you that.

[Lineker's Left Foot]

Well- Match Report: We lost and weren't very good.

But let's not forget the more important things we can draw from today:

Cort (Sappleton 66)

:w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

Is it me or is that picture of Sappleton a dead ringer for Heskey??

It does rather sound like that rather than different people being partly to blame for both our goals.

Apologies.

I'm totally pissed off with another underperformance at home and now I've returned to hear my son's car has been trashed and robbed of brand new stereo, MP3 player, etc etc while it was in a staff car park in the middle of the afternoon.

Am now going through exactly what I'd like to do to the next thief I come across although you wouldn't want me to repeat what my imagination has come up with.

It would certainly catch the headlines though, I can promise you that.

Thieves deserve to go to a Hitler-style concentration camp and be gassed (wouldn't do it again then!!)

[PAULCFC]

For their winner, we had a throw in their half.....threw it back and faneyed about........what was that all about?

How when one of their players lays poleaxed for 5 mins is there only 1 minute added in the first half?

And why,when i know we didn't play well did i still quite enjoy the match and think it's not the worst i've seen us play over the last 4 seasons?

[Basingstoke Fox]

EXTREEMLY dissappointed to find out this result because i live near so many scummers (southampton fans) i know thats wat Portsmouth call them but i hate southampton just as much as them and college on monday is NOT going to be fun

the fact it was a harsh peno really dont help

Only plus point for today is i bought CAll of Duty 4

[Joe.]

EXTREEMLY dissappointed to find out this result because i live near so many scummers (southampton fans) i know thats wat Portsmouth call them but i hate southampton just as much as them and college on monday is NOT going to be fun

the fact it was a harsh peno really dont help

Only plus point for today is i bought CAll of Duty 4

Ouch.

Expect a great amount of stick.

[nickm]

If Clemence was any good, Birmingham wouldn't have got rid, maybe we're expecting too much from our gang of average players, unprofessional, disinterested gang of blaggers if you ask me, we keep hearing about how good the likes of Fryatt and Hume are but at the end of the day, strikers are judged on how many goals they score and they simply don't deliver-as for the likes of Newton...........

[Yaxx]

Newton should have put us ahead in the opening minutes and his effort from that chance, effectively an open goal, was pathetic. Hume's wasn't much better from the initial chance.

Thereafter, despite an almost identical shots on target record and 10 shots to nil off target, we had serious shortcomings but, despite those we lost because of two schoolboy errors from Kisnorbo. First he misdirected a pass that was never on to Sheehan when he should have played the ball to the goalkeeper to clear or put the ball out.

Secondly, from a throw in he again ignored the boring but simple pass back and hit theball across to defenders who were being rapidly closed down.

Both errors cost goals as did Clemence's totally unnecessary handball and Stearman's failure to mark his man on the far post at the first goal.

A catalogue of silly errors, none of which Holloway could have expected.

Generally though we were second to the ball, weaker in the tackle, short of tempo throughout and lacked anything like the movement which would have particularly disturbed what looked quite a competent Southampton side.

Our central defenders wasted possession constantly and one of our strikers posed no threat whatsoever from the off.

Unfortunately changing him didn't improve matters because Sappleton is no way first team material as I have tried to emphasise on occasions and was plainly obvious today.

We had four senior players in our outfield starting line-up today - McAuley, Clemence, Newton and Cort. Every one was a serious disappointment.

I couldn't agree more and sums up the game very well.

Our back four were awful today, and Kisnorbo had a shocker by his standards. I think this really unsettled the team and we looked completely devoid of confidence. We had a bright start and should have been 2-0 up in the first 10 minutes but for some pisspoor finishing. Once those chances went begging our heads all dropped (both on and off the pitch) and Southampton thought Christmas had come early.

[Yaxx]

Southampton boss George Burley:

"I'm very pleased with the performance because with Leicester having a new manager it was always going to be a difficult game.

"We were disappointed not to be in front at half-time but they scored a one in a million wonder goal and you cannot legislate against that.

"I was pleased with the determination we showed because apart from their goal Leicester didn't create any chances".

[Ultra]

Is the honeymoon period over already?!!

Certainly is...

Holloway still has illusions in certain players. He needs to lose them VERY soon..

[WetFlannel]

well despite andy kings astonishing goal, we didnt do anything... bland really, just like most games