Has anyone suggested we played against a very good team.

Yes i know we were poor, but could that be down to the fact that Southampton are a very slick team who will give a lot of teams a problem this season

 

Southampton were excellent, but the fact is we allowed them to be. At times we were chasing shadows, always second to the ball, and standing waiting for the ball to come to us, allowing a Southampton player to come in and take it.

massive improvement needed for Tuesday.

 

Soton were excellent in possession - great pass and move stuff - there's no doubting that. Out of possession though they didn't do much, mainly because they didn't have to. It's not like our attacking players were buzzing around, looking for space, making Soton harry us and chase us down. We just ran out of ideas at the half way line and kept giving them the ball back.

They were a good team and deserved their goal if not a couple more. The worrying thing was that our attacking play was so poor for 75 minutes, we were lucky to get nil.

 

oops. barnsley66 hadn't posted when I started writing that last post! we kind of made the same point there.

 

I forgive you !! ;-)

 

Think we were lucky we weren`t on the end of a drubbing and that performance repeated will give a lot of sides 3 easy points.

 

No doubt about it, but the problem is what we did. If we'd have played with a bit of energy, confidence and desire and lost 3-0, fair enough. Better side.

But we didn't. We looked like the away team, sat deep inviting teams on to us. Worked against Forest, and probably will work away from home, but didn't at home.

I'd hope to see Doyle on the bench and Vaz Te/RNL/O'Brien come in for him and played out wide. Or Haynes up top with Davies. But I can't see it.

 

Quite so.

Thier midfield players were allowed an eternity to pick out a pass.

In contrast, we were closed down very quickly and never really got going. I suspect that is in stark contrast to pre-season, when we probably had much more time on the ball.

 

I think we made them look good if nothing else.

I've never seen such slack marking.

We gave them so much room that they could pretty much do what they liked.

They, one the other hand, gave us no time on the ball and consequently our game was rushed and full of mistakes.

 

Morecambe looked like a good team. So where does that place us?

 

Yes! I've said in most of my posts that we have to remember how much money Southampton have sloshing around - 23k a week for Corks wages alone, and that I think they'll go up. Still performance wasn't up to scratch but we should be judged against the Coventry's, Peterboro's of this world, not Southampton.

 

Are Southampton in a seperate league then?
We should be able to at least compete with them, if we lose but have tried and played to the best of our ability, then I have no problem with that. What we have had on the last 2 matches has been bloody shocking, Hill said after Tuesday that it would not happen again, he would not allow it! Well Mr Hill you were right , it didn`t happen again, it got worse.