Match Report and MOM v Southampton

Standent said:
If relegation happens, as seems likely, I very much hope EH and JT see next season as another amazing challenge for them and for the club. And with that in mind... I’m struggling to find an answer to a pretty key question: has a relegated club ever managed to be promoted back to the premier league with the same management team?

If not, Eddie and Jason - you will bloody well be the first!!!!
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Didn’t Dyce go down and come back up with Burnley... Rafa at Newcastle?
 
The only positive from relegation is more matches for fans like me. Question is, how do I watch every AFCB match? Does each club in the championship offer some kind of package where fans can watch every game online?
 
Standent said:
If relegation happens, as seems likely, I very much hope EH and JT see next season as another amazing challenge for them and for the club. And with that in mind... I’m struggling to find an answer to a pretty key question: has a relegated club ever managed to be promoted back to the premier league with the same management team?

If not, Eddie and Jason - you will bloody well be the first!!!!
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Dyche has done it with Burnley.
 
Neil Dawson said:
Side v Newcastle....need to get that Black and White tuning knob a bit to the left.
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Easy mistake to make tbf .....i mean its so rare that we play 442 these days.....if only all the other formations we've tried this season had delivered what some on here expected.

btw if that big widescreen of yours is telling you that we played 442 against Palace and anything other than 442 against Spurs i'd throw it out and get yourself a nice little black and white portable.....:grinning:
 
AFCB_Liam said:
Another tactical farce-ter-class from Eddie and Jason today. We have been given so many chances and simply refuse to learn from our mistakes. Still can't work out if they're over-thinking or under-thinking things.

My main worry is the psychological damage this season will inflict on both Eddie and the players. Difficult to switch from getting comprehensively beaten every week to fighting for a promotion.
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Personally I think they are over thinking things. I can’t understand why you would switch from a formation that brought the best out of the players for three tough games and had given us a chance; to revert back to one that hasn’t worked all season.
 
I thought Billing, Lerma, Stanislas, Rico and King all put in an absolute shift the first half. Not sure I would have taken Billing off, with Kelly’s long throws and the amount of corners we were winning he would have been handy for height if nothing else
 
No other manager f√cks around with formations and players in different positions as much as Eddie....its his main weakness.. and this strange season has caught him stranded and making impulsive gambles.

In his defence... he was shafted by injuries and the antics of Fraser and Agent....a key player in the previous few seasons.
His only real stables were Ake obviously and Rambo ....Rambo has to be Player of the Season for his gallant efforts in front of an atrocious defence.
 
History has shown us when you play a consistent team, we get consistent results .
Changing 3 or 4 every game doesn’t suit us .
All teams go from having a team to needing to re build another .
Eddie can certainly do that
 
Can you imagine Eddie as a porno director?

It would be an absolute shambles.

Changes of formation, free shots in the penalty box, wasted chances, one on ones, three v two, four four pooh......the reliance on the old timers!!@!

I wouldn't have a clue where to look.
 
Neil Dawson said:
When Brooks played this role against Leicester he was dropping in all over the midfield like Wilshere did when he played in that spot for us. Stretching the defence giving a triangular option but crucially able to play the forwards in with a slide rule pass. .
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You're misremembering again, Neil. Wilshere played in a non-running, non-tackling, quarterback role and I don't recall many defence splitting slide rule passes as his assist stats will confirm. Still, you continue to trot this out to suit your narrative.

Nice report by the way, your player marks are spot on
 
Neil Dawson said:
Brooks in the hole (instead of Gosling as a home game) and King on the right. Failing that Gosling in the hole and Brooks on the bench.
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does anyone know what formation scummers were playing?
redmond, armstrong and ward-ponce were always around the ball playing triangles and keeping them in possession
conversely, we never seemed to be able to create any room in those tight areas and lacked the technical ability to keep hold of the ball - billing and lerma being the chief culprits
 
Much like a description of the great Tony Pulis's football .... we too are now playing "not edge of yer seat football but under your seat football"
 
New Forest Cherry said:
does anyone know what formation scummers were playing?
redmond, armstrong and ward-ponce were always around the ball playing triangles and keeping them in possession
conversely, we never seemed to be able to create any room in those tight areas and lacked the technical ability to keep hold of the ball - billing and lerma being the chief culprits
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Ralph is always known as the pioneer of 4-2-2-2. How that works god only knows. I think me and @Topfarrier could potentially argue over that for months if we were Southampton fans.:grinning:
 
New Forest Cherry said:
You're misremembering again, Neil. Wilshere played in a non-running, non-tackling, quarterback role and I don't recall many defence splitting slide rule passes as his assist stats will confirm. Still, you continue to trot this out to suit your narrative.

Nice report by the way, your player marks are spot on
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Wisheres stats weren’t great but the team stats were far more impressive with him in that role. He did drop Quarterback deep as you call it (as did Brooks when he played there) but he also did a lot of work high up the pitch slipping in wingers to cross for their assists and someone else’s goal. In the second half of that season, when used, he was back in a two man midfield and didn’t look nearly as good. Rewatch the Swansea away game to see him at his best.
 
whatever it was they always seemed to have two of those three around the ball with the baldy bloke (romeo?) as the only holding midfielder
 
Saints virtually play 442 .
Difference is they all work bloody hard , plus in the middle with someone like ward-prowse, he can run, and pass.
We haven’t had a player in that mould since arter left .
We are far far far to static in the middle
Plus they have a goal scorer
 
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