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Saints V Ipswich The Verdict
at 12:59:30

Dissappointed with the result as we should have been 2-0 up at half-time and have the game wrapped up. We were the better side and there were positives. Lambert and Lee worked together well and look to be a great striking partnership.
Billy Sharp has so far shown nothing. He must have some ability or else he would not have a good goal scoring record. He will need to learn soon that he has to work harder and not just stand around the box waiting for the perfect cross.
The selection mystery was playing Guly down the right midfield/wing again. He cannot play there, he wants to be in the middle, so we gave away that side of the park. This, in turn put too much reliance on Lallana on the other side. Adam is so talented but can someone please get him to understand that the simple ball is often the best - not twisting and turning to beat the same man 3 times.
Second half Guly was sitting just in front of the defence and was totally useless. So, good substitution, but De Ridder or Chaplow should have been there from the start. Taking Adam off was probably right at the time, as he was tiring, but Conolly would have been a better choice. Great save from Kelvin in the first half.
Overall, we were comfortable at 1-0 and 5 minutes to go. Bad mistake by Jos, but to be fair that was his only one. The real problem was standing off Scotland afterwards, giving him too much room.
4 points from two games is okay..need to win on saturday though.

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Time To Stop The Rot
at 12:41:11

How do we stop the rot? Well, lets dissect the team into Defence, Midfield and Strikers. We are scoring goals, there were some positives on Tuesday. We scored twice, 3 times if you count the one that was not offside. We hit the woodwork and had several other chances. I don't think there is a problem up front. Hopefully our highly intelligent players will work out that Chun Lee is about 5ft 2 and 8 stone wringing wet. He needs the ball played to his feet through not long high balls. The Midfield needs both Chaplow and Ben Reeves. Young Ben was brilliant on tuesday, pinpouint passes and attacks the goal, as does Chaplow. Ben is already better than Cork who is unable to shoot for some reason. Guly is just not clever enough does not have enough ball control to hold the ball up and lay it off, he is simply not good enough and he was lucky not to have been red carded for his clumsy tackling. Our main problem though is the defence and specifically none of our full backs are good enough at this level. They were at fault for all 3 goals and their distribution and crosses are appalling. Fox is better than Harding, but not by much. And another thing.... why can't NA tell them to stop pissing about at the back with short passes that put us under pressure when we lose it?
Everything was just too slow on Tuesday. And another thing....why are we incapable of taking decent throw-ins? mainly because there is no movement, nobody seems to want it. And one last thing, honest, why do we take rubbish corners that sail over the back post, where we have failed to put anyone?
So, Nige, a couple of classy fullbacks and a rocket up everyone else's a***s needed - then we can get back to winning. COYR.

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