Southampton (A) 04/02/17 - 15.00 k/o

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  • LukerzLukerz
    Proper bogey ground
  • LukerzLukerz
    Looking forward to seeing Snodderz from the off.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Bring us back a win twist ;ok
  • LukerzLukerz
    So if Byram is crocked (shock horror, who saw us losing our only RB coming?)

    Adrian
    Fonte - Collins - Reid
    Antonio - Kouyate - Obiang - Cresswell
    Lanzini - Snodgrass
    Carroll
  • TwistandShoutTwistandShout
    Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

    Bring us back a win twist ;ok

    ;pray
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

    Proper bogey ground

    But we're playing away today... ;phew
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Hoping that for once the 'curse of' works for us.

    Curse of the cup finalists often strikes teams, who go on a long losing run in the run up to the final, and Fonte to get a goal and play a stormer.
  • horshamhammerhorshamhammer
    Not buying a RB in the window really was a stupid decision, wasn't it?
  • uposupos
    Yes
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Maybe we couldn't get one we wanted.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    edited February 2017
    But any right back is better then no right back. Within reason, I mean. If we have to revert to three at the back because our only right back is injured is a bit of a farce, IMO

    Jenkinson was available and I'm really surprised we weren't in for him. Ok, he split opinion, but he would have done a job for us and certainly wouldn't have been any worse than Byram.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    We can't have a second 'just in case' squad.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    If we have got a RB you know Byram would not have been injured, it would have been a striker and you'd all want to know why we didn't buy mini judas.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

    So if Byram is crocked (shock horror, who saw us losing our only RB coming?)

    Adrian
    Fonte - Collins - Reid
    Antonio - Kouyate - Obiang - Cresswell
    Lanzini - Snodgrass
    Carroll

    It's same team as I posted earlier expect for keeper..
    Would actually like to see this team...
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    SuzanneClaret said:

    We can't have a second 'just in case' squad.

    That is the entire point of a squad though, isn't it? ;hmm
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;hmm
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited February 2017
    The reality is that even a fit Byram is currently a Champo standard RB.

    He isn't very good, at the moment.

    He may be a Cresswell one day, but that day is not yet.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    SuzanneClaret said:

    If we have got a RB you know Byram would not have been injured, it would have been a striker and you'd all want to know why we didn't buy mini judas.

    No, I fully expected Byram to get injured, or suspended, or be out of form at some point in the next four months. At least up front we have cover for our starting striker, albeit with question marks over their effectiveness.

    At right back we have nothing and the only back up plan could be to change our formation. That, IMO, is poor.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Exactly OCS.

    And being forced to change to a 3 may result in being spanked by a side perfectly suited to playing against a 3/5 at the back.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Luke you could argue that Aaron has been championship quality for a few games recently..
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    And he has no cover either so we can't drop him
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Gabbiadini debut to score?
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    SuzanneClaret said:

    Maybe we couldn't get one we wanted.

    My feeling is that we often adopt too much of a "value for money" approach. I'm not saying we could or should spray money around left right and centre, but there are times and positions where sometimes we have to make a compromise to get players we need, whether that's paying a bit more for someone, or buying someone who'll have no resale value (Fonte being quite an exception, and maybe the penny is finally dropping).

    For example, when we signed Carroll, despite the fact that he was already injured, we were then only looking for a quality striker who could also play out wide when Carroll was fit; G&S weren't prepared to pay decent money for a striker who might have to be left on the bench if Carroll was fit. So we've spent how long and how many transfer windows always saying we need to sign a striker? Instead we reach the end of each window and end up with stop gap and almost always poor quality loans that underperform and still don't resolve the issue going into the next window.

    Likewise, how long have we been after a decent right back? Sometimes you have to pay through the nose or pay good money even if there is no resale value when there is a glaring hole in the squad.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited February 2017
    Slav said they looked for a RB and couldn't find one available that they rated enough to sign, yet people think that is wrong, and we should have signed someone they don't rate? ;hmm
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited February 2017
    Well they obviously didn't look very hard!

    No RB in world football who they rated lol
  • LukerzLukerz
    Byram's shirt is not in the dressing room so a back 3 it is
  • LukerzLukerz
    IMG_0387
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    There's a shirt missing though as I can only see 9
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    And Winston ?
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Or Antonio at right back?
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