For a man whose family money has come from banking I find it mystifying that Randy Lerner cannot do the financial sums. Give or take we have 20 weeks to save ourselves. A million pounds a week would cost us less than we paid for Bent. Surely for a million quid a week we could get in ten out of contract players who are capable of keeping us up?The key is that we only need them for half a season, just enough to survive and let the core team recover from the trauma of the first half of the season then start again next August. We don't need Givens and Heskeys on massive contracts, just a short term fix.
If Vlaar was fit enough for the bench, why couldn't he start? It's not as if the defence has been playing well. They've been fucking shite.
It was an utter shambles defensively before the pen.
Quote from: Steve Rose on January 12, 2013, 05:27:31 PMGet a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.It's a bery disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.That's a very blinkered view of the match. We should have had a point but they had plenty of chances including hitting the post. And yes, we were at home. To Southampton. Do the maths, if you think we don't need points out of these games, you're going to get a huge surprise come May.
Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.It's a bery disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.
Yes 4-2-4 doesn't work or supply chances.
I've not read the whole of this thread so apologies if this has already been brought up but was Halsey meant to be our ref today? I've never come across a ref being asked to ref the same team two leaague games in a row.
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