Adkins bemoans late defending (From Daily Echo)

Kings Lynn Saint wrote:
If the defence were the problem, why no further defenders signed in the window????

costa gaz wrote:
Nigel if you hadn't removed our 3 best players the team wouldn't have been put on the backfoot for the last 15 mins of the match. We were in control, no need to change anything. Take some of the blame Nige.

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Stevi H wrote:
To the numb nut who replied to my last mesage, you should read the headlines on your own southern eveni echo front page,

"A SENIOR Southampton politician has defended his wife after she launched a scathing attack on the city's residents, labelling them "cretins", "bigoted" and "inbred".

Sounds like theres a problem in scum ville I suggest YOU crawl back under the rock numb nuts! lol

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Yeah they were all Man Utd fans looking for tickets! lol

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Stevi H wrote:
" Cant wait for Harry to return" sha la la la la la la

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Yeah they were all Man Utd fans looking for tickets! lol

On a Saints web site? Think again you brainless idiot.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
To the numb nut who replied to my last mesage, you should read the headlines on your own southern eveni echo front page,

"A SENIOR Southampton politician has defended his wife after she launched a scathing attack on the city's residents, labelling them "cretins", "bigoted" and "inbred".

Sounds like theres a problem in scum ville I suggest YOU crawl back under the rock numb nuts! lol

Get your facts right dipstick, the remark was aimed at some posters, who rather like you, posted some nasty stuff, it was about her father, the whole story is a mess and the Echo have been badly out of order with their reporting, and have removed the Comment section which was telling the real story. Jog on son, we having nothing like the problems that you have in your neck of the woods.

Skating on thin ice wrote:
Nul Points

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
To the numb nut who replied to my last mesage, you should read the headlines on your own southern eveni echo front page,

"A SENIOR Southampton politician has defended his wife after she launched a scathing attack on the city's residents, labelling them "cretins", "bigoted" and "inbred".

Sounds like theres a problem in scum ville I suggest YOU crawl back under the rock numb nuts! lol

Get your facts right dipstick, the remark was aimed at some posters, who rather like you, posted some nasty stuff, it was about her father, the whole story is a mess and the Echo have been badly out of order with their reporting, and have removed the Comment section which was telling the real story. Jog on son, we having nothing like the problems that you have in your neck of the woods.

Its still on this site mate, must be some substance?????

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Yeah they were all Man Utd fans looking for tickets! lol

On a Saints web site? Think again you brainless idiot.

Think again numb nuts I know loads of peope who dont support the scum and they always get tickets for games theres always 500 hundred Pompey fans in the scum seats when we play you! Think again you brainless idiot it aint hard is it!!!!!! lol

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
To the numb nut who replied to my last mesage, you should read the headlines on your own southern eveni echo front page,

"A SENIOR Southampton politician has defended his wife after she launched a scathing attack on the city's residents, labelling them "cretins", "bigoted" and "inbred".

Sounds like theres a problem in scum ville I suggest YOU crawl back under the rock numb nuts! lol

Get your facts right dipstick, the remark was aimed at some posters, who rather like you, posted some nasty stuff, it was about her father, the whole story is a mess and the Echo have been badly out of order with their reporting, and have removed the Comment section which was telling the real story. Jog on son, we having nothing like the problems that you have in your neck of the woods.

Its still on this site mate, must be some substance?????

It has, but nothing to do with football, if you prefer to read bad news go back to the News.

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Yeah they were all Man Utd fans looking for tickets! lol

On a Saints web site? Think again you brainless idiot.

Think again numb nuts I know loads of peope who dont support the scum and they always get tickets for games theres always 500 hundred Pompey fans in the scum seats when we play you! Think again you brainless idiot it aint hard is it!!!!!! lol

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

Skating on thin ice wrote:
Fair play, credit where credit is due. There are many positives that you can take from today's game.

1. The crowd. As the game was oh so totally utterly sold out to capacity, just 1000 empty seats is a very good performance.

2. The crowd. Most of them stayed until the 89th minute this time!! Good, they are learning.

3. The substitutions. Pure genius from Twadkins. A winning position against the champions-elect, turned into a loss within a few minutes. Arry will not make mistakes like that when he is manager next week.

4. The League position. Only 1 point behind Liverpool after 3 games. You'd certainly have taken that 2 weeks ago if it had been offered to you.

sfcmush wrote:
Check out the little skate getting his rocks off after we lose to man u, yes man u at home and only just. **** take a look at your own **** little team mate. Glad we provided your entertainment for the day, no pompey on telly? oh yeah were premier league your **** ****

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

I'm not really interested in what you think of Pompey as I am of the same opinion as you and the sooner we go out of business the better.

I do know that Pompey ARE the most successfull team on the south coast FACT in there current state and I am quite sure that we will come back when hopefully we go out of business to once again be the "M.S.T.O.T.S.C" s they say history always repeats itself.!

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Yeah they were all Man Utd fans looking for tickets! lol

On a Saints web site? Think again you brainless idiot.

Think again numb nuts I know loads of peope who dont support the scum and they always get tickets for games theres always 500 hundred Pompey fans in the scum seats when we play you! Think again you brainless idiot it aint hard is it!!!!!! lol

Just cos seats are empty don't mean season ticket holders haven't used there ticket.Why would 500 skates be watching us you tosserThen again it's better than watching the sh!t your used to .I m surprised you can write you seem a right thick ****

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

I'm not really interested in what you think of Pompey as I am of the same opinion as you and the sooner we go out of business the better.

I do know that Pompey ARE the most successfull team on the south coast FACT in there current state and I am quite sure that we will come back when hopefully we go out of business to once again be the "M.S.T.O.T.S.C" s they say history always repeats itself.!

WERE the most succesful team, not any more my son, not any more.

insane saint wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

pompey v ballmouth on tues on sky in the jpt .. wonder how many will turn up to that.., oh and we have won that

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

I'm not really interested in what you think of Pompey as I am of the same opinion as you and the sooner we go out of business the better.

I do know that Pompey ARE the most successfull team on the south coast FACT in there current state and I am quite sure that we will come back when hopefully we go out of business to once again be the "M.S.T.O.T.S.C" s they say history always repeats itself.!

WERE the most succesful team, not any more my son, not any more.

Stevi H wrote:

insane saint wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

pompey v ballmouth on tues on sky in the jpt .. wonder how many will turn up to that.., oh and we have won that

LOL whats that called the JPT????? and you've won it "WOW"

Stevi H wrote:

insane saint wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

pompey v ballmouth on tues on sky in the jpt .. wonder how many will turn up to that.., oh and we have won that

LOL whats that called the JPT????? and you've won it "WOW"

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Yeah they were all Man Utd fans looking for tickets! lol

On a Saints web site? Think again you brainless idiot.

Think again numb nuts I know loads of peope who dont support the scum and they always get tickets for games theres always 500 hundred Pompey fans in the scum seats when we play you! Think again you brainless idiot it aint hard is it!!!!!! lol

Just cos seats are empty don't mean season ticket holders haven't used there ticket.Why would 500 skates be watching us you tosserThen again it's better than watching the sh!t your used to .I m surprised you can write you seem a right thick ****

So if season ticket holders have used there tickets why would thre be empty?? Im lost on that one big boy!

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

I'm not really interested in what you think of Pompey as I am of the same opinion as you and the sooner we go out of business the better.

I do know that Pompey ARE the most successfull team on the south coast FACT in there current state and I am quite sure that we will come back when hopefully we go out of business to once again be the "M.S.T.O.T.S.C" s they say history always repeats itself.!

WERE the most succesful team, not any more my son, not any more.

LOL you must be on the pop

Norwegian Saint wrote:
Adkins...
I have had a lot of respect for you but after getting back from the game I have to disagree with what you did.
You took off 3 of our best players and disrupted the balance. We had them beaten (even with a dodgy ref) but your decisions were bad at best.
Spider was immense, Lallana world class, Punchy played his best game and Lambert was cracking.
2 out of 3 games I have been so proud to wear my shirt but you must go to bed thinking what have I done?
If Sharp is only good enough for the Championship.... so are you.
I've met you, I like you but today you really screwed up and cost us at least a point.
35 games left... 40 points to go

Skating on thin ice wrote:
Nul Points

Stevi H wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

I'm not really interested in what you think of Pompey as I am of the same opinion as you and the sooner we go out of business the better.

I do know that Pompey ARE the most successfull team on the south coast FACT in there current state and I am quite sure that we will come back when hopefully we go out of business to once again be the "M.S.T.O.T.S.C" s they say history always repeats itself.!

WERE the most succesful team, not any more my son, not any more.

I would never sit next to you at Lords.... I couldnt stand the smell

CEH393 wrote:

Skating on thin ice wrote:
Nul Points

You have 2 Points from playing in the 3rd division so i cannot see what your trying to say??? We can hold our heads up high after today's performance. Hope you enjoy Crawley at the weekend..... Oh no wait you probably will not as you most likely have never been to a football match as your giro cannot stretch that far!

redsnapper wrote:
Again FONTE loses concentration in the last vital minutes and K DAVIS had a shocker.

The rest were brilliant.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Norwegian Saint wrote:
Adkins...
I have had a lot of respect for you but after getting back from the game I have to disagree with what you did.
You took off 3 of our best players and disrupted the balance. We had them beaten (even with a dodgy ref) but your decisions were bad at best.
Spider was immense, Lallana world class, Punchy played his best game and Lambert was cracking.
2 out of 3 games I have been so proud to wear my shirt but you must go to bed thinking what have I done?
If Sharp is only good enough for the Championship.... so are you.
I've met you, I like you but today you really screwed up and cost us at least a point.
35 games left... 40 points to go

Now, now NS, we are all entitled to an Ooops moment, NA had one today, we can't deny that, things will get better, believe me, even Stevi H knows that.

worried of n e hampshire wrote:
sorry nige you should be bemoaning your late substitutions

insane saint wrote:
what about Rickie will he get picked for England. The England manager was in the crowd.

did he like what he saw?
will he pick him?
what does every one else think?

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

Norwegian Saint wrote:

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

Wrong, I am sat here after being at the game with sore tonsils shouting for us.
Don't come on here and say "go support the skates" for voicing my opinion about Adkins. We could and should have won, it hurts getting nothing from that great performance, yes the players gave 100% but the manager let us down today.

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

Norwegian Saint wrote:

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

Wrong, I am sat here after being at the game with sore tonsils shouting for us.
Don't come on here and say "go support the skates" for voicing my opinion about Adkins. We could and should have won, it hurts getting nothing from that great performance, yes the players gave 100% but the manager let us down today.

Madeira Saint wrote:
Nigel bemoans late defending?
Saints fans bemoan late subs.
Look at it this way-Van Persie had scored a goal-so had Rickie.
Fergie left Van Persie on,Nigel subs Rickie.
End of game -Van Persie has scored a hat trick.
Rickie-plus Adam and Jason,must wonder what more they can do.
Nigel,perhaps time for you to bemoan the substitions you make-

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
Whatever happens we are priviledged to have the opportunity to see some great football and it is not all coming from the opposition.

Skating on thin ice wrote:
Nul Points

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling. We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game. It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making. We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation? It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here. Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today. The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season. It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team. Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour. COYR

Cpt. Kirk's illegitimate love child wrote:
We were superb today. It was obvious that Unitied were going to throw the kitchen sink at us in the last few mins and I can see what Nige was thinking with the subs. Unfortunately, it just let United come on to us and Fonte was very slow to attack the ball at the last corner for VP's last goal. Without Lambert there was really no one to hold the ball. Vidic and Ferdinand were worried about Lambert all game whereas the young Zambian didn't have the strength against them. Shame but the lads did us proud. Where 4 mins extra time came from I can't imagine.

Stevi H wrote:

wild rupert wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

I could understand you coming on here taking the P but not when you come from the equaliviant to a town up north with a non league ground that you never fill unles away teams bring extra like Bournemouth .You live week to week with players on monthly contracts and go on about being successful ore WW2.You would love to be Saints fan that's why your on our site.Maybe we could meet you lot at lords in a few weeks

I'm not really interested in what you think of Pompey as I am of the same opinion as you and the sooner we go out of business the better.

I do know that Pompey ARE the most successfull team on the south coast FACT in there current state and I am quite sure that we will come back when hopefully we go out of business to once again be the "M.S.T.O.T.S.C" s they say history always repeats itself.!

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

Enock84 wrote:
Totally agree mate Adkins is being found out at this level tactically he is championship level. I know who we were playing but as soon as he took lambert off saints players we're holding on this might sound harsh but Adkins will not b manager in 2 months

Enock84 wrote:
I've. Not met anyone who rates guly he is **** he jogs around like he is special I've had enough of him I will pay to get him out of this country

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
To the numb nut who replied to my last mesage, you should read the headlines on your own southern eveni echo front page,

"A SENIOR Southampton politician has defended his wife after she launched a scathing attack on the city's residents, labelling them "cretins", "bigoted" and "inbred".

Sounds like theres a problem in scum ville I suggest YOU crawl back under the rock numb nuts! lol

Get your facts right dipstick, the remark was aimed at some posters, who rather like you, posted some nasty stuff, it was about her father, the whole story is a mess and the Echo have been badly out of order with their reporting, and have removed the Comment section which was telling the real story. Jog on son, we having nothing like the problems that you have in your neck of the woods.

costa gaz wrote:
Nigel if you hadn't removed our 3 best players the team wouldn't have been put on the backfoot for the last 15 mins of the match.
We were in control, no need to change anything.
Take some of the blame Nige.

Just another reader wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Empty seats? 31000+ at the game with around 1000 off sale for segregation. Crawl back under your rock and shag your mum/sister/aunty.

Saintsteve7 wrote:

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

Like this alot!

pompey phil wrote:

Just another reader wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Empty seats? 31000+ at the game with around 1000 off sale for segregation. Crawl back under your rock and shag your mum/sister/aunty.

Watch the game back and you will see empty seats in line with the utd defence in the first half, then in line with the scum defence in the second half,just proves that you dont look around your lego house when you are there. RVP

insane saint wrote:
what about Rickie will he get picked for England. The England manager was in the crowd.

did he like what he saw?
will he pick him?
what does every one else think?

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

This! Thumbs up for that post.

Enock84 wrote:
Mate how can u say defensive issue aside we have a team capable of top ten . That's quite a big issue don't u think lol agree with every thing else though. In my opinion Adkins wii b sacked soon tactically not good enough at this level . To flash in the pan why don't u just **** kill yourself u **** skate ****

pompey phil wrote:

Just another reader wrote:

Stevi H wrote: "You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness. Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol. P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Empty seats? 31000+ at the game with around 1000 off sale for segregation. Crawl back under your rock and shag your mum/sister/aunty.

Watch the game back and you will see empty seats in line with the utd defence in the first half, then in line with the scum defence in the second half,just proves that you dont look around your lego house when you are there. RVP

See You When The Fog Clears wrote:
We may not have any points but I for one am optimistic that we will do well this season. We have had a hard start and will learn from that, the new players will be coming in and that will strengthen us.... COYR

SaintPC wrote:
I find the cynicism do Adkins incredible, he made the right tactical changes but the players on the pitch didn't manage to do the job he asked of them.

J-Rod wasn't winning much in the air as was mis-timing his jumps.

Mayuka wasn't holding the ball up, and the team weren't playing it into the channels for him to chase down, but they only met him a few days ago.

Defensively, we just got tired and ragged, we all know Fonte isn't quite up to prem standard, but we have his replacement ready to join up with the team before the Arsenal game.

These four games were always going to be a learning curve, we have played superbly, apart from controlling a game in the latter stages. That's our lesson. But Utd have been scoring late goals against clubs or years, and City have done the same more recently.

Get all of our players available, get passed these four games, and the season starts properly for us against villa at home.

Let's have some faith as fans, we are playing some brilliant football, the results WILL come!!

COYR

Puddletown Saint wrote:
Yes Nig - blames lies bit part with you Understand making subs but not Mak or Guly - come on

And why no Luke or Chappers on the bench

Two week break to think about it son!!!

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

It's none of your business though is it? Does the success of the Blue Phew make you laugh as much? 31,609 seats occupied for most of the match, there was a batch of empty seats in the Itchen, what is that about, yesterday people were on the Net asking if they could get tickets, so some of them obviously could have got in, if the information was available.

Scarborosaint wrote:
Agree with NA the 3 players had worked there socks off , but the
Problem with taking Ricky off is he is good defensively from corners, would of liked to of seen us throw an extra midfielder on to nullify scholes who came on to pull the strings , spiderman was awesome today but all starting eleven did there bit , those guly fonte and fox detractors give it a rest every goal we concede they get blamed, Yoshida will give us an option and young shaw is going to be a good player, NA will decide when the time is right for them to play, well done puncheon his attitude and displays have surprised me but hats off to him for knuckling down cos he too has not been a crowd favourite !!

loosehead wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

StHuey wrote:
A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling.
We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game.
It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making.
We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation?
It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here.
Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today.
The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season.
It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team.
Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour.

COYR

This! Thumbs up for that post.

Osprey I posted that our defence needed strengthening & you told me to go back playing with the funny shaped ball or words to that effect.
One of the best forms of defence is attack whilst keeping control of the ball in any team ball game.
whilst keeping on the front three Man U were worried & we looked okay for the very least a draw so why with a weak defender like Fonte did he take of our attackers to bring on speed boys to break out of defence?
It's okay if you have good defenders but I can't understand why he didn't strengthen the defence is he converting Lambert?
I hope he has plans to borrow a good defender soon

Norwegian Saint wrote:
Adkins...
I have had a lot of respect for you but after getting back from the game I have to disagree with what you did.
You took off 3 of our best players and disrupted the balance. We had them beaten (even with a dodgy ref) but your decisions were bad at best.
Spider was immense, Lallana world class, Punchy played his best game and Lambert was cracking.
2 out of 3 games I have been so proud to wear my shirt but you must go to bed thinking what have I done?
If Sharp is only good enough for the Championship.... so are you.
I've met you, I like you but today you really screwed up and cost us at least a point.
35 games left... 40 points to go

mack chinnon wrote:

Norwegian Saint wrote:
Adkins...
I have had a lot of respect for you but after getting back from the game I have to disagree with what you did.
You took off 3 of our best players and disrupted the balance. We had them beaten (even with a dodgy ref) but your decisions were bad at best.
Spider was immense, Lallana world class, Punchy played his best game and Lambert was cracking.
2 out of 3 games I have been so proud to wear my shirt but you must go to bed thinking what have I done?
If Sharp is only good enough for the Championship.... so are you.
I've met you, I like you but today you really screwed up and cost us at least a point.
35 games left... 40 points to go

Bit harsh Noggie.

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

mack chinnon wrote:

Norwegian Saint wrote:
Adkins...
I have had a lot of respect for you but after getting back from the game I have to disagree with what you did.
You took off 3 of our best players and disrupted the balance. We had them beaten (even with a dodgy ref) but your decisions were bad at best.
Spider was immense, Lallana world class, Punchy played his best game and Lambert was cracking.
2 out of 3 games I have been so proud to wear my shirt but you must go to bed thinking what have I done?
If Sharp is only good enough for the Championship.... so are you.
I've met you, I like you but today you really screwed up and cost us at least a point.
35 games left... 40 points to go

Bit harsh Noggie.

Mack. Sorry about my corner prediction. Looks like we still can't attack or defend them. :(

Do you think we could learn a lesson from United? Whatever the problems with the marking, for their winner, if my eyes saw it correctly, I 'liked' (sic) the way a player ran to where RVP was being marked by JWP, then took JWP away, leaving RVP unmarked. It was a bit like the Skate's equaliser at their shed last year.

Both ends need work, but we're getting there.

Cpt. Kirk's illegitimate love child wrote:

Saintsteve7 wrote:

StHuey wrote: A lot of my fellow Saints fans posting on here make me ashamed to be classed in the same bracket with you. Your narrow vision and selective viewing from today's game is appalling. We played a blinder today and every one of our players gave his all, each one making a number of telling contributions throughout the game. It was a case of fine margins for how we lost today and it wasn't the fault of any of the subs or any of our players in particular and it was certainly nothing to do with our manager's decision making. We were on the back foot before the subs were made for reasons that are more than things within Saints control. Ferguson knows a few things about winning games too, or do all the know alls on here think his team didn't come into the equation? It might be easier to try and pin the blame on a specific player or on a specific decision, but it isn't like that and that is why I am eternally grateful that Adkins is our manager rather than any of you posters on here. Adkins was imploring the team to push out towards the end, before the substitutions, and not get pegged into their area but they couldn't do it. He had to change something and freshen up the attack. Sadly, it wasn't quite enough, but we will learn from it and we will get better at dominating the best teams in the land, which we demonstrated we can do today. The fans of the most successful clubs get behind their team no matter what. Perhaps if more Saints fans could get some perspective and not want to throw the baby out with the bath water just because we tired and made a few mistakes in the closing stages of the game, there is a chance that we could join that elite. I bet if Man Utd had lost today, their fans wouldn't have gone straight on to the fan sites berating Ferguson and his team, because they know one blip does not make a season. It takes more than a good team, a good manager and a good chairman to be successful. It takes committed supportive fans to make it work. So perhaps you could all try and remember that next time things don't go our way or you don't agree with a decision or an action. Reserve your judgement until the end of the season and until then, zip it, find the positives and get behind the team. Remember In Adkins we Trust? I do and if you don't, go and watch the Skates instead, it would do us all a favour. COYR

Like this alot!

Like your post St Huey. Only thing wrong is the suggestion that people should go and watch Skates. Ugh. Shudder at the thought. I thought Adkins got it just about right. I would have preferred to see Lambert stay on though, but I can see why Adkins did it. He could see we we getting pinned back and though a quicker fresher pair of legs would cause them problems both in terms of breakaways and chasing the defenders down. Adkins is right in that both he and the players will have learned a lot from that. Winning in injury time is something United have done for many years, but where 4 minutes injury time came from I don't know.

SaintPC wrote:
I find the cynicism do Adkins incredible, he made the right tactical changes but the players on the pitch didn't manage to do the job he asked of them. J-Rod wasn't winning much in the air as was mis-timing his jumps. Mayuka wasn't holding the ball up, and the team weren't playing it into the channels for him to chase down, but they only met him a few days ago. Defensively, we just got tired and ragged, we all know Fonte isn't quite up to prem standard, but we have his replacement ready to join up with the team before the Arsenal game. These four games were always going to be a learning curve, we have played superbly, apart from controlling a game in the latter stages. That's our lesson. But Utd have been scoring late goals against clubs or years, and City have done the same more recently. Get all of our players available, get passed these four games, and the season starts properly for us against villa at home. Let's have some faith as fans, we are playing some brilliant football, the results WILL come!! COYR

redsnapper wrote:
Again FONTE loses concentration in the last vital minutes and K DAVIS had a shocker.

The rest were brilliant.

Stevi H wrote:
"You scummers make me laugh you 2 -1 up and you take off your best players with nearly 16 minutes to go againt 1 of the best clubs in Europe total madness.

Adkins must go but unfortunatly for you lot it looks like Harrys waiting in the wings again lol lol.

P.S was there a fire drill throughout the game!!! ??? so many empty seats

Enock84 wrote:
Come on pal he is **** it's peaple like u who sing his name at ground who should be banned from stadium unless u don't go and just hide away on forums like this u little **** from a season ticket holder