Southampton 2 - 2 Newcastle United - 15/10/17 - Post-match reaction from page 29

[Guest firetotheworks]

We were also treated very leniently by the ref, I thought.

[nufc4eva]

Lejune had a solid game other than that, he will learn from this. This is a good point although we really should have won this

 

Really unimpressed by Murphy's lack of urgency there at the end

 

I think Murphy looks weak as piss. Gonna take a while before he can play

[Joe_F]

Yeah fuck it let's just interview two Southampton players

[afar]

We were also treated very leniently by the ref, I thought.

 

Yeah, he seemed to favour us a bit, which was a nice change, Yedlin really should have gone.

[Away Toon]

Question marks now on who is his first choice CB pairing, before the pen I don't think Clark would get off the bench much for the remainder of the season however Rafa doesn't suffer fools, we've seen that, might be back to Clark and Lascelles next week now.

 

Well Mbemba is our best CB so paring somebody else with him for a start would improve us.

[joeyt]

Gabbiadini always looks like he wants to cry

[toontownman]

Disappointed after the game but would have been more than content hearing the result before.

 

Played some great football at times. With 3 or 4 decent upgrade players we could be half decent.

[TRon]

All four goals were fairly weak so can't really complain at the result. Saints were there for the taking though, but we don't have the players to capitalise. Decent point in the end.

[Stottie]

FT. Decent enough result, but two points thrown away given the way the game played out. We gifted them their goals. We hit their woodwork and had one cleared off the line. Yedlin should have been off though.

 

I think it was Bimpy who said Long was our bogey player before the game, and he got an absolutely nothing penna out of us. I think the last goal he got against us was the one where he walked it past Steven Taylor, that plank's last contribution before Rafa dropped him, but he managed it today against a seemingly much better player. Maybe there is a voodoo working some black magic there.

 

Gayle came on with a knackered Shelvey at #10, a total hiding to nothing, so don't judge him on this.

 

I would have liked to see more energy from Murphy, so maybe a kick up the arse is needed there. He looked lazy for a young lad who'd just been brought on.

 

All in all, two points lost, but suck in up and move on.

[xLiaaamx]

We were also treated very leniently by the ref, I thought.

 

Yeah, he seemed to favour us a bit, which was a nice change, Yedlin really should have gone.

 

He was lenient with cards but not with giving free kicks.

[George Bailey]

Our deficiencies are plain and until Rafa gets a chance to address them then this sort of result/performance will be the norm.

Our strikers are all 'adequate' squad players and no more in this division, our keeper situation is less than ideal and we lack real quality in parts of the pitch that are key.

 

Once we have funds from a new owner (please god/other fictitious deities...) then this utter quality manager we have will have us as a real force to be reckoned with in a short space of time imo.

Until then we ride this out.

[Klaus]

Engineered our own downfall. Disappointing considering we were ahead twice. Elliott should save and Lejeune was daft. Really annoying because Lejeune was solid aside from his daft lapse. I thought we were the better team overall and our quality on the ball was more noteworthy than their quantity.

 

Can't grumble too much considering our record down there and that we'd have probably have all taken a draw beforehand, the perspective here is that we've come away with a point and are a bit disappointed, that's probably a good sign that we're doing alright.

 

I wouldn't blame Elliot for the first, no way should he have got a shot away from that situation.

[Guest neesy111]

Engineered our own downfall. Disappointing considering we were ahead twice. Elliott should save and Lejeune was daft. Really annoying because Lejeune was solid aside from his daft lapse. I thought we were the better team overall and our quality on the ball was more noteworthy than their quantity.

 

Can't grumble too much considering our record down there and that we'd have probably have all taken a draw beforehand, the perspective here is that we've come away with a point and are a bit disappointed, that's probably a good sign that we're doing alright.

 

I wouldn't blame Elliot for the first, no way should he have got a shot away from that situation.

 

It's terrible defending, but Elliott is at fault for not saving the shot.

[sbnufc]

"Good technique from Ayezo" - Alan Pardew

[TRon]

Engineered our own downfall. Disappointing considering we were ahead twice. Elliott should save and Lejeune was daft. Really annoying because Lejeune was solid aside from his daft lapse. I thought we were the better team overall and our quality on the ball was more noteworthy than their quantity.

 

Can't grumble too much considering our record down there and that we'd have probably have all taken a draw beforehand, the perspective here is that we've come away with a point and are a bit disappointed, that's probably a good sign that we're doing alright.

 

I wouldn't blame Elliot for the first, no way should he have got a shot away from that situation.

 

That was shit defending from Manquillo, Elliott was unsighted.

[LV]

Long was diving before Lejeune took him down. He knew exactly what he was doing there.

[Optimistic Nut]

Engineered our own downfall. Disappointing considering we were ahead twice. Elliott should save and Lejeune was daft. Really annoying because Lejeune was solid aside from his daft lapse. I thought we were the better team overall and our quality on the ball was more noteworthy than their quantity.

 

Can't grumble too much considering our record down there and that we'd have probably have all taken a draw beforehand, the perspective here is that we've come away with a point and are a bit disappointed, that's probably a good sign that we're doing alright.

 

I wouldn't blame Elliot for the first, no way should he have got a shot away from that situation.

 

He'd been lead away from a far more dangerous position back out towards the edge of the box, hit a fairly tame shot and it went in. Hard to blame the defence imo.

[Guest firetotheworks]

We were also treated very leniently by the ref, I thought.

 

Yeah, he seemed to favour us a bit, which was a nice change, Yedlin really should have gone.

 

He was lenient with cards but not with giving free kicks.

We got free kicks all the time.

[Joe_F]

Long was diving before Lejeune took him down. He knew exactly what he was doing there.

 

Aye that last angle shows what a clever/cheating twat he was

[mozy]

He deserves to give away a pen for the stupidity of the tackle. Long was clever, no one would argue if one of our guys did the same.

[Ikon]

Manquillo shouldn't been that passive, he can't allow the player to take that shot. Having said that Elliott was too slow as well.

[Tsunami]

Tell you what, Long waits for Lejuenne, toe pokes the ball out and gleefully goes over. It’s a very clever piece of play. I’d almost call it cheating; he knows exactly what he’s looking to happen.

[Guest firetotheworks]

Engineered our own downfall. Disappointing considering we were ahead twice. Elliott should save and Lejeune was daft. Really annoying because Lejeune was solid aside from his daft lapse. I thought we were the better team overall and our quality on the ball was more noteworthy than their quantity.

 

Can't grumble too much considering our record down there and that we'd have probably have all taken a draw beforehand, the perspective here is that we've come away with a point and are a bit disappointed, that's probably a good sign that we're doing alright.

 

I wouldn't blame Elliot for the first, no way should he have got a shot away from that situation.

He'd been ushered to the edge of the box and put in a weak shot. Can't really blame Manquillo there, he's done most of what he needs to do and attempted the block. 100% Elliott's fault imo, he went down in chapters.

[TRon]

He deserves to give away a pen for the stupidity of the tackle. Long was clever, no one would argue if one of our guys did the same.

 

 

He looked like he knew he'd fucked up tbf. Both goals we conceded were soft, but then so were theirs. Lack of quality was pretty evident on the pitch for both sides.

[Skeletor]

Can't help feeling very disappointed after that. Southampton couldn't defend for shit and looked like they were gonna concede every time we attacked them yet we spent so much of the game behind the ball sitting back. The manner of the equaliser as well was difficult to swallow. So avoidable.