| Centre backs 10:44 - Aug 28 with 2953 views | saint22 |
Who starts tomorrow??
Surely Tonda has to drop Stephens??! |  | | |  |
| Centre backs on 11:01 - Aug 28 with 2890 views | SaintNick |
Stepehens may have to start if THB is still not in the right condition |  |
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| Centre backs on 12:25 - Aug 28 with 2761 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Centre backs on 11:01 - Aug 28 by SaintNick |
Stepehens may have to start if THB is still not in the right condition |
But why would he not be? (Unless there's an injury of course) He is (seems to be) a decent professional and I'm sure he'd play the right way and do his best for the club and would prove to any suitors he is worth paying the £30m or so with his attitude alone |  |
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| Centre backs on 12:30 - Aug 28 with 2753 views | Block8 |
| Centre backs on 12:25 - Aug 28 by kingslandstand1 |
But why would he not be? (Unless there's an injury of course) He is (seems to be) a decent professional and I'm sure he'd play the right way and do his best for the club and would prove to any suitors he is worth paying the £30m or so with his attitude alone |
Is he having mental issues or just refusing to play?
Be a bit embarrassing if he stays 😞 | | | |
| Centre backs on 13:16 - Aug 28 with 2660 views | Ifonly |
Wood and Stephens will play. Very unlikely that THB will be involved at all as negotiations with Villa still seem to be live. Schlotterbeck won't be ready yet but will probably be on the bench because there are no other options. | | | |
| Centre backs on 13:31 - Aug 28 with 2622 views | Southamptonfan |
| Centre backs on 12:30 - Aug 28 by Block8 |
Is he having mental issues or just refusing to play?
Be a bit embarrassing if he stays 😞 |
Tonda confirmed he won't play tomorrow. THB clearly wants to leave, but Villa arn't matching his valuation. The thought that THB might have to stay, is obviously upsetting him and hence he isn't playing. At the end of the day, THB should accept that we can't let him go for a pathetic amount, so he should just keep playing for us and be professional. When that 80 grand is waved in front of you, with champions league football, the thought of it not happening, must be affecting his mental health. Poor thing, only staying on 30 grand a week. [Post edited 28 Aug 13:33]
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| Centre backs on 13:56 - Aug 28 with 2556 views | TimSaint |
| Centre backs on 13:16 - Aug 28 by Ifonly |
Wood and Stephens will play. Very unlikely that THB will be involved at all as negotiations with Villa still seem to be live. Schlotterbeck won't be ready yet but will probably be on the bench because there are no other options. |
Apparently we need International Clearance for Schlotterbeck.
Hopefully this is straight forward enough for him to be involved in some way tomorrow, but we as a club, often have issues with this sort of thing !! |  |
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| Centre backs on 14:33 - Aug 28 with 2515 views | jopreston |
| Centre backs on 13:56 - Aug 28 by TimSaint |
Apparently we need International Clearance for Schlotterbeck.
Hopefully this is straight forward enough for him to be involved in some way tomorrow, but we as a club, often have issues with this sort of thing !! |
And after spygate you just know the EFL and FA will not want to do us any favours. |  | | |
| Centre backs on 15:41 - Aug 28 with 2419 views | kingolaf |
Why on earth wouldn’t Kev play.
It shouldn’t even be a debate. Stephens is a liability. | | | |
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| Centre backs on 16:15 - Aug 28 with 2351 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Centre backs on 13:31 - Aug 28 by Southamptonfan |
Tonda confirmed he won't play tomorrow. THB clearly wants to leave, but Villa arn't matching his valuation. The thought that THB might have to stay, is obviously upsetting him and hence he isn't playing. At the end of the day, THB should accept that we can't let him go for a pathetic amount, so he should just keep playing for us and be professional. When that 80 grand is waved in front of you, with champions league football, the thought of it not happening, must be affecting his mental health. Poor thing, only staying on 30 grand a week. [Post edited 28 Aug 13:33]
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According to this morning's paper Villa are still "pursuing" him which means they either are going to or have upped their offer. Maybe that latest offer still doesn't match ours so someone is going to be stuffed! | |
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| Centre backs on 16:17 - Aug 28 with 2342 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Centre backs on 14:33 - Aug 28 by jopreston |
And after spygate you just know the EFL and FA will not want to do us any favours. |
FFS, haven't they stuffed us enough already!
Get the fkn lawyers involved! | |
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| Centre backs on 16:59 - Aug 28 with 2298 views | Ifonly |
| Centre backs on 15:41 - Aug 28 by kingolaf |
Why on earth wouldn’t Kev play.
It shouldn’t even be a debate. Stephens is a liability. |
Schlotterbeck probably doesn't know enough about the way we play and he hasn't spent enough time in training with his defensive partners. Every team defends slightly differently, particularly if like Augsburg, they play a back 3.
There's a reason teams do defensive drills over and over again in training and he's probably not done enough of them here to know exactly what his job is in different situations. If Schlotterbeck has only had a couple of training sessions, then Tonda would really have to have lost confidence in JS to drop him for this game. | | | |
| Centre backs on 17:07 - Aug 28 with 2285 views | Saintcole7 |
| Centre backs on 16:59 - Aug 28 by Ifonly |
Schlotterbeck probably doesn't know enough about the way we play and he hasn't spent enough time in training with his defensive partners. Every team defends slightly differently, particularly if like Augsburg, they play a back 3.
There's a reason teams do defensive drills over and over again in training and he's probably not done enough of them here to know exactly what his job is in different situations. If Schlotterbeck has only had a couple of training sessions, then Tonda would really have to have lost confidence in JS to drop him for this game. |
I thought that was part of our issues so far this season, we seemed to have forgotten the drills on how to defend so Kev only has to learn to pass it forwards and to a red and white shirt. | | | |
| Centre backs on 18:25 - Aug 28 with 2186 views | 1ASIN12 |
From what Tonda said earlier I’ve a feeling the new guy will come straight in, probably partner wood . | |
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| Centre backs on 09:34 - Aug 29 with 1834 views | kingolaf |
| Centre backs on 16:59 - Aug 28 by Ifonly |
Schlotterbeck probably doesn't know enough about the way we play and he hasn't spent enough time in training with his defensive partners. Every team defends slightly differently, particularly if like Augsburg, they play a back 3.
There's a reason teams do defensive drills over and over again in training and he's probably not done enough of them here to know exactly what his job is in different situations. If Schlotterbeck has only had a couple of training sessions, then Tonda would really have to have lost confidence in JS to drop him for this game. |
I don’t think drills make any difference to Stephens.
Football isn’t a complicated game, despite what some smart arses tell you.
Get the new bloke and JWP straight in. | | | |
| Centre backs on 10:57 - Aug 29 with 1751 views | Ifonly |
| Centre backs on 09:34 - Aug 29 by kingolaf |
I don’t think drills make any difference to Stephens.
Football isn’t a complicated game, despite what some smart arses tell you.
Get the new bloke and JWP straight in. |
Never mind what anyone else thinks, today's coaches think the game is complicated. Just to pick one example, every club has different ways of attacking and defending corners. Saints will have spent some time in training this week on how to defend against Millwall's corners, which they score lots of goals from. Maybe Schlotterbeck was there for that session, maybe not.
OTOH, it may actually be that KS is brought in today for that very reason. He's supposed to be good in the air and we'll bloody need to be to defend against their set pieces.
Playing JS is always a risk but the coaches will think it's a risk to throw KS straight in too. Let's see which risk they prefer. | | | |
| Centre backs on 19:01 - Aug 29 with 1544 views | saint22 |
| Centre backs on 10:57 - Aug 29 by Ifonly |
Never mind what anyone else thinks, today's coaches think the game is complicated. Just to pick one example, every club has different ways of attacking and defending corners. Saints will have spent some time in training this week on how to defend against Millwall's corners, which they score lots of goals from. Maybe Schlotterbeck was there for that session, maybe not.
OTOH, it may actually be that KS is brought in today for that very reason. He's supposed to be good in the air and we'll bloody need to be to defend against their set pieces.
Playing JS is always a risk but the coaches will think it's a risk to throw KS straight in too. Let's see which risk they prefer. |
Real shame THB isn’t gonna stay as the new guys partner | | | |
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