Quote Originally Posted by AfricanBluebird View Post
Just really awful

If the press and long balls doesn't work, we literally have nothing going forward.

Once again passing and ball retention very very poor. No flair in midfield. We couldn't get Giles into the call. Played almost zero balls forward for someone to run on to.

And in the second half we completely lost our shape... The only shape we have played since Mick's been here. Bizarre

I feel sorry for the younger players coming into a team which doesn't like having the ball.

Looking at the players to come back... Of course we will be stronger, but none of the players coming back address the above issues.
The club’s Twitter feed said “Southampton seeing plenty of the ball” when I looked at it in the first half and you can imagine Mick McCarthy saying something like “these are much better than us at passing the ball, so it’s important we keep our discipline and shape, don’t over commit and then maybe we can nick something from a set piece” before the match - trouble is, he probably said the same thing before we played Cambridge, Forest Green and Exeter.