SonicBoom

Old story. You don't score when you're on top then you will get punished. Particularly with our defence.

How do we not pick up their tiny centre forward. He's behind Vestergaard and Bertrand can see him in front of him yet he STILL gets a free header and should have scored.

what we really need to do is turn our good play into goals. We missed chances in the first game and paid the price, we missed chances against Liverpool and we've missed more tonight. We dominated that half and yet it's still all square. That really was a poor miss from Ings, keeper backing away, 6 yards out and he misses the target. We have to press home the advantage or we will pay again.

I don't get this Walker Peters signing. It's a lot of money for someone who hasn't ever forced his way into a Spurs team. If they believed in his potential surely they'd keep him. Targett went for 17 but at least he had a track record of playing games in the PL.

Solent picked Stephen's from start of second half being indecisive and losing all his composure. Sure enough defence all over the place for the entire second half. Seemed obvious and poor that neither Ralph or the players made any changes to effect it.

Is Maehle actually any good? Other than his link to Saints I've never heard of him - but then I don't take much notice of European football. Also despite our recent good form - I'm still convinced that our most pressing need is a CB. The club are talking about left and right backs. I've seen enough balls bounce around inside our six yard box whilst a bunch of headless chickens panic and try to fly hack it to safety, to think that a CB is still the most important position to fill.

Hey Ralph, how's that high pressing game working out......

Worse thing is, there are no scuffles, no anger, no real tackles or fouls and no yellow cards. The players are just meekly accepting getting butt ****** on national telly.

I cant remember a more woeful half by a Saints team. Can anyone? We've given away leads before and even conceded a few but that half was pathetic. Most couldn't control the ball and then couldn't wait to get rid of it. This is worse than anything I saw from Puel, Pellegrino or Hughes. Anyone still trusting in Ralph - cos from what I see he has actually made everyone worse.

We have stopped playing. Get some life into it Ralph ffs

Our passing is shocking....

Id say that CB is the one position where age is less of an issue. Pace isn't paramount, but reading the game and experience can make up for that. Terry was still decent last season for example. I don't really think CB's are at their peak til late twenty's. So whilst I like the policy of young and hungry players in attacking roles, I'd be ok if we bent that rule for a centre back. I also believe there must be bargains around. Some of our best ever players have been relatively low cost centre backs - Fonte, Svensson, even back to Richards.

That's true if we buy an established CB. There must be decent CB's around. Previously we've found Killer, Dean Richards even VVD was only 12 million.

People do stuff like that all the time. I vaguely remember Carsten Janker's profile being edited to say he was hosting an all night rave with Rudi Skacel. Aah, what a night that was.......

RH must take some blame. I don't believe managers put a terrible side out to prove a point. He just put out a terrible side. There are enough people at the club who could tell him why they are fringe players. They aren't good enough to get in a poor side. Unless there are big changes we'll be back here again next year fighting the drop.

Trouble is, the window in question is a charity shop.

I've lost count of games where we've been pathetic in the first half. I can't decide if it's Ralph's issue or the players but it happens way too often.

Redmond is so frustrating. Does so many things well, but he's shooting is generally abysmal. He rarely hits the target and usually just puts it over the top.

RH needs to respond. Howe made a change after 20 minutes and changed the game. We've been dominated ever since.

How do we leave ourselves open so often when we are attacking. Ralph should have sorted this by now but we never learn.

Redmond has improved no doubt but imagine the player he'd be if he was a natural finisher and took care over his final passes.

Whether we are in a relegation scrap or not is not the issue. The issue is that, not for the first time this season, we go out on the pitch and are way off the pace from the first minute. We normally raise our level after half time but we start so sloppy. It's frustrating.

I know we're not allowed to criticise Ralph but come on, we get done from our own corners constantly. It's about time he sorted that out.

I think it's a worry. I understand that RH wants the players he wants but two games ago we looked terrible and were in the bottom three. Suddenly all our woes are over? This month we have moved Gabbiadini, Hoedt, and probably Soares. I wasn't a huge fan of any of them tbh but to let them go without replacing them in any way must make the squad weaker. For a team that 2 games ago was in big trouble that is a hell of a gamble.

He's like a young Raheem Sterling. Except he's not that young anymore. And he isn't anywhere near as good. OK bad example.