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Wasn't a pen. Dive. Falling apart now. Bednarek completely lost Aguero. Whelp, we were never winning this anyway with our "best XI" let alone a bunch of blokes not even good enough to play in this league. Ramsey's done pretty well. Elyounoussi looks fitter and sharper than previously. Hojbjerg has become our best player by a distance. Nothing else to take from this. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Wouldn't exactly be "nicking him". Rice has played for Eire at every youth level and has a couple of senior caps already (in friendlies). If he was seriously considering playing for England - where he was born and raised - I think he would've been in the system by now. The FA aren't known for their competence, but I doubt even they'd have let him slip through the net if they were getting any meaningful encouragement from his side. His dad's Irish and wants him to play for Ireland. I'd say it's pretty much a done deal. Don't worry, though, we'll still have Eric Dier... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Amateur hour defending - from our own corner! Rubbish. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Goal of the season! Think Redmond punched that in. He's not the new Henry - he's the new Maradona. Ah nuts, equaliser. McCarthy again poorly positioned for a long shot. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Hanging on, really. We're desperately limited in possession - no quality, pace, incisive passing. Lemina's having one of his off days. Rice is absolutely dominating the midfield on his own. Not sure what we've got that can turn things around - seems like only a matter of time before West Ham make their superiority count. Hoping Ralph has got a cracking team talk up his sleeve. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Obafemi not in the training photos. Cedric back. Johnson and Ramsey still working with the first team squad. No Bertrand still. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Redmond MotM. Romeu very good. Even Vestergaard was decent. Nice cameos from Obafemi and Lemina. Bank the points, ride the momentum, take the confidence from back to back wins. Plenty of areas to work on, but at least we've now got a competent manager who relishes the hard work ahead. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Oh McCarthy... That's terrible goalkeeping. Panic stations now. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

REDZZZZ!!!! First bit of quality play in what is frankly a stinker of a game so far. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

It's been a while since Les has had a platform to publicly big himself up. Wonder if he'll try and take credit for Hasenhuttl? No doubt he'll be talking up his "discovery" of Pochettino... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Who's buying McCarthy, and for how much? I mean, he's an all right keeper, but he's not going for £25m-£30m to an elite team, is he? I doubt his market value is much more than the £13m we paid for Gunn in the summer. Nothing in this story, IMHO. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

That's a list that highlights there are some relativity decent right backs around who are somewhat interchangeable - but few outstanding ones. Aurier, for example, can be quite good one game, but an amateurish liability the next. Valencia's race is run. Young is an out of position winger who can't defend. Moses doesn't even play right back. Also, your list only actually represents nine clubs. It's disingenuous to leave Cedric off your list yet include the guy he has often been selected ahead of for Portugal. He might not be a world beater, and his form hasn't been too flash this season, but there'd be better teams than ours happy to take him on board if we were let him go. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Cedric at his best plays every time. We don't yet know what effect Hasenhuttl might have on him - if he bucks his ideas up a bit, he's one of the better right backs in the league. Valery has shown some promise, though, and can provide competition, back up and get some minutes under his belt once/if our situation becomes less critical. He's been solid, in the main, in a back five. Playing in a four against Cardiff, though, his naivety was exposed. Murphy had the beating of him in their first foot race and he was really spooked from that moment on - almost like he didn't think there was any other way to deal with the winger other than race him. When the much slower Stephens came on at half time, he snuffed out Murphy's threat fairly comfortably. I think Valery looks pretty good for the long term. Athletic, quite aggressive in the tackle, generally (one game aside) a cool head. Doesn't seem to have a change of gears, however. A bit like Glen Johnson - everything he does is at the exact same pace, a leisurely trot. That might prove to be a problem, but hopefully it's a legacy of our terrible coaching and with a manager that's going to push players to their physical limit, Valery might find a bit more intensity and running power over time. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

All the way to the bank. Total fraud of a manager. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

What is this feeling? Feels weird. Happiness? The Rabbitslayer promised that his teams will give absolutely everything for the cause, and you can't argue that he wasn't true to his word. Fantastic effort. Lots to work on, lots to improve, but at least there's some fight back in the lads. COYS Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Promising signs. Not defensively, obviously, where we're an accident waiting to happen, but we looked a bit like a football team that half. It'll take more than a week of training to undo the damage Hughes has caused - I suspect our lack of fitness will be a problem in the second half. But at least we've got something to cling on to. Great headers from Ings, but Redmond has been the best player for us. COYS Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Got your timelines wrong. We sold Chambers long before we sold Clyne. And we could only have kept him for another season as he was running his contract down (as he did at Palace) and would've walked on a free. Can't see us bringing him back on a permanent deal (we already have a Liverpool player on loan, so another is out of the question), though he has always been a better player than Cedric. I imagine our focus will be in more important areas of the team - retaining our PL status isn't likely to come down to us having an inconsistent right back. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Nathan Tella, Enzo Robise and Alexandre Jankewitz in the training photos. No sign of Bertrand, Cedric, Ings, Long, Gallagher. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

We were linked to Selke a few years ago. The club probably just haven't gotten around to deleting his name from the black box/football manager database. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I thought the suggestion was that it was easier/quicker for the club to get a last minute loan deal over the line with the transfer window closing, rather than haggle over the staggered payments and various particulars required to get a permanent deal signed off for all parties. Either way, a non-negotiable commitment to make the transfer permanent at the end of the season, for a player with four major knee injuries under his belt who has barely played in two years, sounds like the kind of negligent swivel-eyed madness that is Les Reed's super power. We could be a Championship club, desperately trying to cut costs, while being forced to pay £20m on a player setting up residence in the treatment room. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

There's no good answer from our current squad. RB: it's either a half-assed Cedric, a green as anything Valery, or an out of position Stephens. Going younger, Kayne Ramsey is captain of the u18s, but doesn't look any more promising than Valery at this stage. (Cedric) LB: if Bertrand can wake up, it's a no brainer. Targett is worse than McQueen, who we loaned out, and Vokes, who is highly rated but very young. CB: oh boy, here's where it gets ugly. Vestergaard is a write off - whoever sanctioned that transfer should never work in football again. Slow paced, slow witted, cumbersome. Worst of all, he doesn't even compensate for his basic shortcomings by using his ridiculous girth to dominate physically or in the air. Yoshida gets better and better every time he's out of the team. He was approaching world class status a month or so back. As soon as we starting picking him again, however, reality reminded us that he's utter dreck. Sadly, he has no remain in contention because he's the only CB we've got who can run. Stephens and Bednarek - flip a coin. You'll get roughly the same output from them; some moments of promise interspersed with dismal calamity. Bednarek probably has better positioning, while Stephens is the more rounded player. Neither is particularly good, however. Hoedt is awful. And, occasionally, our best defender. This is the hell in which we reside. He's capable of doing some good things, but is frequently undermined by being weaker than a sick kitten, with the balance of an inebriated ice skating pensioner, all wrapped up in with an air of thinking he's above all of this and we should be thankful he's deigned to slum it with us for a while on his journey to footballing immortality. I don't know if Alfie Jones can be recalled from his loan, but he's another classical Southampton Way production: tidy, but almost unbelievably slow. Of the kids, Christoph Klarer (18) looks a decent prospect, but from what I've seen lacks mobility. It barely seems likely we're going to throw a teenage CB into a relegation battle, but things are getting desperate. Allan Tchapchet looked a unit for the u18s the other day, but he's only 16. Bednarek/Hoedt. (maybe - it's kind of like asking how you'd most like to be tortured to death) Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Wouldn't help. Klarer is yet another of our "prospects" with poor mobility. Our scouting and recruitment team have royally soiled the bed in recent years. The best young centre back we've brought through of late is Alfie Jones, on loan in Scotland. And guess what? He can't run either. We must be the only club in the country that thinks pace and power are unimportant attributes in English football. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Got away with that - it's a 0-0 drubbing at the moment. Each of our back four have made at least one terrible mistake that should've led to a goal. It feels like it's only a matter of time before Cardiff - who are not special in any way - capitalise. Targett's the Ward-Prowse of defenders: nice technique, but slower than coastal erosion. Valery won't last the game, one way or another. His winger's got him on toast. Why do we have so many improbably slow players on the books? In possession, our movement has been interesting and a little bit different, but who is creating from this line up? We've not looked like opening them up in the slightest. Looks a filthy day, weather wise, so that's probably contributing to the poor quality of the game, but we'd snap your hand off for a point from here. Only one winner. Which is true of any game, I suppose, but you know what I mean... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's not registered in the 25 man squad, so can't play. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk