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The incident is at 6:01. It's one of those that you can argue either way. He was clearly grabbed by Azaz, he stumbled, got his feet back, then having done so he had to bring the ball back into his stride as it had gone slightly behind him (whilst he was finding his feet) and that touch allowed Downes to close the space and make the tackle. The ref had signalled play on, because Azaz was no longer a factor and Roberts had found his feet, but he immediately lost the ball after he had made the signal. If he has signalled play on, does that prevent him calling it back (I'm never up to speed on the laws of the game)? If not, I don't think Saints fans would have gone mental if he had called it back for the foul. You win some, you lose some. I'm sure we will have one go against us at their place.

He dives. Sometimes it gets us out of jail and we are thankful, but every now and then the ref is not conned and we are trouble. Its cheating and I hate seeing our players do it. I guess thats the game these days.

Spot on. All championship keepers make mistakes. We don't tend to worry about those made by opposing keepers. Their keeper also made two absolutely terrific saves (the one tipping it around the post was top class) not to mention preventing Archer score on the one on one.

Robinson was decent, and Archer worked his socks off, but Aribo and Romeu weakened us. To help keep things tight, you want midfielders with fresh energy that hussle and close down opponents and then dont panic when they get the ball. no point taking a tied CM off only to bring slow or lazy CMs on. Got to say I thought Romeu looked off the pace again. I've always been a fan, and he has never been quick, but he looked vey slow.

We bought Wellington. Is he better? I think the jury is out on that.

Fellows had a brilliant game yesterday. My motm, but he didn't really stop Gray crossing the ball in. He did has absolute best to stop him mind. Gray was just sharper. Manning isn't super quick either. Its a bit like the old Danny Fox days. He doesnt want to get too close as he knows the winger can run past him. So he doesnt get beat but the cross just comes in. I'm talking about Ashley Cole/Bertrand type electric acceleration. With the ball, Fellows is quick enough. Him and Scienza were too quick for Brum anyway. They are great to watch with the ball.

They are better at home. They are a decent side, but the two central midfielders are ball players and lack a bit of bite and don't cover the ground well. Ducksch and Stanfield have been playing well together but the former was woeful yesterday. Roberts was poor too. I think Davies was out coached. They never got to grips with our formation or our tactics. Like some many teams they just continued to play the one way they know. It was a terrific game to watch. We carved them open time after time. We should have scored 5 and had opportunities for more. That said, on another day they could easily have scored 4 or 5 goals themselves. Gray not scoring the header at 1-0 was a key moment.

Three centre backs allows the full backs to hug the touchline. Our play yesterday almost entirely consisted of center backs passing to wing backs and then hitting down the line. Not much went through the middle. At times it was predictable and painful to watch, but it was pretty damn effective. We have a pattern of play. To be honest that's what we have done all season but now we have Fellows receiving the ball and he has the ability to get out of tight spots and put opponents on the back foot.

Neither wing back has electric pace which is part of the reason why they don't stop crosses going in. This is why three centre backs are needed to prevent these crosses becoming goals.

I liked the look of Maja in the Sunderland documentary from a few years back, but I think he is very reliant on chances being laid on a plate for him as his scoring record goes from great to terrible to great back to terrible. He's scored 1 goal in 16 games for WBA so far this season. He scored 12 in 26 last season for WBA. The season before that, 1 goal in 12 championship games for WBA. The season before 16 in 38 ligue 2 games for Bordeaux. The season before 1 in 15 games for Stoke in the championship. Almost all his goals last year are from inside the six yard box. That's not a bad thing as Armstrong continually fails to get in where it matters. Goals are not everything, but I am not sure he is a genuine target man. WBA fans can see he has quality but suggest he's injury prone.

I agree about the luck aspect. Getting those first two wins boosted confidence helping get the third win...which then helped get the fourth. There's a couple great chances for QPR that were not taken. Things could easily have gone a different way, but a little bit of luck is essential. That said, even with those two wins boosting confidence, the application in the last two games has been good and needed to be. The head coach can't perform miracles, but he seems to have created an environment from which the team can prosper. Can it be retained and can we bounce back from a defeat?

I was very excited by his signing in the summer as his YouTube video looked great. I love a cm that wants to get on the ball and is able to hold to it that little longer than normal to allow others to move into space. In general though, I've been a bit disappointed with him in the first part of the season. He's been a bit passive and looked a little lightweight too. I don't think he made much of an impression on games. The last few games he seems to have had his plaudits. Is that just because he has been involved in goals and chances or has he just been better?

I was going to comment on that Fellows byline cross last night. Armstrong simply doesn't get into box enough. He never has. As a result, he doesn't get those lineker-esque type goals. He doesn't have that instinct and probably never will. Doesn't mean he isn't a handy forward, but I think there's two or three goals a season he's missing out on by not making those runs.

Ayew has been a bit of a nemesis for us. Hopefully he does jack in this second half.

confidence is everything.

He's a donkey. Add Pereira's dodgy hamstrings into the mix and no senior left back available and you have a back four that we can get at if we play well. That said, Skipp and Winks will probably play quite deep, so that might make things difficult. Also, we need to be careful they don't suck us in and hit us on the break, which is how they did things two seasons ago against most sides.

Not sure performance is more important than the result. Perhaps from the point of view of whether we give Tonda the job or not, but come April, the three points we ight get here will be all that matters. Leicester are a step up in terms of individual quality from Charlton. At this level they are a pretty tidy side. We are not going to brush them aside. Obviously some free flowing football at home would be a revelation, but grinding out a victory is fine by me. Stopping them score from set pieces and/or on the break might not be sexy, but that's where this game will be won.

Wrexham - yellow for a foul. Portsmouth - yellow for a foul Derby - yellow for a foul QPR - yellow for dissent Northampton - yellow for a foul

Does that mean he didn't know (at the time of the press conference) how Leicester play or does it mean Leicester vary how they play?

Really good point. From what I have seen of Mavididi this season, he hasn't been in the form Scienza has.

He made a brilliant save when Manhoef went clean through. Theyt were 2-0 up at that point. There was another decent save later on from a half volley shot just on the edge of the box, but it was at him and a good height. The highlights don't show any other saves. He had no chance for their goal. Hard to tell from highlights, but to me Leicester looked a little ponderous, but came alive a couple of of times on the break which we saw a lot in their promotion season. Mavididi's goal was a screamer, but he dithered a bit before that, which makes me wonder if he has refound his form of two season ago. I wonder if Winks will sit in that pocket of space that Armstrong used to good effect on Saturday. Nothing to fear here, but it's the kind of game we need if we are to challenge.

Just looking at MLT stats and in the first season under Branfoot, he scored just 6 goals from 32 league games, down from 20 and 19 goals from 35 games in the proceeding two seasons. The memory I have, and I am guessing others might too, is Brantfoot completely ruined MLT's game. However, In 92/93 he did score 15 goals in 42 games, which is not too bad. In my mind MLT disappeared completely under Branfoot, but that obviously wasn't entirely true. He then scored 25 goals in 38 games in the 93/94 season, which suggests MLT was pretty effective if the side as a whole wasn't. However, Branfoot was sacked half way through that season. Only 9 goals came under Branfoot and 16 goals under Alan Ball in which won 7, drew 4 draws and lost 6. Quite a few pens, but he was brilliant in that run in under Ball.

Branfoot wasn't the youth coach at Saints before he became manager. He had been the assistant manager at Crystal Palace when we appointed him Saints manager. I think you mean Lew Chatterly, who was the useless twat that allowed Darren Eadie and Jamie Cureton to slip through out fingers when he came in as youth development officer when Higgins was removed from his position. Chatterly had worked under Branfoot before at Reading, and when Branfoot joined Saitns, Chatterly got a quick promotion to assistant and then of course was our caretaker manager when Branfoot was sacked.

I assume the players will have been asked by journalists "what has training been like with Tonda?". What do you expect them to say? He picks the side. Players aren't going to criticise the incumbent. They will want to be positive. In general, players will be positive, especially after a couple of wins. That's not some sort of SR PR campaign, its just normal answers to standard questions. I think you and a few others on here massively overestimate SR. I doubt they have had a single meeting to discuss the need a PR campaign to ensure fans are cool with them appointing Tonda. They aren't that clever or organised.

I'd love to see that video, if it had existed. Would all of his goals have been recorded on film though? It's just before my time, so not sure what was and wasn't on MOTD etc.