Chez

perraud and then bree with two more absolutely fucking woeful crosses.

We seen to have upped the tempo. Come On Onuachu get us this equaliser

Fuck. pretty much our only decent attacking outlet.

Adams and Onuachu don't seem a very good strike partnership. Bring another on up front and we'll lose control of midfield.

can't do any less than Che too.

Our crossing is fucking terrible.

No idea why you would think a 20 year old would be more injury prone than a 30 year old.

We have looked terrible defending set pieces. It has been coming. We are just not very good.

we're dominating, lots of possession, but mostly we go nowhere. Every now and then we almost create an opening. Can't fault our effort, just need a little more creativity. Defensively, we look a little fragile. Get one goal and they might get several. At set pieces we don't ever pick up Mee. WTF?

He held the ball up well against Chelsea, but other than trying hard, that is pretty much the only positive thing I can say about him. He's glacial slow, pretty average in the air and has the smallest engine I have ever seen on a Premier League player ever. He offers no dribbling ability and pretty much no threat. He is totally reliant on someone else laying on a chance for him. Although you can point to a lack of quality crossing, which is fair, he hasn't got himself into good positions IMO. That's one aspect he can and must improve. When he was about to sign I watched all his highlights videos and what I saw was a pretty poor striker of the ball (dare I say it another scuffer). The idea that he might be the finisher at the club (because he has a decent goal stats) is more hope than fact. Most of his goals look like simple, on a plate, tap ins...with plenty of time to set his feet, get his head up etc. the answer therefore is for us to create those guilt edge chances. Easier said than done though. Right this minute, I'd go as far to say that he is one of the most disappointing signings in our history. Not necessarily the worst, although he could easily match Carillo in terms of value for money, but just the fact we had money to spend and in two windows he was the best we could come up with it. I agree with Morse. A complete panic buy. The scout and whole transfer committee involved should be sacked. Having slated him, he will probably score the winner tonight, get the goals that keep us up and score a hatful over a long and illustrious Saints career, eventually becoming known as Sir Tall Pall.

This was/is the problem. We want a player of Ramos or Gakpo's quality, but simply can't attract them. However, why we settled for Onuachu I will never know. Actually I do. He is the archetypical Jones striker. We may have just signed Luton Adebayo and saved ourselves abut £15m.

Is Onuachu better than Che at anything? We had two windows to find a forward that improved us. Have we done that? Selles selection of Che makes sense to me. As does him bringing on Mara towards the end of a game rather than Onuachu.

I don't want to put a dampener on things, but our defence didn't look terribly stable when Iheanacho was finding acres of space and time. On another day he could easily have a hattrick and you'd come to a very different conclusion. Obviously I welcome the results, and we looked good against United, all be it against ten for a long time, but I'm not convinced our issues have been resolved. A good solid win against Brentford, with us offering them few or no guilt edge chances and I may be sold.

I'd say Selles just doesn't have all that much choice but to go back to the like of Che, Bednarek and Theo. The results with Onuachu, Salisu/CC and Orsic/Edozie have not been there.

Out of interest, was that for the Itchen/Chapel corner and is it an Adult ticket? Bloody good value that. A few £25 tickets still available, which is still a decent price.

Yeah that's an interesting comment (were you referring to summer and January windows, or just January by the way?). How does current selection reflect on our scouting/transfer committee? We've signed a shed load of players (15) to be fair, so it's inevitable that some won't be starting. It's also not unusual that a percentage of transfers `work out' too. Six starters and three on the bench out of a 20 match day squad. Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess the quality of player we had before matters. We were pretty shit last season, I think only KWP and JWP were starters that were ever going to be tough to improve on, so if you can't find players good enough to better the rest, you've not done a decent job. Starting: Bazunu, AMN, Bella Kotchap, Lavia, Alcaraz, Sulemena Bench: Carleta-Car, Mara, Onuachu Out in the cold: Edozie, Aribo, Larios (injured), Orsic, Bree, Out on loan: Lis Literally none of the players we have are what you could call `Selles' transfers, so he has pretty much no kind of bias.

such a shockingly bad displaying in every way. Individually, collectively, tactically...just horrible....truly awful. Let's not kid ourselves that we haven't been fucking terrible before, many, many times. But I'm trying to think of a display quite like it. I recall the 3-1 mauling by Reading in the FA cup in 1997 being particularly bad. I suspect there have been some equally insipid and inept performances since then too. Not sure how many have quite reached that level of kackhandiness.

Smart move by Selles to bring him back to the right back position (despite him seemingly happy with AMN at RB) to try and nullify Rashford.

looks the same as he always has for me. Works hard, but doesn't have that genuine pace anymore and without it, he doesn't really have much of an all round game. Not sure he ever did. He's been injured for quite a while, but now fit, he's doing the same things he was before his injury. Lots of running off the ball both in attack and defence. I don't think it has anything to do with him being out of contract in the summer. He's always given his all for Saints. Not sure you can ever point to a lack of effort. I just wish we had had him here when he was at his peak.

we beat them 4-1 at SMS last season. They have then won 3-0 and 3-0, so a 4-1 victory would make things nice and neat and tidy (and really boost confidence for the run in), although I'll take any kind of result.

personally, I missed the commentary, although not the obviously pre-prepared lines and endless stats. I always fast forward through the `analysis' and post match interviews. Both boring as fuck, so didn't really care about that. Would have liked to have seen much longer highlights, but I perhaps the BBC are only permitted to show so much/many minutes of action?

Only about 700 tickets left by the looks of things, so gonna be a decent crowd. We got absolutely stuffed by Brentford last time, but after their defeat at Everton and our draw at Old Trafford there will be a little more optimism about. Despite the defat, it did look like Brentford created chances, so we will need to play well.

Bournemouth seem to be playing pretty well. Fprget this United game, I worry we won't even be good enough to beat them. Fair bit of water to go under the bridge before then mind.

draw would be a tremendous result. The Liverpool game was a just blip. They have been in tremendous form.

AMN isn't that guy. Get KWP back to RB on Saturday.