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Stop listening to the manager. Simple. I stopped doing that when Adkins kept talking ******** interview after interview and it makes the whole process of supporting Saints better. I haven't come up with a solution for watching the boring football,though...

I'm guessing the squad was compiled in the summer to the size required and budget available. Is the club now willing and or able to add more players and their wages half way through the season? Is the flexibility required possible? I mean, signing another striker for example could be a £40m investment fee and wages. Can clubs our size make that sort of 'gamble' now? Just asking...

quite a simplistic evaluation of a manager that did a great job at Burton and then a fantastic job at Brum before new Chinese owners got rid on the back of one poor display so they could get their photo taken with a Chelsea legend. I put his name forward in the summer. The only negative would be where he could attract top class players, but then again it's the wages we offer that matters most.

Take a look at the effort Fonte made blocking Wanyama from scoring the other night. I find it hard to equate that he is biding his time with a body on the line block. Careful also not to let your dislike of a player such as Redmond to get in the way of an assessment about effort. Playing poorly and not trying are two separate things. Regarding Long, he usually gives his all, it's just a lock of quality that lets him down. I do wonder though if he was miffed at being left out...again. Tadic is playing poorly. Not sure he has ever bust a gut though. Classie simply does not do enough or make enough tackles. For a CM he is just not a big enough factor in the game. Not sure if that is just him rather than a lack of effort. The players are trying, they just look a littl clueless going forward. I don't put that down to tactics alone, it's a lack of quality of individual. Only Boufal looks dangerous.

tiredness. shortly before the incident you could see he was stretched. Tired, he made a poor decision. Quite simply he was run ragged. We don't control games, we hang on for grim life because we don't have good enough individuals keeping the ball well. A gradual erosion of talent does that.

slighly worried about who is making the decisions on spending these days. There is a lot of potential at the club, but we could do with an instant hit or two like we had with Tadic and Pelle.

May ask which? I am never good at spotting players that are 'not interested'. Having said that when long mis controlled a throw in near the end I didn't just put it down to him being a very average player with a poor first touch, it actually looked like he didn't really give a **** as we were two or three down and the game was lost and he'd not been haven playing time so was annoyed. I'm probably reading into it too much, or was mistaken, but thought I'd mention it.

Get the youth in seems to be the defacto save all method fans turn to when things are going badly. It's bull****. Improving the side is the way forward, not making it younger. Better is better, younger is younger.

Arsenals third team, burnley get that pen it could have been a different story, Bournemouth had a bad day and West Ham were all over the place back then. Ok, so I haven't acknowledged what we did in those games, but those wins don't convince me we are a decent side underperforming. I think we are an average side now playing without confidence.

pretty accurate, but we don't create enough chances in games, and when going behind we get very desperate and leave huge gaps that get exposed. In my eyes we have too many very average players. This side feels like the side we would have when our top talent moved on. It feels like an old school saints season...

Agreed. However I don't see eleven players in any sort of form. We are going to have to grit a few games out like we did last season when we went five at the back. No goals though mean we have major problems.

Football not especially turgid today. We just look like a very average team playing without confidence. That as is a terrible combination.

tough crowd.

Who is actually worth picking right now?

But Are they at the club already?

Ran out of steam because we spent so much energy trying to get the ball back after giving it away. Too many players in forward positions not doing enough damage and it's not just Redmond...

He did very well, but if you are going to say that fans whipping boy Redmond should do better, then fan favourite Jrod should get a similar description. No biggy, just trying to be fair on Redmond.

First 20 we were run ragged, looked all over the place, out of our depth, giving the ball away...but we have improved greatly. Hopeful we can get something from this game.

why was Jay Rod unlucky? Should have done better would be appropriate if you are being consistent with your critique

After looking incredibly ragged in the first 20, we have settled down and have perhaps been slightly the better see. Great skill by Rodriguez to create his chance, but then wasted it. Encouraging though. Lots of fight throughout the side. All the players that have been criticised recently have stepped up so far.

fans always seem to suggest that players don't look interested after a defeat. I've never been able to pick up on that. Is it their body language, facial expressions or something else that gives them away?

How are West Brom affording him?

How long left on his contract? Feels like agent made news to me. By the way, Anyone seen Hogan?

He bottles tackles, but has twinkle toes like no player I've seen at SMS. He just needs others around him to be better as he simply does not have a choice but to try and take on that third opponent. Get him in the middle and on the ball. He is our only attacking threat at the moment.

Nyom makes Martina look gifted. He (Nyom) is the Ali dia of the current day. Woeful.