Mr Saints

Completely played into their hands. They would have been praying for an early set piece, up steps Willy Smallbone with a completely needless foul, punt into the box and we can’t deal with it. From then on it was laboured and sluggish. Too many lost their heads towards the end, which is a recipe for disaster in the play offs. Composure needs to be regained quickly on the pitch and in the dugout.

Huge win. THB, Bedders and Stu superb, but how on earth is Walker-Peters playing in this league, different level once again.

Strange feeling this morning. I think a lot of us were worried going into it and it was clear after 5 mins that we weren’t at it, whilst Bristol City certainly were. Missing Downes has a massive impact and we also miss Adams in those types of games, for all his faults he gives us a central target which Armstong doesn’t and he offers a route to get up the pitch. All about the reaction on Friday now, personally I’d take a point and move onto the next batch of fixtures which are mostly at home. Up the Saints.

Skate

Watched them against Swansea last week and Brooks ripped them to pieces, promising.

He can play anywhere at this level tbh. I'd even happily let him play as a centre forward if it means he stays past Jan!

Bizarre decision not to let him prove his fitness (or lack of) at Sunderland until January, then go in for him FFS. Striker incoming in January then.

Believe we were linked with Diangana at West Brom in the summer, he fits our profile if we're going for a wide attacking option. Also, West Brom are skint.

KWP followed by Downes. Those two are the clear standouts, then we have the chasing pack who have all performed admirably on this unbeaten run - Bednarek, Stu, THB, A.Armstrong.

Why the fuck does Aribo have his own song?

Fucking brilliant! Fully deserved as we were well on top second half. Bedders superb yet again. Martin’s claim that we’ll be strong late on due to tiring the opposition out with our possession looks like a great shout.

Is it too early to ask West Ham how much they want for him in January? Fantastic again today.

We completely shat it in first 10 mins of the second half, so unavoidable and so frustrating. We manage that period of the game and we win. Is Mara the worst player in our history? Wouldn’t even have got near our 08/09 side. Thought Bree was decent.

Stoke were really poor but we nearly fell into the trap in the last half hour by failing to bring Adams on, which would have given us a target. Without that, we had Mara with his strength of a sheet of tracing paper and no out ball. But we got there in the end and it’s a valuable 3 points. Thought Downes, THB, KWP were excellent.

Joey Barton.

Leeds and Leicester have both lost players, have new managers that have implemented new styles. What we are being served up is not fucking good enough and as fans we must make this known. We deserve so much more than this. Cunts.

That midfield we started with would struggle in league 2. Woeful planning and squad management. How the fuck is Armstrong captain ffs.

That’s been coming with how defensively open we’ve looked all season. Our midfield is always the wrong side of the ball during the transition. Pair that with our keeper being unable to get down to anything long range and it’s no surprise. That last goal was fucking sunday league, embarrassing.

Semmens live on talksport for the next half hour. I hope he’s managing okay with spending an evening away from his family.

Given a choice between Adams and Stewart, I’m going Adams all day long. Also burnley paying £31.5m for Maatsen 😱

Rest assured guys, MLG is still being an absolute whopper on twitter

Far from keen on this. We know Armstrong is unsuited to the centre forward role in this system so we have to bring in anther striker or keep Adams.

Another win, thought the first half was poor but the second half much more solid. shout outs to Bazunu and A. Armstrong. good changes from Martin, promising. Overall, improvement needed. Also Edozie makes Fabrice Fernandes look like Nesta defensively.

Good news. Depth at CB is going to be key with Stephens and Bednarek picking up bookings every game. Praying it also means Lyanco is close to the exit.

believe it's the stage after "weighing up a move" but before "testing resolve" in the prickish journalist transfer window dictionary.